It’s a video. The video deserves to be evaluated on it’s own merits (or lack thereof).
The “evidence” picked up by Western news agencies doesn’t really hold water. I spent some effort debunking it in another comment: these are some really unradicalized radical Islamic extremists.
This is from RT News or what I would call "Vlad's Wochenschau." The Muscovites mentioned they caught the suspects in Bryansk, near the Ukrainian border. The whole thing stinks and the Vlad & Dmitry Clown Show will use it to recruit more canon fodder. Slava Ukraine and F Russia.
Frankly, the most ideologically inconsistent part of this attack is that the attackers ran away instead of dying and being martyred. That’s not in line with ISIS and much more in line with self-radicalized individuals such as in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Is that actually inconsistent with ISIS tactics? They’ve been fighting Russia in Syria. Suicide attacks may just not be in vogue with how they fight. I’m not talking from experience, just questioning your assumption that past patterns still hold.
Pretty weak one considered that after 9/11 one of the supposedly most civilized countries (at least according to its citizens) invaded 2 unrelated countries and kept wrecking them for decades, killing millions and plunging dozens of millions into suffering.
Your claim is that… By questioning why ISIS is attacking Russia and Iran instead of Israel, which is literally denying Muslims access to Al-Aqsa Mosque, that I’m claiming ISIS is an arm of US foreign policy?
The man says that before committing Friday’s atrocity, he had been to Türkiye. When asked what he did at the Crocus City concert venue on Friday evening, he replied: “I shot down… people.” The suspect added that he had committed the crime “for money,” detailing that he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,418).
The alleged perpetrator claimed that half the sum had already been transferred to his debit card.
The man also said that the curators, whom he supposedly does not know personally, had contacted him via Telegram messaging app, and arranged an arms cache for the assailants.
The man describes how an acquaintance who he’d befriended on Telegram “ten to twelve days ago” had purchased a car, presumably with a view to using it as a taxi.
detailing that he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,418).
Fuck me, this really hammers home that first world privilege. More than that amount of USD hits my checking account each month in my direct wages. This guy knew what would happen to him when he was caught then decided that risking misery in Siberia before being executed was worth less than a month of my take home pay. I mean i get that some level of radicalization is involved here, but still what the fuck.
I’d assume, with the numbers you gave, you’re quite comfortable in life. What if your life was constant struggle with poverty? Not sure how to get food for your kids tomorrow? You get desperate
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