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COMMENT: We keep learning more and more about the background of the figures emerging into view in connection with the Boston marathon bombings.
In our most recent post on the subject, we noted the marital/familial relationship of the alleged bombers’ “Uncle Tsarni” to Graham E. Fuller, an important “ex” CIA officer.
In addition to having been an early and apparently important advocate (architect?) of the U.S. turn to the Muslim Brotherhood, Fuller has run interference for the Fetullah Gulen cult, dismissing charges by intelligence officers in the Middle East and Central Asia that the group has links to the CIA.
Now it emerges that Fuller–former CIA station chief in Kabul–authored a policy paper that is said to have been central to the development of the Iran-Contra scandal!
“Washington Talk: Briefing; C.I.A. Secrets”; The New York Times; 2/15/2013.
EXCERPT: . . . . Mr. Fuller’s name came to public attention last year when it was disclosed that he was the author of a ”think piece” circulated in the intelligence community in May 1985 suggesting the possiblity of pursuing openings in Iran.
The study was instrumental in persuading some top-ranking Reagan Administration policy makers to begin considering covert contacts with Iranian leaders. It eventually led to the covert sale of United States weapons to Teheran in what became the Iran-contra affair. . . .
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So three friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested today for disposing of Dzhokhar’s laptap and a backpack of fireworks after the attack. They’re not being charged with any involvement in the planning of the bombings. It sounds like text messages indicate that they realized Dzhokhar might be one of the bombers after the FBI released their pictures on tv so they decided to get rid of evidence at that point because they didn’t want Dzhokhar to get in trouble. Not a great idea:
Another bit of info on the arrested friends: The one with the “Terrorista #1” novelty license plate for his BMW appears to have owned a number of BMW’s during his time in the US:
Worth noting...:
An FBI agent was interviewing one of the Chenchen mixed martial arts fighters that Tamerlan trained with. It didn’t end well:
A couple more bits of info have trickled in on the shooting of Ibragim Todashev. First, it appears that he was shot in the head:
There was also a report out yesterday suggesting that investigators were retracting the assertion that he attacked with a knife at all. So the investigation into why lethal force was used against a man with a knife could get complicated:
Yep.
The father of Ibragim Todashev is reportedly close to Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, the former rebel leader turned pro-Kremlin anti-Wahhabist Islamist strongman. So Tamerlan’s partner in the triple murders apparently involved the son of a man close to the former rebel leader/current present of Chechnya. At this point I guess this all shouldn’t be surprising given the twists and turns in this case, but it still sort of is:
Deep in this article is a damned good explanation of (partly) why radical Republicans are courting radical Islam.
Most of the story details how the Tsarnaev family was traumatized by war and relocation, and eludes to meddling by The Jamestown Foundation and other U.S. NGO’s.
The entire article requires a subscription, but I will post the entire text if requested.
The important part of this excerpt is about Graham Fuller and radical free-market politics:
https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/chechnyan-power/efb0aacac87b007ee9ddf378092e40af1cdff786/
Chechnyan Power
By Mark Ames
(excerpt)
“Uncle Ruslan represented the positive side of the American Dream for the Tsarnaev extended clan. Uncle Ruslan had a knack for making all the right choices; Anzor, not so much.
In 1995, the same year Anzor Tsarnaev fled Chechnya with his family and returned to Kyrgyzstan, his younger brother Ruslan was working as a consultant for Arthur Anderson on a USAID contract to develop capital markets structures in Kazakhstan, whose huge untapped oil reserves were the source of an undeclared pipeline war that I wrote about in my last series of articles. In the late 1990s, Uncle Ruslan joined the Kazakh office of American law firm Salans Hertzfeld, where he serviced multinational oil companies tapping into Kazakhstan’s rich oil, gas and mineral resources.
Uncle Ruslan married into geopolitical royalty — Susan Fuller, the daughter of one of the most powerful CIA Cold War figures, Graham Fuller. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar’s father, on the hand, married a crazy Avar from Dagestan — at least, that’s how Uncle Ruslan put it in no uncertain terms, and with some justification, according to people whom I’ve spoken to who knew Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, and according to numerous other reports.
***Uncle Ruslan’s father-in-law, Graham Fuller, had been forced into retirement from the CIA in the late 1980s over his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. Although never convicted of a crime, Graham Fuller has been named as the architect of the policy rationale used to justify the Iran-Contra operation, under which US arms were illegally sold to Ayatollah Khomeini’s armed forces. Profits from those illegal arms sales were used to make illegal arms purchases for the CIA-backed Contra forces fighting in Nicaragua.
At Harvard, Graham Fuller studied under Zbigniew Brzezinski, chairman of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya. In 1978, when Brzezinski was Jimmy Carter’s token Cold War hawk in the White House, Graham Fuller served as CIA station chief in Kabul, where Brzezinski hatched his now-famous plot to sow chaos in Afghanistan and draw in a costly Soviet invasion.
Fuller later explained:
“I was interested in understanding the soft underbelly of the Soviet Union, which is why I wanted to serve in Afghanistan.”
The 1978 coup in Afghanistan, Fuller’s last year in Kabul, sparked a series of violent backlashes and power-struggles that eventually drew in the hoped-for Soviet invasion in late 1979.
Fuller comes from that faction of CIA Cold Warriors who believed (and still apparently believe) that fundamentalist Islam, even in its radical jihadi form, does not pose a threat to the West, for the simple reason that fundamentalist Islam is conservative, against social justice, against socialism and redistribution of wealth, and in favor of hierarchical socio-economic structures. Socialism is the common enemy to both capitalist America and to Wahhabi Islam, according to Fuller.
According to journalist Robert Dreyfuss’ book “Devil’s Game,” Fuller explained his attraction to radical Islam in neoliberal/libertarian terms:
“There is no mainstream Islamic organization...with radical social views,” he wrote. “Classical Islamic theory envisages the role of the state as limited to facilitating the well-being of markets and merchants rather than controlling them. Islamists have always powerfully objected to socialism and communism....Islam has never had problems with the idea that wealth is unevenly distributed.”
Some people who have come across the incredible coincidence of all these high-powered CIA names and the Chechen Tsarnaevs as proof of some sort of Masonic conspiracy. Most journalists are already freaked out enough by the simplest details of the Boston Marathon bombing and the FBI murder of Ibragim Todashev during his interrogation. They don’t want to go anywhere near this.
As I’ve argued already, I think there’s a far simpler and more obvious explanation for this: Chechnya is a small land, its people number just over a million. In the United States, there are only a few hundred Chechen political refugees, maybe a few thousand immigrants at most. Yet the region they come from has been, since the end of the Cold War, the real ground zero of a major geopolitical and energy resource battle between the West, Russia and the Gulf Kingdoms. By the law of averages, in a world as small and important as Chechen separatism and Caspian oil, coincidences like this are made far more likely than most people understand.”
What happens in Florida stays in Florida:
Uh...:
Shocking:
@Pterrafractyl–
Not only does this not surprise me, but I would have bet that such a connection existed–IF I were a gambler.
4/15/2013–Tax day and Patriot’s Day, a Massachusetts state holiday.
Islamists and neo-Nazis have carried on the tradition of Nazi/Islamist collaboration dating back to the days of the Grand Mufti.
Keep up the great work!
Best,
Dave
And now we have a new “Misha”-like figure in Tamerlan’s life: an elderly disabled man, Donald Larking, that hired the family for day to day help in 2010. Larking was reportedly a fan of publications like the American Free Press. Tamerlan and Larking became quite close, with Tamerlan frequently taking Mr. Larking to the Cambridge mosque ‘to get of the house’. Note that Tamerlan reportedly already met Misha and developed an interest on obtaining a copy of the Protcols of the Elders of Zion back in 2008/2009, so Tamerlan’s experience with Mr. Larking would have built on that prior interest in far-right thought.
Wonder how we missed this one?
From Bloomberg News:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013–04-22/bombing-suspect-s-uncle-accused-kazakh-president-of-fraud.html
Bombing Suspect’s Uncle Accused Kazakh President of Fraud
By Erik Larson — Apr 22, 2013 9:14 PM PT .
The uncle of the suspects in last week’s Boston Marathon bombing told a London court in 2010 that Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev had overseen the theft of state assets worth billions of dollars.
Ruslan Tsarni, who is from Kyrgyzstan, the former Soviet republic to the south of Kazakhstan, worked “in various capacities” with a closely knit network of associates led by Nazarbayev’s son-in-law from 2000 to 2008 that regularly engaged in fraudulent business practices, he said in a witness statement to the High Court in London in December 2010, when he was 39 years old. Tsarni said he moved to the U.S. in 2008 after working for the Kazakh group. He is now a U.S. citizen living in Montgomery Village, Maryland.
50:06 April 22 (Bloomberg) — White House Press Secretary Jay Carney talks about the U.S. prosecution of Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the wounded 19-year-old man charged with the bombing of the Boston Marathon and the FBI’s handling of a 2011 Russian tip on Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder of the two brothers now linked to the bombing. Carney, speaking at the daily White House press briefing, also discusses the outlook for immigration and gun-control legislation. (Source: Bloomberg)
.The claims against Nazarbayev, who has ruled Kazakhstan for more than two decades, were made in a defense statement for Mukhtar Ablyazov, the former chairman of BTA Bank (BTAS) accused of running a $6 billion fraud at the lender. The former executive is now on the run after being sentenced to 22 months in prison for contempt of court in the London case.
In televised statements after his nephews Tamarlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were named as suspects in the April 15 terrorist attack that killed three and wounded more than 170, Tsarni called the brothers “losers” who had “put a shame on the Tsarni family.”
Tamarlan, 26, was killed in a battle with police, while 19- year-old Dzhokhar was captured later that day. Dzhokhar was charged yesterday by U.S. prosecutors with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death.
Family Connections
Tsarni’s statement to the U.K. court, made more than a year before Ablyazov went into hiding, shows the brothers’ family was at one time well connected in the region and gives a link between the accused bomber’s relatives and one of the highest- profile commercial lawsuits in the U.K. and Kazakhstan in recent years.
Lucy Bradlow, a spokeswoman in London for Almaty, Kazakhstan-based BTA Bank, declined to comment on Tsarni’s claims. Ablyazov has made similar allegations against Nazarbayev in his own defense papers and the government and the bank have denied them.
In his witness statement in defense of Ablyazov, Tsarni said Nazarbayev gave his “blessing” and protection to the group that rigged auctions of state assets, seized banks to sell for a fraction of their value to pre-determined buyers, and engaged in tax fraud and money laundering. Tsarni isn’t a party in the bank’s U.K. lawsuit against Ablyazov.
Tsarni said some members of the group are now in senior management positions at BTA Bank.
Lender’s Default
BTA, the biggest Kazakh lender before defaulting on $12 billion of debt in 2009, filed a series of civil suits against Ablyazov and ex-Chief Executive Officer Roman Solodchenko claiming they siphoned money from the bank using fake loans, back-dated documents and offshore companies. Both men have denied the claims.
Ablyazov was sentenced to 22 months in prison in February 2012 for violating a 2009 court order in the bank’s lawsuit by failing to reveal all his assets, including a house in the British countryside and a London mansion. He failed to appear at the hearing and his whereabouts are unknown.
BTA, which was seized by the Kazakh government in 2009, sued Ablyazov in Britain after he fled there to avoid prosecution over the fraud allegations.
The group “has been looting the bank of anything that they can get their hands on following the forced takeover,” Tsarni said in the filing.
Seizing Assets
“Very soon after Mr. Ablyazov’s forced departure from Kazakhstan in early 2009, there were those within the regime who were intent on taking the opportunity of seizing whatever assets he held within the country that were connected to BTA,” Tsarni said.
Tsarni didn’t say how he was connected to Ablyazov or came to make the filing in his defense. The allegations of state fraud also didn’t help Ablyazov in court.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding in a covered boat in the back yard of a suburban Boston home on April 19. His capture ended an unprecedented manhunt by federal and state authorities that shut down Boston and surrounding cities.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in a Boston hospital recovering from wounds sustained in a battle with police — the same confrontation that led to the death of his 26-year-old brother. A police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was shot to death during the search. Another officer was wounded by gunfire.
Lawyer, Consultant
Tsarni grew up in Tokmak, Kyrgyzstan, and graduated from the Law School of Kyrgyz State University in 1994, he said in the statement. He became a legal consultant for a year for a U.S. company that was contracted by USAID under the organization’s program to assist Kyrgyzstan with economic reforms and “promote private enterprise,” he said.
Tsarni provided training on international standards of corporate governance and management, according to the filing. He was also an associate at an Almaty-based law firm, he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Erik Larson in New York at elarson4@bloomberg.net
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Now an update:
Prosecutor General’s Office: BTA Bank former head faces up to 13 years in prison in Kazakhstan
http://en.trend.az/regions/casia/kazakhstan/2177253.html
6 August 2013, 20:44 (GMT+05:00)
BTA Bank former head Mukhtar Ablyazov in Kazakhstan faces up to 13 years in prison with confiscation of property, official representative of the Kazakh Prosecutor General’s Office Nurdaulet Suindikov said at a press conference today.
“Ablyazov is accused of committing several crimes: establishing and leading a criminal group, theft, legalization of funds obtained through crimes, illegal use of bank funds and so on,” Suindikov told media. “The maximum sentence is up to 13 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.”
“On July 31 the French bureau of Interpol informed about the detention of Ablyazov in France, Suindikov said. “Kazakhstan’s National Bureau of Interpol immediately sent an official confirmation of searching for Ablyazov by French colleagues.”
He was remanded in custody the same day until the municipal court determines the procedural status. On August 1, the court of Aix-en-Provence town authorized Ablyazov’s detention up to 40 days in accordance with the French criminal procedure legislation.
Suindikov added that according to the court’s decision, Ablyazov will stay in a prison of Luynes town until all procedures relating to extradition are over. On August 2 the Kazakh Prosecutor General’s Office sent a letter to France to extradite Ablyazov home.
Ukrainian and Russian law enforcement agencies sent a confirmation about searching for Ablyazov and the intention of the French authorities to extradite him to these countries.
“These processes are independent of each other,” he added. “Nobody is entitled to interfere or influence the decisions made by the competent bodies of other countries relating to the search and intention to seek extradition of accused persons,” Suindikov added. “The extradition of persons suspected of committing crimes is regulated by the internal legislation of the countries where they are hiding, as well as international agreements.”
As for the prospects for Ablyazov’s extradition to Kazakhstan, official representative of the Kazakh General Prosecutor’s Office said that a positive trend of extraditing the individuals, accused of crimes, from European countries on the basis of reciprocity, that is, even in the absence of bilateral agreements has recently appeared.
Do you have any feedback? Contact our journalist at agency@trend.az
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So what if Ruslan was testifying on behalf of Ablyazov because some of the looted Billions were part of a slush-fund for U.S. NGO ops in the region?
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Here’s part of a summary from a legal office:
The chronicles of the JSC BTA Bank litigation
Monday, 03 December 2012 00:00 Macfarlanes LLP
http://www.inhouselawyer.co.uk/index.php/litigation-a-dispute-resolution/10037-the-chronicles-of-the-jsc-bta-bank-litigation
(Excerpts)
“The litigation at the heart of the cases discussed in this article concerns the claim of JSC BTA Bank (the Bank) against its former chairman, Mr Ablyazov (A) and his associates, which commenced in August 2009 (the Proceedings). The Bank is one of the largest banks in Kazakhstan and was effectively nationalised on 2 February 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis. Until its nationalisation, as well as chairman, A was the beneficial owner of the majority of the Bank’s shares. In January 2009, A (and some of his associates) fled to the UK. Various criminal prosecutions are pending against him (and his associates) in Kazakhstan, and at least nine sets of UK civil proceedings have been issued.
The Proceedings revolve around the Bank’s claim that A orchestrated a ‘scheme of misappropriation’, through which several billion US dollars were extracted from the Bank in 2008. The Bank’s case is that the whole scheme was a sham carried out by and for the benefit of A and his associates, who channelled the money through a number of companies. A denies these claims and considers them to be an attempt by the president of Kazakhstan to take control of his assets in support of a politically motivated claim against him, as he is a leading figure in Kazakhstan’s democratic opposition. A claims to have been subjected to torture while imprisoned in Kazakhstan and two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate him.”
The core litigation is under the control of Teare J, who has described it as an ‘extraordinary case’ ‘being fought by means of the forensic equivalent of trench warfare’. Before even reaching trial on the substantive issues, the litigation has produced in the region of 50 interim applications and a substantial volume of new case law. While the facts of the Proceedings are extraordinary, many of the decisions relating to the enforcement of freezing orders are essential reading for practitioners of fraud litigation. This article summarises some of the more high-profile decisions and focuses, in particular, on the Bank’s attempts to enforce freezing orders (and ancillary disclosure orders) obtained against A and his associates.”
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“A filed a witness statement in connection with his disclosure obligations under the freezing order. The material contained in his witness statement was subject to a ‘lawyers’ eyes only’ restriction and could not be viewed directly by the Bank (the LEO restriction).”
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Wonder if that witness statement was Ruslan...