[MtnCat]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/world/europe/volgograd-russia-explosion.html?_r=0

"Security has become a paramount concern at all major international sporting events, especially in the wake of the bombing at the Boston Marathon in April, but never before has an Olympic host country experienced terrorist violence on this scale soon before the Games. And would-be attackers may have more targets in mind than the Russian state."

Gotta keep the fear factor up here in the States. :thumb:

 

[East Coast Woods]

Exactly MtnCat - can happen anywhere at anytime. Terrorist count on the lax feeling that it can't to be successful in their attempts. Another good reason to be prepped all the time. Not that one should allow them to be successful by being fearful all the time, just be ready just in case.

 

[Dragonid]

I hadn't even thought about the olympics when I read about that. Russia has been dealing with separatists and terrorists from their Stanistan neighbors for a long time though.

 

[Cool Hand]

Kill enough of them and they will quit.

 

[MtnCat]

Reuters: 2nd blast. "Trolleybus":

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-russia-blast-trolley-idUSBRE9BT03N20131230

Praying for our members in large metro areas to stay alert and safe.

 

[MtnCat]

China, too? But last month there was that dust-up at a police station.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-china-xinjiang-idUSBRE9BT02V20131230

 

[howyadoin]

They should probably consider banning bombs...for the children.

But seriously, I can certainly see escalated events worldwide in the near future...there are certainly no shortage of crazies in the world.

 

[East Coast Woods]

Yep I think 2013 was a cake walk, and just can't see things getting better in 2014. To much out there.

 

[jmbroberts]

Volgograd is the city formerly known as Stalingrad. It's no stranger to carnage.

 

[MtnCat]

"US eyeing Olympic security after Russia attacks"

AP - Honolulu: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-eyeing-olympic-security-after-russia-attacks

MtnCat imagines the author: <must squeeze in info about gay Americans in Russia somewhere...ah...last paragraph>:

"In a clear message to Russia, the U.S. delegation to the Olympics includes several openly gay athletes, including tennis player Billie Jean King and figure skater Brian Boitano. And for the first time since 2000, the American delegation to the Olympics will not include a president, vice president or first lady."

 

[LongInTheTooth]

Well, the SAUDIS already threatened the RUSSIANS (OLYMPICS)...for supporting Bashir Al
Assad's regime...via the CHECHNYANS, which the SAUDIS claim to control.

If RUSSIAS Intel definitively traces the origins of the on-going bombings to the SAUDIS, I doubt that Ole VLAD will wait for UN SANCTIONS to be debated against them...and it would be wise for us to stay out of this one...but...there is no wisdom in DC.

 

[Borsch Dorks Gorge]

Russia will be what finally saves 'The West'.

 

[MtnCat]

Well, the SAUDIS already threatened the RUSSIANS (OLYMPICS)...for supporting Bashir Al
Assad's regime...via the CHECHNYANS, which the SAUDIS claim to control.

If RUSSIAS Intel definitively traces the origins of the on-going bombings to the SAUDIS, I doubt that Ole VLAD will wait for UN SANCTIONS to be debated against them...and it would be wise for us to stay out of this one...but...there is no wisdom in DC.

If you mean "boycott the Winter Olympics in Russia," we didn't boycott the 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany, either. "The Olympic Truce" is quickly becoming a memory.

http://www.olympictruce.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=2&Itemid=267&lang=en