FSB (KGB) Are Coming To UK To Rehearse A Terror Attack

Guardian: Russians join in UK action on terrorism

October 16, 2005


Russia's secret service, the successors to the KGB, will take part in anti-terrorist exercises on the streets of Britain next year, The Observer can reveal.

The Home Office official in charge of counter-terrorist operations, Jeremy Grey, confirmed that the Russians would be returning in January to participate in the 'live exercises', in which security and emergency services will rehearse the circumstances of a terrorist attack.

This unprecedented visit by Britain's newest allies in the intelligence war co-incided with the bloodiest day for weeks in the North Caucasus region of Russia and followed the visit by President Vladimir Putin to London.

Grey said: 'We look forward to inviting Russian colleagues to our live exercises next January'.

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Iran: Latest Ahvaz bomb injury figure raised to 86 (Payvand)

10/16/05


the latest figures in today's terrorist bomb blasts in the southern city of Ahvaz indicate 86 people were injured.

Boustani said four people were killed saying that the identity of is not known yet. He also said that several women and children are among the injured and are being treated. Furthermore, two people are in critical condition and one has been under going surgery.

Initially it was reported that explosion of two hand-made bombs in Naderi street of Ahvaz at around 17:00 local time (13:30GMT) on Saturday killed 4 and wounded more than 70 people.

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ITAR-TASS: Chiefs of CIS secret services confer in Yalta

29.10.2005

The chiefs of the CIS countries’ secret services gathered for a conference at the Livadia Palace in Yalta, the Crimea, for the 19th time on Friday. It was the first such event to have been attended by the top officials of German, Spanish, Italian and French intelligence services in the capacity of observers. Alongside such traditional themes, as the struggle against terrorism, organized crime, drugs and human trafficking and illegal migration the participants discussed ways of preventing economic crimes with the use of advanced computer technologies, the chief of Ukraine’s Security Service, Igor Drizhchany told a news conference.

The participants held bilateral talks on wider cooperation in all these spheres. “To our regret the threats of terrorist attacks have not eased. On the contrary, they have grown,” the representative of Russia’s federal security service FSB, Sergei Smirnov told the media, when asked about the possibility of major terrorist attacks in the CIS member-countries.

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Times Online: Spy's murder prompts fears over plans for dealing with 'dirty bomb' attacks

December 11, 2006


Authorities suspect that Litvinenko was poisoned on November 1 at the Pine Bar, in the Millennium Hotel in London, but they told the 250 people who were there that day that they were in no danger. Now they are trying find them to run health checks.

Plans have been drawn up for officers to seal off contaminated areas and protective suit training has been given 7,000 officers across Britain. In London, mobile units, which would become the spearhead of the police operation, now carry small radioactivity alerts.

In the Litvinenko murder investigation police have reached a stalemate with Russian officials

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