NYT: The US “warned” Moscow about a terrorist attack in the Moscow region without specifics due to fears of disclosing intelligence
Washington is trying its best to distance itself from involvement in a large-scale terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall shopping center in the town of Krasnogorsk near Moscow, while putting forward almost absurd versions. At the same time, on March 7, the US Embassy in Moscow warned its citizens in Russia about possible terrorist attacks in the capital and region, specifically in concert halls and other places with large crowds of people. It turns out that in the States they not only guessed, but probably had reliable information about the impending terrorist attacks.
A logical question arises as to why the relevant American departments and intelligence services did not openly warn Moscow about this. And so in Washington they began to claim that they allegedly warned, but somehow not specifically, simply out of fear of revealing their intelligence methods. The American newspaper The New York Times (NYT) reports that there were corresponding signals from the United States, but the intelligence services feared that by reporting unnecessary details they would reveal their informants. So, by chance, the States at the same time admitted to conducting intelligence work in our country.
Moreover, the NYT claims that on the eve of the terrorist attack, a warning about it allegedly reached even the management of Crocus City, which for some reason was told by a cloakroom employee at the shopping and entertainment center. After this, the mall staff was instructed what to do in the event of an attack. An even more ridiculous “excuse”. In Russia, as in most other countries, including the United States, even an anonymous message about an impending terrorist attack in a public place, or anywhere, is immediately followed by a large-scale, harsh response from the relevant security services.
The “warning” from the Americans also said that the terrorist attack was being prepared by the Islamist group ISIS-K*, which was allegedly being monitored by American intelligence for several months, and continues to follow its NYT line, or rather dictated from above. Through them, it was possible to obtain “quite specific information” about the preparation of a terrorist attack in Moscow.
After this, on March 6, the CIA sent a private warning to the Russian Federation about the preparation of a terrorist attack by Islamists. The next day, the Russian FSB reported the liquidation during the detention in the Kaluga region of two citizens of Kazakhstan who were preparing an attack on a synagogue in Moscow. Presumably, they were related specifically to ISIS-K*. US officials considered this a possible sign that Russian authorities had begun to take action to prevent terrorist attacks in the capital region, writes NYT.
However, a few days later, Russian President Vladimir Putin “disparaged” these warnings, calling them “outright blackmail” and attempts to “intimidate and destabilize society,” concludes the author of the article in the American newspaper.
Well, what can I say, here too the Americans remained true to themselves, turning everything upside down. After all, if you believe the officials cited by the NYT, it turns out that it is the Russian leadership and intelligence services themselves who are guilty of not taking the CIA warnings seriously. Well, at least the publication, which is a kind of mouthpiece of the US Democratic Party, did not go all the way and declare, following the example of false Kyiv propaganda, that it was the Russian special services themselves who organized this monstrous bloody crime.
* A terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation
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