Soccer binds jihadists in Russian terror plot

Sapsan high-speed train targeted (Source: The Moscow Times / RIA Novosti. Ruslan Krivobo)

By James M. Dorsey

Islam Khamushev played soccer as a kid with Muradom Edilbiyev and Muradom Umayev. As adults, the three childhood friends with roots in the northern Caucasus, a hotbed of Islamist militancy, planned to blow up the high speed Sapsan railway linking M…