Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 5
By Elena Kosolapova – Trend:
The terrorist group neutralized in February in Kazakhstan planned to commit large-scale terrorist attacks in Moscow and Kazakhstan similar to the Paris attack of November 2015, the Kazakh National Security Committee said Sep. 5.
Another extremist group from Almaty region of Kazakhstan planned hijacking a civil or military aircraft in Taldykorgan Airport to carry out an attack similar to the September 11, 2001 attack in the US, added the Committee. They also planned attacks in the crowded places, on the units of Kazakhstan’s Border Guard Service, the Ministry of Defense, senior law enforcement officers and representatives of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kazakhstan.
On Aug. 3, members of the group were detained, one member committed suicide by blowing himself up.
One more group planned to attack several targets in Kazakhstan, including a Russian military unit near the city of Balkhash. Kazakhstan arrested eight members of this group in a special operation, while one of its members blew himself up.
Kazakhstan’s security forces have neutralized eight radical groups which had been planning terrorist attacks since the beginning of 2016.
Kazakhstan has also arrested dozens suspected of terrorism, the National Security Committee said.
Many of the neutralized terrorists were guided and instructed by international terrorist organizations.