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May 24, 2024 · 5:48 pm

More Revelations re the Crocus Concert Hall Attack

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After a lengthy and detailed investigation,  the Director of the Russian Security Service, Aleksandr Bortnikov, has confirmed that Ukrainian military intelligence had direct involvement in the Crocus terrorist attack.
 Thus, Russia has gathered evidence that confirms the preparation,  financing and escape from the crime scene was coordinated by members of Wailayat Khorasan or ISIS-K. Twenty people have now been arrested. Not all are members of ISIS-K.
Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov attends a meeting of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Board in Moscow, Russia. ©  Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov

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May 2, 2024 · 2:26 pm

NATO & US Military Hardware on Display …. in Moscow

Observer in a Black Sea Town 

A splendid massive exhibition of NATO/US/German/British tanks, armoured vehicles and other equipment captured on the front line is being held in Moscow. Australian armoured vehicles are included. Visitors are able to get free meals and employees of US, UK,German, French, Australian and Polish embassies are given priority access to inspect the captured NATO with a free bagel for each one. The exhibition runs for a month.  Prestige equipment of NATO countries is on show. Visitors from France and Germany were impressed by the exhibition as they wouldn’t normally get the chance to inspect military hardware in their own countries

See film below ….

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April 3, 2024 · 10:24 pm

Islamic Hands? Controversy over Moscow Bomb Attack

Michael Roberts

The information and interpretations present in this Thuppahi website by “A Observer in a Black Sea Resort” (see refs at end) have been challenged by several Academic friends of mine located in the West (A and B quoted below within this text).  However, another friend located in USA …. a Sri Lankan as it happens …. has chipped in with a counterpunch (see C below); while another Sri Lankan has also added a note of significance.

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April 2, 2024 · 8:21 pm

Britain MI 6 behind Crocus Hall Attack in Moscow

An Observer in a Black Sea Town, .… with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi

The FSB (Russian intelligence) have gathered documentary evidence plus statements from recent persons complicit in the terrorist attacks in Moscow that conclusively prove that the explosives and weapons used in the Crocus terrorist attack (which were also to be used in other attacks inside Russia) went by road 2,000 miles starting in Kiev, then moving by truck across the Romanian, Hungary,  Slovenia,  Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia borders into Russia.

See below for the journey taken to move weapons and explosives from Ukraine into Russia to be used in multiple terrorist attacks (with ISIS to take the blame).

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March 29, 2024 · 6:06 pm

Hot Press: Ukraine on the Backfoot in War with Russia

An Observer in A Black Sea Town …. with highlights and a title imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi

Kazakh authorities in Kazakhstan have called on all citizens to leave Odessa and Kharkov which suggests Russia will soon take these two strategic cities. Once Russia takes Odessa,  Ukraine will became a landlocked country, and will no longer have access to the Black Sea.

Map of Ukraine.

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March 28, 2024 · 5:18 pm

The Crocus Terrorist Attack: Steven Seagal, the Australian Embassy, the Perpetrators and Victim

An Observer in a Black Sea town  …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi

The American actor Steven Seagal has just visited the victims of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, who are now in the National Medical and Surgical Centre named after N. I. Pirogov.  Steven said: “What happened was a terrible tragedy that should not have happened. And I think that Russia will serve as an example and let the world understand that you can’t just do this to any people and go unpunished. I thank the doctors for the prompt work they are doing. I am glad to see that the patients are feeling well and are recovering. God bless them.”

 Steven Seagal visiting the victims of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack.

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March 27, 2024 · 7:44 pm

Why the West is wrong to blame ISIS for the Crocus Terrorist Attack

An Observer in a Black Sea town 

” The American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) assert Russia has no evidence to claim Ukraine was involved in the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall on 22 March 2024.”

Actually, the Russians do have evidence and they have shared some of it with the world including,

  1. The terrorists were heading to the Ukraine border to escape.
  2. A window was opened at the border from the Ukrainian side, which means instructions must have been issued to Ukrainian border guards from the highest levels of the Ukrainian government.
  3. The terrorists do not fit the typical Jihadist prototype as they were motivated by money, not religious ideology. It would be more accurate to describe them as “mercenaries”, or “mercenary terrorists”. Each was to be paid a half a million roubles (US$5400; AUS$8272)

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February 27, 2024 · 8:18 pm

BBC on Alexei Navalny’s Death in Russian Custody

TRY https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alexei-navalny-the-death-of-putins-biggest-critic/id1715473158?i=1000645632931

Russia’s most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in an Arctic Circle jail, the prison service has said. What does that mean for the future of Russia, its opposition movement and its leader, Vladimir Putin?

In this special episode of The Global Story, Gabriel Gatehouse speaks to the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, Olga Ivshina from the BBC’s Russian Service, and Francis Scarr, who covers Russian media for BBC Monitoring.

The Global Story brings you trusted insights from BBC experts around the world. We’re keen to hear from you, wherever you are in the world. #TheGlobalStory We want your ideas, stories and experiences to help us understand and tell The Global Story. Email us at theglobalstory@bbc.com You can also message us or leave a voice note on WhatsApp on +44 330 123 9480.

Today’s podcast was made by Peter Goffin and Miriam Quayyum. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Sergi Forcada Freixas and the senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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February 21, 2024 · 4:38 pm

USA Vetoes Algerian Motion in UN Security Council

Fair Dinkum …. in highly disturbed state of mind

United State’s’ Secretary of State John Kerry chairs a meeting of the Security Council at UN Headquarters in New York Stock Photo – Alamy

Today at the UN Security Council, a draft resolution put forward by Algeria calling for a ceasefire in Gaza was vetoed by the US
The votes were 13 in favour
1 opposed (US)
1 abstaining (UK,)

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October 2, 2023 · 12:56 pm

International Espionage of a Jihadist Flavour

Lamat R Hasan, An independent journalist based in New Delhi, in RT, 1 Oct, 2023 … where the title reads “Jihad against colonialism: A mysterious link between global Islam, India and the Russian Revolution”

An Indian revolutionary exiled from his homeland urged fellow Muslims not to believe America, France or Britain, but advocated for a unity of socialism and Islam.
Jihad against colonialism: A mysterious link between global Islam, India and the Russian Revolution
Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah also known as Maulana Barkatullah was an Indian revolutionary with sympathy for the Pan-Islamic movement.⁣ He had at least two extraordinary meetings with Comrade Vladimir Lenin in the first years of Soviet power in Russia.

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