Terrorist attack in Crocus: over 60 deaths, more than 100 wounded
MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. Unidentified people have conducted a terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region. According to the latest figures, more than 60 people were killed, and another 100 were wounded. --- Gunmen kill more than 60 in concert attack near Moscow, Islamic State claims responsibility
MOSCOW, March 22 (Reuters) - Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers near Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145 in an attack claimed by Islamic State activists. In the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege, gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just before Soviet-era rock group "Picnic" was to perform to a full house at the 6,200-seat Crocus City Hall just west of the capital. ... Islamic State, the militant group that once sought control over swathes of Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the attack, the group's Amaq agency said on Telegram. ... The United States has intelligence confirming Islamic State's claim of responsibility for the shooting, a US official said on Friday. The official said Washington had warned Moscow in recent weeks of the possibility of an attack. “We did warn the Russians appropriately,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, without providing any additional details.
Russia has yet to say who it thinks is responsible.
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DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics - 2:55 UTC Mar 23, 2024 A month ago (to the day!) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Victoria "F the EU" Nuland promised that aid to Ukraine would allow it to "accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective" and that Putin is " sure to face some nasty surprises."
Nuland left her post as the Deputy Secretary of State 10 days prior to this video. Moscow civilians were killed today in an act of terrorism (asymmetrical warfare). Embedded video
--- Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill - 8:08 UTC Feb 16, 2023 Now that the ISIS patches showing up in Armed Forces of Ukraine photos/videos are trending, it's a good time for me to retweet this thread from last year. The writing was on the wall.
Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill - 10:08 UTC Oct 12, 2022 Now Al Qaeda & other Salafist Jihadist groups are reportedly entering Ukraine to fight Russia directly. Coincidentally, last week an ISIS recruiter the Taliban captured said he received funding via Ukraine. The Taliban only released this video domestically. Subtitles by a friend: Embedded video
--- Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom - 21:01 UTC Mar 22, 2024 Sanctions didn't work. Billions in weapons didn't work. Unwavering support didn't work. Counter-offensive didn't work. Non-stop propaganda didn't work.
Rules-based terrorism is all they have left. It won't work either. It just shows how evil and desperate they are.
--- Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom - 21:42 UTC Mar 22, 2024 Was the CIA behind the terror attack near Moscow? Yes 74.7% No 25.3% 89,899 votes·14 hours left
--- Koba @Roberto05246129 6:22 UTC. Mar 23, 2024 The identities of four of the six alleged terrorists who carried out the shooting at Crocus City Hall have become known. 1) Nasridinov Makhmadrasul 37 years old 2) Ismonov Rivozhidin 51 years old 3) Safolzoda Shokhinjonn 21 years old 4) Nazarov Rustam 29 years old. All of them are citizens of Tajikistan.
--- Al-Qaeda/Taliban-linked media campaign frames Islamic State Khurasan as foreign, Tajik group - Eurasianet - Oct 18, 2023
--- Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg - 23:25 UTC Mar 22, 2024 I have been explaining for years that the US and Israel are behind ISIS. See it now?
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
Thanks. Good interim summary nm
Posted by t on March 23, 2024, 3:46 pm, in reply to "MSC vid"
nm
Re: MSC vid
Posted by RaskolnikovX on March 23, 2024, 5:21 pm, in reply to "MSC vid"
Yes good collection of media and fills in a lot of blanks in the story so far.
My inner spy novellist is working over time but I reckon if this was all set up by one of the usual suspects they may have actually preferred to have these people caught as it firms up the ISKP narrative seeing as these people seem to be mostly Tajiks, or at least Muslim.
They seem to have been given a plan for an out (crossing the border into Ukraine) but I could see them getting sold out for the reason stated above.
Finding out when and where they got the weapons will be interesting.
As I post this I read 144 confirmed deaths. Horrendous but just puts Gaza into context....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Pepe is making the connections .. CIA-SBU-Abdulhakim-Idlib ISIS gang-Tajiks
H/T MoA. This is from Pepe's Telegram channel. See the two t.me near the end. Basically, chain of command is CIA-SBU-Abdulhakim-Idlib ISIS gang-Tajiks.
Abdulkhakim Shishani, by which name he has been known for the last few years.
In the photo, he is in the border zone near the Belgorod region, during the attack that took place a few days ago.
This "man" is not just ordinary Barmaley, but one of the leaders of the Idlib gangs, which included fugitive militants from the CIS.
This "man" has been in Ukraine for a long time and is the link between the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the radical rabble he commanded in Syria.
Let us note that the gang of this animal was directly connected with major terrorist organizations, as well as with the so-called “moderate” groups financed by the United States and Britain.
Attempts to pretend that Ukraine has nothing to do with these freaks have failed completely.
Now let's bring together a few facts: could terrorists from Crocus break through to this Abdulhakim (who in turn is supervised by Ukrainian intelligence, and those by US intelligence?)
Exhibit 1: Friday, March 22, 2024. It’s War. The Kremlin, via Peskov, finally admits it, on the record.
The money quote:
“Russia cannot allow the existence on its borders of a state that has a documented intention to use any methods to take Crimea away from it, not to mention the territory of new regions.”
Translation: the Hegemon-constructed Kiev mongrel is doomed, one way or another. The Kremlin signal: “We haven’t even started” starts now.
Exhibit 2: Friday afternoon, a few hours after Peskov. Confirmed by a serious European – not Russian – source. The first counter-signal.
Regular troops from France, Germany and Poland have arrived, by rail and air, to Cherkassy, south of Kiev. A substantial force. No numbers leaked. They are being housed in schools. For all practical purposes, this is a NATO force.
That signals, “Let the games begin”. From a Russian point of view, Mr. Khinzal’s business cards are set to be in great demand.
Exhibit 3: Friday evening. Terror attack on Crocus City, a music venue northwest of Moscow. A heavily trained commando shoots people on sight, point blank, in cold blood, then sets a concert hall on fire. The definitive counter-signal: with the battlefield collapsing, all that’s left is terrorism in Moscow.
And just as terror was striking Moscow, the US and the UK, in southwest Asia, was bombing Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, with at least five strikes.
Some nifty coordination. Yemen has just clinched a strategic deal in Oman with Russia-China for no-hassle navigation in the Red Sea, and is among the top candidates for BRICS+ expansion at the summit in Kazan next October.
Not only the Houthis are spectacularly defeating thalassocracy, they have the Russia-China strategic partnership on their side. Assuring China and Russia that their ships can sail through the Bab-al-Mandeb, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with no problems is exchanged with total political support from Beijing and Moscow.
The sponsors remain the same
Deep in the night in Moscow, before dawn on Saturday 23. Virtually no one is sleeping. Rumors dance like dervishes on countless screens. Of course nothing has been confirmed – yet. Only the FSB will have answers. A massive investigation is in progress.
The timing of the Crocus massacre is quite intriguing. On a Friday during Ramadan. Real Muslims would not even think about perpetrating a mass murder of unarmed civilians under such a holy occasion. Compare it with the ISIS card being frantically branded by the usual suspects.
Let’s go pop. To quote Talking Heads: “This ain’t no party/ this ain’t no disco/ this ain’t no fooling around”. Oh no; it’s more like an all-American psy op. ISIS are cartoonish mercenaries/goons. Not real Muslims. And everyone knows who finances and weaponizes them.
That leads to the most possible scenario, before the FSB weighs in: ISIS goons imported from the Syria battleground – as it stands, probably Tajiks – trained by CIA and MI6, working on behalf of the Ukrainian SBU. Several witnesses at Crocus referred to “Wahhabis” – as in the commando killers did not look like Slavs.
It was up to Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic to cut to the chase. He directly connected the “warnings” in early March from American and British embassies directed at their citizens not to visit public places in Moscow with CIA/MI6 intel having inside info about possible terrorism, and not disclosing it to Moscow.
The plot thickens when it is established that Crocus is owned by the Agalarovs: an Azeri-Russian billionaire family, very close friends of…
… Donald Trump.
Talk about a Deep State-pinpointed target.
ISIS spin-off or banderistas – the sponsors remain the same. The clownish secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, was dumb enough to virtually, indirectly confirm they did it, saying on Ukrainian TV, “we will give them [Russians] this kind of fun more often.”
But it was up to Sergei Goncharov, a veteran of the elite Russia Alpha anti-terrorism unit, to get closer to unwrapping the enigma: he told Sputnik the most feasible mastermind is Kyrylo Budanov – the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence at the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
The “spy chief” who happens to be the top CIA asset in Kiev.
It’s got to go till the last Ukrainian
The three exhibits above complement what the head of NATO’s
military committee, Rob Bauer, previously told a security forum in Kiev: “You need more than just grenades – you need people to replace the dead and wounded. And this means mobilization.”
Translation: NATO spelling out this is a war until the last Ukrainian.
And the “leadership” in Kiev still does not get it. Former Minister of Infrastructure Omelyan: “If we win, we will pay back with Russian oil, gas, diamonds and fur. If we lose, there will be no talk of money – the West will think about how to survive.”
In parallel, puny “garden-and jungle” Borrell admitted that it would be “difficult” for the EU to find an extra 50 billion euros for Kiev if Washington pulls the plug. The cocaine-fueled sweaty sweatshirt leadership actually believes that Washington is not “helping” in the form of loans, but in the form of free gifts. And the same applies for the EU.
The Theater of the Absurd is unmatchable. The German Liver Sausage Chancellor actually believes that proceeds from stolen Russian assets “do not belong to anyone”, so they can be used to finance extra Kiev weaponizing.
Everyone with a brain knows that using interest from “frozen”, actually stolen Russian assets to weaponize Ukraine is a dead end – unless they steal all of Russia’s assets, roughly $200 billion, mostly parked in Belgium and Switzerland: that would tank the Euro for good, and the whole EU economy for that matter.
Eurocrats better listen to Russian Central Bank major “disrupter” (American terminology) Elvira Nabiullina: The Bank of Russia will take “appropriate measures” if the EU does anything on the “frozen”/stolen Russian assets.
It goes without saying that the three exhibits above completely nullify the “La Cage aux Folles” circus promoted by the puny Petit Roi, now known across his French domains as Macronapoleon.
Virtually the whole planet, including the English-speaking Global North, had already been mocking the “exploits” of his Can Can Moulin Rouge Army.
So French, German and Polish soldiers, as part of NATO, are already in the south of Kiev. The most possible scenario is that they will stay far, far away from the frontlines – although traceable by Mr. Khinzal’s business activities.
Even before this new NATO batch arriving in the south of Kiev, Poland – which happens to serve as prime transit corridor for Kiev’s troops – had confirmed that Western troops are already on the ground.
So this is not about mercenaries anymore. France, by the way, is only 7th in terms of mercenaries on the ground, largely trailing Poland, the US and Georgia, for instance. The Russian Ministry of Defense has all the precise records.
In a nutshell: now war has morphed from Donetsk, Avdeyevka and Belgorod to Moscow. Further on down the road, it may not just stop in Kiev. It may only stop in Lviv. Mr. 87%, enjoying massive national near-unanimity, now has the mandate to go all the way. Especially after Crocus.
There’s every possibility the terror tactics by Kiev goons will finally drive Russia to return Ukraine to its original 17th century landlocked borders: Black Sea-deprived, and with Poland, Romania, and Hungary reclaiming their former territories.
Remaining Ukrainians will start to ask serious questions about what led them to fight – literally to their death – on behalf of the US Deep State, the military complex and BlackRock.
As it stands, the Highway to Hell meat grinder is bound to reach maximum velocity.
Word around the Russian blogosphere is that this is a Ukrainian/Western action dressed up as ISIS
The word around the Russian blogosphere is that this is a Ukrainian/Western operation dressed up to look like Islamic State with hired Tajiks as the patsies. Even darker days ahead, I fear.
Give them the money give them the opportunity..it's the Pentagon Paper reality..."Yeah we know they helped them but they are Muslim and they are Ivans"...only the continued narrative that this is a globalist conspiracy carries any weight with the populace...so much for populism heh? Sometimes it even seems like Trump would actually make a better president.. #Trumpisasymptomnotacause
on March 23, 2024, 1:44 pm