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US reveals 'specific' threat to Sochi Olympic Games
February 05, 2014
Three days before the Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi, United States officials say there are a "number of specific threats" and dangers are more likely outside the venues for the Games, CNN reports.
Speaking at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday, Matthew
Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, highlighted
concern over the Games and whether Muslim fundamentalists in disputed
regions of Russia -- or other groups -- could launch deadly attacks on
selected targets.
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