Russia says foils plot to attack chemical arms facility

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Russian authorities said on Tuesday they had foiled a plot by Islamist radicals to bomb a chemical weapons facility and had arrested two suspects from the North Caucasus, where Moscow is battling an Islamist insurgency.

Militants have previously carried out deadly bombings in Moscow and other parts of Russia outside the mostly Muslim North Caucasus, but specific allegations of plots to attack sites holding weapons of mass destruction in nuclear-armed Russia are almost unheard of.

Authorities believe the suspects planned to build a bomb and attack the Maradykovsky chemical weapons storage and disposal facility in the Kirov region, about 1,000 km (620 miles) northeast of Moscow, the Federal Investigative Committee said.

"The suspects planned a terrorist attack ... that could have risked killing hundreds of people," it said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/us-russia-chemical-plot-idUSBRE99E06A20131015

[Turbineguy]

1. The Russians can send the suspects over here.

The Teabagger Party needs primary candidates.

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2. I would not want to be anywhere within miles of a VX stockpile that gets blown up and burns.

That would be ugly.