The TelegraphRussian authorities said on Thursday that security forces had been put on combat alert in the southern Stavropol region after the discovery of six bodies with gunshot wounds in four different cars, three of which were rigged with explosives.
Only one of the bombs went off and no one was hurt. But the killings are further heightening security concerns ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which also lies near the Caucasus region, where an Islamic insurgency is simmering.
Russia has already tightened security before next month’s Games, on which President Vladimir Putin has staked a lot of political and personal prestige, and is on high alert after suicide bombers killed at least 34 people in separate attacks in the southern city of Volgograd last month.
The corpses were discovered on Wednesday in two separate districts outside the regional capital Stavropol, a gateway to the North Caucasus, where Russia faces an insurgency by Islamist militants who have threatened to try to prevent the Olympics going ahead.
Vladimir Markin, spokesman for Russia’s main investigative agency, said in a statement issued on Thursday that Federal Security Service officers had joined the investigation. He said no motive had yet been determined.
Mr Putin said after the Volgograd attacks that he would annihilate all “terrorists” in Russia.
The Winter Olympics open in Sochi on Feb. 7. The Black Sea resort is on the western edge of the Caucasus mountains where the insurgents want to carve out an Islamic state.
The head of Russia’s Olympic Committee has said no more can be done to safeguard the Games because every measure possible is already in place.
Russian forces went on combat alert in Sochi on Tuesday and about 37,000 personnel are now in place to provide security at the Games, Russian officials say.
Edited by Hannah Strange
My Fellow Patriots:
Well,… looks like the Saudi Intelligence Services screwed the pooch on this one.
3 out of 4 (“Suicide” Car Bombs) didn’t go off!!! (Because “Suicide” bombers ALWAYS kill themselves BEFORE they set the bomb off!!)
Now the local cops had a chance to find the sacrificial “suicide” patsies,… and the fact they were killed and put in the cars so there would be some body parts to support the notion of “Extremists” that are willing to commit suicide in there terroristist acts!! (AHHHhhhh!!!,.. TERRORISTS!!!,… AHHHHHhh,.. Quick,.. RUN SCARED!!!!,.. AHHHhhhhh!!!)
This was a complete set up by the Saudi’s and Israeli Intellegence services,.. probably in co-operation with the CIA.
I guarantee that Putin has his own people there already,.. dissecting those cars and carefully studing the construction. Since every Intellegence service has it’s own signature methods when putting these kinds of devices together,…. the Kremlin, and Putin, have forensics proof of the gambit they (the Saudi’s and Israelis) were trying to run.
Stand-by for Blow-Back!!!
JD – US Marines – I really can’t wait to see what Putin’s response to this will be! (NOW THATS ENTERTAINMENT!!)
I agree JD. this will be interesting to watch.