The Department of Homeland Security is sending a warning to Americans traveling to the Olympic games that a new kind of bomb threat is facing foreign airlines.
Terrorists have been placing the materials needed to make a bomb inside tubes of toothpaste in attempts to smuggle them onto flights and build explosive devices.
DHS said that there was no threat to America from the toothpaste bombs but that the agency routinely communicates “relevant information with domestic and international partners, including those associated with international events such as the Sochi Olympics.”
A DHS spokesman said that Russian authorities have been informed of the threat.
Security for the Olympic games in Sochi has been on high alert for months after threats from Islamic terrorist groups to hit transportation to the Olympics.
The leader of a Russian Islamic terrorist group believed to be behind the plot to bomb the Winter Olympics was killed in a shootout with security troops while the woman believed to be the suicide bomber remains at large.
Russian security officials say that Eldar Magatov, the mastermind behind the bombings of public transportation in Volgograd last month that killed 34 people, was killed in a shootout after police surrounded a house in the Dagestan region. Dagestan is considered the home base for the Islamic terrorist group that was led by Magatov.
Russian President Vladimir Putin received an offer of support from the United States to combat the terrorists during the Olympics but has not responded to the offer.
Meanwhile, the woman called a “black widow” believed to be planning to attempt a suicide attack on the games is still at large in the Sochi area. In what has not been confirmed by Russian security officials, sources in Sochi say Russian security forces have sent out revised posters to hotels and hostels that show two separate women being sought as possible terrorists.
Russian security forces are frantically searching for a woman they believe is plotting to kill herself with a homicide bomb attack on the Olympic games.
Russia’s internal security service has sent an alert to hotels in the area of the Olympics looking for Ruzanna Ibragimova. She has been described as a “black widow” of an Islamic terrorist who was killed by Russian security forces.
They believe she snuck into the area around Sochi on January 11th or 12th.
“According to our information Ms. Ibragimova may be used by the ring leaders of illegal armed groups for the organization of terrorist acts in the zone of the 2014 Olympics,” the alert reads.
Russia has deployed 40,000 police and security staff to the city of Sochi forming what they call a “ring of steel” to stop attacks by Islamic militants.
Islamic terrorists have released a video from two men who claim to be suicide bombers.
The two men in the video are dressed in street clothes with nothing to identify them as Islamists. They identify themselves as part North Caucasus Islamic Extremist group while standing in front of a black jihadist flag and holding AKMS rifles.
“We’ll have a surprise package for you,” the terrorists say in the clip. “And those tourists that will come to you, for them, too, we have a surprise. If [the Olympics] happens, 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.”
U.S. Intelligence officials say they have been studying the video trying to determine authenticity. However, the video was posted on a website that is considered credible for the Russian terrorist group. Sources say that U.S. Intelligence officials are working to come up with a rescue plan for Americans who may get trapped in a terror attack at the Olympics.
Russian authorities continue to insist their forces will be enough to protect participants and attendees at the Olympics.
Islamic terrorists have released a video from two men who claim to be suicide bombers.
The two men in the video are dressed in street clothes with nothing to identify them as Islamists. They identify themselves as part North Caucasus Islamic Extremist group while standing in front of a black jihadist flag and holding AKMS rifles.
“We’ll have a surprise package for you,” the terrorists say in the clip. “And those tourists that will come to you, for them, too, we have a surprise. If [the Olympics] happens, 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.”
U.S. Intelligence officials say they have been studying the video trying to determine authenticity. However, the video was posted on a website that is considered credible for the Russian terrorist group. Sources say that U.S. Intelligence officials are working to come up with a rescue plan for Americans who may get trapped in a terror attack at the Olympics.
Russian authorities continue to insist their forces will be enough to protect participants and attendees at the Olympics.
Security for the February Sochi Russia Olympic Games is being called into question after back-to-back days of terror attacks in a major transportation hub north of the Olympic city.
A deadly homicide bombing on a bus in Volgograd has killed at least 11 and wounded dozens the day after a female homicide bomber detonated a backpack of explosives and shrapnel at the security checkpoint for the city’s main train station. At least 17 people are dead from that attack and hospital officials say the number of critically wounded patients means the death toll is likely to rise.
No group has claimed responsibility for the terror attacks.
Investigators say there is strong evidence linking the two attacks.
Volgograd is a major railroad hub for the region and thousands pass through the city every day heading to Moscow. The town is expected to be a major route for international visitors who will fly into Moscow and then travel to Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
At least one terrorist group has vowed to carry out attacks on the Winter Olympics.
Russia’s secret service agency has foiled a plot by terrorists to attack the city of Sochi, host of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
The FSB discovered ten stockpiles of guns and ammunition last week in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia. The raid discovered portable surface-to-air missiles, grenade launches, flame throwers, grenades & explosives and rifles.
The attacks are believed to be masterminded by Doku Umarov, a Chechnen rebel leader who has arranged delivery of weapons and ammunition to Abkhazia.
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