FSB reserve colonel Andrei Prispeshkin talks about the oddities of the terrorist attack at the Crocus and its potential client.

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✔️ Based on international and personal experience I say a large team of at least 20-25 people worked together. In the news we only saw a portion of this group that caused this monstrous event. Some carried out reconnaissance of the area, others studied the technical documentation of the Crocus, others equipped them with weapons, etc.

✔️ Thorough preparation went into the terrorist attack. Molotovs or grenades do not set a building on fire instantly and in multiple places. Flammable materials were surely placed in several rooms, in addition to arson in different parts of the building. Such a carefully prepared operation bears the mark of a larger team. The perpetrators we saw represent merely cogs in the machine, carrying out the tasks assigned to them.

✔️ The terrorists on site definitely went through training. Perhaps they already had combat experience in some other conflict, Ukraine, Central Asia, or Palestine. No one with zero combat experience who never experienced live fire shows such calmness, even while under the influence of psychotropic drugs.

✔️ The goal of the operation seems to have been to kill as many civilians as possible, in a way that causes the highest levels of terror. The fire meant to produce panic and screams of horror as civilians choked from the smoke. It didn't matter how a person died. The more terrible the footage, the greater the effect.

✔️ Neither the investigators nor the detainees mentioned ISIS. From my personal experience with members of this terrorist organization: if they get caught, they admit their involvement immediately. In addition, ISIS uses different methods: suicide belts, explosions, hostage-taking; completely different from what we saw in this incident.

✔️ I suspect Western Intelligence Services developed, sponsored, and carried out this attack. People say the English and Russian services represent the two most powerful intelligence spheres in the world, with the CIA leading the English part. But when it comes to Central Asia, the Southeast, and the Arab world, MI6 dwarfs the CIA in terms of influence and experience. They now seek to split up Russian society, to put Orthodox Christians against Muslims, Russians against Tajiks, etc.

Source vicktop55 (edited for clarity of language)