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Russia says it thwarted Islamic State plot to attack Moscow synagogue
Police officers patrol outside the Maryina Roscha synagogue in downtown Moscow, January 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, says it prevented an attack on a synagogue in Moscow that was plotted by an Islamic State cell, Russian state news agencies report.
The FSB says that the members of the organization had been planning “to commit a terrorist act against one of the Jewish religious institutions in Moscow,” the RIA news agency quotes the report as saying.
Attackers opened fire during the attempted arrest and were “neutralized by return fire,” the FSB says.
