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.
CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "After the fall of Kabul, every jihadist group with whom the West has battled over the past 20 years will take heart and inspiration from the West’s retreat and inevitably pursue their jihadist agenda more aggressively and actively. Not just in Western cities but in South East Asia and Africa. Boko Haram in Nigeria will have cheered the Taliban victory to the rafters."
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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