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Terrorists are stepping it up in Russia; and with the Winter Olympics just around the corner
Topic Started: Dec 30 2013, 07:06 PM (649 Views)
Mike
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The president is handling foreign affairs according to the will of Americans. Take for example Afghanistan....according to polls it has surpassed the Vietnam war in unpopularity. America is in a period of withdrawing from foreign conflicts and leadership in other parts of the world. How many of you would support a more active role in terrorist attacks in Russia... a position that is opposite the majority of your neighbors?
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How do you figure that he is handling foreign affairs according to the majority?
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LOL As usual Mike gets on, makes some unsupported posts and then leaves never to return to the thread.
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The insurgents/terrorists are bent on embarrassing Putin and his Olympic games. He has the area around Sochi under heavy security, so they are attacking outside the security area. The US has offered help with security.

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Russian bomb attacks: Hunt for Volgograd attack cells as US offers help on Olympic security

Investigators in Russia say there were similarities between the bombs used in two separate suicide blasts in the southern city of Volgograd, suggesting the attacks were linked.

Two bombings over the last two days, one at the city's central railway station and another on a trolleybus, killed dozens of people and raised anxieties about the safety of the Winter Olympics being hosted by Russia in a few weeks.

Russian authorities have ordered security to be tightened around the country amid fears Islamist militants may be preparing attacks aimed at disrupting the Games in Sochi, 700 kilometres from Volgograd, in February.

The United States has also offered closer cooperation with Russia on security after one Islamist leader urged terrorists to use "maximum force" to stop the Games from going ahead..

Train station attacker named as 'black widow'; Putin vows to hunt down terrorist cells

Volgograd attacks: key points


Train station attacker named as Oksana Aslanova (pictured)
Reports say she was widowed twice; both husbands died fighting Russian forces
Such attackers are known in Russia as 'black widows'
Volgograd was formerly known as Stalingrad, the scene of the pivotal battle of World War II
The southern city is around 700km from Sochi, where the Winter Olympics will be held
The area has been racked by a decades-long Islamist insurgency
The city was targeted in October when a female suicide bomber blew herself up on a bus
To find out more watch Peter Lloyd's video explainer
At least 15 people died when a bomb ripped through a trolleybus in Volgograd in Monday's morning rush hour with investigators saying a male suicide bomber was responsible.

A day earlier a similar attack at the main train station killed at least 18 people.

No-one has claimed responsibility, but suspicion has fallen on Islamist insurgents from the North Caucasus region.

The train station bomber has been named in media reports as Oksana Aslanova, who had been widowed twice. Both her husbands were reportedly Islamists who died in clashes with Russian forces.

In Russia such attackers are known as 'black widows'.

"Identical" shrapnel found at both attack sites indicated that the two bombs were linked, investigators said.

In talks with UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, Russian president Vladimir Putin vowed to stay within international law in the hunt for the perpetrators of the attacks.

US expected to warn about threat of hostage crisis at Olympics

US security officials said the government was not surprised by the Volgograd bombings and had anticipated such attacks might well occur in the run-up to the Games.

Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the US National Security Council, said the US government had "offered our full support to the Russian government in security preparations for the Sochi Olympic Games".

"We would welcome the opportunity for closer cooperation for the safety of the athletes, spectators, and other participants," she said.

The authorities have very much tied the two attacks together. It's logical that they would be associated but they're saying that the explosives used, the type of TNT used in both attacks, is exactly the same, so they see this very much as a linked attack.
Although no-one has claimed any responsibility so far, the assumption is this is part of this Islamic separatist movement from the North Caucasus and it is being treated as such, although there is a degree of caution that it may be something completely different that people hadn't expected.
Europe correspondent Philip Williams
The US State Department is expected to caution US travellers about possible bombings and hostage takings in Russia, particularly in the North Caucasus region, which is less than 160 kilometres from Sochi.

The US offer for closer cooperation with Russia comes after tensions were raised between US and Russian security agencies following the involvement of two Chechen brothers in the Boston Marathon bombing and Russia's granting temporary asylum to former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Despite these points of contention a US official said security cooperation between the US and Russia regarding the Games had improved in the run-up to the Olympics.

In November, Matthew Olsen, director of the government's US National Counter-terrorism Centre, said his agency was "coordinating and integrating the intelligence community's support ... to the Winter Olympics in Sochi".

Mr Olsen told a Senate committee he had visited Sochi a few days earlier and met Russian intelligence and security officials to discuss the Games.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-31/links-between-deadly-russia-bomb-attacks-as-us-offers-help/5179284
Edited by tomdrobin, Jan 1 2014, 03:39 AM.
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