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As I've posted elsewhere, it's doubtful that a movement in Afghanistan, a dirt-poor country governed by the Taliban which is still consolidating its power- would have either the support OR THE MONEY to fund this attack and train and pay the attackers. Clearly this was a "sponsored" event. My original thought was Turkeye as the sponsor. I still wouldn't be surprised if Turkish individuals were involved.

But the official Russian word says Ukrainian nationalists. With all the $$ sloshing around the inner circles in Ukraine, I wouldn't be surprised by that either.

IMHO ISIS-K itself acted as a "terror for hire" organization, seeking to boost its street cred and bank account by being involved and claiming responsibility, but not the main instigators, having neither the reach nor the $$.

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It wasn't four guys, it was six, since two were killed. Or maybe seven, since there were early reports that one was knocked unconscious by a patron.

Weapons and incendiary devices were cached ahead of time. Some of them were trained in a training center in Turkeye, where 11 additional people were rounded up. And some went to Afghanistan. The whole operation ... including the training center in Turkeye... is NOT an operation by isolated jihadist nutjobs from dirt-poor Afghanistan. They were recruited -for money- from one country and sent to two others before trying to escape thru a war zone to Ukraine.

Definitely NOT religious fanaticism.

Do try to keep up.

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Whatever.

Keep spinning fantasies.
Not my job to bring you to reality.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Whatever.
Keep spinning fantasies.
Not my job to bring you to reality.

Putin's job is to convince Russians...

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Whatever.
Keep spinning fantasies.
Not my job to bring you to reality.

Putin's job is to convince Russians...

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All Putin needs to do to convince Russians that the USA wants to destroy Russia thru Ukraine is by republishing stuff that you post here.

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Re-broadcasting Kiev propaganda I see.
Now THAT'S desperation!
Even the CIA can't get behind THAT whopper!

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In the late 2010s, jihadist groups carried out near-weekly operations against law enforcement in the republic of over 3 million people, 85% of whom are primarily Sufi-inspired Muslims. Police crackdowns, combined with the departure of thousands of jihadists to Islamic State's ephemeral caliphate in Syria and Iraq, had brought calm, though occasional violence was still reported. In October 2023, a crowd of men stormed Dagestan airport as a plane from Israel was due to land, chanting anti-Zionist slogans.

While the Kremlin dismisses any notion of a possible return of an Islamist insurgency in the country, this series of attacks comes just three months after a jihadist attack claimed by the Islamic State at Crocus City Hall, a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow, which left over 140 dead.

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