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A German court has sentenced a Russian man to life in prison after he was found guilty of murdering Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, two years af

A German court has sentenced a Russian man to life in prison after he was found guilty of murdering Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, two years af

Leader of this chechen separatist group. he already has a $5 million bounty on his head. that is what the u.s. state department is offering for information on where he is. back in july, umarov released a video vowing to release, quote, maximum force to disrupt the sochi olympic games. his group has claimed responsibility for three bombings. that was back in 09, 2010, and 2011. all of them at transportation sites. 74 scientists, tourists, crew members, stranded onboard this russian vessel still...

>> even if the high security around sochi means terrorists may not be able to strike there theyre proving themselves more than capable of fredding maximum fear ahead of the games themselves, targeting other cities in the region with deadly results. >> diana joins us live from moscow. we know that first of all, these twin attacks come several months after a leader of a chechen separatist group pledged violence to disrupt the olympics. has anybody taken responsibility for the attacks? do we know i...

That. no one has claimed responsibility for the bombings, though, in russia, but a prime suspect is a man who is the leader of a chechen separatist group and he threatened violence to disrupt the olympic games. lets go to the man who led the security operation back in 1996 for those atlanta olympic games. william rathburn. he joins me now. nice to have you on. lets just begin with, lets say you were the head of security. your role as an atlanta, but youre in charge of sochi. given these two rece...

>> absolutely not. going back to what the russians, fsb were interested in, was do we have a problem here, is this guy going to -- is he a chechen separatist. i guarantee the fsb is sitting on information about him, including what -- you think the fsb wasnt paying attention to him while he was in dagestan? they have information about him and theyre not sharing it with us. they should be the ones getting kicked. >> dont ask questions i cant understand. you know what this reminds me of, though? it...

Have not seen chechen terrorists or chechen militants targeting u.s. interests, correct? >> absolutely. and i cover both instances you referred to and they were purely targeted by radical elements within the chechen separatist, extremist movement. more recently, there have been increasingly fractured and repressed islamist rebellion groups here that are younger. perhaps part of their manifesto occasionally makes references to the united states as well. potentially being a target post afghanistan...

Copycats, more of the small domestic terror cells? and how does law enforcement need to respond effectively? not necessarily to catch them. they did it well but prevent it in the first place? >> you will see copycat threats. when i sat there every night with the threat math matrix, after every event, that is the matrix they use to track threats after every event someone could call in and say i want to do something like that. what i fear is people too quickly will categorize this as terrorism. th...

Entire chechen population to central asia, a deeply radicalizing experience, as much as a third or a half of the chechen population died there. in the 90s and early 2000s, russia fought a brutal war there against chechen separatist who is became increasingly affiliated with the islamic, islamic terrorist insurgencies around the world. >> it radicalized both sides, russia and the chechens, for the churchens, the chechens because increasingly radicalized and islamized. >> i want to bring the folks...

Copycats, more of the small domestic terror cells? and how does law enforcement need to respond effectively? not necessarily to catch them. they did it well but prevent it in the first place? >> you will see copycat threats. when i sat there every night with the threat math matrix, after every event, that is the matrix they use to track threats after every event someone could call in and say i want to do something like that. what i fear is people too quickly will categorize this as terrorism. th...