Putin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident as ‘blackmail’ just 3 days before concert hall attack

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****** dismissed US warnings about a potential ******* incident as ‘blackmail’ just 3 days before concert hall *******

• Gunmen stormed a concert hall in Moscow on Friday, ******** at least 60 people and injuring more than 100.

• Earlier this month, the US embassy issued a security alert warning of a potential ******* *******.

• Just days ago,

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  dismissed the idea as “blackmail” from the West.

Russian President Vladimir ****** dismissed US warnings about a potential ******* incident in Moscow just days before gunmen attacked a concert hall in the city on Friday.

At least 60 people are ***** and more than 100 are injured after multiple armed individuals stormed the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia’s investigative committee

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. State-run news agency TASS

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40 earlier in the day, citing Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, which called the incident a “********** *******.”

Graphic videos posted to social media are purporting to show the ******* unfolding. In some of the footage, gunshots and screams of concertgoers can be heard.

According to

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, the unidentified gunmen were armed with ******** rifles and opened ***** in the lobby of the building before moving into the main concern hall, where a band was scheduled to perform. It added that an ********** inside the venue sparked the *****, which has engulfed at least a third of the building and spread to the roof.

Russian Rosguardia national guard servicemen secure an area near the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow on March 22, 2024.AP Photo/Vitaly Smolnikov

Earlier this month, the US embassy in Russia issued a

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warning about a potential ******* ******* in Moscow and urged people to avoid crowds, monitor local media for updates, and be aware of surroundings.

“The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours,” the March 7 security alert said.

****** addressed the warnings a couple weeks later, criticizing the warning three days ago as “provocative.”

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TASS, the Russian president said on March 19 the aim of “the recent provocative statements of a number of official Western structures about the possibility of ********** attacks in Russia” was harming Russian society.

A man speaks to journalists as a massive blaze seen over the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow on March 22, 2024.AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov

“All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society,” ****** said, according to state media reporting on his remarks.

The US embassy issued

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on Friday saying it was “aware” of the ******* and urged Americans to avoid the area.

“We strongly condemn the horrendous ******* carried out at a concert hall in Moscow,” Russia’s foreign ministry said in an official statement. “We express our deepest sympathies with the families of the victims.”

Shortly after Friday’s *******, ISIS claimed responsibility, according to a post on Telegram from a news agency affiliated with the ********** group. US officials later

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that a branch of ISIS, Islamic State-Khorasan, or ISIS-K, was responsible and had been planning an *******.

The group has been known to operate in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran and was suspected to be active inside Russia, two US officials

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The Washington Post, which reported that the embassy alert was based, at least in part, on intelligence about ISIS-K activity in Russia.

A White House official shared more information Friday evening in a statement

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by multiple outlets.

“Earlier this month, the US government had information about a planned ********** ******* in Moscow — potentially targeting large gatherings, to include concerts — which prompted the State Department to issue a public advisory to Americans in Russia,” said Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council.

“The US government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding ‘duty to warn’ policy,” Watson said, referring to the US policy in the intelligence community to notify potential victims, regardless of whether or not they are US citizens, of certain credible impending threats.

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