Russian authorities had foiled a planned terrorist attacks targeting railway lines or superfast bullet trains in the country. Terrorist groups are planning to blow up the railway using homemade bombs made from fertilizer. This was stated by the newspaper Kommersant Monday's edition (8/15/2011). The newspaper quoted sources in the Federal Security Service (FSB), successor counter terrorism intelligence service KGB and the Soviet Union era.
According to sources, the terrorist group, led by a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria province in the North Caucasus Muslim named Khamuzhyev (22), assemble bombs made from ammonium nitrate, which is the basic ingredient of fertilizer, in an apartment near a railway line (KA) busy near Moscow.
According to sources, the terrorist group, led by a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria province in the North Caucasus Muslim named Khamuzhyev (22), assemble bombs made from ammonium nitrate, which is the basic ingredient of fertilizer, in an apartment near a railway line (KA) busy near Moscow.
They plan to put the bomb in the path-name for a series Sapsan superfast train in Russia, which connects the city of Moscow-St Petersburg, at a point in the middle of the woods, about 20 kilometers north of Moscow.
Khamuzhyev known to have recruited at least three people to help him carry out the action. Two recruits are friends playing football, while another person is the person he knew in one of the mosques.
The Russian government struggled against militant Islamist groups from the North Caucasus region after two of the country held a war against Chechen separatists in Chechnya.
This militant group claimed responsibility for bombing KA Moscow-St Petersburg in 2009 that killed 26 people, and suicide bombings in the Moscow Airport last January, which killed 37 people.
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