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RFE/RL Security Watch Vol. 1, No. 14, 23 October 2000

FSB TRACKS MUSLIM BROTHERHOODS IN RUSSIA. According to the FSB's public relations center website at fsb.ru, the Russian intelligence service has identified representatives of Muslim brotherhoods in 49 Russian regions -- including Moscow. According to the FSB, the goal of these groups is to "inspire separatist movements within the Islamic regions of Russia and create a fundamentalist Islamic state." The website added that these cells are funded by Islamic militants abroad.

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