If there’s a modern aspect to the ghoulish Islamic State in Khorasan, the south Asian affiliate of IS, it’s its habit of streaming video footage of its atrocities. It claimed responsibility for the Moscow attack on Friday, which killed 137 people (and counting) at a concert. Four of the gunmen posted a selfie.
Their bodycam video showed them in the lobby shooting at fans on the ground close up. Another repeatedly cut a man’s throat. “Kill them, show no mercy,” a voice says in Arabic. It posted statements describing this as “a blow against Russia”, boasting of killing Christians. IS-K was in fact, piqued at Vladimir Putin’s bid to put the blame on Ukraine.
