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.
"FAR-RIGHT fanatics could form a 'sizeable army of terrorists' on social media, UK experts warned last night. Professor Anthony Glees of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies said: 'In a particular country, there may be a small minority of maybe hundreds of neo-Nazis. But if they can communicate with each other in different countries on social media, they could be a sizeable army of terrorists.' Joshua Fisher-Birch of the Counter Extremism Project said a video warning of an impending 'Islamic invasion' over a background of flames was far more difficult to remove. He said: 'It is tying into the idea of a historical opposition to Islam. And this is very powerful because it is talking about someone coming to threaten your way of life and your family.'"
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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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