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Russian secret service: Sochi 2014 Olympics terror attack foiled in breakaway republic of Abkhazia
May 10, 2012
May 10, 2012
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Updated at 12:06 p.m. ET[/i]
(AP) MOSCOW - Russian agents have foiled terror attack plans on the Black Sea resort of Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, authorities said Thursday, blaming Chechen separatists and neighboring Georgia of jointly masterminding the plans.
Georgian authorities and security experts, however, called the accusations "paranoid" and "hard to believe."
Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB, had discovered 10 caches of weapons and ammunition on May 4 and May 5 in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, which lies just miles from Sochi.
The arms seized included
(AP) MOSCOW - Russian agents have foiled terror attack plans on the Black Sea resort of Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, authorities said Thursday, blaming Chechen separatists and neighboring Georgia of jointly masterminding the plans.
Georgian authorities and security experts, however, called the accusations "paranoid" and "hard to believe."
Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB, had discovered 10 caches of weapons and ammunition on May 4 and May 5 in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, which lies just miles from Sochi.
The arms seized included
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