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27 October 2009, 10:01Ukraine arrests alleged Islamic extremists - minister
Simferopol, October 27, Interfax - Ukrainian police and Security Service operatives on October 23 arrested men who are accused of Islamic extremism and terrorist plots, Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko said.
The suspects had planned to set up branches in the autonomous Crimea region and elsewhere in Ukraine of Egyptian Islamist organization Al-Takfir wa al-Hijra, to pass death sentences on Crimean Tatar movement leader Mustafa Jemilev and on others, and to carry put terrorist attacks in Ukraine, Lutsenko told a news conference in Simferopol, Crimea's administrative center.
They were arrested in Crimea.
Police first arrested three of them after receiving intelligence, Lutsenko said. One of them cooperated with the police and provided them with valuable information.
As a result, police and Security Service forces launched an operation on Friday in which seven addresses were searched, and TNT blocks with detonators, daggers and a large amount of extremist literature were seized at one address in Simferopol, the minister said. |
