Curiouser And Worser
While Western media trips over itself repeating the line that this was “ISIS-K” and the death toll is now well over 100…
…the Russians have people in custody and those people are telling an interesting story….
That guy looks like he could be Chechen or something of that sort and he apparently is saying he was paid to carry out the attack:
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.
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.
According to the suspect, he had been “listening to sermons… by a preacher” on Telegram for some time before being approached by the supposed masterminds of Friday’s attack “around a month ago.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/594774-simonyan-video-suspected-terrorist-interrogation/
You have to watch the actual video on Telegram, in the video he isn’t calmly sitting on the ground but is sprawled out with his face on a boot and some Russian holding his head up by the hair, not too gently. I am guessing he is going to have a bad weekend along with the rest of the guys they picked up. Miranda rights? A lawyer? Nyet, how about we pull out your fingernails?
According to this, take it all with a huge grain of salt:
He doesn’t look much like a Russian or Ukrainian.
He was in Turkey recently.
Some unknown benefactor paid these guys to commit the attack and provided them with weapons, presumably the rifles, grenades and incendiary devices used in the attack.
They were near the Ukrainian border and appeared to be fleeing toward Ukraine.
He was listening to “sermons” on Telegram and then approached to commit the attack.
U.S. intelligence claims to have known about an impending terror attack by “ISIS-K” and was warning U.S. citizens to avoid crowded places before the attack.
That begs all sorts of questions. They don’t seem like the sharpest tools in the shed, facing the prospect of being killed by security forces in the act of committing a terror attack or spending the rest of their lives in a Russian prison, and all for a whopping five grand? That suggests to me that someone a whole lot smarter and with lots of resources was setting this up and these idiots were the patsies.
Of course it is just hours after the attack and what we don’t know far outweighs what we do. Simplicius has a Substack post out this morning and basically says there is too little information that is verifiable at this point so he instead focuses on the Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure the day before.
Ukraine has no hope of prevailing in this war unless they can somehow get Western powers to engage directly with Russia. Would Ukraine or Western intelligence use some dimwit goat humpers to commit am atrocity in Moscow hoping to provoke Russian into turning Kiev into a parking lot, so they could use that as a pretext to openly send in boots on the ground? Hell yes they would, even if it meant tens of thousands of Ukrainian casualties. Alex Jones is reminding anyone that will listen that ISIS is a creation of the CIA and has been used as a proxy before….
It will be an interesting weekend to be sure. I am sure the Russians are trying to figure out who might be running the Telegram account and funding the debit cards for these knuckleheads. The answers to those questions could lead to a major expansion of this conflict.