DISINFO: Crocus attacks could be conducted by both ISIS and Ukraine, both under US control
SUMMARY
Condemning the [Crocus] terrorist attack and blaming ISIS was nothing more than a camouflage designed to hide the true state of affairs.
However, I would not be surprised if ISIS was actually used to organize a terrorist attack, because it is known that Al-Qaeda was created by the CIA, and that ISIS was armed and supported by Israel and the US as an enemy of the Syrian government. Both Ukraine and ISIS are equal tools in the hands of Washington, and the participation of one does not exclude the participation of the other.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative accusing the US and Western countries of supporting terrorism. This claim was made in the context of a terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall outside Moscow on 22 March 2024.
There is no evidence backing the baseless allegation that the Islamic State is a an American, Israeli or a Western creation. In fact, the US and Western countries have been leading the global coalition to defeat it. However, through this false claim, this disinformation message aims to discredit US support to Ukrainian resistance, including financial and weapons supplies, against Russia’s aggression.
The US was legally obliged to warn Moscow earlier this month of a possible attack in Russia aimed at large gatherings before issuing a security alert to citizens in the country. As explained by ABC news.
"The United States shared those advance intelligence indications under a tenet of the U.S. intelligence community called the “duty to warn," which obliges U.S. intelligence officials to lean toward sharing knowledge of a dire threat if conditions allow. That holds whether the targets are allies, adversaries or somewhere in between".
The alert was dismissed as "provocative", "blackmail" and an "attempt to intimidate, destabilise our country" by Putin. He said: “I’ll remind you of recent, let’s say directly, provocative statements of certain official Western structures about potential terror attacks in Russia. All of this looks like obvious blackmail and an attempt to intimidate, destabilise our country”.
In a recent development, news have appeared that Iran had warned Moscow a few days before of an imminent attack by ISIS based on information obtained from arrested ISIS terrorists in Iran.
See similar cases claiming that the West encouraged the creation of the Islamic State, who are its mercenaries; that the West is supporting terrorists to encircle Russia; that the US is transporting ISIS members to Afghanistan; that extremists and Nazis are being trained in Ukraine to act in Belarus and that the US is recruiting ISIS terrorists to fight in Ukraine.