'Kill them and have no mercy': ISIS release 90-seconds of horror in sick selfie ... trends now
ISIS has released a sickening new video showing in graphic detail exactly how four of their terrorists slaughtered more than 140 people at a concert hall in Moscow.
The attack was the 'most violent' perpetrated against Russia 'in years', ISIS tonight claimed, adding that attack on the Crocus City Hall in the western outskirts of Moscow on Friday night was part of the 'raging war between the Islamic State and countries fighting Islam.'
US intelligence officials strongly believe that members of Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or ISIS-K, that carried out the attack. Tonight, the US officially rebutted Vladimir Putin's claims that the attacks were carried out on Ukraine's orders.
ISIS' news agency Amaq released sickening a 90-second selfie video of the attack that is too graphic for MailOnline to share.
The clip, described by the terror group as 'exclusive scenes... of the bloody attack on Christians yesterday in the city of Krasnogorsk in Moscow', begins with one terrorist holding a knife running into the main hall of Crocus City Hall.
The man filming the video twice says: 'Bring the machine gun. Kill them and have no mercy on them.'
The man filming the video twice says: 'Bring the machine gun. Kill them and have no mercy on them'
A massive blaze is seen over the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow
People lay flowers and light candles standing next to the Crocus City Hall
Another man carrying what appears to be a yellow and black machine gun then runs into the hall and begins firing wildly in all directions.
The gun appears to match up with images released by Russian authorities of the aftermath of the attack.
The gunman filming the sick attack can be heard saying: 'The infidels will be defeated, God willing. God is great. The infidels will be defeated. We went out for the sake of God and to seek His religion.'
The four heavily armed men are then seen slowly walking away from the entrance to the main hall.
The men appear to be the same ones who took a sick selfie in front of the terror group's flag in the wake of the attack.
More than 140 people died in the massacre in Moscow on Friday night
The selfie, released by ISIS' official news agency Amaq hours ago, shows the four perpetrators in dark baseball caps and face masks pointing upwards, a gesture that has long-been associated with the terror group.
The gesture refers to the tawhid, which is 'the belief in the oneness of God', according to foreign policy experts. The identities of the people seen in the selfie has not yet been confirmed, but ISIS claims they are among those who carried out the attack.
Despite ISIS admitting to carrying out the sick attack, Vladimir Putin was quick to blame Ukraine for the deadly massacre.
The US tonight said that it had intelligence that rebutted Putin's claims.
'ISIS bears sole responsibility for this attack. There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever,' National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement.
ISIS-K, set up in late 2014 in eastern Afghanistan in the wake of US-led airstrikes against ISIS strongholds across Iraq, is known for its extreme brutality.
The selfie shows the 'four perpetrators' in dark baseball caps and face masks pointing upwards, a gesture that has long-been associated with the terror group
Its name refers to an old term for the region that included parts of Iran, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.
The group has been led by Shahab al-Muhajir, an engineer by training and education, since 2020.
His name means 'Shahab the Migrant', referring to the fact that he is the first non-Afghan and non-Pakistani person to run ISIS-K
He reportedly spend time as a subcontractor of a security firm in Afghanistan, and was known to have spent some time on the US' Bagram Airfield, formerly the largest US military base in Afghanistan.
al-Muhajir is one of three ISIS-K members on the list of people sanctioned under an anti-terror directive first set out by George Bush in the wake of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and renewed every year since by successive presidents.
The others are Sultan Aziz Azam, a spokesperson for the group, and Maulawi Rajab, a senior leader who 'plans ISIS-K’s attacks and operations and commands ISIS-K groups conducting attacks in Kabul', according the US State Department, which only sanctioned the terrorists in November 2021.
Meanwhile, the UK only sanctioned the three men in 2023. OFSI, the UK's sanctions body, said cited al-Muhajir responsibility 'for multiple terrorist attacks resulting in hundreds of deaths in 2021' as the reason for his punishment.
The group has been led by Shahab al-Muhajir (Pictured), an engineer by training and education, since 2020
Sultan Aziz Azam, a spokesperson for ISIS-K, (pictured) has been sanctioned by both the UK and the US
Firefighters work in the burned concert hall after an attack on the building of the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow
A woman reacts in front of a makeshift memorial to the victims of a shooting attack set up outside the Crocus City Hall
Flowers and candles are placed at a makeshift memorial to the victims of the massacre
Michael Kugelman of the Washington-based Wilson Center said ISIS-K 'sees Russia as being complicit in activities that regularly oppress Muslims' (File image)
