Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), claimed on Tuesday that warnings from US intelligence agencies about the March 22 terrorist attack in Moscow were ignored because they were “too vague”.
“Yes, indeed the Federal Security Service received specific information from US intelligence services that such an unfortunate event could occur,” Naryshkin said. Admitted At a press conference in Moscow.
“However, as our Russian colleagues said, the information was too general to fully identify those who took part in this terrible crime,” Naryshkin said.
The Russian government is seeking to accuse the United States and Ukraine of aiding and abetting brutal terrorist attacks quickly claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State.
The United States responded to these insinuations by saying it provided Russia with information about an impending attack two weeks before ISIS gunmen allegedly killed more than 130 people at the Crocus City Hall concert venue. This was announced by the US Embassy in Moscow. public warning On March 7, it announced that “extremists” had “imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, including concerts.”
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Subsequent U.S. officials revealed The CIA station in Moscow issued a private warning to the Russian government on March 6, the day before the embassy broadcast its official alert. The private warning was more detailed, including the identity of the suspected perpetrator, ISIS-K (Khorasan, the Asian branch of the Islamic State).
Three days before the Crocus City Hall massacre, Russian strongman President Vladimir Putin said: address He told Federal Security Service (FSB) officials that Western countries’ “provocative statements” about possible terrorism in Russia were “blatant threats” and “intimidate and destabilize our societies.” It was denied as a sinister effort.
The situation has become even more troubling for President Putin’s police state. Said On Monday, the government of Iran, a close ally of Russia, also said it had issued an early warning of an impending attack.
Writing in Canada gloves and mail Tuesday, Russia expert Amy Knight was suggested The explanation for these inexplicable failures in Russia’s vast and repressive security apparatus was that President Putin wanted the attacks to occur in order to blame the attacks on the United States and Ukraine and garner domestic support. .
The circumstances surrounding the March 22 attack suggest that the FSB may have enabled the terrorists. At 6:54 p.m., four men got into a white Renault and drove to the concert hall, loaded with firearms and waited there for more than an hour. A video posted on Telegram showed them parked in front of a police van, but no one questioned their presence. At 7:58 p.m., they exited their car and began firing at people on the street, then entered the concert hall and shot everyone in sight. He then doused the premises with gasoline and set it on fire. By 8:11 p.m., they rushed to their car.
How could four immigrants from Tajikistan, at least one unemployed, commit such a massacre in just 13 minutes? One of the suspects said he was scouted on Telegram by an anonymous ringleader for 500,000 rubles (about $730,29). However, it is unlikely that ISIS will use Telegram because the risks are too high. ISIS also typically recruits Islamic fanatics. Relatives said the men were not Muslims.
And why did the terrorists encounter no resistance? There were no armed security personnel at the event, which was attended by more than 4,000 people. And the National Guard’s Special Rapid Response Unit, located just two miles away from the venue, inexplicably took almost an hour to arrive on the scene. The official police force, which has its headquarters in a building next to Crocus City Hall and regularly patrols the area, was nowhere to be seen.
Knight said the full truth about the Crocus City Hall attack may never be known because the four accused ISIS gunmen will be “tried in secret,” but that “there are holes in the Kremlin narrative.” So much so that even gullible Russians may begin to have doubts.” ”
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As President Vladimir Putin uses the March 22 attacks as a pretext to launch an even more vicious crackdown on Russians, especially those from Central Asia, gullible Russians appear to be keeping their mouths shut for now. foreign policy (FP) be familiar with on monday:
Last week, a shopping pavilion owned by Central Asian migrants was burnt down in the city of Blagoveshchensk on the Russia-China border. In Kaluga, southwest of Moscow, a group of unidentified assailants beat three Tajikistan nationals on the street, one of whom was later hospitalized. Migrants from Kyrgyzstan were reportedly detained for only two days at Sheremetyevo airport on the outskirts of Moscow before returning home. There are reports from all over Russia that customers are refusing the services of taxi drivers of Tajik nationality. Kyrgyzstan has already urged its citizens not to travel to Russia, and Tajikistan’s embassy in Russia has also told its citizens to stay at home.
Human rights lawyer Valentina Cupik said: F.P. She said she had received “more than 2,500 calls from Russian immigrants complaining of illegal detention and searches since the terrorist attacks.” Other human rights activists say Putin is using terrorist attacks to convince a war-weary population of a “fortress Russia” mentality, besieged on all sides by an evil alliance of the United States, NATO, Ukraine and Central Asia. He said that he is trying to impose an image of Russia that is based on Russia. Islamic terrorist.
