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Russia's FSB1 security agency has said the Telegram mobile messaging app was used by a suicide bomber who killed 15 people in St Petersburg in April.
Authorities have already threatened to block the app, founded by Russian businessman Pavel Durov, for refusing to sign up to new data laws.
Mr Durov has refused to let regulators access encrypted messages on the app.
Telegram has some 100 million users and has been used by so-called Islamic State (IS) and its supporters.
IS used the app to declare its involvement in the jihadist attack on and around London Bridge in the UK last month.
Telegram has been used by jihadists in France and the Middle East too, although the app company has highlighted its efforts to close down pro-IS channels. Telegram allows groups of up to 5,000 people to send messages, documents, videos and pictures without charge and with complete encryption.
Now the FSB has said that as part of its investigation into the St Petersburg attack it "received reliable information about the use of Telegram by the suicide bomber, his accomplices and their mastermind abroad to conceal their criminal plots at all the stages of preparation for the terrorist attack".
A Russian identified as Akbarzhon Jalilov blew himself up between two underground stations on 3 April. The security agency said that Telegram was the messenger of choice for "international terrorist organisations in Russia" because they could chat secretly with high levels of encryption.
1 According to Wikipedia, FSB:
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB; Russian: Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ), tr. Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii; IPA: [fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnəjə ˈsluʐbə bʲɪzɐˈpasnəstʲɪ rɐˈsʲijskəj fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjɪ]) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the USSR's Committee of State Security (KGB). Its main responsibilities are within the country and include counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, and surveillance as well as investigating some other types of grave crimes and federal law violations.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40404842
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:35AM (2 children)
Russia and other governments need to pull out of the Muslim world, and begin deporting Muslims with extreme prejudice.
What's the point of pretending we don't know why these attacks happen?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @06:17AM
Russia have regions that are Islamic since hundreds of years. It's whole another situation than in US or Europe. And they get most of their hydrocarbons domestically asfaik. An equivalent would be to expel Quebec people from Canada (and Quebec).
Otoh, Russia have internal border controls in some places. So it surely have the will and experience to do so for this problem if they would like to.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Tuesday June 27 2017, @07:01AM
They know the problem is Islam itself. I know I know, Good Muslims(tm) are angry at ISIS for their methods, yet themselves currently implement the outbreeding strategy, with no respect for the fact that they did not conquer the territory, they have been hosted. Yet they think they are in the right, because the west in the form of USA has rattled their cage. They fail to notice they do so with the help and widespread collaboration of western elite and media. Is the elite going to let Islam win? Or are they about to unleash a nationalistic reaction? are they letting people fight for a while and then ban religion altogether? whichever they do, it is an obvious win for their ultimate master, evil.
So why removing terrorism, the hen laying golden eggs? terrorism gives governments all the advantages of an external enemy, yet it does strike only the lowly people. Islam, militant or plain, justifies the economic crisis transforming it into a societal/cultural crisis, as a bonus. If there were no Islam it would be necessary to invent one.
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