http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/10/olympics-russia-attack-idUSL5E8GA84820120510
Russian anti-terror agents claim they have stopped a militant Islamic Chechen rebel plot to attack the city of Sochi...before and while it was hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics.
State agents arrested 3 rebels in the nearby Abkhazia region...and confiscated surface to air missiles, TNT, grenades...and other weapons.
The FSB agency believes the attacks were planned by Chechen Doku Umarov (foto).
Umarov has taken credit for the 2011 Moscow airport bombing that killed 37...and a 2010 Moscow metro blast that killed 40.
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