AP: Russian Forces on High Terror Alert

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Russian Forces on High Terror Alert
Officials: Russian Forces on High Alert After Receiving
Information About Terror Threat

By STEVE GUTTERMAN

MOSCOW Jan 16, 2007 (AP)— Russian authorities have ordered security
forces on high alert after receiving information from foreign officials
pointing to the threat of a terrorist attack on public transportation,
officials said Tuesday.

Authorities were checking information about the potential threat, they said.

A federal anti-terrorism headquarters received information "from foreign
partners … about the possibility a subversive terrorist act could be committed
on ground transport and in the metro," according to a statement confirmed
by a Federal Security Service official who said he was not authorized to give
his name.

Federal Security Service chief Nikolai Patrushev, who also heads the anti-terror
center, ordered anti-terror forces on high alert and called for stepped-up
measures to prevent any attack, the statement said. It offered no details
on the nature of the threat or the measures to be taken.

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