Islamic State - Khorasan (IS-K) attack on Russia ... Russia's "9/11" for global war on terror?

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ETA: What is Islamic State - Khorasan (IS-K) and why would it target Russia? - https://news.sky.com/story/moscow-shooting-what-is-is-k-and-why-would-it-target-russia-13100372
  • Khorasan is an ancient term referring to regions of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iran.
  • Many people thought Islamic State (IS) had been neutered, but it has been growing in strength in recent years, particularly IS-K.
  • IS-K's members are primarily disaffected fighters from the Pakistani Taliban, but the group also draws its numbers from other areas.
  • Central Asia is a fertile recruiting ground, as are the restive republics of the Russian Federation, Ingushetia, Dagestan and Chechnya.
  • As IS was gathering strength in Iraq and Syria, IS-K was emerging in eastern Afghanistan at the end of 2014 and into 2015.
  • The Taliban is now regularly engaged in combat against IS-K, as it threatens its ability to govern Afghanistan.
  • Counter-terror officials have foiled numerous attacks in Europe in recent years.
  • Russia is of particular interest to the group and would have been targeted because it claims President Vladimir Putin and his regime are killing Muslims.

Well, I thought 2024 was already getting interesting and now Islamic State claimed responsibility for Moscow concert hall attack with 115 confirmed dead so far.

This is definitely going to escalate military action/wars around the world as Putin/Russia will undoubtedly retaliate/wage new wars on the heels of Ukraine war and Scandinavian countries joining NATO.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on a Moscow suburban concert hall Friday which left at least 115 dead. The attack was not the first that the IS group has claimed to have launched on Russian soil with others dating back to almost a decade ago
 
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Things are sure getting more interesting very fast ...

Now while Russia is trying to pin the attack on Ukraine, Islamic State has released the photo of four gunmen (To verify captured gunmen are indeed IS backed) all the while Ukraine is emphatically denying they had anything to do with the attack - https://www.yahoo.com/news/islamic-state-releases-photo-alleged-130915586.html

Islamic State released on Saturday a photo of what it said were the four attackers behind a shooting rampage that killed at least 143 people in a concert hall near Moscow on Friday, the militant group's Amaq news agency said on Telegram.​
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"The attack comes within the context of a raging war between the Islamic State and countries fighting Islam," Amaq added in a statement citing security sources.​
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack but there were indications that Russia was pursuing a Ukrainian link, despite emphatic denials from Ukrainian officials that Kyiv had anything to do with it.​
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In a related development, Israeli military captured 358 members of the Islamist militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza and now will invade Rafah no matter what US says - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...-rafah-no-matter-what-the-us-says/ar-BB1khWd6
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A top Israeli official said his country’s military is ultimately going to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah and defeat Hamas “even if the entire world turns on Israel, including the United States.”​
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“We are going to go in and finish this job, and anybody who doesn’t understand that doesn’t understand that the existential nerve of the Jews was touched” by the Oct. 7 attack when Hamas operatives killed 1,200 and abducted 250, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer said on a US podcast posted online Thursday.​
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Things could definitely escalate very fast from here with this attack being like Russia's "9/11" that could lead to Russia's "global war on terror".
 
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What we know about the terror attack in Russia and the ISIS group claiming responsibility

Russian President Putin has vowed to punish those responsible for the terror attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people. In the capital, people are remembering the dead after one of the worst acts of terror in Russia in decades. Journalist Michael Weiss joins John Yang to discuss the Islamic State branch that claimed responsibility for the attack and Putin’s response.​
 
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Why Would Islamic State Attack Russia?

The Islamic State militant group quickly claimed responsibility for the March 22 Moscow concert hall shooting that killed at least 130 people, but why would it attack Russia? Analysts told RFE/RL that an affiliate of the Islamic State militant group, Islamic State-Khorasan, is the most likely perpetrator and that Russia's activities in Syria, Africa, and Afghanistan may have been determining factors.​
 
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LiveLife said:
Islamic State released on Saturday a photo of what it said were the four attackers behind a shooting rampage​
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And here's the photo - https://www.yahoo.com/news/isis-k-why-attacked-moscow-071214549.html
  • In the picture ... four men are wearing black baseball caps and face scarfs and are pointing to the sky with one finger.
  • The gesture has become associated with Islamic State and refers to the Muslim belief that there is only one god.
  • In the background is an Islamic State poster with the group’s name in black and white.
  • The men carried out “an intensive monitoring operation” before the attack, according to the statement.
  • They were armed with machine guns, knives and bombs and sought to inflict as much damage as possible on the “large crowd of Christians”
 
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theotherwaldo said:
Members and allies of what is called Islamic State have been fighting Russia and the USSR for decades... .
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But with Putin recently, ahem, *cough* "re-elected" promising security to Russia ... this was biggest slap in the face in all the decades of IS attacks.

Let's see what "retaliation/retribution" Putin promised becomes.
 
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Russian State News Releases Full Interrogation Video of Moscow Terrorist Attack Suspect

RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has posted a video clip of the interrogation of one of the suspected terrorists behind Friday’s shooting spree at Crocus City concert hall near Moscow. Earlier on Saturday, Russia’s FSB security service confirmed that eleven suspects, including four of the alleged perpetrators, had been detained in Bryansk Region, not far from the Ukrainian border. The footage shows a bearded man lying on the ground and describing in broken Russian how he’d been paid to commit the terrorist attack.​


Russian media has released videos of initial interrogation of the suspected Islamic State terrorists, who were arrested after the deadly terror attack in Moscow mall on March 22. One of the suspects, pinned to the ground, says that he shot down people at the mall for money and that he was approached by people to carry out the attack on Telegram messaging app about a month ago. Meanwhile, Russia's Interior Ministry said that none of the four arrested suspects were Russians. Watch for more details.​

 
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Yeah, maybe we might find out later if this guy had anything to do with the attack in question.

(How much do you pay someone to do a suicide attack, anyway?)

Putin is in a war for his political survival in the Ukraine.
Russia/the USSR has been in a low-grade, unwinnable war with Islam for decades.

Which of these opponents is Putin's press going to blame?
 
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theotherwaldo said:
(How much do you pay someone to do a suicide attack, anyway?)
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I think he said 1 million Rubles ($10,833 USD) and was supposed to be paid 500K Rubles before and 500K after the killing of "Russian Christians". Weapons were supplied to them.

It was not a suicide attack but contract killing. If it was suicide mission, they'd be wearing suicide bomber vests with multiple detonators to ensure all the bombs went off after killing and confrontation with responding police/military force (And payment arranged for recipient of their choice ... Maybe family?). But they had an exit plan and successfully left the scene of killing and was apprehended while heading for the Ukraine border.

Here's an overview of how the attack happened that may shed some more light


At 4:45 minute of video, attack intent/rationale and possible escape routes are discussed
 
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Anyone that has been apprehended by Russian authorities after an attack like that has functionally committed a particularly gruesome form of suicide... .
 
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