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The U.S. has attributed Friday’s terrorist attack on the Moscow concert hall to ISIS-K, but who is this group, and what is their interest in Russia?
“The Islamic State is leveraging its network of jihadists throughout Central Asia to plot and execute attacks, such as the one in Moscow,” Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and founding editor of “The Long War Journal,” told Fox News Digital.
“The Islamic State appeals to the less patient and more fervent jihadists who aren’t on board with Al Qaeda’s more strategic, long-term plan,” Roggio added.
Russian authorities announced Saturday that at least 133 people were killed in the horrific attack on Friday, as gunmen entered the Crocus City Hall shopping center and theater complex in the city of Krasnogorsk and opened fire on the crowd. The terrorists then threw explosives into the concert hall and set the building on fire.
Eleven suspects have reportedly been arrested, with four of those directly involved in the massacre, according to Russian officials.
ISIS-K, or Islamic State-Khorasan, took responsibility for the attack. ISIS-K, founded in 2015 by disaffected members of the Pakistani Taliban, operates out of Afghanistan. The same group carried out the deadly bombing at the Kabul airport in 2021 during the U.S. military withdrawal, killing 13 U.S. service members.
ISIS-K also took responsibility for the twin bombings in Iran in January of this year, which killed at least 94 people and injured 284 others.
Fox News also explained:
The group has a particular obsession with Russia, accusing the Kremlin of being responsible for significant numbers of Muslim deaths due to operations in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Syria over the past few decades.
On March 7, the State Department had warned Russia that U.S. intelligence had received information about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow, potentially targeting large gatherings and concerts.
“When I got home I hugged my children & fell to my knees. I can’t begin to describe what happened there.” I meet Margarita. She survived the Crocus City Hall attack & returned the next day to lay flowers for the dead. Producers @LizaShuvalova @BenTavener Camera @AntonChicherov pic.twitter.com/nQFe3tmmyT
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) March 23, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested the terrorists may be linked to Ukraine, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied any involvement in the attack.
Zelenskyy posted the following statement on Facebook Saturday afternoon:
What happened yesterday in Moscow is obvious, both Putin and other scoundrels simply try to blame everything on someone else. They always resort to the same methods. It’s been done before. There have been blown-up houses, shootings, and explosions. And they always blame others.
They have come to Ukraine, burn our cities – and try to blame Ukraine. They torture, rape people – and accuse them. They have brought hundreds of thousands of their terrorists here, to Ukrainian land, they fight against us, and they don’t care what’s happening inside their own country. Yesterday all this happened, and this absolutely miserable Putin, instead of attending to his own citizens of Russia, addressing them, remained silent for a day – thinking about how to link this with Ukraine. Everything is absolutely predictable.
Those hundreds of thousands of Russians who are now killing on Ukrainian land would surely be enough to stop any terrorists. And if the Russians are ready to silently die in “Crocus Halls” and not ask any questions to their security and intelligence agencies, then Putin will try to turn such a situation to his personal advantage again.
Terrorists must always lose. I thank everyone who truly defends life! I’m grateful to all our people who are fighting against terror. And around the world, we must defend against those who consider people merely expendable.
We mourn all those who have lost their lives in the despicable terrorist attack at the Сroсus City Hall venue in Moscow pic.twitter.com/W0pzL1yh7q
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) March 22, 2024
What is ISIS-K, the terrorist group tied to Moscow concert hall attack and 2021 Abbey Gate bombing? https://t.co/L0fmdqTNA4
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 23, 2024
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