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Moscow terrorist attack was on a rock concert by a band called Piknik

On Friday (March 22), armed men (five? six? eleven?) in camouflage moved on a packed music venue on the outskirts of Moscow called Crocus City Hall. Attached to a shopping mall in Krasnogors, it is well over 140.000 square feet in size. A huge fiire then broke out on the roof. At last count, more than 130 people are dead and hundreds are injured. That number has been changing hourly. Many are children.

The audience had gathered for a concert by Picnic (also called Piknik and Пикник), a Soviet-era classic rock band. They’re a proggy-type art-rock band formed in 1978. The carnage started just before the band took the stage at 8pm.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack (specifically, the Islamic State Khorasan Province), something that Russia was warned about two weeks ago. Other possible perpetrators could be (a) angry vets returning from Ukraine; (b) rements of the Wagner Group; (c) Ukranian operatives (Putin is pushing that narrative, naturally), and (d) a Putin-orchestrated false flag operation.

Alan Cross

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