Ukraine War Day #761: “ISIS dunnit” Propagandist Unmasked

Dear Readers:

I saw this interesting opinion piece by a Russian political analyst named Gleb Kuznetsov. Gleb was reading various Western sources lobbying in favor of the “ISIS trace” theory in the Crocus Terror Attack. It goes without saying that Westie propaganda has settled on the “ISIS dunnit” theory, they established this narrative probably even before the terror attack actually occurred. As a theory, it is ridiculous and cynical, but probably good enough to satisfy the average American housewife who actually reads Westie press as her news source.

Political pundit Gleb Kuznetsov

But something in one of the sources caught Gleb’s eye, the name Soufan Group. “This vaguely stirred something hidden in the recesses of my memory. So, I googled it, and sure enough, the Soufan Group was founded by a man named Ali Soufan. Again, a fleeting memory from the beginning of the 2000’s. This guy was famous during that period after 911 when Muslims were persecuted in the U.S.”

According to Gleb, the American FBI, after the Twin Towers terror attack, organized a group of provocateurs whose goal was to entrap and arrest American Muslims. They would approach people in mosques, universities, bookstores, and the like, and engage them in conversation. What do they think about government policy? About the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Do they feel any sympathy for those victims among the civilian populations of those countries? Are they horrified by what is going on at Guantanamo?

Often enough, the interlocutors would say too much and talk their way into a goodly prison sentence, in line with the new American “anti-terrorism” laws.

Ali Soufan in Afghanistan, 2001

Now comes the interesting part: One of the main curators of this project was Ali Soufan. An ethnic Arab, one of only 10 Arabic-speaking officers of the FBI. A very famous case during his tenure was that of Rafiq Sabir, a Florida doctor, who was (in 2005) sentenced to 25 years in jail, after being tricked (by Soufan) to repeat a verbal oath that he would provide medical assistance to Iraqi soldiers, if asked. Soufan posed as a high-level officer of Al-Qaida and threatened Sabir into repeating the oath. The entrapment worked, and Sabir was arrested.

Later, Soufan wrote a couple of books about the so-called “War on Terror”, advertising his own huge contribution to it. Which included a stint in Guantanamo, torturing inmates. Gleb had read some of these books, this is what sparked something in his memory.

Thanks to these books, Soufan became popular within certain circles in the U.S. An Arab himself, provoking other Arabs and helping to torture them in Guantanamo, what an unusual gem! His fame and popularity allowed him to establish a successful NGO which dealt with, naturally, “problems of security and international relations.”

Soufan’s big payday arrived on March 23, 2024, when specialists from the “Soufan Group” distinguished themselves as the first of the “independent experts” who pointed the finger at ISIS as the alleged perpetrators of the Crocus massacre in Moscow. ISIS being an organization which, in turn, has distinguished itself in recent years with terrorist attacks against “the enemies of Islam.” Who always happen to be the very same enemies: the Taliban, Iran and Russia. No other enemies of Islam. Just those three. What a coincidence that these entities also happen to be on the American hitlist!