Posted on 04/21/2013 4:11:43 PM PDT by Cindy
Typo in post no. 40 — Should read AP.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4172/dagestan-terrorism-russia
“Dagestan: New Epicenter of Muslim Terrorism in Russia”
by Lawrence A. Franklin
February 14, 2014 at 4:00 am
SNIPPET: “According to a survey with 6,000 respondents, the ranks of the jihad are being filled by ever-younger Dagestanis. Dagestan is eclipsing Chechnya as the seat of the most violent insurgency against Russia.
The extremist leaders have targeted their fellow Muslim leaders thought to be too mild.
Dagestan, the largest republic of the north Caucasus, can best be described in negative superlatives. It is probably the most violent spot in the entire Russian Federation.[1] The administrative bureaucracy of the republic’s capital, Makhachkala, is among the most corrupt.[2] The ethnic and linguistic diversity of Dagestan is the most complex among Russia’s Republics.[3] Its topography is arguably the most forbidding in the Russian Eurasian landmass. Religiously, it is also the most radical Muslim entity in the Russian state. Moreover, in part, because of Dagestan’s difficult terrain and the fabled fighting ability of Dagestani mountain peoples, Moscow has found that suppressing jihadists in Dagestan is even more difficult than in their campaigns in Chechnya.
The February 6, 2014 raid of a terrorist hideout in the Dagestani town of Izerbash by Russian Security Police — resulting in the deaths of suspects who were allegedly planning an attack on the Sochi Olympics — underscores that the Republic of Dagestan has become the epicenter of extremist-Muslim terrorism in Russia.”
“The day after: A proud Sochi cleans up after end of Winter Olympics as the world heads home”
Published February 24, 2014
Associated Press
SOCHI, RUSSIA –
SNIPPET: “It’s predicted to be the heaviest Olympic-related travel day, but travelers through the region’s airport are reporting briskly moving security lines and check-in times of anywhere from 10 minutes to three hours.
Olympic Park has cleared out except for volunteers in multicolored patchwork jackets. Most security barriers remain in place in anticipation of the Paralympic Games, but security is noticeably more relaxed.”
On The Internet:
http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic
Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games
March 7-16, 2014
travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/go/Sochi.html
“Sochi 2014 – Visitor Information For Olympic and Paralympic Games”
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