MORE ON SOCHI – NEW – AT 9:04 A.M. ET:  London's Express has an exclusive on a newly revealed terror threat facing the Sochi Olympics.  We cannot confirm this independently, but think it's important to report it. 

HIGH speed double-decker trains carrying thousands of tourists from Moscow to Sochi for next month’s Winter Olympics are feared to be the main targets for devastating terror attacks.

Professor Mark Galeotti, a security expert at New York University said the thousand-mile Moscow to Adler railway line is a vulnerable to a strike by extremists.

He said the route was “an obvious target” as it would be outside Sochi’s ring of steel and be consistent with the tactics of previous terror attacks.

An attack during the Games is “inevitable”, he told Express Online.

His warning came as Russian authorities issued a major alert for two alleged female suicide bombers believed to be on the run in or near the Black Sea resort of Sochi

There are also fears that “sleeper cells” of migrant labourers who have been working on the construction of the Winter Games site may already be lurking inside the security cordon.

COMMENT:   Expect more stories like this in the next few weeks.  Even if there are no attacks, the terror groups have already succeeded.  They have forced the expenditure of huge resources on security.  And they have focused attention on their causes.

Always remember that the purpose of terrorism is terror.

January 22, 2014