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| Russia seeks as many as four 'black widows' |
| 2014-01-21 |
| Russian security services may be seeking as many as four "black widows" dispatched to carry out terrorist attacks related to the Winter Olympics, including at least one woman believed to be in or near Sochi, U.S. and Russian sources said on Monday. Wanted posters distributed in Sochi describe at least one suspected terrorist -- Ruzana Ibragimova, also known as Salima, the 22-year-old widow of an Islamic The posters say that Russian security officials have been informed of her possible departure from Dagestan earlier this month, and that she may be used for an attack inside the Olympic zone. On Sunday, a video emerged in which two men from an Islamist "That which we will do, that which we have done, is only a little example, a little step," one the men, from the Islamist organization Anars Al Sunna, says in the hour-long video. The men in the video claim to be from Dagestan. They appear to construct explosive devices and document, step by step, how they planned the Volgograd attacks. They say in a part of the recording directed at Russian officials that they "will continue to kill you and your soldiers." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #13 Declare Sochi a bomb-free zone, hang up some signs, done. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-01-21 21:42 |
| #12 #3 - Snark Of The Day nominee! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-01-21 19:35 |
| #11 Beo, ya gonna make me post the "Take Him To Detroit" video again? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-01-21 15:26 |
| #10 Oh, don't be such a stick in the mud. It's gonna be a blast! Go to your room, Steve. **muffled laughter*** |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-01-21 14:54 |
| #9 She should have been placed in "Preventive Detention" weeks ago. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-01-21 13:34 |
| #8 Well, if this goes boom we'll get to see how the world reacts when it's not just Jews at the 5 ring circus. Don't wonder, "the world" will find a way to blame the Jews. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-01-21 12:36 |
| #7 Well, if this goes boom we'll get to see how the world reacts when it's not just Jews at the 5 ring circus. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-01-21 12:09 |
| #6 It kinda looks like a heavily modified hell-hole. Why not St. Petersburg? The mountains not that much further. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-01-21 09:28 |
| #5 The posters describe her as having a limp in her right leg, a left arm that does not bend at the elbow and a 4-inch scar on her cheek. Wasn't that Boris Karloff in 'The Mummy'? |
| Posted by: Angump Shaise9137 2014-01-21 09:19 |
| #4 It might turn out to be an interesting "laboratory" for how anti-terror security is done at a high profile global event. Then again, maybe not... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2014-01-21 09:04 |
| #3 I can't think of a place I'd rather not be than Sochi Oh, don't be such a stick in the mud. It's gonna be a blast! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-01-21 03:15 |
| #2 Off hand, I can't think of a place I'd rather not be than Sochi over the coming weeks. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-21 02:28 |
| #1 See also RELATED GUAMPDN > RUSSIANS SEEK "BLACK WIDOWS" AS POSSIBLE GAMES THREAT. Analysts are belabeling the security for the games "unprecedented". Meanwhile, not to be outdone by Vladimir + IOC, as per WORLD NEWS + TOPIX Al-Qeda has repor set up a femmes-only = "sisters base" for "Black Widow" wannabes. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-01-21 02:11 |