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NB: Updated on 4/26/2013, 8/5/2013, 8/6/2013.
COMMENT: Political comedian Mort Sahl (who worked for New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison) asked in his autobiography; “How many lies can you allow yourself to believe before you belong to the lie?”
With all that is unfolding in the U.S. and around the world, we find ourselves [curiously] only marginally interested in the Boston investigation. Furthermore, we feel an unpleasant lack of concern with the incident or, frankly, the victims. Reference the Mort Sahl quote above.
At some point, people, you either take care of business or business will take care of you.
In a previous post, we highlighted some of the considerations to be weighed in evaluating the Boston Marathon bombing. After an initial report of the arrest of a Saudi national (reported to us by R. Wilson), we are told–rightly or wrongly–that he is considered a witness not a suspect.
Sure enough, the elements we cited in the above-linked post are coming into view, highlighted in the stories linked and excerpted below (tip of the hat to “Pterrafractyl” (be sure to check out the Ptech links and links to the first World Trade Center attack in the links at the bottom of his 4/26/2013 comment on this post):
- The Boston bombing suspects’ uncle appears to have worked both for AID (a frequent intelligence cover) and for a subsidiary of Halliburton–Dick Cheney’s old company.
- They worshipped at a Muslim Brotherhood-connected mosque in Boston that was once administered by Abdurahman Alamoudi–a protege of Grover Norquist and among the focal points of the Operation Green Quest raids of 3/20/2002. Norquist’s protege Alamoudi proved to be a senior financier of Al Qaeda. The mosque had numerous links to terrorist incidents over the years.
- Both the FBI and CIA, as well as the Russian authorities had investigated Tamerlan before. As noted by Dave Gaubatz, U.S. law enforcement has relied on the Brotherhood and its front organizations such as the Muslim American Society.
- If the comatose American people and our somnambulent press corps had taken care of business with regard to the Operation Green Quest raids, we wouldn’t be in this position.
- The al-Taqwa/Operation Green Quest milieu heavily overlaps individuals and institutions involved in training chaplains for both prison populations and the military. With that kind of ideologized preaching finding its way into those milieux, we should not be surprised at a recurrence of “lone wolf” jihadis, similar to and–perhaps–overlapping the “leaderless resistance” tactic long pursued by neo-Nazi and fascist elements.
- A major focal point of Chechnyan jihadism is in Boston, evolved from the Al Kifah organization, renamed CARE (not to be confused with the UN charity.) That milieu is inextricably linked with the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center.
- In turn, some of the Al Kifah/CARE operatives pursued by the government were employees of the PTech corporation, that developed critical software for numerous federal agencies with jurisdiction in the 9/11/21001 attacks.
- As discussed in FTR #467, PTech is inextricably linked with the overlapping milieux of Operation Green Quest and the Bank al-Taqwa.
- In an update to this original post, we note that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was in possession of white-supremacist, far right-wing literature and was apparently influenced by it. We have seen collaboration between white supremacists/neo-Nazis and Islamists before. (See text excerpts below.)
- Further reportage on Tsarnaev’s Nazi/white supremacy links reveals that among the influences on him was “The American Free Press,” published by Willis Carto. Carto is best known as the editor of The Spotlight, a neo-Nazi newspaper that achieved considerable circulation. Carto is alleged to have been the ghostwrite for Eddie the Friendly Spook’s Presidential candidate of choice Ron Paul. (See text excerpts below.)
- Note, also, the apparent influence of the “Zeitgeist” film on Tsarnaev. A fascist “Truther” film, it is filled with Jewish banker conspiracy theories and exemplifies the sort of fascist ideology that has influenced the so-called Truther movement. Jared Lee Laughner also appears to have been influenced by the film.
EXCERPT: The uncle of the two men who set off bombs at the Boston Marathon, who struck the only grace note in an otherwise horrific week, worked as a “consultant” for the Agency for International Development (USAID) a U.S. Government Agency often used for cover by agents of the CIA, in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan during the “Wild West” days of the early 1990’s, when anything that wasn’t nailed down in that country was up for grabs. . . .
. . . . The purchase of the Prince’s [Andrew of Great Britain] estate was put together, according to prosecutors in Italy and Switzerland, by a group of oil executives who comprise “a network of personal and business relationships” allegedly used for “international corruption,” reported The London Telegraph.
Tsarni, called “a US lawyer who has had dealings in Kazakh business affairs,” by the Sunday Times, clearly appears to be a member of that network.
The Sunday Times reported, “A statement by Ruslan Zaindi Tsarni was given in the High Court in December, claiming that Kulibayev bought Sunninghill and properties in Mayfair with $96 million derived from a complex series of deals intended to disguise money laundering.”
“Tsarni alleged that the money came from the takeover of a western company, which had been used as a front to obtain oil contracts from the Kazakh state.”
The “western company” used to launder the money which the Sunday Times referred to is Big Sky Energy Corporation, where Ruslan Tsarni was a top executive.
Big Sky, which used to be known as China Energy Ventures Corp, is a now-bankrupt US oil company run by S.A. (Al) Sehsuvaroglu, a long-time executive of Halliburton, which had oil leases in Kakakhstan’s Caspian Basin.
Tsarni was Big Sky’s Corporate Secretary and Vice President for Business Development. He joined Big Sky in 2005. . . .
“Countdown with Keith Olberman” for Oct. 23; MSNBC News; 10/23/2003.
EXCERPT: JOHN LOFTUS: Well, you know, it’s a funny story. About a year-and‑a half ago, people in the intelligence community came and said-guys like Alamoudi and Sami al-Arian and other terrorists weren’t being touched because they’d been ordered not to investigate the cases, not to prosecute them, because they were being funded by the Saudis and a political decision was being made at the highest levels, don’t do anything that would embarrass the Saudi government. So, of course I immediately volunteered to do it and I filed a lawsuit, against al-Arian charging him with being a major terrorist for Islamic Jihad; most of his money came from Saudi charities in Virginia.
Now, Alamoudi’s headquarters were in the same place, he was raided the same day, on March 20. An hour after I filed my lawsuit, the U.S. government finally got off its butt and they raided these offices. And, the stuff that they’re taking out of there now is absolutely horrendous. Al-Arian has now, finally been indicted, along with Alamoudi, today. But, who ws it that fixed the cases? How could these guys operate for more than a decade immune from prosecution? And, the answer is coming out in a very strange place. What Alamoudi and al-Arian have in common is a guy named Grover Norquist. He’s the super lobbyist. Newt Gingrich’s guy, the one the NRA calls on, head of American taxpayers. He is the guy that was hired by Alamoudi to head up the Islamic institute and he’s the registered agent for Alamoudi, personally, and for the Islamic Institute.
Grover Norquist’s best friend is Karl Rove, the White House chief of staff, and apparently Norquist was able to fix things. He got extreme right wing Muslim people to be the gatekeepers in the White House. That’s why moderate [Muslim] Americans couldn’t speak out after 9/11. Moderate Muslims couldn’t get into the White House because Norquist’s friends were blocking their access. . . . .
“Mosque that Boston Suspects Attended has Radical Ties” by Oren Dorell; USA Today; 4/23/2013.
EXCERPT: The mosque attended by the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombing has been associated with other terrorist suspects, has invited radical speakers to a sister mosque in Boston and is affiliated with a Muslim group that critics say nurses grievances that can lead to extremism.
Several people who attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass., have been investigated for Islamic terrorism, including a conviction of the mosque’s first president, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, in connection with an assassination plot against a Saudi prince.
And its sister mosque in Boston, known as the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, has invited guests who have defended terror suspects. A former trustee appears in a series of videos in which he advocates treating gays as criminals, says husbands should sometimes beat their wives and calls on Allah (God) to kill Zionists and Jews, according to Americans for Peace and Tolerance, an interfaith group that has investigated the mosques.
The head of the group is among critics who say the mosques teach a brand of Islamic thought that encourages grievances against the West, distrust of law enforcement and opposition to Western forms of government, dress and social values.
“We don’t know where these boys were radicalized,” says the head of the group, Charles Jacobs. “But this mosque has a curriculum that radicalizes people. Other people have been radicalized there.”
Yusufi Vali, executive director at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, insists his mosque does not spread radical ideology and cannot be blamed for the acts of a few worshipers.
“If there were really any worry about us being extreme,” Vali said, U.S. law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and Departments of Justice and Homeland Security would not partner with the Muslim American Society and the Boston mosque in conducting monthly meetings that have been ongoing for four years, he said, in an apparent reference to U.S. government outreach programs in the Muslim community.
The Cambridge and Boston mosques, separated by the Charles River, are owned by the same entity but managed individually. The imam of the Cambridge mosque, Sheik Basyouny Nehela, is on the board of directors of the Boston mosque.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, attended the Cambridge mosque for services and are accused of setting two bombs that killed three people and injured at least 264 others at the April 15 Boston Marathon.
The FBI has not indicated that either mosque was involved in any criminal activity. But mosque attendees and officials have been implicated in terrorist activity.
• Abdulrahman Alamoudi, who signed the articles of incorporation as the Cambridge mosque’s president, was sentenced to 23 years in federal court in Alexandria, Va., in 2004 for his role as a facilitator in what federal prosecutors called a Libyan assassination plot against then-Saudi crown prince Abdullah. Abdullah is now the Saudi king.
• Aafia Siddiqui, who occasionally prayed at the Cambridge mosque, was arrested in Afghanistan in 2008 while in possession of cyanide canisters and plans for a chemical attack in New York City. She tried to grab a rifle while in detention and shot at military officers and FBI agents, for which she was convicted in New York in 2010 and is serving an 86-year sentence.
• Tarek Mehanna, who worshiped at the Cambridge mosque, was sentenced in 2012 to 17 years in prison for conspiring to aid al-Qaeda. Mehanna had traveled to Yemen to seek terrorist training and plotted to use automatic weapons to shoot up a mall in the Boston suburbs, federal investigators in Boston alleged.
• Ahmad Abousamra, the son of a former vice president of the Muslim American Society Boston Abdul-Badi Abousamra, was identified by the FBI as Mehanna’s co-conspirator. He fled to Syria and is wanted by the FBI on charges of providing support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill Americans in a foreign country.
• Jamal Badawi of Canada, a former trustee of the Islamic Society of Boston Trust, which owns both mosques, was named as a non-indicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial in Texas over the funneling of money to Hamas, which is the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
What both mosques have in common is an affiliation with the Muslim American Society, an organization founded in 1993 that describes itself as an American Islamic revival movement. It has also been described by federal prosecutors in court as the “overt arm” of the Muslim Brotherhood, which calls for Islamic law and is the parent organization of Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror group. . . .
. . . . The leadership of the two mosques is intertwined and the ideology they teach is the same, Jacobs says. Ilya Feoktistov, director of research at Americans for Peace and Tolerance, says much of the money to create the Boston mosque came not from local Muslims but from foreign sources.
More than half of the $15.5 million used to found the Boston mosque came from Saudi sources, Feoktistov said, who cites financial documents that Jacobs’ group obtained when the mosque sued it for defamation. The lawsuit was later dropped. . . .
EXCERPT: The CIA asked the main U.S. counterterrorism agency to add the name of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers to a watch list more than a year before the attack, according to U.S. officials.
The agency took the step after Russian authorities contacted officials there in the fall of 2011 and raised concerns that Tamerlan Tsarnaev — who was killed last week in a confrontation with police — was seen as an increasingly radical Islamist and could be planning to travel overseas. The CIA requested that his name be put on a database maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center.
That database, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, is a data storehouse that feeds a series of government watch lists, including the FBI’s main Terrorist Screening Database and the Transportation Security Administration’s “no-fly” list.
Officials said Tsarnaev’s name was added to the database but it’s unclear which agency added it.
The CIA’s request came months after the FBI had closed a preliminary inquiry into Tsarnaev after getting a similar inquiry about him from Russian state security, according to officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
Law enforcement officials said that the request to the FBI in 2011 originated from fears by the Russian government that Tamerlan was a threat to Russia and would commit a terrorist act in Russia — not the United States. The request came from Russian federal police to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
“There was a concern he might have some kind of ties to terrorism,” said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson. “We did everything legally that we could do with the little bit of information we had. After we did, we found no derogatory information.” . . . .
“Boston’s Jihadist Past” by J.M. Berger; Foreign Policy; 4/22/2013.
EXCERPT: When Boston Marathon runners rounded the bend from Beacon Street last week, they were in the home stretch of the race. As they poured through the closed intersection, they ran past a nondescript address: 510 Commonwealth Avenue.
The location was once home to an international support network that raised funds and recruited fighters for a jihadist insurgency against Russian rule over Chechnya, a region and a conflict that few of the runners had likely ever given any serious thought. . . .
. . . . (The most important Chechen jihadist group has disavowed the attack, but has not unequivocally ruled out the possibility of some kind of contact with Tamerlan.) . . .
. . . But if the lead pans out, it won’t be Boston’s first brush with that faraway war. During the 1980s and into the 1990s, Islamist foreign fighters operated robust recruiting and financing networks that supported Chechen jihadists from the United States, and Boston was home to one of the most significant centers: a branch of the Al Kifah Center based in Brooklyn, which would later be rechristened CARE International.
Al Kifah sprang from the military jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Through the end of the occupation, a network of centers in the United States helped support the efforts of Afghan and Arab mujahedeen, soliciting donations and recruiting fighters, including at least four from Boston who died in action (one of them a former Dunkin Donuts employee). When the war ended, those networks did not disappear; they refocused on other activities.
In Brooklyn, that network turned against the United States. The center’s leaders and many of its members helped facilitate the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and they actively planned and attempted to execute a subsequent plot that summer to blow up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in New York, which would have killed thousands. . . .
. . . . When the FBI thwarted the tunnels plot, the Brooklyn Al Kifah office and most of the other satellite locations were shuttered. But in Boston, the work continued under a new name and with a new focus: supporting foreign-fighter efforts in Bosnia and Chechnya.
The following narrative is derived from interviews and thousands of pages of court exhibits, including correspondence, Al Kifah and CARE International publications, and telephone intercepts developed over a years-long series of FBI investigations into the charity that were made public as part of multiple terrorism-related prosecutions.
Established in the early 1990s, the Boston branch had emerged from the World Trade Center investigation relatively unscathed. Little more than two weeks after the bombing, the head of the Boston office, Emad Muntasser, changed his operation’s name from Al Kifah to CARE International (not to be confused with the legitimate charity of the same name). . . .
. . . . It took longer to build a case against CARE. In 2005, prosecutors in Boston went after the charity’s directors using the Al Capone strategy. Muntasser and fellow Boston-area CARE officials Samir Al Monla and Muhamed Mubayyid were charged with filing false tax returns and related crimes, having misrepresented their political and militant activity as relief for orphans and widows in order to obtain a nonprofit tax exemption.
The strategy was not as successful as it was with Capone. The defendants were convicted but received minimal sentences after years of appeals and legal disputes. Muntasser and Al Monla have since been released from prison and are living in the United States, according to public records databases. Mubayyid was deported after a short sentence and was last reported to be living in Australia. . . .
EXCERPT . . . . He was convicted Jan. 11, 2008, in U.S. District Court in Boston after the Justice Department alleged that he and two other officers of Care International — both former Worcester residents — had illegally concealed from the government that the charity supported the worldwide Holy War and the mujahedin who fight it.
Mr. Mubayyid, 44, was sentenced to 11 months in prison and fined $1,000 on charges of concealing material facts from the government, obstructing the Internal Revenue Service, and three counts of filing a false tax return.
Mr. Mubayyid has since been deported to Australia, where he had previously lived, according to his lawyer, Michael C. Andrews of Boston, who said that Mr. Mubayyid’s appeal to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals is pending.
The U.S. Attorney is appealing the decision of Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to reverse jury convictions of Mr. Mubayyid’s codefendants—all of the charges against Samir Al-Monla of Brookline and some of the charges against Emadeddin Z. Muntasser of Braintree, the two former Worcester residents who were former presidents of Care International. Mr. Muntasser, a founder of Care International, was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $10,000 for lying to an FBI agent. . . .
EXCERPT: One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in the run-up to the attack, BBC Panorama has learnt.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev subscribed to publications espousing white supremacy and government conspiracy theories.
He also had reading material on mass killings.
Until now the Tsarnaev brothers were widely perceived as just self-styled radical jihadists.
Panorama has spent months speaking exclusively with friends of the bombers to try to understand the roots of their radicalisation.
‘Government conspiracies’
The programme discovered that Tamerlan Tsarnaev possessed articles which argued that both 9/11 and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing were government conspiracies.
Another in his possession was about “the rape of our gun rights”.
Reading material he had about white supremacy commented that “Hitler had a point”.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev also had literature which explored what motivated mass killings and noted how the perpetrators murdered and maimed calmly.
There was also material about US drones killing civilians, and about the plight of those still imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. . . .
EXCERPT: Extremist U.S. newspapers and other publications found in the apartment of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev reveal a broad interest in far-flung conspiracy theories, well beyond the Islamist radicalism authorities allege motivated the attack.
Mr. Tsarnaev discovered some of the radical publications by chance. He had worked caring for a 67-year-old man who passed on the newspapers and his fringe beliefs long before Mr. Tsarnaev and his brother allegedly set off explosives that killed three people and injured hundreds more. . . .
. . . .
Mr. Tsarnaev’s mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, had tried to make ends meet for her family by working as a home health aide after the family arrived in the U.S. in 2003. One of her clients in 2010 was Donald Larking of Newton, Mass., who was disabled after he was shot in the face nearly 40 years ago in the robbery of a convenience store where he worked.
Mr. Larking miraculously survived, but people close to the family said his faculties didn’t. He was intrigued with far-flung conspiracies, they said. He subscribed to newspapers and journals that doubted the Holocaust and described the attacks of Sept. 11, Oklahoma City and the Newtown school as plots by unseen elites, and the U.S. and Israeli governments. . . .
. . . . The papers included The First Freedom, an Alabama-based newspaper that espouses “equal rights for whites” and whose websites features a Confederate flag. Another was The Sovereign, a New York-based publication that alleges the U.S. is under the sway of Israeli lobbyists, and that Israel and the Department of Homeland Security were “deeply involved” in the Boston bombings. Neither paper returned requests for comment.
Mr. Tsarnaev got his own subscription to American Free Press, a paper that the Southern Law Poverty Center said promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. A spokeswoman for the paper denied it had such an agenda, saying the paper publishes “news that the established media won’t.” She confirmed that someone bought Mr. Tsarnaev a “get acquainted” 16-week subscription in December. It expired in April, at about the time of the Boston Marathon attack. . . .
. . . . His former brother-in-law, Elmzira Khozhugov, said Mr. Tsarnaev in 2008 was seeking out a copy of the Protocols. That year he took a sharp turn toward Islam, dropping his boxing career and telling friends and family that it was un-Islamic to punch anyone in the face, family and friends said.
Mr. Khozhugov recalled how that year Mr. Tsarnaev visited him at college in Washington state and they spent a week together. They watched the movie “Zeitgeist,” which called the Sept. 11 attacks a plot of power-hungry elites against the U.S.
Mr. Tsarnaev was interested in the so-called techno-utopian Zeitgeist movement, whose adherents believe in the coming collapse of money-based society and the advantages of an economy managed by computers incapable of corruption. . . .
I think it’s worth keeping the book open on the Russian angle also.
In the previous post comment we linked to an article describing one cell of a Russian spy ring operating out of Boston, which may or may not figure in.
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Here are excerpts from an article in “Foreign Affairs” (I know, I know), but it makes some very good points:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139333/charles-king/not-your-average-chechen-jihadis?page=show
Not Your Average Chechen Jihadis
Drawing the Wrong Conclusions About the Boston Bombing
Charles King
April 21, 2013
(excerpts)
“Observers have already pointed out two elements of the brothers’ story that investigators will no doubt pursue: Tamerlan’s being visited by U.S. law enforcement officers in 2011 on a tip from an “unnamed” foreign government and his six-month visit to Russia, including to his father’s home in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, in 2012.”
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“So far, however, there is no direct information linking the North Caucasus to the attack in Boston; armed groups in the region, including the Dagestani branch of the so-called Caucasus Emirate — the jihadist network in the North Caucasus headed by Chechen warlord Doku Umarov — issued a formal statement denying any connection to the Tsarnaev brothers. The jihadists claimed instead that the brothers were pawns in an elaborate attempt by Russian security services to turn American opinion against the North Caucasus underground and against Muslims more generally. That might be far-fetched, but it would hardly be the line of argument the Emirate would pursue if it were suddenly using American operatives to expand attacks outside of Russia. The logical thing would have been for the Emirate to claim responsibility.”
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“It may yet emerge that Tamerlan did, in fact, have some link to the North Caucasus jihadist scene, but even if he did, it would still do little to explain the involvement of his younger brother, Dzhokhar, who seems to have been as deeply American as Lee Boyd Malvo, the younger shooter in the Washington sniper attacks of 2002. Nor would it likely have any real impact on U.S.-Russian relations, other than convincing some American policymakers of the point that their Russian counterparts take for granted: that people from the North Caucasus, by their very presence, are somehow a security threat. That will be especially important in the run-up to the Sochi Olympics in 2014, when Moscow will be especially security-obsessed and will want to deepen its already tough surveillance of religious Muslims, especially young men, in the North Caucasus. The United States, convinced of the threat, will likely look the other way when it comes to ongoing human rights abuses in the region.”
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“In the long term, the Chechnya link will probably end up being less important than, oddly, the Syrian one. In blocking further international involvement in the Syrian crisis, Russian officials have long maintained that Syrian rebel groups are dominated by al Qaeda affiliates, whose victory in the Syrian civil war will have dire consequences for the region and beyond. Now, Russians have already begun to portray the Tsarnaevs as an unlikely link between Boston and Damascus. There are somewhere “between 600 and 6,000” Chechens from the North Caucasus fighting in Syria, said Kotliar in a recent interview with Russian media, “and from what happened in Boston, perhaps Americans will finally draw the lesson that there are no good terrorists and bad terrorists, no ‘ours’ and ‘yours.’” Keep arming the Syrian rebels, the argument goes, and sooner or later you will have to face the consequences of a Syria overtaken by Islamist radicals.”
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Here we have Russian motivation to ease criticism of their crackdown on Chechnya before the 2014 Olympics.
Also refering to the Syrian conflict being an element, the Russian official Kotliar suggests the U.S. arming of Syrian rebels could bring Blowback (as he points to Boston).
This is also what Sibel Edmonds refered to in the last thread on this subject.
I do not know how tightly the Russian oil industry is wrapped, or how much western involvement is allowed. Perhaps there could exist some collusion between western industrialists, Russian oligarchs and the intelligence services.
Sounds dangerous to me.
I’d put Syria and the Olympics at the top of the motive list.
It turns out Suspect #2 exchanged gunfire from the boat with police for more than an hour without a gun. That’s kind of impressive:
Hopsicker’s latest article mentions that Ruslan was in Kazakhstan working for a Halliburton tied company called Nelson Resources. Nelson was formerly a Canadian gold company. That is interesting because the aunt of the Boston bombers came to the USA in 2001 and then herself moved to Canada. That aunt claims to have played a major role in bringing the Tsarnaev brothers into the USA. Looking at what is going on in Canada, you see a similar thing where the CSIS has been allowing agent provocateurs and terrorists into the country and then using them to create conditions ripe for a police state. For whatever reason which has not yet been explained, Cambridge, MA. was where Russian spies were camping out and got busted in 2010. Some of those spies made the claim that they had come from Canada. You might also remember that it was Peter Janson’s AMEC Construction NA of Toronto Ontario that reinforced the walls on Rumsefeld’s Pentagon. Janson was also president and CEO of U.S operations for Swiss-Swedish ABB which likely had Nazi ties in the 30s. Donald Rumsfeld was a director at ABB. Rumsfeld at ABB helped sell nuke tech to North Korea in 2000.. now in 2013 N. Korea conveniently is using that tech to try and press the USA, UK, Canada into another costly war. Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley had ties to Pakistani Tahawwur Hussain Rana. Rana was given Canadian citizenship in 2001. Here is something else interesting... Headley was from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His father was a Pakistani diplomat. Remember Sunil Tripathi(he is Indian) who was recently thought by some to be the Boston bomber? He kind of looks like a Dzhokhar double in some pictures(the long hair pictures). He is claimed to have been spotted in Boston. Was then found dead in a river a couple of days ago. Oddly, he also was living in the USA in Bryn Mawr, PA for a time. What brought both Headley and Tripathi to Bryn Mawr? Reminds you of how Nick, Berg (Jewish) of Westchester PA. was following Zacarias Moussaoui (Arab) and was tied to Iraqi emigres itching for war in Iraq. One more thing.. Kim Jong Un, who is poking the USA in the ribs recently? He went to an elite school for the uber wealhty in Switzerland which was also an elite school attended by Russians and Arabs. We all know that Bin Laden, Zawahiri, and the Al-Taqwa network have used Switzerland as a safe haven. And don’t forget all of that war money made off the backs of American and western tax payers that winds up in Swiss banks. UBS of Switzerland made a mint in those bank bailouts.
Here’s some chilling symbolism encapsulated in the Boston Marathon bombings: About a mile before the finish line the marathon runners passed 510 Commonwealth Avenue, the former home of the international jihadist recruitment network for the wars in Chechnya:
Note that Emad Muntasser and Muhamed Mubayyid, two of the fellows prosecuted and convicted with minimal sentences, didn’t just work for Al Kifah/CARE. They were also P‑tech employees. Yep, THAT P‑tech. There’s a lot of history flowing through this particular network in Boston.
@Pterrafractyl and SWAMP–
Good work!
Reference the two posts I’ve done on the Boston attack.
Chechnyan jihadists supported by elements of U.S. intelligence–Check!
Doubling on the U.S.–Check!
Links to Grover Norquist, Yaqub Mirza, Operation Green Quest, Karl Rove, Abdurahman Alamoudi–Check!
Overlapping links to the Muslim Brotherhood, Bank al-Taqwa milieu–Check!
Overlapping links to the milieu of the first World Trade Center attack–Check!
Of particular importance here is the PTech connection.
PLEASE follow the Ptech links provided by “Pterrafractyl” in his comment on this post–it’ll help flesh out your understanding.
It may also help you to understand the degree of ennui and frustration I feel at this event and the unsatisfactory coverage of it.
As Edward R. Murrow once noted: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
The American people have only themselves to blame for getting fleeced.
Sweet Creeping Jesus! (Present-participle expletive deleted) Ptech! Gimme a Break!
Best,
Dave Emory
Hopsicker’s latest post contains quite a doozy: Uncle Ruslan was married to Graham Fuller’s daughter:
Recall that Graham Fuller, the former CIA station chief in Kabul in the 80’s, was amongst those that were advocating greater US outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood back in 2004. In recent years, Fuller has publicly dismissed concerns over the Fetullah Gulen organization. If the Tsarnaev brothers were recruited to execute the bombings by some third party you really have to wonder if that party was aware of their familial ties to folks like Fuller or not. It’s reminiscent of so many of these “lone wolf” attacks: an attack gets carried by a loan wolf/lone wolves that we later learn are shockingly closely related to highly connected individuals. Evan Ebel’s attack on Tom Clements in Colorado is another recent example of this phenomenon.
Putin recently told reporters that the information provided to the FBI by Russia about Tamerlan Tsarnaev did not have “operative significance”:
It would be interesting to learn just how misspelled the name was and just how off the birth date was in the info the FSB also provided the FBI regarding Tamerlan’s 2012 trip and whether or not the CIA received the same info. And now we learn that Russia had a wiretapped recording of Tameralan discussing Jihad with his mom in 2011. This was reportedly shared with US intelligence in the past few days:
It’s going to be interesting to see what kind of frictions this attack causes between the US and Russia as the intelligence-sharing failures as well as the US intelligence ties to Chechen separatists continue to come to come under public scrutiny. You also have to wonder if any of this was an intended outcome by putative plotters or random fallout.
The latest “WTF?” revelation: Now we’re getting reports that BOTH vehicles used by the Boston bombers were parked next to each other nearby the boat where Dzhokhar was capture. The hijacked Mercedes was parked next to a green Honda and it’s assumed to be the same green Honda that investigators believe they were driving when the shot Sean Collier at MIT. Their father owned a 1999 green Honda.
It was after that killing at MIT that they hijacked the Mercedes SUV and engaged in the wild gun fight where Tamerlan was killed (reportedly by being run over by the Mercedes that Dzhokhar was driving). So, if this same green Honda used in the killing of the MIT police officer was ALSO found RIGHT NEXT TO THE HIJACKED MERCEDES near the boat, how did the green Honda get there? Did someone else drive it because the reports from the hijacked car owner was that both individuals hijacked him and drove him around for 30 minutes for releasing him. Or did they then drive back to the green Honda and have one of the brothers drive it to the street near the boat and then park it there first before they met up to have the shootout with the police? That would be odd but sort of plausible perhaps? Maybe? Like they decided to split up and then meet up? Ok, maybe. But as the article below points out, investigators believe they drove the green Honda to MIT where Collier was killed.
Another possibility is that they first dropped the Honda off nearby the boat after killing Collier and then walked/ran all the way over to where the carjacking took place that would have required them to walk miles back in the direction of MIT from the boat at an extremely fast pace to get to the location of the carjacking took place. So somehow that green Honda was moved after the carjacking and then parked near the boat and then they met up for the fight with the cops nearby the area where the shootout took place.
You have to wonder, though, if they did stop to get the green Honda after the car jacking, why? Why on earth would they? They were presumably going on a killing spree because their pictures were on the news. What value did having that car give them since it was a known suspect vehicle at that point?
This would also imply that Dzhokhar drove the stolen shot up SUV back to the spot where they abandoned the green Honda following the shooting with the cops and then waited it out in the boat nearby. Since the green Honda is presumably a potential vehicle that you could drive away in why park your shot up Mercedes next to it? It’s not like they were acting rationally even by demented-terrorist standards of rationality, so who knows how to interpret this new car conundrum. It might end up being a completely different green Honda(although they would have presumably found the real one by now). but it was certainly an odd parking space choice and an odd apparent sequence of events:
The Boston Globe just released an official timeline from the investigators’ reenactment. It helps clear up a lot of questions about what happened but it still leaves a number of “why” questions. Specifically, why did they carjack a Mercedes in Cambridge after killing a cop at MIT, and then drive around in the general area for almost 90 minutes before the carjacking victim escaped. And why were they still in the general are almost 30 minutes after he escaped to go get the green Honda? According to the report, the two retrieved the Honda civic just “moments” before it was called into the police that the hijacked SUV was near Dexter Ave in Watertown. That was based on GPS triangulation using the iPhone of the carjacking victim that was still left in the car. The guy escaped at the gas station at 12:15 am and the call locating them at Dexter came in at 12:42 am. So they spent 27 minute driving from where the carjacking victim was released to where the green Honda was parked (which would be near where the shootout occurred since it was reportedly retrieved “moments” before the shootout on Laurel Street in the official report). You have to wonder if they were hoping to get help in that area? Or maybe it just took a long time to sneak back and extract the green Honda because they took lots of side roads and so forth? Who knows, but from the moment they carjacked that guy they seemed to be spending a lot of time in that Watertown neighborhood both before and after release of the cajacking victim. Was that a meetup area with collaborators if things went apeshit?
Something pointing against the the theory that they had collaborators is the fact that they had to stop for money at an ATM in the first place. Going broke shouldn’t be an issue when you’re an organized terrorist unless maintaining your cover as a welfare-terrorist is deemed important. It’s also speculated that one of the motives for killing Sean Colliers was to get his gun. According to the article below, video surveillance footage of the killing of MIT officer Collier shows that the original reports that Colliers was responding to a disturbance were wrong. Instead, the suspects walked up to Colliers sitting in his patrol car and shot him execution style. And it’s still unclear why the brothers were at MIT in the first place. So it’s very unclear that getting a second gun is the reason for gunning down a cop (maybe they thought he was radioing in their location?) but getting a second gun seems like an extra bad reason to kill a cop in that kind of a situation. And they never actually got the gun (the carjacking victim also said he never saw a second weapon). So if this was an operation planned by a larger organization it would appear that the plotters intended on making it look like these guys were broke and barely armed. Only one gun is a huge gap in one’s terrorist “stash” if you’re a pair of brothers planning a make-it-up-as-you-go-along terror-spree. What an insane terror-spree:
Yep, that’s pretty spooky:
Note that Jon Wellinghoff’s warning about someone using a rifle at 200 yards didn’t take place last month. It was actually last year so this type of attack wasn’t exactly a surprise to the industry. Let’s hope there aren’t any more non-surprises on the way.
And the next day — April 17th — was the huge explosion at the “West” Texas fertilizer plant.
the source of the fire was never determined:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion
On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, eighteen miles (29 km) north of Waco while emergency services personnel were responding to a fire at the facility.[6] Fifteen people were killed, more than 160 were injured, and more than 150 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Investigators have confirmed that ammonium nitrate was the trigger for the explosion, but the cause of the initial fire is as yet unknown.[7]
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The facility caught fire on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, then exploded as firefighters were attempting to douse the flames.[19] The cause of the initial fire remains unknown;[20] authorities ruled out weather, natural causes, anhydrous ammonia, and ammonium nitrate in a rail car as possible causes of the fire.[21] The explosion occurred about 7:50:38 p.m. CDT (00:50 UTC, April 18).[6][22]
Here’s a followup report on the attack on the Metcalf power station less than a day after the Boston bombings: More details on the attack are available but the individuals involved and the motives are still a mystery. Something that appears to be emerging, though, is the growing evidence that the perpetrators were using professional tactics: