FSB Director accused "some political forces" in supporting terrorists

On June 3, 2010 the FSB director Aleksandr Bortnikov said at the meeting of special services chiefs in Yekaterinburg that the FSB has come into possession of information that "terrorists intend to blow up the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014,” the kind of threat that has already forced the cancellation of the Dakar 2008 rally and one that "exerts serious influence on political decisions”.

"Terrorists are actively using radicalism and extremism in their interests, trying to get hold of the state of the art technologies, and gain access to weapons of mass destruction,” he added.

According to the FSB chief, this is the result of “negligence, and sometimes even direct support to terrorists, by some political forces, which are attempting to use them for their own purposes”.

Fighting terrorism today requires “consolidation of efforts of the entire world community, imposing timely sanctions and a joint approach to certain persons and structures connected with terrorism and extremist activities.”

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