Why Did Terror Groups In The Caucasus Fail In Delivering Their Promise Of A Terror Attack Duing The Olympics

In central Volgograd, Russian Cossacks look at portraits of people suspected of involvement in terrorist acts.

Why Did The North Caucasus Insurgency Fail To Attack Sochi Winter Olympics? -- Radio Free Europe

The two suicide bombings on consecutive days in late December targeting public transportation in Volgograd compounded existing fears both in Russia and abroad that the North Caucasus insurgency posed a major security threat to the Winter Olympic Games to be held in Sochi in February. Self-styled Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov had called on his fighters in an appeal posted online last July to use “any methods Allah allows” to prevent the Games from taking place.

The Sochi Olympics have now ended without any such bloodbath, despite the threat of “surprises” for those attending the Games by two men identified as the Volgograd suicide bombers in video footage posted on the Daghestan insurgency website on January 19.

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My Comment: The crisis in Ukraine has distracted me from publishing this post earlier .... but it is true .... for all their bravado and threats the terror groups from the Caucasus did not succeed in launching a terror attack on the Sochi Olympics as they had promised. I guess there is a good reason for this .... but I will take the good news when I can.