US security services working to prevent horror chemical attacks at Rio games

AMERICAN terror experts are training Olympic security personnel to guard against bio bomb attacks on 'soft targets' like shopping malls and bars across Rio.

Brazil’s government is working hand-in-hand with American law enforcement and intelligence services to identify threats and scupper potential terror atrocities at the Games.

FBI specialists have spent months training Brazilian anti-terrorism units on the dangers of chemical and biological attacks, it's been reported in the States.

They've been helping to identify soft targets like restaurants, nightclubs and shopping malls that are away from the well-guarded Olympic sites.

And they have been working  to train Brazilian law enforcement and military personnel at large American sporting events - including the Super Bowl in February, reports the .

The spate of recent ISIS attacks around the world — and Brazil’s lack of experience of dealing with terrorism — have led to a sense of real urgency in Rio.

And after ISIS started translating its vile propaganda into Portuguese, experts fear horror attacks at the Olympic Games are imminent.

Last month, the terror channel 'Inspire the Believers' on Telegram said a “Lone Wolf from anywhere in the world can move to Brazil now. Visas and tickets and travel to Brazil will be very easy to get in sha Allah.”

The channel then went on to offer 17 suggestions for attacks around the Olympics, mentioning American, British, French and Israeli visitors as potential targets.

It noted that attackers could drop “poisons or medicines” into food and drinks, or use “toy drones with small explosives.”

The same channel had already suggested taking inspiration from the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics.

Dozens of Brazilian officials, law enforcement officers and military personnel flew to the US to attend events like the Super Bowl and the US Open golf tournament to observe security first hand at high-profile sporting events.

Brazil also stepped up its security cooperation with other countries, notably France, which sent elite police units here to train their Brazilian counterparts in protecting airports and train systems.

Last month, the FBI helped them identify and track several of the 10 men arrested on suspicion of planning attacks for a Brazilian Islamist militant group called the Defenders of Shariah.

“The Americans are playing a key role in homing in on areas that we need to examine,” said Rafael Brum Miron, a prosecutor in the southern city of Curitiba.

“I don’t know how the FBI got their intelligence, but it turned out to be a very valuable lead.”