More Islamic terror –bombings at the heavily trafficked railway
station in Stalingrad (Volgograd), followed by a homicide bus bombing in
the same town, two days later six bodies with gunshot wounds were found
in bomb-rigged car, and then this weekend’s arrest of a jihad cell
found with bombs, grenades and ammunition — comes this:
“Seven die in shootout during pre-Olympic Russia militant sweep,” NBC News, January 15, 2013
MOSCOW, Russia — Three Russian servicemen
and four gunmen were killed in a shootout in southern Russia on
Wednesday during a sweep for militants ahead of next month’s Sochi
Winter Olympics.
Russia’s National Anti-terrorism
Committee (NAC) said the dead gunmen included a man accused of carrying
out a car bomb attack in the city of Pyatigorsk late last year which
killed three people.
Russia is on high alert following two
suicide bombings in southern Russia last month that fueled security
concerns before the Olympics, which Islamist militants waging an
insurgency in the North Caucasus have threatened to attack.
President Vladimir Putin has staked a lot
of personal and political prestige on the success of the Games, which
open on February 7, and has put security forces on combat alert in
Sochi.
The NAC said in a statement that a group
of militants had been trapped in a house in the village of Karlanyurt in
the Dagestan region of the North Caucasus. Five officers were also
wounded in what a spokesman called a special operation.
Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala, is about
385 miles east of Sochi. The mostly Islamic region is plagued by
bombings and shootings that mainly target police and state officials as
part of the militants’ fight to create an Islamist state.
At least 34 people were killed last month
in suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd. Putin ordered
safety measures to be beefed up nationwide after the attacks.
About 37,000 personnel are now in place
to provide security in Sochi, which is on the Black Sea and on the
western edge of the Caucasus mountains, and the International Olympic
Committee has expressed confidence the Games will be safe.
But, underlining the danger of attacks,
security forces said on Saturday they had arrested five members of a
banned militant group in southern Russia and defused a homemade bomb
packed with shrapnel.
The main spokesman for Russia’s
Investigative Committee, whose responsibilities include looking into
bombings and other attacks, appealed to civilians on Tuesday to be more
vigilant and help avert the threat of “terrorist” attacks.
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