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.
Daily Mail: Priti Patel vows to overhaul Prevent in wake of David Amess murder amid concern anti-terror strategy focuses too much on right-wing extremism and not enough on Islamist threat
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"Ian Acheson, Senior Advisor at the Counter Extremism Project, agreed Prevent needed to change.
He tweeted today: 'As the Home Secretary says and some of us have been saying for a while, Prevent has morphed into a strategy that awards a (convenient) completely false equivalence between Islamist and XRW threat and is swamped by mission creep. Time for a reset.'"
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April 18, 2022
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