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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
The Arab Weekly: Experts Doubt Qaeda-Linked Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham Has Fundamentally Changed
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"Hans-Jakob Schindler, the director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), said this was justified.
“If you have to ask for permission before you break ties with al-Qaeda, from the leadership of al-Qaeda, the sincerity of the ideological reorientation is in question,” he said."
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