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Assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 60 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on affiliated channels on social media. A U.S. intelligence official told The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence agencies had learned the group’s branch in Afghanistan was planning an attack in Moscow and shared the information with Russian officials.
It wasn’t immediately clear what happened to the attackers after the raid, which state investigators were investigating as terrorism.
The attack, which left the concert hall in flames with a collapsing roof, was the deadliest in Russia in years and came as the country’s war in Ukraine dragged into a third year. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called the raid a “huge tragedy.”
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Russia has always been… not very tolerant… of Muslims in their borders. Cough cough Chechen genocide ca. late 1700s to 2010s
(Coin slot noise)
“Cowaaaabunga”
I’m not sure why you made a turtles in time reference but now I have the character select music stuck in my head…
I recall that’s what happened when someone joined in during the TMNT arcade game
Rampage really feels like it should be the go-to of 3-player arcade references. Too bad it doesn’t have any iconic lines.
Must have been the LGBTQ community, since they’re now considered “terrorists” in Russia.
When I first saw the news of this I for sure thought Putin was going to use this as a casus belli to invade more nations. Now that ISIS has claimed responsibility I’m not so sure
Maybe they want to have another go at Afghanistan. Seems to always work out well for whoever tries it.
Maybe they’ll try it “Israeli style”
He has to wait 9 more turns, or else he gets 150 grievances. But he’s been denounced by 180 other players, so what does it matter?
If it helped Putin get something he wanted, he would have just ordered the attack himself.
This is interesting, especially since we haven’t heard much from ISIS in several years and that the US warned Russia about it ahead of time.
Now, I’ll just speculate.
The US was helping Ukraine. Then Iran backed an attack by Hamas on Israel, which gave the US a distraction to deal with from supporting Ukraine. There was speculation that Russia pushed Iran to push Hamas to do the attack for this very reason.
Now, US intelligence could be playing the same game. With this attack, Russia has a hard time selling Ukraine as the biggest threat to Russian people. They’re under attack by ISIS terrorists. Surely, this will take some focus off of the Ukraine war and put pressure on Putin to counter ISIS. Somehow the US did have foreknowledge of the attack…
Of course this is all just speculation, but if we’re trying to think like covert ops and play 4D chess, it could make sense.
There was speculation that Russia pushed Iran to push Hamas to do the attack for this very reason.
I’ve wondered about this since it happened. The Kremlin has certainly benefited.
Well except Iran didn’t push Hamas, in fact their reaction to the war seems to indicate that they’re privately wanting to choke the life out of Hamas for what they did because they wanted to arrange a full court press with all their chess pieces moving at once instead of Hamas charging in causing Israel to harden even further
If this was an Iran backed move, you’d have seen Iraq basically lighting itself on fire, Syria moving on the Golan Heights, Hezbollah launching attacks on Israel’s north and also their desalination plants, the Houthis launching strikes against KSA’s oil infrastructure, all while Iran closes the straight of Hormuz.
They’ve been setting this board since the revolution and they don’t want to move any of the pieces until they are at peak assurance that they’ll walk away with complete hegemony over the middle east at least as far as the East Mediterranean Coast at the end of it all.
ISIS-K, so that probably means troop deployments into central Asia since that’s what the K stands for, the “Khorosan Province”
Reminds me of that Jersey episode of South Park when they asked Al-Qaeda for assistance
Looks like 60 dead now in the article, not 40. I remember 40, I think the numbers updated
Unfortunately, the casualty numbers in these types of attacks tend to go up from the initial count.
Well over 100 now.
We told them that this was going to happen.
Bastards just poo-pooed it way, or worse, they let it happen.
Lie down with dogs, blah blah blah.
Man imagine if America didn’t invade iraq and created ISIS. We might’ve been living in the good timeline then.
On the contrary, that’s another timeline where everyone gets conquered by the Belgians.
We had only a one in a million chance of avoiding that, and this is the only way.
Look, I don’t want to be that guy but I whole heartedly welcome our Belgian overlords.
