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Muslim ridge as they put it through the terrorist attacks, that may have drawn in a new group of people who perhaps have broader ambition perhaps and broader motivation than purely in chechnya. >> richard brewer, thanks for your expertise. everybody is hoping for successful winter games in sochi. much more straight ahead in the newsroom and it all starts right now. hello again, im fredricka whitfield. here are the top stories were following in the cnn newsroom. brace yourselves again. a powerf...

>> decided to fracture out and do operations that way because because bin laden is dead and the centralized thing is weakened. now, one more point about this and then i want to ask you you about the russian olympic deal. david kirkpatrick the articles writer, i didnt know this until today, was one of the first to advance the theory that the videotape promoted by the nutty foreign preacher ignited all this violence in libya. i just want to tell it the audience that he basically, kilpatrick, wrote...

Superpower with a second rate economy. and china feels emboldened by looking at all the problems he has and the weakness he has signaled. >> matt, what else are you looking at? >> i think it will be a very interesting year in russia. the olympics coming up in sochi. very big test for putin. several terrorist attacks. i think in general putin has seemed strong because hes really cracked down on the opposition. hes got a weakening economy. hes also trying to reassert himself in his neighborhood. y...

>> usa! usa! usa! >> all right. were having fun. back to you. >> almost looks illegal. >> thank you, griff. well done. >> how new york city police department keeping everybody safe tonight. how is it going? >> billy. you know, new york city is a prime target for terrorist attacks. you can see police taking no chances. theyve sealed off every side street with officers and check points and checking carefully every person coming into times square. there are no large bags or backpacks allowed here. ...

>> usa! usa! usa! >> all right. were having fun. back to you. >> almost looks illegal. >> thank you, griff. well done. >> how new york city police department keeping everybody safe tonight. how is it going? >> billy. you know, new york city is a prime target for terrorist attacks. you can see police taking no chances. theyve sealed off every side street with officers and check points and checking carefully every person coming into times square. there are no large bags or backpacks allowed here. ...

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But dont underestimate the nature of the threat that the russians face here. the chechens and the russians have been opposed to one another for centuries. it has gotten worse in the past several decade because of rising islamist extremism. weve had a history over the past 10 or 15 years of successful chechen or other terrorist attacks in key russian cities up to and including several in moscow itself. so i think that putin is correct to be concerned. whether he can put enough guard out there to ...

They are confident of that. are you? >> probably not as vladmir putin and the chair of the ioc right now. the fact we already had three terrorist attacks in volgograd the last two months, the largest city reasonably close proximity to sochi suggests there are real holes in the security. and there are only a certain amount of security forces that russia has to deploy. i was reading this morning that 4,000 security forces have now been deployed down to volgograd for the, for the investigation and ...

He claimed responsibility for major terrorist attacks on the moscow metro years ago, the airport in moscow, the train between moscow and st. petersburg. none of these have been confirmed but i think he certainly represents the public face of a very, very loose network of individuals and groups that shares the same ideology. it is not one so much of independence, of the caucuses or the so-called caucuses emirate. it is more of a international jihadist ideology. jon: yeah, well, there are indicati...