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| − | The '''Crocus Hall terror attack''' just outside [[Moscow]] occurred on March 22, 2024 when four [[Kyiv regime]]/[[NATO]]-backed and [[US]] taxpayer paid [[terrorist]]s murdered 144 civilians attending a rock concert. At least five children aged 8 to 11 were among those killed. 360 people were injured in the attack.
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| − | The attack ranks third in post-[[Soviet]] tragedies in terms of number of victims after the [[Beslan attack]] and Moscow apartment bombings of 1999, even surpassing the Moscow Theater attack of 2002 casualties.
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| − | The Russian Investigative Committee implicated [[Burisma]] oil and gas conglomerate, of which US [[globalist]] alliance leader [[Joe Biden]]'s son, [[Hunter Biden]], was appointed to the board of directors, as financing [[terrorism]] and assassinations over several years and suspect in financing the Crocus Hall attack.<ref>[https://sonar21.com/is-there-a-cia-link-to-the-crocus-city-center-terrorist-attack/v IS THERE A CIA LINK TO THE CROCUS CITY CENTER TERRORIST ATTACK?], by [[Larry Johnson]], A[r 9, 2024. sonar21.com</ref>
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| − | [[File:SpetsnaZ 007 3-24-24.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Terrorist perpetrator photographed at Crocus Hall, March 7 2024 same day as US Embassy issues security alert for American citizens to avoid concerts.]]
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| − | On March 5, 2024 US Undersecretary of State [[Victoria Nuland]] announced, "[[Putin]] is going to get some nice surprises".<ref>[https://grabien.com/story.php?id=458277 Victoria Nuland in Kiev: Putin Will Get ‘Nice Surprises’], March 5, 2024. grabien.com</ref> Two days later one of the terrorists, Shamsiddin Fariduni, was photographed visiting Crocus Hall concert venue. The United States Embassy in Moscow then sent out a security alert in advance of the attack to avoid large crowds, specifically concerts.<ref>[https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-avoid-large-gatherings-over-the-next-48-hours/ Security Alert: Avoid Large Gatherings over the Next 48 Hours]. United States Embassy & Consulates in Russia, March 7, 2024. ru.usembassy.gov</ref>
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| − | Two weeks before the attack, a Russian nationalist wiki "Traditio" was vandalized by someone going by the name of "Sideswipe9th" or "Zoe Hamilton" said to be living in Belfast, UK, where they warned about the then impending attack while claiming association with the perpetrators.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/WikipediaVandalism/comments/1ba8i09/a_russian_nationalist_wiki_was_affected_by/</ref><ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/masskillers/comments/1bl9c0f/two_weeks_ago_a_russian_nationalist_wiki_was/</ref>
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| − | ''Hi, I'm Sideswipe9th, aka Zoe Hamilton from Belfast. I convey this warning from a friend who is an anti-Russian fighter that we will soon start attacking Russians with weapons and bombs, as a retaliation for Russian imperialist atrocities in Ukraine.''
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| − | ''Russian civilians are considered an integral part of the perpetrators of the war. Therefore, this warning is addressed to all innocent foreigners, such as Ukrainian compatriots who are trapped so that they do not become collateral victims.''
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| − | ''The initial plan is to conduct distracting attacks on small concerts, ideally on March 9-10, such as the sobaki.tabaka concert, before moving on to real goals, including the Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky. Concert Hall named after Rachmaninoff, Philharmonic-2 and much more. It will be like Bataclan, with hostage-taking to encourage an end to the unjust war, as well as with the use of chemical devices. Mass shootings of suicide bombers are predicted in large shopping centers such as Riviera, Crocus, Aviapark, Columbus and MEGA Khimki. The scale of the operation may in one way or another resemble Hamas' attack on Israel, except that unlike Hamas savages, we will refrain from inhuman tactics such as rape and beheading.''
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| − | ''Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!''
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| − | Hours before the attack, OSINTdefender the [[CIA]] [[front]] posted on X (formerly) [[Twitter]]: "Members of [[U.S. National Security Council]] and the [[White House]] have reportedly started to become Increasingly Frustrated by “Unauthorized Brazen Actions” taken by Ukraine against Russia."<ref>[https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1771076956651393051 OSINTdefender], March 22, 2024. twitter.com </ref> The [[Biden administration]] feared that Ukraine attacks on Russian oil refineries would run up gas pump prices for [[American]]s and hurt [[Joe Biden]]'s re-election chances in the [[2024 US presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.ft.com/content/98f15b60-bc4d-4d3c-9e57-cbdde122ac0c US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries], Christopher Miller and Ben Hall in Kyiv and Felicia Schwartz in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and Myles McCormick in [[Houston]], ''[[Financial Times]]'', MARCH 22 2024. ft.com</ref>
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| − | Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [[Maria Zakharova]] commented: "The [[American]] [[political]] engineers cornered themselves with their tales that the [[Crocus City Hall attack]] was carried out by the [[ISIS-K|ISIS terror group]]...Hence [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]'s daily bailing out of its wards in [[Kiev]], and the attempt to cover itself and the [[Zelensky regime]] they created with the [[strawman]] of the outlawed ISIS...What is the [[logic]], you may ask?...Money and power...And, considering the international legal ban on direct interventions, it is also about sowing a controlled chaos and reshaping the world order by the hands of terrorists."<ref>[https://tass.com/world/1765181 US bails Ukraine out after Moscow attack, covering Zelensky with ISIS — diplomat], 24 MAR 2024. tass.com</ref>
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| − | ==The attack==
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| − | The Crocus City Hall, Russia's largest music concert hall seating some 6,000, is part of a large shopping mall complex located in the suburb of Krasnogorsk on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow. The concert was to feature the band Picnic with a symphony orchestra to perform their new hit ''Don't Be Afraid of Anything''.
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| − | After spilling the liquid they had brought with them, they set fire to the curtain and chairs with incendiary devices. When the fire flared up, rising to the very top and engulfing part of the roof, they, according to preliminary data, left the scene of the massacre. An explosion was heard. About 100 people were trapped inside, who were rescued by the fire department. The roof of the building collapsed. Special Forces of the [[FSB]] entered the building.
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| − | The operation bore the fingerprints of the [[CIA]]-created Ukrainian [[SBU]]'s (former Ukrainian [[KGB]]) Fifth Directorate that was created for the very purpose of staging these types of attacks deep inside Russia to attempt to destabilize Putin’s regime while giving the US plausible deniability.<ref>[https://dpyne.substack.com/p/terrorist-attack-that-killed-143 Terrorist Attack that Killed 143 Russian Civilians in Moscow Yesterday Appears to have been Sponsored by Ukraine, not ISIS-K], DAVID T. PYNE, MAR 23, 2024. dpyne.substack.com</ref>
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| − | ==GUR as a branch of CIA==
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| − | ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that from 2015 on the [[CIA]] embarked on an extensive transformation of Ukrainian military intelligence, the [[GUR]]. Unlike its American counterpart the [[DIA]], the GUR is not simply an information gathering and analytical organization, but is also engaged in covert activities (or active measures) such as murder, political assassinations, bombings, etc.
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| − | [[File:Budanov.PNG|right|250px|thumb|38 year old GUR head [[Kyrylo Budanov]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230105152355/https://kurtnimmo.substack.com/p/ukraines-intelligence-boss-predicts Ukraine’s Intelligence Boss Predicts Further Attacks Deep Inside Russia], Kurt Nimmo, January 3, 2023. </ref> Due to his youth and personal ambition, Budanov quickly gained a reputation for reckless exuberance. By May 2023 Budanov was the prime target of the Russian Investigative Committees [[denazification]] program for his [[terrorist]] activities.]]
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| − | With fewer than 5,000 employees, the GUR was a fraction of the size of the SBU and had a narrower focus on espionage and active measures operations against Russia.<ref>[https://archive.ph/RMFzQ#selection-1881.181-1881.377 Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia], By Greg Miller and Isabelle Khurshudyan, ''Washington Post'', October 23, 2023</ref> It also had a younger workforce with fewer holdovers from [[Soviet]] times, while the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) was still perceived as penetrated by Russian intelligence.
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| − | The CIA helped the GUR acquire state-of-the-art [[surveillance]] and electronic eavesdropping systems, including mobile equipment that could be placed along Russian-controlled lines in eastern Ukraine, but also software tools used to exploit the [[cellphone]]s of [[Kremlin]] officials visiting outside of Moscow. Ukrainian officers operated the systems but everything gleaned was shared with the [[American]]s.
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| − | Concerned that the GUR’s aging facilities were likely compromised by Russian intelligence, the CIA paid for new headquarters buildings for the GUR’s "[[spetsnaz]]" [[paramilitary]] division and a separate directorate responsible for electronic [[espionage]]. Troves of data were relayed through the new CIA-built facility back to [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], where they were scrutinized by CIA and [[NSA]] analysts.
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| − | GUR/NATO's first mistake was recruiting people who weren’t ready to fight to the death at the scene of the attack. This led to the culprits being captured and spilling the beans about how they were recruited in exchange for [[money]], whereas ISIS-K fighters always expect to die as “martyrs”.
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| − | ==Zelensky regime shake up==
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| − | [[File:Danilov with the Trident.PNG|right|250px|thumb|Danilov posing with the Trident. The UK Counter Terrorism Policing agency listed the Ukrainian Trident next to the [[swastika]] as "symbols commonly associated with [[white supremacy]]" as late as 2020.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51174898 Ukraine coat of arms in UK anti-terror list furore], By Georgina Rannard, [[BBC News]], 21 January 2020.</ref>]]
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| − | Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Nazi [[Oleksiy Danilov]] confirmed involvement in the terrorist attack on Ukrainian television:
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| − | {{Cquote|We will give them this kind of fun more often. Is it fun in Moscow today? I think it’s a lot of fun. I would like to believe that we will arrange such fun for them more often. After all, they are “brotherly” people, and we need to please our relatives more often, go to visit them more often. So, we will go.}}
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| − | Ukrainian dictator [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] fired Danilov 3 days later. Litvinenko, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, was appointed in his place. Ivashchenko, who comes from the [[GUR]], took over as head the SVR instead of Litvinenko.
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| − | 11 suspects were apprehended by Akhmat Special Forces, including the four who committed the murders in the auditorium. They attempted to evade a roadblock in [[Bryansk]] province, following a car chase and exchange of gunfire with [[law enforcement]] officers while heading for the Ukrainian border. A business card in the name of [[Dmytro Yarosh]] was found on them.<ref>[https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ukraines-neo-fascist-right-sector-leader-dmytro-yarosh-wanted-arrest-russia-1439958 Ukraine's Neo-Fascist Right Sector Leader Dmytro Yarosh 'Wanted' in Russia], Gianluca Mezzofiore, ''International Business Times'', 03/12/14. ibtimes.co.uk</ref> Yarosh is founder of the [[Pravy Sektor]] militia, number 2 on the Ukrainian Security Council, and an advisor to the head of the armed forces. Another nine suspects were arrested later in Tajikistan.
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| − | In televised comments to a nation in mourning, President Vladimir Putin put the attack in the context of global terrorism saying it was a kind of 'demonstrative execution'. President Putin said "There is information about the preparation of an escape window for the murderers on the Ukrainian side"
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| − | Regarding Sideswipe9th/Zoe Hamilton, the following details may be useful for Russian authorities to ensure her to be brought to justice.<ref>https://www.onionfarms.com/threads/zoeswipe-zo%C3%AB-lurking-spychologist-hamilton.3216/</ref>
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| − | Email: zoe@brainandnerd.com
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| − | Discord: Sideswipe#2340 (158288667821998080)
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| − | Sideswipe9th was previously implicated in a bomb threat against Azur Air flight 2463 in 2023, which caused it to be diverted to Uzbekistan on a flight from Russia to India. A Times of India news article describes that the bomb threat message was sent by “Zoë ‘Lurking Spychologist’ Hamilton” who claimed that HP laptops on board the flight contained bombs.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/twice-in-2-weeks-moscow-flight-to-goa-diverted-after-threat-call/articleshow/97216198.cms</ref>
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| − | ==Investigation==
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| − | The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (SLEDCOM) discovered significant amounts of [[money]] and [[cryptocurrency]] from [[Ukraine]] to the perpetrators of the terrorist attack, which were used in the preparation of the [[crime]].<ref>[https://sledcom.ru/news/item/1871554/ The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia heard the progress of the investigation of the criminal case on the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk], March 28, 2024. sledcom.ru</ref>
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| − | The head of [[RT]] Margarita Simonyan commented: "It immediately becomes obvious why American media shouted in unison that it was ISIS...Because this is not ISIS...It’s just that the actors were selected in such a way that they could convince the [[stupid]] part of the global community that it was ISIS...And the fact that even before the arrests, even before the names of the perpetrators were found, Western [[intelligence service]]s began to convince the world that it was ISIS - that's what gave them away”.
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| − | *[[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]
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