RU Shooting and blast reported at concert hall near Moscow, Russian agencies say - ISIS Claims Responsibility

March 22 (Reuters) - Shooting broke out at a large concert hall near Moscow on Friday, Russian news agencies quoted emergency services as saying.



RIA news agency said at least three people in camouflage clothing had opened fire at the Crocus City Hall, and that some people had been wounded.

Police had arrived at the scene, RIA said.

Video footage published on Russian social media channels showed chaotic scenes, with a large crowd of concertgoers attempting to flee the hall, followed by gunshots.

Other video footage showed a number of people lying motionless in pools of blood outside the hall

Reuters was unable immediately to verify the footage.

TASS news agency reported an explosion and a fire in the building where the shooting took place.

The Kommersant newspaper posted footage online showing smoke billowing from what it said was the concert venue building.

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[DumbDude43]

non-state actors that consider themselves aligned with Iran (e.g. all these jihadi groups)

most jihadi groups are sunni(wahhabi/salafi) and are hostile to iran (shia country)
the ones who align with iran are mainly the regional militias from shia communities outside iran (hezbollah in lebanon and the houthis in yemen, and the weird alawite shia splinter group that asad in syria belongs to)
part of why iran is going so hard with the "death to america death to israel" stance is because they hope to use it as a way to focus sunni militants attention on the jews and burgermutts instead of the sunni/shia conflict.
there's a lot of content from sunni jihadist hating on shia (they call them safavi and raafidah, they consider them to be apostates and heretics who have defiled islam)

 

[dustbuster]

most jihadi groups are sunni(wahhabi/salafi) and are hostile to iran (shia country)
the ones who align with iran are mainly the regional militias from shia communities outside iran (hezbollah in lebanon and the houthis in yemen, and the weird alawite shia splinter group that asad in syria belongs to)
part of why iran is going so hard with the "death to america death to israel" stance is because they hope to use it as a way to focus sunni militants attention on the jews and burgermutts instead of the sunni/shia conflict.
there's a lot of content from sunni jihadist hating on shia (they call them safavi and raafidah, they consider them to be apostates and heretics who have defiled islam)

None of this "deeeboonks" my statement that Russia is not a target of jihadis.

 

[World in Scarlet]

The Islamic State is an enemy of Iran, Russia's closest ally.
The Islamic State is an enemy of the Taliban, who Russia is friendly with.
The Islamic State is fighting Russians in Syria and has been for 8 years now. They've been resurgent in that area recently.
Various brands of jihadist, some of them Islamic State, fight Russians in the Sahel.

Every single post of yours in this thread is nonsense that shows you have no understanding of anything you talk about. Why even bother typing? You know you're talking out of your ass.

 

[Dick Mason]

Ummm.... The I in BRICS is India.

But Iran is on the team, and there's no I in TEAM. What now?

 

[dustbuster]

The Islamic State is an enemy of Iran, Russia's closest ally.
The Islamic State is an enemy of the Taliban, who Russia is friendly with.
The Islamic State is fighting Russians in Syria and has been for 8 years now. They've been resurgent in that area recently.
Various brands of jihadist, some of them Islamic State, fight Russians in the Sahel.

Every single post of yours in this thread is nonsense that shows you have no understanding of anything you talk about. Why even bother typing? You know you're talking out of your ass.

Name a single ISIS attack on russian soil in the past 5 years please.
ISIS attacks western nations.
Dozens of attacks across the EU, The US, The UK.
They do not attack Russia.
Really makes you go "hmmm"

Every single post of yours in this thread is nonsense that shows you have no understanding of anything you talk about. Why even bother typing? You know you're talking out of your ass.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

But Iran is on the team, and there's no I in TEAM. What now?

TEIAM, maybe? Not sure. It's a conundrum.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Heck Israel is still routinely attacking strategic targets within Syria with impunity.

Aight dude I don't want to shit up this thread ostensibly about a terror attack in Moscow with any more sperging about air superiority and artillery, so whatever.

Name a single ISIS attack on russian soil in the past 5 years please.

You don't get it bro, ISIS was hiding in plain sight the whole time Russian jets were BTFOing ISIS fighters in Syria for years at a time. Now, when there's an active conflict with Ukraine, ISIS decided it's time to hire some Uzbek and Tajik retards via Telegram chats and told them to kill people in Moscow and then flee to Ukraine.

Ukraine had nothing to do with it and ISIS was clearly entirely responsible. Because uhhh they were pissed off about stuff.

Shut up stalker child you're stupid and know nothing.

 

[Dick Mason]

TEIAM, maybe? Not sure. It's a conundrum.

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, if you've got nothing better to do, if you have 20 minutes to spare, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the I-TEAM.

ISIS attacks western nations.

And Syria and Iran, right? Isn't that the explicit connection to Russia there?

 

[Gintoki's Sweet Tooth]

I'll never understand why people are so insistent that the US has never used acts of terror to advance foreign policy interests. It has for decades.

One of these is NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran), the political movement established by the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq). Still on the US list of foreign terrorist organizations. They are an option the US could use to topple the regime in Iran.

The US has used this in Afghanistan, Syria, and Russia. It isn't far-fetched or new and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the Ukraine and/or U.S. backed a terror attack in Moscow.

 

[otherdispair]

The thing about the current state of the war is that russia has lost not just the super power status of the USSR but even it's own power status.
It still shout about how it would smack nato around while on their own side of the Dnieper.
This is Germany not even getting half way into belgium and struggling to keep pushing during the 3rd year of their 2 week Schlieffen plan while the allies haven't even declared war yet. While still taunting the allies because "we can produce more shells than you!". Yes, you can and you are also stuck in a country less than 1/8th your size, population, defense spending and economy.
I can get why the strong man/strong country image putin/russia puts out there. Before the war I also took it hook line and sinker. But this is not "the second military nation of the world" this not a strong leader or a strong nation.
It is a nation struggling to refurbish enough old tank hulls some from the 60ies. Because it's army is being ground down due to its strong leader making a catastrophically bad play.

Someone on telegram could eat tacos, get the shits and then blame the CIA and you'd believe it.
Because you want to believe that everything is extra gay, super glowy FED operation.

 

[dustbuster]

The thing about the current state of the war is that russia has lost not just the super power status of the USSR but even it's own power status.

What fever dream are you living in?
An entire generation is wiped out in ukraine, many of them cooked alive in Rank and File NATO armor.
Coordinated and layered defense has chewed up and spit out the best the entire west is willing to throw at Russian lines, despite Russian hardware being laughably obsolete on paper.

We've seen the latest in stealth tech such as StormShadow are still killable, Leopard tanks shredded, and have not heard back since sending Abrams tanks over there.
I suspect at least some of those Abrams were taken with enough in-tact for 20 years in technological supremacy to be flattened over the next 24 months.

You can't save the west from hubris.

 

[DumbDude43]

What fever dream are you living in?
An entire generation is wiped out in ukraine, many of them cooked alive in Rank and File NATO armor.
Coordinated and layered defense has chewed up and spit out the best the entire west is willing to throw at Russian lines, despite Russian hardware being laughably obsolete on paper.

We've seen the latest in stealth tech such as StormShadow are still killable, Leopard tanks shredded, and have not heard back since sending Abrams tanks over there.
I suspect at least some of those Abrams were taken with enough in-tact for 20 years in technological supremacy to be flattened over the next 24 months.

You can't save the west from hubris.

bro russias military reputation pre 2022 was like "6 weeks to paris", now it's "2 years to kharkov (still working on it)"
ukraine isn't winning this war, but it's been a disaster for russias prestige regardless of the eventual outcome

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

I didn't realize so many generals and foreign policy experts had kiwifarm accounts.

 

[dustbuster]

bro russias military reputation pre 2022 was like "6 weeks to paris", now it's "2 years to kharkov (still working on it)"
ukraine isn't winning this war, but it's been a disaster for russias prestige regardless of the eventual outcome

And the NATO and American reputation was Desert Storm: a technological advantage so vast as to be untouchable.
That is in absolute laughing ruins.
Trillions in stealth R&D proven useless on the battlefield.
Armor technology thought to be juggernauts reduced to twisted hulks, each one 50 to 100 million dollars, and rendered inert by $11,000 man-portable Lancet Drones (or even more laughably, artillery cannons manufactured in 1911).

 

[otherdispair]

An entire generation is wiped out in ukraine

And this makes russia strong how? They are still going up against less than 1/8th of their population, economy, defense spending, (pre-war)standing army and not even a fraction of the massive stockpiles they had.
This is still Germany stuck in funny waffle place that isn't even a real country.
You can cope and seethe about this APC or that tank getting knocked out.. They are machines of war put into harms way they will get hit and they will be lost. Mean while the wunderwaffen S-400 has been hit from the sky. The urban death machine the terminator has rolled up to a three line, wobbled its barrels and then got hit with artillery. The K-52 has been confirmed to hit it's own frame with it's cannon and has lost over 2/3 it's number (can still slink ATGMs as good as any other). The mighty 2S7 Pion has been Himared. Speaking of Himar it took over two years before one got hit. Every cruse missile in the russian arsenal has been shot down. Russia has lost half a dozen flying command posts and flying radars (one of them to their own mercenaries that where mutinying). The black sea fleet has lost more ships than the ukies ever had. The T-14 Armata is still sitting in some shed somewhere same as the Su-57 two ground breaking weapons that where going to buckbreak the West.
Oh and now the ukies are hitting oil industry targets up to a 1000km into russia.
Point to the Abrams and laugh, there have been less abrams sent that a single percent of confirmed russian tank loses. The russians this Easter lost more tanks than there have been Leopards and Abrams lost.

Ukraine bleeds and will continue to bleed and Putin can end that tomorrow. Admit he fucked up, be the bigger man sow some strategic forsight for his nation and step down and all that other gay ass shit.

And the NATO and American reputation was Desert Storm: a technological advantage so vast as to be untouchable.
That is in absolute laughing ruins.

That campaign was won from the air. The one thing that the ukies haven't gotten is western airpower. Some air-launched weapons yes and they have used them to renovate the HQ of the black sea fleet amongst other things.
The critical mistake of the ukies last year (and half of your gloating about x thing destroyed) was the failed summer offensive against the russian defensive line following western doctrine without the air cover it relies on. The ukies still took a decent chunk of land but paid the price for it. But that's the thing the Ukie air force (wiped out on the ground on day one by russian MOD kill claims) are flying old soviet planes that haven't gotten half the upgrades the russians have. They aren't flying the full range of western air craft but they are still hitting S-400's the best of the russian AA and much shilled before they started blowing up.

 

[dustbuster]

Not reading a wall of text that says "cope" by the 3rd sentence.

Sorry you're coping so hard.
The failures of ukraine and the valuable combat data and confidence boost it gave to western geopolitical enemies will haunt us for generations.
We'll be lucky if Taiwan isn't next within the decade.

This conflict has established we lack the industrial capacity to keep up with a peer-level war of attrition.
They ALL know our last competent general was Schwarzkopf and he's been dead for many years.

 

[Tablet County]

Not reading a wall of text that says "cope" by the 3rd sentence.

Sorry you're coping so hard.
The failures of ukraine and the valuable combat data and confidence boost it gave to western geopolitical enemies will haunt us for generations.
We'll be lucky if Taiwan isn't next within the decade.

This conflict has established we lack the industrial capacity to keep up with a peer-level war of attrition.

Nigga you wrote cope by the second sentence.

 

[otherdispair]

Not reading a wall of text that says "cope" by the 3rd sentence.

Sorry you're coping so hard.
The failures of ukraine and the valuable combat data and confidence boost it gave to western geopolitical enemies will haunt us for generations.
We'll be lucky if Taiwan isn't next within the decade.

This conflict has established we lack the industrial capacity to keep up with a peer-level war of attrition.
They ALL know our last competent general was Schwarzkopf and he's been dead for many years.

Thank you for making me read my post again. I have pretty bad dyslexia and forgot my "and seethe".
Thank you again for letting me correct that.

 

[dustbuster]

Nigga you wrote cope by the second sentence.

Yeah, It's the truth.
Russia has demonstrated the capacity to defeat the best airborne stealth technology the west can muster.
This means no air superiority for a peer level conflict with the west.
Which means the west ends up just like Ukraine in a peer level conflict, but with one crucial difference:
Nobody standing behind them to bail them out when their "green policy addled" industry fails to keep up.

 

[Enig]

Nigga you wrote cope by the second sentence.

What do you expect from someone that uses a "muh propaganda immune" anime girl meme for a pfp, it's a towering flag for post 2021 /pol/ midwit