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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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"Former prison governor Ian Acheson, an adviser to the Counter Extremism Project think tank, said rioters should not get 'any additional discount' on their sentences."
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "It was an atrocity that shook the nation. In June last year, Valdo Calocane stabbed to death 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar in Nottingham, going on to kill 65-year-old Ian Coates...
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"Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and former Ambassador of the UK to Yemen said 'it could all very easily spiral out of control'."
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CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "The British public’s first real introduction to Anjem Choudary was as a supporting cast member in Jon Ronson’s 1997 documentary The Tottenham Ayatollah. The pioneering gonzo reporter closely followed the...
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Fact:
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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