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About the many versions about who could have ordered this barbaric terrorist attack.
2024-03-25
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Reports from the New Russia militia

Including this one, articles on the attack can be seen here, here, here, here, and here. Yesterday’s reports can be seen here, here, and here. The round-up of first reports, on Saturday, is here.
[VK] Let's assume that we don't have a reliable answer to this question, but we can analyze the facts. The official “media” (let’s call it that) from the very beginning rejected the version of connection with ISIS (banned in the Russian Federation), writing that such a version is being pumped by those who work for the enemy and want to rock interethnic and interreligious harmony. The logic, of course, is strange, because we somehow missed when ISIS (banned in the Russian Federation) and radical Islam in general became the subject of any kind of consent.

I also want to replace that we do not download any version, it is very stupid to simply ignore the facts that have entered the information space. If you don’t write about this objectively, then the enemy will write, in the interpretation he needs.

What do we know for sure?

1) The perpetrators were detained - they are migrants from Tajikistan.

2) After the terrorist attack, information resources associated with ISIS took responsibility for the terrorist attack.

Here we must keep in mind that ISIS has repeatedly claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks carried out by others. In general, it is profitable to take responsibility for anything, because they are competing for sponsors' money.

3) We know for sure that the terrorists were detained in the Bryansk region and they planned to cross the border with Ukraine.

4) The terrorists reported that they were hired for money, which is also not typical for ISIS*.

5) One of the terrorists said that he came from Turkey.

6) Later, a video appeared (which was released on ISIS resources*) from the perspective of the terrorists themselves, where they filmed their atrocities and shouted religious slogans.

Now our value judgments:

It is obvious to us that this terrorist attack has a customer who not only found the perpetrators and gave them money, but also carefully and professionally planned this action. Again, this is not typical for MTO; usually the planners themselves participate in the terrorist attack. Here it is obvious that planners and implementers are different people. The performers, if they have not undergone training, have definitely undergone professional instruction. They did not plan to die and go to heaven with the Gurias, they planned to leave the Russian Federation, live and spend money.

Judging by the reaction around the world, none of them are “freedom fighters” and everyone unequivocally condemns this terrorist attack. Consequently, they would not be able to live peacefully.

In our assessment, the organizers did not need live performers. Most likely, the calculation was that they would either be liquidated during the assault, or if they reached the border with Ukraine, the crests themselves would kill them and become heroes in the world media. But they were caught alive and now they will probably tell a lot of interesting things.

It’s also stupid to deny the connection with ISIS here, because they publish the original videos. In our opinion, this is the work of foreign intelligence services (quite possibly the Main Intelligence Directorate)
…Ukrainian military intelligence…
in conjunction with ISIS; our channel has been writing about such risks for a very long time.

Let us emphasize that this is our value judgment and not the truth.

Posted by:badanov

#2  Think Ready Kilowatt with Mike Tyson's head...
Posted by: M. Murcek    2024-03-25 10:03  

#1  The perpetrators likely didn’t know who they were really working for. Obviously, they knew little about Russian police practices unless they liked the taste of bloody ear wax. They were low level snuffies who weren’t even committed enough to understand that suicide would have been a better option than testicular ionization.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-03-25 09:59  

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