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Russia 'foils Islamist plot to attack Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics'
Source: The Guardian
Russia 'foils Islamist plot to attack Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics'
Anti-terror committee says agents have arrested three suspects
and found surface-to-air missiles, TNT and grenade launchers
Miriam Elder in Moscow
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 May 2012 18.12 BST
Russia says it has foiled a plot by Islamist rebels to attack the southern city of Sochi when it hosts the Winter Olympics in 2014.
The country's anti-terror committee said agents from the Federal Security Service (FSB) had arrested three suspected rebels and seized a large cache of weapons during a raid last week in Abkhazia, the Georgian breakaway region that borders Sochi.
"Russia's FSB could establish that militants were planning to move these weapons to Sochi during 2012-2014 to use for terror acts while planning and hosting the Olympic Games," the committee said in a statement.
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Anti-terror committee says agents have arrested three suspects
and found surface-to-air missiles, TNT and grenade launchers
Miriam Elder in Moscow
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 May 2012 18.12 BST
Russia says it has foiled a plot by Islamist rebels to attack the southern city of Sochi when it hosts the Winter Olympics in 2014.
The country's anti-terror committee said agents from the Federal Security Service (FSB) had arrested three suspected rebels and seized a large cache of weapons during a raid last week in Abkhazia, the Georgian breakaway region that borders Sochi.
"Russia's FSB could establish that militants were planning to move these weapons to Sochi during 2012-2014 to use for terror acts while planning and hosting the Olympic Games," the committee said in a statement.
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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/10/russia-plot-sochi-winter-olympics
