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It's really becoming a B-movie.
"Bombing suspect’s body buried outside Mass." by Brian MacQuarrie, Wesley Lowery and David Filipov | Globe Staff, May 10, 2013
WORCESTER — The stealthy removal of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body from a Worcester funeral home and its burial Thursday outside Massachusetts were greeted with relief by city officials and acceptance by his family in Russia.
The remains of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect are entombed at an undisclosed location, said Worcester police, after leaving the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors under cover of darkness.
“As a result of our public appeal for help,” Worcester police said, “a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased.” Authorities declined to elaborate.
Halfway across the globe, Tsarnaev’s parents have “made their peace with the fact that he is buried,” said Kheda Saratova, a human rights activist who spoke to the family shortly after they heard from Tsarnaev’s uncle in Worcester that a burial place had been found.
Saratova said in a phone interview that Tsarnaev’s parents did not know the location of the burial place but that they would visit. The mother of the suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, had said she wanted her son’s body repatriated to Russia after cemeteries in the United States began refusing his remains.
Instead it was placed in the custody of a CIA-connected uncle.
According to Saratova, the family received an offer to bury the body in Georgia, a former Soviet republic that borders Chechnya, a region that is the Tsarnaev ancestral homeland. “They were negotiating that proposal when they got the call” about the burial, Saratova said.
He would have been coming home and all of a sudden a plot was found?
The burial ended a nearly weeklong saga in which no cemetery could be found to accept the body, angry protesters gathered daily outside the funeral home, and officials from Worcester’s police chief to Governor Deval Patrick pleaded for a resolution.
“There’s a collective relief in the city,” said Konstantina Lukes, a Worcester city councilor at large and former mayor. “The trauma of the Patriots Day race was extended to the city of Worcester. It’s something we weren’t prepared for.”
Tsarnaev, 26, died April 19 after a shoot-out with police in Watertown, four days after he and his brother, Dzhokhar, allegedly detonated two bombs that killed three people and injured 265 near the Marathon finish line. Dzhokhar, 19, fled the scene, but was captured about 18 hours later.
There is your boiled-down bulls*** background paragraph and official narrative.
The remains of Tamerlan Tsarnaev were removed from the funeral home sometime before midnight Wednesday, said a funeral home official. The body was driven without police escort to a burial place approved by Tsarnaev’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, who claimed the body and represented the family in the cemetery search, said the official, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak publicly.
So the CIA man took charge of the body, 'eh?
Tsarnaev’s widow, Katherine Russell, waived her right to decide where her husband should be buried and handed that responsibility to Tsarni, a Maryland resident who conducted Muslim burial rites on his nephew and worked with funeral home director Peter Stefan to find a burial site.
Related: Stefan: Doing his job, with decency
The Boston city clerk had not received a death certificate by late afternoon Thursday, said Dot Joyce, spokeswoman for Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The certificate is scheduled to be filed in Boston because Tsarnaev was pronounced dead in the city, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
In Washington, the news was welcomed by Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis, who testified before a House panel investigating the bombings.
“I hope it’s been buried, because I don’t want to talk about these terrorists anymore,’’ Davis told reporters. “This is something that should be put behind us. I personally would like it if we never had to mention these names again, ever.”
I'm going to, but only on the condition that you accept and realize it was a false flag operation with staged drills gone "live." These kids are nothing more than innocent patsies who may not have had any role at all other than just being there.
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Worcester police, who had erected barricades in front of the funeral home, incurred tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses, Gemme said. For that money, said Joe Timko, an auto body foreman who worked with Tsarnaev’s father in Somerville, the body could have been shipped to Russia.
You can thank the embarrassing and angry protesters.
Lukes, the Worcester city councilor, said she believes that Stefan “was surprised at the reaction, the extent of the emotionalism, and the anger” outside his funeral home.
“He has always done the unpopular thing,” Lukes said. “When HIV patients died, he was the funeral director who was willing to bury them. He’s accustomed to being on the outside of traditional practices. He was willing to do something that nobody else was willing to do.”
So now HIV patients are being equated to terrorists?
Is that the tolerant, Democratic, compassionate liberal one-party fascocracy I've been told about?
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"Rasim B. Ibadamov is like an overwhelming number of young people in Dagestan, where trust in law enforcement is close to zero; he believes Tsarnaev was framed."
Well, I guess there wasn't a second autopsy.
I didn't see anything about the college kids jailed on immigration and conspiracy charges in my paper today, either.
"Lawmakers hear Davis, fault FBI on data sharing" by Matt Viser | Globe Staff, May 10, 2013
WASHINGTON — Tensions over a possible breakdown in intelligence-sharing between the FBI and Massachusetts authorities erupted in public Thursday, when Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis testified in Congress that federal agents had not told local officials of their 2011 investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Honestly, folks, I'm not up for the s***-show political fooleys and photo-ops.
Davis said he was first told about the FBI’s previous interest in the Boston Marathon bombing suspect only after the FBI identified his body, following a confrontation with police in Watertown. Davis said he also was not advised of Tsarnaev’s 2012 travel to the Dagestan region of Russia, even though there are three Boston police detectives and one sergeant assigned to the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force.
“We were not aware of the two brothers, we were not aware of their activities,” Davis said in response to questions from members of the House Homeland Security Committee. “We would have liked to have known.”
WTF? Just yesterday he was saying nothing more could have been shared and everything was cool?
And if you take this at face value (disregarding that these guys had regular FBI contacts and well may have been working for the CIA), it means the WHOLE SYSTEM FAILED!
The testimony prompted an outraged reaction from the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.
“The idea the feds have this information and it’s not shared with state and locals defies why we created the Department of Homeland Security in the first place,” declared Representative Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican.
“We learned over a decade ago the danger in failing to connect the dots,” he added. “My fear is that the Boston bombers may have succeeded because our system failed. We can and we must do better.”
I already saw this movie.
Members of the panel said they did not understand why the FBI had to rely on the public to help identify a suspect whom the FBI itself had previously interviewed.
Because they were making this up on the fly and couldn't pin it on these kids until later, after their experts had reviewed tape. Remember, they arrested a Saudi and trotted that ought, there was a buzz from the ma$$ media that it was patriot groups, it was Korea, Russia, Iran, and on and on.
“I’m amazed that the general public in Boston had to identify this guy,” said Representative Jeff Duncan, a South Carolina Republican. “That somebody within the FBI or JTTF didn’t go, ‘Wait a minute. That guy looks familiar. Didn’t we investigate him a couple years ago?’ We had to rely on folks in the Boston community to identify him.”
Maybe they did and the guy next to him said, "Yeah, he's one of ours." Then the other guy said, "Well, you know...."
The testimony and reaction prompted the FBI to issue a statement defending how information about potentially violent individuals is shared within the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is supervised by the FBI but has the participation of local authorities.
Richard DesLauriers, the FBI special agent in charge of the Marathon bombings case, said in the written statement that Massachusetts and city law enforcement officials have ample access to a computer database called Guardian that contains information about threat reports and investigations, including Tsarnaev’s....
Look at this cover-your-ass operation after he was lauded in the early going.
Yup, ANOTHER DATABASE that DIDN'T DO ITS JOB!
DesLauriers added that the assessment of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, in which the FBI determined he posed no threat, was one of 1,000 assessments the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force performed that year.
Because he was working for them. Then they double-crossed him.
In a brief interview during a break in his testimony, Davis acknowledged that he and other Boston officers had access to the Guardian database. But without an indication from the FBI of what to search for, he said, it would have been hard to discover the information they had....
In their statements, Davis and DesLauriers stopped short of pointing fingers at each other. But the exchange contained clear evidence of tension over possible missed opportunities to focus greater scrutiny on an increasingly radicalized individual who was the subject of warnings from Russia and had been placed on government terror watchlists by the FBI and the CIA.
The moment contrasted with the image the two top law-enforcement officials had projected in the wake of the April 15 bombings, which killed three and injured more than 260, when they stood shoulder-to-shoulder in a portrait of cooperation and resolve as the investigation unfolded at a breakneck pace....
Meaning government's first inclination is to lie to put on a good public face.
Since the bombings, questions have persisted....
And not the ones the Globe will ask.
Kurt Schwartz, Massachusetts undersecretary for homeland security and emergency management, said that prior to the bombings, the Massachusetts State Police and the state Fusion Center, a clearinghouse for intelligence information, had no knowledge of the Tsarnaev brothers.
The hearing Thursday was the first convened to specifically discuss the Boston bombings and what lessons can be learned. The panel invited former Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who helped establish the homeland security framework after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to testify.
“To put it bluntly, our homeland defense system failed in Boston,” Lieberman said in prepared remarks that he submitted to the committee. “With your help, we must find out why and fix it.”
Then you failed, Joe.
In his testimony, he called the lack of information-sharing a “serious and aggravating omission.”
“Nobody bats 1,000 percent, it’s true . . . but why didn’t they involve local law enforcement, who could have stayed on this case?” he asked. “Though it would not have been easy, it was possible to prevent the terrorist attacks in Boston.”
Because when you are running a false flag aside a simulated crisis drill it is best not to let the locals know, even though loudspeakers were telling people drills were being conducted with controlled explosions and everything.
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During a break in the hearing, Davis hesitated to join the outrage over whether he should have been told more about Tsarnaev before the bombings.
“I’m not ready to vilify anybody at this point in time,” he told reporters. “But there are questions that need to be answered, and I’m looking forward to the reviews that are occurring so we can get to the bottom of a lot of different questions.”
Other than the alleged terrorists who were likely innocent dupes.
“Sure I’m concerned,” he added. “I want to know exactly what the facts are here. But at this point in time, I don’t see any huge problems with what I’ve seen.”
Massachusetts law enforcement officials also offered more information on Thursday about a general threat assessment prepared before the Marathon. That assessment included warnings that the finish line was a vulnerable area for “small scale bombings,” but several officials said the assessment is routine and the wording in it was standard.
“I cannot say it strongly enough, or repeat it enough — this is standard language,” David Procopio, spokesman for the Massachusetts State Police, said in an e-mail following a Los Angeles Times report on several passages in the threat assessment. “This is based on common sense and accumulated expertise in event security, and was not the result of actionable intelligence or any specific threat. To suggest otherwise is extremely disingenuous.”
Schwartz told reporters the threat assessment had more to do with potential for protesters disrupting the finish line, and had nothing to do with any specific terrorism threat.
Yeah, you didn't know you were terrorists, too.
“It’s the recognition that there’s a large crowd of people and someone with a small explosive could use it,” Davis said. “It’s language that’s in there every year. There’s nothing unusual that’s in the report.”
A threat assessment of the Marathon in 2003, for example, had similar warnings. The assessment said the race could be a “possible prime terrorist target” and that hostile elements could use weapons or “explosives during this event to cause mass casualties and create mass destruction, or create widespread fear and terror.”
At the Homeland Security Committee meeting, representatives focused on a range of topics related to the Boston bombings. Republicans criticized the Obama administration several times for what they consider an unwillingness to attribute terrorism to radical Islam. Democrats highlighted the use of federal funds in helping to train and equip police, saying those resources should not be cut during an age of austerity.
I can't tell you how sad it is to see the party of peace(?), the Democrats, applaud the totalitarian police state.
Representative Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, said the bombings had already triggered a response in his district, which contains a large population of immigrants.
“In El Paso, our way of life has already been changed following this Boston attack,” O’Rourke said, explaining that international college students are undergoing additional scrutiny. “I’m concerned that we not overreact.”
Too late for that now.
Davis also met privately Thursday with members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation. He visited FBI headquarters and planned to meet at the White House with Lisa Monaco, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser and a native of Newton.
Members of the Homeland Security panel praised Davis effusively, as well as other law enforcement officers involved in the case, including the FBI. They applauded Davis at the start of the hearing, and later one congressman remarked that Boston’s top cop would be the perfect character in a movie to play a strong leader.
He already did.
Davis returned to the victims at the close of his prepared remarks.
“These two terrorists tried to break us. What they accomplished was exactly the opposite,” he said in written testimony. “They strengthened our resolve, causing us to band together as a city and a nation in times of crisis, to help one another during life changing moments, to allow heroes to emerge, and to prove to Bostonians and to the world, that our city is indeed, Boston Strong.”
Cue the music.
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The difference between us and them
Yeah, it truly is time to bury any coverage of this.
