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Russia-Linked Telegram Channels 'offering to pay for attacks on UK mosques'

Campaigners say cryptocurrency payments were offered to UK residents if they daubed anti-Muslim graffiti

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Russia-linked Telegram channels 'offering to pay for attacks on mosques' www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe ...

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"The same groups have also been sharing PDFs containing bomb-making recipes and designs for 3D-printed weapons. Posters with QR codes for the groups and associated TikTok accounts have also appeared on British streets.

However, there has been alarm in recent weeks after a switch in the group's language from encouraging graffiti to explicitly calling on people to carry out knife attacks."

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"Concerns over the network, which has included antisemitic comment but which has been particularly focused on fomenting anti-Muslim feeling, come amid a rise in Islamophobic assaults " which surged by 73% in 2024. A fake bomb was also left outside a mosque in north London last week.

Fears have grown that Russia is seeking to fuel social unrest in Britain and other western European states via covert digital campaigns aimed at exploiting ethnic and religious tensions.

Ken McCallum, the head of MI5, warned in October that Russian intelligence has been on a mission to generate "sustained mayhem on British and European streets"."

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Noooo.... Trump's bestie Putin would never do this! - ChinaBot

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-01 04:29 PM

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