MOSCOW — Nine men were charged Friday with organizing cells of a banned Islamist group and illegal possession of guns, explosives and fake US dollars and euros, Russian police said. Five of the nine men are leaders of the Russian cells of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, an anti-Western group whose name means “Party of Liberation,” the Interior Ministry said. The men, detained in Moscow on Monday, are nationals of Russia and ex-Soviet Tajikistan who rented apartments near “transport routes of federal importance” in Moscow, the ministry said in a statement. — AP
