Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Friday’s deadly terrorist attack at a rock concert that killed at least 137, saying for the first time it was the work of “radical Islamists”.
The Crocus concert attack in a suburb of Moscow on Friday that killed 137, injured over 180, and caused massive fire damage to the city hall where terrorists opened fire with rifles and threw fire-bombs was the work of Islamists, the Russian government has conceded. The United States, which appears to have had some foreknowledge of the terror plot asserted quickly after Friday’s attack that it was work of radical Islamists, and an Islamic State cadet-branch claimed responsibility.
But until now, Russia has resisted accepting the classification, and has emphasised its belief that pointing the finger at religious extremists was actually an attempt by the U.S. to “bail out” the true…
