Summary Men arrested from the North Caucasus are suspected of planning to attack a chemical weapons storage.
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian investigators say they have arrested two hard-line Muslim men from the North Caucasus who are suspected of planning to attack a chemical weapons storage and disposal facility.
Russia s Investigative Committee says the evidence against the men, ages 19 and 21, includes "components for the preparation of explosive materials" found in an abandoned house in the Kirov region.
In a statement Tuesday, the committee says the men s alleged plan to attack the Maradykovsky facility in Kirov would have risked "the deaths of hundreds."
The committee doesn t name the men but alleges they were "proponents of Wahhabism" an ultra-conservative form of Islam and that "extremist literature" was found at their residence.
The North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim region in Russia s south, has been roiled by a growing Islamic insurgency.
