First, let me share this from Gulagu.net; it will clarify that what happened in Moscow has layers of evidence and intent. It also has vast levels of incompetence:
Russian intelligence services knew about the threat of terrorist attacks from ISIS
Russian intelligence services closely monitored the activities of the Afghan terrorist group Vilayat Khorasan. A few days before the terrorist attack , members of the Security Council received a warning that Tajik citizens could be used in terrorist attacks on Russian territory. Even before the attack on Crocus City Hall, a source close to the intelligence services told the Dossier Center about this.
Over the past few months , Wilayat Khorasan has tried to organize terrorist attacks in Austria, Germany and Kyrgyzstan. All of them were prevented by local intelligence services. Russian law enforcement authorities monitored these reports and considered the risk of terrorist attacks in Russia high . However, it was not possible to prevent the attack on Crocus City Hall, even despite US warnings about the threat. On March 19, speaking before the FSB board, Vladimir Putin called the US messages “provocative.” “All this resembles outright blackmail and an intention to intimidate and destabilize our society,” Putin said.
OMON and SOBR arrived at the scene of the terrorist attack only an hour later, although the OMON headquarters is located less than three kilometers from Crocus City Hall . It remains unclear how the terrorists managed to escape and travel more than 370 kilometers to the Bryansk region despite the abundance of CCTV cameras in Moscow.
Details about the versions of the terrorist attack and the suspects are in our material.
So, right after the attack, I shared with you what many in the Russian resistance and liberals were speculating. That they were thinking this was a false flag fits the history of the 1990s and early 2000s. So today, after ISIS-K came out and took responsibility for this, we have some distance and still more questions than answers.
To be fair to the story, there are questions, including who benefits, because Russia is still insisting on a Ukrainian trace. So first, let me share what Volymedia posted yesterday. It is three connected posts, and they ask all the relevant questions, including who benefits. I will leave the links in place because even Telegram limits how long you can go. Overall, it’s a long file:
What’s wrong with the official version of the terrorist attack? Part 1
That’s about it. To begin with, it took the security services and police about an hour to get to Crocus City, despite the fact that reports of the attack arrived immediately after it began.
The terrorists calmly left the shopping center, got into a white Renault and drove along the Moscow Ring Road until the exit to Kyiv Highway, and then to the Bryansk region. They did not change the car. It takes almost five hours to drive to the village of Khatsun in the Bryansk region, where they were stopped. There are dozens of surveillance cameras on the highway, just like on the Moscow Ring Road. All this time no one tried to detain them. The FSB claims that this was done on purpose, since an ambush was being prepared for terrorists in the Bryansk region. If it takes Russian security forces five hours to organize an ambush on one small Renault, and after the ambush, three out of four terrorists then manage to escape into the forest, where they are caught for at least another hour and a half, then it’s strange that the Russian Federation has not yet been torn to pieces by banal street hooligans .
From 4 to 20 people took part in the attack on the shopping and entertainment center. According to statements from the FSB and the Investigative Committee, 11 people were detained. Around midnight, information about four natives of Tajikistan appeared online. In the morning it turned out that three of them could not have participated in the attack, because two were at home in Tajikistan, and the third was in Samara. That is, the orientation on which the police worked was 75% inaccurate.
Four of the 11 detainees were in a white Renault. One was hospitalized after being detained during which his eye was injured. Three were interrogated and videos of the ( first , second and third ) interrogations were posted on telegrams.
The first detainee says that he flew to the Russian Federation from Turkey on March 4, met his assistant on the TG channel of an Islamic preacher, and he offered to carry out an attack for 500 thousand rubles. He managed to receive 250 thousand by transfer to a bank card, but he has not yet received the second 250 thousand and will not receive it again. When asked by the operatives what he was doing at Crocus, the detainee fearfully replies “shot him.” He is shaking from cold and fear.
The second detainee does not speak Russian. He said through a translator that he came to Moscow and bought a car to start working as a taxi driver. He didn’t say anything about preparing a terrorist attack. The detainee’s jeans show that he wet himself, apparently at the time of his capture by operatives.
The third detainee speaks almost no Russian. The operative asks him a question: “When you left Moscow, ran away, you had a weapon, where did you leave it, here or there?” The detainee cannot answer immediately; first he says that he was thrown somewhere on the road, and then he adapts the answer to what the operative tells him. Judging by the video, one of the detainee’s ears was torn off or severely damaged.
Let’s start with the first “terrorist”. He flew from Turkey to the Russian Federation and agreed to participate in a terrorist attack for 500 thousand rubles, of which he received only half, and in rubles. At the same time, he was allegedly traveling to Ukraine. What would he do in Ukraine with a Russian bank card and rubles? Why didn’t you ask for payment in dollars? Why did you agree to a regular bank transfer? Why are terrorist services so cheap?
Now the second detainee. He bought a car to work as a taxi driver in Moscow, then took part in the mass murder of people, shooting civilians in cold blood, drove with his accomplices towards Ukraine and wet himself during arrest. Okay, anything can happen during arrests, even with seasoned terrorists, although those our team saw didn’t wet their pants. But why would tomorrow’s killer buy a car to work as a taxi driver? He didn’t need a cover or a legend; no one was looking for him. And if he is a taxi driver, then why would he commit a terrorist attack? If he had just shot several dozen people, he could not help but understand that he would be killed, he understood what he was getting into. But he wet himself out of fear in the Bryansk forests.
The third detainee in the video was simply repeating what the operative wanted from him.
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