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Titolo: cresce lo sconcerto tra i rossobruni

Sventato attentato islamista in Russia.  Si saranno certamente usati
metodi di interrogatorio che rispettano la dignita' dell'avversario, i
diritti umani e la presunzione di innocenza. Mica siamo a Guantanamo
 
Russia 'foils Islamist plot to attack Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics'
 
Anti-terror committee says agents have arrested three suspects and
found surface-to-air missiles, TNT and grenade launchers
 
ussia says it has foiled a plot by Islamist rebels to attack the
southern city of Sochi when it hosts the Winter Olympics in 2014.
 
The country's anti-terror committee said agents from the Federal
Security Service (FSB) had arrested three suspected rebels and seized
a large cache of weapons during a raid last week in Abkhazia, the
Georgian breakaway region that borders Sochi.
 
"Russia's FSB could establish that militants were planning to move
these weapons to Sochi during 2012-2014 to use for terror acts while
planning and hosting the Olympic Games," the committee said in a
statement.
 
They said the plot had been devised by the Chechen rebel Doku Umarov,
the head of Caucasus Emirate, a rebel group that seeks to wrest the
Caucasus region from Russia in order to set up an Islamist state. It
has taken responsibility for devastating attacks on Russian territory,
including the bombing of the Moscow metro in 2010 and the bombing of a
Moscow airport last year.
 
The group has carried out no major attacks since then, although
analysts have long feared it would seek to target the Olympic site in
Sochi, which is just 300 miles from Chechnya. The Russian president,
Vladimir Putin, has made Sochi's hosting of the Olympics one of his
pet projects.
 
The committee said surface-to-air missiles, TNT and grenade launchers
were among the weapons seized.
 
In a move likely to strain ties further, it accused Georgia, with
which Russia has frozen relations since its August 2008 war over South
Ossetia, another breakaway region, of aiding the plot.
 
"Doku Umarov, while maintaining close contacts with the Georgian
special services, co-ordinated all activities to organise the delivery
of materials to carry out acts of terror," the committee statement
said. It also accused Georgia's security services and "associated
representatives of illegal armed groups in Turkey" of smuggling 300
detonators from Georgia to Abkhazia in an operation that was
discovered in February. Several Chechen exiles have been assassinated
in Turkey in plots believed to involve the Russian security services.
 
Georgian officials denied the claim. "I can only say that the national
anti-terrorist committee is staffed with people with peculiar
fantasies," Shota Khizanishvili, chief of staff at Georgia's interior
ministry, told the Associated Press. "They are always trying to accuse
Georgia and its secret services of everything in any situation and
without any grounds. This is a sign of a severe paranoia."
 
Russia maintains close ties to Abkhazia, which broke away from Georgia
after the fall of the Soviet Union and lies just 10 miles from Sochi.
Russia recognised the independence of both South Ossetia and Abkhazia
following the 2008 war, which broke out one year after Sochi was
awarded the Olympics following a personal push from Putin.
 
Security in the restive North Caucasus region has long been a concern.
The Foreign Office advises against all travel to the republics of
Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia and says the country includes a
"high level of threat from terrorism".
 
Russia has tried to ease fears. The anti-terrorist committee said the
weapons seizure was a "notable blow to the terrorist underground,
leaving it no intention to disrupt the Olympic games in Sochi and
destabilise the situation in the North Caucasus region".
 
The International Olympic Committee said: "Security at the Games is
the responsibility of the local authorities and we have no doubt that
the Russians will be up to the task."
 
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/10/russia-plot-sochi-winter-olympics?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
 

 
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