"Islamic group calls for probe into Fla. shooting" by Wesley Lowery | Globe Staff, May 30, 2013
The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on the Department of Justice Wednesday to investigate the shooting of an associate of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev by an FBI agent, citing news reports that the man was unarmed when he died.
Then we were lied to.
FBI and Justice Department officials could not immediately comment on whether there will be a separate inquiry into the shooting, but noted that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has access to all evidence being collected in the current FBI investigation.
Oh, well, then who needs to worry?
Ibragim Todashev, 27, was killed in his Orlando apartment last Tuesday during an interview with the FBI. The Globe has reported, citing law enforcement sources, that Todashev was confessing his involvement in an unsolved 2011 triple homicide in Waltham when he attacked the FBI agent with a blade.
Does that make sense?
Friends and family members have insisted that Todashev did not have access to a weapon.
Citing Wednesday reports by the Orlando NBC affiliate WESH and the Washington Post that Todashev was unarmed when he was shot by the Boston FBI agent, the council, a Muslim advocacy group, called for the inquiry in a press conference in Orlando.
What?
Council spokesman Hassan Shibly said there is reason to believe the use of deadly force was unnecessary, adding that Todashev was shot multiple times and that at least one bullet struck the back of his head.
Translation: he was executed
“We have sources telling us he was unarmed and that this shooting was not justified,” Shibly said in a brief telephone interview with the Globe.
Khusen Taramov, a friend of Todashev’s who is coordinating the return of his body to Russia and who washed his body in the traditional Islamic fashion, said Todashev’s body had multiple gunshot wounds, including one in the head and several near the heart.
Officials at the Orange County medical examiner’s office said they have completed an autopsy and ruled Todashev’s death a homicide and that the office released the body to Todashev’s wife. Officials said they will not release further information until the completion of the FBI investigation.
Translation: they will say nothing further until their cover-up is complete
FBI officials in Florida and Boston have not confirmed the number of shots fired by the agent or whether Todashev was armed when he was killed.
Two Massachusetts State Troopers were at Todashev’s apartment at the time of shooting, but officials have not said whether they were in the same room.
A Justice Department spokesman did not respond to requests for comment about the calls for a separate inquiry, instead forwarding inquiries to the FBI office in Washington, D.C. An FBI spokesman confirmed Wednesday that investigators from the Justice Department are currently working with the FBI’s Shooting Incident Review Group, which is investigating the case.
“The [group] examines all of the information and determines the reasonableness of the application of deadly force in accordance with the Department of Justice’s Deadly Force Policy and the law,” said Paul Bresson, an FBI spokesman, who added the department can not confirm details of the investigation while it remains active.
“The FBI takes very seriously any shooting incidents involving our agents. and as such we have an effective, time-tested process for addressing them internally,” he said. “The review process is thorough and objective and conducted as expeditiously as possible under the circumstances.”
Does anyone out there believe the FBI anymore?
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Come to think of it, does anyone believe the mouthpiece media?
"Many questions 10 days after FBI killed Fla. suspect" by Wesley Lowery | Globe staff, June 01, 2013
Amid ever-shifting accounts of what happened inside of the Orlando apartment where Ibragim Todashev was shot and killed by a Boston-based FBI agent last week, a growing chorus of voices is calling for an independent investigation into the shooting.
Translation: we were lied to
After 10 days of conflicting reports, even the most basic facts in Todashev’s killing remain unclear: Did he or did he not have a weapon when he was shot and killed? And, who was in the room at the time of the shooting?
Citing the agency’s ongoing investigation, FBI officials have been tight-lipped when it comes to speaking on the record about what led to the shooting. Unnamed law enforcement officials, however, have spoken to various media outlets — creating a whirlwind of clashing narratives.
Ah, at last, the AmeriKan media admitted they transmit nothing but narratives.
“They need to answer to the public about what happened,” said Reni Manukyan, Todashev’s widow, in an interview with the Globe. “I want justice for what happened.”
You will find none here.
Todashev, a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed during the early morning hours of May 22 after submitting to more than five hours of a voluntary interview with an FBI agent. The FBI had been monitoring Todashev, 27, for more than a month, interviewing him at least five times, according to friends.
Related: Globe Fogging Up FBI Shooting in Florida
Starting to lift.
A Muslim advocacy group, the Council of American-Islamic Relations, as well as Todashev family members in Russia, has called for an investigation by the Department of Justice’s civil rights division....
Justice Department officials said Friday they are monitoring the FBI’s investigation but refused to commit to conducting their own inquiry....
What good is that corrupt piece-of-crap department anymore?
In the hours after the shooting, unnamed law enforcement officials gave media outlets a narrative that suggested Todashev had attacked the FBI agent just as he was confessing to a gruesome 2011 triple murder in Waltham while implicating Tsarnaev in the crime as well.
Media outlets got a narrative, huh? Just reading scripts, are they?
But, since the shooting, the Middlesex district attorney’s office, which is investigating the Waltham killings, has refused requests for comment on Todashev’s connection to the crime and the FBI has released scant official information, including the confession allegedly signed by Todashev.
The Massachusetts State Police, which had two troopers at Todashev’s apartment at the time of the shooting, has not clarified whether they were in the room when Todashev was killed. A department spokesman did not return calls for comment about Todashev’s shooting over the course of two days.
In the absence of authoritative information, national media outlets have reported at least five different scenarios of how Todashev came to be killed.
It's getting to the point where the onus is on them to prove they are telling the truth, not on me to prove every opinion and theory I have.
Some media outlets, including the Globe, initially reported that Todashev attacked the officers with a “blade” — with reports differing on whether it was a knife or a sword. More recently, The New York Times reported that Todashev’s weapon was a “pole” that could have been a broomstick.
Could have been? How does a trained FBI agent or anyone else get that so wrong?
Still others, including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, have reported that Todashev was unarmed when he was killed, but that he could have been reaching for the agent’s gun.
It is ONE LIE after ANOTHER with them!
Attempting to clarify the confusion, a person who was briefed on the shooting of Todashev told the Globe on Thursday that investigators had initially thought Todashev had wielded a sword at the FBI agent, but later concluded that it was a pole. Adding to the chaos at the shooting scene, this person said that Todashev did own a ceremonial sword which was in the room.
That is a PRETTY BIG DIFFERENCE for FBI agents trained to notice detail, right?
Photos provided to the Globe of Todashev’s body taken by his friend Khusen Taramov, who is helping facilitate his burial in Russia, show the man was shot at least seven times. Wounds that appear to be caused by bullets are visible at the top of his head, in his shoulder, stomach, and chest. Family members have said that the Florida medical examiner told them that Todashev was shot seven times.
Translation: he was blown away
FBI officials have not confirmed the number of shots fired by the agent and have ordered the autopsy performed on Todashev’s body by the Florida medical examiner to be sealed.
We call that a COVER UP!
The lack of publicly available information has raised the ire of Todashev’s family members in both the United States and Russia and, Friday, the Washington Post called for the federal government to make clear what happened in the moments that led to the shooting.
“The last thing the US government needs to do is fuel wild conspiracy theories by releasing too little information or investigating too slowly,” the paper’s editorial board wrote in an unsigned piece. “The Obama administration must move heaven and earth to get to the bottom of what happened and make it public — quickly.”
Okay, one must understand that when the agenda-pushing media is worried about conspiracy theories it means they have hit close to the truth. Oh, there are the occasional controlled-crap theories to discredit the rest, but this isn't one of them. They murdered this kid.
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Globe joins the call:
"FBI must explain shooting of suspect in Waltham murders" June 01, 2013
FROM THE beginning, FBI officials’ attempts to explain why an agent shot Ibragim Todashev to death in his Orlando apartment raised more questions than they answered. And now that law enforcement sources have backed off the suggestion that Todashev lunged at the agent with a knife, the FBI and Massachusetts state police, who may also have been present in the apartment at the time of the shooting, must explain the incident openly and fully.
Translation: THEY LIED!!
Todashev’s death dealt a setback to efforts to solve a triple murder in Waltham on Sept. 11, 2011 — a case in which the victims were friends of now-deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Todashev, a 27-year-old martial-arts fighter who lived for some time in the Boston area, was shot May 22 while being questioned about the Waltham case by the FBI agent and, by some accounts, two Massachusetts state troopers. Afterward, the FBI maintained in a statement that Todashev had started a “violent confrontation”; unnamed law enforcement sources said that he had overturned a table and attacked the bureau’s agent with a blade.
That account never felt complete. Todashev’s criminal record suggesteda history of violent, unpredictable behavior, making it all the more surprising that law-enforcement officers would interrogate Todashev in his apartment without making sure he was in no position to harm them. It also seemed surprising that a suspect who, according to other reports, was in the process of confessing to a triple murder — and implicating Tsarnaev in it — would suddenly lunge at officers with a weapon.
What we can conclude is the kid didn't want to sign the confession to something that he never did and didn't happen.
This week, though, The Washington Post and several TV news organizations reported that Todashev was unarmed. Later, a senior law enforcement official told The New York Times that Todashev ran at the agent with a metal pole, or perhaps a broomstick, after knocking him to the ground with a table.
No one knows, huh? All those agents there, and know one knows.
These mutually contradictory accounts call out for clarification. The public deserves an official explanation of the incident, because the death of Todashev removes a key witness who could shed light on Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s actions in the years leading up to the Marathon bombings.
We don't need more lies.
It also has implications for America’s image abroad, where Todashev’s father has been arguing from Russia that FBI agents deliberately targeted his son. Those claims may seem ridiculous on their face, but the lack of a fuller statement from the FBI allows such insinuations to fester, especially among those who may be disposed to question US motives.
And here they went and ordered the autopsy sealed.
And, no, you insulting pos, the claim seems far from ridiculous. We have seen the FBI frame and blow away a lot of patsies over the years.
Of course, the war paper is only worried about the "image" AmeriKa can "sell" in the name of empire.
The shifting reports of what happened in Florida make a public accounting all the more necessary.
Not really, because we no longer listen to what the AmeriKan media says. It is dismissed as a lie at worst, distortion at best, as soon as it comes out their mouth.
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
Globe isn't going to get its wish.
"FBI officials in Tampa and Boston have said they will not be releasing any further information on the shooting."
Oh, and THAT'S THAT, huh? Please, let us dispense with any more talk about human rights and the great America anymore. This great Republic and democracy is no different than the totalitarian governments of the 20th century that it fought against.
"ACLU urges independent probe of Orlando shooting; Details sought in killing" by Wesley Lowery | Globe Staff, June 04, 2013
Unnamed law enforcement officials have spread inconsistent versions of what occurred in the apartment through the Globe and other news outlets.
Hasn't exactly helped the increasingly infinitesimal credibility of the mouthpiece media, has it? It's become so bad I'm not even posting contradictory or expository blog and alternative news posts. The fact is, the AmeriKan media has gone beyond the point of credible believability.
“We’re concerned, like many other groups, about the way this story has changed,” said Michael German, senior policy counsel in the ACLU’s legislative office....
Oh, he must be a crazy conspiracy theorist then, at least, that has been the charge coming from government these days.
German added that the details being leaked by the FBI to news media via unnamed sources — that Ibragim Todashev was in the process of confessing to an unsolved 2011 triple murder in Waltham — could unfairly influence public perception of Todashev before the full set of facts come to light.
Umm, that's the whole operation across vast sectors. That's what a newspaper is these days in AmeriKa. Nothing but a lying, distorting, obfuscation piece of war-promoting, agenda-pushing shit.
“Those types of accusations are easy to make,” German said. “The longer that it takes for these details to be released, the more concern develops and the less good faith there is in whatever story eventually comes out from the FBI,” German said.
As if anyone would believe anything the FBI said now. Must be why they aren't saying anything.
FBI officials in Tampa and Boston have said they will not be releasing any further information on the shooting. An FBI spokesman in Washington, D.C., did not respond to requests for comment....
On Monday, Russia’s state-owned media, ITAR-TASS, reported that Russian officials have asked the FBI to hand over investigative documents related to Todashev’s shooting, including Todashev’s autopsy report, which remains sealed, as well as documentation related to the firearms used in the shooting.
Yeah, EVEN THE RUSSIANS are SEEING THROUGH the COVER-UP!
Elected officials in the United States have remained silent on the shooting.
Sometimes SILENCE SCREAMS LOUDER than WORDS, folks!
Governor Rick Scott of Florida, Mayor Buddy Dyer of Orlando, and US Representative Daniel Webster of Florida did not respond to requests for comment.
US Representative William R. Keating, a member of the Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs committees, said Saturday that he had not received FBI briefings on the shooting, but he urged patience and noted the need for details to remain secret while the FBI completes its investigation.
What good are politicians if they simply bow to law-breaking murderers of the national security establishment? Nothing but tools.
Oh, btw, FBI said its not releasing any more information. Bill and the rest just want this to go away, and I'm sure the AmeriKan jewsmedia will comply.
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"Waltham victim’s girlfriend says Tsarnaev visited" by Bob Hohler | Globe Staff, May 25, 2013
The girlfriend of one of three men brutally killed in a Waltham apartment in 2011 said Friday that she told police soon after the slayings that Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been a frequent visitor to the apartment. She is the first to assert that police investigating the killings were aware that Tsarnaev, who previously had been questioned by the FBI for possible terrorist connections, had ties to the victims....
The woman also said her boyfriend, Mess, kept a handgun in the apartment before the slayings and that police told her after the bodies were discovered that the firearm was missing. Friends of the victims had previously said they feared a gun stolen from the apartment had been used to kill MIT police Officer Sean Collier late on the night of April 18 and wound other officers shortly afterward in the shoot-out with police in Watertown.
Tying it up really neat, aren't they? Good script!
The woman asked that her name not be used in this report for fear of retribution, although she was named in a previous Globe article.
Must be Hibatalla Eltilib who has since returned to Sudan.
Authorities have been looking at Tsarnaev in connection with the triple homicide, along with Ibragim Todashev, who was fatally shot this week by an FBI agent after he allegedly attacked the agent with a blade during an interview in Orlando, Fla.
We now know that is bulls***.
It was Mess’s girlfriend who discovered the bodies of the three men in the Waltham apartment on the morning after they were slain on Sept. 11, 2011.
She said she found the victims — Mess, 25; Erik H. Weissman, 31; and Raphael M. Teken, 37 — in separate rooms, their throats slashed, their bodies covered with marijuana. You would have to sift through the fog for the discrepancies and omissions.
The woman said she did not describe Tsarnaev to police as a suspect in the triple homicide but rather identified him as one of many visitors to the apartment. Police did not ask her about Tsarnaev after she gave them his name, she said.
“But if they questioned everyone whose fingerprints were in the apartment, I’m sure Tam’s fingerprints had to be there,’’ she told the Globe in a phone interview Friday.
The woman said Tsarnaev, who was born and lived his early years in former Soviet republics, had told Mess in the weeks before the killings that the FBI had placed him on a terrorist watch list.
“Brendan said, ‘The FBI is watching him; they think he’s a terrorist,’ ’’ the woman recalled. “We laughed about it. We never took it seriously.’’
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Mess’s girlfriend said she knew with certainty that he kept a handgun in the apartment. Another friend said earlier this week that Mess had been badly beaten by his marijuana supplier years earlier when he was short on his payment and then familiarized himself with firearms.
Badly beaten? A guy who was no one to mess with?
Mess and his girlfriend shared the apartment with Weissman, who was struggling financially after Boston police had seized a large amount of cash and drugs in a raid on his Roslindale apartment....
Poor kid (who never received a death certificate)!
In the week before the slayings, she said, she had an intense quarrel with Mess. She said she went to Florida to visit a friend and “clear my head.’’
She was scheduled to return on the morning of Sept. 12, 2011, and expected Mess to pick her up at Logan International Airport....
When she finally reached the apartment and opened the door, she said she was shaken by the grisly scene. Lying in the entry room was Weissman’s body. She discovered Teken’s in the kitchen, then Mess’s in the bedroom. Furniture throughout the apartment had been toppled, she said.
The woman took strong exception to friends of the victims who initially had considered her a suspect in the killings and reiterated their suspicions in Friday’s Globe. The friends said, for instance, that she held radical Muslim beliefs and spoke with Tsarnaev of their distaste for American culture.
“To be honest, I am not a practicing Muslim,’’ she said. “I don’t pray much. I don’t cover up. I drink. Tam would look at me and say, ‘You’re not doing the things Muslim women do.’ To me, religion is about how you treat people.’’
Some other friends of the victims questioned why Mess’s girlfriend, an African immigrant whose family lived in a mid-Atlantic state, left the Boston area a week after the slayings.
That confirms it is Eltilib.
“After what happened, I was completely shocked and traumatized,’’ she said Friday. “I needed to be with my family.’’
She said she suffers symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, which have been exacerbated by the suspicions about her.
“It really hurt my feelings that anyone thought I could be involved in something like this,’’ she said. “I am completely confident in my innocence. I’m a victim in this, too.’’
Globe and government suggested it.
"Shooting of slaying suspect Ibragim Todashev in Florida involved FBI agent from Boston office" by Mark Arsenault and Wesley Lowery | Globe Staff, May 25, 2013
ORLANDO — An FBI agent from the bureau’s Boston office fired the shot, or shots, that killed a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev early Wednesday morning during an interview about an unsolved Waltham homicide, say officials briefed on the investigation.
Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter formerly from Allston and Cambridge, was shot in the kitchen of his apartment after overturning a table and attacking the agent with a blade, the officials said.
Blade, broomstick, nothing, what's the difference?
The Globe has reported that the shooting came after Todashev had implicated himself in a grisly 2011 triple homicide in Waltham. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was friendly with one of the Waltham victims, and authorities suspect he may also have taken part in the slayings.
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Gyms = terrorists
Two law enforcement officials said that the Boston FBI agent felt he was in grave danger when Todashev attacked him and that he fired in self-defense.
When you look back on them the lies are even more astonishing, aren't they?
“This was a tough guy; he was a dangerous individual,” one law enforcement official said, speaking of Todashev. The official asked not to be named because the official was not authorized to discuss the case.
An FBI team from Washington, D.C., is investigating what happened in the apartment.
FBI spokesmen in Boston, Florida, and Washington had no comment Friday.
Some of Todashev’s neighbors recalled hearing a series of loud bangs during the early morning hours Wednesday. But loud sounds after dark are commonplace at the condos, which sit in the shadow of Universal Studios, which holds frequent nighttime concerts and events.
“I figured it was just fireworks at Universal,” said Gary Campgana, who lives a few apartments away from Todashev, pointing to the amusement park.
Campgana said he had seen Todashev “at the pool a few times, but it didn’t dawn on me that he could have been capable of being involved in all of this.”
The regional medical examiner’s office confirmed that it is in possession of Todashev’s body but would not say how many times he was shot.
“We can’t release any information on that case,” said an employee of the office who answered the phone Friday. “Any info has to come from law enforcement.”
Todashev’s friend Khusen Taramov, who accompanied Todashev’s estranged wife to identify the body, said he was shown only part of his dead friend’s face and did not see any wound. But doctors told him his friend was shot multiple times, he said....
In Orlando, local police and FBI agents continued to keep watch over the scene of the shooting Friday, as investigators in white jumpsuits and yellow boots continued to move in and out of the apartment’s rear entrance.
Most of the reporters who had been camped at the scene since early Wednesday were gone, and life in the complex had mostly returned to normal.
Todashev’s wife, Reni Manukyan, who traveled to Orlando from her home in Georgia to help arrange her husband’s burial, plans to accompany the body back to Russia.
Taramov said Friday that Manukyan had been overcome by emotion. “She’s in really bad shape,” he said. “She’s not doing good at all.”
He also cast doubt on reports that his friend had violently attacked the agent, saying that Todashev was recovering from a knee injury and that agents had kept tight control over him at prior interviews....
The FBI murdered him and lied about it. We really don't need to know anything else.
Taramov, who is helping coordinate the burial in Russia, said the FBI has yet to return Todashev’s identification papers, which has impeded the process of returning his body to his family. The bureau has said it will return Todashev’s travel papers and could hand them over as soon as Monday, said Taramov. However, he added, they told him it could take as long as three weeks.
“I’m hoping for three days, not three weeks,” he said.
More delays with the body, during which evidence degrades.
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I'm about ready to quit the run.
"Bombers could have been thwarted, Keating reports" by David Filipov and Bryan Bender | Globe Staff, May 31, 2013
MOSCOW — Russian intelligence officials believe that if US authorities had acted on their detailed warnings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev wanting to join an Islamic insurgency, the Boston Marathon bombings could have been averted, US Representative William R. Keating said Thursday in Moscow after a series of meetings with senior members of the Russian Federal Security Service.
The U.S. didn't act because the kid was working for them. When the FBI found out he was working for the CIA they cleared him.
Keating said the counterintelligence officials had shown him specific information that convinced them Tsarnaev “had plans to join the insurgency back in” Dagestan, a restive region in the North Caucasus mountains on Russia’s southern rim.
“You can see with the level of these details that in fact if we had had better information sharing, there’s a very strong chance that things could have changed, and [the bombings] could have been avoided,” said Keating, who was in Moscow as part of a congressional delegation discussing counterterrorism cooperation.
It was a CRISIS DRILL GONE LIVE and NOT REAL!! Sorry.
Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout in Watertown last month, and his brother, Dzhokhar, are suspected of planting the two bombs that killed three and injured more than 260 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. Dzhokhar, 19, was injured in the Watertown shooting and ultimately taken into custody. The brothers are suspects in the slaying of an MIT police officer.
The BS background paragraph encapsulating the conventional myth.
The FBI and CIA did not respond to repeated requests for comment Thursday.
Keating’s comments raise new questions about whether US intelligence authorities could have prevented the bombings if they had more closely tracked the elder Tsarnaev brother after interviewing him in 2011 at the urging of the Russians. After a three-month investigation, in which the FBI reviewed Tsarnaev’s Internet activity and interviewed family members, the bureau closed his case and apparently never followed up.
I've explained that.
That inquiry has been the subject of several Capitol Hill hearings, including one in which Keating bemoaned the lack of US-Russian cooperation before the bombings.
Russian officials have in the past said they had information about conversations Tsarnaev had with his mother, Zubeidat, that made vague references to jihad.
The mother is a lawyer that said she knew about 9/11 conspiracy theories. Then she was branded a terrorist.
US officials have maintained the information they received from Russia about their suspicions regarding the Tsarnaevs, while enough to land them in a database of people who posed a possible security threat, never contained much detail.
Do U.S. officials ever stop lying?
But Keating said the intelligence he was shown by the Russian security agency, known as FSB, contained “the names, the addresses, the cellphone numbers, the iPad accounts, e-mail, Facebook pages . . . the fact that he was trying to get involved to go to Palestine and deal with insurgencies there but wasn’t able to learn the language there sufficiently so that had to be scratched.”
(Blog editor shakes his head at the never-ending layering of shit sauce over this turd)
According to the FSB, Tamerlan then decided to come to Dagestan, the homeland of his mother, and the region bordering Chechnya, the ancestral homeland of his father.
A US intelligence official, who asked not to be identified, told the Globe Thursday that “we have no dispute with Representative Keating’s characterizations of the Russian-provided information in their memo.”
In fact, it was this information that led the CIA to add Tamerlan to a database of potential terrorist suspects, said the official, who has direct knowledge of the chain of events.
US and Russian officials, however, seem to have a different opinion about what was sufficient information back in 2011 to detain the Cambridge resident, the official said.
Keating said the Russians asked to be tipped off if Tamerlan Tsarnaev were coming to Russia but never heard back from US intelligence.
“They took the nonreply as a sign that this was not important and this was not a threat,” Keating said.
When Tsarnaev traveled to Dagestan in January 2012, the FSB did not realize he was there because he had traveled on documents issued by the country where he grew up, Kyrgyzstan, not Russia or the United States.
Another ethnic Chechen and Tsarnaev associate, Ibragim Todashev, was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando, Fla., last week during an interview about his possible involvement in a 2011 triple murder in Waltham.
As Keating made his revelations, the father of Todashev released photos of his son’s shirtless corpse during a press conference in Moscow and said the FBI agents were “bandits” who should face trial.
“I cannot call them anything else,’’ Abdulbaki Todashev said in a recording of the conference played by a human rights lawyer supporting him, Zaurbek Sadakhanov. The pictures showed six wounds on his arm and body that had been sewn up. Another picture showed an apparent bullet wound to his head.
“The shooter would have had to have been standing above him, to his side, shooting down,” Sadakhanov said. He dismissed reports that the agents had fired only after Todashev attacked them. “Why did they have to shoot him seven times? Why did they have to shoot him from behind?”
Then the subject is quickly changed!
Sadakhanov also poured cold water on Keating’s assertions that the FSB had tried to relay information that could have prevented the bombings.
He referred to a response Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, gave recently to reporters who asked about the information the FSB had tried to share.
“Since the Tsarnaevs did not live in the Russian Federation, and they arrived in Russia from Kyrgyzstan, and appeared here only occasionally, the Russian special service unfortunately, to our great misfortune, could not have given our American colleagues information,” Putin said.
The Russian president’s comments conflicted with Russian news reports about the FSB investigation into the Tsarnaev family and the effort to alert US officials.
The Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported in April that the Russian special services’ observation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev intensified in 2012, when he spent six months in Dagestan.
According to the paper, agents in an antiterrorism bureau in the North Caucasus noticed several encounters between Tamerlan and Makhmud Mansur Nidal, whom Russian intelligence agencies had identified as a recruiter for the radical Muslim underground.
According to the paper, a background check revealed that Tsarnaev’s name had surfaced during the investigation of William Plotnikov, a Canadian who had converted to Islam and had been detained in Dagestan in 2010 for having contacts with Islamic militants. During an interrogation, Novaya Gazeta said, Plotnikov gave a list of names of people with whom he communicated over the Internet.
Plotnikov, the paper said, divulged that he had communicated with Tamerlan frequently on a popular Islamic Website.
Related: The Latest Plot(nikov) Twists in the Boston Marathon Bombing
The FSB, according to the paper, “requested information from its overseas colleagues” but received no answer, and the name Tsarnaev was relegated to the archives....
Which is where this propaganda is headed.
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"Keating says Russian officials were forthcoming on suspect" by Wesley Lowery | Globe Staff, June 02, 2013
FBI agents in Boston have yet to provide information about why Tamerlan Tsarnaev was able to move freely in and out of the country after US officials were warned about him, or about the May 22 fatal shooting of one of his friends in Orlando, Representative William R. Keating said on Saturday after returning from a trip to Russia to meet with that country’s top intelligence officials....
I told you why, readers.
Addressing reporters at Logan International Airport, Keating said he was impressed with what he saw as the forthcoming nature of the Russian intelligence officials. Meanwhile, he said, FBI officials were absent from Capitol Hill hearings about the bombings....
Doesn't that TELL YOU something?
Keating said that Ibragim Todashev, the 27-year-old friend of Tsarnaev who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando on May 22, was mentioned by name in intelligence exchanges between US and Russian officials on April 21. The nature of that citation, he said, remains unclear.
While senior members of the intelligence committee are often given classified briefings on controversial FBI actions, Keating said he has received none from the FBI on the Todashev killing.
“Certainly we’ll have briefings on those things,” he added.
But, even as Todashev’s family members and a Muslim advocacy group call for an independent investigation into the shooting, Keating said it is important to allow the FBI to complete its investigation....
Yeah, let them formulate the cover-up before commenting.
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"Lawmakers fault pre-Marathon bombing efforts; Say US-Russia collaboration was needed" by David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times, June 03, 2013
MOSCOW — The six-member delegation, which included Representative William Keating of Massachusetts, were told about the agency’s efforts to warn the US officials about the older suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, and the likelihood that they harbored extremist views....
The members of the delegation Russian officials confirmed reports that Tsarnaev left Dagestan two days after an acquaintance, who was a member of a Muslim rebel group, was killed during a security operation....
Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who led the delegation and is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, speaking at the news conference, said he had no reason to conclude that the FBI or the Obama administration had mishandled the warnings from Russia. Rather, he said, the relationship with Russia in general should have been stronger....
In his criticism of both Republicans and Democrats, and his calls for much closer collaboration with the Russians, potentially including joint military exercises, Rohrabacher strayed far from his own party’s traditional distrust of the Kremlin. And he said that President Vladimir V. Putin had been unfairly maligned in the United States.
WOW!
“Everything that the Russians do that can be described in sinister words and anything that Mr. Putin does that can be described in sinister words are described in sinister words in the United States,” he said.
Adding an odd celebrity touch, the action-film star Steven Seagal, who has a following in Russia, joined the lawmakers. Seagal helped arrange meetings and even offered to take the lawmakers to Chechnya to meet Ramzan Kadyrov, the region’s leader, who has been accused of human rights abuses.
The Chechnya visit was called off for logistical reasons, but Rohrabacher thanked Seagal and said he was instrumental in securing some meetings, including a session with Dmitry Rogozin, a deputy prime minister.
“I don’t know that he would have been available to us if not for Steven’s role,” Rohrabacher said.
Representative Steve King, an Iowa Republican, said that the United States and Russia could be formidable partners in fighting terrorism.
“If Americans and Russia can conquer space together, we can defeat radical Islam together, and that’s why I came here, to advance that,” he said.
Only when Al-CIA-Duh is shut down.
Also on the congressional trip were Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican, and Paul Cook, a California Republican, who also left before the embassy news conference.
Seagal, who attended the Moscow news conference, is well connected in Russia. He met with Putin in March and visited Kadyrov last week in Chechnya, a province in southern Russia that has seen two wars between federal troops and separatists since 1994.
Those wars spawned an Islamist insurgency that spread across the Caucasus region.
CIA-supported insurgencies.
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Speaking of CIA-supported things:
"Marathon bombings praised in Al Qaeda magazine" by Wesley Lowery | Globe Staff, May 31, 2013
An article published Thursday in Al Qaeda’s radical Islamist magazine Inspire praised last month’s Boston Marathon bombings, analyzing the planning and execution of the attack and lauding the Tsarnaev brothers who are believed to have carried it out.
The story, headlined “The Inevitable,” declared the bombings a “success at all levels” and said the plot pointed out flaws in American intelligence and security....
PFFFFFT!
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"Privacy rules get in bombing victims’ way" by Lawrence Harmon | Globe Staff, May 25, 2013
Kenneth Feinberg wants nothing more than to provide a measure of justice for people harmed by the nation’s worst tragedies. But the excessive weight of privacy rules placed on health care providers and public officials makes it difficult for Feinberg, the administrator of the One Fund Boston, to do his job. Luckily, he isn’t the sensitive type.
The Brockton native speaks bluntly about his portfolio: the dead and wounded in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks; the 2007 killings at Virginia Tech; last year’s killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.; and last month’s bombing of the Boston Marathon.
Ken Feinberg, cover-up $pecialist.
Still, in its darkest hours, the nation turns repeatedly to the 67-year-old Washington-based attorney and mediator — because he focuses singlemindedly on getting justice for victims and their families. Feinberg was the obvious choice to run the One Fund, the major charity designated to help the victims of the April 15 Marathon bombings....
Since the moment that the first blast tore apart lives and limbs, there has been a tremendous sense of urgency about helping the victims of the Marathon bombing and those hurt in pursuit of the terrorists. Feinberg’s mindset is similar to that of emergency responders: Rush in, make a difference, and move on to the next victim....
Feinberg, meanwhile, is determined to start pushing $32 million out the door beginning on June 30. He hopes to go through that door shortly after. It was good of him to come. Now, let’s hope we never see him again.
I know what I'm hoping never to see again.
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It's the "new normal," ugh.
Related:
"Doctors already had started screening candidates for the transplants when the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing sadly created another group of badly injured patients, who are now struggling to return to normal life. The bombs tore off the legs of 16 spectators; two of them lost both legs."
That's what we are told, but after all the lies and cover ups how are we supposed to believe anything the AmeriKan media says anymore?
Also see: Ken Feinberg, One Fund Boston administrator
While she has done some good work over the years, it's mostly disappointment.
And at the bottom of it all, the agenda being pushed:
"New Hampshire firm tackles facial recognition head-on" by Hiawatha Bray / Globe Staff /
Facial recognition flunked a major test last month, when the system used by investigators in the Boston Marathon bombing failed to identify the two suspects in photos from the scene.
But a New Hampshire company, Animetrics Inc., has an image-enhancement program that it said would have cleaned up the grainy photos and improved the chances for authorities to find a match to the suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Animetrics is now offering its software, already in use by police in New York and Pennsylvania, to police departments nationwide over the Internet.
“Our goal is basically to have the number one face-matching algorithm in the world,” said chief executive Paul Schuepp.
Facial-recognition programs are already very good at matching photos — as long as the pictures are clear and show the subject’s entire face, with both eyes looking forward. But in real life, this is often impossible. For instance, security camera images of the Tsarnaev brothers were blurry and indistinct. In some cases, their heads were turned, partially obscuring their faces.
Animetrics’ software, called ForensicaGPS, takes an imperfect photo of a suspect and creates a three-dimensional model of the entire face.
Faceback?
The system allows investigators to correct missing or blurry features and rotate the model to a frontal view. The software then re-creates an improved version of the original picture for better comparison to photos in law enforcement databases, for example, or in motor vehicle records.
The matching process is imperfect. The computer doesn’t generally spit out a single perfect doppelganger. Instead, the goal is to shrink the universe of possible suspects to a manageable number that can be more closely examined, perhaps five or 10.
“That’s enough for an investigation,” Schuepp said.
It’s unclear whether federal law enforcement officials used Animetrics software in their hunt for the Marathon bombers.
Schuepp said the FBI, CIA, and National Security Agency have all purchased ForensicaGPS, but he doesn’t know how those federal agencies have used the product. Spokesmen for the agencies declined to discuss the matter.
However, Schuepp said that in the company’s tests, ForensicaGPS successfully converted the security camera shots of the Tsarnaevs, so that they could be recognized by computers.
The test involved a database of 100,000 pictures that included the driver’s license photos of both Tsarnaevs.
“We picked them out in the top three,” Schuepp said.
He acknowledged that it would be tougher to search the millions of images in police databases, but said it’s doable....
Especially when that DH$ grant comes through.
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Jeff Bauman, Red Sox friends pitch in for kids
He's the crisis actor that was pushed all over in the wheelchair that had the iconic photo taken of his allegedly blown apart legs that day.
Reaching the point where I really am tired of the illusionary imagery, staged and scripted psyops, false flags, and all the rest. I simply no longer believe what I read in the Boston Globe anymore. I don't really need to know the truth anymore, I just know that whatever is in it is a distortion at best, a lie at worst.
Also see: Widow of man killed by FBI during Marathon investigation charged with lying
