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Either attacks in volgograd. i want to bring in kt mcfarland, fox news security analyst to talk about this and concerns they have. let's mace it. russia is getting ready for the winter games for a long time. security concerns out there you but make one clear point. before there was al qaeda, there were militants in russia. >> yeah. for, chechen rebels, the militants, chechen separatists are considered most ruthless violent killers on the planet. that is who this area is. guess where the olympics are? they're right in the middle of the region. that is where the boston bombers came from, for exa...

>> i don't think this is new information. there have been chechen separatists that moved to the west for years. russians complained bitterly we've allowed them to raise money and engage in support activity, but i really think we have to be really careful about demonizing people because they're chechens or because they're from dagestan, these folks have suffered under, you know, a lot of things by the russian government that are not necessarily pleasant and i don't think necessarily the u.s. government would endorse those or the american people would endorse those accesses. so let's be careful ...

The seven months he spent in russia and dagestan last year. questions have been raised about the u.s. response rank from russian authorities about that tsarnaev but the russians felt he was a threat to them and not to the u.s. and u.s. authorities found no contact with extremists in this country, now they are looking at whether he was radicalized by chechen separatists when he he went to dagestan. there are indications he met may have met with a couple extreme i.ists. one in may of 2012 and another in july, just before tsarnaev returned to this country. the tsarnaev brothers' parents have deni...

Way. >> yes. >> reporter: in fact, i was told he was seen at the mosque just within the last month. >> right. frank, given that the younger brother has said they were not influenced by any terrorist organization but were self-motivated, does this now render any investigation in chechnya or dagestan to be largely irrelevant, and is this now much more about the psycho pathology of these brothers? >> you know, i think it's too early to tell. obviously the russians had come under -- were concerned enough to alert others they may have had contact with chechen separatists or others in the jihadi cir...

A conversation we're having now is a reminder of why we do need to know what's happening around the world. why it matters what's happening in chechnya, the capital was flattened during the war there. that chows of chechens have been killed and at some point we have to wake up to the fact that the world is so interconnected, the borders are fairly porous, people live in this country and it has an impact. we know that the chechens have gone from being a largely nationalist movement fighting against russian imperialism and oppression to being more international. the single largest group of nonafg...