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http://freebeacon.com/2014-winter-olympics-hit-in-sochi-russia-hit-with-terror-threat/

“2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Hit with Terror Threat
Caucasus Emirate calls for attacks on winter games”

BY: Adam Kredo
July 3, 2013 3:25 pm

SNIPPET: “Ariel Cohen, a Russia expert at the Heritage Foundation, said that the threat level posed by Umarov and other terrorists is “very high,” particularly for U.S. and Israeli Olympians.

“But it’s a threat level for everybody,” he said, noting that Russian security services are frequently ineffective when it comes to stopping terrorists.

“The track record of the Russian services is not stellar,” Cohen said, noting several successful suicide bombings of planes and trains, as well as massive hostage taking and other acts of terror in Russia.

“And Sochi is right next to the Caucasus theater” and just a half a day’s drive from terrorist strongholds, meaning “it will be even easier” to launch an attack.”

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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/10/a_suspected_black_wi.php

“Suspected ‘Black Widow’ suicide bomber kills 6 in southern Russia”

By LISA LUNDQUIST
October 21, 2013

SNIPPET: “No group has claimed the attack, but it is likely the work of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate and its Riyad-us-Saliheen Martyr Brigade, which have been responsible for a series of bombings and suicide attacks in the Caucasus region and beyond over the past decade.

The Brigade was revived in 2009 under Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov, a terrorist blacklisted by the US in 2010 who has vowed further suicide attacks.”

SNIPPET: “In July this year, Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov issued a statement calling for further attacks aimed at disrupting Russia’s plans for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, according to the Kavkaz Center. He stated: “We know that on the bones of our ancestors, on the bones of many, many Muslims who died and are buried on our territory along the Black Sea, today they plan to stage the Olympic Games. We, as the Mujahedeen, must not allow this to happen by any means possible.”

Shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings this spring, Russian authorities announced that they would be bolstering security in Sochi starting on June 1, the Moscow Times reported. More recently, The Guardian disclosed that Russia’s intelligence service is planning to monitor “all communications” by athletes and visitors at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.”