On March 22, 2024, a commando of four fighters attacked the audience of a rock concert at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk (a north-eastern suburb of Moscow), killing 133 people and wounding 140 others. It then set fire to the building.
The Russians stopped the terrorist commando as they tried to cross the Ukrainian border, while on the other side they were expected. They were identified as Tajiks. They confessed to having been recruited via the Internet to kill for money. They said they had had no contact with their employer. However,
a business card in the name of Dmytro Yarosh was found on them. As Yarosh was founder of the Pravy Sektor militia, number 2 on the Ukrainian Security Council, and then advisor to the head of the armed forces, the Russian authorities immediately accused Ukraine. Yarosh denied his country's involvement
[1]. Seven accomplices were also arrested.
The Russian anti-terrorist police tortured these terrorists and filmed their actions. Public television showed them and commented on them. Russian culture is both European and Asian. The Russian people feel no empathy for criminals.
Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack, cutting short accusations of a Russian false-flag operation.
These terrorists were not fanatics, but professionals. They didn't immolate themselves in public, but fled, like those who attacked Paris and Saint-Denis, killing 130 people in 2015. So
they didn't act out of hatred of Russia, but as part of a military operation whose strategic implications had been thought out in advance.According to US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson, Islamic State terrorists are solely responsible for this attack. Numerous commentators have denounced any amalgam between the Islamic organization and supporters of the Kiev government. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of reflexively attacking Ukraine. Yet Russian President Vladimir Putin has maintained his accusations exclusively against Kiev, ignoring Daesh.
Since 2014 and the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian president,
we have regularly highlighted the links between integral nationalists and Islamists, and particularly the role of Dmytro Yarosh. The facts speak for themselves.
We don't know whether or not the Ukrainians organized this attack, but it's clear that they knew the attackers very well: Ukrainian integral nationalists and jihadists have been fighting together for three quarters of a century.
Comment: President Putin again shows that he is magnitudes of order above other leaders and that he has a strong spiritual connection. Despite the horrific crimes which were committed, executing the patsies does little to root out the evil by whose order the massacre was committed. The move is unexpected and will undoubtedly unsettle the West as such a move not only is in stark contrast to the picture of Putin as a dictator, which they have propagated far and wide. It also shows the real values which Russia is fighting for and which is polar opposites to the values of the Western leadership no matter how hard the West repeats their tired slogans of "freedom and democracy."
One leader from the past who showed mercy and humanity even to those who tried to kill him was Julius Caesar, from whom perhaps the origins of Christianity started. Laura Knight-Jadczyk wrote a book which pierces through the veil of early Christianity and towards the end shows some of the many elements which alludes to Caesar being one of the actors which inspired early Christianity. Read her book "From Paul to Mark".
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