Posted on 03/23/2024 10:24:36 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
There are always questions after any attack as to why it was not stopped or detected. But the Moscow attack raises particularly difficult issues for Vladimir Putin at a time of international tension and mistrust. And much of that comes because of a warning from Washington.
The 7 March warning from the US to its own citizens was unusually specific. It talked of reports that "extremists" had "imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow" and specifically mentioned concerts. It advised Americans in the city to avoid large gatherings over the coming 48 hours.
The timing may not quite match, but other details do tally closely with events on 22 March. It seems clear Washington had some kind of intelligence and that it related to Islamic State (IS) - the group that has issued a statement saying it was behind the Moscow attack.
As well as the public warning to its own citizens, the US also said it had communicated with the Russian government directly.
"The US government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its long-standing 'duty to warn' policy," a US official said in a statement after the attack.
There are channels through which intelligence is shared between countries - even those that are not allies - especially when it relates to possible attacks on civilians.
But the problem is that Moscow dismissed the warnings.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Ignore Jake Kirby at your risk. I believe his warm up comments before getting around to Ukraine war was the first word out of his mouth, “Concerts”, as he said for Americans in Moscow to avoid concerts, large gatherings, shopping... but he said concerts first. Very strange.
My money is on the US & Ukraine.
I wonder if Russian presidential advisor told Russians in WASHDC to avoid the same areas and something happen within two weeks... well you would say Russia did it.
I am saying the US did it.
It’s really cute how you adoringly trust our current government.
I am sure that when the US warned Russia it was taken as a threat and not as kindness. Which the threat proved to be true. But where would it happen? The US told citizens of the US visiting Russia to stay out of concert halls. LOL
Not that too many scumbags in the Biden regime care about US citizens anyway.
Yes.
How did the state department predict the time and place. Amazing huh?
Exactly. The swamp thinks we’re stupid. They are getting lazy. Makes you think...they paid the ahooters woth debit cards. Guess who else is getting debit cards from unknown sources during an election year.
I wonder if the people with this attitude will feel that karma is a bitch when another large scale attack happens at a concert in the US.
I wonder if that is what those people thought on 9/11 or at that concert in Vegas.
sick individuals
Watch this one.
Repeating a couple things I noticed myself, after I noticed them.
U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline
If the U.S. told Russia of an impending terror attack...
then...
shouldn’t Putin/Russia worry that the U.S. has better intelligence inside Russia about the goings-on about Russia than the Russians do?
That Posobiec interview is thought-provoking!
Since Spamaximus posted this I presume it is CIA/deepstate propoganda.
BBC is an MI-6 mouthpiece.
Or 9/11 or the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Well, imho, some people don’t realize that sometimes terrible things happen to good people.
God did not create the cosmos as a police state. Freedom exists for all humans, to obey His laws or to contravene them - and this does include the freedom to do dreadful stuff.
Still, I believe that there will be retribution eventually, though not always in this lifetime.
Raise your hand if you opened this thread expecting to find fair and balanced reporting from the BBC.
Did anyone else notice that this article contains no legitimate evidence for the author’s claim that Russia “dismissed” the warning?
Of course not.
It’s ALWAYS DIFFERENT, when it’s us.
Our cause and rationalizations are right.
Only Islam poses this sort of threat.
No other religion as part of its doctrine and how it is interpreted by the wide masses is like Islam.
In the West, stuck in our equality, diversity, inclusion and tolerance paradigm, driven by economic globalization and greed in reality, we simply refuse to see this.
Islam does not mix with any other religion.
Islam does mix with any other culture may it be ultra liberal or conservative.
Islam tells you what they believe in the Koran, it preaches violence and oppression.
The followers of Islam tell you what they believe in opinion polls where the majority of people in places like Pakistan see Osama as a hero, not a terrorist. They show you want there agenda is in places where their demographic rises and they enact Sharia.
The leaders in Islam both religions and political tell you what they want to do.
Historically, this has been going on 1,400 years and it is nothing new.
There is no mystery or secret here, this doesn’t require some nuanced analytical mind to understand.
And yet, we live in a world we were want to pretend there is no problem.
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