Jihadi terrorists planned to unleash Mother of Satan bombs on Moscow shops and transport
THESE alarming images show the explosives laboratory where alleged jihadi terrorists were preparing bombs branded the "Mother of Satan" to detonate in Moscow, say Russia's FSB security service.
Russian security service arrest alleged terrorists near Moscow
The chilling nickname indicates the extreme power of its explosive potential and volatility.
ISIS ringleaders in Syria gave orders to the cell busted this week by Vladimir Putin's intelligence agents, it is claimed.
Four suspects were held including two would-be suicide bombers, foiling deadly attacks, said intelligence sources.
Jihadi terrorists planned to unleash Mother of Satan bombs on Moscow shops and transport
Self-made explosive mixture known as 'devil's mother'
It cannot be excluded that there were other laboratories elsewhere
The FSB showed disturbing evidence of an arms cache including assault rifles, grenades, and components for an improvised explosives cocktail based on hydrogen peroxide.
The group planned devastating attacks on crowded transport and shopping locations in Moscow, which next year hosts the World Cup, it is alleged.
Pictures and video shows the bomb-making factory at a house outside the city in Moscow region.
"The laboratory was located in a garage in Moscow region," said a secret service source.
Bomb making equipment found by FSB in the terrorists house
"They were making bombs by evaporated explosives from old weapons, adding TNT and gun powder they purchased and attaching detonators to this explosive mixture.
'It cannot be excluded that there were other laboratories elsewhere."
An FSB official cited by Interfax said: "An urgent test of the substance seized from the detained terrorists revealed triacetone triperoxide, a very dangerous primary explosive."
This is peroxide-based and also known as TATP, believed to have been used by terrorist Salman Abedi in Manchester, along with attacks in Paris and Brussels.
Grenades found by FSB in the terrorists house
Chaos as explosion takes place in St. Petersburg Metro
The FSB named the suspected ringleaders as Tajikistan citizens A.M. Shirindzhonov and T.M. Nazarov – both based in Syria.
One suspected suicide bomber detained in Moscow was named as Siyovushi Davronzoda, aged only 17.
"I admit my guilt," he said in a Moscow courtroom.
Two others were named as Sulaimon Burkhonov, who also admitted his guilt, and Davlater Khodzhiyev.
Terrorists detained by FSB
The FSB said the suspects "intended to carry out a series of terrorist attacks in crowded places, including on transport facilities and large shopping areas of Moscow".
The planned blasts were to be undertaken "with the use of terrorist suicide attackers and powerful explosives".
The agency - once headed by Putin - said: "A laboratory manufacturing explosive substances and improvised explosive devices was discovered and disposed of in the Moscow region."
It is estimated that more than 4,000 Russian nationals, mostly from predominantly Muslim regions, have fought alongside IS militants in Syria.