The videos, which were published by IS’s news agency Amaq, showed the gunmen filming themselves as they hunted concertgoers through the lobby of the Crocus City Hall and fired at them from pointblank range, killing scores of people. At one point, one of the gunmen tells another to “kill them and have no mercy”.
Sorry, Vlad. Can’t pin it on Ukraine anymore.
Not to mention that the US spent years fighting IS. I don’t think that IS is likely very favorably-inclined towards the US, and certainly not to the extent of wanting to claim responsibility for an attack in some kind of convoluted effort to…improve the US’s image for supporting Israel, of all things?
And hell, let’s even ignore all that. Let’s make the assumption that IS were favorably inclined towards the US, and not just that, but so much that they’d make a bogus claim of responsibility for an attack on Russia. Why would they even bother with making a bogus claim? Why not just…do the attack in the first place?