Russia detains ISIS member who was planning to carry out attack in India

By  India Blooms News Service   Aug 22, 2022

    Moscow: The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained an Islamic State suicide bomber who was allegedly planning to carry out an attack in India, media reports said.

    Russias FSB identified and detained a member of the Islamic State international terrorist organization banned in Russia, a native of a country in the Central Asian region, who planned to commit a terrorist act by blowing himself up against one of the representatives of the ruling circles of India, the authority said in a statement as quoted by Sputnik news agecy of Russia.

        The detainee was recruited by one of the Daesh (another name by which ISIS is called) leaders as a suicide bomber in Turkey, the statement added.

    The FSB posted an interrogation video showing the suspect confessing that he was supposed to commit a terrorist act for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad.

    In 2022... I flew to Russia, and from there I was to leave for India. In India I was to be met and given all the necessary things to commit an act of terrorism at the behest of the Islamic State for insulting Prophet Muhammad, he said as quoted by Sputnik in its report.

    In Turkey, the would-be-terrorist was conditioned both online on Telegram and during in-person meetings in Istanbul over a span of several months from April to June, the FSB said in a statement.