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Russia: Islamic jihadists threaten to give a “present” to Putin and tourists at Olympics

Jan 19, 2014 7:12 pm By Robert Spencer

Thumbnail image for guide-to-sochi-olympic-park-coastline.jpgThe Olympic site in Sochi

At Sochi, jihadist savagery threatens to overwhelm the civility of the international games. “Russian Islamic video threatens Sochi Olympics,” by Lynn Berry for the Associated Press, January 19 (thanks to Kenneth):

MOSCOW (AP) — An Islamic militant group in Russia’s North Caucasus claimed responsibility Sunday for twin suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd last month and posted a video threatening to strike the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

There had been no previous claim of responsibility for the bombings, which killed 34 people and heightened security fears before next month’s Winter Games.

In the video, two Russian-speaking men warned President Vladimir Putin that “If you hold these Olympics, we will give you a present for the innocent Muslim blood being spilled all around the world: In Afghanistan, in Somalia, in Syria.”

They added that “for the tourists who come, there will be a present, too.”

In a statement posted with the video on its website, the militant group Vilayat Dagestan claimed responsibility for the Volgograd bombings.

The video claims that the two men, identified as Suleiman and Abdurakhman, were the suicide bombers and purports to show the explosives being prepared and strapped to their bodies.

There was no immediate reaction to the video from the Russian security services.

During much of the 49-minute video, the two men speak to the camera while holding Kalashnikov automatic rifles. Behind them hang black banners with Arabic religious phrases similar to those used by al-Qaida.

AP obfuscates the fact, of course, but they aren’t just “Arabic” religious phrases, but specifically Muslim religious phrases.

Vilayat Dagestan is one of the groups that make up the so-called Caucasus Emirate, which seeks to establish an independent Islamic state in the North Caucasus, a region just to the east of Sochi on Russia’s southern border.

Dagestan, one of several predominantly Muslim republics in the North Caucasus, has become the center of the Islamic insurgency that has spread throughout the region following separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya.

In response to the terrorist threat, Russia has introduced sweeping security measures for the Sochi Games….

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  1. gravenimage says

    Jan 20, 2014 at 7:01 pm

    Russia: Islamic jihadists threaten to give a “present” to Putin and tourists at Olympics
    ……………………………………………..

    Why is it that so many Islamic “presents” explode and leave death and destruction in their wakes?

    More:

    At Sochi, jihadist savagery threatens to overwhelm the civility of the international games…
    ……………………………………………..

    At ––––––––––, jihadist savagery threatens to overwhelm the civility of the –––––––––––––––––

    Just fill in the blanks, and you have the situation is so much of the world today with jihad terror…

    More:

    In the video, two Russian-speaking men warned President Vladimir Putin that “If you hold these Olympics, we will give you a present for the innocent Muslim blood being spilled all around the world: In Afghanistan, in Somalia, in Syria.”
    ……………………………………………..

    Just look at his examples. In Somalia and Syria, all the spilling of blood—including Muslim blood—is being done *by Muslims*. In Afghanistan, except for a drone or two that has gone off target, the situation is exactly the same.

    So—these Jihadists are going to attack Russia for things that not only haven’t been done by Russians, but in most cases not even by Infidels.

    Islamic “logic” in action…

    More:

    During much of the 49-minute video, the two men speak to the camera while holding Kalashnikov automatic rifles. Behind them hang black banners with Arabic religious phrases similar to those used by al-Qaida.
    ……………………………………………..

    In other words, it’s the “sword” and the Qur’an—nothing has changed in almost 1400 years, except that now they can videotape their threats…

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