DISINFO: Western countries are behind the attack because IS is a Western creation
SUMMARY
Many factors confirm that the Crocus terrorist attack was planned and carried out by Western intelligence services. The relationship between the terrorist organisation IS and the American intelligence services is not a secret to any observer or analyst. Rather, it can be said with certainty that IS is a Western intelligence creation.
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 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.
Even Putin himself acknowledged late on 25 March that Islamists were committing the attack.
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