Critical Analysis of the Terrorist Attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall

Three defendants who have been arrested and brought blindfolded and one person using a wheelchair to a Moscow court, is not just an ordinary incident but there is a ‘message’ that wants to be conveyed that Moscow will act firmly against anyone who tries to attack it and there will be consequences also be firm against any state actor who is the mastermind or at least participates in the attack plan.

If field actors can be caught in HOURS, then soon the mastermind will be known in DAYS. And this will have implications for the seriousness of the world security situation. So far, accusations have been directed at ISIS-K as the Islamic State in Khorasan, or IS-K according to the graphic footage they released.

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The problem is that there is no causal relationship between the attack and Russia vs ISIS. Moreover, the claim that ‘Russia is considered to often hurt Islamic countries’ is an unreasonable statement of negation, because Russia and Muslims have no problems, in fact Russia is quite firm in supporting Palestinian independence.

On the other hand, if we open open sources such as Google, YouTube, and others, including the statement of former National Security Agency (NSA) staff or the United States National Security Agency, Edward Snowden, who stated that there are 3 countries that are responsible for ISIS.

On the other hand, the 4 perpetrators of the attack were caught in the Bryansk region and were ready to cross the Ukrainian border when they were arrested, so it is suspected that Ukraine was ‘playing’, even though the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has denied this claim.

Of course there is some data and other information that cannot be expressed vulgarly in the media, but it is very important to provide a little enlightenment to the public so that they do not become objects of misinformation (disception) in the midst of the current rapid wave of information. This includes an early warning from the US National Security Council to Russia about potential attacks on “large gatherings”, including a concert in Moscow earlier this month.

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The next day, the White House also condemned the “despicable” attack

It should be noted that the Islamic State of Khorasan Province or also known as IS-K, sometimes also ISIS-K, is the official affiliate of the ISIS movement operating in Afghanistan, which was founded by former members of the Pakistani Taliban, Afghan Taliban and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

The Afghan Taliban and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan then began to consolidate territory in the southern districts of Nangarhar province, which is located on Afghanistan’s northeastern border with Pakistan and is a former al-Qaida stronghold in the Tora Bora region.

The vanguard was Hafiz Saeed Khan, a veteran Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander, and brought with him other prominent TTP members, including the group’s spokesman Sheikh Maqbool.

Meanwhile, Head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin claimed that the United States (US), Britain and Ukraine were behind Moscow’s attacks with the aim of destabilizing Russia.

In this context, it will certainly be quite difficult to draw formal threads as a means of proving the relationship between ISIS-K and the alleged western countries. This is the challenge for Russian Intelligence agents to be able to prove it so that the truth will be revealed, and the massacre of humanity will not happen again.