Breaking - Shooting and Explosion at Concert Hall in Moscow

The 2 big cities and took the train, the usual

Russia commences the mass deportation of undocumented illegals.

Head of the national security council

Looking at the state of the suspects for the shooting it looks like they've been tortured and the torture will only start to get serious now that they have been remanded. The fact that this is par for the course and was to be expected shows what a horrible backward and ruthless country Russia is.

And is the Arabic writing reversed too? Do you even know what it means??? These are guys are not Muslims, they are FSB posing as Muslims, because it was the FSB who carried out the attack, and not isis. And its why Putin disregarded US advice, because he already knew what was going to happen, and why the killers had a clear no-interference or hindrance to the attack. Its Moscow Apartment Buildings MK 2 all over again.

FSB involvement?

Thanks for that. That's the kind of evidence that I was looking for. Aric Toler is or was a member of Bellingcat and those guys are always thorough.

Yes, mentioning "Nuland" is now a signal. It's something that a lot of people don't pick up on because they're not down the rabbit hole and don't know the lore of the Russian appeasers in the west.

Similar signal words in adjacent rabbit holes are "WEF" and "Klaus Schwab".

I would take the NY Post with a grain of salt, they post a lot of bullshit. The US government seem to view it as ISIL.

Except what Medvedev really means by that is "we will keep bombing Ukraine", which does absolutely f--k all to prevent terrorism against Russian citizens but will mean tens of thousands more dead Russian soldiers, something the Russian population seems absolutely fine with.

Oh, and from Beslan to St Petersburg metro to Moscow theatres, cinemas and airports, Russia has suffered far more terrorist attacks this century than any Western European country. Why? Because European security services actually do a pretty decent job, while probably 90 percent of Russian security services would happily look the other way for any terrorist who's willing to offer a good bribe.

So screw Medvedev and his tough talk, the reality on the ground is very different

Exactly. I believe part of the reason why the FSB have been so unusually open about how they have been blatantly and brutally torturing those 4 suspects is as a means of trying to show the public how tough and hard they are - in the hope that it might reduce the questioning of how impotent they were in the first place allowing this to happen in the manner that it did.

Quite a lot of people in Russia are no doubt asking why there are so many security agents waiting to pounce when Putin feels his own authority is potentially venerable (such as at the recent Navalny funeral) but they were notably absent when it was ordinary Russian citizens at very real threat from actual terrorists.

They're playing to the mob in an effort to appease their anger and to ensure that none of it gets misdirected elsewhere. Same goes for politicians in the Duma now talking about bringing back the death penalty.

All of that and the braying of Medvedev is easy to do. Let's see how good they are at defending the next terrorist attack though.

So what is your point? 9-11 an inside job?

Except to the home audience, of whom still too high a % will lap it up as the unvarnished truth, Although, by now, there would be an increasing nr of Russians who are starting to question the whole story.

I'm not sure that these 4 ever saw Moscow, never mind the Theatre. They may have been lured to wherever the FSB wanted them, and when the job was done, they were picked up? I mean the amount of cash they were offered, to risk their lives attacking civilians at a concert in Moscow, was just in itself unbelievable!!! It was only pea nuts, as these things go. They didn't bring NATO into it, because that would have forced Putin into taking action against NATO. As for the FSB being involved in Beslan, that's the first time I've heard that (not saying it didnt happen though) On the day in question, it was called "First Bells", meaning the start of the new term, and the school was swarming with school kids and their parents. It's a big celebration there, loads of people milling around, and the school wide open, waiting for the First Bells to ring. I do know that one of the hijackers changed into a white doctors coat and was pretending to help the injured, but some of the survivors recognised him, identified him and the crowd tore him apart.