(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A Russian citizen related to the ISIL terrorist organization (banned in Russia) who might have been plotting terror attacks has been detained in Bishkek, the Bishkek police department press service said.
"An ethnic Chechen citizen of Russia, an active member of the ISIL terrorist organization, has been detained in Bishkek today in a joint operation with the State Committee for National Security (Kyrgyz security service)," police department spokesman Olzhobai Kazabayev said on Friday.
"The detainee born in 1973 was renting an apartment in Bishkek; large quantities of extremist books and ammunition were found there and confiscated," he said.
"The place contained four flags of the ISIL terrorist organization, a sawed-off gun, two stun grenades with improvised shrapnel, 35 9mm shells, 19 5.45mm shells, three 32mm shells, two black balaclavas, two medical masks, five DVDs with religious content, five religious books, two notebooks with hand-written religious texts, 200 religious leaflets, six cell phones, six SIM cards, four micro-flash drives, one notebook computer, a narcotic drug with the characteristic smell of cannabis (half match box), one pack of psychotropic pharmaceutical substance, and one baseball bat," Kazabayev said.
"Considering the discovered arsenal, we do not rule out that the detainee was plotting a terror attack in the republic during the Second World Nomad Games in the Issyk-Kul Region (northern Kyrgyzstan) on the first days of September. Yet this is just a theory, which needs to be confirmed by detectives," the department spokesman said.
"The detainee is also suspected of recruiting citizens of Kyrgyzstan for the international terrorist organization," Kazabayev said.
"His criminal contacts and accomplices are being established. All materials have been submitted to the investigative department. A criminal case is pending," he said.
The Second World Nomad Games will take place on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul in northern Kyrgyzstan on September 3-8.
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