Islamist Militants Threaten To Attack Winter Olympics

Islamist militants have issued a terror threat to organisers of next month's Winter Olympics, warning: "If you hold the (Games) you will receive a present from us."



A video posted online claims two men – named as Suleiman and Abdurakhman - carried out deadly suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd in December.

It also threatened further attacks to coincide with the Games, which start in Sochi on February 7.

"It will be for all the Muslim blood that is shed every day around the world – be it in Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, all around the world," a man says in Russian on the video.

"This will be our revenge."

The attacks at Volgograd railway station and on a city tram last month killed 34 people and injured more than 100.

The video claims the blasts were the work of militant group Vilayat Dagestan and linked to an Iraqi faction called Ansar al Sunna.

Last year, Chechen rebel Doku Umarov, the leader of the Islamist insurgency in Russia's disputed North Caucasus region, which is close to Sochi, threatened to stage attacks to stop the Games from taking place.

But Russian President Vladimir Putin insists the event will be "safe and secure".














Source: Yahoo News