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Parliament in Cyprus passes international bailout deal

Parliament in Cyprus has approved the country’s international bailout after warnings that the alternative would be financial collapse.

MPs voted through the loan package by 29 votes to 27.

The tiny eurozone state secured a loan package worth 10bn euros (£8.4; $13bn) from its EU partners and the International Monetary Fund.

In return it must raise 13bn euros, largely banking reform.

An early proposal to raise money through a levy on all bank deposits was quickly withdrawn.

But anger has continued smouldering. Under the bailout, depositors will be forced to take major losses on savings over 100,000 euros, and capital controls were imposed in March.

The Cypriot financial crisis developed because of its exposure to Greece’s economic problems.
‘Enslavement deal’

No single party had a majority in the 56-member parliament but the three-party, centre-right coalition in power had 30 seats in total – one more than needed to pass the bailout.

President Nicos Anastasiades had appealed to lawmakers to act with the national interest in mind.

“What we’re called upon today to do is to adopt a loan agreement that will allow our country to breathe and to give us the chance to overcome whichever problems we’re facing amid this crisis,” he told reporters.

Government spokesman Christos Stylianides told state radio: “We have had enough of delusions.

“We don’t have another choice. Whoever has one should tell us what it is.”

But George Perdikis, an MP for the Greens party, said before the vote: “A ‘yes’ from Cyprus’s parliament is by far the biggest defeat in our 8,000-year history.

“Its democratically elected representatives have a gun to their head to agree to a deal of enslavement.”

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:23:30 GMT
http://edition.presstv.ir/TextOnly/detail.aspx?id=300077

Cyprus’s cabinet has approved a 10-billion-euro bailout agreement that the government has concluded with its international lenders to save the Mediterranean island nation from bankruptcy.

“The Cabinet has approved the loan agreement and the Memorandum to be forwarded to parliament for a preliminary discussion at committee level,” AFP quoted government spokesman Christos Stylianides as saying on Wednesday.

“Ratification of the loan agreement is expected after April 26,” he added.

Cyprus has stunned EU officials by ordering a vote in its parliament on the terms of the aid deal.

On April 16, the country’s Attorney General Petros Clerides said the assembly must have a say on the terms of the accord, arguing the deal is akin to an international treaty.

There are early signs are that nearly half the members of the country’s 56-seat parliament may oppose the high cost of the bailout, which has surged from 17.5 billion euros to 23 billion euros, with most of the burden on the shoulders of the crisis-hit nation.

The Communist AKEL and Socialist EDEK parties, which together have 24 seats, have been have been vehement critics of the deal.

“”We’ve fought for freedom, we’ve fought to maintain the Cypriot Republic,” lawmaker George Perdikis said in statement on April 18.”
“It is, in my opinion, a crime and wrong to deliver Cyprus into the hands of the troika and allow it to become a colony,” he said, referring to the country’s European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund lenders.

On March 25, Nicosia inked the bailout deal with the troika which included a tax of up to 60 percent on deposits of over 100,000 euros in Cyprus’ two biggest banks.

Patrick L Young is expert in global financial markets working in multiple disciplines, ranging from trading independently to running exchanges.

Published time: April 23, 2013 09:57
http://rt.com/op-edge/cyprus-bailouts-sums-increase-211/

One week’s bailout is another week’s €6 billion shortfall. I’d question the auditing skills of those discerning just how much Euro crisis countries need to stay afloat.

Think about the black hole in the Cyprus budget which emerged almost as soon as the bailout was agreed.

We’ve all been there. In deep mid-winter, the central heating has gone eerily silent and icicles are starting to form on grandma. The plumber spends a few moments fiddling, tapping, testing and finally sits back and offers that most dreadful of human exclamations. Sucking in breath around the edges of his mouth he starts to shake his head from side to side, slowly at first but with increasing vigour and finally he utters that death statement ‘tut tut tut tut…”

Now imagine being an inspector handed a failing bank, or even government, to assess. Here the job is too much for one number cruncher, so teams of analysts roam the corridors of power amassing data. The risk of ‘garbage in, garbage out’ is enormous. Eventually you have your very own ‘tut tut’ moment while taking care not to knock over the mountains of paper now causing a fire hazard in your makeshift office. This, roughly, is what it is like to be one of those souls given responsibility for looking at the finances of a future bailout candidate, and let me tell you, this is a job which makes working out quite why a nuclear reactor has just gone a bit toppish, look easy. …With reactors at least they give you a multitude of gauges which seek to pinpoint just where the problem lies. With a bank, or worse still a government, there is a relative paucity of information to address risk.

Okay, true, banks do have a lot of data to address risk but these use financial models which tend to be remarkably good at following linear trends and pretty rubbish at dealing with crises. Moreover, they are usually modelled to say whether you will sink or not. Once sinking the model knows the ocean bed is next stop but may not tell you where the iceberg left the hole… There is also the problem that management may opt to try to keep steaming along come what may ‘berg gash or no. Management or Ministers may prove ‘economical with the truth’ because they are in denial or simply don’t want to admit all lest they face the consequences for their actions.

Being a bailout expert is a fraught job. Unpeeling the onion-like layers of accounts you reach the dangerous point of challenging assumptions. Challenge too much and your political masters may simply not be able to stomach it. Do too little and you may find yourself in the Cyprus position where soon after a bailout which will last forever, it transpires ‘forever’ has been quantitatively eased down to less than a fortnight. Thus the government needs to suddenly ‘find’ 6 billion more from an economy worth around 18 billion. Tricky. Confidence sapping too.

Of course the EU has also had moments of idiocy. To enter the single currency project, governments effectively audited themselves. So when Greece presented its data – presumably on the back of a gilded cigarette packet to mark such a momentous statistical moment – the EU officials could only ask “are these figures correct?” When the Greek official looked askance and said “of course!” the EU let them join the Euro.

Hidden away in the crevices of a bailout candidate can be all manner of horrible things which may evade attention for a time but eventually bubble up. Spanish banks hold the thicker end of 100 billion Euros worth of underperforming property loans on their books. Mortgages are easy to calculate but who appraises the underlying property value? Here big problems can arise as ‘assets’ are usually the last thing to be written down by banks. What is Spanish property worth today? Well, if bankers offer you what they claim is 100 billion Euros of the stuff, I would haggle. Aggressively.

Is the EU’s inability to work out precise bailout numbers cock-up or conspiracy? Greek government data is difficult to have faith in, such has been the cavalier manipulation by the political classes. Cyprus had a pretty sound hold on governmental finances but their bankers aggressively purchased Greek bubble assets before the meltdown. However it is impossible to avoid a finger of blame also touching the troika. They have many excellent staff who have done sterling work in assessing bailouts. Then again, how much faith can anybody have in the work of the EU, a body whose own accounts have apparently not been signed off by their auditors for 18 years?

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

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“You have til Monday to come clean”

April 20, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/glenn-beck-says-obama-is-covering-up-truth-of-boston-bombing/

Almost immediately following the Boston bombings, radio and former Fox News host Glenn Beck’s news site The Blaze chimed in attempting to ridicule Alex Jones and Infowars for labeling the events a false flag attack, running articles like, “With Absolutely No Evidence, Alex Jones Calls Boston Marathon Explosions a ‘False Flag’ Operation Conducted by the Gov’t.”

However, Beck himself now seems to be the “conspiracy theorist,” saying he knows something “those at the highest echelons of government” don’t want unearthed. One can only take that to mean Obama and his administration.

Beck says he’ll give “somebody in Washington” til Monday to come clean about the actual origin of the deported Saudi national. He says something to the effect of, “It would sound better coming from you than me.”

Of course since Monday, numerous reports have come to light suggesting the Boston bombing suspects were contacted by the FBI at least as early as 2011.

Meanwhile, Alex Jones, Infowars.com and scores of independent journalists have been on the cutting edge of the investigation, identifying government security teams and potential patsies, and bringing the FBI’s involvement, massive errors and audacity under the public’s scrutiny from day one.

Indeed, if Beck is not bluffing, which he says he’s not, it’s good to see him come around, but he might take care, lest he end up “Breitbart-ed.”

-= The Unhived Mind

April 19, 2013
James Corbett
April 17, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/the-fbi-fosters-funds-and-equips-american-terrorists/

People around the world watched in horror this week as explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon, turning a day of sportsmanship and celebration into one of shock, grief and outrage. As with all such events, the desire to discover who was behind this cowardly act has driven many into a speculative frenzy. And, in a sad reminder of the indoctrination that the Western world has been under for over a decade now in the mythical “war of terror,” it did not take long at all before the collective finger of the mob was pointed squarely in the direction of Muslim terrorists.

Within hours of the blast, fear spread throughout the international Muslim community that the bombing would be connected to an Islamist extremist. A Libyan Twitter user touched a nerve—and received thousands of retweets and worldwide media coverage—by tweeting “Please don’t be a ‘Muslim.’” The backlash began shortly thereafter, with the New York Post falsely implying that a Saudi national was being questioned for his possible role in the attack. The next day, a plane departing Boston Logan Airport returned to the gate and two passengers were forcibly removed because they had been overheard speaking Arabic before takeoff.

As data continues to pour in regarding the bombing and who may be behind it, it is instructive to take a moment to step back and consider this knee-jerk tendency to conclude that this is the work of Islamic radicals. In the minds of millions of Americans, bombs targeting innocents on US soil are inextricably linked with the image of the bearded, turban-wearing boogeyman that has become the shorthand for evil in this age of terror.

This association is not only incorrect, it is dangerously incorrect because it signally fails to identify the one unifying thread between all of the recent terror plots in the US. Lurking behind the shadowy armies of would-be jihadis in the popular imagination is the sober reality that every single major terror bust in the United States since 9/11 has sourced back to the same group, a single entity that has in every single case funded, equipped and even incited the would-be terrorists into action: the FBI.

In 2005, federal prosecutors charged Michael Reynolds, a 47 year old drifter living with his elderly mother, of attempting to wage jihad on the US by blowing up fuel facilities. In reality, his plan for jihad was little more than a series of conversations he had on a Yahoo! Chat room with a US judge posing as a militant. He was arrested after agreeing to meet with an FBI informant who had promised him $40,000 for his cause, and two months later the FBI quietly announced he was likely mentally ill. He was eventually convicted and is curently serving 25 years in jail.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

In 2007 the so-called “Fort Dix Six” were nabbed in a much-hyped FBI terror bust after allegedly hatching a plan to attack a US military base and kill the soldiers there. At the time, a 26-page indictment revealed that the group had “no rigorous military training” and “did not appear close to being able to pull off an attack.” The next year it was revealed that the FBI informant who had infiltrated the group had in fact offered to organize the members and lead the plot itself.

In 2009 the Newburgh Four were arrested for an alleged plot to blow up synagogues and shoot down military airplanes in Newburgh, New York. The group was a ragtag bunch of poor black men, at least one of whom was mentally unstable and stored his own urine in jars around his apartment. The group’s fifth member, Shahad Hussein, turned out to be an FBI informant who had promised the members hundreds of thousands of dollars to carry out the plot. In sentencing the defendants, Federal Judge Colleen McMahon said:

“[The government] created acts of terrorism out of [the defendant's] fantasies of bravado and bigotry, and then made those fantasies come true. The government did not have to infiltrate and foil some nefarious plot – there was no nefarious plot to foil.”

In November 2010 the FBI busted the so-called Portland Christmas Tree Bomber, who was allegedly attempting to bomb the lighting ceremony at Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square. “The threat was very real,” the FBI intoned at the time. “Our investigation shows that Mohamud was absolutely committed to carrying out an attack on a very grand scale.” The alleged bomber, Arthur Balizan, turned out to be a teenager who bragged to undercover agents that he could get a gun because he was a “rapper” and wrote an article on workout tips for jihadis.

In 2011 the FBI arrested a man that they themselves had supplied with a remote controlled plane and C4 explosives in a harebrained attempt to bomb the Pentagon. In 2012 they busted another would-be jihadi that they again had supplied with a fake gun and suicide vest. Also in 2012 the FBI busted a group of five “anarchists” who were allegedly going to bomb a bridge in the Cleveland area, although it was quietly admitted that the FBI informant who had infiltrated the group had in fact initiated the contact with them and been present at the meetings where they developed the plan to blow up the bridge.

One of the most ridiculous examples of this pattern dates back to 2006, when the DOJ attempted to make it seem as if they had just nabbed a group of dangerous jihadis who were preparing a full ground war against the United States.

The picture that is painted by these facts is as overwhelming as it is difficult for much of the public to comprehend. The conclusion, nevertheless, is incontrovertible: that without the FBI, many of the so-called “terrorist cells” that have been hatching their inept, bumbling schemes against the United States for decades might never have existed at all.

Despite what many would believe, this conclusion is not even controversial. Rather, it has been backed up time and again by evidence in the official record and multiply attested to by FBI insiders and whistleblowers themselves.

Given all of this damning history and insider whistleblowing, it is vital that the Western public break out of their media-induced programming and question the core assumptions of the war on terror paradigm that we have been programmed with for decades now. If there is to be speculation at all over events like these, and if there is any group that has to present a thoroughgoing case for why it is NOT responsible for this atrocity, surely it is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Having been at the heart of so many terror plots in the past, both the hilariously inept and the chillingly successful, how could the public refuse to even interrogate the organization that has the most to answer for?

The simple fact of the matter is that the history of the modern age of terrorism has proven time and again that the FBI is the prime suspect in any terrorist atrocity that takes place on American soil. Let us all keep this in mind as the details of the investigations into this (and all other) American terrorist incidents begins to emerge.

Mike Adams
April 20, 2013
http://www.naturalnews.com/039996_security_theater_Boston_marathon_FBI_terror.html

I’m trying to get a grip on the full spectacle of the police state theater we have all just witnessed in Boston. Where to begin?

Do we begin with the “lockdown” order that forced 400,000+ Bostonites to stay off the streets and hide in their homes while nobody admits it’s actually martial law?

Do we begin with the militarized masses of armed-up police rolling down the streets of Boston in bomb-proof assault vehicles, all in the hunt for one teenager? Click here for astonishing pictures of martial law in Boston.

Or do we even attempt to examine the spectacle of the mainstream media’s agenda-scripted coverage of all this and its failure to try to blame the bombing on so-called “right-wing extremists?”

In examining the events of the week, a rational person can’t help but conclude that only a small part of what’s being officially reported about the Boston marathon bombers has any basis in fact. And even after the announced arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the remaining survivor of the supposed terrorist bombing duo, we still have:

• No images or video of this person placing any bomb on the ground

• No acknowledgement of the existence of the “Craft” military spooks who all carried large backpacks at the marathon and were found moving away from one of the bombs just minutes before it went off

• No apology from the mainstream media for its week-long rampage against “right-wing extremists” who it vilified as the probable bombers

• No explanation for why it takes thousands of heavily-armed police, armored assault vehicles and federal agents to find and arrest one teenager

• No reply from the FBI on just how much the FBI controlled and manipulated these suspects over the last few years, as has been described by their mother.

• No legal justification for the “lockdown” martial law declaration that has been illegally forced upon the people of Boston

But don’t hold your breath on any of this. The last thing the public would ever get in any of this would be real answers.

My working theory on what really went down

Here’s my theory on what actually happened:

The FBI “recruited” the Tsarnaeva brothers years ago as part of their ongoing campaign of staging actual terrorist attacks in the USA as is well documented in the New York Times and elsewhere.

The FBI gave these guys the skills, the plans and the materials to make the “pressure cooker” bombs, then picked the target of the Boston marathon. This tactical-level planning of terrorism by the FBI is not uncommon. As Kurt Nimmo writes on InfoWars:

The FBI is notorious for recruiting and framing terrorist patsies. A report compiled by Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkley found that of the 158 prosecutions carried out on terrorism charges since 9/11, 49 defendants participated in plots that were arranged by FBI agent provocateurs.

“The Craft” operatives were then hired by the government to be on scene and observe the brothers to make sure they placed the backpacks as planned.

The original plan was to then use the explosions to blame “right-wing extremists” by nailing other patsies in the crowd who had already been set up to be present with backpacks. The two brothers would escape blame and be allowed to continue working for the FBI on other terrorism campaigns.

But when the alternative media began circulating suspicious photos of “The Craft” team members and blowing the cover on the whole operation, the FBI suddenly reversed course on Wednesday and retracted its stated arrest of a white suspect, “flipping the script” onto the Tsarnaeva brothers. Knowing they could not sustain the big lie of “right-wing extremists,” they decided to sacrifice their two pawns. If they could be killed during a firefight, that would be even better.

One of the Tsarnaeva brothers has already been shot and then run over by a vehicle (almost certainly a government vehicle, although the press ridiculously says his own brother ran over him). The other was captured last night, alive, but it has already been decided this person has no right to any due process and will be tortured and interrogated until he talks.

So the entire theatrical production now moves into Act Two, where any mention of FBI involvement will be memory-holed, and anyone who suggests the FBI might have coached or even trained these two brothers will be labeled a “conspiracy theorist.”

Score one for the FBI and its department of terrorism. This should keep the American sheeple compliant and afraid for at least another year or two…

And don’t worry; the FBI has plenty of additional terrorism plots already under way. Each of them will be released at the appropriate time to manipulate public emotions and keep driving America into a state of undeclared martial law.

Anyone who believes the official story on all this is a fool.

April 20, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/images-of-caputred-boston-suspect-number-two/

The following image of the suspect being apprehended has emerged.

A glimpse of 19-year-old bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is visible through an ambulance window as the Boston Marathon bombing suspect is transported to the hospital.

Photo of suspect caught on boat in backyard

Boston PD commissioner on capture, condition of bombing suspect

Mac Slavo
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/battlefield-usa-a-de-facto-state-of-martial-law-has-been-declared_04192013
April 20, 2013

This is what America looks like under martial law:

“No Miranda warning to be given” now, the DOJ official said. | Reuters

By JOSH GERSTEIN | 4/19/13 10:06 PM EDT
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/no-miranda-rights-for-now-for-bombing-suspect-90362.html?hp=f1

With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev taken alive, the focus now turns to how the Obama administration is going to seek to bring the Boston Marathon bombing suspect to justice.

Lawyers have already made one potentially critical decision: he hasn’t been read his Miranda rights, at least for now. This means that FBI investigators may have a shot at trying to question him about other potential plots he may be aware of and whether anyone other than his deceased brother was involved in Monday’s bombing or Thursday night’s crime spree.

But if, for example, Tsarnaev’s injuries leave him too incapacitated through the weekend to be questioned, it might not matter that he didn’t get mirandized because the judge will read him his rights probably at his bedside on Monday.

Meanwhile, a host of other questions are already bubbling up, from whether he’ll tried in civilian or military court to whether he’ll face the death penalty for crimes that include killing three people in the explosions and a police officer on the MIT campus.

Here’s POLITICO’s guide to the five key questions—and what’s known about the answers—that are ahead.

Why does the Miranda issue matter?

After the Justice Department decided not to immediately read Tsarnaev his Miranda rights, a debate broke out among lawmakers, lawyers and political activists over whether the suspect, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, should be prosecuted in a civilian criminal court or subjected to military interrogation — and over when and whether Tsarnaev should be told about his right to an attorney.

“No Miranda warning to be given” now, a Justice official told POLITICO Friday night. “The government will be invoking the public safety exception.”

That may increase the possibility that Tsarnaev will quickly offer up information about whether he and his brother, who was killed in a shootout Thursday night, acted alone in the bombings or whether they were directed, supported or trained by forces abroad.

Beginning several hours before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wrote on Twitter that the suspect ought to be placed in military custody.

“If captured, I hope Administration will at least consider holding the Boston suspect as enemy combatant for intelligence gathering purposes,” Graham wrote Friday afternoon. “The last thing we may want to do is read Boston suspect Miranda Rights telling him to ‘remain silent.’”

“The Law of War allows us to hold individual in this scenario as potential enemy combatant w/o Miranda warnings or appointment of counsel,” the senator added later in the evening. “I hope the Obama Administration will seriously consider this option….The goal is to gather intelligence and protect our nation which is under threat from radical Islam.”

“NBC reporting Obama admin will treat terrorist as a ‘criminal’ and not enemy combatant,” former State Department official Liz Cheney wrote on Twitter Friday night. “Will Obama allow him to lawyer up?”

The Center for Constitutional Rights condemned the decision in a statement: “The Miranda warnings were put in place because police officers were beating and torturing “confessions” out of people who hadn’t even been formally accused of a crime. We cannot afford to repeat our mistakes. If officials require suspects to incriminate themselves, they are making fair trials and due process merely option and not a requirement. To venture down that road again will make law enforcement accountable to no one.”

How does the public safety exception work?

The Obama administration appeared to be taking a middle course, holding off on advising Tsarnaev of his rights, but still directing him into the criminal justice system for prosecution.

The Justice Department signaled that it planned to rely on a 1984 Supreme Court case that said a suspect’s statements can be used against him even if he was not immediately read his rights if police got the answers while asking questions aimed averting a threat to public safety.

The precise contours of that exception in a terrorism case are not clear, although a judge upheld that exception in connection with questioning of the so-called “underwear bomber” on a Delta flight bound for Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.

Still, some experts said holding off on reading Tsarnaev his rights was ill-advised, particularly since law enforcement officials declared that after the suspect’s arrest the threat to the public was over.

”The FBI is making a serious mistake by not giving him his Miranda warning….Let’s not give him any excuse to be able to successfully argue that his rights were denied,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said on CNN.

If a court found that Tsarnaev was not read his Miranda rights, the usual consequence would be that any statements he made prior to being read his rights could not be admitted at trial. However, prosecutors might not need such statements if they have overwhelming evidence of Tsarnaev’s guilt.

During a news conference shortly after the suspect was captured, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz did not directly confirm that the suspect was not read his rights. However, she noted the law allows for exceptions. “There is a public-safety exemption in cases of national security and potential charges involving acts of terrorism,” Ortiz said.

The American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement: “Every criminal defendant is entitled to be read Miranda rights. The public safety exception should be read narrowly. It applies only when there is a continued threat to public safety and is not an open-ended exception to the Miranda rule. Additionally, every criminal defendant has a right to be brought before a judge and to have access to counsel.”

Will prosecutors seek the death penalty — and will Tsarnaev get it?

Under federal law, there’s little doubt that Tsarnaev could be eligible for the death penalty. Using a weapon of mass destruction, such as a bomb, in an attack that results in death can lead to capital punishment.

While it might seem a foregone conclusion that the federal government will seek the death penalty in such a high-profile case, and one stemming from terror spree that killed four and left more than 170 injured, that decision is less of a sure thing than many people would think.

Ortiz indicated Friday that call was a long way off.

“Before that kind of a decision is made, in terms of whether or not to seek the death penalty, you review all of the evidence and it’s a very thoughtful, long process that is engaged and it’s the attorney general of the Department of Justice that makes that final decision,” Ortiz said in response to a question at the news conference that followed Tsarnaev’s capture Friday night.

As prosecutors consider whether to seek the death penalty in the case, they’ll consider aggravating and mitigating circumstances. Under federal law, attempting multiple murders, “heinous, cruel, or depraved” acts or those that are the product of “substantial planning and premeditation” can lead to the death penalty. However, Tsarnaev’s lawyers will be able to argue that his mental capacity was impaired, that he may have been under the “duress” of his elder brother, or that his participation on the offense was “relatively minor.”

The prosecution might also enter into a plea bargain for a life sentence in order to avoid the risks of a trial, particularly if an insanity defense seems plausible.

Tsarnaev won’t face the death penalty under state law because Massachusetts does not have capital punishment. That could also complicate the Justice Department’s thinking on the issue. Under Democratic administrations, the feds have generally been reluctant to pursue the death penalty in states which don’t have capital punishment. However, President George W. Bush’s administration did so.

President Barack Obama supports the death penalty. Attorney General Eric Holder issued guidelines discouraging federal capital cases in states that don’t have the death penalty, but the Justice Department is currently pursuing such a case in Puerto Rico.

Of course, prosecutors would also have to get a jury to unanimously agree that death and not life in prison was the correct penalty for the crimes.

What kind of court will Tsarnaev be tried in and how soon will he show up there?

When Ortiz said her office would “continue to evaluate and file our formal charges,” she also seemed to imply that Tsarnaev would face justice in a civilian federal court.

At the moment, the debate over Tsarnaev’s Miranda rights may be moot because, according to police, he was severely injured and bleeding at the time he was captured. When answering a question about the public safety exemption, Ortiz added: “Right now, I believe though, the suspect has been taken to a hospital.”

A joint FBI/CIA interrogation unit that Obama established to handle terrorism cases has been activated and is on the scene, the DOJ official added. “The high value detained interrogation group is on site,” the official said.

Regardless of when or if Tsarnaev is Mirandized, if he asks for an attorney, questioning of him will be required to stop. Lawyers who attempt to question him or direct questioning of him once he asks for an attorney would be violating legal ethics and Justice Department policy.

While some legal experts said Friday that Tsarnaev would likely make a court appearance by Monday, if investigators want more time to question him they could ask him to delay his presentation in court. Such waivers have been obtained in a series of recent terrorism cases, including that of Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad in 2010 and the ongoing prosecution of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith.

At Tsarnaev’s initial appearance in court, a judge or magistrate will advise him of his rights and make sure he has access to a defense lawyer.

In 2010, the Obama Administration floated the idea of legislation that would allow it to delay taking arrested terrorism suspects to court for about two weeks without getting any waiver from the person involved. However, the administration appeared to drop the idea a few months later, apparently satisfied that it had the flexibility it needed in existing law.

Graham’s proposal that Tsarnaev be put in military custody faced one significant obstacle: the man reportedly became a U.S. citizen last year. That would preclude prosecuting him under the current military commissions law, since U.S. citizens are explicitly outside its jurisdiction.

Whether Tsarnaev could legally be interrogated or detained by the military raises legal questions the Supreme Cout has never definitively addressed. Under President George W. Bush’s administration, U.S. citizen Jose Padilla was held in military custody as an enemy combatant for more than three-and-a-half years on suspicion he planned to detonate a radioactive “dirty” bomb in Chicago.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Padilla’s detention in 2005, but after his lawyers asked the Supreme Court to take up the case, the Bush Administration had Padilla indicted on unrelated criminal charges in an apparent effort to avoid a definitive ruling on the issue of whether citizens can be detained. The Supreme Court eventually declined to consider the issue of Padilla’s military detention.

Graham contends that a 1942 Supreme Court decision upholding a military trial for Nazi saboteurs who landed in Long Island during World War II authorizes the detention of Americans as enemy fighters. One of the men in the WWII case was a U.S. citizen.

However, in a floor debate last year, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) argued that the justices never considered the right to hold an American arrested on U.S. soil as an enemy combatant. She also said holding an American in military custody could violate a 1971 law that says citizens can only be imprisoned or detained pursuant to a duly-passed law

Another potential obstacle to military detention: It’s also unclear whether Tsarnaev is connected with any group related to the September 11, 2001 attacks or to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Those are affiliations which can render someone eligible for detention under the Authorization for Use of Military Force passed soon after the attacks.

Aunt of bombing suspects “knew them as angels” and does not believe they were responsible for the attack.

By: Wendy Gillis News reporter, Published on Fri Apr 19 2013
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/04/19/boston_marathon_explosions_show_us_the_evidence_says_toronto_aunt_of_bombing_suspects.html

In the lobby of her Etobicoke apartment building, the aunt of the two Boston bombing suspects shouted one word over and over as reporters questioned her about her now-infamous nephews — one dead, the other leading police on a chase Friday that effectively shut down Boston.

“Evidence,” Maret Tsarnaeva said repeatedly, her voice high with emotion. “I can’t lightly accept this kind of accusations without supporting evidence. Forgive me, but I cannot.”

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Tsarnaeva, is aunt to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who survived an overnight shootout and police chase, and his older brother Tamerlan, 26, who was killed in the shootout. The family is ethnically Chechen.

Tsarnaeva had not spoken to the men in about five years, but said she “knew them as angels” and does not believe they were responsible for the attack.

“I don’t know them in a way that they could be capable of this,” she said. She would not rule out the possibility that the photos showing the brothers at the scene had been staged.

“I have to question everything. That’s my nature.”

Many members of the family moved to the U.S. in the early 2000s. Dzhokhar arrived in 2002 with his parents, then Tamerlan came in 2003, with the suspects’ two sisters.

Tsarnaeva, who says she had been a lawyer in Chechnya, claims to have helped with their refugee paperwork.

Tamerlan had married what he described as “a good Christian girl” in the U.S., and had a 3-year-old child, she said.

Tsarnaeva could not say what either nephew was doing recently, but it was confirmed Friday that Tamerlan had studied accounting at a community college but did not finish. Dzhokhar is a student at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, numerous media reported Friday.

As a Chechen, Tsarnaeva says she is accustomed to being set up by the police, and does not believe that the photos or the reports from the FBI are true.

People should not just “swallow” everything the government is saying, she said.

“Being a Chechen … you always have to watch your back,” she said.

On Friday, Tsarnaeva called a hotline to ask for more evidence linking her nephews to the attack.

“I said please, take that into account. Give evidence. Give at least evidence to family members. Because I will never accuse my relatives, my nephews, without having evidence.”

The entire family is Muslim, though Tsarnaeva did not know how devout they were. In the last two years, however, Tamerlan had started praying five times a day, she said.

She described both nephews as smart and athletic, saying Tamerlan had been an amateur boxer. He competed in the National Golden Gloves competition in 2009.

Tsarnaeva said the boys’ father, her brother Anzor, was soft-hearted. He had recently moved to Russia.

“I don’t know how he’s taking this,” she said.

Other members of the suspects’ family were speaking out Friday; Tsarnaeva’s younger brother, Ruslan Tsarni, told reporters in Maryland that he was ashamed of his nephews, and that they were “losers” who couldn’t “settle themselves” in the U.S., according to numerous reports.

Responding to her brother’s words, Tsarnaeva said Ruslan Tsarni had been expecting a lot of the men, especially Tamerlan, who had been his favourite.

To her surviving nephew, Tsarnaeva said: “I just hope this is not true, because I don’t have evidence.”

“If that is you, you take the blame…. You did it for some purpose. Explain it, take some responsibility. What else can I say?”

Tony Cartalucci
April 20, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/fbi-casting-set-stage-for-boston-marathon-bombing-shootout-charade/

Update: CBS reveals in their report, “CBS News: FBI Interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 Years Ago,” that the FBI initially attempted to deny any contact prior to the Boston bombings with slain suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It was only after Russia’s RT publicly pursued the story that the FBI finally admitted officially it had.

The implications are that the FBI knows Russia both possesses information on the case and is prepared to go public with it. For those involved in America’s terror racket, now would be a good time to divest. For those involved specifically in the Boston Marathon bombing, now would be a good time to come forward with information. Any and all involved, in whatever capacity, wittingly or unwittingly, stand to become scapegoats in order to save the FBI, DHS, TSA, and other federal agencies clearly engaged in a massive coverup.

The Boston Police and a slew of “reputable” mainstream media outlets had reported earlier that the two suspects involved in a deadly shootout near Boston and suspected to be involved in the Boston bombings were, missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, and Mike Mulugeta. The International Business Times reported in their article, “Boston Marathon Bombing: Indian-Origin Sunil Tripathi One of Alleged Suspects,” that:

Boston police on Friday revealed the names of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, one of whom is an Indian origin person, Sunil Tripathi, reported CBS-affiliated television station WFSB.

The other suspect named in the case is Mike Mulugeta. On Friday morning, it was reported that police arrested one of them.

Where did CBS hear that “Boston police revealed” this information? CBS News would then blame the entire shift in narrative on “social media” and in particular, Reddit. Sunil Tripathi mysteriously disappeared in mid-March of 2013, leaving his personal items in his room. The FBI had been involved in Tripathi’s case, as reported by New York Daily News in their article, “F.B.I. joins search for Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, who has been missing for more than a week,” which reported:

The F.B.I has joined the search for a depressed and possibly suicidal Brown University student, who has been missing for more than a week, and have expanded their area of interest to the Northeast corridor.

Sunil Tripathi, 22, was last seen on the Providence, R.I. campus around 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 16. His cell phone, wallet, ID cards and bicycle – his main form of transportation – were found in the apartment he shared with other Brown University students.

It is not uncommon for the FBI to aid in searches for missing people, especially if the search involves multiple states. However, that this false lead, and the allegedly “confirmed” identity of the Boston bombing suspects, both involved cases the FBI was working on prior to the Boston bombings and the subsequent deadly shootout and manhunt, raises immense suspicion. Here’s why.

Suspects Were on FBI Radar for Years

The Wall Street Journal now reports that the FBI had interviewed at least one of the two Boston bombing suspects as early as 2011. In their article, “Renewed Fears About Homegrown Terror Threat,” WSJ reports that:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed suspected marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 at the request of the Russian government, but didn’t find evidence of suspicious activity and closed the case, an FBI official said Friday.

The fact that the FBI spoke with Mr. Tsarnaev, who was killed Friday morning in a firefight with authorities, is likely to become a focal point of the post mortem into how the attack was able to be carried out at the Boston Marathon. It also speaks to the challenge faced by authorities as terrorism morphs to some extent from the complex international plots of a decade ago to small-scale attacks carried out by individuals located within U.S.

RT would report that the mother of the suspect claimed the FBI had been monitoring her sons ever since, and led them along “every step of the way.” In an article titled, “‘They were set up, FBI followed them for years’- Tsarnaevs’ mother to RT,” it stated of the suspects’ mother:

But her biggest suspicion surrounding the case was the constant FBI surveillance she said her family was subjected to over the years. She is surprised that having been so stringent with the entire family, the FBI had no idea the sons were supposedly planning a terrorist act.

Interestingly enough, the WSJ also stated that:

The profile of the Boston bombing in many ways resembles a number of the recent foiled plots, a federal law-enforcement official said. They have been small with little or no intelligence chatter, and have involved suspects who have been in the U.S. for several years and appeared to have assimilated.

What the WSJ categorically fails to mention is that these “foiled plots” were from start to finish engineered by the FBI itself, with suspects, just as Tsarnaevs’ mother had claimed of her sons, under “constant FBI surveillance,” and in fact led along every step of the way in the lead up to high-profile arrests. What is also subsequently left out by the WSJ is that during these undercover operations, real vehicles, weapons, and explosives are involved, and usually switched out for inert items right before the final attack and arrests are made.

One thing the WSJ is absolutely correct about is that the FBI’s involvement prior to the attack will become “a focal point of the post mortem into how the attack was able to be carried out at the Boston Marathon.”

While the WSJ offers nothing useful in examining that focal point, a look at the FBI’s “foiled plots” will reveal shocking implications about just how deeply the FBI may have been involved with these suspects before the bombing, shootout, and manhunt.

FBI’s History of Handing “Terror Suspects” Weapons and Live Explosives

In late September 2011, AFP reported that a man was charged with “planning to fly explosive-packed, remote controlled airplanes into the Pentagon and the Capitol in Washington.” In its report, “US man charged with Pentagon bomb plot,” AFP stated (emphasis added):

During the alleged plot, undercover FBI agents posed as accomplices who supplied Ferdaus with one remote-controlled plane, C4 explosives, and small arms that he allegedly envisioned using in a simultaneous ground assault in Washington.

However, ”the public was never in danger from the explosive devices, which were controlled by undercover FBI employees,” the FBI said.

Ferdaus was arrested in Framingham, near Boston, immediately after putting the newly delivered weapons into a storage container, the FBI said.

Authorities described Ferdaus as a physics graduate from Northeastern University who followed al-Qaeda and was committed to ”violent jihad” since early last year.

In addition to explosives and “small arms,” the FBI also provided the suspect with grenades. According to FBI.gov in a release titled, “Massachusetts Man Charged with Plotting Attack on Pentagon and U.S. Capitol and Attempting to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization,” it stated (emphasis added):

Between May and September 2011, Ferdaus researched, ordered and acquired the necessary components for his attack plans, including one remote controlled aircraft (F-86 Sabre). This morning prior to his arrest, Ferdaus received from the UCs [undercover FBI employees] 25 pounds of (what he believed to be) C-4 explosives, six fully-automatic AK-47 assault rifles (machine guns) and grenades. In June 2011, Ferdaus rented a storage facility in Framingham, Mass., under a false name, to use to build his attack planes and maintain all his equipment.

If bombs, guns, and grenades sound strikingly familiar to the arsenal allegedly wielded by the most recent “terror suspects” the FBI admits it was in contact with since at least as early as 2011, that is because it is – the standard terror-playset the FBI provides its patsies.

In November 2010, a similar “plot” was engineered, then “disrupted,” also by the FBI – this time in Portland, Oregon. The so-called “Christmas Tree Bomber” attempted to remote detonate a van he believed was filled with explosives, provided by the FBI, before being arrested during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Pioneer Courthouse Square. The FBI’s official statement regarding the incident revealed that FBI agents had handled, even detonated live explosives with the entrapped suspect in Lincoln County in the lead up to the final failed bombing.

The FBI’s official statement titled, “Oregon Resident Arrested in Plot to Bomb Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Portland,” released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on November 26, 2010 stated (emphasis added):

According to the affidavit, on November 4, 2010, Mohamud and the undercover FBI operatives traveled to a remote location in Lincoln County, Ore., where they detonated a bomb concealed in a backpack as a trial run for the upcoming attack. Afterwards, on the drive back to Corvallis, undercover FBI operatives questioned Mohamud as to whether he was capable of looking at the bodies of those who would be killed in the upcoming attack in Portland. According to the affidavit, Mohamud responded, “I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured.”

Upon returning to Corvallis that same day, the affidavit alleges that Mohamud recorded a video of himself with the undercover FBI operatives in which he read a written statement that offered a rationale for his bomb attack. On Nov. 18, 2010, undercover FBI operatives picked up Mohamud to travel to Portland in order to finalize the details of the attack.

Earlier this evening, Mohamud was arrested after he attempted to remotely detonate what he believed to be explosives in a van that was parked near the Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, the affidavit alleges.

Yet another operation was carried out by the FBI in February 2012, where yet another otherwise incapable patsy was provided with live explosives in the lead up to what was ultimately a failed suicide bombing at the US Capitol. USA Today reported in their article, “FBI foils alleged suicide bomb attack on U.S. Capitol,” that (emphasis added):

According to a counterterrorism official, El Khalifi “expressed interest in killing at least 30 people and considered targeting a building in Alexandria and a restaurant, synagogue and a place where military personnel gather in Washington before he settled on the Capitol after canvassing that area a couple of times,” the Associated Press writes. During the year-long investigation, El Khalifi detonated explosives at a quarry in the capital region with undercover operatives. He is not believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda, officials said.

The frightening trend of the FBI cultivating otherwise incapable “terror” suspects, providing them with and detonating real explosives, small arms and grenades before giving them inert or controlled devices to carry out attacks on public targets where mass casualties are averted only at the last possible moment, sets the stage for at the very least, incredible potential for catastrophic blunders, and at worst, false flag attacks.

But does this mean the FBI is capable of turning such operations “live,” resulting in real terror attacks and loss of life? Has the FBI ever presided over “sting operations” that were actually carried out? The answer is yes.

The FBI in fact was presiding over the terrorists who carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The role of the FBI leading up to the deadly attack would most likely have gone unreported had an FBI informant not taped his conversations with FBI agents after growing suspicious during the uncover operation. The New York Times in their article, “Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast,” reported:

Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.

The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said.

The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City’s tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more than 1,000 injured and damages in excess of half a billion dollars.

Controlled Every Step of the Way
RT has quoted the mother of the recent Boston bombing suspects as claiming of the FBI:

They used to come [to our] home, they used to talk to me…they were telling me that he [the older, 26-y/o Tamerlan] was really an extremist leader and that they were afraid of him. They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these extremist sites… they were controlling him, they were controlling his every step…and now they say that this is a terrorist act!

“They were controlling him, they were controlling his every step,” indeed. Posing as “extremist leaders” and leading witless patsies along, just as the FBI has done in every case regarding its previous “foiled plots,” and even successful plots, like the 1993 WTC attack, should shift America’s attention not to Chechnya or the “threat” of domestic terrorism, but the immense incompetence and/or criminality of the FBI.

As even mainstream sources concede the FBI had some sort of relationship with the Boston bombing suspects before the attack, there will be two arguments made. One, that the FBI simply doesn’t have enough authority or resources to prevent “domestic terror” attacks, and needs more still.

The other argument is that the FBI and other federal agencies have been behind every domestic terror attack or “foiled plot” for years, and constitutes the single greatest danger to the American people, both literally in terms of life and limb, and in terms of subverting and stripping away their liberty and dignity amidst a growing police state.

In turn, this would require local law enforcement to cease all cooperation with the FBI, particularly with its Joint Terror Task Force (JTTF), raid local offices and make arrests where appropriate, and fold any agents who are willing and capable, into local and state agencies. In essence, the FBI should be dismantled from top to bottom, and an alternative put in its place.

What is clear is that the Boston bombing suspects were contacted by the FBI at least as early as 2011. Between then and the attack, there is a gap where the FBI may or may not have been involved. While the FBI may have in fact been cultivating these suspects prior to the Boston bombing, they are now the very ones “investigating” the case, opening the door to the destruction of evidence, and ultimately a coverup.

What’s more, there’s most likely several more of these operations being engineered right now by the FBI. If America is serious about stopping “the next Boston bombing,” the key is not issuing the FBI and its federal affiliates more authority and funding, but issuing local law enforcement warrants to raid FBI offices.

While the people of Boston allegedly take to the streets to “celebrate” the capture of the remaining Boston bombing suspect, celebrations should turn to outrage as details emerge that yet another terror attack in America, which has claimed innocent lives, was the work not of cave dwelling militants abroad, but by the very people we foolishly entrust with our safety and security at home.

Tony Cartalucci’s article first appeared on Land Destroyer Report at landdestroyer.blogspot.com.

Kurt Nimmo
April 20, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/full-extent-of-fbi-role-in-boston-bombing-will-never-be-known/

FBI cooked the bomb in 1993 WTC bombing but this fact is omitted from the official narrative.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brother of the dead FBI asset Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is now an enemy combatant. Due to this, the role the FBI played in the deadly bombing will never come to light.

“Now that the suspect is in custody, the last thing we should want is for him to remain silent,” said senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured last night in Watertown, Massachusetts. “It is absolutely vital the suspect be questioned for intelligence gathering purposes. We need to know about any possible future attacks which could take additional American lives. The least of our worries is a criminal trial which will likely be held years from now.”

“Our goal at this critical juncture should be to gather intelligence and protect our nation from further attacks. We remain under threat from radical Islam and we hope the Obama Administration will seriously consider the enemy combatant option.”

The Obama administration has decided to follow a 2010 memorandum from the Justice Department. It strikes the customary Miranda warning and allows the government to question suspected terrorists and deny legal representation and Fifth Amendment protection. “The exception allows agents to ask questions reasonably prompted by an immediate concern for the public’s safety,” the Washington Post reports today. “Additionally, it says that in ‘exceptional’ cases, agents may conclude that continued ‘unwarned’ investigation is warranted.”

After Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, said Friday that her eldest son Tamerlan was under the control of the FBI, the agency responded by stating that it had “interviewed” him at the behest of the Russian government. Russia suspected Tsarnaeva of being a Chechen terrorist.

“In response to this 2011 request, the FBI checked U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history,” the FBI said in a statement. “The FBI also interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and family members. The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign, and those results were provided to the foreign government in the summer of 2011. The FBI requested but did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign government.”

Considering the FBI’s track record in setting up and busting would-be terrorists, this explanation is suspect. The case will be handled like the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured over a thousand. Recordings released by the New York Times revealed that the FBI cooked the bomb used in the attack, but this key fact is now omitted from the official narrative on the bombing.

“The implications are of course, with the FBI’s current nationwide stable of patsies being trained, directed, and provided material support to carry out attacks the FBI then ‘foils,’ is at any given moment, any one of these operations can be switched ‘live’ just as in 1993,” writes Tony Cartalucci. “The resulting carnage can then be used to manipulate public opinion just as it was in 1993, 2001, on 7/7 in London, and in Madrid, Spain in 2004.”

The FBI’s highly suspicious contact with Tsarnaeva will be underplayed in the short term and omitted in the long term as the government’s official narrative takes its final mythological shape and the war on manufactured terror is reinvigorated.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been cosigned the status of enemy combatant as delineated under the Military Commissions Act. Due to this, we will never know the full extent of the FBI’s role in killing three people and injuring 183 in Boston on April 15, 2013.

Rare TV NEWS report about WTC bombing FBI Foreknowledge

The FBI interviewed one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects in 2011 at the request of a foreign government, reports have claimed.

Sarah Titterton and agencies
3:59AM BST 20 Apr 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10007327/Boston-marathon-bombs-Tamerlan-Tsarnaev-interviewed-by-FBI-in-2011.html

Officials told the Associated Press, Reuters and CNN that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a shootout with police outside Boston on Friday morning, was interviewed by federal officers.

The matter was closed when it did not produce any incriminating information.

One official told AP that the FBI shared its information with the foreign government. The official did not say what country made the request about Tamerlan Tsarnaev or why.

The 26-year-old’s younger brother Dzhokhar, also a suspect in Monday’s bombings that killed three people and wounded scores more, has been taken into custody after a dramatic confrontation with police.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev died of bullet wounds and injuries from explosives strapped to his body, a hospital doctor said.

Boston police said more than 200 rounds of gunfire were exchanged with the brothers early Friday morning shortly before Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s death, and that the two men had hurled improvised explosive devices and handmade hand grenades at officers.

It has been widely reproted that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev drove over his brother’s body as he fled police during that incident.

The brothers had not previously been on the radar as possible militants, US government officials said.

On Friday night, while the hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was still ongoing, US President Barack Obama spoke with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, by telephone.

During the conversation, Mr Obama praised the “close cooperation that the United States has received from Russia on counter-terrorism, including in the wake of the Boston attack,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a written statement.

There were hints earlier in the day that Russian officials were helping American investigators research the brothers.

CNN reported that one interview in Dagestan with Tsarnaev’s father ended when Russian authorities showed up to question him.

April 20, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/grusome-death-photo-of-boston-suspect-emerges/

A grusome picture of the suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has emerged online. It is not known who leaked the picture, but the hospital where he was taken has denied responsibility, with a spokesperson saying that the image “was not taken during the medical procedures or when the medical team had control of the body.”

The graphic photo shows gunshot wounds to Tsarnaev’s body as well as a large thorocotomy incision on his chest. Additionally, portions of Tsarnaev’s face and right shoulder reflect a discoloration.

Click here for the picture – WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC.

April 20, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/update-boston-marathon-bombing-secrets/

The suspect was cornered and then arrested. But what is the real story? The real story is the FBI has a history of using informants to stir up mental deficients into bombing targets with fake bombs. That is part of history. Now the mother of the suspects has said that her son has been followed by the FBI for at least three years.

By Lisa Lerer & Julie Hirschfeld Davis – Apr 20, 2013 6:08 PM GMT
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-20/obama-vows-federal-probe-to-find-reasons-behind-boston-bombing.html

Channeling the nation’s relief, President Barack Obama said the capture of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect capped an “important chapter of this tragedy” while spurring a search into the motives and potential terrorist links behind the blasts.

“All in all, this has been a tough week, but we’ve seen the character of our country once more,” Obama said at the White House in a nighttime statement after a day of staying publicly silent as an almost 24-hour manhunt unfolded.

The capture yesterday of Dzhokar Tsarnaev in Watertown, Massachusetts, shortly before the president spoke left “many unanswered questions,” Obama said. While cautioning against a “rush to judgment,” he said the investigation will seek to find out why two young men who studied in the U.S. would turn to such violence.

“The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers,” Obama said, as do “the wounded — some of whom now have to learn how to stand and walk and live again.”

Tsarnaev, 19, was taken into custody following a manhunt that paralyzed Boston and its suburbs for much of the day. His older brother, Tamerlan, 26, died in a confrontation with police in Watertown the previous night after the shooting death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus officer. The brothers had been pursued as the suspects in the April 15 bombings that killed three people and injured more than 170.
FBI Briefing

“Whatever hateful agenda drove these men to such heinous acts will not — cannot — prevail,” Obama said. “Whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, they’ve already failed.”

The president learned of the capture while watching television in the White House residential area, then went to the Oval Office, where he received a briefing call from FBI Director Robert Mueller.

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said “the thanks of a grateful nation” was going to “every single federal, state, and local law enforcement official who went above and beyond to apprehend” the younger Tsarnaev.

“It was a job well done under trying circumstances, to say the least,” the Ohio Republican said in a statement from Washington.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said in a statement from Louisville that, “We have marveled at the coordination, skill, and bravery of military, intelligence, and law enforcement officials at every level — from federal agents to suburban beat cops to the campus police officer at MIT who gave his life in the line of duty.”
Texas Explosion

Last night’s capture culminated an extraordinary week of anxiety and rapid-fire developments that began with the bombings near the marathon’s finish line and ended with Tsarnaev found hiding in a boat in a suburban backyard.

In between, the discovery of ricin-laced letters sent to officials in Washington — including Obama — set the nation’s capital on edge, and the small town of West, Texas, suffered devastation with an April 17 fertilizer-plant explosion that killed at least 14 people and injured at least 200.

Obama mentioned that blast during his White House statement and moments later declared a state of emergency in Texas, granting federal aid to supplement state and local resources.

Even as congressional leaders joined Obama in responding with elation and praise for law enforcement following Tsarnaev’s capture, the potential political ripple effects of the Boston bombings for his presidency and legislative agenda began to reverberate.
Prosecuting Tsarnaev

Lawmakers said they would turn a fresh focus to combating homegrown terrorism in the days to come, raised questions about how the interrogation and prosecution of Tsarnaev should be handled, and signaled a more difficult road ahead for Obama’s push to rewrite U.S. immigration laws.

The Tsarnaev brothers, who lived in Cambridge, came to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union about a decade ago. They are ethnic Chechens whose father lives in Russia.

Lawmakers warned that the Boston bombings indicated the potency of the threat of homegrown terrorism, vowing to scrutinize it for clues on how to prevent future such events.

“While we have made it more difficult for terrorists to carry out attacks from overseas, the attack on the Boston Marathon is indicative of the shift in terrorists’ tactics in recent years to inspire people who are living in the United States to strike,” said Republican Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. “While several plots of this nature have been thwarted, this is the first to succeed.”
Pending Questions

McCaul said his panel would ask in the coming weeks “how this happened, and how we can prevent it from happening again.”

Throughout the hunt, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden received regular briefings from top officials in Washington and Boston. The president spoke on the phone yesterday with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the investigation.

Earlier in the day, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia had been “very attentively watching” the developments.

U.S. authorities haven’t yet found evidence that the suspects were connected to other individuals or groups, according to a person briefed on the investigation who asked not to be identified to discuss the probe.

The saga demonstrates the pressing need for U.S. law enforcement to maintain robust intelligence and counterterrorism programs at the state and local levels, said Republican Representative Peter King of New York.
Islamist ‘Threat’

“The fact that these terrorists were from overseas, living legally in our country for a period of time, and the fact that there was no federal intelligence or chatter prior to the marathon bombings demonstrates once again the Islamist terrorist threat to our country from within our borders,” said King, the chairman of the Homeland Security panel that oversees counterterrorism and intelligence.

“As has been demonstrated in recent years there is a significant terrorist threat from people living within our country under the radar screen,” he said.

King, along with Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, released a joint statement today encouraging the Obama administration to treat Tsarnaev as a “potential enemy combatant,” depriving him of the rights given U.S. law enforcement suspects in custody, in order to learn more about possible future attacks.
48 Hours

“We have concerns that limiting this investigation to 48 hours, and exclusively relying on the public safety exception to Miranda, could very well be a national security mistake,” they wrote in a statement. “It could severely limit our ability to gather critical information about future attacks from this suspect.”

The Obama administration has not classified Tsarnaev, a U.S. citizen, as an enemy combatant. However, they’ve also opted against reading him the Miranda warning that gives suspects a chance to consult a lawyer before answering questions, according to a Justice Department official.

The administration invoked a public-safety exception that lets law enforcement conduct limited questioning and allows the introduction of statements from those interviews into evidence before reading him the Miranda warning that gives suspects a chance to consult a lawyer before answering questions, said the official, who asked not to be identified because the move wasn’t announced.
Immigration Issue

Some critics of a far-reaching bipartisan effort to revamp U.S. immigration laws hinted that the Boston case could complicate the push.

“Given the events of this week, it is important for us to understand the gaps and loopholes in our immigration system,” said Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, who has opposed previous efforts to offer legal status to undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., as the measure would do.

“While we don’t yet know the immigration status of people who have terrorized the communities of Massachusetts,” Grassley said at a hearing on Capitol Hill, it could “shed light on the weaknesses of our system.”

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a legal resident of the U.S. while his brother, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, became a naturalized citizen on Sept. 11, 2012, according to a government official briefed on the matter who asked not to be identified because the investigation was in progress.

Democratic proponents of the immigration measure urged lawmakers not to allow the situation in Boston to derail it. People shouldn’t “jump to conclusions” and “conflate” the events in Boston with the immigration rewrite proposal, said Senator Charles Schumer of New York.

To contact the reporter on this story: Lisa Lerer in Washington at llerer@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Steven Komarow at skomarow1@bloomberg.net

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6DuBR_xGQg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6DuBR_xGQg

Seen across street after blasts talking with FBI bomb squad. Who were they? What were they and the FBI doing?

Tony Cartalucci
April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/contractors-at-boston-marathon-stood-near-bomb-left-before-detonation/

What appear to be private contractors, wearing unmarked, matching uniforms and operating an unmarked SUV affixed with communication equipment near the finish line of the Boston Marathon shortly after the bomb blasts – can be seen beforehand, standing and waiting just meters away from where the first bomb was detonated.

The contractor-types had moved away from the bomb’s location before it detonated, and could be seen just across the street using communication equipment and waiting for similar dressed and equipped individuals to show up after the blasts.

Image: An already widely distributed photo showing the contractor-types on the bottom left, just left of where the bomb was placed and detonated. The men are wearing matching, unmarked uniforms, large black bags, and appear to be waiting, separately, and “behind” the rest of the crowd. In the upper left corner, a wooden structure forming one half of a temporary photography “bridge” over the finish line can be seen and serves as a useful reference when establishing the contractor-types’ position in other photos.

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Image: After the explosion, two of the contractors seen by the wall next to the bomb, appear across the street, both using communication equipment. This photo too has been distributed and enlarged many times across the Internet. (click to enlarge)

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Image: After the explosion, two of the contractors seen by the wall next to the bomb, appear across the street, both using communication equipment. This photo too has been distributed and enlarged many times across the Internet. (click to enlarge)

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Image: An unmarked SUV with a considerable amount of communication gear on the roof appears, surrounded by identically dressed men. The vehicle parks near the bleachers. (click to enlarge)

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Image: Event staff and contractors both above and below the bleachers begin tearing up the skirting and appear to be looking for something or retrieving something while casualties are still being treated and evacuated across the street. (click to enlarge)

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The men, numbering between 6-8 then begin tearing up the skirting around temporary bleachers erected for the event, opposite the explosion, before taping it off. Then, what appears to be an FBI bomb squad truck pulls up directly behind the contractor-types’ SUV, with a woman clearly wearing the letters F.B.I. on her tactical vest emerging and speaking with the contractor-types. Together they disappear from the scene, leaving their vehicles behind.

Image: What appears to be an FBI bomb squad truck pulls in, with a woman wearing what is clearly the letters F.B.I. on her vest. She talks with two contractors while it appears a third is partially in the truck’s right-hand side. Also note that the area contractors and event staff tore up, is now taped off. (click to enlarge)

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Image: The FBI truck and contractor SUV sit seemingly abandoned – neither the FBI agent, nor the contractors can be seen. What they did, or where they went remains so far, unknown. (click to enlarge)

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It should be noted, that with the exception of the contractor-types, all other responders at the scene, including the FBI agent, can be clearly identified, from police to the fire department, to medics and even individuals wearing vests with “B.A.A. Physician” written on them. It should also be noted that no other uniformed individuals can be seen standing near the bomb site aside from the contractor-types.

These men were unidentified, professional contractors apparently augmenting public servants at the Boston Marathon, present before and after the bomb blasts in the direct vicinity of the incident. After the blasts, whether it was their intended function or not, they appeared to be searching for something under the bleachers before being joined by what appears to be the FBI bomb squad. The FBI and the city of Boston has so far categorically failed to provide any information on these highly suspicious individuals.

Questions That Must be Answered

Several questions must be answered by the FBI, leading the investigation on behalf of we, the American people. The first question is who these men were, with large, black bags in the direct vicinity of where a bomb would detonate, moving away before the blast, and appearing directly across the road afterward. Who hired them and what was their function? Why were they moving amongst the crowd in a semi-covert fashion when all other public servants present were wearing proper uniforms and clearly identified? Did police, firefighters, event organizers, and medics know these men were present and what they were doing?

Why did it appear that the FBI was fully aware of their presence, and in fact working with them, specifically with what looks like a bomb squad unit? Were these contractors specialists in explosives, and if so, what is the significance that at least two of them were spotted just meters from where the blast occurred?

Why These Questions Demand Answers

The checkered, frightening history (see: FBI’s History of Handing “Terror Suspects” Live Explosives) of the FBI’s involvement in fomenting false terror attacks, and even presiding over attacks that succeeded in maiming and killing innocent people, should call into question their presence or involvement at any public event, especially when seen associating with unidentified, semi-clandestine organizations that appear to be private contractors.

Private contractors as well, do not answer or work for the public, but rather the highest bidder. Private contractors, most notably Blackwater and its various incarnations have operated both domestically and abroad, committing obscene crimes and atrocities with seemingly absolute impunity. The term “defense contractor” is in fact a euphemism for mercenary, and has no place in a civilized, democratic world, no matter what their alleged mission statement may claim.

That both of these nefarious entities were present and cooperating in the direct vicinity of the Boston bombings, with at least two contractors standing just meters away from where the bomb actually went off, raises a number of possibilities and concerns. A drill may have been being conducted, though the FBI and city officials have denied this. Or, a threat may have been communicated to event organizers ahead of time, which prompted the inclusion of “auxiliary” security, though again, both the FBI and the city of Boston deny receiving any information prior to the bombings. Whichever contracting firm this may have been, may just have wanted to swindle Boston’s taxpayers for an easy payday, and coincidentally found itself in the middle of extraordinary circumstances.

However, alarming suspicion is raised when the FBI makes no mention of an organization it was clearly coordinating with, particularly in terms of bombs and explosives before and after the incident, considering the nature of the attack. When an already dubious organization attempts to obfuscate the facts of any given event, it is the right and responsibility of legitimate law enforcement, public representatives and the citizenry itself to demand and get answers. If we are not persistent, with the FBI’s bizarre behavior over the past few days, including inexplicably cancelled and suspiciously rushed press conferences, and now what appears to be a Hollywood ending for the case, we may never get those answers.

Note: Most images were taken from Flickr user HahaTango, the entire collection of 150 images from the Boston Marathon can be found here.

Tony Cartalucci’s article first appeared at landdestroyer.blogspot.com

Kurt Nimmo
April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/did-alleged-boston-bombing-terrorist-post-al-qaeda-video-on-his-youtube/

Editor’s note: We are not claiming the man in the video is Tamerlan Tsarnaev. We are saying this video appeared on his Youtube account.

The alleged terrorist, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, killed by police last night, is said to have posted the video below on Youtube. According to an email sent to Infowars.com, the video was pulled from the popular video hosting site, but subsequently reposted to Internet Archive, here.

We do not speak Chechen at Infowars.com, so we are not sure what is being said in the video. However, the video has all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda production, including the flag in the background resembling the al-Qaeda flag.

If the video below indeed appeared on Tsarnaev’s Youtube account, we can expect the official narrative to claim the Boston bombing to be an al-Qaeda attack with all the political ramifications that entails, including undoubtedly an aggressive expansion of the police state in the U.S. and a continuation of the war posture abroad. It will likely also serve as an excuse to expand military action in Africa where, we are reminded, al-Qaeda is expanding operations, particularly in Mali.

People who know Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say it is impossible that he would commit an act of terror

Steve Watson
April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/suspects-twitter-account-discovered-contains-911-truth-comments/

Gawker.com has uncovered a Twitter account for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (suspect number 2), that contains many normal looking tweets.

On the day of the bombing Tsarnaev appears to have tweeted: “Ain’t no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people.”

It appears he is also interested in or training as a lifeguard and recently tweeted “i didn’t become a lifeguard to just chill and get paid, i do it for the people, saving lives brings me joy #lifeguardoftheyear”

In another tweet, he commented on the 9/11 attacks, writing “Idk why it’s hard for many of you to accept that 9/11 was an inside job, I mean I guess fuck the facts y’all are some real #patriots #gethip”.

Other people who know Tsarnaev have expressed extreme doubt that he carried out the bombing.

A user named “Trippin No L’ 4/20″ who claims to know Tsarnaev said he was shocked: “I can’t believe this jizz was a cool cat at my crib daily- this shit is to wild for me- guess you really don’t kno niggas nowadays.” he tweeted.

Another wrote that he didn’t think he was a suspect: “Anyone who believes this BULLLSHITT about Jahar is Fuckinnnnn cooked. He’s the last dude to be harming anyone or anything.”

A user with the moniker @ChinksMcGee wrote: “I never would have thought that someone that smoked as much weed as Jahar would be on the News for terrorism.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKAVAyqRyKE

Another example of desperate flaying on the part of a dinosaur media as it tries to remain relevant

April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/bill-oreilly-attacks-alex-jones-and-infowars-for-daring-to-ask-questions-about-boston-bomber-narrative/

Fox resident blowhard Bill O’Reilly and correspondent Juliet Huddy have attacked Alex Jones and Infowars.com reporter Dan Bidondi. For the two Fox News talking heads it is apparently a serious crime to quiz Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick about the false flag attack in Boston on Monday. It is impermissible to call into question the validity of the official narrative now coagulating around the event. It is forbidden to deviate from the establishment’s script.

Huddy dismissed Jones and Bidondi as “idiots” and the accused sexual predator O’Reilly – who has strongly condemned the First Amendment in the past and has shilled for mass murder in Iraq and Afghanistan – made his disgust manifestly apparent, as usual. Both displayed contempt for the internet and alternative media, a quite natural reaction from two irrelevant teleprompter readers. Fox News in particular and the rest of the bloated script-reading dinosaur media in general are seriously threatened by free expression and news reportage on the web.

O’Reilly and his guest also complained about Infowars.com commentary concerning a Family Guy episode that sickeningly lampooned mass murder at the Boston Marathon. The episode also cast character Peter Griffin as a ludicrously stereotypical Arab terrorist in a fez. For O’Reilly and Ms. Huddy, it is more reprehensible for commentators to attach social and political significance to the cartoon than for Fox News to produce the demeaning and insensitive cartoon in the first place.

O’Reilly’s “pinhead” commentary is merely another example of desperate flaying on the part of a dinosaur media as it attempts to stay relevant and keep the faltering attention of its geriatric viewership.

Steve Watson
April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/father-of-boston-suspects-us-security-services-set-up-my-sons/

The father of the two suspects in the Boston bombing, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has told Russian and Western media that he believes his sons have been framed by US intelligence.

A report from the Russian agency Interfax says that a correspondent spoke with Anzor Tsarnaev, who resides in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.

From the Interfax report:

“I learned about the incident from TV. My opinion is: the special services have framed my children, because they are practicing Muslims. Why did they kill Tamerlan? He was supposed to be caught alive. The younger is on the run now. He was a sophomore at a medical school in the U.S. We expected him to come home for vacation. Now I don’t know what’s going to happen. Tell you once again: I believe special services have framed my children.”

Reports on Twitter also claim that Anzor has said that “all hell will break loose,” if his remaining son, who is currently on the run in a suburb of Boston, is killed.

DC Breaking Local News Weather Sports FOX 5 WTTG

The AP reports that the father of the suspects also spoke with their own reporters. During a short conversation Anzor Tsarnaev was said to have told the reporters that his children were ‘true angels’. He also said that he has two more daughters who live in New York.

He described his younger son as “an intelligent boy” who was studying medicine, and said that both his children are innocent.

“They were set up, they were set up!” he exclaimed. “I saw it on television; they killed my older son Tamerlan.”

The father is then said to have become more agitated and abruptly ended the call angrily, saying, “Leave me alone, my son’s been killed.”

-= The Unhived Mind

Apr 17 2013
http://xbjllb.typepad.com/blog/2013/04/boston-marathon-perps-mossad-mossad-mossad.html

Pulled back after a long absence, this blog will only deal with matters of utmost national security, of which the truth will probably never be known.

Know first that I’m the only guy on the net FIGHTING for a decade PLUS all the “Israel/Mossad pulled 9-11″ idiots, and they are TRULY idiots, because Israel and Mossad would have NEVER trusted a Bush and his Saudi pals farther than they could have thrown them. They DID document 9-11, to cover their own asses, to be sure, but that was the extent of it. EVERY attempt to warn the US, diplomatic, back channel, even to national news media was rebuffed at the highest levels, so they knew it was a Bush false flag op.

But that’s then, not now, and we’re talking about Boston. No matter what comes out, no matter what bullshit the mass media deals, Mossad pulled Boston. And here’s why:

1. America’s entire attention is on the fat putz in North Korea. Bush II-era CIA killed his daddy, and instead of making him more docile, it had exactly the opposite effect. Rightly so is full US attention on nutcase paranoid VENGEFUL Kim Jong-un.

2. THIS makes nutcase paranoid Israel angry. ESPECIALLY after Obama made his trip there to make peace with them and promise a lot of things America will NEVER deliver to gain time. Time is Israel’s greatest enemy, and America’s greatest friend. Through demographics alone, the “State” or “Nation” or GOVERNMENT/MILITARY of Israel, NOT THE JEWISH PEOPLE THEMSELVES, but the COUNTRY, WILL be wiped off the face of the planet by the sands of time, which is REALLY what Armendinejad was quoting. John McLaughlin and Zionist Mort Zuckerman said the same exact thing: “The Palestinian “Problem” will be solved by demographics”.

Meaning: with every Palestinian reproducing at a 10-1 rate over the Jews, all but a small handful will have emigrated/FLED to America and Europe within 10 years. This was CONFIRMED by the CIA and FIFTEEN other US letter agencies. There will be no COUNTRY of Israel; there will only be Palestine and woe to the Jews who refuse to leave.

And paranoid nutcase Israel knows this. And wants one thing and one thing only: For the US to wipe IRAN off the face of the map.

The ISRAELI GOVERNMENT does not want a two-state solution; they do NOT want MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) with Iran; they want Iran wiped off the face of the map and PRONTO and NOTHING ELSE.

They do not CARE that it would cause NUCLEAR WWIII between China and the US. That, they don’t give a flying fuck about. All they care about in their paranoia is that Big Daddy US takes care of their enemies for them.

And so they are MOST UNHAPPY about recent developments in North Korea, which takes focus off THEIR unholy war with Islam.

So, time for the Boston Marathon and to “REMIND” the US that the “true” “real” “enemy” is Islamic terrorism and not the fat putz in North Korea.

Who benefits? Israel, that’s who. NO one else.

3. When assholes like this pull shit, they always think no one will figure out their awesome cleverness. They often try to kill two birds with one stone, thinking no one will notice, make links, and draw conclusions.

WHY was the attack on Boston and not another American city?

Couldn’t be more simple, or arrogant, or INCRIMINATING.

The Prior Pope did everything he could to head off “Holy” “war” with Islam. At least as far as Catholicism was concerned. Didn’t have too much an effect on southern militant right wing christianism in the US, but he did kiss a Koran. Which caused the Israeli powers-that-be to vent their collective spleen.

So, Judaism Israeli-style and Catholicism not getting along too well. Not well at all.

What is significant about Boston, the city of Boston in the US? THINK.

Just about the single MOST CATHOLIC CITY in the country in the single most CATHOLIC STATE in the country.

Mossad didn’t just attack America when they attacked Boston; they attacked Catholicism.

And they thought no one would ever figure it out. Can’t you see the geniuses around their table, talking about what city to hit and why?

4. The attack was more TIMID and symbolic than anything. 2 out of 4 bombs DIDN’T go off ON PURPOSE; this to keep people thinking “What if?”. REAL Islamic terrorists want revenge and blood. Furthermore, explosions that large and only 3 deaths? The entire op was more like a Hollywood STUNT gone wrong. In other words, IT WAS NOT DESIGNED FOR MASS CASUALTIES. This alone tells you it was from a “friend” and “ally”, not a TRUE enemy.

5. After the recent Israel trip, our Intel agencies would have possibly releaxed a bit watching Mossad. Dumb, especially after they’d infiltrated the Secret Service in an Obama assassination attempt which was found out in time and the perp dealt with.

Mossad. Mossad. Mossad.

And don’t think Obama doesn’t know it. And isn’t talking DIRECTLY about them when he says the perps will not escape JUSTICE.

You and I might never hear about it. But rest assured. It will be taken care off.

P.S. About that dark-skinned foreign guy running away from the scene with blood on him?

What would YOU do if you were a US, or worse-yet, a Moslem TOURIST at the scene of that explosion to the point you were, yourself, injured. Would YOU hang around?

Or would you hightail it out of there as fast as you could run, KNOWING you were likely to be instantly blamed and torn apart by a raging mob? As often happens in foreign countries.

Expect that bit of investigation to go NOWHERE.

Mossad. Mossad. Mossad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nqhzsoLyao

Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:11AM
By Jim W. Dean
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/18/298918/israeli-tentacles-into-us-security/

The dust has settled on Boston, America’s newest example and scene of national insecurity.

As Kevin Barrett’s hugely successful Press TV article pointed out yesterday we witnessed corporate media suggesting a major domestic terror attack might have been done by our own security people. Military Intelligence agrees.

Tony Cartalucci followed with his article focusing on how most of the terrorism in America has either been imported in the form of Intel trained sacrificial lambs such as the Chicago bomber, who without ID or luggage was just escorted onto an awaiting plane by security people.

He further described the FBI’s involvement in home grown terrorism by grooming MK Ultra type fringe people and leading them through all the steps necessary to give them an easy terror bust.

Many in the Intel and national security business have watched all this happen just totally aghast not only at the brazenness involved to orchestrate such sting operations, but the general acceptance by a public that seems almost brain dead to the internal threat represented. There is much blame to go around.

The pattern of so-called terror attacks happening when terror drills are being held at the same location has happened way too often to be a coincidence. This leads me to recommend that whenever a terror drill is suggested for the next major public event that all of the security organizers be arrested on the spot and water boarded to get all the details from them.

Corporate media today continued their downhill slide in public trust. They completely censored out the confirmed reports of a bomb exercise drill being conducted at the finish line area. I suspect that DHS just told them that was wrong the media shills took that as true. We have the photos of the bomb sniffing dogs, and what motive would the witnesses have to lie?

Military Intelligence usually suspects US law enforcement for most ‘terror attacks’ because they are intimately aware of Israeli intelligence penetration into not only the FBI but having many tentacles into the Dept. of Homeland InSecurity. Much of this is due to their super asset and first DHS director Michael Chertoff.

It was through his setting up the outsourcing of DHS’s security drills to outside contractors which was the first nail in the coffin for American security. What most don’t know is that these are usually Israeli companies. They play the role of the ‘opposing force’. Chertoff also saw to it that the Israelis got an affirmative action gift of being a first stop for buying security equipment, ahead of American companies even.

If someone were to ask me if other Western countries, when doing their ‘security drills’ if Israeli companies were also contracted to play the opposing force, I would respond, “What do you think?” I think you all are smart enough to see the scale of treason involved in these countries to allow such a situation to develop. More complicated is why all those in their respective security agencies who know this is done to put the Israelis in a position to penetrate them, will never say a word about it publicly.

At Veterans Today we had our counter terror crew going over high resolution photos being sent in and closely reviewed not only for what was to seen, which smart cadets could do, but what was not there, which often tells you a lot more about who is really behind a terror attack.

What we quickly observed was security breach after security breach, like all the doors had been left open. We saw Israeli operational profiles all over the place, many with ear buds getting feeds from higher up spotters who were watching where the cops and bomb dogs were, and where they were not.

Backpacks, including big ones were everywhere to be seen like there was a backpack convention going on in Boston. Most of the police presence seemed to be involved in protecting the runners from the race bystanders with all eyes on tired runners trudging over the finish line.

The obvious glaring weak spot was behind the crowd, always the perfect place for bomb placement as the blast effect would be enhanced bouncing off the solid construction of buildings. But in all of the photos we have seen so far there was no visible uniform police presence in this vulnerable area, just two obvious kind of undercover cops or contractors.

Security protocol would usually have these areas discreetly patrolled by plain clothes officers in ear plug communication with overhead spotters guiding them toward anyone looking suspicious. We have long had special equipment that such undercover cops can carry that can screen what people have in their bags simply be standing next to them.

In the drill they announced they were running they would have had people trying to catch a bomb drop. If not, why else have a drill, other than to pull off a real bombing?

Concealed bomb and weapons detection mobile technology was used long ago for the Secret Service to be able to mingle in a crowd and pick up anyone who had a gun on them. It is much better today, lighter and more accurate.

The pressure cooker bomb is a large target to spot, not the little pipe bomb one might suspect to be used at such a gathering. They can be concealed under an arm or in the groin area. We spotted a suspect with the clear outline of one of these kettle bombs in his backpack. We have not a single report of a backpack search by any witness, photo or video evidence.

This suspect had a tubular potato chip canister in the side of his bag, the same one that was seen when he was captured on video camera placing the second bomb. BTW it went off 12 seconds after the first, a professional bomb placement from training where you would know that someone ducking for cover in a doorway after an explosion like he did would not be suspicious at all. He could have been a patsy as they are routinely used in these ‘exercise’ false flag ops so the local cops can have their fall guy.

Would real security allow people with big backpacks to roam around without some way to screen these bags? No. So what happened? How did two kettle bombs get placed within a 100 yards of the finish line where the perpetrators would know all the TV cameras would be? Who would risk such a ‘certain to get caught’ attack unless they were rigging up as suicide bombers?

Absent from the media coverage today was even a single word of what a tremendous security failure this is. They have so many agencies involved in these joint task forces that is common for many participants to feel someone else is always responsible for doing the real work. Many are just along for the ride and the easy overtime money.

Yes, folks. These events are milked for extra hours fought over so everybody gets their cut of the extra security cash for these big events. Our controlled media did their usual job of not only staying completely away from a horrible security failure, but also diverting the public’s attention from it. CNN was all feel goody hero stories today, when the only needed heroes should have been those who caught the bombers.

What we have here once again is a profile of a security stand down. Could it be incompetence? No, not when you outsource to one of the biggest terrorist operations in the world… the one called Israel. If you tried to do anything to turn this situation around you would be up against the vast majority of Congress as usual… people also are confused about their loyalty. They also are held in contempt in military Intel circles for betraying their country.

We have a photo of the bomber talking to a cohort in the blue sweatshirt top and red sneakers. He also was carrying a big backpack and is a suspect as the first bomber. Our sources tell us he was picked up and is safely on his way home now. I will let you guess where. This will be just another chapter in the book called American Treason. It will take a major shaking up of the country to pry the fingers of these people from our throats. But frankly, I fear the good folks don’t have the stomach for it.

Let me repeat in closing. There was no way that two kettle bombs could have been walked in, placed, and then the bombers get away, without a security penetration letting them do it. And if any of you have any doubts, the ricin letters that made the news today… that a dead giveaway of an organized terror campaign by our own people here, like the anthrax was back around 911 days. That helped get the Patriot Act passed without most of the Congresscritters reading it.

And like the lead FBI guy said at the press conference, ‘someone knows who the bomber was’. He was of course already trying to cover for disappearing the second bomber. So I will ask like he did. All you security people out there who know who was really responsible, we are waiting to hear from you.

Private Military Contractors Under Suspicion at Boston Bombing

Yesterday, Infowars.com posted images of what they referred to as Navy SEALs in civilian field gear lurking at the finish line of the Boston Marathon where two bombs killed 3 and injured hundreds.

It turns out these men were Blackwater-like private military contractors from Craft International, according to investigative journalist Anthony Gucciardi of StoryLeak.com.

The two mercenaries were wearing typical field gear of khaki tactical pants, combat boots, black coats, and carrying suspicious backpacks. But what really gives them away as Craft International mercs is the hat with the Punisher-like symbol on it.

Upper left is suspect at Boston bombing – Upper right is Craft hat for sale in their shop
Bottom is Craft founder and ex-Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (deceased) in the same hat

Gucciardi writes:

There has been much discussion over the two individuals fitted with earpieces and military-esque gear spotted at the Boston Marathon, but as it turns out they may likely be employees of the Blackwater-style private military/security firm Craft International.

Craft International, modeled after Blackwater as an advanced private military training organization, was founded by the late ex-Navy SEAL Sniper Chris Kyle.

Either these serious-looking fellows are big fans of military contractors and want to emulate them, or they’re the real deal. In either case, they seem very suspicious to be at the scene of the crime clearly dressed in civilian mission gear.

Craft describes the reasoning behind the skull symbol as their logo:

Chris Kyle in his Craft gear

The story behind the Craft Skull logo combines several meaningful pieces of Chris Kyle’s life and service to this great nation but mainly honors his fallen teammates. As part of SEAL Team 3, Chris and his fellow teammates painted similar skulls on their gear in order to strike fear in the enemy. The crosshair symbolizes his time spent on a sniper rifle and is also in the form of a templar cross to symbolize his faith. Lastly, the crosshair is on the right eye to honor SO2 Ryan Job USN (SEAL), who was critically wounded when he was shot in the right eye while on deployment to Iraq in 2006.

Following the successful rescue mission by Navy SEALs of freighter Captain Richard Phillips on Easter morning, 2009, Ryan Job was asked by a local reporter if he thought using Navy SEALs against Somali pirates was overkill. His response was, “despite what your mamma told you, violence does solve problems.” Ryan Job died in September of that year following complications during reconstructive surgery.

The Craft Skull is a daily reminder to us all the sacrifices brave warriors have made and what it takes to triumph over evil.

Additionally, a third figure dressed identically is seen crossing the threshold of the finish line holding what appears to be some kind of remote control.

Will someone in the media have the courage to ask the authorities if these clearly suspicious characters are being considered as official suspects?

The deadliest sniper in U.S. history performed near miracles on the battlefield. Then he had to come home.

by Michael J. Mooney
Published 3.18.2013
http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_Magazine/2013/April/The_Legend_of_Chris_Kyle_01.aspx

There’s a story about Chris Kyle: on a cold January morning in 2010, he pulled into a gas station somewhere along Highway 67, south of Dallas. He was driving his supercharged black Ford F350 outfitted with black rims and oversize knobby mudding tires. Kyle had replaced the Ford logo on the grill with a small chrome skull, similar to the Punisher emblem from the Marvel Comics series, and added a riot-ready aftermarket grill guard bearing the words ROAD ARMOR. He had just left the Navy and moved back to Texas.

Two guys approached him with pistols and demanded his money and the keys to his truck. With his hands in the air, he sized up which man seemed most confident with his gun.

Kyle knew what confidence with a gun looked like. He was the deadliest sniper in American history. He had at least 160 confirmed kills by the Pentagon’s count, but by his own count—and the accounts of his Navy SEAL teammates—the number was closer to twice that. In his four tours of duty in Iraq, Kyle earned two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars with Valor. He survived six IED attacks, three gunshot wounds, two helicopter crashes, and more surgeries than he could remember. He was known among his SEAL brethren as The Legend and to his enemies as al-Shaitan, “the devil.”

He told the robbers that he just needed to reach back into the truck to get the keys. He turned around and reached under his winter coat instead, into his waistband. With his right hand, he grabbed his Colt 1911. He fired two shots under his left armpit, hitting the first man twice in the chest. Then he turned slightly and fired two more times, hitting the second man twice in the chest. Both men fell dead.

Kyle leaned on his truck and waited for the police.

When they arrived, they detained him while they ran his driver’s license. But instead of his name, address, and date of birth, what came up was a phone number at the Department of Defense. At the other end of the line was someone who explained that the police were in the presence of one of the most skilled fighters in U.S. military history. When they reviewed the surveillance footage, the officers found the incident had happened just as Kyle had described it. They were very understanding, and they didn’t want to drag a just-home, highly decorated veteran into a messy legal situation.

Kyle wasn’t unnerved or bothered. Quite the opposite. He’d been feeling depressed since he left the service, struggling to adjust to civilian life. This was an exciting reminder of the action he missed.

That night, talking on the phone to his wife, Taya, who was in the process of moving with their kids from California, he was a good husband. He asked how her day was. The way some people tell it, he got caught up in their conversation, and only right before they hung up did he remember his big news of the day: “Oh, yeah, I shot two guys trying to steal my truck today.”

A brief description of the incident appeared in fellow SEAL Marcus Luttrell’s 2012 book Service: a Navy SEAL at War— but not Kyle’s own best-seller, American Sniper—and there are mentions of it in various forums deep in the corners of the internet. Before Kyle’s murder at the hands of a fellow veteran in February, I asked him about that story during an interview in his office last year, as part of what was supposed to be an extended, in-depth magazine story about his service and how hard he worked to adjust back to this world—to become the great husband and father and Christian he’d always wanted to be.

He didn’t want to get into specifics about the gas station shooting, but I left that day believing it had happened.

THE OFFICES OF CRAFT INTERNATIONAL, the defense contractor where Chris Kyle was president until his death, were immaculate. You needed one of the broad-chested security guards from downstairs as an escort just to get to that floor of the building. Sitting under thick glass in the lobby, there was an exceptionally rare, original English translation of Galileo’s Dialogue (circa 1661). A conference room held a safe full of gigantic guns—guns illegal to own without a Department of Defense contract.

At 38, Kyle was a large man, 6-foot-2, 230 pounds, and the muscles in his neck and shoulders and forearms made him seem even bigger, like a scruffy-bearded giant. When he greeted me with a direct look in the eye and a firm handshake, his huge bear paw enveloped my hand. That day he had on boots, jeans, a black t-shirt, and a baseball cap. It’s the same thing he wore most days he came to the office, or when he watched his daughter’s ballet recitals, or during television interviews with Conan O’Brien or Bill O’Reilly.

This was one of the rare chances when he’d have a few hours to talk. Over the next three days, he would be teaching a sniper course to the Dallas SWAT teams and he had three book signings, one at a hospital in Tyler (for a terminal cancer patient whose doctor reached out to him), one at Ray’s Sporting Goods in Dallas, and one at the VA in Fort Worth. He’d also have to fly down to Austin for a shooting event Craft was putting on for Speaker of the House John Boehner and several other congressmen.

“We are not doing this for free,” he said, anticipating a question. “We accept Republicans and Democrats alike, as long as the money is good.”

A few weeks later, he would have to cancel a weekend meeting because he was invited to hang out with George W. Bush. “Sorry,” he said, when asked if anyone else might be able to join. “Not even my wife’s allowed to come.”

He loved the Dallas Cowboys and the University of Texas Longhorns. He loved going to the Alamo, looking at historic artifacts. The license plate on his truck had a picture of the flag used during the Texas Revolution, with a cannon, a star, and the words COME AND TAKE IT. Being in the military forced him to move a lot, and neither of his children was born in Texas. But for each birth, he had family send a box of dirt from home—so the first ground his kids’ feet touched would be Texas soil.

He was outspoken on a lot of issues. He believed strongly in the Second Amendment, politely decrying the “incredible stupidity” of gun control laws anytime he was asked. He said he was hesitant to see the movie Zero Dark Thirty because he’d heard that it was a lot of propaganda for the Obama administration. Once, he posted to his tens of thousands of Facebook fans: “If you don’t like what I have to say or post, you forget one thing, I don’t give a shit what you think. LOL.”

He didn’t worry about sounding politically incorrect. The Craft International company slogan, emblazoned around the Punisher skull on the logo: “Despite what your momma told you, violence does solve problems.”

His views were nuanced, though. “If you hate the war, that’s fine,” he told me. “But you should still support the troops. They don’t get to pick where they’re deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies.”

“The best way to describe Chris,” his wife, Taya, says, “is extremely multifaceted.”

He was a brutal warrior but a gentle father and husband. He was a patient instructor, and he was a persistent, sophomoric jokester. If he had access to your Facebook account, he might announce to all your friends and family that you’re gay and finally coming out of the closet. If he wanted to make you squirm, he might get hold of your phone and scroll through your photos threatening to see if you kept naked pictures of your girlfriend.

Kyle liked when people thought of him as a dumb hillbilly, but he had a remarkable ability to retain information, whether it was a mission briefing, the details of a business meeting, or his encyclopedic knowledge of his own hero, Vietnam-era Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock. While on the sniper rifle, Kyle had to do complicated math, accounting for wind speed, the spin of a bullet, and the curvature and rotation of the Earth—and he had to do it quickly, under the most intense pressure imaginable. Those were the moments when he thrived.

The most common question he was asked was easy to answer. He said he never regretted any of his kills, which weren’t all men.

“I regret the people I couldn’t kill before they got to my boys,” he said. That’s how he referred to the men and women he served with, across the branches: “my boys.”

He said he didn’t enjoy killing, but he did like protecting Americans and allies and civilians. He was the angel of death, sprawled flat atop a roof, his University of Texas Longhorns ball cap turned backward as he picked off enemy targets one by one before they could hurt his boys. He was the guardian, assigned to watch over open-air street markets and elections, the places that might make good marks for insurgent terrorists.

“You don’t think of the people you kill as people,” he said. “They’re just targets. You can’t think of them as people with families and jobs. They rule by putting terror in the hearts of innocent people. The things they would do—beheadings, dragging Americans through the streets alive, the things they would do to little boys and women just to keep them terrified and quiet—” He paused for a moment and slowed down. “That part is easy. I definitely don’t have any regrets about that.”

He said he didn’t feel like a hero. “I’m just a regular guy,” he said. “I just did a job. I was in some badass situations, but it wasn’t just me. My teammates made it possible.” He wasn’t the best sniper in the SEALs teams, he said. “I’m probably middle of the pack. I was just in the right spots at the right times.”

The way he saw it, the most difficult thing he ever did was getting out of the Navy.

“I left knowing the guy who replaced me,” he said. “If he dies, or if he messes up and other people die, that’s on me. You really feel like you’re letting down these guys you’ve gone through hell with.”

The hardest part? “Missing my boys. Missing being around them in the action. That’s your whole life, every day for years. I hate to say it, but when you’re back and you’re just walking around a mall or something, you feel like a pussy.” It nagged at him. “You hear someone whining about something at a stoplight, and it’s like, ‘Man, three weeks ago I was getting shot at, and you’re complaining about—I don’t even care what.’ ”

There was also the struggle to readjust to his family life. “When I got out, I realized I barely knew my kids,” he said. “I barely knew my wife. In the three years before I got out, I spent a total of six months at home. It’s hard to go from God, Country, Family to God, Family, Country.”

But three years after he left the SEALs, he had a job he liked. He could do (mildly) badass things: shoot big guns, detonate an occasional string of explosives, be around a lot of other former special-operations types. His marriage was finally back in a good place. He had a book on the best-seller list. And he had the chance to help veterans through a number of charities.

“A lot of these guys just miss being around their boys, too,” he said. “They need guys who speak their speak. They don’t need to be treated like they’re special.”

He’d often take vets out to the gun range. Being around people who understood what they’d been through, being able to relax and shoot off some rounds, it was a little like group therapy.

With his family, and with training people, helping people, he had found a new purpose. Chris Kyle could do anything if he had a purpose. He’d been like that since he was a little boy.

Kyle served four tours of duty in Iraq, participating in every major campaign of the war.
Courtesy of Taya Kyle

HE WAS THE SON OF A CHURCH DEACON AND a Sunday school teacher. His father’s job at Southwestern Bell had the family moving a lot, so he was born in Odessa, but he told people he grew up “all over Texas.” About the same time he was learning to read, he learned to love guns. He liked to hunt with his father and brother. For his birthday parties, he wanted to have BB gun wars. He perched on the roof of his parents’ house waiting for his friends to dart across the yard. He wasn’t a great shot back then, but at least one friend is still walking around with one of Kyle’s BBs in his hand.

In high school in Midlothian, he played football and baseball. He showed cows through the FFA. He and his buddies cruised for girls in nearby Waxahachie. He also liked to fight. His father warned him never to start a fight. Kyle said he lived by that code “most of the time.” He found that if he was sticking up for his friends, or for kids who couldn’t defend themselves, he got to fight and he got to be the good guy at the same time. Once he felt like he was standing up for something right, he would never back down.

Bryan Rury was a close friend of Kyle’s in high school. Rury was much smaller than his friend, but it seemed they were always standing next to each other. “I think Chris liked looking like a giant,” Rury says.

One time, there was a new kid in school who was trying to make a name for himself by picking on Rury. Kyle came into class one day to find Rury quiet, upset. “He asked me what was wrong, and I wouldn’t tell him,” Rury says. “But he figured it out on his own pretty fast.”

Kyle went over to the new kid’s desk and, in his not-so-subtle, Chris Kyle way, told him he better leave his friend alone. Or else. The kid stood up from his desk, and they went at it. Kyle almost never started the fight, his friends say, but he always ended it. “As they were taking him off to the principal’s office, I just remember him flashing me that giant smile of his,” Rury says.

After high school, he went to Tarleton State for two years, mostly to postpone the responsibilities of adulthood. He spent more time drinking than studying, and soon he decided he’d rather be working on a ranch full-time. But he knew his future was in the military—in the Marines, he thought, until a Navy recruiter told him about all the cool things he could potentially do as a SEAL—and he figured he shouldn’t waste any more time.

Kyle breezed through the Navy’s basic training. He only made it through BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) training by way of sheer resolve. He told stories about lying there on the beach, his arms linked with his friends’, their heads hovering above the frigid rising tide. He knew if he got up and rang the bell—if he quit—he could get hot coffee and a doughnut. The uncontrollable shivering—they called it “jackhammering”—lasted for hours, but he never wanted to stop. He joked that he was just lazy, that if the bell had only been a little closer, maybe his entire life would have been different. But the truth is, nothing could have kept him from his dream.

“He had more willpower than anyone I’ve ever met,” Taya says. “If he cared about something, he just wouldn’t ever quit. You can’t fail at something if you just never quit.”

Taya met Kyle in a bar in San Diego, just after he finished BUD/S. When she asked what he did—she suspected from the muscles and the swagger that he was in the military—he told her he drove an ice cream truck. She figured he’d be arrogant but was surprised to find him idealistic instead. But she was still skeptical. Taya’s sister had divorced a guy who was trying to become a SEAL, and she’d specifically said she could never marry someone like that.

But Kyle turned out to be quite sensitive. He was able to read her better than anyone she’d known. Even when she thought she was keeping something hidden behind a good facade, he could always see through it. That kept them from needing to talk about their emotions or constantly reassess their relationship. They got married shortly before he shipped out to Iraq for the first time.

IT TAKES YEARS TO EARN ENOUGH TRUST TO be a SEAL sniper. Even after sniper school, Kyle had to prove himself again and again in the field, in the pressure of battle. He served other missions before Afghanistan and Iraq, in places he couldn’t discuss because the operations were classified.

As he would eventually describe in American Sniper, his first kill on the sniper rifle came in late March 2003, in Nasiriya, Iraq. It wasn’t long after the initial invasion, and his platoon—“Charlie” of SEAL Team 3—had taken a building earlier that day so they could provide overwatch for a unit of Marines thundering down the road. He was holding a bolt-action .300 Winchester Magnum that belonged to his platoon chief. He saw a woman about 50 yards away. As the Marines got closer, the woman pulled a grenade. Hollywood might have you believe that snipers aim for the head—“one shot, one kill”—but effective snipers aim for the middle of the chest, for center mass.

Kyle pulled the trigger twice.

“The public is soft,” he used to say. “They have no idea.” Because of that softness, he had to have that story, and others, cleared by the Department of Defense before he could include them in his book.

He wanted outsiders to know exactly what kind of evil the troops have had to deal with. But he understood why the Pentagon wouldn’t want to give America’s enemies any new propaganda. He knew the public didn’t want to hear about the brutal realities of war.

Kyle served four tours of duty in Iraq, participating in every major campaign of the war. He was on the ground for the initial invasion in 2003. He was in Fallujah in 2004. He went back, to Ramadi in 2006, and then again, to Baghdad in 2008, where he was called in to secure the Green Zone by going into Sadr City.

Most of his platoon was in the Pacific theater before the 2004 deployment. Kyle was sent early to assist Marines clearing insurgents in Fallujah. Tales of his success in combat trickled back to his team. He was originally supposed to watch over the American forces perched at a safe distance, but he thought he could provide more protection if he was on the street, going house to house with his boys. During one firefight, it was reported that Kyle ran through a hail of bullets to pull a wounded Marine to safety. His teammates, hearing these stories, started sarcastically referring to him as The Legend.

Those stories of bravery in battle proliferated on his third deployment. A younger SEAL was with Kyle at the top of a building in Ramadi when they came under heavy fire. The younger SEAL, who is still active in the teams and can’t be named, dropped to the ground and hid behind an interior wall. When he finally looked up, he saw Kyle standing there, glued to his weapon, covering his field of fire, calling out enemy positions as he engaged.

Kyle said the combat was the worst on his last deployment, to Sadr City in 2008. The enemy was better armed than before. Now it seemed like every time there was an attack, there were rocket-propelled grenades and fights that went on for days. This was also the deployment that produced Kyle’s longest confirmed kill.

He was on the second floor of a house on the edge of a village. With the scope of his .338 Lapua, he started scanning out farther into the distance, to the edge of the next village, a mile away. He saw a figure on the roof of a one-story building. The figure didn’t seem to be doing much, and at the moment he didn’t appear to have a weapon. But later that day, as an Army convoy approached, Kyle checked again and saw the man holding what looked like an RPG. At that distance, Kyle could only estimate his calculations.

He pulled the trigger and watched through his scope as the Iraqi, 2,100 yards away, fell off the roof. It was the world’s eighth-longest confirmed kill shot by a sniper. Later, Kyle called it a “really, really lucky shot.”

Were people taking advantage of a tragedy, or were they grabbing the expensive marathon jackets to help comfort people after the bombing?

Published: April 16, 2013 at 4:07 PM
By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/04/16/Video-appears-to-show-looting-after-Boston-Marathon-bombing/1261366140211/ph1/

A video shot by a bystander in the wake of Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings, showing people taking expensive marathon jackets from a booth near the site of the explosion, has sparked anger over the alleged looting.

The video, posted on Reddit, shows people surrounding a booth and taking jackets meant for finishers from a tent near the finish line.

While it is clear from the video that some people were grabbing more than one jacket, some commenters have disputed their motives, including one YouTube commenter who said he was there.

“They were grabbing the jackets to use as tourniquets you idiots!” wrote spicymeatsandwich. “That’s the reason I grabbed an entire boxful, plus you can see me heading right back towards the injured.”

Another commenter, Sim Salabim wrote people were taking the jackets ” “to comfort the injured or those who could not go back to the hotel.”

“Yes, some people took advantage of it, what can you do,” he wrote, in a now-deleted comment, “but it’s not looting what you see.”

Gawker, which has concluded the video does not show looting, wrote:

“Indeed, the unhurried, casual pace of the crowd doesn’t suggest that they thought the were engaged in an illicit activity. It’s certainly possible, we suppose, that a large crowd of people could unanimously elect to browse, at a leisurely pace, a bunch of merchandise and steal it in full view of cameras and in the midst of an overwhelming police presence. But it seems far more likely to us that they were given the impression that the jackets were being made available for free.”

PROPHECY NEWS FLASH: 15 [UPDATE 17, 18] April 2013
http://www.hogueprophecy.com/boston-marathon-bombing-an-act-of-domestic-terrorism/

(UPDATE: 18 April): A quick note before the main article. Today is the day before two anniversaries dear to anarchist and right wing, home grown, all-American domestic terrorists. April 19 is the 20th anniversary of the Waco, Branch Davidian massacre “and” the 18-year anniversary of a reprisal for it, the Oklahoma City bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. For the record, I cannot shake an intuitive suspicion that the explosion yesterday evening in West Texas, just 19 miles north of the city of Waco, Texas, was not an accident but an act of an arsonist, a domestic terrorist who on off hours entered that fertilizer factory on the north end of town to start a fire he knew would launch an explosion the size of a small nuclear bomb doing massive damage, wounding and loss of life.

The mushroom cloud from the blast that rocked West, Texas on the evening of 17 April.

Being in this business of interpreting prophecies for three decades, I have seen my share of remarkable coincidences and have said these were as much and not evidence of conspiracies. But this time, I am not so certain. I hope this explosion is a dreadfully and badly timed coincidence, and yet… I ask you all, especially readers in the Waco area, to be aware and careful in the next day or two. Let me say again, I have no evidence to support this subjective feeling and I am concerned that the power of the explosion has all but left a crater out of any possible surviving evidence to back my suspicion that some arsonist anarchist or anti-Federalist “Tim McVeigh” out there set off the fire that blew things up, then vanished into anonymity. It is a signature of domestic terrorists that they hit and run, keep their plans close to their chests, unlike al-Qaeda. The Boston Marathon terrorists do this. Perhaps this is also being done in West Texas. God forbid there is another act, another explosion somewhere. Because that would back my intuition’s terrible vision that this was not an accidental explosion, of a rickety fertilizer plant already cited and overshadowed by a bad safety record.

Remnants of the fertilizer plant.

Now back to the main article stream about the Boston bombings:

The first and second Boston Marathon explosions caught on camera.

Friends,

(UPDATE: 17 APRIL 2013) Two bombs contained in steal pressure cookers where left inside abandoned back packs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Monday 17 April, killing three and wounding 176. They were most likely detonated by cell phone signal at 2:15 pm Eastern time. I’m writing this at 2:28 Pacific. I want to post this message before the FBI news conference begins. I have not seen any pictures of the suspect placing one of the bombs. He will be the subject of discussion shortly by the FBI who say cryptically he has been “identified”. That’s a pretty open-ended use of the word. Whether it means they have his ID and know who he is, or whether he is simply the man captured on still and video cell phone cameras the federal agents need the public to help identiy, is soon be revealed.

(Update 3:00 pm Pacific) The FBI news conference has been delayed over an hour now because of a bomb scare at the Boston Federal offices. Back to the 2:28 pm stream:)

Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing.

What I want to say on the record is my intuitive vision of this man, soon to be revealed by the FBI. In my vision he wears a white baseball cap. He is Caucasian, not an Arab. The Boston bombing is an attack of domestic terrorists .

Letters laced with the deadly poisonous agent Ricin were sent to US Senator of Mississippi Wicker and President Obama. These may be related to the bombing, but be mindful that a number of anti-Federal, anti-gun control extremists might be gathering to commit acts of terror because there are many anniversaries coming, dear to Neo-Nazi, anti-tax, anti-federal and white supremacist domestic terrorists. Please take note of these anniversaries (posted 15 April) and be vigilant:

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Joseph Stack. AP/Courtesy of Pam Parker.

Today is 15 April (Internal Revenue Tax Day)
The Internal Revenue Service is a weather vane of Right Wing ire and more extreme elements in the Tea Party Movement. Let me add that I am not painting the Tea Party Movement with a broad brush. Tax and spending reform are important issues this year and one of the key themes for my newest eBook, Predictions for 2013 and Beyond. There is coming the best opportunity in years for the Tea Party with bi-partisan help, to legislate real reform. Be that as it may, where most people seek to legislate change, there are extremists who might throw a bomb or in the case of anti-taxation extremist Joe Stack fly his plane into the Austin Texas IRS building on 18 February 2010, killing himself an IRS official in the building and injuring 13 others, two seriously.

George Washington, by Arnold Friberg.

15 April is a Holiday—Patriot’s Day
This is a civil holiday in Massachusetts commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. Anti-Fed terrorists in America believe a second American Revolution is necessary and must be promoted.

The Waco Massacre. FBI tanks pumping tear gas with flamable accellerant set the compound “accidentally on purpose” on fire?

19 April—The 20-year Anniversary of the Waco Massacre
Friday will be the 20-year anniversary of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) bulldozed and set on fire the Waco Mt Carmel compound of David Koresh, on 19 April 1993, accidentally killing (some believe it was a massacre by design and intent) 78 members of the Branch Davidian sect also known as members of The People of the Seven Seals. Only nine survived. This tragedy became for many domestic anti-Fed militias and extremists “the Alamo” of their cause, even though Koresh and his disciples were not directly associated with right wing groups.

Half the Murrah Federal Building blown down by Tim McVeigh.

19 April—The 18-year Anniversary of the Oklahoma Federal Building Bombing
Right wing extremists Tim McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on 19 April 1995 killing 168 and wounding 680. Tim McVeigh set off a truck bomb on the second anniversary of the Waco Siege first as payback for the deaths by fire of David Koresh and his cult followers and secondly to trigger a revolt against what he believed was US dictatorship by federal government.

McVeigh believed most of the BATF and FBI agents responsible for Waco had their offices at that federal building.

Wounded student dragged out of window during the Columbine massacre on Hitler’s birthday.

20 April—The 14-year Anniversary of the Columbine School Shooting
April 20 is a popular date for White Supremacists domestic terrorist attacks because it is Hitler’s birthday. A couple of wannabe Neo-Nazi high schoolers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold came to the Columbine School, Colorado, heavily armed on 20 April 1999, killing 15, including themselves and wounding 22. Happy birthday evil Adolf!

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So, everyone, be alert. Awareness of your surroundings is one of the best weapons against terror attack. A greater awareness of suspicious bags like those propped up against walls unattended behind the crowds at the Boston blast might have prevented this tragedy.

I have long forecasted that the greater threat coming to America is not from al-Qaeda but from domestic terrorists, predominantly right wing and White Supremacist in nature. I wrote the following observations and predictions 3.5 years ago:

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At the time of this writing (27-28 October), 2009 has a few months left. It may yet witness terrorist attacks in America adopting the new strategy of lone wolf, indigenous jihadists using homemade IEDs and store bought guns to shoot up subways and malls. The spate of arrests of such al-Qaeda sympathetic home grown terrorists in September and October belie what I hope is prevention of the future I forecast in an article back in April 2008 and reviewed in Predictions for 2009: “I predict the next terrorist attack on the US homeland will be small compared to greater danger for democracy coming from the reaction. The death of hundreds in a subway, train or bus blast, or volleys of shots fired by an al-Qaeda sniper in a shopping mall could be deployed by dark elements in the US government to suppress the American dream of a free society. A smaller event than September 11, 2001 will be hyped out of proportion by those elements using Hitlerian tried-and-tested tools of intimidating and disempowering a democratic citizenry with over sold and sensationalized—even outright false flagging—terrorist attacks. Reichstag-fan your fires of terrorism.”

I believe now the window of an overseas-based Muslim terrorist attack is closing as domestic jihad cells replace it. Added to this is a new terrorist danger arising in 2010. Not only from Muslims but white Supremacists, right wing militias. The next great terrorist may be numbered among the angry and unemployable people who disbelievingly watch bankers and CEOs winning bonuses for busting the bank loaning payroll to their jobs. The well-armed American unemployed go out to set a fire or throw a bomb in a CEO limo’s direction.

Mt. Carmel set on fire. Infra-red cameras later revealed FBI and ATF agents firing into the building frm the back side, not filmed by CNN.

Law enforcement in 2010 will have to regard more closely the rise of domestic terrorism in America instigated by similar socio-economic causes breeding anger and hopelessness in the Islamic world. They live under corrupt governments that don’t listen to the people; class elites hold and control most of the wealth while the vast majority of citizens live in declining affluence and/or suffer under the spread and brutal deepening of grinding poverty. The disenfranchised, the hopeless also multiply in this country as bitter soil for the seed of terrorism. I fear some dreadful act is quite possible in 2010 or 2011.

It’s just my oracle’s intuition. I would hope that Washington DC’s police are extra watchful of large trucks being parked on mainstreet Lobby-land: K street. That’s where most retired politicians out of office go to haul in a far more lucrative income in the political afterlife peddling their insider connections as lobbyists for corporate special interest and agent just about anybody else but the American people.

Washington DC has three lobbyists for every legislator. The consequence of not dramatically reforming this systemic cancer on the body of democracy may lead to unbalanced and desperate people committing horrendous acts far worse than the 1995 Murrah Federal Building bombing by Tim McVeigh killing 168 and wounding over 680.

This future need not happen. I pray those in the government who are reading this understand this is only a warning that can only be fulfilled by the current tendency of US president and Congress alike continuing to allow lobbyist influence to infect their decisions.

The Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas, drilled by Stack’s aerial kamikaze attack on 18 February 2010.

No system can long aspire to change we can believe in unless it is anchored in ethical values and acted out with conscious and compassionate behavior at its core. In 2010, America risks losing its moral compass. Americans may navigate back on destiny’s right course towards a new and peaceful Jeffersonian revolution of reform, or the uncharted waters of tomorrow will be rife for domestic terrorists to act, and reactive governments to turn fascist in response down the years of the next decade.

So many of you expected an act of terror in America during the Bush era would work like a Reichstag fire—a false flag terrorist act enabling fascist-leaning circles of the government to exploit marshal law and emergency rule to rob the American people of their rights and freedoms. Now I believe I’ve perhaps seen that future confessed in Predictions for 2009 begin to fade. No operatic, large-scale incident is coming. In its place though is a new tendency: terrorism goes freelance. New faces appear in the prophetic mirror, not foreign, but home born, Arab Americans and Caucasian Americans. I say these things not to frighten but to enlighten an awareness to change the future’s course.

Be also advised of a new wild card in prophecy emerging around the world in earnest in 2010: an escalation of effective and often violent eco-terrorism.

Tim McVeigh, center, led by FBI agents to jail.

There’s more. Right-wing lone wolves believing a liberal black president disenfranchises their future. Is there a man or men trying to be the next Tim McVeigh out there?

We must await such men and remember. Domestic terrorists are far more difficult to stop. They don’t look like foreigners. They know their way around their home turf. Their passports and driver’s licenses pass inspection. They go to flight schools with nary a suspicion why. They work around medical labs or on construction sites with explosive materials. They look like normal Kansan farmers ordering ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel for their combines. How would you suspect one in a million of them also stockpiled nitromethane to manufacture a truckload sized diesel-fertilizer blast?

Now the nagging question hidden in the confessional of many a reader’s mind.

Is the American president in danger?

Yes, for two terms in office, but I present the following prophetic riddle to you. I will answer it fully when I set down to write about Obama as he was recognized in prophecies from around the world. Obama closes the drawing of a karmic circle that the tragic death of Lincoln began. And when the circle is complete, it will be a happy outcome for both president and people.

by Jon Rappoport
April 18, 2013
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/the-boston-murders-a-cult-of-lies-called-government/

Yesterday, I covered the mystery of the pressure-cooker bomb. Where are all the holes in the remains of the cooker that should be there, owing to the fact that ball bearings and nails were packed around the explosive material, and all this shrapnel would have been driven through the cooker out into the air? There are no holes.

At least we should see obvious evidence that shrapnel adhered to the walls of the cooker and pitted it considerably. We don’t see any of that.

Now, we are told, the lid of one of the cookers was found on a rooftop, blown there by the bomb. Yet, again, photos show there are no holes in the lid. No shrapnel adhering to it.

What were the actual bombs at the Marathon?

The whole government scenario in the Marathon murders is collapsing. Mike Adams, writing at naturalnews, is exploring the members of the Craft private security team who were present at the Marathon finish line. At least one member of the team was carrying a radiation detector. What for? As Mike states, these pros don’t work for free. Who hired them? Why were they there? Major media aren’t discussing the subject.

A college track coach. Alastair Stevenson, present at the Marathon, heard police announcements that a drill was taking place. Boston police are stonewalling that report. Why?

The Boston Globe tweeted that the bomb squad was about to detonate a device, in a controlled explosion, across the street from the JFK Library, a mile away from the Marathon. Then, no followup. Nothing. Suddenly, there was no bomb at the Library. It was just a small fire.

A Saudi national, Abdul Rhaman Ali Alharbi, was declared a suspect in the bombing. He was downgraded to a “person of interest.” Then he was innocent, but severely burned. Now he’s not severely burned. His travel visa has been revoked. He’s being sent home, deported, to Saudi Arabia. A free pass out of the country, on the heels of what Reuters is calling an unscheduled meeting between Obama and the Saudi foreign minister at the White House.

This all gives rise to a conclusion. To be a government official, it’s essential to be able to lie. Chronically.

I was recently a guest on Mike Bundrant’s radio show, “Mental Health Exposed.” We discussed cult mentality and how far-reaching it actually is.

You can listen to the show — Cult Mentality with Jon Rappoport (Apr 17, 2013) — here: http://radio.naturalnews.com/Archive-MentalHealthExposed.asp

You can also visit Robert Scott Bell’s radio archives at http://radio.naturalnews.com/Archive-RobertScottBell.asp and find many shows in which Robert and I discuss cult mentality in science, and what I call the Church of Biological Mysticism.

This mentality applies to government and follows the three stages of cult development. By development, I mean deterioration.

Take a federal agency—FBI, ATF, FDA, CIA, NIH, CDC. Each organization starts out with great enthusiasm, upon its creation. It announces big goals and makes an important mission statement. The ideals are high-flying. The personnel are filled with hope and energy. Stage one.

In remarkably short order, something takes shape out of the fog: the leader is far more important than anyone realized.

He not only sets the tone. He sits at the apex of a structure. At first, the structure was merely assumed to be whatever was necessary to forward the objectives. But now, in stage two, it assumes primacy. The leader informs the members (personnel) that the structure must survive. In order to do that, it will have to grow.

There is no going back to the beginning. Widening the organization is a mandate of great priority. And for growth to happen, the members must assert extreme loyalty to the overarching goals, yes, but actually to the organization and the leader.

The leader personifies the structure. He is the monarch. He issues the marching orders to his major minions, and they pass these orders, through the command-and-control apparatus, down to each member.

Through repetitive brainwashing, realities are impressed upon the minds of the adherents (members, personnel). No one can wander off the reservation. Initiative and independent action, while seeming to be useful, are actually counter-productive and even dangerous. This the party line—exactly what would, for instance, keep a police officer from following his nose and his innate curiosity in politically charged investigation like the Marathon bombings.

There are rules, and the burgeoning number of them are there to ensure the survival of the group. The rules have been carefully crafted. They are “for the greater good.” “We’re all in this together.” “What one person does affects everyone.” “Don’t go rogue.”

In this stage two, a transformation is taking place. The idealism of the early days is being squashed, in favor of the collective.

The survival of the collective is hammered, again and again. at the members. Without extreme obedience, the whole structure would fall apart and wash away. And who wants that kind of death?

Stage three makes it appearance with pronouncements about external enemies. The leader carries that essential freight; convincing the members they are under threat is the mind-control glue that holds everybody together.

These enemies want to destroy (or de-fund) the organization. They want to denigrate the group’s objectives. They want to defame the leader.

The enemies, real and imagined, are named. It only matters that they seem to proliferate. Their threatening presence further tunes up the members. “We’re under attack. Don’t waver now. Only the strong survive. Take heart. We will win this war. Obedience is more important than ever.”

It’s an easy step from external to internal enemies. That is the cherry on the cake. “We have a mole. There are traitors among us. Someone has leaked proprietary information. We’ve been infiltrated.”

Now, an atmosphere of secrecy, suspicion, and paranoia spreads like poison among the members. The leader orders internal investigations, to root out the turncoats.

At the same time, the organization is committing crimes. They are lying, they are stealing, they are making alliances with “influential people from the outside.”

This is happening at the highest levels of the structure.

Gone are the high-flying emotions of the early days. Life in the organization is grim.

The structure has become large enough and criminal enough that some members are secretly looking for ways to game their own system. Others have gone passive and simply do what they’re told.

The leader is pictured as a heroic embattled figure, standing on the parapet, directing his troops against invaders.

Defectors from within the ranks are multiplying. But to a degree, the brainwashing holds.

“In these dangerous times, your work is more important than ever. Deserting your post could defeat our objectives. We’re the good guys. Only we know how vital our goals are. We hold the key to survival. Your leader needs you. We all need you. Don’t back out now.”

In the cult of government, there are exceptions. It’s understood that some talented and facile members will leave, only to join the outside criminal allies of the group. Otherwise known as “the revolving door” of government and industry.

There is another level of brainwashing inside big government cults (departments, agencies). “Government is good. Without it, society would collapse. The larger government is, the better it is. The purpose of government is to serve. We need more government, not less. Never do we need less.”

Members are now told, are made to understand, that lying and cheating are absolutely necessary. “For the greater good.” “Ends justify means.” This becomes the cultural imperative.

Therefore, in a situation like the Boston Marathon murders, the discovery of a perpetrator is a must. The case cannot go unsolved. It is far better to arrest and prosecute, or kill, an innocent person than to wind up with nothing.

Winding up with nothing would demean and cast an ill glow on the investigating agencies and even the president of the United States.

And on top of that, the right type of person must be selected as the scapegoat. He must painted with a particular political persuasion.

As time passes, and these government cults continue to expand, the language of criminality filters down from the high echelons, where it has been “the royal speech” for a very long time, to the lower levels.

The pretense is stripped away. “Do what you need to.” “We’re making deals.” “Line up the Senator. He knows which side his bread is buttered on.” “Don’t tell (another agency) what we’re doing. They’d use it against us.” “Invoke national security and tell them to go screw themselves.” “Get me the file. We’ve got the goods on that bastard. He’s not going to mess with us.” “All hands on deck. I want a complete report on our accomplishments over the past year for the budget hearings in six months. Pad it. This has to look brilliant.” “Hey, that’s our lobbyist, not your lobbyist.” “We’re cooking the intelligence. What the hell else would you expect us to do.”

April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/facebook-blocks-infowars-post-on-suspicious-men-wearing-backpacks/

For some reason, the folks at Facebook are blocking an Infowars post pointing out several suspicious people wearing large black backpacks, that some have identified as members of the group Craft International, hovering within feet of the Boston Marathon bombing.

The following article is being blocked by Facebook:
http://www.infowars.com/navy-seals-spotted-at-boston-marathon-wearing-suspicious-backpacks/

When you try to post the article, here’s what you get:

We discovered this moments ago when users began emailing us screenshots of failed posting attempts:

Despite the fact that news organizations like the Washington Times have also reported on the mysterious men spotted wearing large black backpacks at the scene, the Infowars post seems to be the only one being blocked.

Has Facebook been asked by the FBI to censor Infowars content because of the damning photos proving private contractors were actually casing the Boston Marathon PRIOR to the explosions happening?

This appears to indicate classic government censorship like that displayed by the Soviet Union who only allows printed matter, literature, and photographs that are in accordance with the official ideology and politics of the Communist Party.

Here are some of the photos the FBI has ordered people not to look at:

Despite the fact that news organizations like the Washington Times have also reported on the mysterious men spotted wearing large black backpacks at the scene, the Infowars post seems to be the only one being blocked.

Has Facebook been asked by the FBI to censor Infowars content because of the damning photos proving private contractors were actually casing the Boston Marathon PRIOR to the explosions happening?

This appears to indicate classic government censorship like that displayed by the Soviet Union who only allows printed matter, literature, and photographs that are in accordance with the official ideology and politics of the Communist Party.

Here are some of the photos the FBI has ordered people not to look at:

April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/this-is-what-martial-law-looks-like/

An Infowars.com reader has sent in the photo below – militarized cops looking for a lone suspect in Boston. By the look of it, you’d think these cops are about to engage in a pitched battle with a heavily militarized foe, not some 20-something supposed terrorist who allegedly exploded a home-made black powder bomb.

Fourth Estate is infested with politicking axe-grinders

Steve Watson
April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/will-obama-insider-media-mouthpieces-apologise-for-fingering-tea-party-patriots-as-bombers/

Now a clear narrative has emerged that the main suspects in the Boston bombing were radicalized foreigners who recently converted to Islam, will the numerous analysts, advisors and media talking heads on the left issue apologies for openly suggesting that Tea party followers and patriots were likely behind the bombing?

As we have reported all week, despite zero tangible evidence indicating that the attack was carried out by an anti-tax protester or a “right-winger,” numerous personalities on the left went ahead and made the connection anyway, as a way of pushing their political agendas.

- Just hours after the bombing, Michael Moore blamed the Tea Party for the tragedy, tweeting “2+2 =” followed by “Tax Day. Patriots Day.”

- A Salon.com opinion piece published last night entitled, “Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American,” expressed the desire that the “bomber ends up being a white anti-government extremist.”

- Former Bill Clinton and Obama advisor David Axelrod also hinted on MSNBC that the attack could have been a form of tax protest.

- CNN analysts claimed that “extreme right-wing individuals” are fond of the pressure cooker device featured in al-Qaeda’s magazine that was purportedly used to bomb the Boston Marathon finish line.

- CNN’s Wolf Blitzer stated on live television within one hour after the bombings: “It is a state holiday, in addition to the Boston Marathon. It is a state holiday in Massachusetts today, called Patriots’ Day. And who knows if that had anything at all to do with these twin explosions?”

- MSNBC’s Chris Matthews also theorized that the bombing could be the result of a protest against federal income taxes. “As you point out, and I just forgot, I filed already. It’s filing day for the federal income tax, which does cause some emotions around the country – sometimes in the wrong parts of the brain anyway,” Matthews said during his show.

- BBC News coverage suggested that “chatter within the intelligence services” indicates that right wing extremists could be behind the attack, with analysts noting that the bombing occurred on Patriot’s Day, the holiday that commemorates the first battles of the American Revolutionary War.

- In comments to the media, Richard Barrett, the former United Nations co-ordinator for the al-Qaeda and Taliban monitoring team said that the timing of the attack on Patriots’ Day and the relatively small size of the devices suggested the work of a domestic extremist.

- Esquire’s Charles P. Pierce also made the connection, noting that Monday is the “official Patriots Day holiday” in Massachusetts, celebrating the Battles at Lexington and Concord. He also pointed out that April 19, the actual date of the battles, is connected to Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh, who apparently considered himself a “waterer of the tree of liberty and the like.”

- Former FBI agent Brad Garrett said he wouldn’t be surprised if the bombing had been carried out by a domestic extremist “patriot” group or individual in an attempt to make a statement.

- Huffington Post blogger and Al Sharpton radio producer Nida Khan also blindly speculated that “all these anti-gov groups” could be behind the attack.

- A US Forest Service PR rep also took to Twitter to blame the bombing on the Tea Party, writing, “I fear nutty logic goes like this … Patriots Day. April 15. Tax Day. Bad government. Boston. Tea Party. Let’s show ‘em.”

- Actor and comedian Jay Mohr blamed the bombings on the Second Amendment, tweeting, “What bothers me most about today is that we’re getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change.”

This kind of disgusting rhetoric from so many of these public figures led statewide organizer for the Massachusetts Tea Party Carlos Hernandez to express his anger at opportunists milking the tragedy for political points scoring. Hernandez lost his 8-year-old nephew Martin Richard, who was the youngest victim of the bombing.

“I just hope the politicians don’t try to show up at the funeral,” said Hernandez. “If these guys try to use it as political crap, I might get arrested.”

It is blatantly clear that the talking heads mentioned above were willing that the atrocity be pinned on anyone associated with the political right in order that the Obama administration would be able to fully exploit the attack for its own ends.

It is also clear that elected representatives and even investigators were being led down the “domestic extremist” garden path by such rhetoric in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

Richard DesLauriers, the special agent in charge of the Boston FBI office, asserted very early on that “The person who did this was someone’s friend, neighbor or coworker,” ruling out the possibility that the attack was carried out by foreigners who entered the United States.

Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, went further, telling reporters, “There are a lot of things that are surrounding this that would give an indication it may have been a domestic terrorist.”

Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House intelligence, said the investigation was leaning towards the likelihood that the bombings were the work of a “lone wolf” extremist.

For a long time now, government lobby groups such as The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with an already out of control Department Of Homeland Security have relentlessly pushed the notion that “right wing extremists” are the biggest threat to the security of the nation.

Of course, their definition of a right wing extremist in their own reports is libertarian gun owners, Ron Paul supporters, Infowars readers, or anyone opposed to the policies of the Federal Reserve.

Americans who believe the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are worth protecting from the predatory ravages of the federal government are now routinely considered “extremist” right wingers by these organisations and agencies.

There are still holes you could drive a bus through in the emerging narrative of the Boston bombing suspects. The matter of unidentified private security agents crawling all over the scene of the crime operating some kind of drill immediately prior to the attack has also not been addressed by the FBI or the media. The possible Saudi connection has also been swept under the rug without being properly addressed.

At no point, however, has there been any indication whatsoever in any form that American “patriots”, “right wingers” or tea party types were involved in the attack. The fact that this suggestion was uniformly rolled out by talking heads and analysts serves as proof, once again, that the mainstream media is infested by individuals and groups with a distinct political agenda to demonise Americans who still value their rights.

Will there be apologies? Will there be punitive measures? Not Likely.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

Islamic terror from Caucasus next phase of plan to undermine our liberty

Kurt Nimmo
April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/boston-bombers-role-of-cia-in-chechen-terror/

We will be told brothers Anzor and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are part of a renewed effort by al-Qaeda to attack America.

The narrative now emerging in the Boston Marathon bombing is that the perpetrators are from Chechnya or a nearby region and the attacks are a product of Islamic terrorism.

“The Chechen jihadi network is very extensive,” the neocon Walid Phares told Fox News. “They have a huge network inside Russia and Chechnya.”

“They could well be supported by a significant international network,” warned Bush era neocon and former United Nations ambassador, John Bolton.

Fox cites the globalist Council on Foreign Relations in a report today on the Chechen connection to the alleged Boston terrorists and notes that the late Chechen warlord Ibn al-Khattab met with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Fox points to a George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute report issued in 2010 that says Chechnya is seen by “jihadi theoreticians” as place where “fighting is not only legitimate but also compulsory.” The report also claims noted Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov attempted to align the insurgency “with the global jihadist narrative” and supported the idea of an “Islamic emirate in the Caucasus.”

Fox predictably omits important facts as it works to establish a new radical Islamic threat – primarily that the so-called insurgency in Chechnya was largely a covert CIA initiative. Rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Al Khattab were trained and indoctrinated in CIA sponsored camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, notes Michel Chossudovsky. Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) played a key role in organizing and training the Chechen rebel army. The ISI also played an instrumental role in supporting the Afghan Mujahideen, a Muslim paramilitary force that would eventually mature under the guiding hand of the CIA et al into the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

The British MI6 asset Abu Qatada raised money for the Chechnya jihad and the notorious Finsbury Park mosque imam Abu Hamza al-Masri – an informer for two British security services in London – raised funds for both the jihad in Chechnya and bin Laden’s Darunta camp in Afghanistan.

The CIA also worked to destabilize the Balkans, a fact documented by the media in Europe but largely ignored in the United States. The effort to convert the Balkans into a “safe haven” for fanatical jihadists was aided by the CIA and the Pentagon. In 1993, CIA asset Osama bin Laden reportedly installed his number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to run the organization’s operations in the Balkans.

Despite all the evidence the United States, Britain, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia orchestrated efforts to undermine the Soviet Union – not only during its occupation of Afghanistan, but also in the Soviet Union’s Muslim states – and spread radical Sunni conflict throughout the region, we will be expected to believe brothers Anzor and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are part of a renewed effort by an international al-Qaeda to attack America. The effort by the CIA to shepherd this fanatical movement will, of course, be omitted.

This will be the narrative broadcast in the coming days by the establishment media. In response to this supposedly renewed effort by al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Chechnya, we will be expected to consent or at least passively acquiesce to the next phase of police state intrusion on our liberties.

This article was posted: Friday, April 19, 2013 at 11:42 am

Mike Adams
April 19, 2013
http://www.naturalnews.com/039980_The_Craft_photos_communications_van.html

A detailed, hi-res photo of more “The Craft” operatives and what appears to be their mobile communications van has just surfaced. “The Craft” is a group of private military operatives who have been revealed through a fast-growing number of photos published by Natural News and Info Wars.

The mainstream media is engaged in a total blackout and refuses to run any photos of “The Craft” operatives. This story is quickly becoming the biggest media cover-up in history.

Natural News was the first to identify the brand of the radiation detector being held in the hand of one “Craft” operatives. Now, we appear to be the first to run this photo of what looks to be an extremely high-end mobile communications van with seven more “Craft” operatives.

The van clearly has a foldable satellite dish as well as what is possibly a microwave communications dome. The vehicle is a Chevy Escalade that has been outfitted with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of roof racks and communications equipment.

Note: We can’t be 100% certain this vehicle belongs to The Craft team, but it fits their M.O. While all the other emergency vehicles on the scene are clearly marked, this vehicle is unmarked. The proximity of The Craft members to the van is also an indication that this vehicle may be a “rally point.”

Here’s the image:

For a hi-res version of this photo, click the following link:

http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/The_Craft_Communications_…

IP satellite?

We may have identified the nature of the dish on the top of the vehicle. It closely resembles Quickspot IP satellite systems.

Click here to visit the Quickspot IP page to see more photos.

Quickspot allows a vehicle to have broadband internet access on demand, anywhere in the world.

Here are some additional photos of “The Craft” operatives that the alternative media has spearheaded while the delusional mainstream media continues to pretend that none of these photos even exist!

Jon Rappoport
April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/fbi-tells-america-believe-us-and-no-one-else/

The implication is clear: there is official truth and then there is everything else. How many times has that assertion put America in the dumper?

As I write this, one suspect in the Marathon bombings is dead, and the other suspect is apparently surrounded in a house in Watertown, Massachsetts. (6:55AM, Pacific) The city of Boston is locked down.

Once events reach this point, an overwhelming number of people believe the authorities. They accept what is happening. The FBI must have it right. Reject all other possibilities.

That’s always a dangerous assumption.

Yesterday, at a heralded press conference, seen by millions around the world, Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston division, produced photos and video of two suspects in the Marathon bombing.

He stated: “…these images should be the only ones, I emphasize, the only ones that the public should view to assist us. Other photos should not be deemed credible, and they unnecessarily divert the public’s attention in the wrong direction, and create undo work for vital law-enforcement resources.”

Translation: Ignore all the images uncovered by independent researchers, citizen reporters, bloggers. Forget, for example, about photos of those men who appear to work for Craft International, a private security contractor, who were standing at the finish line of the Marathon. We, the FBI, are running this show. We’re the pros, we deal, you behave.

NBC’s Brian Williams, the Unctuous One, in his lead-in to the press conference, said: “It’s been twenty-four hours of fits and starts, and false reports on people who have been pursued in this investigation, including folks who have been identified through photography, but this will be the word from the FBI.”

Translation: The guessing is over. Drum roll. The F B I has the real goods. Those other photos aren’t officially certified by law-enforcement, or by us, the fawning water carriers for the Bureau and DHS. And that unfortunate and cruel detention of the Saudi lad, who was misidentified as a suspect, but later released, his travel visa now revoked, his deportation back to Saudi Arabia underway, after an unscheduled meeting between Obama and the Saudi foreign minister? Means nothing. We were informed by reliable sources that it means nothing. We decide what’s relevant, we give it to you and you take it.

Richard DesLauriers, who starred in the FBI press conference, made his bones at the Bureau by engineering the exchange of 10 Russian sleeper agents in the US for four CIA agents who were in prison in Russia. That was his big career move.

The Russian sleeper agents had been operating under the nose of the FBI in the US, who, in typical fashion, weren’t making any arrests. They were just tracking these Russian spies and watching them, for more than 10 years, as the spies passed across intelligence to their Russian controls.

This was a very delicate exchange, mainly because FBI field agents a) didn’t want to let the Russians go back home and escape prosecution and b) because the FBI and the CIA hate each other, and the FBI people weren’t all that enthused about the value of the deal. Bring home four CIA people in return for releasing 10 Russian sleeper agents? Nothing to celebrate there.

So now Richard DesLauriers is telling the American people: look at the photos of the two men on the FBI’s radar and nobody else. Ignore all other photos and all other information.

Harken back, if you will, to another bombing incident. Oklahoma City, in 1995. The Murrah Federal Building. Remember? Tim McVeigh? The FBI was cooking the books on that one all the way.

Just one example: A secret Department of Justice report on the bombing was presented to a very select audience. This DOJ report wasn’t undertaken voluntarily. No. FBI whistleblower Frederic Whitehurst had forced it to happen, because he’d gone public and said the FBI lab had fabricated evidence in the McVeigh case.

Serious evidence. It turned out there was no reason to believe ammonium nitrate (fertilizer) had been the main explosive used to blow apart the Federal Building on the morning of April 19, 1995. A FBI lab supervisor named David Williams had decided ammonium nitrate was the substance because defendant Terry Nichols possessed a receipt for its purchase.

So Williams made the lab evidence look like it confirmed ammonium nitrate. But it didn’t.

The DOJ report detailing all this was so damning, the judge in the McVeigh trial ran away from it like a wild horse. He refused to allow the report into evidence. He forbade it from being discussed at all.

Why was this so crucial? Because independent bomb experts had gone on the record with a quite different scenario. I interviewed three of them. They agreed that an ammonium nitrate bomb, in the Ryder truck at the curb, parked in front of the Federal Building, could not have caused the profile of damage sustained by the building. Impossible.

Therefore, McVeigh, whatever he was guilty or not guilty of, had accomplices. Professionals, who had wired charges into the columns of the structure. These charges had wrought the real destruction.

But the FBI did everything in its power to focus on McVeigh and and the amateur Nichols only. They ruled out every other lead, and there were plenty of them.

The FBI essentially said, “These are the two suspects. Don’t look for anybody else. Pay no attention to anyone who says there are other perpetrators. They’re crazies. We know the truth.”

Just like now.

In 1995, Americans completely bought into the false FBI evidence and story.

Once the FBI rolls and the news media back up the FBI, it’s a fait accompli. The public automatically follows suit. How could things be any different? How could so many resources be devoted to anything but the truth?

“The FBI killed one terrorist. Now they have his brother, the other bomber, surrounded. This is it. This is the only story. Everything else is nonsense.”

Yes, no, and maybe are reduced to yes.

“The FBI would never have come this far with the case if they didn’t have things right.”

Yes, that was exactly the mindset in Oklahoma City in 1995. Until it wasn’t. Until independent researchers uncovered miles of undiscovered information about other suspects and FBI lies.

Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at http://www.nomorefakenews.com.

Anthony Gucciardi
April 19, 2013
http://www.storyleak.com/media-flips-boston-suspect-sunil-tripathi-to-dzhokar-tsarnaev/

Early this morning, IB Times and Russia Today had ‘confirmed’ with Boston Police that the Boston Marathon suspect still evading police was indeed Sunil Tripathi. Now, in a 180 move, the suspect has changed to Dzhokar A. Tsarnaev based on a new AP report.

It seems the media cannot stick with a suspect, pinning the Russian native and follower of Islam as the new ‘confirmed suspect’ hours after claiming that Boston Police had detailed the missing Sunil Tripathi as the suspect to CBS news. It was originally reported early this morning by the International Business Times:

“Boston police on Friday revealed the names of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, one of whom is an Indian origin person, Sunil Tripathi, reported CBS-affiliated television station WFSB.”

Sunil Tripathi had gone missing last month and was reportedly ‘depressed’ and left a suicidal note behind before leaving his Philadelphia apartment. Aside from looking very similar to the suspect in the FBI photos, Sunil Tripathi’s troubled history painted the very picture of a bomber. You can see the similarities in the photo below:

Dzhokar Tsarnaev — Russian Immigrant

Despite the similarities and convenient back story, AP is now reporting that Dzhokar Tsarnaev is indeed the correct suspect — despite supposed reports from Boston Police. The suspect is only 19 years of age, and ended up settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts after coming over from Chechnya.

Whether or not this will be the last suspect pinned by the media is yet to be seen, however the Independent is reporting that the second suspect was Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s brother — who is now reported to be dead. The new report says:

“The missing suspect has been identified as 19-year-old Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev from Cambridge. National security officials have confirmed that the two suspects are brothers, and the New York Times is reporting that the suspect killed by police has been identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26.”

April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/police-threaten-reporters-in-boston-suburb/

As a coordinated police state envelopes Boston and its suburbs, the Associated Press reports that police are threatening reporters.

“If you want to live, turn off your cell phone,” a police officer told journalists in Watertown, Massachusetts.

It is not clear if the police believe cell phones will detonate explosives and endanger residents or if they now consider reporters with cell phones as terrorists.

Regardless, the order is likely to put a damper on coverage of the events in Boston.

April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/police-state-lockdown-in-boston/

Officials in Boston have imposed what is being described as a “total lockdown” as police search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

ABC News reports:

Across the area, as police cars screamed down streets and helicopters hovered ahead, authorities urged the public to stay inside, their doors locked to anyone but a law-enforcement officer.

“There is a massive manhunt under way,” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said. “We are asking people to shelter in place.”

The lockdown initially affected more than 300,000 people in Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, Brighton, Allston and Belmont, but by 8 a.m., the entire city of Boston was paralyzed, officials said.

On Thursday evening, Boston police tweeted: ”Door-to-door search 4 suspect in Watertown continues. Uniformed officers searching. Community consent critical.”

Travel in the city of over 600,000 is now virtually impossible. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has suspended activity. All schools and public buildings are closed. “All city employees were told to stay in place and not come to work. If they are already at work, they have been asked to stay in place,” NBC News reports this morning. All taxi service in the city of Boston has been suspended pending further notice, according to Fox 4 News.

In Watertown, Massachusetts, State Police confirm they are conducting a door-to-door, house-to-house search. “Police will be going door by door, street by street, in and around Watertown. Police will be clearly identified. It is a fluid situation,” Dailybhaskar reports.

According to CBS News, “Shelter in place” is usually used for chemical or biological attack.

History tells us that false flag is a favored form of statecraft

Paul Joseph Watson & Kurt Nimmo
April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/why-government-should-be-the-first-suspect-in-any-terror-attack/

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon attack, with authorities struggling to retain a coherent official narrative in the face of photos which show numerous unidentified identically dressed men wearing black backpacks at the scene of the blast, it’s necessary to revisit the evidence of why government should be the very first suspect in the event of any terrorist atrocity.

Image: Flickr

False flag terrorism – attacks manufactured or provocateured by governments and then blamed on other groups – is a tactic that stretches back almost 2,000 years.

Nero and the Great Fire of Rome

The Roman consul and historian Cassius Dio, his contemporary Suetonius and others say the Emperor Nero was responsible for the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD.

Legend claims Nero had one-third of the city torched as an excuse to build Domus Aurea, a 300 acre palatial complex that included a towering statue of himself, the Colossus of Nero.

Prior to the fire, the Roman Senate had rejected the emperor’s bid to level a third of the city to make way for a ‘Neropolis,’ an urban renewal project.

The Roman historian Tacitus wrote that when the population of Rome held Nero responsible for the fire, he shifted blame on the Christians for ‘hating the human race’  and starting the fire.

The Spanish American War: Remember the Maine

By the late 1800s, the United States was looking for an excuse to kick Spain out of Cuba. U.S. business was heavily invested in sugar, tobacco and iron on the Caribbean island.

The U.S.S. Maine was sent to Havana in January of 1898 to protect these business interests after a local insurrection broke out. Three weeks later, early on the morning of February 15, an explosion destroyed the forward third of the ship anchored in Havana’s harbor, killing more than 270 American sailors.

President McKinley blamed Spain after the U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry declared that a naval mine caused the explosion.

American newspapers blamed the Spanish despite a lack of evidence. “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war,”  newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst told Frederic Remington after the illustrator reported that the situation in Cuba did not warrant invasion.

A number of historians and researchers later argued that the ship was blown up by the United States to provide a false flag pretext to invade Cuba and expel Spain.

The United States occupied Cuba from 1898 until 1902, although an amendment to a joint resolution of Congress forbid the U.S. to annex the country.

Wilson’s Pretext for War: The Sinking of the Lusitania

Nearly two thousand travelers, including one hundred Americans, were killed on May 7, 1915, when a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania, a luxury Cunard Line British ocean liner.

Prior to the sinking, the German embassy in Washington issued a warning. Newspapers in the United States refused to print the warning or acknowledge the German claim that the ship carried munitions.

Wilson’s government issued a flurry of diplomatic protests after the sinking and exploited the tragedy two years later as a pretext for America to enter the First World War.

Nearly a hundred years later, in 2008, divers discovered the Lusitania carried more than four million rounds of rifle ammunition.

“There were literally tons and tons of stuff stored in unrefrigerated cargo holds that were dubiously marked cheese, butter and oysters,” Gregg Bemis, an American businessman who owns the rights to the wreck and is funding its exploration, told The Daily Mail.

Hitler’s Fascist Dictatorship: The Reichstag Fire

In February of 1933, a month after convincing Germany’s president that parliament must be eliminated, Hitler and the Nazis instigated the Reichstag fire.

Hitler then urged president Hindenburg to issue an emergency decree restricting personal liberty, including the right to free expression and a free press, limitations on the rights of association and assembly, warrantless searches of homes, property confiscation, and violations of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.

The Nazis used the decree to crack down on their political opponents . They worked behind the scenes to force through the Enabling Act, which legally allowed Hitler to obtain plenary powers and establish a dictatorship.

Gestapo Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring would admit that, “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

Prelude to World War: The Gleiwitz Incident

Six years after the Reichstag Fire, the Nazis staged the Gleiwitz incident. Nazi commandos raided a German radio station in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany. The raid was part of Operation Himmler, a series of operations undertaken by the SS as Hitler set the stage for the invasion of Poland and the start of the Second World War.

SS operatives dressed in Polish uniforms attacked the radio station, broadcast an anti-German message in Polish, and left behind the body of a German Silesian known for sympathizing with the Poles. The corpse was then offered to the press as evidence that the Poles had attacked the radio station.

Israeli False Flag Terror: The Lavon Affair

In 1954, the Israelis activated a terrorist cell in response to the United States making friends with the Egyptian government and its pan-Arab leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Israelis were worried Nasser would nationalize the Suez Canal and continue Egypt’s blockade of Israeli shipping through the canal.

Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion decided a false flag terrorist attack on American interests in Egypt would sour the new relationship. He recruited and dispatched a terror cell that pretended to be Egyptian terrorists.

The plan, however, contained a fatal flaw. Israel’s top secret cell, Unit 131, was infiltrated by Egyptian intelligence. After a member of the cell was arrested and interrogated, he revealed the plot and this led to more arrests. Israeli agents were subjected to a public trial revealing details of the plan to firebomb the U.S. Information Agency’s libraries, a British-owned Metro-Goldwyn Mayer theatre, a railway terminal, the central post office, and other targets.

In order to deflect blame, the Israeli government tried to frame its own Defense Minister, Pinhas Lavon, but the true nature of the plot was eventually made public.

Operation Northwoods: Targeting American Citizens

In the covert war against the communist regime in Cuba under the CIA’s Operation Mongoose, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously proposed state-sponsored acts of terrorism in side the United States.

The plan included shooting down hijacked American airplanes, the sinking of U.S. ships, and the shooting of Americans on the streets of Washington, D.C. The outrageous plan even included a staged NASA disaster that would claim the life of astronaut John Glenn.

Reeling under the embarrassing failure of the CIA’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, president Kennedy rejected the plan in March of 1962. A few months later, Kennedy denied the plan’s author, General Lyman Lemnitzer, a second term as the nation’s highest ranking military officer.

In November of 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Gulf of Tonkin: Phantom Attack on the U.S. Military

On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson went on national television and told the nation that North Vietnam had attacked U.S. ships.

“Repeated acts of violence against the armed forces of the United States must be met not only with alert defense, but with a positive reply. That reply is being given as I speak tonight,” Johnson declared.

Congress soon passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which provided Johnson with pre-approved authority to conduct military operations against North Vietnam. By 1969, over 500,000 troops were fighting in Southeast Asia.

Johnson and his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, had bamboozled Congress and the American people. In fact, North Vietnam had not attacked the USS Maddox, as the Pentagon claimed, and the “unequivocal proof” of an “unprovoked” second attack against the U.S. warship was a ruse.

Operation Gladio: State Sponsored Terror Blamed on the Left

Following the Second World War, the CIA and Britain’s MI6 collaborated through NATO on Operation Gladio, an effort to create a “stay behind army” to fight communism in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.

Gladio quickly transcended its original mission and became a covert terror network consisting of right wing militias, organized crime elements, agent provocateurs and secret military units. The so-called stay behind armies were active in France, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Switzerland.

Gladio’s “Strategy of Tension”  was designed to portray leftist political groups in Europe as terrorists and frighten the populace into voting for authoritarian governments. In order to carry out this goal, Gladio operatives conducted a number of deadly terrorists attacks that were blamed on leftists and Marxists.

In August of 1980, Gladio operatives bombed a train station in Bologna, killing 85 people. Initially blamed on the Red Brigades, it was later discovered that fascist elements within the Italian secret police and Licio Gelli, the head of the P2 Masonic Lodge, were responsible for the terror attack. Other fascist groups, including Avanguardia Nazionale and Ordine Nuovo, were mobilized and engaged in terror.

Operation Gladio ultimately claimed the lives of hundreds of people across Europe.

According to Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a Gladio terrorist serving a life-sentence for murdering policemen, the reason for Gladio was simple. It was designed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened.

Terror in the modern age

In the United States, the modern age of terrorism is defined by the FBI’s policy of fomenting and provocateuring patsy terrorists to carry out attacks via entrapment.

As the New York Times reported last year, the vast majority of domestic terror plots in recent years were “facilitated by the F.B.I.”

The most infamous case of the FBI steering a terror plot was the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Before the attack, the FBI planted informant Emad A. Salem within a radical Arab group in New York led by Ramzi Yousef. Salem was ordered to encourage the group to carry out a bombing targeting the World Trade Center’s twin towers. Under the illusion that the project was a sting operation, Salem asked the FBI for harmless dummy explosives which he would use to assemble the bomb and then pass on to the group.

At this point the FBI cut Salem out of the loop and provided the group with real explosives, leading to the attack on February 26 that killed six and injured over a thousand people. The FBI’s failure to prevent the bombing was reported on by the New York Times in October 1993, as well as CBS News in the clip below.

Underwear Bomber

Detroit Lawyer Kurt Haskell witnessed a well-dressed man help the “underwear bomber ” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab clear security before the attempted attack on an airliner on Christmas Day 2009 despite the fact that the bomber had no passport, in addition to the fact that his own father had warned U.S. intelligence officials of the threat posed by Abdulmutallab a month before the attempted attack.

It later emerged that the State Department was ordered not to revoke Abdulmutallab’s visa by “federal counterterrorism officials” even though the accused bomber had known terrorist ties.

Haskell maintains that Abdulmutallab was carrying a fake bomb and was the unwitting dupe in another case of government entrapment.

This is by no means an exhaustive length of cases involving false flag attacks steered or provocateured by governments – such an endeavor would fill an encyclopedia-sized book – but it is a reminder that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, and only the myopically naive would fail to shine the spotlight on the state in the immediate aftermath of any terrorist attack.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

Dead Men Tell No Tales

April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/fbi-orders-you-not-to-look-at-this/

Why does the FBI say we should only look at photos they give us? And now the patsy is dead.

April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-on-breaking-boston-bombing-shootout/

Alex gives the latest news on the shootout with the Boston bombing suspects.

Eyewitnesses say men planned to attack University

Paul Joseph Watson
April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/boston-bombing-suspect-killed-another-on-the-run/

Within hours of the FBI naming two culprits in the Boston bombings while aggressively demanding that no attention be focused on any other potential suspects, police found themselves engaged in a deadly shootout with the two individuals, killing one while the other remains on the run.

“Two men identified by law enforcement sources as the Boston Marathon attack suspects — armed with explosives and guns — battled authorities in a Boston suburb early Friday morning, unleashing chaos until cops took one of the men into custody, and the other fled, the sources said. Officials later said the the suspect taken into custody died,” reports NBC News.

Doctors said the suspect had “suffered extreme trauma to his trunk area” and had “a combination of blast and gunshot wounds.”

Another suspect who was later released was held at gunpoint by police and later marched naked to a squad car.

Eyewitnesses said the suspects set off grenades to try to fight off police and that they also had what looked like backpacks and a “pressure cooker bomb,” matching the explosive device used in the Marathon bombings.

The standoff erupted shortly after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot dead after he investigated a disturbance on campus. Some have speculated that the suspects were preparing to attack the University.

One of the alleged culprits has been named by 4chan researchers as Sunil Tripathi, a student who has been missing from his Philadelphia apartment since March 16. It is believed that Tripathi, seen wearing a white hat in the FBI photos, is still on the run while his alleged accomplice is the one who was shot dead by police.

“The fact that Sunil Tripathi’s information was able to be dug up so quickly by 4Chan’s community and posted hours before the police even managed to engage Sunil in Watertown shows the lightning fast capabilities of alternative news and the internet at large,” writes Anthony Gucciardi. “This is why the mainstream media is failing to hold an audience and experiencing dwindling statistics while alternative news sources that capture the pulse of ongoing investigation manage to come out on top.”

If we accept that the suspect killed by police was involved in the bombings, any information he could have known about additional accomplices or the numerous private security men that were also walking around the scene of the blast wearing heavy black backpacks, has now been buried.

In addition, a possible Saudi connection to the bombings which led to a “person of interest” being deported shortly after the Saudi Foreign Minister held an unscheduled meeting with President Obama, will also be harder to uncover if police kill the remaining culprit.

In any case where wider involvement in a plot needs to be covered up, the best kind of pasty is a dead patsy, so don’t be surprised if Sunil Tripathi meets the same fate as his alleged accomplice within the next 24 hours. Dead men tell no tales.

If the suspects named by the FBI are the ones responsible for the bombings, they appear to have zero connection to the Tea Party, conservatives, gun owners, or libertarians, meaning the likes of Michael Moore and David Axelrod – who both asserted a Tea Party connection within hours of the bombing – got it completely wrong and owe conservatives a pretty hefty apology.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

April 19, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/fbi-ignores-questions-about-drills-other-suspects-at-press-conference/

It has been a quite a week — We go from a lone wolf suspect to now a dynamic duo and we are told not to look at any other photos of anyone else carrying a back pack. And definitely don’t look at the agent casing the area who we (the FBI) blurred out for part of the video. Only look at the two guys one with a grey backpack. It does not matter that we told you it was a black backpack we have an explanation for that. Just shut up and listen to the FBI we are your gods.

-= The Unhived Mind

Huge manhunt for Boston bomb suspect

People across Boston and surrounding suburbs have been told to stay indoors amid a massive police manhunt for one of two men suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, remains at large after he escaped a shoot-out in which another suspect, his brother, died.

“Stay indoors with the doors locked,” the Massachusetts governor has said.

Three people died and more than 170 were hurt when two bombs exploded near the finish line of Monday’s marathon.

The FBI released several images of two men they were hunting in relation to the bombing, one wearing a white cap, the other a black cap.

Police said “suspect number one” had been killed early on Friday, and they were looking for “suspect number two”, the “white-capped individual”, later named as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The black-capped suspect – widely named in the US media as Tamerlan Tsarnaev – was the fugitive’s elder brother.

Both are said to be of Chechen origin, and are reported to have moved to the United States about 10 years ago.
Blast wounds

The manhunt began late on Thursday when university police officer Sean Collier, 26, was killed on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus.

Two men carjacked a driver at gunpoint and drove away with the driver still in the car. They later released the man unharmed.

Police chased the suspects, who threw bombs and exchanged gunfire with police, seriously wounding one officer.

In the Boston suburb of Watertown, officers and the men were involved in a gun battle lasting 10 minutes, according to witnesses.

The authorities in Massachusetts Bay have suspended the transport system and no vehicles are being allowed in or out of the Watertown area.

The warning to stay indoors was later extended to the whole of Boston, in what correspondents said was an unprecedented move.

“Stay indoors with the doors locked, and do not open the door for anyone other than a properly identified law enforcement officer,” Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said on Friday morning.
Gunshot wounds

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama was briefed on developments in the manhunt and investigation for about an hour in the White House Situation Room.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, also at the briefing on video link, said the authorities were “part of the way there” in bringing the Boston terror suspects to justice, AP reported.

Overnight, video footage emerged showing a fully-clothed suspect lying on the floor, surrounded by police. More video was shown by US media of a suspect being led into a police car after being stripped of his clothes.

But it is not clear who the men were, or what happened after their apparent arrests.

Dr Richard Wolfe, of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said an individual was brought in with multiple blast and gunshot wounds to his upper body.

He was in cardiac arrest when he arrived at hospital and despite attempts to resuscitate him, he was pronounced dead at 01:35 (05:35 GMT), Dr Wolfe said.

The authorities were investigating whether the dead man had a home-made bomb strapped to his body when he was killed, reports said.

Boston police Commissioner Ed Davis said he believed the man being hunted in the Watertown area was a “terrorist”.

“We believe this to be a man who came here to kill people,” he said.

A grey Honda CRV vehicle, which reports said had been sought in connection with the suspects, was found on Friday morning in the Boston area, Connecticut police said.

The father of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said his son was a second year medical student in the US and was hoping to be a brain surgeon.

But Anzor Tsarnaev told the BBC that that he believed the secret services had framed his sons.

“It was a terrorist attack carefully organized by secret services – I don’t know which ones. My son used to go to a mosque, so they once paid us a visit to ask why he is doing that.

“Yes, there was such an episode. So they put all the blame on him and shot him. That’s it.”

Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle of the suspects who lives in Maryland, said he was “ashamed” of their alleged involvement in the bombings.

“Yes of course we’re ashamed, they’re the children of my brother,” he said.

Asked what the bombers’ motives may have been, he replied: “Being losers, hating everyone around them.”

Monday’s attack on the Boston Marathon killed Martin Richard, aged eight, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lu Lingzi, 23, a postgraduate student from China.

-= The Unhived Mind

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Ignorance is bliss.

9:59 PM 04/16/2013
http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/16/salon-lets-hope-boston-marathon-bomber-is-a-white-american/

The liberal online magazine Salon published an opinion piece Tuesday evening by columnist David Sirota entitled, “Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.”

Sirota argued that if the perpetrator of Monday’s bombing attack, which left at least three people dead, is identified as a Muslim, then conservative Republicans will use the tragedy to block Obama administration policy goals like immigration reform.

“If recent history is any guide, if the bomber ends up being a white anti-government extremist, white privilege will likely mean the attack is portrayed as just an isolated incident — one that has no bearing on any larger policy debates,” Sirota wrote in his Salon piece, which featured an image of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh cropped beside a photograph of Osama bin Laden.
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“It will probably be much different if the bomber ends up being a Muslim and/or a foreigner from the developing world. As we know from our own history, when those kind of individuals break laws in such a high-profile way, America often cites them as both proof that entire demographic groups must be targeted, and that therefore a more systemic response is warranted. At that point, it’s easy to imagine conservatives citing Boston as a reason to block immigration reform defense spending cuts and the Afghan War withdrawal and to further expand surveillance and other encroachments on civil liberties,” Sirota wrote.

Sirota is not the only liberal media commentator to attempt to politicize Monday’s tragedy. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer speculated on a link between Patriots Day and the motive behind the bombings, while NBC News reporter Luke Russert speculated that the 1993 Waco siege, which occurred on Patriots Day, might have inspired a right-wing terrorist in Boston.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof used the tragedy to attack Republican politicians, tweeting Monday, “Explosion is a reminder that ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking apptment.” Kristof later apologized for the tweet.

Sirota has employed attention-grabbing, race-baiting rhetoric in the past.

Sirota said in December, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, that a new profiling system should be established to monitor mentally-ill individuals, but that Republicans would not support that effort because it would mean profiling white men.

A recipe for how to make pressure cooker bombs, which investigators say were used in the Boston Marathon attack, was most notoriously published in the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire.

By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
7:37PM BST 16 Apr 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/9998886/Boston-Marathon-bombs-al-Qaedas-Inspire-magazine-taught-pressure-cooker-bomb-making-techniques.html

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The recipe – along with a rationale for post-9/11 terror – was printed three years ago in al-Qaeda’s English-language promotional online magazine, Inspire.

In an article, it instructed readers on how, as its headline writers put it, to “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom”.

It gave the types of explosive, timers and other ingredients needed – along with, it said, a pressure cooker.

That article was from the first edition of the magazine. Written in perfect but slightly hysterical English, some thought it was a hoax or satire along the lines of the film “Four Lions”.

In fact, most analysts remain convinced it was the brainchild of Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni-American propagandist for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and was edited by Samir Khan, another American citizen who had travelled to Yemen to join the group.

It was clear in its market – the disaffected young men in their mid-twenties, whether converts or of Muslim origin, who studies show are by far and away the biggest source of recruits to the jihadist cause.

Subsequent editions suggested even more random forms of violence that anyone could carry out, such as driving a car into crowds as a weapon. The aim was to cause maximum response with a minimum of fuss.

Its methodology was in some ways a sign of weakness, an acknowledgement that well-planned, large scale attacks on the scale of 9/11, or for that matter the Oklahoma outrage by a white supremacist, were unlikely to be repeated because of increased security and the erosion of al-Qaeda’s command structure by drone strikes.

Other “spectaculars” had failed, such as the attempt to down an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 by the so-called “underpants bomber”, an Awlaki recruit of Nigerian origin, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

By contrast, smaller scale random attacks had notable success: most strikingly, before Inspire’s first edition but clearly an incident its authors had in mind, Nidal Malik Hasan, the US army major who shot 13 people dead at his base at Fort Hood, Texas, had been in direct contact with Awlaki.

As new editions appeared, investigators took Inspire ever more seriously.

A disaffected US army private, Naser Jason Abdo, jailed for life in August 2012 after being found in possession of a bomb with which he said he was going to blow up a restaurant popular with soldiers from Fort Hood in an act of solidarity with Hasan, had a copy of the Inspire article.

In his hotel room were all the ingredients listed, including two pressure cookers.

Last October, Quasi Muhammad Nafis, accused of attempting to bomb a Federal Reserve Bank building in New York, was said by prosecutors to have read Inspire and even to have written an article in the hope that the magazine would publish it.

He, though, was trapped by an FBI sting operation. His car bomb was a fake given him by an undercover operative.

Awalaki and Khan were both killed in an American drone strike in Yemen in September 2011. The magazine has continued to publish, however, and while the pressure cookers do not prove Islamist terrorists were involved in the Boston attack, that is only part of the story.

For all its semi-comic tone, the magazine’s strategy of balancing relatively small-scale bombing with dramatic symbolism for political effect is an important chapter in the modern terror playbook. And its recipes are available for anyone.

Jon Rappoport
April 18, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/is-the-boston-pressure-cooker-bomb-a-lie-and-a-hoax/

When the Trade Center was destroyed on September 11, 2001, I urged readers and researchers to focus on the explosions as the first order of business.

That was because I had researched and written about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. I and others discovered that the official scenario about the bomb in the Ryder truck, parked at the curb outside the Murrah Federal Building, was grossly incomplete.

Such a device could not have produced the profile of damage sustained by the building. General Ben Partin and other bomb experts had seen that fact. They’d diagrammed it and explained it.

The obvious conclusion was: bombs wired into columns of the Murrah Building had done the significant damage.

So again, in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing, I urge people to examine the explosions closely.

I have questions. For example, as described in the YouTube video. “Boston Massacre False Flag Terrorism—Pressure Cooker,” Daniel Vincent Kelley points to a few simple facts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE480YxCtbo

A photo of a mangled pressure cooker, posted by press outlets all over the world, shows the pressure-cooker plug and, near it, one small round hole, machined apparently by the manufacturer. But…no other small holes. I see discolorations but not dozens or hundreds of holes.

Yet we are told that the Marathon bombs were placed inside pressure cookers and packed with nails and ball bearings. If that were true, the explosions would have created many, many small holes as the inserted shrapnel flew through the cooker and out in every direction.

In the official press photo, there are no such holes.

How is that possible?

In fact, since a large piece of the pressure cooker is missing, it appears that the explosive was a shaped charge of some kind. Part of the cooker is mangled but intact; another part is missing, presumably revealing in which direction the shock wave traveled.

Charges are shaped when they are put in place, because the maker wants the explosion to be vectored; otherwise, the explosion will exit its confined space spherically, equally, in all directions.

A shaped charge would strongly suggest a pro at work, not an amateur who built the device in his kitchen. In which case, we would be looking at a whole different scenario.

This is significant because, for example, media outlets are busy trying to make connections between home-made pressure-cooker bombs and “right-wing extremists.”

People might reply, “Well, if the pressure cookers show such gaping flaws in the official story, why would the real killers have done such a bad job of covering their tracks? They would be smarter than that.”

They weren’t smarter in 1995 in Oklahoma City, and they weren’t smarter in New York, in 2001, where it was claimed that both Towers fell because of plane collisions.

They weren’t smarter in Aurora, either, where two witnesses claimed there were at least two killers inside the theater. Nor were they smarter in Newtown, where so many questions and contradictions remained unanswered.

If we infer that the Boston pressure-cooker scenario is wrong, it is a very short step to conclude the scenario is a cover story, designed to obscure the truth. In that case, what is the truth? Who was really responsible for the death and destruction on April 15?

Pros pretending to be amateurs? Pros whose death-dealing work is being concealed by law-enforcement officials, with a concocted version of what happened?

At this stage of the investigation, and from now on, these questions must be asked seriously and probed seriously, regardless of the official line.

That’s what I’m doing here. Asking questions. If there is a reasonable explanation for the pressure-cooker contradictions, I want to hear them.

I’m going to try to get even more specific, to stimulate research. Examine the press photo of the pressure cooker yourself. Does it show a whole cooker, with all parts intact, but bent and distorted, or does it show only part of a cooker, with a major section missing?

And second, if the bomber packed only one side of the bomb with nails and ball bearings and BBs, could the piece that is missing in the photo have contained all the holes caused by the shrapnel exiting the pressure cooker?

If we are really looking at the whole cooker, then we should we also see many holes. We don’t.

If we are looking at only part of the cooker, then regardless of whether the bomber packed all the shrapnel to exit through the missing piece, the fact that it’s missing suggests a shaped charge, the work of a pro.

Either way, somebody is deceiving us.

Jon Rappoport

The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails atwww.nomorefakenews.com

This article was posted: Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 6:08 am

-= The Unhived Mind

“Other photos will not be deemed credible”

Paul Joseph Watson
April 18, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/fbi-ignores-men-with-backpacks-at-scene-of-boston-bombings/

The FBI has attempted to blacklist photos which show men working for a private military organization wearing heavy backpacks and appearing to take part in a drill at the Boston Marathon, instead focusing on two other individuals while proclaiming, “other photos will not be deemed credible.”

As Infowars has documented over the last two days, photos taken from the scene of the blast show numerous individuals wearing identical clothing while carrying heavy black backpacks, talking into cellphones and in one case placing one of the backpacks on the ground.

Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi was at the FBI press conference and attempted to get questions answered about bomb drills that eyewitnesses said were taking place on the morning of the marathon, but was ignored and subsequently confronted by two large men at the end of the conference.

In not only ignoring but aggressively attempting to discredit the photos showing men who are likely employees of the private security firm Craft International on the scene of the bombings engaged in some kind of drill, the FBI has signaled its intention to continue the cover-up of what really happened.

View the photos the FBI says are “not credible” and refuses to even address below.

April 18, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/video-fbi-releases-of-new-patsy-suspects/

The FBI released grainy video of two Boston Marathon bombing suspects at a press conference Thursday. As expected, they’ve completely ignored bombing suspects and private contractors pointed out by Infowars and others.

The following still images are found on the FBI website:

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Steve Watson
April 18, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/ricin-arrest-suspect-appears-to-be-mentally-unstable-democratic-supporter/

Police in Mississippi have arrested a man in connection with the ricin letters that were intercepted earlier this week before reaching their intended targets; the President, and a Republican Senator, also from Mississippi. Initial research suggests that the man is a Democratic supporter, a fact skipped over by much of the mainstream media.

The New York Times reported the arrest of Paul Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, Miss. late yesterday, but provided scant detail on the man believed to have sent the deadly substance intended for Obama and Senator Roger Wicker.

Both letters, which were intercepted at mail sorting houses in Maryland before reaching Washington, were signed off with the phrase “This is KC & I approve this message.”

Reporters and internet sleuths searched the phrase and noted that in countless instances, Curtis had used it on forums, as well as on his Facebook page, and his twitter account. He had even signed off on videos of himself impersonating Elvis Presley with the phrase.

Also on Curtis’ Facebook about page was another phrase that had been used in the ricin letters; “To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance.”

It appears that since his identity was uncovered, someone has been removing the matching phrases from the Facebook account. Given that Curtis is in custody, it is presumably not him that is altering the Facebook account.

Under “political views” Curtis lists himself as an “Independent”. However, he is pictured with a bumper sticker that states “CHRISTIAN and a DEMOCRAT”. Curtis also describes himself as a Christian on his Facebook page. There are also several posts in which Curtis encourages support for his “friend” Jason Shelton, a democratic Tupelo mayoral candidate.

Shelton himself has told reporters that he believes Curtis to be “insane and out to harm people,” adding that he had blocked Curtis on Facebook several days ago because of continual harassment.

“The guy is definitely not a friend of mine,” Shelton said. “He’s never been a friend of mine.”

Pundit Press located a Sodahead profile for Curtis, which lists his political views as Liberal, but states that he did not vote for Obama.

In several instances on his Facebook page and elsewhere online, Curtis states that he has previously written letters to both President Obama and Senator Wicker.

In one post on the RipoffReport website, Curtis writes:

I sent letters to State Representative Roger Wicker, Senator Trent Lott and Thad Cochran. I never heard a word from anyone. I even ran into Roger Wicker several different times while performing at special banquets and fundraisers in northeast, Mississippi but he seemed very nervous while speaking with me and would make a fast exit to the door when I engaged in conversation leading up to my case against NMMC.

This is where it gets slightly weird, as Curtis’ letters are mainly in reference to what he describes as “a secret war… that is making Billions of dollars for corrupt mafia related organizations and people.” Curtis claims that he was fired from a janitorial job at North Mississippi Medical Center some years ago after he discovered “dismembered body parts” and a “severed head” backing up the hospital’s drainage system.

He claims that the hospital is engaged in an organ harvesting conspiracy and that he was hounded and threatened during a lengthy legal battle in court over the incident.

“3 Years of research lead to countless court battles, cops harassing me weekly, death threats, personal & financial losses, several thefts, my home burned down, car exploded, marriage dissolved & bankruptcy,” Curtis writes on the website.

“They distracted my career, they stalked, they trolled, they came in to my home, took my computers, had me arrested 22 times and guess what? I am still a thorn in their corrupt anals!” he writes in another post.

While it appears that Curtis filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against the Tupelo hospital in 2000, there does not appear to be any evidence that he was involved in a lengthy court case, given that the complaint was dismissed less than a year later.

Curtis appears to believe he is some kind of activist attempting to “expose the illegal body parts and organ trade market world-wide”. He claims “I personally sent out more than a million emails in one year detailing what happened to me when I found the body parts at NMMC.”

He also registered a petition on the Change.org website about two years ago calling for federal regulations of organ harvesting.

The Clarion-Ledger reports that Curtis has a criminal history and mental issues.

“If it’s Kevin Curtis, we’ve had him in our jail about 4 times, mostly misdemeanors like simple assault. But in 2008 for telephone harassment and stalking,” Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar said.

“I think he has some very serious psychological issues from my dealings with him. In the past I had read some of his Facebook postings and it was very far out there. He’ll get down on you and bash you with everything he’s got, even making up stuff, and I’ve seen that side of him.” the Sheriff added.

However, the Sheriff expressed surprise that Curtis could be behind the ricin letters, noting “It doesn’t surprise me he’d do something off the wall, but something this extreme, I’m surprised.”

While he may be unstable, Curtis is clearly not stupid, if the picture of a Mensa membership certificate on his Facebook page is genuine.

As we reported yesterday, speculation regarding the targeting of Senator Wicker suggested that his recent vote to end a filibuster on gun control had made him a target for a right wing pro-gun group or individual. As we noted, however, this did not jive at all given that Wicker is, nonetheless, a staunch critic of gun control legislation and has vowed to filibuster any attempt to further restrict firearms.

It is now clear that the gun control issue likely has little to do with the attempted attack on the Senator, if indeed Kevin Curtis is found to be the culprit.

It is not clear what Curtis’ views on the gun control issue are. However, he did make the following post on Facebook with an accompanying link to a Huffington Post article on gun control legislation:

Hmmmm..This is just a crazy guess on my part (and what do I know, I’m just a performance artist with a fetish for pretty arched feet) buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut…I’m thinking that no matter WHAT laws are EVER passed thru the REVOLVING doors of our justice $y$tem & Congress…..that BAD PEOPLE who refuse to allow God into their hearts will ALWAYS find a way to get their cowardly little hands on a weapon……I might also ad that if a person spends enough time on thinking how to take another person’s life, he or she could do so with a hair pin, a thumb tack or a wall clock (they just don’t have the “CLIP” like those ole nasty assault weapons do. I’ll leave you with one question……………”WHY IS IT GOOD OLE SAM WALTON CAN INSTALL THE EYES OF HEAVEN CAMERA SYSTEM IN EVERY WALMART OF THE WORLD WHERE THEY CAN SEE THIEVES COMING AND/OR GOING FROM A MILE AWAY AND CATCH 98% OF THOSE WHO TRY TO STEAL THEIR MERCHANDISE YET WE CAN’T APPLY THAT SAME TECHNOLOGY TOWARDS SECURING OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS AND PROTECTING OUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET WHICH IS OUR CHILDREN…………..LEADERS OF THE FUTURE”? HMMMMMMMMMM

Curtis also uploaded a photo of a gun to his “singer/songwriter” Facebook page on Tuesday, with the caption “say hello to my little friend.”

In a further interesting Facebook post, Curtis commented on the Boston bombing, writing:

“we the people are just not safe anymore! I mean bombs where folks are “racing”??? Elephants in Tupelo Circus getting SHOT??? What next! I guess there will come a time when Elvis fans can’t even go out to watch a bunch of Elvis Impersonators pay tribute to a man who gave his life for we the people! Geesh! It’s a sad sad world!”

In our report yesterday, we outlined how a narrative was being driven in the media that the ricin letters could be connected to the Boston attack, in a repeat of the anthrax attack following 9/11. The suggestion, from mainly left leaning media, was that right wing tea party extremist types could be making a statement against gun control by carrying out an attack on Patriot Day and “tax day”, and then following it up with threats to the president for trying to push gun control, and Senator Wicker for voting to end the filibuster on the gun control bill.

That narrative now, quite clearly, has little gravitas. It is much more likely that Senator Wicker was targeted because he was well known to Curtis, if indeed Curtis is found to be responsible.

A booking officer, who declined to give his name to local reporters, said Thursday. It was not immediately known what charges Curtis faced.

This story will now likely fade from the national headlines, given that it seems to be in no way connected to the Boston attack, and particularly given that the suspect cannot be in any way framed as a “right wing extremist”.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

Mike Adams
April 18, 2013
http://www.naturalnews.com/039977_The_Craft_Boston_marathon_private_military_contractors.html

Natural News has now confirmed that at least five private military contractors were operating on scene at the Boston marathon, and that they all carried black backpacks which look very similar to the backpack carrying the pressure cooker bomb (see pictures below).

The mainstream media is completely censoring any mention of these “Craft” operatives, pretending they don’t even exist. Only the alternative media is conducting real investigative journalism on these bombings. The mainstream media isn’t interested in the truth; they only want to spin the attack into a new way to somehow blame conservative Americans for something they had no part in.

Thanks to the help of researchers posting on 4Chan, plus a bit of our own analysis, we’ve been able to bring new research to light as you’ll see in the photos below.

Who is this guy and what is he holding in his hand?

The following photo was snapped mere moments after the first bomb detonation. Many people are asking, “Who is this guy?” and why is he dressed in combat boots and military BDUs (pants)? More importantly, what is he carrying in his hand?

We were able to get a close-up of the object in his hand:

With a bit of research, we were able to confirm this object is an “Inspector Radiation Alert” device that detects the kind of radiation which would be produced in a dirty bomb attack or a nuclear attack:

This immediately brings up all sorts of questions, such as: Who hired this guy? Whose side is he on? Why would he anticipate the need for a nuclear radiation detector? What kind of private military operative routinely carries such expensive gadgets?

Four more operatives with the exact same uniforms
As we browsed through the photos, we located four more private military operatives with the exact same dress: Tan combat boots, tan BDUs, black jackets, black backpacks and tactical communications gear.

Here’s a picture of three of these men reacting to the explosion. The one in the middle is the same guy in the radiation detector photo, above:

There are several things worth noting in this image:

1) All three of the men look surprised, even shocked by the events. This might argue against their prior knowledge of the bombings.

2) The object in the right hand of the man in the middle may resemble a small handgun, but I’m sure it isn’t. Why? Because no highly trained private military operative would carry a handgun with a “pincer” grip as appears in the photo. A proper grip on a handgun is far deeper into the palm. This object is most likely the same radiation detector shown above, just captured from a weird angle with a flapping leather case of some sort.

3) The man on the left, an older gentleman, appears to be holding an object in his right hand which seems capable of being actuated with his thumb.

4) The man on the right reveal “The Craft” skull logo on his shirt because his jacket just happened to open up for this photo (see below).

Here’s a photo comparison of “The Craft” logo on his shirt:

Here are two more operatives on the scene, wearing the exact same uniform:

If you look at the hat for one of these men, you can clearly see “the Craft” skull logo on his hat:

Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle was also a member of The Craft. He was murdered by one of his close friends a few months ago. The appearance of The Craft operatives at the Boston marathon bombing raises new questions about Chris Kyle’s death:

Here’s Chris Kyle on national TV wearing the “Craft” hat:

Here’s the Craft motto, which says “Violence does solve problems.”

If you still doubt these are “Craft” operatives, check out The Craft website where all these images, logos and uniforms are instantly confirmed.

Bomb bag resembles the black backpacks worn by The Craft operatives

Here’s where all this gets incredibly spooky: The backpack that carried the pressure cooker bomb looks very similar to the black backpacks worn by The Craft operatives:

Here’s another view of the “Craft” skull logo on a training shirt, taken from their own website:

This photo shows The Craft operatives at a trade show. Everybody is wearing the trademark tan combat boots and tan BDUs:

What does it all mean?

First off, let’s get the attacks of the moron trolls out of the way — people who will say these photos are a “conspiracy theory.”

How are photos of actual people at the event a conspiracy theory?

They aren’t. In real police work, they’re called “evidence,” and the people in these photos should be persons of interest.

But they aren’t. The entire mainstream media and law enforcement apparatus is now pretending these men don’t exist. (Now that’s their conspiracy theory!)

We all know, however, that The Craft operatives don’t work for free. They aren’t a band of volunteers. And that means somebody paid them to be at the event.

Who paid The Craft to be there? And what was their mission?

Why is their existence at the Boston marathon being memory-holed? Why are they not “persons of interest” in the investigation?

Why do they carry radiation detectors? What’s in their backpacks? (A ham sandwich?)

The fact that the media refuses to even acknowledge the existence of these private military operatives is quite telling all by itself.

Images of men from private security firm confirm eyewitness reports of exercise

Paul Joseph Watson
April 18, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/boston-authorities-in-cover-up-of-bombing-drills/

Images that show employees of a private security firm involved in what appears to be a bombing drill confirm eyewitness reports that such an exercise was underway in the hours preceding the attack on the Boston Marathon, although authorities continue to deny that any drill took place.

When Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi questioned the Massachusetts Governor, the Mayor of Boston, and the FBI Special Agent in charge of Boston on whether there was a bomb drill taking place on the morning of the attack, he was told that there was “no specific intelligence” regarding an attack and that no drills took place besides the usual precautions taken for a big event.

This contradicts eyewitness testimony from University of Mobile Cross Country Coach Ali Stevenson, who stated, “At the starting line this morning, they had bomb sniffing dogs and the bomb squad out there. They kept announcing to runners not to be alarmed, that they were running a training exercise.”

The subsequent release of photos that placed the official narrative in disarray, images which showed both middle eastern and Caucasian men with large black backpacks behaving suspiciously immediately before and after the blast go to great lengths to confirm Stevenson’s story and suggest that official denials that drills took place are part of a larger cover-up.

As Anthony Gucciardi has documented, two individuals identified in the images are likely to be employees of Craft International, a Blackwater-style private military/security firm. However, the media and authorities have instead focused solely on two other middle eastern looking men and ignored the presence of what appear to be current or former military professionals standing just 30 feet from the site of the explosion wearing backpacks similar to those used in the attack talking into their cellphones.

Another image shows an individual dressed in the same fashion placing a black backpack on the ground in the moments after the nearby explosion.

Another image shows what could be the same Caucasian man or a third identically dressed individual with a black object in his hand after the blast.

The two or three men’s behavior and demeanor in the photos clearly suggests that they are engaged in some kind of drill, which would correlate with eyewitness reports from marathon runners that bomb drills were taking place at the start of the event and that participants were told to remain calm.

Immediately after the bombings, an image also emerged showing an individual walking on the roof immediately above where one of the blasts took place, again suggesting that he was taking part in a drill that paralleled the real attack.

Given the fact that authorities had to cancel a press conference yesterday, which many believe was linked to the release of these images on the Internet, it must surely be only a matter of time before police are forced to admit that there were bomb drills on the day of the attack.

The identity of the men pictured above and the answer as to why they were seemingly involved in a bombing drill that mirrored many aspects of the actual attack yet was denied by authorities are questions that must be answered if we are to form a complete picture of what took place.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

Media continues to cover-up separate images showing private security employees with black backpacks at scene of blast

Paul Joseph Watson
April 18, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-police-confirm-infowars-photos-of-boston-suspects/

Photos of Boston bombing suspects sent to Infowars by Anonymous that caused a huge stir on the Internet yesterday after being posted by the Drudge Report have been confirmed by police to be the two men sought for questioning, but the authorities and the media remain mute on other photos which show what are likely to be employees of a private security firm carrying large black backpacks at the scene of the explosion.

“In the photos being distributed by law-enforcement officials among themselves, one of the men is carrying a blue duffel bag. The other is wearing a black backpack in the first photo, taken at 10:53 a.m., but it is not visible in the second, taken at 12:30 p.m,” reports the New York Post.

The photo is identical to an image we posted yesterday on Infowars.com showing two middle eastern looking individuals, one with a white baseball cap and another wearing a blue jacket.

“The attached photos are being circulated in an attempt to identify the individuals highlighted therein,” said an e-mail obtained by The Post. “Feel free to pass this around to any of your fellow agents elsewhere.”

However, there has been no mention whatsoever in official law enforcement or media circles of separate images taken from the finish line of the Boston Marathon which show one Caucasian and another middle eastern looking individual wearing identical clothing, carrying large black backpacks and speaking into cellphones moments after the bombing.

As Infowars first highlighted yesterday and as Anthony Gucciardi subsequently confirmed, the two individuals are likely to be employees of Craft International, a Blackwater-style private military/security firm.

Another image shows an individual dressed in the same fashion placing a black backpack on the ground in the moments after the nearby explosion.

Another image shows what could be the same Caucasian man or a third identically dressed individual with a black object in his hand after the blast.

The two or three men’s behavior and demeanor in the photos clearly suggests that they are engaged in some kind of drill, which would correlate with eyewitness reports from marathon runners that bomb drills were taking place at the start of the event and that participants were told to remain calm.

Police have denied that any such drills took place or that any prior intelligence indicated an attack.

The men appear to be wearing Navy Seal attire which is also the same standard issue Craft International uniform used by the private security firm.

The media seemed primed to blame the the attacks on white right-wing extremists, but as soon as the photos of the middle eastern looking individuals emerged, reports that an arrest had been made were retracted and the FBI cancelled a planned press conference.

The whole official narrative behind the Boston bombings is now in complete disarray as a result of these photos being released yesterday on the Internet.

There seems to be no rational explanation for why two employees of a private security firm would be on the scene of the blasts carrying large black backpacks similar to those used in the actual attack unless they were involved in some kind of drill that paralleled the real bombing.

The FBI should be attempting to uncover the identity of these individuals as an urgent priority and the mainstream media should be all over the story, but instead we have heard nothing but silence.

In addition, following an unscheduled meeting between President Barack Obama and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal yesterday, it was subsequently revealed that one of the early suspects in the bombing, Saudi national Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, was being deported from the United States on “national security” grounds.

This has prompted some to speculate that the Obama administration is covering up Saudi terrorist involvement in the attack, another reason why yesterday’s supposed unveiling of the bombing suspect was derailed.

“That’s very interesting because this is the way things are done with Saudi Arabia. You don’t arrest their citizens,” terrorism expert Steve Emerson told Fox News last night. “You deport them, because they don’t want them to be embarrassed and that’s the way we appease them.”

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

April 18, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/proof-boston-marathon-bombing-is-staged-terror-attack/

Unlike Oklahoma City, the FBI cannot confiscate all of the surveillance, cell phone, and thousands of cameras that were at the finish line of Boston Marathon. 4Chan posted dozens of photos showing Navy Seal or Private Security personnel carrying the same black back packs which are the same style backpacks showed in FBI photos. It’s becoming crystal clear. Get these articles and this video out to everyone you know.

Breaking: Police Confirm Infowars Photos of Boston Suspects – http://www.infowars.com/breaking-police-confirm-infowars-photos-of-boston-suspects/

Obama Covering Up Saudi Link to Boston Bombing? – http://www.infowars.com/obama-covering-up-saudi-link-to-boston-bombing/

Navy SEALs Spotted at Boston Marathon Wearing Suspicious Backpacks? http://www.infowars.com/navy-seals-spotted-at-boston-marathon-wearing-suspicious-backpacks/

Boston Bombing Culprits Identified? http://www.infowars.com/boston-bombing-culprits-found/

“Person of interest” to be deported after Obama had unscheduled meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister

Paul Joseph Watson
April 18, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/obama-covering-up-saudi-link-to-boston-bombing/

UPDATE: Congressman Jeff Duncan asked DHS chief Janet Napolitano about the Saudi linked to the Boston bombings being deported for “national security” reasons. Napolitano denied any knowledge of the man being deported.

The Saudi “person of interest” suspected of being involved in the Boston Marathon bombings is being deported from the United States next week on “national security grounds,” according to a terrorism expert, who notes that the move is “very unusual,” especially given an unscheduled meeting yesterday between President Obama and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.

The attempt to cover up a possible Saudi connection to the Boston attack could explain why authorities are scrambling to get their official narrative straight after photos emerged yesterday on the Internet showing numerous suspects carrying large backpacks, some of them middle eastern in appearance and two of the individuals having been almost certainly identified as employees of private military/security firm Craft International.

The FBI had set a press conference for 5pm EST yesterday afternoon but the event was cancelled hours after the photos were seen by millions of people online. The federal agency blamed the media for erroneous reporting, stating, “these stories often have unintended consequences.”

CNN also had to backtrack after they announced that a suspect had been arrested, a report that was subsequently denied by authorities. Reports of a “dark skinned man” being arrested were later mothballed.

According to terrorism expert Steve Emerson, 20-year-old Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the Saudi national first suspected of being involved in Monday’s twin bomb attack, is being hastily deported. Alharbi was put under armed guard in hospital after the bombing, was visited by Saudi diplomat Azzam bin Abdel Karim, and later had his apartment raided by federal and state law enforcement agents.

“I just learned from my own sources that he is now going to be deported on national security grounds next Tuesday, which is very unusual,” Emerson told Fox News last night.

The news follows an unscheduled meeting between President Obama and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal at the White House yesterday afternoon. “The meeting was not on Obama’s public schedule,” reports Reuters.

“That’s very interesting because this is the way things are done with Saudi Arabia. You don’t arrest their citizens. You deport them, because they don’t want them to be embarrassed and that’s the way we appease them,” Emerson told host Sean Hannity.

A scheduled 10 a.m. photo op between John Kerry and the Saudi Foreign Minister was also abruptly cancelled on Tuesday morning because Kerry was tired from his busy schedule, an explanation that journalists refused to swallow, with the Associated Press’ Matt Lee telling spokesman Patrick Ventrell, “I find it hard to believe that you expect us to believe that that’s the real reason for this.”

As World Net Daily’s Joe Kovacs documents, “Saudi student Alharbi shares the same last name as a major Saudi clan that includes scores of al-Qaida operatives.”

The Alharbi clan has long been active in al-Qaida. Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harbi, for example, is a Saudi national who joined Osama bin Laden’s mujahadeen group in the 1980s. He reportedly became an al-Qaida member in the mid-1990s. He turned himself in to Saudi authorities in 2004 as part of an amnesty deal.

The BBC reported Khaled Alharbi was married to the daughter of al-Qaida’s number two, Ayman al-Zawahri. He reportedly appeared with bin Laden in a video praising the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Another top al-Qaida operative is Adel Radi Saqr al-Wahabi al-Harbi, a Saudi national identified by the State Department as “a key member of an al-Qaida network operating in Iran.”

Given the fact that the Obama administration has sent more than half a billion dollars and the CIA is shipping weapons to FSA rebels in Syria who pledged allegiance to and are led by Al-Qaeda militants, the notion that one of these militants would carry out an attack on U.S. soil would be extremely damaging to the White House.

Radio host Michael Savage floated the theory yesterday that the Boston police were told to cancel the press conference by the Obama administration and the FBI, because the Saudi Foreign Minister demanded that the suspect be allowed to leave the country.

As Infowars first highlighted yesterday and as Anthony Gucciardi subsequently confirmed, two of the suspicious individuals identified on the scene of the Boston bombings wearing identical clothing and large black backpacks (one white, one darker skinned) are likely to be employees of Craft International, a Blackwater-style private military/security firm.

Given that the bombs used in the attack were housed in black backpacks, remnants of which were found yards from the explosion, why are private security firm employees carrying black backpacks and talking on cellphones pictured within 30 feet of the blast just moments after it occurred?

The men are certainly not marathon runners and they are not involved in rescue efforts. Who are these men? Did their identities being revealed yesterday cause the FBI to cancel its planned press conference? Were the men involved in the bomb drills before the actual bombings that were reported by eyewitnesses?

Should it emerge that the Obama administration is shielding accomplices in the Boston bombings for political reasons, the scandal would dwarf the Benghazi attacks and inevitably lead to impeachment proceedings.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

Mike Adams
April 18, 2013
http://www.naturalnews.com/039961_Boston_mainstream_media_cover_story.html

Boston is now in a state of near-chaos over the Boston marathon bombing investigation. Their story keeps changing, too: first there was a “controlled explosion” planned at the Kennedy Library on the same day as the bombing (Boston Globe), but that was later explained away as a “building fire” that had nothing to do with the bombing.

Then there’s CNN reporting a suspect has been arrested, after which the network was blasted by the FBI for fabricating news. CNN has since retracted its arrest claim.

Today, the Boston federal courthouse was suddenly evacuated over a “code red” bomb threat, causing chaos to reign over planned press conferences and announcements by the FBI.

CNN deeply engaged in total news fabrication

As part of its total fabrication of fake news surrounding the Boston marathon bombings, CNN has proclaimed an episode of “Family Guy” to somehow be a “hoax” even when the episode actually exists. According to CNN, Paul Joseph Watson’s highlighting of two scenes from the same episode of the Family Guy cartoon — which depicted cell-phone bomb detonations and a character winning the Boston marathon by murdering other runners — is somehow equivalent to a “hoax.”

In addition, the Boston police department claims there was no drill taking place on the day of the bombings, yet we have an interview with a credible eyewitness who describes in great detail the “drills” that were announced over loudspeakers.

The media has also reported there were no additional explosive devices found, yet this recording of police audio sharply contradicts that, revealing the apparent existence of other explosive devices.

Media refuses to acknowledge existence of private military contractors on the scene

But the real story — and perhaps the biggest story of all — has been blown wide open, first by researchers at 4chan.org, and then covered by Anthony Gucciardi, Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones. It reveals that there were private military contractors with backpacks operating at the scene.

Here’s an image of the private military operatives, snapped on the day of the marathon:

As you can see from the above image, these private military operatives are both wearing the exact same uniforms: tan BDUs, tan military boots, dark jackets, communications gear and black backpacks.

But what gets really interesting is when you look at the symbols on the hat one of them is wearing:

This “skull” symbol just happens to be the symbol of a group of military contractors called “The Craft.”

The following picture shows former group member Chris Kyle (who was recently murdered, by the way), sitting with his sniper rifle and wearing the “Craft” hat with the skull symbol:

But an even better look at the symbol comes from the Craft’s own website, where training photos show the symbol with great clarity:

“The Craft” has a reputation of being something like an “elite Blackwater,” and the presence of “Craft” operatives on scene at the Boston marathon bombing is an absolute bombshell of a news story.

Yet the mainstream media absolutely refuses to mention it at all. Ever wonder why?

Because as usual, you are being spoon-fed a cesspool of lies by the mainstream media — an institution of false information that has already decided to make sure the aftermath of this event follows a predetermined outcome of blaming patriots… even if it means fabricating, ignoring or selectively deleting evidence.

Whatever happened to the era when the media’s job was to ask questions? Now that job rests solely with the alternative media — the only institution that still has the integrity to question the official cover stories and get to the bottom of real-world events.

This article was posted: Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 6:09 am

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:48:16 GMT
http://edition.presstv.ir/TextOnly/detail.aspx?id=298985

A new poll reveals that a majority of Americans are becoming increasingly afraid of ongoing acts of violence committed by homegrown militants.

According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken during two days following the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, 56 percent of Americans said that random acts of violence, such as mass shootings committed by Americans, is the biggest threat to public safety in the United States.

Moreover, Reuters noted that two-thirds of respondents said they believed an incident like the Boston Marathon attack that killed three people and wounded over 130 others could happen in their area.

32 percent of respondents cited foreign terrorism committed by non-Americans, while 13 percent cited politically or religiously motivated domestic terrorism committed by Americans, as the second and third largest threats to public safety, respectively.

Americans were left shaken after a recent series of gruesome attacks including those committed at a Connecticut elementary school, a Colorado movie theater, and a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.

On December 14, 20 children and six adults were fatally shot by a gunman — who later killed himself — at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

On July 20, James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 70 others after he burst into a sold-out theater in Aurora, Colorado and began shooting people at random.

On August 5, one woman and five men were killed and three others were wounded when white supremacist Wade Michael Page opened fire at a Sikh temple in a Milwaukee suburb in Wisconsin.

Published time: April 18, 2013 13:41
http://rt.com/usa/images-suspects-boston-bombing-054/

The FBI says it would like to interview two men seen in at least one video from the Boston Marathon. However, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano hesitated to call them suspects.

Speaking at the House Homeland Security Committee, Secretary Napolitano did not give details of the men’s appearance, but only said that the video “raised the question.”

Napolitano stressed that it is still unclear whether the bombs were the work of foreign or domestic terrorists. She said the investigation is continuing “apace.”

“But we need the public’s help in locating those individuals,” she added.

Although there has been at least one leaked set of pictures published in the New York Post, the government is holding back from the formal release of the photos.

Earlier there have been a number of news reports claiming that investigators have detected two “possible suspects” captured on video at the site of the Boston bombings that killed three people and injured at least 176 others.

A source told CNN that the authorities “had not yet identified the two men by name and that the photographs were not being released to the public for fear of impeding the investigation.”

Meanwhile, sources familiar with the investigation told The Los Angeles Times that the authorities have allegedly obtained “clear images of the faces of two men with backpacks.”

However, a law enforcement official has confirmed to AP that the authorities have found an image of one potential suspect whose name remains unknown.

According to City Council President Stephen Murphy, one department store video “has confirmed that a suspect is seen dropping a bag near the point of the second explosion and heading off.”

Murphy told AP the investigators “may be on the verge of arresting someone.”

Those contradicting reports have been mushrooming since there had been no official statement from police before Napolitano’s statement.

No suspect has been detained, despite earlier claims by multiple media reports on the alleged arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.

“Contrary to widespread reporting, no arrest has been made in connection with the Boston Marathon attack. Over the past day-and-a-half, there have been a number of press reports based on information from unofficial sources that has been inaccurate. Since these stories often have unintended consequences, we ask the media, particularly at this early stage of the investigation, to exercise caution and attempt to verify information through appropriate official channels before reporting,” an official statement posted on the FBI website informed.

The bombs that detonated injured at least 176 people and killed an eight-year-old boy, a 29-year-old woman, and a Chinese national, a Boston University graduate student, in what appears to be the worst attack since September 11, 2001.

Some 23,000 runners took part in the world-famous race, watched by thousands more spectators. The scene surrounding the tragedy was recorded by surveillance cameras, providing detectives with vital footage of the area before and after the explosions.

The bombs that detonated were probably hidden in large black nylon bags or backpacks, according to the FBI.

Shards of metal, wires and a battery were gathered at the scene along with part of a pressure cooker. It’s believed that the deadly bombs were packed with shrapnel; doctors reported plucking nails and ball bearings from the injured.

A pressure cooker can give extra power to an explosion the same way a pipe bomb works. The sealed pot allows the pressure to build up before it tears it apart and sends the contents flying at high speed.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s special agent in charge in Boston, Richard DesLauriers, the evidence collected at the scene was being reconstructed at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.

President Barack Obama has arrived in Boston on Thursday to address an interfaith service following the blasts.

Giving a speech in the Cathedral, Obama paid tribute to those killed and injured in the twin blasts.

“Every one of us stands with you,” he said, before declaring: “You will run again!”

The public met Obama’s speech with a loud ovation.

The President addressed the perpetrator, saying “We will find you.”

Published time: April 18, 2013 12:10
http://rt.com/usa/west-fertilizer-plant-safety-051/

The West Fertilizer Co factory of Texas, which exploded late Wednesday, was fined in 2006 by the Environmental Protection Agency for not having a risk-management plan. The same year the plant reported it posed ‘no risk’ of fire.

Complaints were made in June 2006 regarding a strong smell of ammonia emanating from the plant, according to reports publicized by The Dallas Morning News (DMN).

The concerns prompted Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to investigate. The plant was fined later in August by the EPA, which imposed a fine of $2,300 for failure to have a risk-management plan that was in line with federal standards.

Such federal regulations are in place to ensure the prevention of chemical accidents through safeguards.

A later report filed by the plant itself with EPA stated “no” under fire or explosive risks, saying that the, “worst possible scenario … would be a 10-minute release of ammonia gas that would injure no one.”

They went on to say that their ‘second-worst’ scenario would be a leak from a broken hose used to transfer the product, which would also not result in any injuries.

The facility stated that it had no other dangerous chemicals on hand, adding that the plan was on file with the local fire department and that the company adhered to proper safety rules.

Anhydrous ammonia is liable to explode if kept in certain concentrations inside containers. However, it is not generally considered a risk when in the air and in gas form.

Regulators in Texas were fully aware that the fertilizer plant harbored two 12,000-gallon tanks of anhydrous ammonia and was near a school and residential neighborhood.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) online records also show that there have been no federal inspections of West Fertilizer Co. over the past five years.

The OSHA itself has repeatedly come under fire for being “dangerously ineffective” in protecting the health and safety of workers across the US.

“The regional investigator described the area surrounding the facility as residential and farmland. There are two schools located within 3,000 ft. [1km] of this facility,” said the DMN report.

A middle school, a nursing home and a hospital were all within a 1,500 feet radius of the plant when the explosion occurred, killing up to 15 people and injuring some 160 others.

The West Fertilizer Co. itself reported having as much as 54,000lbs (24.5 tonnes) of anhydrous ammonia on site.

“It’s revealing some of the weaknesses of the US state and its regulatory architecture,” Professor Sreeram Chaula, a world affairs analyst, told RT.

“What has happened in Texas is symptomatic of the larger issue of world economy – we have lost any moorings in terms of how to regulate and manage capitalist industries,” he said.

-= The Unhived Mind

US ‘ricin’ letter suspect charged over Obama ‘threat’

A man in Mississippi has been charged with threatening US President Barack Obama, after allegedly sending a letter containing suspected ricin to him.

Paul Kevin Curtis was arrested on Wednesday after letters were found addressed to Mr Obama and a senator.

Initial tests on the letters, identified at remote facilities, showed the presence of the lethal toxin.

The FBI has said there is “no indication of a connection” between the letters and Monday’s Boston attack.

Doubt cast on research supporting austerity

Doubts have been cast on research that has been crucial in supporting governments’ austerity programmes.

Two Harvard economists found in 2010 that a country’s output falls substantially as soon as its total public debt passes 90% of its annual output or gross domestic product (GDP).

But two other economists say they have found errors in the work which means the relationship “evaporates entirely”.

The original researchers admitted mistakes but say their message stands.

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, the economists behind the original research, said in a statement: “It is sobering that such an error slipped into one of our papers despite our best efforts to be consistently careful,” but they added that the “central message” of their research was still valid.

The new study by Robert Polin, Michael Ash and Thomas Herndon from University of Massachusetts, which was made public this week, found coding errors in spreadsheets used in the 2010 study, which they said meant that growth did not fall as fast as was claimed when debt passed 90% of a country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Robert Polin told the BBC that between 2000 and 2010, the average rate of growth in countries with debt above 90% of GDP had actually been higher than it had been in countries with lower debt to GDP ratios.

“So their relationship, which they’re saying is so fundamental for understanding policy – the relationship evaporates entirely,” he told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme.
Policy influence

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s paper Growth in a time of debt looked at 20 advanced economies since 1945 and found that GDP growth had been between 3% and 4% when debt had been below 90% of GDP, but that the average had collapsed to -0.1% when debt had risen above 90%.

The new research says that growth only falls to an average of 2.2% when debt passes 90%.

The result is important because governments were encouraged by the original paper to take drastic steps. such as severe austerity measures, to avoid borrowing any more money once their borrowing reached 90% of annual output.

The authors of the new research argue that governments might have been better off borrowing more money to spend on trying to encourage economic growth and reduce the severity of the recessions their countries were facing.

Adan Salazar
April 17, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/town-of-lexington-pulls-permit-for-pro-second-amendment-rally-using-boston-bombing-as-pretext/

A permit secured by the Massachusetts Chapter of Gun Rights Across America to hold a pro-Second Amendment rally at the Lexington Battle Green, the site of the opening shots of the American Revolution, was revoked Tuesday because of alleged “security risks” associated with the Boston Marathon bombings.

Lexington Battle Green Monument, erected 1799 on the green in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA, photo by Daderot, via Wikimedia Commons
“In an emergency meeting, Lexington’s Board of Selectmen [Tuesday] evening voted to issue a moratorium prohibiting the use of the Battle Green or Tower Park for events from April 17 to May 1,” wrote Patrick Ball of the Lexington Patch.

Arguing that the rally may provoke “security issues,” the Board of Selectmen and Lexington police department officials cited “public safety” as the main reason for curtailing the First Amendment.

“I think it’s certainly prudent for the town to take a look at that rally and discuss it further, and how it may impact out security issues,” Lexington Police Captain Manny Ferro told the Lexington Patch. “Public safety is at the forefront of anything that we do. There will be discussions, and there have been discussions about how we’re going to approach this.”

According to WickedLocal.com, federal authorities have also advised against allowing the rally to proceed: “Police Chief Mark Corr said he asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation for counsel to see if Lexington should still allow the rally on the Battle Green. He said both state and federal authorities strongly recommended against it.”

“I am struggling because we don’t want the terrorists to prevail and not have them infringe on the freedoms we all cherish,” said Lexington Board Chairman Deb Mauger, adding, ”At the same time we expect a high degree of safety by elected officials and public safety officers.”

Steve Redfern, the Gun Rights Across America member who secured the permit, fears that the town of Lexington, once a prominent symbol of American freedom, has allowed fear and terror to override liberties enshrined by the Constitution. Redfern asked selectmen, “By canceling this event aren’t we showing we are afraid? That they’ve won? …I think it’s important for our country, especially Lexington to stand our ground …I want nothing but a safe rally.”

Affirming, “We will not sacrifice liberty for security,” Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers and an invited guest scheduled to speak at the event, says they and others still fully intend to assemble at the Lexington Battle Green with or without a permit as individuals.

“Our response is to do an oath ceremony anyway. We will still go, still gather… We will not let our free speech be killed in the name of security…”

The Boston bombings have seemingly provided the perfect excuse to keep liberty lovers and others wishing to protect the Second Amendment by exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble from exercising that very right.

Network says bomb of type preferred by phantom anti-abortion terrorists

Kurt Nimmo
April 17, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/cnn-links-alleged-pressure-cooker-bomb-to-extreme-right-wing-individuals/

It looks like CNN is falling back on old habits instilled by the U.S. Army’s Fourth Psychological Operations Group. In a news story about the alleged pressure cooker bomb found in Boston, the political establishment’s propaganda network claimed “extreme right-wing individuals” are fond of the device featured in al-Qaeda’s magazine.

MSNBC anchor and wife of former Fed boss Alan Greenspan talks with the network’s resident “terror expert” about pressure cooker bombs.

The phrase “extreme right-wing individuals” is code for Americans who believe the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are worth protecting from the predatory ravages of the federal government. The corporate media, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center, repeats the “right-wing extremist” meme incessantly in order to shift the terror myth from Salafist Muslims who collaborated with the CIA to Americans outside of the accepted political parameters established by our globalist overlords.

CNN argues that Eric Rudolph used similar high-pressure devices during the 1996 Olympic Games. “Like the bombings in Boston, those devices were concealed in a backpack, according to a Department of Homeland Security report detailing the 1996 attack,” CNN reports.

Rudolph was portrayed by the government and the establishment media as a lone wolf racist and violent anti-abortionist. The FBI said he “had a long association with the radical Christian Identity movement, which asserts that Northern European whites are the direct descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, God’s chosen people,” the Washington Post reported in 2003. Rudolph was also supposedly linked to the Army of God, a radical anti-abortion organization – or alleged organization.

According to researcher Neal Horseley, the organization is an FBI fabrication based on misinformation created by the National Abortion Federation. Horseley writes that the FBI turned “the Army of God into a domestic terrorism organization like Al Fatah or Hezbullah or Al Qaeda” in order to demonize anti-abortion activists and portray them as domestic terrorists. Anti-abortion groups now figure prominently in the government’s pantheon of domestic terrorists. In 2011, for instance, the FBI said Jared Lee Loughner, the man who shot U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, was linked to “Christian anti-abortion groups.”

In 2009, a Department of Homeland Security report leaked to the media characterized abortion opponents as a threat to national security and put them on par with white supremacists. The DHS document defines right-wing extremism in the U.S. as “divided into those groups, movements and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups) and those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”

The CNN report on the so-called pressure cooker bomb – which, incidentally, the network links to “gunpowder or powder from fireworks” – is part of an ongoing effort by the establishment to link “extreme right-wing individuals” to terrorist events targeting children and innocent bystanders.

Woman in downtown Boston made pre-attack threat

Paul Joseph Watson
April 17, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/boston-runners-were-warned-youre-going-to-die/

One of the participants in the Boston Marathon says runners were warned they were “going to die” by a woman in downtown Boston two days before the twin bombings which killed three and injured more than 140 people.

“Mike Heiliger, 59, said a woman holding several bags was telling runners who were picking up their pre-race packages in downtown Boston on Saturday (April 13) that they were going to die if they participated in the event,” reports the SquamishChief.com.

“It was a little creepy because you can identify who the runners are and I heard her say to this runner two feet away from me that, ‘If you run tomorrow you’re going to die,’” said Heiliger, adding that the woman was holding two bags as if she had just got off a plane.

Heiliger called police to report the incident after the bombings took place.

Authorities in Boston have denied that there was any intelligence beforehand which warned of an attack, despite eyewitness Ali Stevenson insisting that police “must have known” about the bombing based on their behavior throughout the race.

According to Stevenson, a University of Mobile Cross Country Coach, runners were told not to be alarmed on the morning of the race as police conducted an “exercise” involving bomb sniffing dogs and positioned spotters on rooftops.

“Evidently, I don’t believe they were just having a training exercise, they must have known,” Stevenson told Local15 News. “They must have had some sort of threat or suspicion called in.”

However, during a press conference, Boston police told Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi that there was “no specific intelligence” regarding an attack and that no drills took place besides the usual precautions taken for a big event.

When Bidondi again attempted to ask police about why people were being told to remain calm before the bombs exploded, there was no response.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

Pattern beginning to emerge as some suggest both attacks could be right wing, pro-gun extremists

Steve Watson
April 17, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/follow-up-attack-ricin-letter-sent-to-senator-who-ended-gun-control-filibuster-second-letter-sent-to-obama/

A letter believed to have been laced with the deadly substance ricin was intercepted in a Maryland post office yesterday before it could reach it’s intended destination – the desk of a Senator who has been fiercely critical of gun control legislation, yet voted to block a filibuster on the issue.

In a statement late Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol Police said that further tests on the package, which had a Memphis, Tennessee, postmark, are being conducted at the Army’s biomedical research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Though false positives of ricin in letters to elected reps. have been recorded in the recent past, the analysis conducted so far seems to conclusively show that the deadly toxin was present in the letter.

The intended target of the letter was Sen. Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, who in recent weeks has vowed to block any legislation that would further tighten firearms regulation.

“I have an A+ rating from the NRA and have consistently worked to protect Second Amendment rights,’ Wicker wrote on his Facebook page last week. “I have never voted for gun control and will not do so… I will filibuster.” the Senator, and former 12 year Congressman noted.

Despite his staunch opposition to gun control, Wicker was one of only 16 Republicans who last week voted to end the filibuster on the legislation and invite debate on the matter.

“This begins a debate to put the Senate on record about a basic constitutional freedom.” Wicker stated at the time.

In justifying his vote, Wicker pointed to “the opportunity to vote on measures to strengthen gun rights, such as an amendment to protect veterans from unfair restrictions when trying to purchase a firearm.”

Wicker reiterated that he “will filibuster passage of a final bill if it contains gun restrictions or a weapons ban.”

Because of Wicker’s vote to end the filibuster last week, some have suggested that he may have been targeted by an extremist right wing pro-gun group or individual:

Others have suggested that the incident could be tied in with the Boston bombings:

Although not out of the question, this would be somewhat of a stretch, given that Senator Wicker is, despite his vote last week, still a staunch critic of gun control legislation.

As we reported yesterday, a media driven narrative is beginning to emerge that paves the way to level blame for the Boston attack at the feet of anti-government, “patriot”, tea party types.

Politico reported that the ricin letter contained a warning that read “You haven’t listen to me before. Now you will, even if people have to die.”

An FBI bulletin obtained by Fox News also stated that the letter contained the sentence “To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance.”

Both letters were reportedly signed, “I am KC and I approve this message.”

The same bulletin also noted that a second letter containing the same phrase was also sent to the president. It is not clear whether the letter to Obama also contained ricin.

Police and the FBI have refused to comment on the situation. However, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told the Associated Press that police have a suspect in mind.

“The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members,” McCaskill told reporters as she emerged from a classified briefing.

Senator Wicker, who has served in the Senate since 2007, has been assigned a protective detail, according to police sources.

“This matter is part of an ongoing investigation by the United States Capitol Police and FBI,’ Wicker said in a statement released late Tuesday. ‘I want to thank our law enforcement officials for their hard work and diligence in keeping those of us who work in the Capitol complex safe.”

The timing of the attempted attack on Senator Wicker, just one day after the bombing in Boston, has recalled the 2001 anthrax attacks, where deadly letters were sent to elected representatives and newsrooms in the days following 9/11.

The FBI’s official narrative on those attacks has since been proven extremely doubtful at best, and has been seriously questioned by leading scientists and world authorities on the composition of Anthrax.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

April 17, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/navy-seals-spotted-at-boston-marathon-wearing-suspicious-backpacks/

Savvy Internet sleuths have found images taken from surveillance cameras of members of the crowd gathered at the Boston Marathon that appear to identify Navy SEALs.

For comparison, below are a few photos of late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Note the skull logo on his baseball cap, his pants and his boots:

Now look at the individuals spotted wearing backpacks, a similar cap, and similar pants (and boots) at the Boston Marathon:

A video on Youtube also appears to capture a member wearing similar garb walking around the marathon post-explosion with something that looks like a detonator, but in actuality could be a radiation detector.

The reason this is important is because the Boston Police Commissioner is on record stating that they had “no specific intelligence” that there was a drill, while University of Mobile coach and marathon participant Alastair Stevenson has publicly stated that there was announcements telling people to stay calm and not be alarmed because beefed-up security was part of a “training exercise.”

If police were aware of a perceived threat, wouldn’t it make more sense to be announcing an evacuation order rather than tell everyone to stay calm?

This article was posted: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 12:07 pm

Paul Joseph Watson
April 17, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/boston-bombing-culprits-found/

MANY PHOTOS: http://www.infowars.com/boston-bombing-culprits-found/

UPDATE: FBI briefing on Boston bombings postponed. The FBI said it “needs more time to prepare” before speaking to the media. Struggling to get their narrative straight in the aftermath of numerous men with backpacks being identified?

Photos collated on the 4chan website show numerous images of suspicious individuals wearing large backpacks present at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Three of the men appear to be Arab or Middle Eastern in appearance, whereas another two of the individuals are white.

The images show the men looking away from the marathon runners, talking on cellphones and running from the scene immediately after the blast.

Remains of one of the backpacks are also photographed yards from where one of the bombs exploded. The FBI states that at least one of the pressure cooker devices used in the bombing was housed in a backpack.

Some of these men may have merely been victims, but the image of the two men standing together wearing the same clothes and carrying heavy backpacks and wearing credentials suggests they may have been involved in a drill or in the actual attack. One of individuals, a white man whose backpack was found at the scene of the bombing, looks badly dressed and disheveled.

The Associated Press is now reporting that authorities have identified a suspect wearing a “black jacket on a cell phone, wearing a gray hoodie and a white baseball cap backwards placing a black bag at the second bomb site outside of the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street and then leaving the area before that explosion,” a description which closely but not specifically could be applied to more than one different man identified in the photos below.

As eyewitness Ali Stevenson reported, marathon runners were told before the bombing that a “drill” was taking place involving bomb sniffing dogs and spotters of roofs and to remain calm, although police later denied that any exercise had taken place.

CNN reported that authorities have identified one of the suspects involved in the attack by means of “video from a department store near the site of the second explosion” and “video from a Boston television station.” CNN backed off a report that a suspect had already been arrested.

The Boston Globe also reports that, “authorities have an image of a suspect carrying and possibly dropping a black bag at the second blast site on Boylston Street.”

NewsCenter5 is reporting that, “An arrest is imminent or may have already taken place,” and that the individual is being taken to court.

April 17, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/boston-police-radio-additional-explosive-devices-found/

A caller to the Alex Jones Show pointed us to an audio of police responding to the additional devices discovered in Boston during the bombing on April 15.

“There’s devices… definitely devices here,” a voice in the background of the audio says between 17 and 25 seconds into the video below.

“Get off the radio, I want the channel clear,” another voice says at 30 seconds.

On April 16, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and officialdom stated no additional explosive devices were found on the scene of the Boston Marathon.

The official story is now in chaos.

By Tony Cartalucci
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:27:38 GMT
http://edition.presstv.ir/TextOnly/detail.aspx?id=298797

Sometime before 1775, American Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin wrote: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Across much of the West, after September 11, 2001, we have indeed given up our essential liberty, and more over, our dignity in exchange for the illusion of safety. Our streets and public events are filled with militarized police and very literally soldiers wielding machine guns and riding around in armored vehicles. And yet with this militarized security, invasive Constitution-violating searches, warrantless wiretaps, humiliating pat-downs by federal security at airports, terrorist bombs still managed to rip through the streets of Boston killing 3 and injuring many more.

There is nothing more symbolic of the fall of America as a free people than scenes of impotent militarized police standing around aimlessly with their immense arsenal cradled in their idle hands in the wake of an attack their presence did nothing to prevent. What’s more, is their presence after the attack was likewise useless, their weapons and armor incapable of doing anything to help the scores of injured.

We have given up our liberty and our dignity in order to obtain a little temporary safety – and predictably we have neither liberty nor safety.

The FBI and the Illusion of Terror

Disturbing is the habit of the FBI’s posing as terrorists with ties to Al Qaeda, approaching patsies who they then provide explosives and other weapons to, and help engineer an attack which they then “foil” to make spectacular headlines. Many times real explosives are test-detonated with suspects, before inert devices are switched in for the final attack.

In one case in Portland Oregon in 2010, a van was actually parked next to a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony where the FBI-entrapped suspect attempted and failed to detonate an FBI-provided inert bomb.

More astounding was the fact that the FBI had actually brought this same entrapped suspect earlier to a location in Lincoln County, Oregon, where real explosives were in fact detonated. The FBI’s official statement titled, “Oregon Resident Arrested in Plot to Bomb Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Portland,” released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on November 26, 2010 stated (emphasis added):

According to the affidavit, on November 4, 2010, Mohammad and the undercover FBI operatives traveled to a remote location in Lincoln County, Ore., where they detonated a bomb concealed in a backpack as a trial run for the upcoming attack. Afterwards, on the drive back to Corvallis, undercover FBI operatives questioned Mohammad as to whether he was capable of looking at the bodies of those who would be killed in the upcoming attack in Portland. According to the affidavit, Mohammad responded, “I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured.”

More frightening still was the apparent motivation behind the FBI’s uncover operation.

In 2005, Portland became the first city in the United States to withdraw from the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, (JTTF) over concerns it would threaten civil liberties. The FBI, unwelcomed in Portland, decided to then approach a dupe, entrap him, and spectacularly “foil” a high profile terror plot of their own design during Portland’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony – without notifying the local government or local law enforcement of the ongoing operation.

The operation would humiliate local representatives and in particular, Mayor Sam Adams, making them appear negligent, incompetent, and impotent. And, in the wake of the operation, citing the FBI’s charade specifically, Portland would eventually agree to rejoin the JTTF.

What, if not terrorism, would such events be classified as? The FBI’s JTTF was ousted from Portland, and it subsequently used the threat of violence to coerce the city into accepting it back. It was an operation A-Z engineered by the FBI with a specific political motivation lurking just beneath the surface.

The opaque, covert nature of these operations should also profoundly disturb readers. The FBI apparently has access to vast resources to conduct these operations, including weapons, real explosives, vehicles, and just about everything else most likely used in the Boston blasts. According to the New York Times, in their article, “Portland, Ore., Votes to Rejoin Task Force After Terrorism Scare:”

“The investigation had been under way for many months, but the Portland police were consulted only near the end, largely to help with logistics of a sting operation. Mayor Sam Adams was unaware until after the arrest.”
Who then is overseeing these operations outside of the FBI? These are operations where real explosives are even detonated … and in the case of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, FBI monitored suspects actually went through with the final attack, killing 6, and wounding many more (The New York Times, “Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast”).

The answer is, no one is overseeing them, and they are kept secret until the FBI either “foils” them for political points, or a witness steps forward and reveals the FBI’s role in successful attacks that maim or kill innocent people.

This constitutes a very real terror threat to America, but one that lurks within Washington and in our cities’ local FBI offices, carried out by men in suits and ties, not cave-dwelling extremists in Afghanistan or “homegrown terrorists.” For the people of Boston, one of the first targets for investigation should in fact be, the local FBI office.

Monsters of Our Own Creation/Perpetuation

And while America’s domestic threat is one contrived and perpetuated primarily by the very people charged with defending the nation against terrorism, real foreign extremists do exist. It should surprise no one however, considering what the FBI does at home, who is minding this terrorist network abroad.

It is now believed that pressure cooker improvised explosive devices were used in the blasts – devices frequently used overseas by Al Qaeda’s many various incarnations. Should “Al Qaeda” turn out to be behind the Boston blasts, readers would benefit from understanding just what exactly “Al Qaeda” is.

CBS News in their report titled, “Homeland Security warned about pressure cooker bombs,” stated:

“U.S. authorities warned as far back as nine years ago that terrorists could use metal pressure cookers to cause deadly carnage.”
The common kitchen cooking implement – found in countless American homes – has emerged as a key component in the horrific bombings that killed three people and injured more than 170 at the Boston Marathon yesterday.

The article would continue by stating:

“In 2004 a memo titled “Potential terrorist use of pressure cookers” alerted border inspectors, agents, law enforcement officers and other first-responders that the seemingly-innocuous items could be used to create improvised explosive devices (IEDs).”
The memo says the bomb-making technique is commonly taught in Afghan terrorist training camps – and had already led to bombing casualties.

The article would also mention terrorists operating in Algeria using rigged pressure cooker devices to carry out attacks – militants long associated not only with Al Qaeda directly, but neighboring Libyan terrorist organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) which was recently handed the nation of Libya by NATO.

This would also be the same Al Qaeda that the US and NATO are in the process of arming and funding in Syria for the past 2 years. Likewise, it is the same Al Qaeda spawned from the sectarian crypto-terror organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, helped into power on the back of region-wide US-engineered political destabilization, and funded to the tune of billions by America’s allies in Riyadh and Doha.

In fact, for the past 30 years, the US, Saudi Arabia, and other regional allies including Israel have cultivated, armed, funded, and expanded Al Qaeda, using them as both a casus belli for military intervention and a global mercenary force everywhere from Libya to Bosnia, Iraq to Iran, Afghanistan, and of course across Syria for the past two years.

And even as the Boston blasts appear to be shaping up as the work of sectarian extremists affiliated with this vast network of US-Saudi sponsored terror, US ally Qatar is defending its aid given to terrorists operating across Syria. Reuters reported in their article, “Qatar says aid for Syria rebels and Islamists won’t harm region,” that:

“Qatar on Tuesday rejected criticism that it risked destabilizing the Middle East by supporting rebels in Syria or the Muslim Brotherhood and said it was helping people but did not interfere in governments.”
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused Arab states who are arming and sheltering rebel fighters of actions that could “create a domino effect throughout the Middle East and beyond,” with Saudi Arabia and Qatar clearly in mind.

Qatar had armed, funded, and even provided air support and troops to Al Qaeda in Libya during their successful bid to overthrow the government and take power in Tripoli. The Guardian reported in their article, “Qatar admits sending hundreds of troops to support Libya rebels,” that:

“Qatar has admitted for the first time that it sent hundreds of troops to support the Libyan rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.”
The [Persian] Gulf state had previously acknowledged only that its air force took part in NATO-led attacks.

So clearly, Qatar is in the business of interfering with governments, and using Al Qaeda militants to do so.

Similarly, Qatar, along with Saudi Arabia, the US, Turkey, Israel and other allies, have been funneling cash and thousands of tons of weapons into Syria – all of which have ended up in the hands of Al Qaeda’s Syrian franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra.

The New York Times in their article titled, “Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With C.I.A. Aid,” admits that:

“With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of rebel commanders.”
The airlift, which began on a small scale in early 2012 and continued intermittently through last fall, expanded into a steady and much heavier flow late last year, the data shows. It has grown to include more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari military-style cargo planes landing at Esenboga Airport near Ankara, and, to a lesser degree, at other Turkish and Jordanian airports.

While the West attempts to claim these weapons are being sent to “moderates,” the US itself admits that Al Qaeda is operating in every major city in Syria and is by far the most highly organized, most prominent militant front in the conflict. If the West via Saudi Arabia and Qatar is sending thousands of tons of weapons to “moderates,” who is sending more weapons to Jabhat al-Nusra?

The obvious answer is there are no moderates, and the West has been intentionally arming Al Qaeda from the beginning. In fact, this is a documented conspiracy first revealed as early as 2007 by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his New Yorker article titled, “”The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?” which stated specifically:

“To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.”
Further evidence that the summation of US aid has fallen into the hands of Al Qaeda in Syria, comes to us from Washington Post propagandist Liz Sly who reported in her article, “U.S. feeds Syrians, but secretly,” that:

“In the heart of rebel-held territory in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo, a small group of intrepid Westerners is undertaking a mission of great stealth. Living anonymously in a small rural community, they travel daily in unmarked cars, braving airstrikes, shelling and the threat of kidnapping to deliver food and other aid to needy Syrians – all of it paid for by the U.S. government.”
Sly then claims that most Syrians credit Al Qaeda’s al-Nusra with providing the aid:

““America has done nothing for us. Nothing at all,” said Mohammed Fouad Waisi, 50, spitting out the words for emphasis in his small Aleppo grocery store, which adjoins a bakery where he buys bread every day. The bakery is fully supplied with flour paid for by the United States. But Waisi credited Jabhat al-Nusra – a rebel group the United States has designated a terrorist organization because of its ties to al-Qaeda – with providing flour to the region, though he admitted he wasn’t sure where it comes from.”
And while Sly attempts to spin the story as merely misdirected anger and ignorance on the part of Syrians receiving the aid, it is well documented that bakeries in terrorist-held territory are manned by Al Qaeda militants. In fact, while Sly maintains that “security concerns” are owed for America’s opaque aid distribution, it appears more likely the US is attempting to insidiously obfuscate its use of humanitarian aid to help its militant proxies win “hearts and minds” amid a humanitarian catastrophe the West itself engineered and perpetuated intentionally.

The London Telegraph reported in their article, “Syria: how jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra is taking over Syria’s revolution,” that taking over bakeries was a key strategy used by Al Qaeda’s al-Nusra front to “win over” the population:

“Then, in the past weeks, Jabhat al-Nusra – which is outside the FSA – pushed other rebel groups out of the stores and established a system to distribute bread throughout rebel areas.”
In a small office attached to a bakery in the Miesseh district of Aleppo, Abu Yayha studied a map pinned on the wall. Numbers were scrawled in pencil against streets.

“We counted the population of every street to assess the need for the area,” explained Mr Yahya. “We provide 23,593 bags of bread every two days for this area. This is just in one district. We are calculating the population in other districts and doing the same there.

““In shops the cost is now 125 Syrian pounds (£1.12) for one pack. Here we sell it at 50 Syrian pounds (45p) for two bags. We distribute some for free for those who cannot pay.””
The bakery works constantly. Inside, barrows filled with dough were heaved onto a conveyor belt that chopped it into round and flat segments, before pushing the dough into a giant oven. Workers packed the steaming flatbread in bags.

““I am from Jabhat al Nusra. All the managers of all the bakeries are,” said Abu Fattah, the manager. “This makes sure that nobody steals.””
In essence, Al Qaeda is taking over neighborhoods upon a mountain of US-provided flour, in bakeries overrun and held at the barrels of US-provided guns.

With this in mind, it becomes clear that not only has America traded in its liberty and dignity for the illusion of safety, but they have done so in the face of fear manufactured and intentionally perpetuated by their own government – a government willfully using the very terror organizations they hold over the American people’s heads as justification for an ever-expanding police state at home, as an international mercenary force with which to target their geopolitical enemies abroad.

It is an illusion of both terror and security, masterfully implemented with a myriad of propagandists and corporate-financier interests working in coordination to foist this scheme upon Western civilization and beyond. It is essential to identify these corporate-financier interests, boycott them, and permanently replace them with local solutions – lest we be bent eternally to this charade, without liberty, without dignity, and clearly, without safety.

Boston attacks: Suspect detained, officials tell US media

Officials take crime scene photos after twin attacks at the Boston marathon 17 April 2013 Law enforcement officials scoured the crime scene for clues and appealed for tips from the public

Investigators have detained a suspect over Monday’s Boston marathon bombings, law enforcement officials have told the Associated Press news agency.

The breakthrough reportedly came from security video of a man dropping off a bag on the street near the race’s finish line, before walking away.

The twin blasts killed an eight-year-old boy, a woman aged 29 and a postgraduate student from China.

Officials are due to hold a press conference at 17:00 ET (21:00 GMT).

Investigators have been sifting through thousands of pieces of evidence, ranging from video recorded on mobile phones to fragments of shrapnel removed from the victims’ legs. More than 170 people were wounded in the attack.
Pressure cooker bombs

The image of a suspect came from surveillance video recorded at a department store across the street from the site of the second blast, CNN reported.

The Boston Globe newspaper reported that a surveillance camera at the Lord & Taylor store had provided police with clear footage of the area.

Earlier, the Associated Press quoted a source close to the investigation as saying that the bombs consisted of explosives placed in 1.6-gallon (6-litre) pressure cookers, one with shards of metal and ball bearings, the other with nails.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the bombs, which a source said were placed in black bags and left on the ground.

It has been reported that a circuit board and battery pack – parts of a triggering mechanism – were recovered.

And the lid of a pressure cooker, apparently blown off during the explosion, was found on the roof of a nearby building, an official said on Wednesday.

Doctors treating the wounded say their injuries indicate that the bombs contained metal shards and other shrapnel. A number of victims have had limbs amputated.

Boston Medical Center trauma surgery chief Peter Burke said hospitals were saving “large quantities” of fragments extracted from victims for the police. They include metal, plastic, wood and concrete.

At least 58 of the injured have been released from various hospitals around the city, according to AP. Of those that remain, 17 patients are listed as in a critical condition.

The first explosion went off close to the finish line at about 14:50 local time (18:50 GMT) on Monday.

Seconds later, as rescuers were rushing to help the injured, another explosion went off nearby.

The London Marathon – the next major international marathon – is to go ahead on Sunday, with police saying they have well-rehearsed security plans.

Organisers have said they will hold a 30-second silence at the start as a mark of respect.

Published time: April 17, 2013 07:30
http://rt.com/usa/pressure-cookers-boston-bombs-983/

The two bombs that killed three people and injured at least 176 others at the Boston Marathon, were probably pressure cookers loaded with explosives and shrapnel. The sealed containers amplified the relatively-weak blasts.

A pressure cooker can give extra power to an explosion the same way a pipe bomb works. The sealed pot allows the pressure to build up before it tears it apart and sends the contents flying at high speed. The bomb is usually packed with metal scraps, nails and ball bearings to maximize the damage, and the Boston devices were no exception, as the FBI revealed.

Investigators have not determined yet the kind of explosive material used by the Marathon bomber, but early theories point to gunpowder. It will take forensic experts more time to analyze all the evidence, ranging from blast residue to the remains of the cookers to the color of the smoke caught on cameras, to come up with a more precise conclusion.

Evidence collected at the scene was being reconstructed at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, said Richard DesLauriers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s special agent in charge in Boston.

The probe also disproved earlier speculation that there were unexploded bombs at the scene. After examining all the parcels in the vicinity the investigators found no further explosive devices.

The bombs that detonated were probably hidden in large black nylon bags or backpacks left on the ground, the FBI said.

In 2006, seven pressure-cooker bombs were detonated at a Mumbai railway, killing 209 people, arguably the worst terrorist attack to use this kind of improvised explosive device. A pressure cooker also figured in the botched attempt to bomb Times Square in 2010.

Similar bombs are used regularly by militants across the Middle East and Southern Asia. Al-Qaeda’s English-language online magazine advised that would-be terrorists use the technique to make deadlier IEDs. Explosive experts say it would cost around US$100 to construct one.

So far nobody has claimed responsibility for the bombings. Investigators didn’t offer any theories about who the perpetrator was or what his or her motives might be.

Published time: April 17, 2013 16:11
http://rt.com/usa/police-israel-investigation-boston-009/

The investigation into Monday’s deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon has officially gone international: law enforcement officials from Israel have been sent to the United States to assist in the probe.

Israel Police Chief Yohanan Danino says he has dispatched officials to Boston, Massachusetts, where they will meet with Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and other authorities, the Times of Israel Reports.

Citing an earlier report published by the newspaper Maariv, Times of Israel writes that Danino has dispatched police officers to participate in discussions that “will center on the Boston Marathon bombings and deepening professional cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of both countries.”

The paper reports that Israeli law enforcement planned the trip before the deadly pair of bombings on Monday that has so far claimed three lives, but the discussions will now shift focus in order to see how help from abroad can expand the investigation.

In an address made Tuesday, Israel President Shimon Peres said that tragedies such as this week’s incident in Boston, sadly, bring people together from across the world.

“When it comes to events like this, all of us are one family. We feel a part of the people who paid such a high price. God bless them,” Peres said. “Today the real problem is terror, and terror is not an extension of policy: Their policy is terror, their policy is to threaten. Terrorists divide people, they kill innocent people.”

Around 20 hours after two bombs detonated near the finish line of the annual race, United States President Barack Obama went on record to condemn the tragedy as a terrorist attack.

“This was a heinous and cowardly act,” said Obama from the White House, “and given what we now know the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism.”

But even as officials come to assist from as far away as Israel, authorities are still in the dark as far as finding any leads in the case. Pres. Obama has directed the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security to assist in the investigation, but no agencies have identified suspects or motives at this time.

Pres. Obama has also said that his administration has been directed to implement “appropriate security measures to protect the American people,” but details as to what that could mean remain scarce. Meanwhile, at least one leading lawmaker is asking for the US to respond to the terrorist attack by increasing the scope of the ever-expanding surveillance program already growing across the United States.

“I do think we need more cameras,” Rep. Peter King (R-New York) told MSNBC after Monday’s attacks. “We have to stay ahead of the terrorists and I do know in New York, the Manhattan Security Initiative, which is based on cameras, the outstanding work that results from that. So yes, I do favor more cameras. They’re a great law enforcement device. And again, it keeps us ahead of the terrorists, who are constantly trying to kill us.”

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has also confirmed that he has dispatched law enforcement officers from the Big Apple to assist in the investigation by meeting with agents at a Boston fusion center, one of the DHS-funded data facilities that collects surveillance camera footage and other evidence in order to analyze events like Monday’s attack.

“We are certainly engaged in the information flow with the FBI through our Joint Terrorism Task Force. We have two New York City police officers, police sergeants, who are in the Boston Regional Intelligence Center,” Bloomberg said on Tuesday. “They’re up there, they’ve been up there since last evening.”

But in a study conducted last year by the Senate’s bipartisan Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, lawmakers found that those fusion centers have been more or less unhelpful in assisting with terrorism probes.

The Department of Homeland Security’s work with state and local fusion centers, the subcommittee wrote, “has not produced useful intelligence to support federal counterterrorism efforts.” Instead, they added, so-called “intelligence” shared between facilities consisted of tidbits of shoddy quality that was often outdated and “sometimes endangering [to] citizen‘s civil liberties and Privacy Act protections.”

“More often than not,” the panel added, information collected and shared at DHS fusion centers was “unrelated to terrorism.”

Published time: April 17, 2013 02:33
http://rt.com/op-edge/boston-brotain-ira-lesson-981/

As US media coverage feverishly highlights the looming threat of terrorism following the Boston Marathon bombings, former MI5 officer Annie Machon, cautions against too readily handing over basic freedoms for an elusive sense of security.

With its endless, speculative scaremongering about the Boston attacks, the US media plays a diabolical role in furthering the work of the attackers – ie terrorizing the population, inducing them to live in a state of abject fear. Of course, once suitably terrorized, the US people will be even more willing to give away what remains of their historic freedoms, all in the name of increasing their security.

Indeed, the abrogation of liberty in the USA has patently not resulted in greater security, as Boston has so brutally demonstrated. No society can protect itself absolutely against terrorism.

In a democracy, just as rights come with responsibilities, so freedoms come with risk. And we need to remember that those freedoms were hard-won by our ancestors and will be equally difficult to win back if we heedlessly throw them away now, while the risks remain statistically negligible.

Successive US governments have already decimated the basic rights of the US people in the post-9/11 security panic. At the sharp end, people, both globally and now also in America, can be extraordinarily rendered (kidnapped) to black prison sites and tortured for years on the word of anonymous intelligence officers, they can be denied due legal process, and they can be killed on presidential decree by drone strikes – a real-world version of the snuff video.

Additionally, the US has descended into a panoptical surveillance state, with endemic data-mining of communications, airborne drone spying, and the categorization of protesters as “domestic extremists” or even “terrorists” who are then beaten up by militarized police forces. This otiose security theatre constantly reminds US citizens to be afraid, be very afraid, of the enemy within.

Terrorist atrocities are criminal acts, they are not a separate form of “eviltude”, to use George Bush-era terminology. As such, the criminals behind such attacks should be investigated, evidence gathered, and they should be tried in front of a jury of their peers, where justice can be done and be seen to be done. So it is troubling that the Boston FBI bureau chief, Richard DesLauriers, is today quoted in the New York Times as saying he is working on “a criminal investigation that is a potential terrorist investigation”. The precise difference being?

Likewise, terrorist attacks are not an existential threat to the fabric of the nation, even events on the scale of 9/11. However, I would suggest that the response of the security-industrial complex poses a greater existential threat to the future well-being of the USA. The post-9/11 security crackdown in the USA has eroded core democratic values, while the military response across the Middle East has bankrupted America and created a generation of potential enemies.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Compare and contrast the response of the Norwegian people in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks and murder of 77 people by Anders Breivik. As a country, there was a need to see justice done, but not to allow such an appalling attack to compromise the values of the society and destroy a cherished way of life for all. And this the Norwegian people achieved.

Similarly between the late 1980s and the late 1990s the UK endured Lockerbie, Bishopsgate, Canary Wharf, and Manchester, to name but a few major atrocities. A good summary of the terrorist attacks against London alone over the last 150 years can be found here, with the first Tube bombing occurring in 1885. A pilot, Patrick Smith, also recently wrote a great article about aircraft security and the sheer scale of the terrorist threat to the West in the 1980s — and asks a very pertinent question: just how would we collectively react to such a stream of atrocities now?

During the 1990s, at the height of the Provisional IRA’s bombing campaign on mainland Britain, I lived in central London and worked as an intelligence officer for the UK’s domestic Security Service (MI5). Putting aside my professional life, I have personal memories of what it was like to live under the shadow of terrorism. I remember making my way to work in 1991 and commuting through Victoria train station in London 10 minutes before a bomb, planted in a rubbish bin, exploded on the station concourse. One person was killed, and many sustained severe injuries. One person had their foot blown off — the image haunted me for a long time.

I also vividly remember, two years later, sitting at my desk in MI5’s Mayfair office, and hearing a dull thud in the background — this turned out to be a bomb exploding outside Harrods department store in Knightsbridge. And let’s not forget the almost daily disruption to the tube and rail networks during the 1990s because of security alerts. Every Londoner was exhorted to watch out for, and report, any suspicious packages left at stations or on streets.

Londoners grew used to such inconvenience, they grumbled a bit about the disruption and then got on with their lives — echoes of the “keep calm and carry on” mentality that evolved during the Blitz years. In the 1990s the only noticeable change to London’s diurnal rhythm was that there were fewer US tourists clogging up the streets — an early indication of the disproportionate, paranoid US reaction to a perceived terrorist threat.

In contrast to the post-9/11 years, the UK did not then react by shredding the basic freedoms of its people. There were certainly controversial cases and heated debates about how long you could hold a terrorist suspect without charge, but the way of life continued much as before. Now, twelve years after 9/11 – an attack on a different continent – the UK has all the laws in place to enact a de facto police state within days.

Life and liberty are both precious. It is always tragic when lives are lost in the name of some twisted or arcane political cause; it is even more tragic when the liberty of all is also lost as a result.

My heart goes out to those who were injured and to the friends and families who have lost loved ones in the Boston attacks, in the same way it goes out to all those who were killed and maimed across the Middle East yesterday.

However, I do urge caution in the US response; evidence needs to be gathered and justice seen to be done. Another security crackdown on a fearful US population will hurt Americans much more than two bombs in Boston ever could, while yet more remotely-controlled revenge killings across the Middle East will kill, maim and displace many more thousands.

I shall leave you with a quote from another great American, Thomas Jefferson:

“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.”

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

Published time: April 16, 2013 20:13
http://rt.com/op-edge/boston-response-bombing-marathon-972/

The investigation into Monday’s Boston marathon bombings has so far yielded few results. But activist David Swanson, warns that the authorities’ response will be “disproportionate,” causing a spike in “fear, and in police and military presence.”

The FBI said Tuesday that they had neither suspects nor anyone in custody related to the explosions that killed three people and injured over 170. Police are calling on witnesses to assist the investigation, which has been called “the most complex crime scene” in the history of the Boston PD.

David Swanson an anti-war activist spoke to RT to give his view on possible responses to the deadly attack and why it occurred in the first place despite all the security measures.

RT: We saw the US significantly step up security following the 9/11 attacks over a decade ago. Can we expect similar measures now?

DS:There is a huge escalation in security and in fear and in police presence. There was a horrific scene in Boston. But these three dead – you know, don’t begin to compare to how many Americans die from automobiles, cigarettes, suicide, eating at McDonalds, bad healthcare. The response will be incredibly disproportionate. We will see an intense upsurge in fear, and in police and military presence.

The fortunate thing – the best thing we have going for us right now – is that they don’t know who did it. Because anything that would be gained from knowing who did it in terms of preventing that person from acting again or deterring others would be far outweighed by the negative effects.

We always make everything far worse when we know who did it, especially if that was someone foreign. Then trying to investigate the causes that made it more likely becomes acquitted with supporting the crime, and the crime becomes acquitted with an act of war. So, right now my hope is that they don’t figure it out.

RT:After nearly a dozen years of increased surveillance, how was it even possible for someone to carry out such a major attack in the US?

DS: Well, I’ve never been involved in attempting to plan such an attack, but I imagine it’s not that difficult, technically speaking. There are publically available recipes for making bombs. It is entirely possible to conceal a bomb in a backpack or some other device that a camera can’t see through.

This illusion that technology is going to save us, that filling our skies with drones and covering our buildings with surveillance cameras, and treating every airport airline passenger as a potential terrorist is going to save us is an incredible delusion.

I mean the causes that are possible here range from incredible inequality in our society, the promotion of violence in our society, mental illness, anger at our foreign policies. But these are all things that can be easily and rationally addressed. The idea that we are going to continue on the course we are on in these terms and then save ourselves through technology is an incredibly misguided delusion. It’s just not going to happen.

RT: Doesn’t the Boston attack justify America’s global war on terror?

DS: War is never justified. And we have seen a predictable and predicted increase in terrorism throughout the course of the global war on the globe, or the ‘global war on terror,’ as they call it. You cannot fight a war against a tactic. You cannot kill people and eliminate violence by other people. In fact, you have just the opposite effect, as top US military commanders have confessed.

You are creating more enemies than you remove when you blow up people’s houses with drones. You know, the drone warfare and missile strikes have become the new Abu Ghraib torture scandal, the greatest recruiting tool for entire US terrorism. I have no notion of whether this attack in Boston came from abroad or who was responsible. The best possible reaction is going to be if this was a white male, middle-class and lone attacker. Then you might see a little bit of interest in what possibly led to it without acquitting it with supporting it.

But the idea that if it came from abroad you are then justified in going and bombing some country is going to make everything dramatically worse. That’s what I’m hoping against right now. They grabbed a Saudi man based on appearances and suspected him. And I have no idea if he was connected or not.

But we already had an attack on 9/11 primarily by a bunch of Saudi men and we went and destroyed Iraq and are still bombing Afghanistan today. That is what we need to avoid at this moment.

-= The Unhived Mind

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Martyn Williams, IDG News Service @martyn_williams
Apr 16, 2013 2:00 PM
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2034851/american-airlines-grounds-all-flights-on-computer-glitch.html

American Airlines restored access to its reservation system on Tuesday afternoon after a four-hour long outage that grounded its flights across the U.S.

Problems began around 9 a.m. PDT when the airline began suffering “intermittent outages” to its reservation system. American Airlines relies on Sabre for much of its reservations, but said the problem was with its system and not those of Sabre.

Within two hours of first notifying the public of the problems, American halted its flight operations, disrupting the travel plans of tens of thousands of travellers. The exact number of passengers affected was not immediately clear but, in March, the airline carried an average of 313,000 passengers worldwide on its network per day.

At 1:30 p.m. PDT, the problem had been fixed, the airline said.

“Our systems have been fully restored, however we expect continued flight delays and cancellations throughout the remainder of the day,” the company posted on its Facebook page.

The airline had offered several options to its customers. Those at airports were being rebooked onto other flights, those that could travel on another day were being offered rebooking with no fee, and some passengers were being offered refunds.

The airline industry is hugely reliant on computers to manage the numerous passenger, baggage, scheduling and control systems that need to work in complete harmony to avoid chaos. For that reason, when a failure happens it typically affects tens of thousands of people and can have a knock-on effect for days.

Updated 3:30 p.m. PDT as the reservation system came back online for American Airlines

Matt Hamblen @matthamblen
Apr 16, 2013 9:33 AM
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2034734/massive-citizen-smartphone-photo-and-video-probe-underway-into-boston-bombings.html

Following the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, investigators mounted a massive investigation that includes close scrutiny of digital photos and videos taken about the time of the blasts from citizen smartphones and area surveillance cameras.

“It’s our intent to go through every frame of every video we have,” said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told reporters in a Tuesday morning news conference in Boston.

FBI officials have set up a hot line at 1-800-Call-FBI to let investigators know of images taken in the area. The FBI has posted a statement saying “no piece of information or detail is too small” to report.

FBI Special Agent Rich DesLauriers said “assistance from the public remains critical” to the investigation. He added that the FBI had received “voluminous tips” in the first 18 hours after the bombings that killed three and injured 173 others.

The digital videos and photos will be processed at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va. In addition to the images and videos received from citizens, the agency will study the output from surveillance cameras located at stores and businesses in a 12-block area near the Marathon finish line where the two blasts occurred about 2:50 p.m. Monday.

Investigators said that citizen photos and videos need not be only from the finish line area, and can be from before and after the blasts.

Davis said the crime scene under investigation extends for 12 blocks in the Back Bay area of Boston. “It’s the most complex crime scene in [Boston police] history,” he said.

Analysts said the extent of the digital investigation will be vast, given the number of surveillance cameras and people with smartphones.

An image of a man on a nearby Boston rooftop about the time of the bombings has gone viral. The FBI has refused to comment on the image.

The FBI is heading up a joint task force that includes city and state police from Massachusetts, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency and others.

that lady was from newtown her name was dawn lafferty hochsprung she was supposed to have been shot, now she appeared in Boston.

by Dave Hodges – thecommonsenseshow.com
April 15, 2013 – Conspiracy, Featured, Main
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/04/15/the-new-world-order-formula-for-false-flag-attacks/

The 21st Century Boston Massacre

Prior to reporting on what I have been able to learn about the horrific bombing at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, let me express my sincere condolences to the families of the victims. The death toll as of 9pm ET stands at three and is certain to climb.
An Old Familiar Script

On April 19, 1995, in the wake of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building n 1995, the FBI & BATF were working with the alleged terrorists under a sting operation. Of course when these connections are discovered, the perpetrators have plausible deniability and claim they were drilling or performing a sting that went bad. Yet, on the same day of the bombing, Renee Cooper, Attorney Dan Adomitis, J.D. Reed with the Oklahoma Assessor’s Office, Norma Joslin of the Oklahoma Board of Elections and private investigator Claude Criss all report seeing the bomb squad at the federal courthouse that morning, before the bombing. In this “drill,” in a script that is becoming all too familiar, there were bomb drills planned in conjunction with the bombing of the federal building.

Who will ever forget the stunning revelation that on September 6, 2001, Condoleezza Rice was warned that a terrorist attack inside the United States was imminent? Subsequently, on 9/11, the CIA conducted a real-time drill which included a plane flying into a building, which resulted in NORAD standing down for the first time in its 50-year long history. The government described this as a bizarre coincidence. On 9/11, NORAD was also scheduled to conduct a military exercise, Vigilant Guardian, which simulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union. Why the “former” Soviet Union in 2001? Just another bizarre coincidence?

Former Scotland Yard’s, Peter Power, a former high ranking employee of and member of its Anti-Terrorist Branch, reported on Radio 5 Live and ITV News, that his company Visor Consulting, had on the morning hours of July 7, 2005, been conducting what he called “crisis exercises” whose scenarios exactly paralleled the attack with bombs exploding exactly at the railway stations’ in which the “terrorist” bombing occurred in just another bizarre coincidence?
Just Another Bizarre Coincidence?
Ali Stevenson

Ali Stevenson

The NBC affiliate, broadcasting from WPMI-TV channel 15 in Mobile, Alabama, interviewed Ali Stevenson, the University of Mobile’s cross country coach, who was near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when a series of explosions went off. Stevenson also recalled thinking that he thought it was very odd there were bomb sniffing dogs at both the start and finish lines.

In a stunning revelation, the cross country coach said he saw law enforcement spotters on the roofs at the start of the race. In the interview, Stevenson stated that he had been in many marathons in major cities (e.g. Chicago, D.C, London, etc.) but has never seen that level of security before. Stevenson had just finished the marathon when the explosions went off in just another bizarre coincidence.

My suggestion would be to immediately watch this video as it will soon be scrubbed from the station’s website.

The Bizarre Coincidence of Patriot’s Day

The holiday known as Patriots Day is celebrated on the third Monday in April. Interestingly, McVeigh bombed Murrah Bldg on Patriots’ Day in 1995. Additionally, the deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, occurred on Patriots day. Further, the Boston Marathon Bombing happened on the same day as the controlled explosion drill by Boston Bomb Squad on, you guessed it, Patriots Day!

In Massachusetts , a civil holiday, commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord which sparked the American Revolution. And just what does Patriots day celebrate? It celebrates the pre-Revolutionary War battles of Lexington and Concord. And what was Lexington and Concord about? The British forces were moving to seize the colonists guns so they would be defenseless against a subsequent British attack. In light of the gun control rhetoric, isn’t this just another in the long line of bizarre coincidences?

As Mark Twain once said, “history does not repeat, but it sure does rhyme.”

When the events in Boston transpired, I was writing an analysis of how federal agencies are co-opting local law enforcement activities in an attempted prelude to a coming false flag event and the subsequent imposition of martial law. That article will be published tomorrow. And I would add that this is just the first of these events which will occur with ever greater intensity, death and destruction! The forces are lining up and, as I will detail tomorrow, life in America is about to get very interesting, not to mention a whole lot more dangerous.

http://www.secretsofthefed.com/boston-marathon-runner-boston-police-said-explosions-were-training-exercise-w-video/

TRAINING EXERCISE

Boston marathon runner Alastair Stevenson says that as the explosions erupted at the Boston Marathon this morning, he was told by police over the loud speaker that the events were ‘just a drill’.

boston-marathon-drill-300x145Stevenson, speaking with various news sources at the event, told one Alabama publication about what he witnessed during the race. While managing to finish the race before the explosions were in range of him or his bystander wife, Stevenson revealed some interesting information that makes sense of some Boston Globe tweets from earlier regarding bomb drills — which had been going on around the time of the actual explosions themselves and therefore may have confused police and emergency response.

In the article, Stevenson is recorded as saying:

“They kept announcing to runners not to be alarmed, that they were running a training exercise.”

In fact, the eyewitness runner says that there were already a major presence of bomb sniffing dogs and even a bomb squad.

RUNNER SAYS ‘BOMB SNIFFING DOGS, BOMB SQUAD ALREADY ON SCENE BEFORE EXPLOSIONS’

Likely due to the perceived drill that was set to go on right before the actual explosion in the same area, the runner detailed how there was already a large presence of bomb sniffing dogs and even a bomb squad right nearby before the explosions hit. In fact, they had told the competitors and the fans that it was simply a drill — until they realized that real people were being injured and killed.

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013. Filed under: Activism Big Brother Censorship Conspiracy False Flag
by Nofo Lalo
http://www.zengardner.com/boston-the-die-is-cast-the-meme-is-in-place/

“We still don’t know who did this or why. People should not jump to conclusions before we have all the facts. But make no mistake. We will get to the bottom of this. We will find out who did this. We will find out why they did this. Any individual or responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice.” – Our African Dictator and Chief

I’ve been analyzing this scripted statement thoroughly; because, it will become the meme for all that follows.

Some background facts that I think the statement was scripted around, and most importantly is that April 15 is “Patriots Day” and that commemorates the Battles of Lexington and Concord, then, the beginning of the first American Revolution.

The who, and why (especially) is going to be played up. The conjured case for it being homegrown and against the U.S Gov. will surface, I think. The emphasis reiterated of the “why” is going to spin way out, and include guilt by association with ‘any responsible groups’.

It’s clearly aimed ‘home’ by the use of ‘full weight of justice’ rather than retribution or revenge, as was the false flag in 9-11:

And, as is it always and ever the case with these contrived events, coincidentally, a “drill” of the same event was going on concurrently. This is now coming out, and as always, will go down the memory hole.

Links to not miss:

Boston Marathon Runner – Boston Police Said Explosions Were Training Exercise
http://www.secretsofthefed.com/boston-marathon-runner-boston-police-said-explosions-were-training-exercise-w-video/

The New World Order Formula for False Flag Attacks
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/04/15/the-new-world-order-formula-for-false-flag-attacks/

The Boston Bombing Is Inside Job
http://humansarefree.com/2013/04/the-boston-bombing-is-inside-job.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FYTqom+%28Humans+Are+Free-Blog%29

Facebook Page for Boston Bombing Set Up Days Before Event
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2013/04/facebook-page-set-up-for-boston-marathon-bombings-days-before-boston-marathon-bombings-2450056.html

Facebook Page – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4l9yK6vtCU

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[Comment from Zen: I had a similar reaction to Obomber's tone setter when I heard it. "We're gonna run with this and here's the outline of how we're going to press it." Even though they apparently botched this one again and there are so many who are on to this false flag insanity, it won't matter because the media will say what they're told to say and they'll roll out what they have in place.

Time to be vigilant while keeping the message out there. A critical mass of awake people can do mighty things - maybe this time word will spill into the mass consciousness....]

ZenGardner.com

-= The Unhived Mind

by Ed Ward, MD
http://edwardmd.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/boston-marathon-the-finish-line-for-us-treason-drill-death-everything-is-in-place-for-police-state-by-ed-ward-md/

Boston Marathon: The Finish Line For US Treason. Drill Death. Everything Is In Place For Police State. by Ed Ward, MD http://edwardmd.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/boston-marathon-the-finish-line-for-us-treason-drill-death-everything-is-in-place-for-police-state-by-ed-ward-md/

More death in government drills. If one could stomach listening to accessories after the fact, and more than likely before, to crimes against humanity and treason. One heard about the great job they are doing. One might have seen a few military fatigues around, but no one heard anything about any government ‘drills’.

First entrance of Al the Boston marathon runner appears in http://www.local15tv.com/mostpopular/story/UM-Coach-Bomb-Sniffing-Dogs-Spotters-on-Roofs/BrirjAzFPUKKN8z6eSDJEA.cspx which is a fairly revealing article. However, the comments section shows multiple readers commenting that parts of the article were deleted. Likely, never to be seen again.

Second Entrance of Al is rejuvinated with the offensive quotes intact as well as a video showing multiple quotes of ‘planned drills’ and government drill – excellent fact finding – http://www.secretsofthefed.com/boston-marathon-runner-boston-police-said-explosions-were-training-exercise-w-video/

Now, the FBI wants help gathering any cellphone evidence in private citizens hands.

http://news.findlaw.com/apnews-lp/aa9c619f760d4415840edcba07e52f08 Assuredly, to meet the fate of other drills (Complete 911 Timeline – Training Exercises on 911 – Spoiler: 46 Training Exercises – some of the exercises mimiced exactly what was occurring at the time. Plus one Planned FEMA convention that didn’t make the list.) http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?day_of_9/11=complete_911_timeline_training_exercises&timeline=complete_911_timeline ) video disappearance http://www.911myths.com/index.php/FBI_hides_84_Pentagon_videos (A myth hit piece that somehow proves the seizures false by listing them under the innocuous names labeled and ‘described’ by the FBI. So even though the article proves they have been seized, exist, and have been ‘classified’ from public inspection, remember that it really proves they weren’t seized or don’t exist – Amazing)

The US Wouldn’t Nuke Its Own People? Wake Up & Glow http://edwardmd.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/the-us-wouldnt-nuke-its-own-people-wake-up-and-glow/ Where there is unclassified government documentation of many doing it while being praised and paid. Here’s a couple of the many off a muderous, treasonous, fascist government list.

“””Radiation bombs” thrown from USAF planes intentionally spread radiation “unknown distances” endangering the young and old alike. One such experiment doused Utah with 60 times more radiation than escaped the Three Mile Island accident, according to Sen. John Glen, D-Ohio who released a report on the program 20 years ago.

With the National Cancer Institute’s 1997 finding that all 160,000 million US citizens (in the country at the time of the bomb tests) were contaminated with fallout, it’s clear we did face war with atomic weapons — our own.” http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/12/inhuman-radiation-experiments/

At this point it should be extremely clear about what kind of government US has and its plans for anyone that is ‘unhappy about complying with it’. The state militia in cities and states has just been ‘justified’ and legitimized. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=9065782

Starting to get an idea why this fascist, proven murderous government needs Billions of Bullets? Hollow Points 4 US http://www.naturalnews.com/036802_DHS_ammunition_shooting_war.html

The ridiculous idea that freedom can be attained from the most advanced military system ever by firearms is ludicrous. The “BowTie” (hanging) judge said it best: “What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves?” -Étienne de la Boétie, Judge during the French Renaissance

http://edwardmd.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/happy-new-year-2011/

The only thing that has ever worked against homeland government fascism is the work strike and boycotts. Bottom line this government exists, nay, thrives because we let it. We Assist It. The herd would rather let others be tortured and die than shutting this government down for just one day. The herd would rather be encircled by a proven murderous and cannabalistic government than think about shutting this government down for just one day. The herd prefers to stay comfortable in fantasy. We are the herd and the only thing missing is the ‘emergency’ martial law called for city by state as needed per whim. It’s time for a unified call for work strike for just one day… Feel your power.

Related Article: Conflicts, Coincidences At JFK Library Fire & Bombing. Very early in the operation the JFK library developed as the primary objective – When conflicts and coincidences happen together, start thinking covert op. They are the inconvenient byproducts of SOP military operations. Coincidences are rare, and conflicts of truth even rarer – the lie being extremely more common.

http://rense.com/general95/conffc.html See also: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/what-happened-boston-jfk-library/64259/

Not to mention:

Operation Northwoods -

Where the Joint Chiefs of Staff planned a similar operation to what unfolded with 911. http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/04/10/15/ward.htm

Nicaragua, The Contras, Reagan, North and a secretary in open treason.

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, by Bill Moyers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRBxDEGDqw

The USS Liberty – Israel Zionists and US Fascists Murder USS Liberty Crew in War Plot – Operation Cyanide and the 303 Committee Vigilant Guardian, Global Guardian,

Dead in the Water

During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. Survivors were placed under threat of prison for revealing the atrocity.

Excellent BBC Documentary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52U-uXmhJ_M

Depleted Uranium and Agent Orange http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/04/09/07/ward.htm

Voting Fraud – German High Court Outlaws Electronic Voting – Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 9:45 am
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00187.htm

See where it started here – Proofs of a Conspiracy against all Nations/Religions – Published in 1793 as the zionist cults were forming here in US.

http://www.bilderberg.org/lucis.htm

Proven 9-11 Nukes http://edwardmd.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/proven-9-11-nukes-us-government-involvement/

1. Three Massive WTC Craters – See us government LIDAR proof: – Nothing else known to man can leave ALL the WTC debris and this particular evidence in the length of time needed , except a third generation Micro Nuke – Mini Nuke – Nuke. It’s 100% classic textbook nuclear event residue – ZERO ANOMALIES.
http://www.usavsus.info/WTC-MoreEvidence.htm – Best,

2. Five Acres (1.2 Billion Pounds = Weight of Residue of 3 WTC Buildings (WTC 1, 2, and 6)) of WTC Land Brought to Searing Temperatures in a Few Hours by an ’Anaerobic, Chlorine Fueled “Fire” – Impossible by Basic Laws of Physics. See us gov Thermal Images proof – Nothing else known to man can leave ALL the WTC debris and this particular evidence in the length of time needed , except a third generation Micro Nuke – Mini Nuke – Nuke. It’s 100% classic textbook nuclear event residue – ZERO ANOMALIES. http://www.usavsus.info/WTC-MoreEvidence.htm– Best,

3. Tritium Levels 55 Times (normal) Background Levels assessed a numerical value of ‘traces’ and ‘of no human concern’. See us government (DOE report) proof: – Nothing but a NUCLEAR EVENT can cause ‘tritium’ formation – basic physics fact – Nothing else known to man can leave ALL the WTC debris and this particular evidence in the length of time needed , except a third generation Micro Nuke – Mini Nuke – Nuke. It’s 100% classic textbook nuclear event residue – ZERO ANOMALIES.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EdWard-MD/message/141

4. An Impossible “Fire” (Combustion Process). See Laws of Physics for
Fire/Combustion Process and Dr. Cahill’s data on ‘anaerobic incineration’. – Nothing else known to man can leave ALL the WTC debris and this particular evidence in the length of time needed , except a third generation Micro Nuke – Mini Nuke – Nuke. It’s 100% classic textbook nuclear event residue – ZERO ANOMALIES. http://rense.com/general77/newlaws.htm

5. 3 Billion pounds of building instantly turned into 2 Billion pounds of
micronized dust. – Nothing else known to man can leave ALL the WTC debris and this particular evidence in the length of time needed , except a third generation Micro Nuke – Mini Nuke – Nuke. It’s 100% classic textbook nuclear event residue – ZERO ANOMALIES. http://www.serendipity.li/wot/ed_ward/use_of_abombs.htm– Best

6. 16 inch steel Spires that withstood 1/2 a Billion pounds of building falling on them and suddenly turn into limp noodles and partially vaporize. Nothing else known to man can leave ALL the WTC debris and this particular evidence in the length of time needed , except a third generation Micro Nuke – Mini Nuke – Nuke. It’s 100% classic textbook nuclear event residue – ZERO ANOMALIES.
http://www.usavsus.info/WTC-MoreEvidence.htm

7. Hiroshima effect cancers in responders and locals. Nothing else known to man can leave ALL the WTC debris and this particular evidence in the length of time needed , except a third generation Micro Nuke – Mini Nuke – Nuke. It’s 100% classic textbook nuclear event residue – ZERO ANOMALIES. http://www.usavsus.info/WTC-MoreEvidence.htm , http://www.serendipity.li/wot/ed_ward/use_of_abombs.htm

All of the above are facts are proven with referenced links of reputable data sources – many are from the government itself and more…

Ed Ward, MD – http://edwardmd.wordpress.com/ ;
https://www.facebook.com/EdWardMD3 ; http://groups.yahoo.com

ALERT!!! ~ Boston Attack ~ Is Collapse & False Flag Underway?!?! #n3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUVZwv4fnVc

-= The Unhived Mind

OBAMA’S SECRET BACKERS

by Barry Chamish

When I received a copy of Aaron Klein’s book, The Manchurian Candidate – WND Books, I knew I had to review it since I worked with him on a few stories. One concerned an American-built military base in Israel. Here are my words and his photos:

http://www.rense.com/general66/morebase.htm

Aaron respected my work but never acknowledged me publicly. That might affect his credibility and Aaron was too career conscious to take such a risk. On another story, I insisted that he trace Netanyahu’s very direct ties to the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR). He said he couldn’t. I asked him what he knew about the CFR. He replied,”Plenty, but I can’t say so right now.”
So, knowing a bit about the author, I doubted that his book, an expose of Obama’s secret backers, would hit paydirt. Further, what difference does exposing Obama make? Klein, an Israeli author, should know that all recent American Presidents are as bad as each other over Israel. Of the CFR-member chief executives, Carter thinks Israel is an apartheid state while Clinton recently told an audience that all Israelis are rotten except old sabras. His secretary of state wife thinks Israel runs Jim Crow laws against women for making them sit, albeit happily and voluntarily, on segregated buses.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the house, the Bush dynasty was founded by dad and grandad Prescott, who, while working for Brown Brothers Harriman, was a leading American funder of the Nazis both before WWII and during.
My conclusion? A curse on them all, I’m never voting again.
Aaron disagrees and thinks there is hope for democracy yet through freedom to publish. And he does hit paydirt but he is far too cautious to say so. Here is how close he comes to being a “conspiratorial” writer:

“Gregory Galluzo, Obama’s first trainer in Chicago, described himself as an Alinsky ‘true believer’…as had Obama’s other teachers at the Gamliel Foundation, Michael Kruglik and Gerald Kellman, who had hired Obama…Galluzo is an ex-Jesuit.”

“Another key Obama staffer is…his chief strategist David Axelrod…Axelrod sat on the finance committee of St. Sabina, the Chicago Parish led by controversial priest Michael Pfleger…As a state legislator Obama directed at least $225,000 toward social programs at Pfleger’s church.”

That’s as far as Aaron goes with this information. I saw a pattern within that grew the more I read the book. And I’m sure so did Aaron. It leads to a conclusion that is too dangerous for him to write. But I will. Without adding background information, for that you buy the book, here is a list of over half the key backers who put Obama in the White House.
See if you see the same pattern:

“Both men served as his campaign advisors…The first is Marshall Ganz…the second Obama advisor is Peter Dreier.”

“In 1992, Obama served on the funding board of the non-profit Public Allies…Jody Kretzmann headed the Asset-Based Community Development Institute. Public Allies CEO, Paul Schmitz, was an original faculty member of ABCDI.”

“The New Party’s founders and members…were instrumental in helping facilitate Obama’s political career…Founding members included Noam Chomsky, Marxist activist Carl Davidson, sociologist Frances Fox Piven, (acknowledged as the theoretician behind ACORN), feminist Barbara Ehrenreich…The New Party was a creation of Joel Rogers. Rogers’ wife Sarah Siskind worked at the same law firm which employed Obama.”

“The co-founders of Project VOTE! – which Obama ran in Cook County in 1992 – were Sandy Newman…and Zach Polett…Please note members of Project VOTE! include…SDS alumni such as Ayers, Dohrn, Rathke and an endless list of Sixties radicals…”

“Andy Stern heads the SEIU,, the union that helped corral the industry groups in support of Obama’s healthcare “reform”…He is an Executive Committee member of the Democratic Party Auxiliary, America Coming Together, ACT, funded by George Soros…Tom Balanoff’s SEIU Illinois Council led the international union to endorse Obama in the Presidential primary.”

“Marilyn Katz served on the national finance committee of Obama’s presidential campaign…and was close to David Axelrod (who} was mentored by Katz’s former SDS comrade, David Rose…Bettylou Saltzman met Obama when he was in charge of Project VOTE!’s registration drive and was ‘so impressed, that she took him under her wing, introduced him to wealthy donors and talking him up to David Axelrod…’Several people around Obama have IPS connections including his Chicago mentor, former Congressman Abner Mikva…Don Rose, a mentor to Obama’s right-hand man David Axelrod, served in the leadership of the IPS spinoff Conference on Alternative State and Local Policies with Miles Rappaport.”

“Rosa Brooks is senior advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy…Reportedly named for communist heroine Rosa Luxemburg, Brooks is the daughter of Barbara Ehrenreich, who is Honorary Chairwoman of the Democratic Socialists of America. In a 2006 column (she) blamed Israel’s actions in the Middle East for fueling anti-American resentment from the Arab world.”

“Obama designated longtime personal friend and top campaign fundraiser Julius Genachowski as Chief Commissioner of the FCC…During the 2008 campaign Genachowski served as Obama’s chairman of the Technology, Media and Communications policy working group…Kevin Werbach, who co-directed the Obama transition team’s Federal Communications Review team is an advisory board member at Public Knowledge, a George Soros-funded public interest group.”

“The national campaign director for Campaign for America’s Future, Richard Kirsch, has also, since its founding in 2008, served as campaign director for HCAN…Kirsch served as financial director of the Illinois Public Action Council. There he worked with Rahm Emanuel and Jan Schakowsky…Schakowsky’s husband Robert Creamer, had written a lengthy political manual while in prison…containing a ‘ten point plan for foisting universal healthcare on America by 2009…the Democrats have followed Creamer’s plan to the letter.’…Then we have Jeffrey David Blum, founder and co-chair of Health Care For America Now. Beginning in 2001, Blum made a number of contributions to Obama loyalist Schakowsky…Jason Rosenbaum is…Deputy Director of Online Campaigns, Health Care for America NOW…’I think he knows something about health care,’ said Mr. Obama.’”

Aaron Klein hints at who Obama is the Manchurian Candidate for. But he dares not reveal a most complicated issue because it puts him in apparent league with the addle-brained, deeply anti-semitic “writers” who, so far, have not deciphered his research. However, in this manipulated reality we must live in, those who love Israel have a most unhappy alliance with those who hate their guts.
The majority of those who discovered Obama, groomed him and put him in the White House, were radical Jewish leftists. There are no people as determined to destroy Israel as this very tiny but determined Jewish minority and Obama is doing their dirty work.
There, Aaron, you couldn’t say it. So I did.

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Obama Insider Attempts To Link Boston Bombing To ‘Tax Day’

Media mouthpieces inject “patriot” and “tea party” talking points

Steve Watson
April 16, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/obama-insider-attempts-to-link-boston-bombing-to-tax-day/

Former Obama advisor David Axelrod has joined other mainstream media mouthpieces in insinuating that the horrific Boston Marathon bombing may have been linked to “tax day”.

Appearing on MSNBC this morning, Axelrod said of the term ‘terror attack’, “The word has taken on a different meaning since 9/11. You use those words and it means something very specific in people’s mind.”

The political consultant then suggested that the president has refrained from using the term because he may believe an anti-government tax protester could have been behind the bombing, rather than a co-ordinated group of foreign terrorists.

“You use those words and it means something very specific in people’s mind. And I’m sure what was going through the president’s mind is — we really don’t know who did this — it was tax day.” Axelrod said.

“Was it someone who was pro–you know, you just don’t know.” he continued. “And so I think his attitude is, let’s not put any inference into this, let’s just make clear that we’re going to get the people responsible.”

Axelrod isnt the first talking head to inject such points into news coverage of the attack. Without any evidence whatsoever, media mouthpieces have been suggesting that the incident may have been carried out by a “home grown” radical, potentially in the vein of OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh.

BBC News coverage suggested that “chatter within the intelligence services” indicates that right wing extremists could be behind the attack, with analysts noting that the bombing occurred on Patriot’s Day, the holiday that commemorates the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. The OKC bombing in 1995 was also carried out on this day, the third Monday in April.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer took that insinuation even further, noting “It is a state holiday, in addition to the Boston Marathon. It is a state holiday in Massachusetts today, called Patriots’ Day. And who knows if that had anything at all to do with these twin explosions?”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews also theorized that the bombing could be the result of a protest against federal income taxes.

“As you point out, and I just forgot, I filed already. It’s filing day for the federal income tax, which does cause some emotions around the country – sometimes in the wrong parts of the brain anyway,” Matthews said during his show:

In comments to the media, Richard Barrett, the former United Nations co-ordinator for the al-Qaeda and Taliban monitoring team said that the timing of the attack on Patriots’ Day and the relatively small size of the devices suggested the work of a domestic extremist.

Barrett, who is now senior director at the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies (QIASS), said: “At the moment it looks more likely that it was a right-wing terrorist incident, rather than an al Qaeda attack because of the size of the devices.”

He added: “This happened on Patriots’ Day, it is also the day Americans are supposed to have their taxes in, and Boston is quite a symbolic city. These are all little indicators.”

Boston was, of course, the location for the famed “tea party” protest of 1773 against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.

The suggestion that talking heads are making is that whoever carried out the bombing may be sympathetic to the modern day Tea Party movement, which advocates for limited government.

Esquire’s Charles P. Pierce also made the connection, noting that Monday is the “official Patriots Day holiday” in Massachusetts, celebrating the Battles at Lexington and Concord. He also pointed out that April 19, the actual date of the battles, is connected to Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh, who apparently considered himself a “waterer of the tree of liberty and the like.”

Huffington Post blogger and Al Sharpton radio producer Nida Khan also blindly speculated that “all these anti-gov groups” could be behind the attack.

“We don’t know anything yet of course, but it is tax day & my first thought was all these anti-gov groups, but who knows,” Khan tweeted.

former FBI agent Brad Garrett said he wouldn’t be surprised if the bombing had been carried out by a domestic extremist group or an individual in an attempt to make a statement.

He added that a “neo Nazi or a patriot group” would likely not claim responsibility right away.

“There’s a lot of public source information about demonstrations on taxes, on a number of other issues that are hot button issues for extremists groups who don’t like either what the government is doing or what the government represents,” he stated.

In addition, the official story of the attack appears to be being subtly altered to fit this media driven narrative.

A police press conference today contradicted earlier reports that more explosive devices had been found in the vicinity of the attack, and had been destroyed by bomb squads in controlled explosions. Analysts suggested that the notion of bomb squads finding and detonating extra devices within the hour were far fetched, without them having some prior intelligence of the attack.

It was also reported that a drill was being carried out in the area involving members of the Boston bomb squad.

That oddity has now been swept aside in a change of the narrative, as has the idea that the attacks were coordinated and indicative of an organised group.

Police also now claim that no arrests have been made and that there are no suspects in custody, contradicting earlier reports that a Saudi man had been arrested close to the scene of the bombing.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

This article was posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 12:20 pm

Boston Massacre: Obama Looks to Tax Day for “Rightwing” Terror Explanation

Kurt Nimmo
April 16, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/boston-massacre-obama-looks-to-tax-day-for-rightwing-terror-explanation/

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod set the stage for what is sure to come – responsibility for the terror attack in Boston yesterday will ultimately be pinned on so-called rightwing terrorists. Axelrod pointed directly at the liberty movement.

“I’m sure what was going through the president’s mind is – we really don’t know who did this — it was tax day,” Axelrod told Chris Todd, host of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC, the preferred network for liberals and Obama sycophants. “Was it someone who was pro – you know, you just don’t know. And so I think his attitude is, let’s not put any inference into this, let’s just make clear that we’re going to get the people responsible.”

The domestic terror script – long ago formulated and hammered into shape deep within the national security state, notably the Department of Homeland Security – is designed to implicate constitutionalists and other dangerous enemies of the state. Peter Bergen – acting as a security analyst for CNN, the network long ago infiltrated by the Pentagon – made this clear soon after the incident in Boston. On two separate occasions yesterday, Bergen suggested that “right-wing extremists” are behind the Boston Marathon bombings.

“Although I’m reminded of Oklahoma City which was a bombing, which was initially treated as a gas explosion,” Bergen said. “So first reports are often erroneous. But the fact that there were two explosions – two bombings – one of the things I’d be looking at is once the device, if it is a device, is found, what kind of explosives were used? For instance, if it was hydrogen peroxide, this is a signature of al-Qaeda. If it was more conventional explosives, which are much harder to get a hold of now, that might be some other kind of right-wing extremists. We’ve seen a number of failed bombing attempts by al-Qaeda using bombs, (unintelligible) and for instance, the Manhattan subway in 2009, Faisal Shahzad in 2010, the attempt to bring down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit in 2009. But we’ve also seen other extremist groups, right-wing groups, for instance, trying to attack the Martin Luther King parade in Oregon (sic) in 2010.”

It should be noted that the man convicted of planting a rat-poison-laced pipe bomb along the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane, Washington – not Oregon – was a white supremacist member of the National Alliance. The National Alliance’s supposed leader, Green Beret David Kellerman, has admitted working for the FBI. During a trial on weapons charges Kellerman “said he went to work for the FBI with orders to infiltrate the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, in 2000 and relay intelligence,” the Miami Herald reported.

The corporate media embarked on a rightwing explanation almost from the beginning. “The first is that domestic right-wing extremists were responsible. The second is that Islamists, either foreign or American, and linked to al-Qaeda spiritually or practically, were to blame. A third possibility is killers with no ideological agenda whatsoever,” reports The Telegraph.

The British newspaper then launched into a protracted explanation and referenced the establishment’s Rosetta Stone on crackpot domestic terrorism theories, the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Supporters of the right-wing theory point to the timing of the attack. April 15 is tax day in the United States, when the whole nation is expected to file tax returns. It is an ominous day in the calendar for anti-government, anti-tax activists.

It is shortly before the anniversaries of two other terrorist attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19 and the Columbine High School shooting on April 20. Some terror experts have speculated that right-wingers could have seen the Boston marathon as a liberal, multicultural bonanza somehow worthy of targeting.

There has also been huge growth in the number of anti-government “Patriot” groups during Barack Obama’s presidency. The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which monitors hate groups, reported last month that because of the prospect of gun-control legislation, “the threat of violence appears to be looming.”

The SPLC said that the number of Patriot groups reached record levels in 2012 and had grown by 813 percent over the past four years.

In early March, the SPLC sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging the government to establish a task force to investigate the supposed domestic terror threat posed by the likes of Alex Jones, We Are Change, Oath Keepers, the Constitution Party, the Tyranny Response Team and thousands of other Americans outside of the orbit of the establishment.

The incident in Boston may or may not expedite the demand by the SPLC to engage in a McCarthyite inquisition of constitutionalist political groups. It will largely depend on how the blame game pans out – either the establishment and its barking dog media blames al-Qaeda or some other shadowy Islamic terrorist group or it utilizes the mythology cobbled together by the SPLC and other politically motivated smear groups to go after “rightwing” Americans who believe the nation must return to its constitutional roots.

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Media floats erroneous claim that issue is an “abhorrent hoax”

Paul Joseph Watson
April 16, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/family-guy-episode-predicted-boston-marathon-attack/

UPDATE: YouTube has now censored a commentary video which merely pointed out that a recently broadcast episode of Family Guy contained scenes eerily similar to those that unfolded during the Boston Marathon attack. YouTube deleted the video claiming it contained, “spam,” “scams” or “commercially deceptive content,” when it contained none of these things. YouTube has also placed a strike against the host channel and threatened to delete it.

In addition, it is now being claimed that the whole issue is an “abhorrent hoax” merely because the two scenes from the same episode were spliced together. The fact that the episode depicted people being killed at the Boston Marathon, in addition to a separate clip which depicted two explosions, is not a hoax.

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane created a cartoon which made fun of terrorist bombings and depicted mutilated Boston Marathon runners, yet he is labeling people who merely talk about the episode as “abhorrent”.

Tivo and others are now removing the episode from their systems, which is strange given that the episode is supposedly a “hoax” and doesn’t exist, according to the media.

This underscores the fact that if they will censor a cartoon in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, they will censor anything – including your right to merely talk about it.

An episode of the popular show Family Guy which was first aired less than a month ago eerily predicted aspects of the Boston Marathon attack, depicting the main character detonating two bombs in addition to winning the marathon by killing the rest of the participants.

The episode, named Turban Cowboy, centers around Peter becoming embroiled with terrorists who plan on blowing up bridges in Boston. The show aired on March 17, just under a month ago on the Fox network and has been repeated in recent days.

The image of Peter killing the Boston Marathon runners even shows blood and missing limbs, a chilling reminder of the very real scenes of carnage we saw yesterday.

It is important to note that the video shows two clips from different points of the show edited together, but they are from the same episode.

Critics responded to the episode by remarking that it “feels like an episode made in 2002 and left on the shelf for a decade.”

The plot was so similar to the tragic events in Boston yesterday that scenes have been deleted for rebroadcasts.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

Jon Rappoport
April 16, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/all-terror-attacks-are-psyops/

Whether the Boston Marathon murders were staged as a false flag, and if so, by whom, there are certainly contradictions in the media story line so far.

Mike Adams, at natural news, has pointed out several key absurdities in the official scenario, including the apparent controlled demolition of a bomb at the JFK library, a mile away from the explosions at the Marathon finish line.

This demolition, unreported by the press, was mentioned just before it took place, by a Boston Globe tweet: “There will be a controlled explosion opposite the library within one minute as part of bomb squad activities.”

The demolition would have taken place about an hour after the two explosions at the Marathon finish line, which means the bomb squad was able to find the Library device, rig it for demolition, and blow it up in record time.

Whatever the cause of the fire/explosion in the Library, that “incendiary device” was spent, and the bomb squad found another unexploded bomb on the premises.

A local Boston TV reporter, Eileen Curran, took a photo of the Library. The exterior of the building, at the employee’s entrance, shows blackened walls. If the “electrical fire” or the “incendiary device” caused this damage, the room in the Library where the fire or explosion took place must have been just inside the building. No media sources are specifically reporting that, which seems quite odd.

The press is merely stating there was a fire in a room in the Library. The fact that the fire was quite close to an entrance certainly rates a mention. It adds juicy media drama to the report. But there is no coverage of the fact.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

All terror attacks, no matter who launches them, have a psychology. They have a purpose. Inducing fear, of course. Causing the public to give in to a new set of “security regulations,” which tighten the screws on freedom, of course. Painting some designated group as heinous, of course.

The third Monday in April, is Patriot’s Day. It commemorates the April 19, 1775, opening battles in the Revolutionary War against England, at Lexington and Concord. Previously celebrated on April 19th, it is also the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), and the final FBI attack on the Waco, Texas, Branch Davidian compound that killed 76 men, women, and children (1993). April 15 is also tax day.

So some media commentators are already opining that “anti-tax-pro-patriot-anti-government” persons are behind the Boston murders.

At an elite level, where psyop research is conducted, the psychology of terror attacks involves disrupting the normal perception of reality.

Most people live their days in a more or less steady state of mind. They perform routine tasks over and over. They see their daily environment as quite familiar. All this produces what could be called a light trance.

If that seems improbable, notice what happens when something completely unexpected intrudes on habitual perception and experience. Shock is what happens.

It’s as if the person had been sleeping and suddenly and forcibly wakes up.

On a quiet residential street, a car plows into a lamp post. On a peaceful boulevard, a gust of wind blows a sign from its hinges into a store window, smashing it.

People are shocked. They look up. “Wow. Where was I?” Yes, it’s like waking from a dream.

Multiply that effect by a thousand. Bombs go off. The sounds of the explosions, the shock waves, people falling, people bleeding, grotesque injuries, death. In the space of a few seconds, and on a street where nothing ever happens.

And one layer removed from this, the world watches it unfold on television.

It’s a rip in the fabric of perceived reality. Right now.

Retired psyop planner, Ellis Medavoy (pseudonym), told me in a 2002 interview: “People think it’s very esoteric to talk about disruption in the space-time wave. But setting up certain psyops is very much about that. The theory of these operations has everything to do with the fact that people exist in an average and consistent space-time wave.

“They become used to that. They’re not even aware of it. So a psyop can go two ways. It can encourage that form of sleep, to make it continue. Or it can blow people right out of their wave into something that’s very disorienting.

“In the latter case, you’re forcing people out of their average perception of space and time, but you’re not giving them anything to replace it. They’re hanging in a void, so to speak.

“What’s the result? People desperately want a resolution of the psyop, so they can return to their former continuum. And because they feel desperate, they’ll take whatever and whoever you give them. You can say a deer chewed on a power cable and blew out the power for the entire east coast for a week, and they’ll believe you.

“And that’s what you want. The ability to say anything and have people believe you.”

I asked Medavoy if this included peppering the public with contradictions in the official account of a terrorist attack.

“Of course,” he said. “They’ll overlook those contradictions. They won’t pay any attention to them. They’re so panicked, they just want a resolution. You can plug in anybody as the guilty party, and they’ll buy it.”

Later in the conversation, I went back to the subject of the “space-time wave.”

Medavoy said: “The psychology on this is clear. An overwhelming percentage of people deal with space-time in a passive way. They receive it, so to speak. They are presented with that fundament of reality and they blindly accept it. Therefore, when you take it away, they’re lost. A tiny percentage of the population, those who are intensely creative, react differently. That’s because they are, in a real sense, projecting their own space and time.”

Psyops planners who stage events are aware of these factors. They want to create a world, a picture of a world, that is in dangerous flux and absolutely requires our “leaders” to stop that flux.

One of my more vivid experiences of this came in the mid-1980s. I was interviewing a relative of a soldier who died in Vietnam. When the subject of whether the war was justified came up, he flew off the handle. He went into a towering rage.

The fact that his cousin had been killed there automatically made the war a necessary policy of the government, a correct action. That conclusion stopped the unbearable flux for him. Otherwise, he was lost.

It was, of course, that way on 9/11, too, and in many other such instances.

There is a psychology operating here, and it isn’t merely some academic brand of nonsense. It cuts to the heart of how people literally exist in reality, and how it affects their deep response to events managed by professionals, who understand that psychology.

Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at http://www.nomorefakenews.com

Kurt Nimmo
April 16, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/terror-in-boston-hagel-says-pentagon-ready-to-violate-posse-comitatus/

During testimony on Capitol Hill, Chuck Hagel characterized the attack in Boston as terrorism and said the Pentagon is prepared to respond quickly to any request from domestic law enforcement, according to Pentagon’s propaganda newspaper, Stars and Stripes.

“(The attack) is clearly an act of terror and will be approached as an act of terror,” Hagel said.

“I will continue to consult closely with DOD senior leaders and my counterparts in other agencies,” Hagel added, “on how we can best support the government’s response and investigations.”

The event in Boston has provided the Department of Defense with a handy excuse to reverse the disestablishment of two National Guard civil support teams, including one currently responding to the bombing in Boston.

Over 400 Massachusetts National Guardsmen “remain on duty to continue to assist local authorities,” the newspaper reported, citing a press release from the Guard.

The 211th Military Police Battalion was deployed to provide security, the Massachusetts National Guard’s 387th Ordnance Company (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) has been activated, the 267th Combat Communications Squadron was sent to Boston, and the Navy sent a bomb-disposal unit “to assist local authorities as needed in the aftermath of the explosions.” In addition, the U.S. Northern Command on Monday decided not to change security levels at military installations in the U.S.

Under the Posse Comitatus Act passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction, the military is prohibited from involvement in such activity as the supply of support, training, intelligence and equipment to civilian law enforcement. Because the federalized National Guard is part of either the Air Force or the Army, it is covered by the Act, according to Seattle attorney Lynne Wilson.

Democratic operatives urged President to exploit terror

Paul Joseph Watson
April 16, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/obama-adversaries-to-be-blamed-for-boston-attack/

Rahm Emanuel’s call to “never let a serious crisis go to waste” is really going to come to the fore this week if yesterday’s Boston Marathon attack is blamed on Barack Obama’s political opposition, with Democratic operatives having previously urged the President to exploit terror in order to reinvigorate his presidency.

Suggestions that the bombing could have been the work of Tea Partiers or anti-tax protesters have swirled despite the fact that the only suspect being questioned in response to the attack is a Saudi national.

Numerous establishment media outlets have also savaged Alex Jones for suggesting that the federal government could have been complicit in the bombing. Jones’ logic is based on a fact that the New York Times reported on last year, that many of the recent domestic terror plots in the United States “were facilitated by the F.B.I.,” a history that goes back until at least 1993 when the FBI gave terrorists real explosives with which to conduct the first WTC bombing.

Indeed, under the auspices of Operation Gladio, the idea of governments carrying out acts of terror and blaming them on political adversaries to alter the political climate was far from a “conspiracy theory,” it was an admitted fact.

Operation Gladio was a NATO cold war “stay behind” project designed to demonize political opposition and “force the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security,” according to the testimony of former Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra. In 2000, an Italian parliamentary investigation found that the 1980 Bologna train bombing, which killed 85 people, was carried out by “men inside Italian state institutions and … men linked to the structures of United States intelligence.”

“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game,” Vinciguerra explained in sworn testimony.

“The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened,” he added.

Given the fact that Barack Obama’s political career was launched in the living room of infamous domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the notion that his administration would use terror to further their agenda is hardly a far fetched idea.

Early evidence also clearly suggests that authorities had prior knowledge of the bombings and were running drills immediately beforehand centered around the same premise while telling marathon runners not to panic. Police later denied they had any warnings or were running drills, contradicting eyewitness reports.

However, while any suspicion of state involvement has been derided as a baseless conspiracy theory, claims of conservatives being responsible for the attack have begun to proliferate, despite there being zero evidence to suggest such a scenario.

Former Bill Clinton advisor David Axelrod hinted on MSNBC today that the attack could have been a form of tax protest.

“We really don’t know who did this — it was tax day. Was it someone who was pro–you know, you just don’t know,” he said.

A US Forest Service PR rep also took to Twitter to blame the bombing on the Tea Party, writing, “I fear nutty logic goes like this … Patriots Day. April 15. Tax Day. Bad government. Boston. Tea Party. Let’s show ‘em.”

Following the Aurora theater massacre last year, Time Magazine lamented the fact that Obama had not been forceful enough in seizing upon the tragedy to reinvigorate the evisceration of the second amendment.

However, others have gone even further, to the point of seemingly welcoming terror attacks and bloodshed as a means of helping Obama pose as a tough leader and in turn rallying Americans around his big government agenda.

During a 2010 appearance on Chris Matthews’ Hardball, former Clintonite and Democrat operative Mark Penn brazenly stated that Obama would need to take advantage of a massacre to get fresh momentum behind his presidency.

“Remember, President Clinton reconnected through Oklahoma, right?” Penn told Matthews. “And the president right now seems removed. It wasn’t until that speech [after the bombing] that [Clinton] really clicked with the American public. Obama needs a similar defining moment,” said Penn.

Penn was not alone in invoking how an act of mass bloodshed could ride to Obama’s political rescue.

In an article concerning Obama’s plunging popularity before the 2010 mid-terms, Robert Shapiro, former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton, wrote that the only thing that could conceivably rescue Obama’s presidency was a terror attack on the scale of the Oklahoma City bombing.

“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” said Shapiro, adding, “He has to find some way….of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”

Given the fact that the FBI admittedly facilitates terrorist attacks, in addition to top Democratic strategists continually calling on Obama to exploit terrorist attacks in the spirit of Rahm Emanuel’s urge to “never let a serious crisis go to waste,” should any link to a Tea Partier, a libertarian, an anti-tax protester or any political adversary of Obama emerge in the coming days, it will be ruthlessly exploited by the Obama administration to further entrench the notion – habitually reiterated by the likes of the DHS – that liberty lovers are dangerous terrorists who need to be silenced, discredited, disenfranchised and pushed to the fringes of society.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

Published time: April 15, 2013 20:39
http://rt.com/usa/library-blast-police-boston-914/

Police say there is no evidence yet linking the Boston Marathon explosions to a fire at the JFK Library shortly after. Earlier two devices exploded at the event’s finish line, killing two people and injuring over 100.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis now says the 4:30PM library incident was in all likelihood not related to the Marathon explosions. It has been described as a mechanical fire from an “incendiary device”, rather than a blast. An investigation is underway and a connection to the earlier Boston Marathon blast has still not been firmly ruled out.

There were no deaths or injuries in the library incident.

Employees and journalists were not allowed to approach the building. There was reportedly a smell of burnt vinyl around the library.

People have been urged to stay indoors and avoid gathering in large groups. “People should be calm, but should understand this is an ongoing event and we need all the information we can get,” the police said.

They are currently stabilizing the situation, checking witness reports and scanning packages.

Published time: April 15, 2013 13:53
http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-opium-record-crop-885/

Illegal poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to reach a record high this year. As NATO troops withdraw and the international aid effort winds down, the country’s economy is set to shrink, making other legal crops less attractive.

Afghanistan is heading for a near-record opium crop, according to a report by the UN’s Afghanistan Opium Winter Risk Assessment. “Poppy cultivation is not only expected to expand in areas where it already existed in 2012, but also in new areas or areas where poppy cultivation was stopped,” the report said.

Poppy cultivation is greatest in the Taliban-controlled southern heartlands, in regions where troops in the US-led coalition have either withdrawn are in the process of pulling out, and in areas where there is poor security and little in the way of agricultural aid.

The Afghanistan Opium Winter Risk Assessment 2013 carried out the study for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in two stages. The first – from December to January – covered central, eastern, southern and western Afghanistan, where opium is planted in the autumn of 2012; another stage covered northern and north eastern Afghanistan, where the drug is planted in the spring. The exact figures for 2013 are still unclear, but the UN said that indications are it will surpass the 154,000 hectares planted in 2012 and the 131,000 in 2011

Of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces only 14 were expected to remain poppy free, with an increase predicted in 12 and no major change in 7. The western Herat province showed a fall in cultivation, although this is believed to be due to a statistics blip.

If there is no disruption to this year’s poppy harvest, Afghanistan will regain its position as producer of 90% of the world’s opium.

Afghanistan’s share of the market had slipped to 75%, but this in turn drove up prices to a record $300 per kilogram. Prices have slipped by over $100 but are still at historic levels.

“This price is not explainable. Demand in the region and globally is even. There is no demand increase to explain this,” Jean-Luc Lemahieu, head of the UN Office for Drugs and Crime on Afghanistan, told reporters.

In addition the bitterly cold winter of 2011-2012 has been followed by a mild one, and expectations of a bumper crop are high.

The illegal cultivation of opium poppies is thought to make up about 15% of Afghanistan’s Gross Domestic Product, which in 2012 was about $20 billion.

Much of the country’s GDP is funded by foreign investment and when foreign troops leave and international investment into the country drops in 2014 Afghanistan’s real economy is expected to shrink.

International donors have agreed to provide about $4 billion annually for few years after 2014 and the US and other countries which have contributed troops have pledged about $4 billion for the Afghan National Security Forces.

Afghanistan has a small but effective counter narcotics force, but as crop sales mostly fund local power brokers, criminal gangs and to a lesser degree the Taliban, it makes it difficult for the Afghan government to establish control in areas where the black market opium trade is driving the economy.

This photo taken on December 19, 2012 shows an Afghan policeman standing guard as a pile of narcotics is burned by officials on the outskirts of Jalalabad Nangarhar province. (AFP Photo / Shan Marai)
This photo taken on December 19, 2012 shows an Afghan policeman standing guard as a pile of narcotics is burned by officials on the outskirts of Jalalabad Nangarhar province. (AFP Photo / Shan Marai)

Although the report found that fear of eradication of opium crops had become more significant than in previous years, and therefore made farmers stick to legal crops, overall the government and aid community had not prioritized efforts to cut back the crop, which is feeding the global heroin market.

“We need to have counter-narcotics dealt with seriously by the entire government as well as the aid community. One of the big missing links here is providing for the communities themselves,” said Lemahieu.

Eradicating the opium crop without giving farmers benefits such as health care, education and support growing other crops, pushes the Taliban and other insurgent groups that tolerate poppy growth into the arms of farmers.

Narcotics have the same share in world trade as oil and gas.

Since NATO began its campaign in Afghanistan in 2001, more than 1 million people have died as a result of Afghan heroin.

“Afghan heroin has killed more than 1 million people worldwide since ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ began and over a trillion dollars has been invested into transnational organized crime from drug sales,” Viktor Ivanov, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, stated during a presentation to the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs last month.

He added that Russia advocated doing in Afghanistan what the US does with the Columbian government in Columbia to destroy Coca plants, namely destroy as many poppy fields in Afghanistan as possible.

-= The Unhived Mind

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Published time: April 16, 2013 12:49
http://rt.com/op-edge/boston-marathon-terrorism-extremism-patriot-act-946/

The fallout from the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon on Monday, which killed three and injured 152, will likely prompt a new assault on civil liberties in the supposed defense of freedom.

The irony that lurks behind the attack on the Boston Marathon is a cruel one: no other sport better represents the spirit of individual freedom than that of running: The competitor is locked into a contest against himself and time, while the distant finish line exists as an impartial arbiter of victory. The clock does not lie.

The moment of passing the 26-mile threshold is meant to be a jubilant celebration of man succeeding in pushing himself beyond the limits of human endurance. But at this year’s finish line, where flags from around the world decorated the packed grandstand, the only real winners are those who may be tempted to use the tragedy to launch yet another assault on US civil liberties.

After all, it has happened before. Following the attacks of 9/11, which caused the death of some 3,000 people from around the world, Congress rammed through the Patriot Act under the pretext that it was protecting the American people from further acts of violence. In hindsight, that seems to have been a self-serving bit of misinformation. Just as America’s formidable security apparatus failed to intercept four lumbering commercial jets over the most desirable real estate in the free world, legislators failed to protect the American people from administrative acts of violence.

American lawmakers chose to ignore the sound advice of Benjamin Franklin, who warned that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Shockingly, the majority of Congress members never bothered to even read the Patriot Act, which was passed at a time when anthrax-filled envelopes were circulating on Capitol Hill (curiously sent to two Democratic Senators opposed to the draconian legislation, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy) and the entire country was in a mental code-red lockdown. As bumber-sticker patriotism gripped the national psyche, people were sealing their homes with plastic wrap in anticipation of the next al-Qaeda strike, which we were led to believe was imminent.

As the nation blinked from shock and awe, the real mischief was happening in Congress.

Today, law enforcement and intelligence agencies are empowered to monitor private communications and access personal information, such as emails, voicemails and telephone conversations. Even a person’s library book withdrawals are suspect to a federal shakedown.

Meanwhile, the Patriot Act amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow the FBI to use National Security Letters to replace court-approved warrants or subpoenas. In 2010, 24,287 NSLs were issued, up 64 percent from the previous year. At the same time, everybody from toddlers to grandmothers was being harassed at the border by the TSA and their diabolical naked body scanners.

Despite this super-invasive matrix of surveillance aimed at the American people, the perpetrator or perpetrators of the Boston attacks managed to slip through the web and detonate two bombs at the marathon’s finish line.

Although it is no small security challenge to guarantee security along the entire 26-mile route, why was security so lax at the point where the most people would be gathered (it has been confirmed that families of the SandyHook school shooting, which claimed the lives of 26 people, 20 of them children, where near the finish line)? After all, it is next-to-impossible to enter an American airport or even a baseball game without passing through a phalanx of security layers that includes metal detectors and bomb-sniffing canines.

Now, the daunting question for the American people is: Should we enact ever greater security procedures following this latest tragedy to defend freedom and liberty? The question is beset with pitfalls, because as Franklin understood there comes a point when excessive measures to ensure security make the idea of freedom and liberty redundant.

After all, even if the garden of liberty could grow behind a barbed wire enclosure, who would want to live in such a foreboding place?
Alternative theories take root

So now comes a pivotal point in the debate as to what transpires next in the United States, where cynicism and even paranoia of government is at a record high. Indeed, as countless commentators on social media networks seem increasingly inclined to believe, any effort on the part of government to enhance security is actually a deliberate attempt to further diminish the rights of Americans for nefarious purposes.

For example, as if the black helicopter crowd needed more encouragement, the Department of Homeland Security – an all-encompassing ‘superagency’ made up of 22 federal departments that was created post-9/11 – has recently announced plans to buy 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next five years. You don’t need to subscribe to conspiracy theories to ask what this domestic agency will do with so much guns and ammo.

Meanwhile, paramilitary maneuvers in the skies above America’s biggest cities have become a first-of-its-kind event. Although the authorities explain these activities as initiatives to prepare for the defense of the homeland, many people are simply not buying it.

Although the drafters of the Patriot Act may have had the best intentions at heart, the extreme steps they have prescribed for protecting the homeland – which in too many cases imposes harsh measures on ordinary citizens – seems to have backfired. Today, an entire cottage industry of anti-government dissenters has popped up like weeds on the internet, where no idea is considered too outrageous to entertain.

Meanwhile, other commentators point to extremist organizations, specifically white nationalist groups, as a possible home-grown perpetrator of Monday’s terrorist attack.

“Keep in mind…there have been a number of disturbing events in the US in the recent weeks – a number of prosecutors, that is to say those who try to send accused criminals to jail, have been assassinated in the state of Texas, the head of the prisons in Colorado was assassinated with the suspects being affiliated to the so-called Aryan brotherhood in Texas,” author and historian Gerald Horne told RT. “So there are number of suspect to investigate. This is going to be difficult to protect oneself from the so-called ‘lone wolf’ attacks.”

Horne added that the US has misplaced its security priorities, which may have led to the authorities being unprepared for the attack in Boston.

“When it comes to this kind of thing, you may know that the US Treasury Department has more officials and bureaucrats investigating those seeking to travel to Cuba than those involved in so-called terrorism,” he emphasized.

That’s obviously a waste of resources, Horne concluded.

Now, following the latest tragedy to befall the country, the United States finds itself in the delicate situation of needing to batten down the hatches against terrorism – whether the source is homegrown white supremacists, Islamic fundamentalists, or other – at a time when to do so will only aggravate even more questions.

One wonders how the vicious cycle will end.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:26:41 GMT
http://edition.presstv.ir/TextOnly/detail.aspx?id=298587

Iran Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the Monday bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 150 others.

The Islamic Republic strongly condemns any measure that endangers the lives of innocent people, the ministry’s spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, said on Tuesday.

Mehmanparast described the deadly incident as a “source of sorrow,” and called for greater global efforts to eradicate terrorism.

“We believe all governments must try to maintain calm and security for everyone. Acts of extremism and terrorism have to be uprooted across the world and no effort should be made to justify violence,” he stated.

The official criticized some politicians and governments who at points support extremist groups for their own political benefits.

““Allowing terrorist groups to operate, and delisting them from the blacklist of terrorist organizations under the pretext of supporting freedom will eventually lead to instability and disorder, and will affect all people,” he warned.”
Tehran has repeatedly criticized the Western governments for backing the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).

In December 2012, Canada dropped the MKO from its blacklist of terrorist organizations, following similar moves by the United States and the European Union.

The MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and officials. Thousands of Iranians have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO since the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:17:09 GMT
http://edition.presstv.ir/TextOnly/detail.aspx?id=298596

A 4.4 magnitude aftershock has jolted the southeastern Iranian city of Saravan, in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, following a 7.5 quake in the region.

COCA-COLA, THE CIA, and the COURTS
http://theunhivedmind.com/wordpress/?p=20011

peter “kills” the boston marathon ppl

starts at 3:39
http://fullepisode.info/family-guy-season-11-episode-15/

this came out 1 month ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turban_Cowboy

seems like programming telling how people in the boston marathon will be subjected to violence, also during that episode, peter makes 2 phone calls and 2 explosions happen.

2013 Boston Marathon bombings

The episode has attracted controversy due to the events of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. As of 16 April, these two scenes have not yet been deleted from official mirrors of the episode:

One scene depicts a mass killing of participants at the Boston Marathon:

At 3 minutes, 33 seconds into the episode: As Peter is skydiving:

Peter: Holy crap, this is awesome! I haven’t felt a rush like this since I won that marathon!

Cue flashback: Peter is speeding his car, killing runners at a marathon

Cue news interview after marathon killing:

Bob Costas: I’m Bob Costas, here with Boston Marathon winner Peter Griffin. Peter, how did you do it?

(background image shows Peter smiling in his blood-drenched car, raising a clenched left fist as he crosses the finish line past many dead bodies)

Peter: I’ll tell ya, Bob, I just got in my car and drove it. And when there was a guy in my way, I killed him.

The second scene shows Peter activating twin explosions:

At 15 minutes, 6 seconds into the episode Inside of a tavern:

Joe: Peter, I think you joined a terrorist sleeper cell.

Peter: What? That’s crazy. Look, I’m gonna call Mahmoud right now on this cell phone he gave me. He’ll tell ya.

(Peter dials phone) (An explosion sounds in the distance)

Peter: Damn phone’s busted. Maybe I dialed wrong.

(Peter dials again) (A second explosion sounds in the distance, multiple people are heard screaming)

Spotters on roof for “drill” before explosions at Boston marathon

Paul Joseph Watson
April 16, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/eyewitness-authorities-must-have-known-about-bombing/

Despite police refusing to acknowledge that they had any warning of the bombing attack on the Boston Marathon, eyewitness Ali Stevenson says authorities “must have known” of a threat because they announced a drill beforehand and had spotters on the roof at the start of the race.

Stevenson has gone into further detail about what he experienced in the morning at the start of the race, when participants in the marathon were told by police to stay calm as loudspeakers announced a bomb drill.

“At the starting line this morning, they had bomb sniffing dogs and the bomb squad out there,” he said. “They kept announcing to runners not to be alarmed, that they were running a training exercise,” Stevenson told AL.com.

However, during a press conference, Boston police told Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi that there was “no specific intelligence” regarding an attack and that no drills took place besides the usual precautions taken for a big event.

When Bidondi again attempted to ask police about why people were being told to remain calm before the bombs exploded, there was no response.

“They kept making announcements saying to the participants ‘do not worry, this is just a training exercise’” said Stevenson, who is the University of Mobile’s Cross Country Coach.

“Evidently, I don’t believe they were just having a training exercise, they must have known,” Stevenson told Local15 News. “They must have had some sort of threat or suspicion called in,” adding that spotters were stationed on roofs of buildings and that bomb sniffing dogs were going up and down the finish line.

Stevenson said the level of security he witnessed was unlike anything he had experienced as a marathon runner before in major cities such as Chicago, Washington D.C., and London.

Photographic evidence confirms Stevenson’s claim that there were spotters on the roof before the bombs exploded.

As the Daily Mail reports, “A picture posted on Twitter shows an individual walking on the roof directly overlooking one of the blasts at the Boston Marathon.”

The fact that this individual is in such close proximity to the blast clearly suggests that he is either one of the perpetrators behind the attack or a police officer detailed with carrying out surveillance duties as part of the bomb drill.

Mike Adams explains, other inconsistencies in the official narrative also clearly suggest that the blasts were not unexpected.

“It is impossible for a bomb squad to have located, analyzed, rigged and detonated the third bomb in under an hour, especially when it was located one mile away, at the Kennedy Presidential Library,” he writes. “The Boston bomb squad clearly had advanced notice of the presence of the bombs at the marathon, and they also had advanced notice of the location of the bomb at the Kennedy Presidential Library. “

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

Brandon Smith
alt-market.com
April 16, 2013
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/1447-boston-marathon-bombing-who-do-they-plan-to-blame

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” – Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief Of Staff to Barack Obama

Photo: Aaron Tang.

While many people might immediately dismiss the concept, any student of true and unadulterated history has to eventually admit this fact: Governments exploit crisis. Sometimes, they merely take advantage of the ensuing chaos and aftermath of a disaster they had nothing to do with directly. Other times, they create those disasters themselves in order to engineer social and political opportunity.

In regard to the recent bombing of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and injured at least 140, I have asked “Who do they plan to blame?” The unaware and naïve will state that “They will blame the true culprit behind the attack, of course!” Unfortunately, in the past couple decades I have seen numerous terrorist attacks where the blame was NOT placed on the true culprit, or, the blame was extended to totally uninvolved groups and organizations in order to politicize the event. Governments (especially our government) squeeze each man-made disaster like a ripe papaya until every drop of sweet advantage can be collected. They use our fear and confusion as license to attack a predetermined list of targets that may or may not have had anything to do with the original event. They tell the story in a way that suits their end-line interests, and the last thing they are concerned with is helping the public to “understand”. In the end, what average citizens see as an authoritative analysis on the facts from their “loving” leaders is in reality nothing more than an exercise in fantasy.

Now, the thought of persons and institutions within our government being malicious enough to create a terrorist event to be used to manipulate the public towards a certain end tends to bring out furious denial in some Americans. This is because those people with weak characters and an even weaker sense of identity tend to attach their egos to the collective. They live vicariously through the group, or the nation state, so that the State’s accomplishments and trials become THEIR accomplishments and trails. To accuse the state of criminality is to accuse them of criminality.

The Boston bombing already has the makings of a subversive and highly exploitable false flag event, and certain undertones remind me of the now exposed Operation Gladio, a false flag program utilized by NATO governments (including the U.S.) for decades which involved multiple bombings and mass shootings of high traffic public areas across Europe that were then falsely blamed on “left-wing terrorists”. The operation was exposed in the early 1990’s by the Italian government, and then quickly swept into the dust bin of history.

Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a far-right terrorist linked to Gladio and currently serving a life-sentence for the car bomb murder of three policemen stated during sworn testimony on Gladio in March of 2001:

“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game…”

“The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened…”

The strategy used by NATO was clear – terrorize the common population, target as many innocents as possible in places where they felt most comfortable and at ease, and drive the citizenry into the waiting arms of the establishment. The tactic creates the cancerous spread of public tension because the sense of “distance” from violence is removed. An attack could literally happen anytime, anywhere. A predetermined scapegoat enemy is then presented, completing the circle and galvanizing the people in the direction the establishment desires.

The methods used in Europe to demonize “left-wing” political movements could just as easily be used to demonize what some call “right-wing” political movements here in the U.S. Let’s look at some of the facts surrounding the Boston incident so far:

Boston authorities and witnesses on the scene admit that bomb sniffing dogs and roof spotters were employed before the race even began. The local bomb squad was also coincidentally running a “controlled explosion drill” only one mile away from the attack:

http://www.local15tv.com/mostpopular/story/UM-Coach-Bomb-Sniffing-Dogs-Spotters-on-Roofs/BrirjAzFPUKKN8z6eSDJEA.cspx

Participants at the race were told repeatedly not to worry, and that a “training exercise” was taking place. In nearly every major terror attack since 9/11, from the U.S., to the UK and Spain, the government was running “training exercises and drills” fitting the EXACT description of the threat that then suddenly occurred in real life on the same day. Perhaps it is only an overtly reoccurring negative serendipity, but in my view, if the authorities are running a training exercise for a bombing in your town, it might be best to run for the hills before their little war-game becomes real yet again.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis also stated that authorities were not aware of any specific threats to the marathon before it began, which means that they are not presenting any claims that they had reason to believe a bombing might take place:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/dozens-people-injured-explosion-boston-marathon-190955311.html

So, just to clarify, the Boston police on the suggestion of…someone, decided to run bomb squad training, bomb sniffing dogs, and rooftop spotters on the exact same day that the Boston Marathon happened to be bombed…just because?

I would add to this conundrum another question – With all those bomb sniffing dogs present, and with multiple devices now found on the scene, how did they not find at least one of the explosive packages before people were killed? Those dogs need to be fired, I suppose…

Along with the immediate strangeness of the attack, the timing is also rather perfect for the establishment.

April 15th is tax day across the nation, and Tax Protest Day sponsored annually by Tea Party organizations across the country also just happened to fall on the 15th this year. On top of this, in Massachusetts, Patriots Day (a civic holiday celebrating the battles of Lexington and Concord) is held on the third Monday of April every year, which just happened to be the 15th this year. Oath Keepers, a constitutional organization often wrongly attacked as a “domestic extremist group” by the DHS and SPLC, just happened to have a large pro-freedom rally scheduled for the 19th of April at Lexington Green in Massachusetts. Are we starting to get the picture here?

With the Senate in the midst of the most blatant attack on our 2nd Amendment rights in history following the passage of the absurdly fascist NDAA and the White House’s unwillingness to remove American citizens as potential targets for executive ordered assassination, and with multiple states now implementing draconian gun restrictions and even confiscations, public opinion is clearly turning against the Federal Government. Wouldn’t it be beneficial for their agenda if it turned out that the Boston Marathon Bombing was executed by a group of “pro-gun anti-income tax anti-government domestic terrorists”, or maybe just Constitutionalists and Liberty Movement activists that are labeled as such?

Wouldn’t that be a big turn-off for those on the fence but shifting towards gun rights and constitutionalism? Wouldn’t it be great for the DHS and the SPLC if all their anti-Constitutionalist propaganda was suddenly proven “correct”? Maybe the TSA could even suggest roving street checkpoints and random searches so that such a calamity “never happens again”.

No suspects have yet been named in the marathon attacks, and none have claimed responsibility, so perhaps I am jumping to conclusions. Perhaps we’ll find out those dastardly North Koreans were behind it all, or maybe those devious Iranians. However, I can’t shake off that smell of a setup lurking in the musty sickly statist air, and the mainstream media is already suggesting “right-wing involvement” (why don’t they ever suggest left-wing extremism as a possibility…?).

As I have said many times before, during any crisis, always look at who benefited the most from the event. Look at who had something to gain, rather than the first scapegoats they throw in front of you. Some terror attacks are real, and some are proven as staged, but never forget that government power structures do not see these tragedies as tragedies; rather, they see them as gifts; precious openings that create vulnerabilities in the psyche of the citizenry. They WILL exploit these vulnerabilities to further their own agenda, and they WILL exploit the Boston Marathon Bombing to demoralize and marginalize their political enemies. Count on it.

Clear evidence points to bomb squad’s prior knowledge

Mike Adams
April 16, 2013
http://www.naturalnews.com/039928_Boston_marathon_bombings_official_story.html

It’s now becoming clear that members of the Boston bomb squad had advanced notice of the horrific bombing that took place at the marathon today. As an eyewitness reports, once the bombs went off, officials began announcing, “this is just a drill!” This logically means they were all informed of the “bomb drill” beforehand. Otherwise, why would they respond with, “this is just a drill” ?

According to Local15TV.com, a University of Mobile’s Cross Country Coach said there were bomb-sniffing dogs at both the start and finish lines, long before any explosions went off. He said:

“They kept making announcements on the loud speaker that it was just a drill and there was nothing to worry about. It seemed like there was some sort of threat, but they kept telling us it was just a drill.”

The official story of the bombing is that terrorists detonated two bombs at the marathon finish line and that the Boston bomb squad magically located a third bomb one mile away, identified the bomb, rigged it with explosives and initiated a “controlled explosion” all in less than an hour! (Absurd.)

The official story sounds like nothing more than a cover story.

Here are some of the facts we know so far

1) Bomb-sniffing dogs were present at the start of the race and the finish line, even before bombs went off.

2) The reported arrest of a “Saudi national” has now been retracted. Apparently that was a mistake published by the NY Post.

3) Instead, the mainstream media is pushing a new narrative that blames “right-wing extremists” for the bombing, even without a shred of evidence to back that up.

4) It is impossible for a bomb squad to have located, analyzed, rigged and detonated the third bomb in under an hour, especially when it was located one mile away, at the Kennedy Presidential Library.

See the map, below:

Why did the Boston bomb squad know all this in advance?

Given these facts, ask yourself: Who is the most likely culprit in the bombing?

The Boston bomb squad clearly had advanced notice of the presence of the bombs at the marathon, and they also had advanced notice of the location of the bomb at the Kennedy Presidential Library.

There are two reasonable explanations for this:

1) Someone called in a warning and threatened to bomb the event, which is why the bomb squad was on scene.

2) The bomb squad carried out the bombing as a false flag operation to achieve a political goal (unleashing TSA on the streets, blaming right wingers, increasing the bomb squad budget, etc.).

For explanation number one: If a credible threat had been called in, why didn’t the Boston police cancel the marathon or try to warn runners about the security threat? Is it their policy to allow people to jog right into a massacre they’ve already been warned about?

For the second explanation, there are all sorts of reasons why the Boston bomb squad might have placed the bombs at the marathon. It could have been a drill that went terribly wrong (i.e. no explosions were planned but they accidentally went off), or it could have been a deliberate attempt to terrorize the American people and justify armed TSA agents on the streets for all future sporting events.

This looks more and more like a planned event to justify a TSA lockdown

Although it’s still a bit early to know for certain, this looks more and more like a planned event that was deployed by the Boston bomb squad, called a “drill,” then used as a pretext for the President to call for TSA agents to be on the streets at all future sporting events.

And that, in turn, is the run-up to the TSA occupation of America, which has always been the goal of Obama. Remember that back on the campaign trail, he announced he wanted to build a “civilian national security force.”

Click here to watch the video where Obama says:

“We’ve gotta have a civilian national security force that’s just a powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded…”

The fastest way to build a domestic national security force is to stage domestic bombings as a pretext. More and more, that seems to be what unfolded today in Boston.

Remember, too, that DHS has now purchased over 2 billion rounds of ammunition to be used domestically, against the American people. (The number was 1.6 but has now been upgraded to over 2 billion.)

The real proof is in what happens next

Regardless of what you might think is behind this right now, the real proof will be found in what Obama calls for in response to the bombings.

If he calls for TSA on the streets of America to “keep everybody safe” at sporting events, then it’s all clearly a false flag rolled out for a political purpose. It was all a pretext to justify a TSA lockdown.

If the bombing is used to frame and blame veterans, patriots or “right-wing extremists,” then it’s clearly a false flag, too. Veterans and patriots have been severely demonized by the Obama administration as well as the leftist media.

If the administration avoids using the bombings to roll out its political agenda, then it might have legitimately been a random terrorist attack by a deranged individual. We’ll have to wait and see what Obama calls for in reaction to the attacks in order to know their true political purpose.

This article was posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 6:15 am

-= The Unhived Mind