The Chechen separatist leader Doku Umarov called on his followers to take islamist terror action against the Olympic Winter Games 2014.

In a video posted online, Chechen rebel Doku Umarov urged the use of “maximum force” to prevent President Vladimir Putin staging the Games in Sochi.

Umarov is the leader of the Islamist insurgency in Russia’s disputed North Caucasus region, which is close to the Black Sea resort host city.

In the message, which appeared on the website kavkazcenter.com and has not been independently verified, he said his order not to attack Russian targets outside the North Caucasus has been lifted.

Umarov added: “They (Russia) plan to hold the Olympics on the bones of our ancestors, on the bones of many, many dead Muslims, buried on the territory of our land on the Black Sea.

“We as mujahideen are obliged to not permit that, using any methods allowed us by the almighty Allah.”

In response to Umarov’s call, the Prime Minister of neighbouring Georgia has pledged to help Russia carry out a peaceful Games.

Bidzina Ivanishvili said: “For our part, we will assist them to the fullest extent wherever possible.”

The Islamist insurgency leader is wanted by the authorities for organising a suicide attack at a Moscow airport in 2011 that killed 37 people.

Umarov has also claimed responsibility for the double suicide bombing of the Moscow subway system in 2010 that killed 40 people.

He has fought in two separatist wars in Chechnya and wants Russia to allow the North Caucasus to become an independent Islamic state.

Mr Putin has promised tight security at the Sochi Games, which are scheduled to be held in February next year.

Umarov group responsible for attacks in Moscow

The terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon in mid-April, in which three people were killed and more than 250 were injured, go to the account of two brothers who sympathize with the Caucasian rebels.

Umarov also had group that calls itself “Caucasian Emirate”, claimed responsibility for the devastating terrorist attacks on the Moscow’s Domodedovo airport in January 2011, with 37 dead and on the subway in the Russian capital in March 2010 with 40 deaths.

Even the constitutional protection observed around 200 extremists living in Germany, which are the “Caucasian Emirate” attributed.

The militant group said to have links to al-Qaeda. Leader Umarov is the most wanted man in Russia. In January 2012, he had asked his followers not to carry out more attacks against civilians.

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