Posted by Tina
Video showing two men dressed in street clothes in front of a black jihadist flag was posted on a Chechen extremist website tonight. The video will be being studied but is said to pose a credible threat to the Olympic Games which will officially open Monday near Sochi in Russia, ABC News reports:
“We’ll have a surprise package for you,” one of the men said in the militants’ video. “And those tourists that will come to you, for them, too, we have a surprise. If it happens [the Olympics], we’ll have a surprise for you. This is for all the Muslim blood that is shed every day around the world, be it in Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, all around the world. This will be our revenge.”
The video includes news and security camera footage from double suicide blast on a commuter trolly in the city of Volgogra, a busy Russian transit hub. House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Representative Mike McCaul relayed this message to ABC News:
“I think the threats are real. [Islamist Chechen leader Doku] Umarov basically called for attacks on the Olympics. I think you’re going to see attempts to do that. I think it’s more likely that the attacks will happen outside the perimeter, more soft targets, transportation nodes.”
The Russian government has allowed a small contingency of American security but has made it very clear that they will be in charge of security.
It hasn’t been that long since we experienced a devastating terrorist bombing here in America. The individuals involved in the Boston Marathon bombing were young, could easily blend in on American streets, and managed to show the world that two people can create a lot of misery, damage and death with very little effort. The American government treats such events as criminal rather than as acts of aggression and war. I wonder if Putin will be as laid back and understanding if these thugs manage to succeed in murdering scores of people at his Olympics? Somehow I think not.
If you’ve a mind to, you might want to throw up a few prayers for the participating athletes and the many visitors and spectators that will gather for the Winter Olympic Games in Russia starting this week.
I wonder if the attack won’t come by way of some Muslim participants. Wouldn’t put it past them, this is a radical, blood thirty, barabaric, bunch within this (choke)religion of peace…which it’s never been since it’s inception. Makes me wonder why anyone wo has a conscience would stay in such a religion shared by so many murderers?
As long as we continue to appease them and set them free to return them to the field of battle…as long as we refuse to call evil by its true name those who want to live in peaceful co-existence will just have to lump it…so sorry for the inconvenience.
Good question, Jack.
Wow, a far left liberal I agree with. Like what he’s trying to do to protect our liberties and against the NSA.
Holt: On Surveillance Reform, Obama Offers “Far Less Than Meets The Eye”:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Holt-On-Surveillance-Refo-by-Rush-Holt-Federal-Agency-NSA_Holt-Rush_Reform-140117-681.html
Video interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwimmLevJ1I
Chill, people. You’re not helping.
Libby you helped elect a bunch of nuts that have only made the world a more dangerous place and they are lying about it!
Chill yerself!
Do you think it helps or hurts when Obama says Al Qaeda are now junior varsity? I think it empowers the terrorists to prove they are as “relevant” as ever. Time will tell.
Toby, neither. Al Qaeda was behind 9/11 so they weren’t JV then and if they’re JV now it just means they’ll be varsity soon.
They think Obama is weak so what he says isn’t relevant to them any way.
Toby I think you are exactly right and I think the return and rise of Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Taliban since 2009 demonstrate it. There have been more attacks and bombings…a couple on our own soil since then too.
NBC News:
Putin isn’t about to let his games become the site of a successful target, but we shall see.
“Putin isn’t about to let his games become the site of a successful target, but we shall see.”
You admire, Pooty, do you? Telling, that.
Libby: “You admire, Pooty, do you? Telling, that.”
What’s it telling you…or has that caricature of me just grown a tail to go with the horns?
Fact is, admiration is relative. There are men I greatly admire because they see their position of authority in terms of service. They are willing to shoulder the heavy burden of leadership, make tough decisions, and they hold themselves accountable for those decisions making corrections when necessary. They take the job seriously and honor the oath they have taken.
The man is ex KGB…is anyone ever really “ex” KGB? I have no use or respect for authority that believes in power over the people, which is certainly how Putin appears to see himself.
Power over the people leadership is also why President Obama is so low on my list. Putty Poot is above him in one respect only…at least he’s paying attention and is involved. The O man was AWOL during Benghazi, has called his ME war, “overseas contingency operations”, disallowed the use of terms that identify terrorists, refused to designate the Fort Hood shooting as a terrorist act, and empowered the Muslim Brotherhood, among other disturbing things. None of this gives me much confidence that he is engaged or honoring his duty to defend the nation.