The terrorist attack in the Moscow concert hall has been a
humiliating blow to Russia's narrative of efficiency
and omnipotence, and to Vladimir Putin himself, who maintains the idea that nothing should happen within a country where his regime controls even the movement of the leaves of the trees.
Just hours after the Federation announced that it was in a "state of war" in the conflict of aggression it maintains against Ukraine, a supposedly higher scale of internal surveillance, a small commando group comfortably infiltrated the country and generated one
of the country's worst terrorist attacks in more than 20 years.
The blow was greater than that of the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow in 2002, which left 109 dead, less than now, but those victims were also at the hands of the rescue operation that
leaked poisonous gas into the building.
The same thing happened in the Beslan school, with 334 also killed under the fire of the Russian militias who attacked the facility with impunity without caring for the innocent.
This time it was all
surprise and initiative of the murderers.
Even more humiliating because the
“American enemy”
had warned the Kremlin as early as the first days of March that there was growing terrorist activity in Russia.
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Russia released the images of 3 of the 11 detained so far for the attack on the theater.
Washington identified the threat as coming from
Afghanistan's ISIS-K
, a successor or affiliates of the previous ultra-Islamic criminal gang that operated in Syria and Iraq and was largely deactivated by Russian military action.
Putin
contemptuously dismissed the
American warning that now leaves his country's intelligence services in a place of thunderous ineffectiveness.
It should not be surprising that Putin now forces the data to
blame Ukraine for this bloody episode,
even though the terrorist group released an extensive statement on Telegram claiming responsibility for the incident and providing details.
The Russian tsar acts in this way by targeting Kiev to try to keep alive the story of the Russian fortress surprised at a rock festival and before the
notion of the system's failures
at these extremes becomes very evident.
Also to turn the horror of the episode into a national cause that strengthens the spirit of the war that has been sustained by denouncing Ukraine as
a diabolical Nazi nest.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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The entire situation recalls the beginning of the war two years ago, which was launched with the security of an operation lasting just days by Armed Forces described by the Kremlin leader as the most modern in the world.
But on the ground it was clear that
there was no such modernity
and that a good part of the investments destined for its improvement disappeared into the pit of corruption.
At the same time, strategists on the front were astounding by following the battle methods of World War II.
Russia's humiliation is not unique.
ISIS-K had already shown its audacity in Iran with the attack on January 3 in Kerman that
caused 84 deaths
.
The operation there was carried out by terrorists with explosives who overcame the security barriers without being noticed in a massive event commemorating the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, a national hero.
That was also a humiliating episode for the Persian power that first appealed to blame Israel, like Putin now with Ukraine, but the weight of the evidence forced him to remain silent.
There will be no such realism in the Kremlin leadership.
ISIS-K is an organization that has been growing silently, spreading in Afghanistan since the return to power of the Taliban dictatorship, after
the tumultuous departure of the United States
.
of that country.
These terrorists cause frequent attacks against the extravagant Afghan regime, but their main enemy remains the theocracy of Tehran.
Unlike the group that preceded it, although they share the same universe of antagonists, it is difficult to determine their sponsors, which makes it more dangerous and unpredictable.
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The Russian president gave the first message to the country after the attack.
On paper they are furiously Sunni, the majority branch of Islam, and they despise the dominant Shiism in the Persian power.
His story, that the former ISIS supported his right to form an independent Caliphate with parts of Syria and Iraq, is the
reconstruction of the ancient province of Khorasan,
hence the distinctive K in his initials.
That space encompassed the current province of the same name in Iran, and territories in Uzbekistan (Samarkand among them), other extensive territories in Tajikistan and all of western Afghanistan.
A fantasy in this present that surely combines with other more earthly ambitions.
The terrorists opened fire and burned part of the place with explosives before escaping.
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The rise of the previous ISIS lasted just a few years.
Its most powerful chapter emerged in
the Syrian civil war in 2011
during the so-called
Arab Spring as a battering ram of Arab fortunes with the dual purpose of weakening Iran and combating any possibility of the
novel demand for democracy
spreading to those borders
. had exploded since December 2010 in Tunisia.
The success of that organization led by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi el Samarrai, a soccer-loving cleric, known for that passion as Maradona during his time as a prisoner in the Iraqi North American prison of Camp Bucca, was evident in its
economic power
, control of more than 7 million people and efficient use of communication on networks.
Their attacks motivated
attacks by lone wolves
in the West who assumed themselves to be part of the terrorist group and attacked civilian targets, such as in Paris with the massacre of Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan or Nice, between 2015 and 2016, dates in which terrorist attacks multiplied. alleged ultra-Islamic fighters in other cities in Europe, the US or Australia.
The danger in this present is that the imitation effect is reborn reflected in that deformed mirror.
This organization has already shown signs of its ability to attack outside its territory in a clear strategy to gain prestige at the expense of even those who appear to be untouchable.
Do not confuse.
They are not the previous ISIS and perhaps they are worse.