Russia has long worried about terrorism. The Moscow attack showed it may not be prepared.
by Fred Weir
Mar 25, 2024
4 minutes
The horrific slaughter at Crocus City Hall, in which gunmen with automatic weapons and explosives killed over 130 people last Friday, has jolted Muscovites out of a sense of complacency that they have enjoyed, despite two years of war in next-door Ukraine.
In an address to Russians the day after the attack, President Vladimir Putin hinted that Ukraine might have been involved in the atrocity.
But he failed to mention a more plausible suspect: the group known as Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), a sworn enemy of Russia generally associated with the kind of ruthless, face-to-face massacres that
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