Frankly, the most ideologically inconsistent part of this attack is that the attackers ran away instead of dying and being martyred. That’s not in line with ISIS and much more in line with self-radicalized individuals such as in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Is that actually inconsistent with ISIS tactics? They’ve been fighting Russia in Syria. Suicide attacks may just not be in vogue with how they fight. I’m not talking from experience, just questioning your assumption that past patterns still hold.
The man says that before committing Friday’s atrocity, he had been to Türkiye. When asked what he did at the Crocus City concert venue on Friday evening, he replied: “I shot down… people.” The suspect added that he had committed the crime “for money,” detailing that he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,418).
The alleged perpetrator claimed that half the sum had already been transferred to his debit card.
The man also said that the curators, whom he supposedly does not know personally, had contacted him via Telegram messaging app, and arranged an arms cache for the assailants.
The man describes how an acquaintance who he’d befriended on Telegram “ten to twelve days ago” had purchased a car, presumably with a view to using it as a taxi.
detailing that he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,418).
Fuck me, this really hammers home that first world privilege. More than that amount of USD hits my checking account each month in my direct wages. This guy knew what would happen to him when he was caught then decided that risking misery in Siberia before being executed was worth less than a month of my take home pay. I mean i get that some level of radicalization is involved here, but still what the fuck.
The attackers are supposedly Tajik. USD5418 is at least 2 years of work there.
Even if I made $100,000USD a year I’m not sure I would agree to massacre a hundred people for $200k.
The comments on that article are terrifying. There are people saying things like he and his family should be hanged.
Par for the course with what was said about the Boston Marathon bombers tbf. Humanity has a long ways to go.
Russia today as a source?
It’s a video. The video deserves to be evaluated on it’s own merits (or lack thereof).
The “evidence” picked up by Western news agencies doesn’t really hold water. I spent some effort debunking it in another comment: these are some really unradicalized radical Islamic extremists.
Picked up near the Ukrainian border, they say?
Wonder how much further they will go to tie this to Ukraine. Hasn’t ISIS already claimed responsibility?
Their extraction route was through Ukraine to Afghanistan. This is rather publicly acknowledged.
