The Moscow Terror Attack-Time for Putin to Change Course

We still don’t know all the facts from yesterday’s horrendous attack on a concert in Moscow. As I write, Russian authorities put the death toll at 133 with hundreds wounded. As for the perpetrators, there are varying reports of arrests being made, four or eleven? ISIS quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. Most likely, the gunmen themselves were Chechen, but that is yet to be confirmed.

It seems that the US tipped off the Russians several days ago that an attack like this was imminent. Putin is calling that warning a “provocation” on the part of the US. Typical Putin. Russia and the US are adversaries, but we did the honorable thing and warned the Russians for the purpose of saving innocent lives from the barbarities of ISIS. 

I sincerely hope the Russians have arrested (or killed) the true culprits as opposed to just “rounding up the usual suspects”. It’s hard to tell with the Russian justice system.

One final point: If this attack is, indeed, the work of ISIS, I would hope that Mr Putin learns his lesson. That is instead of sacrificing hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers in his unjustified invasion of Ukraine, he will order them home and put them to use against the true enemy-ISIS and Islamic terrorism. 

Whatever we think of Russia under Putin’s rule, we must condemn what happened in Moscow.