A modus operandi we are seeing with increasing frequency all over Europe.
“Russian agency says it exposed terror plot, killed 1 suspect,” Associated Press, July 1, 2021:
MOSCOW — Russia’s domestic security agency said Thursday it has discovered a plot by followers of the Islamic State group to conduct terror attacks in Moscow and southern Russia, and killed one suspected conspirator.
The Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency known by its Russian acronym FSB, said that two Russian nationals were plotting the attacks with firearms and knives in crowded areas in Moscow and the southern city of Astrakhan under the IS leaders’ guidance….
The FSB said it had seized weapons and extremist literature during searches at the suspects’ homes. It didn’t say when the busts happened.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
One almost wishes that an attack — causing property damage but not deaths — had taken place, so that the full force of the Russian state, under Putin’s implacable direction, would deal with the problem in a way that Western countries do not permit themselves.
Infidel says
Preferably in a way that embarrasses Putin enough that he decides to crack down. Like an attack during a Red Square parade, or during a major prestigious event in Moscow which is impossible to ignore. Oh, and one that can be traced back to Turkey and the Palis
gravenimage says
Actually, Hugh, Putin regularly appeases Islam, opening mega-Mosques for Muslims in Moscow, lauding Islam as opposed to the “decadent” west, and winking at Shari’ah law in Chechnya. But of course, no amount of appeasement is *ever* enough with Islam.