The terrorists who bombed a Russian city twice in the past two days, less than two months before the Winter Olympics, will likely attempt more attacks, says John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
We should be concerned. I have no doubt . . . that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will pull out all the stops for security," Bolton told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"But by the same token, the terrorists will respond in kind. These bombings . . . are obviously intended to show they can hit vulnerable civilian targets," Bolton said Monday.
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Earlier Monday, a suicide bomb killed at least 14 people in the city of Volgograd, just a day after an explosion at Volgograd's main train station killed 17 people and wounded at least 35. Authorities declared both bombings terrorist attacks.
Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said he fears the terrorists "are going to do everything they can to infiltrate and make their terrorist case again."
"I'm not myself aware of the prior Olympic games where we've had this level of threat of terrorism . . . If I were on the American team, I would be taking extra precaution."
Bolton said he was disturbed by a New York Times investigative report into the attack in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, calling it "an editorial disguised as a news story."
The report by David Kirkpatrick intimated the attack was the work of local militia groups and not al-Qaida.
"They should be embarrassed about this, but I'm sure they're not. It really is a tribute to their ideology that they can put this out there and hope that it will go unchallenged," Bolton said.
"It's just filled, not only with the inaccuracies and contradictions, [but] it contradicts previous New York Times reporting about the involvement of al-Qaida.
"So, I am just amazed that anybody would give this thing credibility. It's filled with irrelevant facts to make it look like a news story, but its basic conclusion isn't supported by the reporting that's actually done."
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