(Telegraph - UK) - Islamic radicals are pursuing the systematic annihilation of non-Muslims, President Vladimir Putin told a European Union summit in Brussels Monday. The Russian leader said that western civilization faced a mortal threat from Muslim terrorists, and claimed that they had plans to create a "worldwide caliphate." Putin said the world no longer faced isolated acts of terrorism but a "concerted effort and program" by a global network bent on slaughter, perhaps with nuclear weapons. He said the West should face up to the reality that Chechen terrorists were religious extremists in league with al Qaeda.
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