MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s security services have detained a man suspected of organizing a series of terrorist attacks in Moscow, concluding a special operation against a particular group,the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAK) said in a statement on Thursday.
The brief statement says “Federal Security Service special forces have detained the organizer of planned terrorist attacks in Moscow” and that a “special operation to neutralize” the group they say is responsible is now complete. The operation took place near Moscow, NAK said.
The statement does not expressly link this to a recent operation outside Moscow on May 20, in which two suspected militants were killed and one detained. Statements released by NAK at the time said those suspects were also planning terrorist attacks in Moscow.
The suspects in the May operation were reported to be Russian citizens with ties to the Islamic Party of Turkestan, who had been trained in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.
Some Russian media reports name the individual detained today as Yulai Davletbaev, who was previously reported by some news outlets as one of the suspects killed in the May 20 operation.
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