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Recognition is ahead of the inquiry
The responsibility for the attack in the St. Petersburg metro took upon itself the Battalion of Imam Shamil associated with al-Qaeda. This is reported by Site Intelligence Group, which monitor the activities of terrorists.
The terrorist attack was allegedly organized by order of the leader of Al-Qaeda Aiman Al-Zawakhiri as a response to the actions of Russia in Syria, Chechnya and Libya. The organization threatened with new attacks, reports Site.
Earlier on Tuesday, Gazeta.ru without references to sources reported that the order to commit a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg was given by 26-year-old citizen of Kyrgyzstan Sirodzhiddin Mukhtarov (Abu Salah al-Uzbeki), whom the authorities of his countries are called the commander of the Islamist group "At-Tauhid Val-Dzhihad" ( Ar. jihad "). This information has not yet received confirmation.
"At-Tauhid Val-Dzhikhad" was created in Iraq in 1999. In 2004, the founder of the Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi group, Ossama Ben Laden, called his organization al-Qaeda in Iraq. After the war in Iraq, At-Tauhid Val-Jihad became an extensive international network.
On April 20, the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov said that the customer of the terrorist attack in the metro of St. Petersburg is " practically installed ". However, the head of the special services did not report any details.
In total , 10 people were arrested in the case of the attack. At the same time, their involvement in the terrorist attack raises great doubts. The personnel of the detention of one of the defendants, Akram Azimov (older brother Abror Azimov), at the bus stop in New Moscow were a production. In fact, this suspect was detained by the State Committee of the National Security of Kyrgyzstan in Osh and delivered to Russia.
On April 21, it became known that those defendants in the case of the terrorist attack who had previously received Russian citizenship were deprived of this citizenship . In addition, the father of the alleged suicide bomber Akbardzhon Jalilov was excluded from citizenship, who is not suspected in the case. The officials explained this decision by the fact that he allegedly provided false information when admitting citizenship.
The explosion in the St. Petersburg metro occurred on April 3. As a result of the attack , 15 people were killed , including a suicide bomber, about 50 were injured.