Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10480714

“It is abundantly clear that ISIS (Islamic State) was solely responsible for the horrific attack in Moscow last week,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby said.

“In fact, the United States tried to help prevent this terrorist attack and the Kremlin knows this.”

  • AllNewTypeFaceEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    It’s quite telling that Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, has not addressed the Security Council, imploring the rest of the world to unite against Ukrainian Islamist terrorism. They know that their arguments wouldn’t survive scrutiny there, and are essentially kayfabe (to use the pro wrestling term of art).

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I mean, their entire argument is that islamist movements wouldn’t do jihadist actions in the month when Mohammad waged the first jihad, which is probably the dumbest thing anyone ever said about Islamic terrorism.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    “It is abundantly clear that ISIS (Islamic State) was solely responsible for the horrific attack in Moscow last week,” Kirby said. “In fact, the United States tried to help prevent this terrorist attack and the Kremlin knows this.”

    The United States passed “following normal procedures and through established channels that have been employed many times previously…a warning in writing to Russian security services,” Kirby said.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-27/russian-security-official-blames-west-and-ukraine-for-moscow/103637546

    FSB director Alexander Bortnikov says Ukraine, along with the UK and USA, were responsible for last week’s attack, which has been claimed by the Islamic State group.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2uBeiNXAo&t=123

    It’s a friendly call! Of course it’s a friendly call! Listen, if it wasn’t friendly…pause…you probably wouldn’t have even got it.

    – President Merkin Muffley to Premier Kissov, warning him about a wave of inbound American nuclear bombers that had been ordered to attack the Soviet Union by a rogue general and attempting to have them shot down, Dr. Strangelove