The United States collected intelligence in March that Islamic State-Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, the branch of the group based in Afghanistan, had been planning an attack on Moscow, according to officials. In addition to publicly warning on March 7 about a possible attack, U.S. officials said they had privately told Russian officials about the intelligence pointing to an impending attack.
... In addition to publicly warning on March 7 about a possible attack, U.S. officials said they had privately told Russian officials about the intelligence pointing to an impending attack. ...
Yep.
Information we passed to Russia was correct': Intel expert
www.newsnationnow.com
... "We have a duty to pass information we get to any country, whether that country is a friend or a foe," says Tracy Walder, a former CIA officer and FBI special agent.
Earlier this month, the State Department warned Russia it was picking up "chatter" about a possible terrorist attack that could occur at a concert. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of trying to intimidate and destabilize his country.
"The reality is it looks like the information we passed to them was correct," Walder says.
But the key, Walder notes, is how specific the warning from Washington was: "If we tell Russia it's any concert venue, that's really difficult to lock down. But if we provided them with much more simplified and specific information, and they chose not to act on it, then that's another story." ...
#1 why would you believe this?
Common freaking sense, that's why I believe it. I watched these events myself. The only new information now becoming public was that it was ISIS-K all along. Did you bother to read the information published weeks ago? The US Embassy specifically told Americans to avoid concert halls (among other larger gathering places) in its publicized warnings.
Putin called the US warning a "provocative" statement that resembled "outright blackmail and an intention to intimidate and destabilize our society
."And did you ignore that US Intel also forewarned Iran about ISIS-K attacking inside their country too prior to the 1/3 bombings?
The Kremlin's failure to stop an ISIS-K attack comes only a few months after the U.S. intelligence community had provided a similar warning of an ISIS-K attack to Iran - only to have the mullahs also turn a deaf ear to the words of the "Great Satan." The Islamic State was able to carry out two bombings in Iran on Jan. 3, killing more than 95 people in the town of Kerman who had gathered to commemorate the death in a U.S. airstrike of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, himself one of the chief organizers of terrorism in the Middle East.The last line encapsulates the difference between you and me: I use logic and common sense when assessing intelligence pronouncements and you appear to rely on preconceived prejudices and conspiracies where none visibly exist.
The Iranian regime, like the Russian one, has undoubtedly overdosed on its own propaganda about America as its enemy - and thus refused to lend credence to what this supposed enemy was telling them. It does not require a psychology degree to detect the projection: Neither Vladimir Putin nor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could imagine informing Washington of a terrorist plot in the United States to save the lives of ordinary Americans, so these tyrants cannot imagine Washington trying to save Russian or Iranian lives.(same link as above)
Putin called the US warning a "provocative" statement that resembled "outright blackmail and an intention to intimidate and destabilize our society." [...]#4 | Posted by tonyroma
Best part being that Putin publicly mischaracterized our warning as "blackmail" and it's still being reported on the Russian state media TASS's site: tass.ru
After the Russians sober up long enough to purge that article, I'm sure they'll go for a "misquote" defense and execute some random TASS editor as Ukrainian spy.
He'll use it that way, no matter the origins. #9 | Posted by Corky
Yeah, he already is:
Putin "said the perpetrators 'tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border.'
Several Ukrainian agencies have categorically denied any connection with the attack, and the Russian officials who have alleged Ukrainian involvement haven't offered any evidence."
www.cnn.com
It's really strange that the US, Russia, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan actually have a singular common enemy that actively threatens each country simultaneously. #11 | Posted by tonyroma
Even stranger that Ukraine has allied itself with it. I now it's true because Putin said so. Just like that time he assured us he wasn't going to invade Ukraine, right before he invaded.
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