Putin Is Left With Egg on His Face After ISIS Provides Evidence It Carried Out the Moscow Attack

In the face of rampant skepticism, ISIS has now provided photographic evidence it was behind the massacre at a Moscow concert hall.

The attack occurred on Friday evening, with gunmen entering the Crocus City Hall with AK-style weapons and explosives. Terrifying videos of the ordeal were made public showing people being gunned down in cold blood as others hid behind barriers. Russian FSB forces eventually arrived with the building already in flames.

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Within hours ISIS put out a statement of responsibility through its propaganda outlet, Amaq News Agency. That didn't stop speculation from running wild that it was Ukraine, the CIA, Israel, or some combination of the three behind the attack.

Apparently, ISIS wasn't a fan of people stealing credit and responded again on Saturday.

If ISIS was not behind the attack, it wouldn't have access to the above photograph, and the details do match up with the pictures of the attackers found at the concert hall. The idea that this was a secret CIA plot carried out in conjunction with the Ukrainians, as Vladimir Putin suggested in his recent remarks, just doesn't make any sense, and it's now flying in the face of hard evidence.

READ: Despite ISIS Claim of Responsibility, Russia Blames Ukraine for Concert Hall Attack

As I wrote in my original write-up on the Moscow terrorist attack, Occam's razor says ISIS is telling the truth here. They've been carrying out mass casualty attacks for months against those they deem to be enemies, with one occurring in Iran in January. ISIS has no love lost for Russia because the two of them have essentially been at war for a decade. The terrorist group is even operating in the Caucasus region, and the attackers were Russian citizens.

In other words, Putin is almost certainly lying by making the baseless claim that the terrorists had a "window" opened for them to enter Ukraine after the attack. Why is that an incredibly stupid assertion? Because Russia controls Eastern Ukraine and is dug in on the northern border, which means the terrorists would be running right into the teeth of Putin's military build-up. Does that sound probable to anyone when they could have simply fled to an EU nation or the Caucasus region where they have allies?

There's no motivation for Ukraine or the United States to be involved in such an attack anyway. If a connection was made to Ukraine, it would only rally support for the war in Ukraine. Further, if the CIA was trying to pull one over on Moscow, they wouldn't have preemptively warned the Russians that an attack was coming.

Here's what all the evidence points to at this moment. Putin got caught with his pants down and doesn't want to admit ISIS got the best of him. The Russian president needs a vast conspiracy involving the West to blame because the truth is too embarrassing.

“Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA”

That’s a lie.

There were TWO distinct mujahedeen groups fighting the Russians in Afghanistan.

There was the Arab mujahedeen, which was equipped and funded by Iran, and the Arab states.... THIS was the group that bin laden was part of. This group is what later became the taliban and al qaida.

The group that was funded, equipped, and trained by the West was the Afghan Mujahedeen. This group later became the Northern Alliance.

Both mujahedeen groups fought each other almost as much as they fought the soviets.

And al qaida means The Base, NOT “The Database”🙄

We played with radical Islamist types for years when it benefited us through most of the Cold War.

The fact that it’s a “Muslim attack” does not mean we or Ukraine didn’t light this fire.

Nations are often behind Islamist based terror groups as enablers to varying degrees, using them as proxies in a game of, “the enemy of your enemy is your friend.”: allowing the money to flow, providing safe haven for training, logistics, providing intel, weapons, refuge to flee to...

(Good macro level history write up) https://www.salon.com/2015/10/18/america_enabled_radical_islam_how_the_cia_george_w_bush_and_many_others_helped_create_isis/

(common knowledge and far from complete / comprehensive): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

(how we indirectly created ISIS): https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2015/11/spread-wahhabism-and-west-s-responsibility-world

(Our love affair with Saudi Arabia): https://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10719728/us-saudi-arabia-allies This is also why long term Israel is screwed. For us, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan are economically more important and frankly starting in the 70s we more and more built our entire Middle East strategy around Saudi Arabia. Israel may be right in all their arguments, but we will abandon them.

***Are you denying nations and intel services (including us) do not use these groups and ideologies at times in a bigger chess game for their own purpose? That’s pretty much documented fact.***

***While I do not claim that we were behind Moscow or even involved on the Periphery (unproven / speculation), the idea that we and others (Ukraine) do not play games with radical groups should not be hand-waved off. It’s (((possible))).***

Since Russia took 4 of them alive, now going through all the information post mortem, Russia should be able to piece things together fairly quickly and accurately: 4 subjects, video surveillance, money trail, digital communications, weapons and artifact, contact lists on phones and computers, serial numbers on weapons, WAC codes on phones... There is going to be information which at a minimum leads to more and useful information. This is important to the Russians, so they are going to run down all the leads.

99% of law enforcement is minimal effort, because the ends do not justify the means. Are you really going to start a major investigation which costs >$100,000 on some petty crime? When all the mechanisms and tools are brought into an investigation, it is truly awe inspiring.

What’s important now, if Russia wants the “truth,” is that they do not create the answer they seek, like we did with Iraq 2003 and WMD (bad intel work - assuming it wasn’t intentional). After the fact, there is a lot of evidence and it can be pieced together in different ways, leading to different conclusions. Not everything is trustworthy information. Not all information carries the same weight. Societies bias and the political pressures often create a scenario where law enforcement or intel agencies sort of validate a forgone conclusion rather than letting the evidence truly dictate what the outcome of the investigation / analytical product is.

Bottom line: You can’t hand-wave Ukrainian or even our involvement off. It’s possible, even if we do not want to believe that. Time will tell and if the Russians find anything, they will surely blast it out to the public on the biggest loudspeaker they can find.

“It’s all the resident Blame America crowd has. There are no bounds to their absurd claims as long as America looks bad.”

It would be impossible for anyone on this forum to make America look worse than the people in power in Washington that are trying to jail their political opponents and jailing political dissidents in conditions reminiscent of the Soviet gulags.

I would say jailing Americans for praying is making America look bad.
FBI agents harassing Americans at their front door for exercising their first amendment rights is making America look bad.

The only solution available for us to make America look good again is to elect Donald Trump.

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