The videos, which were published by IS’s news agency Amaq, showed the gunmen filming themselves as they hunted concertgoers through the lobby of the Crocus City Hall and fired at them from pointblank range, killing scores of people. At one point, one of the gunmen tells another to “kill them and have no mercy”.
Sorry, Vlad. Can’t pin it on Ukraine anymore.
ISIS having to work hard to prove they were the ones who did it, since Putin is so excited to blame Ukraine
The source sucks, but I liked the title. Of course Putin is trying to blame Ukraine in some way.
Isis, right. The US is finally feeling the pressure of the world to support people of the middle east, and coincidentally, ISIS just so happens to come out of whatever hole they were in and mount a terrorist attack in Russia that kills civilians. I can’t make any claims because there is no clear proof, but at this point it still seems very sus to me
If the US were trying to stage a new terror attack to re-inflame Islamophobia, they surely would have picked a more sympathetic target than Russia.
And if we were trying to justify a war in the Middle East, they could’ve done better than claim the attack came from a bunch of guys from Afghanistan - you know, that country we occupied for twenty years and never truly controlled in any meaningful sense? Do you think the public would back a second invasion of Afghanistan, at great expense and cost of human life?
Russia is currently aligned with the Arab world. America is already Islamophobic enough to go on a crusade against Muslims in the holy land.
Russia is currently aligned with Iran. Which is last time I checked, pretty proud if not being Arabic.
Syria too though. The Russian military is in Syria at Assad’s request. The U.S. has been fighting a proxy war there with them for quite some time.
Not everything is about the US.
Good, let’s keep it that way
It is an interesting strategy that IS deployed, to delay the release of their videos.
This article then goes on to describe other videos (released from the Russian side, I presume?) that are horribly abhorrent:
Some of the videos of the interrogations suggest that the men were tortured by Russian security services. One of the clips, circulated by Russian bloggers, appears to show members of the security forces cutting off the ear of a man who is later interrogated over the attack and then stuffing it into his mouth. Another appears to show security forces beating a suspect with their rifle butts and kicking him as he lies in the snow.
Russian independent media noted that the officer who apparently cut off the ear of the suspect was wearing patches that indicated his support for neo-Nazi groups and appeared to have contact with the far-right Rusich paramilitary group, which is active in Ukraine. The patches included a black sun and a symbol resembling the Totenkopf – or death’s head – worn by several Nazi divisions.
Given his supposed opposition to Nazism, Putin only had to look for select members of his own population, within his own borders, to find and route out Nazis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group
EDIT - an afterthought: And President Drink Bleach and his MAGAs support Putin.
Nazism is only bad when it’s a small group in Ukraine with essentially no power. And, of course, Nazis in a country run by a Jewish president allows him to play the antisemitic side too.
Sorry, Vlad. Can’t pin it on Ukraine anymore.
“Videos show that Ukraine’s terror partner, IS, executed the cowardly act. This proves that Ukraine is a terror state that will stop at nothing to destroy Mother Russia.” – Vladimir Putin or one of his sycophants, probably.
Or the IS video is a deep fake up out by the imperial west to try to cover up the Ukrainian terror attack.
Maybe, if the goal of Ukraine is to risk losing international support just to be able to… kill a few civilians? Sounds like a very risky and convoluted plan to achieve nothing good.
Putin is afraid of ISIS in Afghanistan after Russia consistently lost their asses in Afghanistan for years. Putin is going to pretend ISIS doesn’t exist because he knows he can’t win against them either.
Putin is incapable of defending Russia from an enemy that lives in the stone-age. He does not know what he is doing and needs to be replaced with an actual leader.
Pretty sure they are on to blaming it on the CIA. I just feel bad for whatever random fall guys they picked up to pin the blame on.
They’re trying hard to blame Ukraine. This undermines that.
They captured all 4 shooters? Alive? Give me a break!
That’s OK, he’ll pay some people to take some hostages then wipe them and the hostages out to the last man, just to show how serious he can be.
