'Did the Americans plan the Paris terror attacks?' asks leading Russian tabloid

[Nuclear Unicorn]

'Did the Americans plan the Paris terror attacks?' asks leading Russian tabloid

American intelligence services carried out the Charlie Hebdo terror attack to punish France for considering dropping sanctions against Russia – or at least, that's the version of events presented in one of Russia's leading newspapers today.

The front page splash in Komsomolskaya Pravda, which asks "Did the Americans Plan the Paris Terror Attack?", is just the latest of a series of bizarre conspiracy theories put forward by some of the Russian press in the wake of last week's tragedy.

The headline relates to a page 7 interview with a political scientist called Alexander Zhilin, who links the murders of 16 people at Charlie Hebdo and a Kosher supermarket to disagreements between western governments about how to deal with sanctions against Russia.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11340360/Did-the-Americans-plan-the-Paris-terror-attacks-asks-leading-Russian-tabloid.html

I wonder if this gives RT room enough to print a "some say" article?

[randys1]

1. THOM HARTMANN get Off of RT !!!!

[leftynyc]

2. So to sum up

The Russians think the US did it, Iran thinks the Israeli's did it. And everyone with a brain knows it was jihadi assholes who did it.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. The Russians and Iranians know better. They're just exploiting it or shifting blame.

[leftynyc]

6. I get why Iran would try and

blame Mossad but Russia has its own jihadi scum - is it just regular old lets blame the US because why the fuck not?

[C_U_L8R]

3. Apparently the Russians are learning

how to lie like a Republican.

[Rex]

5. Yeah like I would ever believe a word from a country ruled over by a dictator.

Bad enough living in a plutocracy, but nothing like living under the thumb of a militant tyrant imo.

[Va Lefty]

7. Is Alex Jones writing for Komsomolskaya Pravda now?