What is the grievances behind the Moscow attack IS-K?

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Although Russian President Putin and the Russian national media tried to blame Ukraine for the responsibility of the Moscow Concert Hall last Friday, more details about the IS-K of the jihad organization were surfaced, and the organization claimed to be responsible for the attack.

IS-K What is the organization?Who is it?

IS-K is abbreviation of Islamic State-Khorasan.It is a branch of the global terrorist organization "Islamic State Group" in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan.

The organization gave himself the name Horoshan, because it was part of the ancient Islamic Empire across these countries, and its region also extended north to Central Asia.

IS-K has existed for 9 years, but in recent months, it has become the most dangerous branch of the Islamic State Organization. It has a wide range of influence and is famous for its extremely brutal and cruel.

With the organization's residual leadership in Syria and Iraq, IS-K is eager to establish a pan-nation's Islamic Harry to develop the country to rule the extreme explanations of Islamic law.

In Afghanistan, it is launching sporadic but still fatal rebellion to resist the country's rulers Taliban because it opposes Taliban in ideology.

Is-K had launched an attack before?

In 2021, the organization evacuated at the chaotic Kabul Airport to create a suicide bomb attack at the scene, causing 170 Afghanists and 13 American soldiers to die.

The following year, the organization attacked the Russian Embassy in Kabul, causing at least 6 people to die and many people injured.

The bomb exploded in the crowd waiting for the evacuation plane to leave Kabul, causing more than 100 people to die.

The organization has also conducted no differential attacks, including obstetric ward, bus station and police.

In January of this year, IS-K launched a serial explosion in a shrine in Ichoneman, causing nearly 100 Iranian to die.

The organization has implemented many small -scale attacks in Russia, and the last time was in 2020.This year, the Russian Federal Security Agency (FSB) said they had prevented several horror conspiracy.

IS-K launched a bomb attack at Kabul Airport.

Who is the gunman?

According to official Russian media reports, the four men arrested and charged are Tagiki from the Republic of Tajikistan in Central Asia, which was once part of the Soviet Union.

It can be clearly seen from their scasthels in court that they have been very severe interrogation and even torture.

But the problem of doing this is that according to international practice, their confession will be worthless -people say nothing to avoid torture, including acknowledging a completely unreal narrative.

One of the suspects Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev had obvious scars when they appeared.

It is reported that some people have seen one of the men conduct reconnaissance of the venue in early March.At that time, the United States warned Russia that the Kremlin was about to face the threat of terrorist attacks in public places.

There are also reports that at least two attackers have recently arrived in Russia, which means that this is the "assassination team" sent by IS-K, not residents lurking in the local area.

Why do they target Russia?

There are many reasons for this.

IS-K regards most countries in the world as an enemy.Russia is among the best, and the ruler of the United States, Europe, Israel, Jews, Christians, Shiite Muslims, Taliban, and all Muslims.

Islamic State's hostility to Russia dates back to the Chechen War in the early 1990s and the beginning of this century. At that time, the Moscow army swept Grozny, the capital of Chechen.

Recently, Russia was involved in the Syrian civil war and supported its ally, Bashar Al-Assad, and the Russian Air Force bombarded countless times on the targets of the opponents and civilians, killing a large number of Islamic StateOrganization and armed elements connected with Al QAEDA.

In Afghanistan, IS-K regards Russia as an ally as the Taliban, which is why they attacked the Russian Embassy in the Kabul in 2022.

They also hated the Soviet Union from 1979 to 1989 for 10 years.

Then there is Russia's domestic situation.

IS-K believes that Russia is a Christian country, and the video released after the Moscow attacks talked about killing Christians.

Because the Russian Federal Security Agency tries to prevent terrorist attacks, immigrant workers in the Tajik and other Central Asian countries are sometimes harassed and suspected by the Security Bureau to a certain extent.

Finally, Russia-is busy with a comprehensive war with neighboring Ukraine-may be regarded by IS-K as a target that is easy to attack.Because there are weapons there, and the enemy (referring to Russia )'s vigilance has also declined.

What else do we don't know?

There are many unsolved mysteries about the entire incident.

For example, why can the gunman wander around the Crookus City Hall for nearly an hour?

In a country where police and special forces, especially the Russian Federal Security Agency, are everywhere, these gunners are performing as if they know that they will not be interrupted by the special police.

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The huge security department of Russia did not stop the attack.

There are also weapons (problems) -not only pistols, but also powerful modern automatic assault rifles.How did they get these weapons and secretly brought them into the venue?

The speed of being arrested by (Russia) is also surprising.

Different from many jihads involved in such raids, these people do not wear suicide vests or belts, not like those who are willing to die or not to be arrested.

However, it didn't take long for the Russian authorities, that is, the Russian authorities, which failed to prevent the most serious horror conspiracy in the past 20 years, arrested the suspects and tried them.

All these have prompted some analysts to speculate that this is a so -called "internal work" of the Kremlin, or a marriage of a marriage in order to fight for the people's support for the Ukrainian war.

However, there is no conclusive evidence to support this guess. The US intelligence department has confirmed that in their opinion, Islamic State is behind the scenes behind the terrible attacks.