groups intimately involved in what's happening inside syria. >> of course. look at all the different groups that are in place right now in syria. look at all of the different grievances they would have with the russian government. russia has been a staunch ally of syria's president assad since this conflict began providing weapons, providing air strikes basically bolsters him and keeping him in power through the russian military. and, of course, how many hundreds and thousands of people have died in syria as a result of this conflict. any number of people would have a grievance against russia because of this, and the fact that the gunman himself in carrying out what russia state media is saying was a premeditated terror attack, the fact the gunman himself came out and said this has to do with aleppo saying "remember aleppo" and "remember syria" this comes as aleppo has more or less officially been retaken by government forces, by the assad regime. so the people forced out of alp