By James Corbett
Global Research, April 17, 2013
The Boston Marathon bombing has provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and equipped by one organization: the FBI....
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.
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.
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"Boston Marathon Bombings Point To Government Run Terror Operation
April 18, 2013
by Lee Rogers, Blacklisted News
As most of you are probably already aware two bombs were set off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon this past Monday. This was a cowardly and disgusting act which resulted in multiple deaths and gruesome injuries. Unfortunately like tragic events that have come before such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building and the September 11th attacks the official narrartive should already be in question. Even though everyone is still digesting what may or may not have happened there are already similarities between the events that took place at the Boston Marathon and both the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11th attacks.
The first similarity is the fact that a controlled explosion drill by the Boston bomb squad was taking place on the same day as the Boston Marathon. This was initially reported by the Boston Globe and confirmed by eyewitnesses including one who saw bomb sniffing dogs, rooftop snipers and even the police shouting over loud speakers claiming that the real bombs that went off was part of a drill. A television news report of this account can be viewed here. Despite denials at official press conferences, there is very little question if any that a drill was taking place. This is important because there have been several instances of government sponsored drills and exercises taking place at the same time that a major terror event has taken place. Not only have these drills been run in conjunction with the actual terror event but the drills have had striking similarities to the real event. This is usually done as a means to justify or run cover for an operation or to remove groups or people from within the system who might stop the real operation by thinking they are simply involved in an exercise.
During the September 11th attacks there were numerous drills being run by the U.S. military one of which even involved planes flying into buildings on the same day that the actual events unfolded.
During the July 7th 2005 subway and bus bombings in London, an exercise depicting the exact same scenario was taking place simultaneously.
Even with the Oklahoma City bombing a bomb squad was seen by eyewitnesses across from the Alfred P. Murrah building right before it was blown up. On top of this, members of the ATF who worked in the building were told that they shouldn't come into work the very same day of the bombing.
There is no way any sane person can say that these events were just the result of pure chance. Logic would dictate that these events were coordinated just based upon simple statistical probability.
Another interesting connection is the fact that a recently aired episode of the Family Guy cartoon shows the main character winning the Boston Marathon by running over his opponents with an automobile. Later in the episode he converts to Islam, joins an Islamic terrorist group and is depicted using a cell phone to detonate bombs. Although the episode doesn’t specifically show the main character using cell phone bombs to kill people at the Boston Marathon it is extremely odd that all of these different plot elements were contained in a single episode that aired prior to what took place this past Monday.
Even stranger is the fact that Fox has now felt compelled to remove this specific episode of Family Guy from various video streaming web sites. They have blamed Internet hoax videos as the reason for its removal which in of itself is ridiculous. Why remove the episode if there was nothing to hide? Clearly the plot elements contained in the episode raise a number of questions especially when we have seen similar types of fictionalized stories that have foreshadowed both the September 11th attacks and the Oklahoma City bombings.
Six months prior to the September 11th attacks, the pilot episode of the X-Files spinoff the Lone Gunmen showed a plane being taken over by remote control and nearly flown into the Twin Towers. The events in the television show were obviously very similar to what unfolded on September 11th, 2001.
Several years prior to the Oklahoma City bombing, Martin Keating the brother to former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating wrote a book entitled The Final Jihad. One of the key terrorists in the book is a man named Tom McVey who plots to blow up an Oklahoma City federal building and gets pulled over by police for having an equipment malfunction with his car. The plot would closely mirror what happened with the Oklahoma City bombing where the real life Tim McVeigh would be pulled over and caught for driving without a license plate.
If this happened once it could be dismissed as a coincidence but we have now seen several cases of major terrorist events on American soil being foreshadowed before they happened in fictionalized formats. This indicates a very high probability that certain people had some sort of foreknowledge and were announcing these operations to people in the know by hiding it in plain view. The fact that none of these particular incidents have been investigated properly is beyond ridiculous.
On top of this we also see a very similar operation unfolding that has mirrored what happened right after the September 11th attacks. Shortly after the attacks, news broke of letters containing Anthrax that were mailed to prominent media figures and Washington DC politicians. Specifically Anthrax was mailed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy who were originally opposed to the Patriot Act legislation that the Bush 43 regime was attempting to ram through Congress. The Patriot Act has been widely criticized for granting the federal government sweeping powers that directly infringe on Constitutional rights and basic civil liberty. Just days after the Boston Marathon bombings we see a similar episode with reports indicating that letters containing the highly toxic substance of Ricin were mailed to Washington DC politicians. Call me crazy but this feels and looks like a virtual repeat of the operation that unfolded after the 9/11 attacks.
The FBI investigation into the Anthrax mailings was widely criticized with some accusing the FBI of destroying evidence and participating in a cover up. On top of this, you simply don’t obtain Anthrax at a local convenient store as the most obvious source of Anthrax would be from the government itself which is in control of various biological and chemical weapons labs.
Although there is certainly more information that is going to come out about the Boston Marathon bombings over the next few days and weeks, there are some obvious questions surrounding these events. There are numerous photos of suspicious looking military types with black backpacks hanging around the finish line right before the bombs blew up. We also have government officials lying about the drills that were taking place during the Marathon and refusing to offer any truthful insight as to why these drills were happening at the same time that the bombings took place. There’s even a Saudi Arabian national who is now being deported under what Fox News terrorism expert Steve Emerson said was on the grounds of national security. Even stranger is that this was happening right around the same time that Obama was meeting with the Saudi foreign minister. National security is typically invoked by the federal government to cover up an operation so this is another aspect of the story that needs to be looked at with great scrutiny.
It almost seems as if the establishment is having a difficult time deciding how they are going to offer the public an official explanation for the bombings. Yesterday there were reports that someone was arrested in connection to the bombings but later these reports turned out to be false as the media descended on a Boston courthouse where this suspect was expected to be taken. Then the Boston courthouse was evacuated because of an alleged bomb threat forcing the media to move away from the area. This happened at roughly the same time the aforementioned cache of photos emerged showing all sorts of suspicious looking people near the Marathon's finish line. It is highly probable that the photos showed some of the patsies that they may have been planning to roll out to the public. Although this is pure speculation, it is possible the so-called bomb threat and the evacuation was used to back away from their original plan.
Considering that the federal government has had some sort of direct involvement in almost every major domestic terror attack in recent history, why should we believe whatever story they roll out about this latest operation? Even if you don’t believe that these conspiracies are real, there is no question that the federal government in conjunction with the corporate media has been involved in covering up the truth surrounding major acts of terror on American soil.
Take for example the 9/11 commission which was allegedly setup to determine the truth of what happened on September 11th, 2001. Their report has been widely criticized due to the fact that it omitted a huge amount of information including the suspicious collapse of World Trade Center building number 7. This was the building that collapsed at free fall speed in roughly six seconds after only sustaining light fire damage with video of the event clearly indicating that the building was intentionally brought down with explosives. Even several commission members thought that they were being lied to by the Pentagon with one member Max Cleland resigning and accusing the Bush 43 regime of a cover up.
We’ve also seen the federal government slaughter dozens of people including women and children during the horrific incident that took place in Waco Texas back in 1993. If this doesn’t indicate that the federal government is an out of control evil entity capable of almost anything, it is hard to say what will. Obama has no problem authorizing the U.S. military to use drone strikes in foreign countries which has resulted in the deaths of innocent women and children so this type of evil is par for the course.
It should be very interesting to see whoever the government and the corporate media decide to blame for plotting and executing these latest attacks. More importantly whatever story they put out should immediately be dismissed as a lie considering their horrific track record. Most likely they will try to blame the attacks on an Islamic terrorist cell or your stereotypical white male patriot/militia type. Or if the Family Guy episode is any indication, it could be a combination of both where they roll out the dreaded white Al-Qaeda. Never mind the fact that the U.S. government is actively supporting Al-Qaeda linked groups in Syria.
Based upon what we have seen so far, the Boston Marathon bombings have all the hallmarks of a government sanctioned operation that has been executed in order to justify more legislation that will further destroy civil liberty in America. If you don’t believe that’s the case, visit Boston which has been transformed into an authoritarian police state as a result of these bombings.
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"The new normal?" by Juliette Kayyem | Globe Columnist, April 25, 2013
The 9/11 attacks elicited a sense of existential horror....
This is a gradual return to normal as businesses reopen, and victims prepare to resume their lives, questions will surround the distribution of aid by claims manager Kenneth Feinberg, who will oversee the One Fund Boston. Those questions will be sorted out over time....
And not by reading this.
Related: Boston Bombers Were Heading to New York Next
Putting a pricetag on heartbreak is a difficult job, but Feinberg and his team — who have performed this task for victims of 9/11, the Aurora, Colo., mass shooting, and the BP oil spill — have promised a process that will be speedy and transparent.
This, after all, has been done before....
Yup, enlisting Ken the cover-up artist (who is also the guardian of the Kennedy Library secrets. That's why the Federal Reserve and Israel are never fingered for their roles in the assassination. It was all Cubans, organized crime, CIA, and military-industrial complex).
The quick embrace of normalcy, if nothing else, is quick and simple justice.
Reasserting the rule of law over this case is an important step toward moving beyond a warlike mentality.
Considering who she writes for, she couldn't have said that.
The criminal justice system will do just fine. Hundreds of terrorism-related cases have been tried and won in the criminal courts.
She didn't quote law about a nation that tortures, did she?
This, after all, has been done before....
The lockdown was a good move.
Every aspect of the week’s events from the security precautions taken at the finish line of the Marathon to the way the manhunt was conducted will provide new standards for public safety entities who learn from each other....
See: Boston Marathon Bombings to Initiate Total Surveillance Society
Public confidence will benefit because, before we know it, there will be another Marathon next year....
This, after all, has been done before.
And it's been done to death.
“The chaos and debris of last week had largely vanished, but a few reminders remained. It’s almost back to normal.”
Also see: Sunday Globe Special: Boston Back to Normal
They mean the new normal.
"Customers lift Boylston Street" by Casey Ross | Globe Staff, April 25, 2013
They mean the new normal.
"Customers lift Boylston Street" by Casey Ross | Globe Staff, April 25, 2013
“I was the first one to get a burger since the bombings, so I was pretty pumped about that.”
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“The staff is very high-energy right now.”
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“The city feels alive again.”
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On one of the warmest days of spring so far, crowds cascaded down Boylston all afternoon.
The agenda-pushing never stops, even in the most meaningless sentences.
Owners of several restaurants reported being unusually busy, as workers and visitors flocked to establishments that they knew needed a lift after losing tens of thousands of dollars during the street’s eight-day lock-down.
Try billions, Glob. Hope the scripted and staged false flag drills were worth it.
The agenda-pushing never stops, even in the most meaningless sentences.
Owners of several restaurants reported being unusually busy, as workers and visitors flocked to establishments that they knew needed a lift after losing tens of thousands of dollars during the street’s eight-day lock-down.
Try billions, Glob. Hope the scripted and staged false flag drills were worth it.
“We just had a patron drop a $100 tip on a $15 tab,” said Bill Golden, the chief operating officer of Uno Chicago Grill, who helped reopen the chain’s Back Bay store Wednesday. “He just told us to share it among the staff.”
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Hanna DiVello, manager of The Globe Bar & Cafe, said she has not had the time — or the stomach — to tabulate all of her losses. She had to throw out all the food, and she still hasn’t been able to fully stock up.
“The losses are going to be extreme, to say the least,” she said. “But it’s nice to see so much activity today. I think it’s important to acknowledge what happened, but not let it define you.”
The Globe’s bar and patio were full at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Employees announced the reopening on sign boards beckoning people from the crowded sidewalks: “We’re open!” they read. “Boston Strong.”
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Restaurants and bars were especially hard hit by the lock-down. Many were forced to leave half-eaten food on their tables for days after Marathon Monday’s frantic evacuations turned into prolonged closures. In addition to losing thousands of dollars in rotten food and unpaid bills, restaurants and their employees also missed days of sales and tips at one of the busiest times of the year.
Nothing like minimizing the losses. Of course, what should we expect from a paper that constantly lies about the state economy?
Nothing like minimizing the losses. Of course, what should we expect from a paper that constantly lies about the state economy?
Several restaurants near the explosions were still struggling to reopen....
Whatever. False flag wasn't my idea.
Whatever. False flag wasn't my idea.
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"Coakley urges caution with donations" by Taryn Luna | Globe Correspondent, April 25, 2013
Don't worry, I'm not giving a damn dime.
Fake charities popped up in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and most recently, the Newtown killings. “One Fund was set up to give people who wanted to donate a chance to do so early and may have deterred some of the scamming websites,” she said....
I noticed they didn't mention Bill Clinton's and George Bush's Haitian aid $lu$h fund that built a nice hotel.
I noticed they didn't mention Bill Clinton's and George Bush's Haitian aid $lu$h fund that built a nice hotel.
In some instances, a high percentage of every dollar donated is wrapped up in other expenses. For example, groups that sell T-shirts and other items will often pay overhead costs before victims see a dime....
]Really?
]Really?
Related:
"Logo — a yellow heart on a blue background with the city skyline, the words “Boston Strong,” and the date 4.15.13.... David Ortiz’s quote heard around the world before Saturday’s Red Sox game propelled Barstool Sports into action... Life is Good sold 15,000 T-shirts in just two days.... Most of the proceeds are going to the One Fund Boston."
And her business partner is Feldman? And the money is going to be looked after by Feinberg?
What a scam!
What a scam!
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UPDATE: ‘Boston Strong’ T-shirts flying off the shelves
Despite the scam, and after you all cowered in your homes waiting for the cops to knock on the door?
UPDATE: ‘Boston Strong’ T-shirts flying off the shelves
Despite the scam, and after you all cowered in your homes waiting for the cops to knock on the door?
Where we going with all this?
"Challenges, both here and abroad" by Nicholas Burns | Globe Columnist, April 25, 2013
As we turn to face the inevitable questions of why and how the perpetrators carried out the attack and what it means for the country at large, there is far less unity and certainty. Twitter and the blogosphere have been lit up by controversies big and small, from the legal issues surrounding the upcoming trial of the younger Tsarnaev brother to whether the FBI was deficient in not pursuing Russia’s concern about growing Islamic radicalization of the older brother in 2011 to 2012.
What the f*** is he reading?
What the f*** is he reading?
What are some of the major issues in play?
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Authorities overreacted....
Low-cost, low-tech improvised explosive devices....
Force us to think clearly about our ongoing counter-terrorism cooperation with Russia....
Why? They were warning us. And he is saying start distancing ourselves!
After 9/11, Americans rang the village bell, fought back against terrorism, and made the country stronger and safer. We need to do the same now in reacting to a very different threat in the Boston attacks.
Oooooooooh!!! That's never happening again. We know better now, we know better.
But, this time, we should be careful to keep our response in proportion by not framing it as a stark choice between security and democratic values. We’ll need to mount new defenses against new terror tactics but should be careful to avoid the extreme measures undertaken last time — Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture — that we would take back if we could do it over again. We have just been given that chance.
(Blog editor is aghast at the thought process)
(Blog editor is aghast at the thought process)
Nicholas Burns is a professor of the practice of diplomacy and international politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
And former member of the Bush administration. Why leave that out?
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