Gunmen kill 40 in attack at concert hall near Moscow, Russia's FSB says

Explainer-Why did ISIS-K attack a Moscow theater?
Reuters
Fri, March 22, 2024 at 8:16 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. has intelligence confirming Islamic State's claim of responsibility for a deadly shooting attack at a concert near Moscow on Friday, a U.S. official told Reuters.

Here is information about the Islamic State's Afghan branch known as ISIS-K and their motives for attacking Russia:

WHAT IS ISIS-K?

... https://news.yahoo.com/explainer-why-did-isis-k-011615857.html

 

You're giving away your age. So am I.

 

I heard about them. I think, and I'm not sure, they're a terrorist group that formed after the Afghanistan fiasco.

 

What thread are you in and why did you quote me again? From the post above it appears you've forgotten?!

 

My bad.

 

They've been stuck in Syria for quite some time now. Are you familiar with what has been going on in Syria?

At 85$ per barrel of oil, Russia probably can swing it (thanks to Biden). It's how they were able to invade Ukraine too. Biden was paying them back for the purchase of Hunters masterpieces.

 

A terrorist group?

What proof, if any do you have that USA supported them?!?!

 

I'm still amazed that no lefties are calling for gun control in Russia especially foreign lefties.

 

Here are some links. I didn't read any of them, but since you're interested, here they are.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=isis+k&ia=web

 

got a medicare card and I'm not afraid to use it!!!

 

The left are all sitting by their TV sets desperately trying to find out if any POC or trannies died in the attack.

 

Same here. AARP, too.

 

Not a fan of theirs. supports too many lefties for my taste

 

So USA supported terrorists. I'm not surprised.

 

I signed up hoping they’d get me a discount on my car insurance. So I went through them to find out they don’t do car insurance in New Mexico. But I did go through them for my Medicare. Not sure if it helped or not, but it did guarantee that I’d be pummeled with emails every day.

 

Well as we can see here it's Russians and at least one has expressed his complete lack of empathy and thinks that the civilians deserved it

 

D, once again late to the party and without knowledge. So wrong it's laughable. Every once in a while you're an expert at projection though.

 

Probably one of the same officials that said Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation.

When are people gonna wake up? If the US knows anything, it's because the CIA was behind it.

 

The US has clear intelligence on ISIS-K because the CIA trained its intelligence agents and elite counterinsurgency troops during the 20-year US occupation of Afghanistan. The Wall Street Journal reported on the influx of US-trained forces into ISIS-K, citing unnamed Taliban leaders, officials of the ousted US puppet regime and people who knew agents and soldiers who had joined the group. In its report, the Wall Street Journal noted that “Importantly, these new recruits bring to Islamic State critical expertise in intelligence-gathering and warfare techniques, potentially strengthening the extremist organization's ability to contest Taliban supremacy.”

 

Russia requires a permit to own a gun. There's different classes for different weapons (and penalties tend to just be small fines that arent much different from bribes...), but Russia already has the sort of 'by govt permission only' laws that gun controllers want.

And I'm betting the attack happened in whatever Russia's version of a 'gun free zone' is.

 

It's common for venues/malls/other buildings of significance in Russia to have metal detectors/guards at the entries. This music hall had them but of course that only works for those who abide by the law.

https://crocus-hall.ru/
https://www.google.com/maps/place/C...55.82591!4d37.3899419!16s/m/0gw_y_n?entry=ttu

 

Yup, sounds like a 'gun free' victim disarmament zone to me...

 

Damn NRA.

 

If the 'Afghanistan fiasco' refers to Bush's failed occupation then you are correct. If this is just your brain automatically blaming Biden for everything then you are making stuff up to suit your feelings. ISIS-K have been around since 2015, forming out of pre-existing groups created by the failed Iraq war.

 

From Saturday 23 March 2024:

https://english.almayadeen.net/news...k-suspects-arrested--including-4-directly-inv

"The Russian authorities arrested two suspects in the terrorist attack. targeting the Crocus City Hall complex, the Russian news agency TASS reported earlier today..."

"Russian lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said the attackers had fled in a Renault vehicle that was spotted by police in the Bryansk region, about 340 km (210 miles) southwest of Moscow on Friday night, and disobeyed instructions to stop.

"While two were arrested after a car chase, two others fled into a forest, but they were later caught and arrested as confirmed by the Kremlin.

"Meanwhile, Interfax quoted the FSB security service as saying that four suspects directly involved in the deadly attack near Moscow on Friday were heading toward Russia's border with Ukraine when they were apprehended early on Saturday."