Russia knows it has a terrorist problem, despite its deflection and spin to preserve Putin’s image, but his priorities are elsewhere.
Russian intelligence also suffers from systemic failings in recognizing, penetrating and dismantling terrorist cells, failings that stem from doctrine and a deliberately stovepiped structure that obstructs information sharing and agility.
FSB officers will coerce, threaten and intimidate potential sources with diminishing returns that will only fuel ISIS-K recruitment and fundraising, which is no doubt seeing a surge from its Moscow attack.
Russian intelligence will be left to depend on the unwilling, ill-informed or duplicitous.
At the Islamic State’s height, Tajik Gulmurod Khalimov commanded its Iraqi capital of Mosul.
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