An Al-Qaeda terrorist calmly entered Russia through the border and was only accidentally caught

One of the Kremlin-affiliated resources joyfully reports how the valiant police officers detained an Al-Qaeda militant in western Moscow.

The police just happened to decide to check documents on Michurinsky Prospekt in the capital and discovered that the person was wanted by Interpol.

After the police checked the man’s passport, it turned out that he was in the wanted database for terrorist activities.

And here comes the most interesting part. The detainee turned out to be 37-year-old Elkhan Ibrahimov. In 2013, he went to Syria, where he joined the banned “Jabhat al-Nusra” — the local branch of Al-Qaeda. In 2019, a court in Baku issued a warrant for his arrest, and the man fled to Russia via Kazakhstan.

Now an even more interesting question arises — how did a militant from a terrorist organization manage to calmly cross the Russian border? Do we have an open-door policy at the border? If Elkhan Ibrahimov was wanted by Azerbaijan in 2019, he was surely already in Interpol’s database as a terrorist. Do the border guards, who report to the FSB, not have access to the Interpol database?

It turns out that all the stories about the border being tightly sealed and that not even a mouse can get through are just another fiction and bluff. An Al-Qaeda militant wanted by authorities effortlessly entered Russian territory. Maybe he simply bribed the border guards, who, in pursuit of immediate profit, are ready to let a dangerous terrorist into the country.

This could be related to widespread corruption in this structure and thoughtless migration policies. If the terrorist crossed the Russian border not for money, then this is a completely different story, related to negligence or the FSB’s desire to shelter yet another terrorist in Russia.