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New Islamic State videos back claim it carried out Moscow concert hall attack
(www.theguardian.com)
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If the US were trying to stage a new terror attack to re-inflame Islamophobia, they surely would have picked a more sympathetic target than Russia.
And if we were trying to justify a war in the Middle East, they could've done better than claim the attack came from a bunch of guys from Afghanistan - you know, that country we occupied for twenty years and never truly controlled in any meaningful sense? Do you think the public would back a second invasion of Afghanistan, at great expense and cost of human life?
Not to mention that the US spent years fighting IS. I don't think that IS is likely very favorably-inclined towards the US, and certainly not to the extent of wanting to claim responsibility for an attack in some kind of convoluted effort to...improve the US's image for supporting Israel, of all things?
And hell, let's even ignore all that. Let's make the assumption that IS were favorably inclined towards the US, and not just that, but so much that they'd make a bogus claim of responsibility for an attack on Russia. Why would they even bother with making a bogus claim? Why not just...do the attack in the first place?
Russia is currently aligned with the Arab world. America is already Islamophobic enough to go on a crusade against Muslims in the holy land.
Russia is currently aligned with Iran. Which is last time I checked, pretty proud if not being Arabic.
Syria too though. The Russian military is in Syria at Assad's request. The U.S. has been fighting a proxy war there with them for quite some time.