Editing Crocus hall terror attack (section)

==American involvement==
[[File:SpetsnaZ 007 3-24-24.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Terrorist perpetrator photographed at Crocus Hall, March 7 2024 same day as US Embassy issues security alert for American citizens to avoid concerts.]]
On March 5, 2024 US Undersecretary of State [[Victoria Nuland]] announced, "[[Putin]] is going to get some nice surprises".<ref>[https://grabien.com/story.php?id=458277 Victoria Nuland in Kiev: Putin Will Get ‘Nice Surprises’], March 5, 2024. grabien.com</ref> Two days later one of the terrorists, Shamsiddin Fariduni, was photographed visiting Crocus Hall concert venue. The United States Embassy in Moscow then sent out a security alert in advance of the attack to avoid large crowds, specifically concerts.<ref>[https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-avoid-large-gatherings-over-the-next-48-hours/ Security Alert: Avoid Large Gatherings over the Next 48 Hours]. United States Embassy & Consulates in Russia, March 7, 2024. ru.usembassy.gov</ref>

Two weeks before the attack, a Russian nationalist wiki "Traditio" was vandalized by someone going by the name of "Sideswipe9th" or "Zoe Hamilton" said to be living in Belfast, UK, where they warned about the then impending attack while claiming association with the perpetrators.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/WikipediaVandalism/comments/1ba8i09/a_russian_nationalist_wiki_was_affected_by/</ref><ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/masskillers/comments/1bl9c0f/two_weeks_ago_a_russian_nationalist_wiki_was/</ref>

Sideswipe9th posted this:

''Hi, I'm Sideswipe9th, aka Zoe Hamilton from Belfast. I convey this warning from a friend who is an anti-Russian fighter that we will soon start attacking Russians with weapons and bombs, as a retaliation for Russian imperialist atrocities in Ukraine.''

''Russian civilians are considered an integral part of the perpetrators of the war. Therefore, this warning is addressed to all innocent foreigners, such as Ukrainian compatriots who are trapped so that they do not become collateral victims.''

''The initial plan is to conduct distracting attacks on small concerts, ideally on March 9-10, such as the sobaki.tabaka concert, before moving on to real goals, including the Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky. Concert Hall named after Rachmaninoff, Philharmonic-2 and much more. It will be like Bataclan, with hostage-taking to encourage an end to the unjust war, as well as with the use of chemical devices. Mass shootings of suicide bombers are predicted in large shopping centers such as Riviera, Crocus, Aviapark, Columbus and MEGA Khimki. The scale of the operation may in one way or another resemble Hamas' attack on Israel, except that unlike Hamas savages, we will refrain from inhuman tactics such as rape and beheading.''

''Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!''

Hours before the attack, OSINTdefender the [[CIA]] [[front]] posted on X (formerly) [[Twitter]]: "Members of [[U.S. National Security Council]] and the [[White House]] have reportedly started to become Increasingly Frustrated by “Unauthorized Brazen Actions” taken by Ukraine against Russia."<ref>[https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1771076956651393051 OSINTdefender], March 22, 2024. twitter.com </ref> The [[Biden administration]] feared that Ukraine attacks on Russian oil refineries would run up gas pump prices for [[American]]s and hurt [[Joe Biden]]'s re-election chances in the [[2024 US presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.ft.com/content/98f15b60-bc4d-4d3c-9e57-cbdde122ac0c US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries], Christopher Miller and Ben Hall in Kyiv and Felicia Schwartz in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and Myles McCormick in [[Houston]], ''[[Financial Times]]'', MARCH 22 2024. ft.com</ref>

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [[Maria Zakharova]] commented: "The [[American]] [[political]] engineers cornered themselves with their tales that the [[Crocus City Hall attack]] was carried out by the [[ISIS-K|ISIS terror group]]...Hence [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]'s daily bailing out of its wards in [[Kiev]], and the attempt to cover itself and the [[Zelensky regime]] they created with the [[strawman]] of the outlawed ISIS...What is the [[logic]], you may ask?...Money and power...And, considering the international legal ban on direct interventions, it is also about sowing a controlled chaos and reshaping the world order by the hands of terrorists."<ref>[https://tass.com/world/1765181 US bails Ukraine out after Moscow attack, covering Zelensky with ISIS — diplomat], 24 MAR 2024. tass.com</ref>

Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov was quoted in RIA Novosti saying,
{{Cquote|The United States has destroyed international cooperation on anti-terrorism. And it is all destroyed through no fault of our own.<ref>[https://www.rt.com/news/594819-russian-envoy-us-destroyed-counterterrorism-cooperation/ US destroyed anti-terrorism cooperation – Moscow], ''[[RT]]'', March 24, 2024. rt.com</ref>}}

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