At Least 133 Killed and 140 Wounded in Terrorist Attack at Russian Concert Hall

spycosis · #**371** ● 03-26-2024, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by obliterate800 ↗

just a low IQ ISIS attack from some ambitious but nearsighted commander that wants to climb the echelons by orchestrating an attack.

I think this is the most likely explanation. That it was livestreamed exclusively to somebody that had direct contact with Amaq (the IS media department) is indicative of your last suggestion being true.

Some people say it is odd that IS paid them and did not direct a suicide operation but the paltry sums they were paid was not a reward but rather just enough to finance the attack and subsequent escape. On the issue of suicide attacks, IS have leaned away from this in recent years as it requires them to set up a bomb factory or to train the attackers how to make bombs themselves which is far more difficult than just delivering a few AKs.

They now seem to favour marauding attacks with automatic weapons, in order to maximize damage to their targets with the least amount of planning needed.

AnonX93 · #**372** ● 03-26-2024, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by spycosis ↗

I think this is the most likely explanation. That it was livestreamed exclusively to somebody that had direct contact with Amaq (the IS media department) is indicative of your last suggestion being true.

Some people say it is odd that IS paid them and did not direct a suicide operation but the paltry sums they were paid was not a reward but rather just enough to finance the attack and subsequent escape. On the issue of suicide attacks, IS have leaned away from this in recent years as it requires them to set up a bomb factory or to train the attackers how to make bombs themselves which is far more difficult than just delivering a few AKs.

They now seem to favour marauding attacks with automatic weapons, in order to maximize damage to their targets with the least amount of planning needed.

Bomb factory = actionable target that would likely be eliminated before the first bomb was ever made.

This attack is scary because it can happen anywhere…at anytime especially in the US where guns are easy to buy…unlike Russia

spycosis · #**373** ● 03-26-2024, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by AnonX93 ↗

This attack is scary because it can happen anywhere…at anytime especially in the US where guns are easy to buy…unlike Russia

Russia has strict firearms laws but the countries surrounding it are a piece of cake to buy guns in and since the EU abolished most border controls these weapons can be delivered all over Europe.

That's how they got them into France so easily and also why the AK 47 is the weapon of choice for gangs in the Netherlands.

I agree with your point of it being scary but in some ways the prevalence of guns in the USA is why there hasn't been a rampaging attack there yet (imo). I remember IS tried a lone wolf attack in Texas some years back and the perp was shot dead by a passer-by before he could hurt anyone

Almost as comical as when they tried to bring religious war to the streets of Glasgow. That guy got the shit kicked out of him and was taken away in an ambulance.

spycosis · #**374** ● 03-26-2024, 11:34 PM

As Frankie Boyle once put it when comparing Al Qaeda to the sectarian paramilitary gangs in Glasgow -

Al Qaeda aren't proper terrorists, they haven't even got their own football team yet.

Royal_Madnessty · #**375** ● 03-26-2024, 11:56 PM

Soon there will be more IS terrorist attacks in Europe, EU is already warned several times. It's only a matter of time and my bet is on France and/or the UK since they can't stay out of the middle east. Perhaps even Belgium or Germany.

Let's see what dumbfucks say about it then, if those too are 'false flags' or done by NATO to start WW3 lol.

Royal_Madnessty · #**376** ● 03-26-2024, 11:59 PM

Main reasons for near future terrorist attacks: Israel/Palestine war that is making idiots with dull knifes mad ready to kill european infidels + open borders making it easy for IS morons to move countries without causing suspicion.

Royal_Madnessty · #**377** ● 03-27-2024, 12:04 AM

EU warns Russia over Moscow terror attacks:

Europe has warned Russia not to use the weekend's terror attacks in Moscow as a pretext to escalate its war in Ukraine and crackdown on internal dissent.

The demands on Monday (25 March), by the EU's foreign policy chief spokesperson Peter Stano, came as the Kremlin refuses to blame the Islamic State for the Crocus City concert hall attacks that killed 137 people over the weekend.

"There are no indications — no proof whatsoever that Ukraine was in any way linked to these attacks," Stano told reporters in Brussels.

"So far, none of the major terrorist attacks in Russia have been clarified, investigated properly. So this leaves a lot of questions open also about the attitudes of the authorities. And I leave it here," he added.

Paris has since increased its terror alert to its highest level amid fears that the same Afghan Islamic State branch behind the Moscow slaughter will launch attacks on French soil.

Russia's president Vladimir Putin had claimed, without citing evidence, that Ukraine had aided the terrorists and offered them a means to escape.

This comes despite the Islamic State taking credit for the assault, posting a video of the attack from one of the killers, and declaring it had struck "a strong blow".

Russian propagandists are now ratcheting up the spin against Ukraine, despite ample warning from the United States earlier this month of an impending terror attack in Moscow.

That warning was dismissed by Putin.

For its part, Ukraine has denied any involvement as its capital Kyiv reels from Russian ballistic missile strikes.

"Every official statement from the Kremlin and its propagandists will be a lie, with a few half-truths tossed in," said Garry Kasparov, Russian former world chess champion, in an op-ed on Sunday for the Wall Street Journal.