Junaid Hussain, Tweet, 2014

Date
2014
Name of Author
Junaid Hussain
Body

“We hear you and we will help you if you accept Islam and reject corrupt man-made laws like democracy and pledge your allegiance to Caliph Abu Bakr and then we will shed our blood for you and send our soldiers that don’t sleep, whose drink is blood, and their play is carnage.” (Tweet)David Francis, “Meet the Star-Crossed Lovers Behind the Islamic State’s Centcom Hack,” The Cable, January 14, 2015, http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/14/meet-the-star-crossed-lovers-behind-the-islamic-states-centcom-hack/.

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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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