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Russia foiled terrorist plans by Chechen rebels, Georgia in the 2014 Winter Olympics host

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 ten 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 portable surface-to-air missiles, grenade launchers, flame throwers, grenades, rifles, explosives and maps, the security service said.Authorities said the terrorists were planning to smuggle the explosives and arms into Sochi "between 2012 and 2014 to use them during the preparations and during the games." They did not elaborate on how they came to this conclusion.Sochi is less than dozen miles a...

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