MIA: 15 members of the extremist grouping "Al-Takfir wal-Hijra" detained in Moscow

Fifteen members of the extremist organization "Al-Takfir wal-Hijra", including natives of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kalmykia, have been detained in Moscow, the Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported today.

The activities of the international religious association "Am Takfir wal-Hijra" (Redemption and Exodus) is prohibited in the territory of Russia by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated September 15, 2010.

The MIA reports that in the course of searches conducted in the rented apartment in Moscow, where the members of the grouping lived, power agents found three improvised explosive devices (IEDs), including a "shahid's belt", combat and traumatic guns, grenades, ammunition and extremist literature.

One of the detained extremists, according to the MIA, has long studied Islam in Arab countries, and then created a Jamaat in Moscow.

"The organiser of the group was trained in Egypt and brought the ideas of 'Al-Takfir wal-Hijra' from there. However, they recruited people not for sending to the Middle East, and not to Syria, but to our Northern Caucasus," the today's "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" quotes its source from the MIA.