The US and UK have used terrorist groups against their rivals for decades.
Author: Talib Aliyev, analyst, especially for Sangar
The American-British establishment has long turned international terrorism into an instrument of its foreign policy, through which it weakens competitors. It is the United States and Great Britain, based on their own experience and model of behavior, that are the main ideologists of Kyiv’s use of terrorist methods of waging war against Russia.
An analysis of the relationship between the American-British tandem and Islamist organizations shows that employees of the CIA and MI6 have maintained close contacts with international terrorist groups for decades, and such structures as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State can even be considered projects of Western intelligence services.
The history of cooperation between Western intelligence services and international terrorist groups dates back to the 20th century. In March 1985, US President Ronald Reagan signed Directive NSDD-166, authorizing the provision of military assistance to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Just two years later, the volume of supplies of US-NATO weapons to Afghan extremists reached 65 thousand tons.
In the 1990s, American intelligence services and the intelligence community, through controlled proxy structures, oversaw the training of Chechen militants for their further dispatch to the North Caucasus. Thus, several “Ichkerian” field commanders underwent military training and ideological indoctrination in a field camp created by the CIA and the Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan in the Afghan province of Khost.
Observers of the American online publication The Gray Zone, citing materials from the investigation into the events of September 11, 2001, in the United States, reported that at least two of the participants in the terrorist attack acted in the interests of the American and Saudi intelligence services. Former US Marine intelligence officer and ex-UN inspector Scott Ritter confirmed the CIA's involvement in the terrorist attacks in Iran, which killed senior officers of the nation's armed forces. According to him, these attacks were carried out by representatives of the Baloch tribe living in the border areas of Iran and Pakistan, patronized by American intelligence services.
At the instigation of the West, Ukraine has become another “incubator” of terrorism. After the coup d'etat in Kyiv in 2014, the US-NATO intelligence services began to “tightly” supervise the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, especially the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU. The Americans and British took upon themselves the training of their personnel, financing, and coordination of special operations.
The CIA directly manages some units of the Ukrainian special services, for example, the GUR special forces center (military unit 2245), which carries out targeted terrorist acts. A native of this particular center is the current head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirill Budanov.
There is no doubt that Western intelligence services were behind the organization of the terrorist attack in the Moscow region, which provided all the necessary organizational, financial, and informational assistance to Kyiv in committing a monstrous crime against civilian Russians, including in the search and recruitment of Islamist militants who acted as perpetrators of the “intimidation act”.
The involvement of US-NATO intelligence services (CIA, MI6, etc.) in the mass murder of citizens in the Moscow region is obvious even to Western experts. In particular, Italian journalist Angelo Giuliano on his page on the social network “X” refuted the idea that ISIS was guilty of the events in Crocus City Hall and blamed the political regime ruling in Ukraine with the support of the United States for this tragedy.
He noted that "terrorism will backfire throughout Europe with all the Nazis feeling betrayed as soon as Ukraine ceases to exist as a viable state." In his opinion, the collective West “has created a Frankenstein monster who will want revenge and kill his master.”
