Nearly 50 gang leaders killed in Russia last year, according to FSB chief

Russian security forces in 2011 destroyed nearly fifty gang leaders, including the three Al-Qaeda emissaries, according to the chairman of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), FSB director and Army General Alexander Bortnikov on Wednesday.

«48 gang leaders were liquidated, including three Al-Qaeda emissaries,» he revealed at a meeting of the NAC, adding that another 297 active members of bandit groups were also destroyed.

«660 bandits and their accomplices were detained, including 13 leaders of the religious extremist underground,» the general noted.

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The number of terrorist crimes in Russia has decreased by more than half

The number of terrorism-related crimes in 2011 fell by more than half, according to National Antiterrorist Committee chairman and FSB director Army General Alexander Bortnikov. He stated this on Wednesday at a meeting of the NAC.

«The National Antiterrorist Committee's decisions on applying integrated security and preventive measures have reduced the level of terrorist activity in Russia. In 2011 there were 365 crimes with a terrorist orientation. In 2010 there were 779,» he said.

He added that in 2011 security forces prevented 94 crimes with a terrorist orientation. «This, in particular, includes an attack on the 'Peregrine' high-speed train, an attack on the central mosque in Makhachkala, as well as attacks on a shopping center in Khasavyurt and on a number of critical infrastructures in the regions of Russia,» he said.

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Arrested in Grozny recently was a 20-year-old Moscow resident who underwent training to become a suicide bomber and carry out a terrorist attack in the Russian capital.

In the Chechen capital of Grozny, a twenty-year-old Moscow resident, who wanted to gain the skills needed to be a suicide bomber, was arrested. This information came from ‘Interfax’ citing sources in the law enforcement agencies.

«In Grozny, the police arrested a young woman, who arrived in the Chechen capital from Moscow. According to her statement, she wanted to learn the skills of a suicide bomber while in Chechnya and then apply them outside the country,» quoted the source.

A police source told ‘RIA Novosti’ that a 20-year-old woman was arrested.

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This was not Saratovэs first test of vigilance by the FSB. First they left a suspicious bag in plain view in the waiting area of the bus station, but guards walked past the explosives several times, paying it no mind. Now the director of the bus station can expect a reprimand, while the staff will receive anti-terrorism training.

The next day the FSB officers brought the fake bomb to school. The two big men had no difficulty getting past a yawning security guard and leaving two large black plastic bags right in the middle of the lobby. For half a day, teachers and students of School #5 walked around the bags, staring at them, but never raising the alarm. Only the cleaning woman, once she began mopping the lobby floor after lunch, noticed the ‘bomb’.

The woman, of course, was troubled by wires sticking out of a strange box in one of the packages.

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