Who ordered the Moscow attack? There is much speculation and finger pointing in the West. Putin has said that they have the people who executed the killings. Putin has said little about who ordered the killings except to say that justice will come to them..
Let’s look at various facts that have emerged over the last few days. This includes some verbiage emanating from various Washington outlets before the attack.
Judge Andrew Napolitano did an interview with Alastair Crooke.
Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, and is the founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum, an organization that advocates for engagement between political Islam and the West. Previously he was a ranking figure in both British intelligence (MI6) and European Union diplomacy.
Crooke worked for nearly 30 years in the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) under diplomatic cover in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Colombia, Pakistan and the Middle East. His early work included helping provide weapons to jihadists fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Crooke states as matter of fact that the US and UK has armed, trained, and paid terrorists to attack Russians in the past.
Judge Nap: From your experience dealing behind the scenes with governments do you think that any Intelligence Community consensus seriously believes that this was just ISIS K on its own?
Alastair Crooke: I’d be very surprised. ISIS K is clearly a sort of cover story, I think, because really ISIS K is not real–it’s a parallel to ISIS that was created by the Western Services as Saudi Arabia stopped supporting the mainstream ISIS because of the bad publicity that was coming from the Jihadi actions. So they [Western Services] needed something. What it [ISIS K] is, is essentially it’s a corridor that exists going from Turkey, past Northern Syria, and into Iran. It was basically aimed for infiltrating sabotage groups into Iran and some jihadis into Syria. Just to be clear, Turkey has a training ground and has been training jihadists. Some of them have gone to Ukraine–particularly the Tartars of Crimea but also others.
Crooke states that he has dealt with jihadists in the past and that he knows jihadists when he sees them. Crooke states that the four who executed the attack were clearly mercenaries.
I agree with Crooke. Jihadists would have more likely strapped bombs to their chests and blown themselves up. This was a different operation altogether.
Judge Napolitano dips into the possibility that MI6 and the CIA were involved.
Judge Nap: The concept that MI6 and CIA might have known about this and either facilitated it or looked the other way–is that realistic? I mean MI6 and CIA do they get involved in slaughtering innocents like this? We’re not talking about overthrowing a country. We’re talking about slaughtering young people at a concert.
Alastair Crooke: I can’t say categorically who knew and who knew what. It is very strange that the United States came out literally almost within minutes–within 55 minutes or something–and said, Oh it’s not Ukraine! but have said nothing about why they think it’s something else, why they think it should be the so-called Isis K.
Equally, they [the US Embassy in Moscow] gave on the 7th of March, I think it was, this warning to keep away from any concerts. Now what’s emerged–which is quite interesting–was that one of those assailants that participated this Friday in the attack on the concert was there [at the Crocus concert hall] on the 7th of March and was photographed by one of the security staff there. They’ve matched that up and it looks a little bit as if maybe the act was intended for the 8th of March when a very famous singer, Shaman, was due to sing. He’s sort of an icon of Russian nationalism. He’s famous for his rendition of the national anthem–it really is striking if you ever listen to it.
Anyway, what happened was that at that time the son of the owner came, and he’s an [Assyrian? Azerian?], he had bodyguards, and so the front was sort of full of armed men, which it isn’t normally. It looks as if they sort of planned it for the 8th of March and then postponed it.
So, was the attack originally planned for March 8th but was derailed when security was a lot stronger than what was expected? What terrorist who wants to live is going to attack a venue where the prey are armed to the teeth? This comes back to the fact that mass killings in this country almost always occur in gun free zones. Many potentially horrific events in America have been stopped by one armed citizen.
What about the rhetorical antics of officials in Imperium Washington? Let’s be reminded that Crooke states as fact that the West supports Islamic radicals for the purpose of committing terrorist acts against Russia and Russians.
Victoria Nuland a month and a half before the terrorist attack: Putin will get “some nasty surprises.” This is on a par with Nuland and Biden both saying that the Nordstream pipeline would not continue to exist. And then it was blown up.
Then there is General Miley.
Miley may have said this after he retired. However, this is despicable and beyond the pale. Did anyone in Washington push back against this kind of rhetoric?
Let’s be reminded that Ukrainian neo-Nazis have for decades embraced terrorizing ethnic Russians in Ukraine. More than 14,000 had been killed after the Minsk agreements were signed. Uncounted thousands more have been tortured by these criminals.
These are the people that we support through funding by our feckless Congress. The neocons in Washington have transformed our country into a terrorist state.
There are many questions still to be answered. The biggest one is who ordered the attack on innocent young people at a concert?