Few months ago, Bandar bin Sultan, the chief saudi intelligence official when met with Mr Putin in Moscow to talk about Syria and offered to defuse and block all the wahhabists jihadists inspired and financially backed by the House Al Saud in the Caucasus near to the Sochi Winter Olympic Games in February this year in exchange for russian blocking of syrian support to Mr Assad, Mr Putin denied such proposal and kept his position for helping syrian president against al Qaeda and wahhabi rebels, well it looks like Mr Bandar bin Sultan released all the wahhabi extremists elements in the Caucasus region, i.e such as what happened in Volgograd and what all that implied in terms of security measures and the raising threats to Sochi Winter Games, that could really undermine Russia´s image in the world arena, now that its position has grown and expanded positively worldwide. And after all, Russia is very involved to its very throat in the sunni/shia divide in the Middle East by taking sides with Iran and Syria instead of Saudi Arabia. And furthermore, Russia keeps representing a big competitor in world oil markets to Saudi Arabia. If Sochi turns out to be good and normal, well that will be a big win for Russia, but if it turns the other way around and if the Caucasus becomes a hell on earth with an escalation of terror attacks, then Russia will have to become more involved in the middle east issues and will have to face Saudi Arabia in a very different scenario than oil and gas only. Its almost very evident that these terror attacks are backed and inspired by the saudis through Al Qaeda, and it is another piece in the bigger geopolitical puzzle that now has become the Sunni/Shiite struggle for hegemony and influence in the Islamic World lead by their main heads: Saudi Arabia and Iran. Russia will have the final word on who to take side with.
