Posted on 03/23/2024 4:30:59 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
U.S. officials say American intelligence agencies had gathered information in recent weeks that ISIS was planning an attack in Moscow - but the warnings were dismissed by Russia's President Putin who described them as 'provocative'.
A U.S. intelligence official described how American agencies learned how a cell of ISIS based in Afghanistan was planning an attack in Moscow and shared the information with Russian officials.
Putin dismissed the alerts as an attempt to intimidate Russians.
U.S. officials say that the information was privately shared as recently as three days before gunmen burst into a large concert hall on Friday night, spraying the crowd with gunfire, killing more than 60 people.
Earlier in March, the US embassy in Moscow also issued a security alert.
It warned about a potential terror attack in Moscow and urging people to avoid crowds and be aware of their surroundings.
'The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours,' the March 7 security alert stated.
Concerts were specifically mentioned as a potential target in the US security alert.
It is not clear what prompted the warning or whether it was related to Friday night's attack.
The US gave the intelligence to Russia under the Duty to Warn requirement - an intelligence community requirement to notify US and non-US groups of potential impending threats.
Earlier this week - and several weeks after the warnings had been issued - Putin said the warnings were 'provocative.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
LOL.
I’m sure that’s what Putin is saying. But they have the duty to warn for a reason. We obviously get info that Putin does not. He had a chance to act on it and did not. I put it all on him.
We thwart terrorist attacks all the time. You’re far less likely to read about them than about the ones that actually happen.
" A new video of yesterday's "killed" from Crocus City has appeared, which confirms that this is all the theater of one actor."
"Confirms"...
Please..
“Don’t denigrate the US government’s effort at “Total Information Awareness”.
Take the attacks and keep our freedoms.
Declaw and de-cloak the snoops, assassins and plotters.
Free men would rather keep their liberty and NOT have the 3 letters sniffing our underwear, kicking down doors, and stealing elections.
Americans are not to trade freedom for safety.
1. Harden the targets...EVERYONE ARMED AND TRAINED.
2. When asymmetrical attacks occur.....leave some sunken ships, burned ports and smoking holes on anybody remotely supporting it.....meet soft irritants with kinetic sledgehammers....
3.Bright line separation between intel gatherers and paid muscle.
It is what the founders would both permit.....AND...enjoy!
But what do I know and I don’t feel strongly about it.
“...He had a chance to act on it and did not...”
How can you factually say that? I suspect that when he received the information he gave it to his intelligence people to check out, and I suspect they did increase security. But it’s like finding a needle in a haystack..
Here in the US we have been warned by foreign intelligence of impending attacks and failed to stop them. So we know.
Russia warned us about the Boston Bombers AND we ignored the warning, goes both ways!!
There is a big, fundamental problem with this story.
The headline writer used the word dismissed, yet nothing Russia actually said could reasonably be interpreted as them “dismissing” that terrorism was possible or coming.
It was not a notice/warning. It was a threat.
US intel agencies are enemies of mankind. Now that DJTrump is finished they are going after Putin.
What a crock. So we are spending tens of billions and openly advising Russia’s enemy on one hand, but we warn Russia about a “terrorist” attack on the other hand??? Please. The stupidity of that is mind numbing.
a) Sure we do. Surrrre. B) Who is “we” ? C) Define “terrorist attacks” and how that differs from the war the derpstate is waging on We The People.
Read the article.
I find it dismaying you took the time to make that. Talk about misuse of clock cycles.....
I’m out here but not much.
These people trying to push the US admin off of this is nuts.
Yea, we will spend 80bil a year to kick your ass with Ukraine troops but WATCH OUT, OBAMA’s ISIS gunmen are going to kill your concert hall in Moscow.
Good Grief.
Correction; ISIL
“I will leave it to others to offer theories why this may be.”
Because they are incredibly stupid? The perps of the first World Trade Center bombing were caught because they went back to get their deposit on the rental van.
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