Fact:
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.
""Terrorism is essentially communications," said Hans-Jacob Schindler, a former United Nations diplomat who is a senior director of the Counter Extremist Project, a think-tank with offices in New York and Berlin. "It is not warfare because obviously ISIS cannot militarily defeat the West. They tried and it didn't exactly end well.""
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
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.
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