MOSCOW. Jan 22 (Interfax) - A member of the Al Qaeda international terrorist network has been detained in Moscow in a combined effort of the Federal Migration Service and the Federal Security Service, Federal Migration Service Moscow department chief Olga Kirillova said.
A citizen of Egypt filed an asylum request with the Federal Migration Service last year, she said at a meeting of the department board in Moscow on Wednesday.
"A check revealed he was a member of Al Qaeda," Kirillova said.