Last weekend’s terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue was gory, disgusting, inhumane, savage… pick your negative adjective. A team of multiple shooters, clad in what looks like fatigues and stocked with automatic weapons, stormed the building as soon as the sold-out performance was about to get underway.
Amateur videos from the scene show sheer chaos, with defenseless concertgoers running for their lives as the terrorists methodically search out people to execute in cold blood. By the time the attack ended, more than 130 people had been killed and part of the building was razed to the ground.
Pay no heed to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s delusions about the violence in Moscow somehow being connected to the Ukrainian government. The Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) group was quick to claim responsibility for the shooting. The US stressed it had no reason to doubt the claim: it wouldn’t be a shock if ISIS-K prepared and executed an attack inside Russia.
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