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At Least 60 Killed and 100 Wounded in Terrorist Attack at Russian Concert Hall
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Putin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident as 'blackmail' just 3 days before concert hall attack
"Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident in Moscow just days before gunmen attacked a concert hall in the city on Friday.
Earlier this month, the US embassy in Russia issued a security alert warning about a potential terror attack in Moscow and urged people to avoid crowds, monitor local media for updates, and be aware of surroundings.
"The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours," the March 7 security alert said.
Putin addressed the warnings a couple weeks later, criticizing the warning three days ago as "provocative."
Per TASS, the Russian president said on March 19 the aim of "the recent provocative statements of a number of official Western structures about the possibility of terrorist attacks in Russia" was harming Russian society."
"All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society," Putin said, according to state media reporting on his remarks."
Putin 'dismissed US warnings about a terror attack' three days before Moscow massacre and shrugged off American embassy's warning to avoid concert venues
U.S. officials say American intelligence agencies had gathered information in recent weeks that ISIS was planning an attack in Moscow - but the warnings were dismissed by Russia's President Putin who described them as 'provocative'.
A U.S. intelligence official described how American intelligence agencies learned how a cell of ISIS based in Afghanistan was planning an attack in Moscow and shared the information with Russian officials.
Putin dismissed the alerts as an attempt to intimidate Russians .
U.S. officials say that the information was privately shared as recently as three days before gunmen burst into a large concert hall on Friday night, spraying the crowd with gunfire, killing more than 60 people.
Earlier in March, the US embassy in Moscow also issued a security alert.
It warned about a potential terror attack in Moscow and urging people to avoid crowds and be aware of their surroundings.
'The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours,' the March 7 security alert stated.
Concerts were specifically mentioned as a potential target in the US security alert. It is not clear what prompted the warning or whether it was related to Friday night's attack.
The US gave the intelligence to Russia under the Duty to Warn requirement - an intelligence community requirement to notify US and non-US groups of potential impending threats.
Earlier this week - and several weeks after the warnings had been issued - Putin said the warnings were 'provocative.'
On Friday the US embassy issued another alert on saying it was 'aware' of the attack and urged Americans to avoid the area.
'We strongly condemn the horrendous attack carried out at a concert hall in Moscow. We express our deepest sympathies with the families of the victims,' Russia's foreign ministry said in a statement.
Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, has called the incident a 'terrorist attack.'
"All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society," President Putin said in a statement on Friday.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on affiliated channels on social media. It wasn't immediately clear what happened to the attackers after the raid.
The attack, which left the concert hall in flames with a collapsing roof, was the deadliest in Russia in years and came as the country's war in Ukraine dragged into a third year.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called the raid a 'huge tragedy.'
The Kremlin said Putin was informed minutes after the assailants burst into Crocus City Hall, a large music venue on Moscow's western edge that can accommodate 6,200 people.
The attack took place as crowds gathered for a performance by the Russian rock band Picnic.
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