"His arm in a cast and his face swollen, a blase-looking Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing in a seven-minute proceeding that marked his first appearance in public since his capture in mid-April. As survivors of the bombing looked on, Tsarnaev, 19, gave a small, lopsided smile to his two sisters upon arriving in the courtroom. He appeared to have a jaw injury and there was swelling around his left eye and cheek. Leaning into the microphone, he told a federal judge, "Not guilty" in his Russian accent and said it over and over as the charges were read. Then he was led away in handcuffs, making a kissing gesture toward his family with his lips. One of his sisters sobbed loudly, resting her head on a woman seated next to her."
"Three months since his arrest and he arrives in court looking like he was beat up?" -- WhatReallyHappened
"Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces charges in attacks today; High security for brief session" by David Abel | Globe Staff, July 10, 2013
For the first time since he emerged covered in blood from a boat in a Watertown backyard, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will appear in federal court Wednesday in Boston to face charges that he used weapons of mass destruction to kill three people and wound more than 260 others at the Boston Marathon.
Well, one photo had him clean as a white-shirted whistle, but whatever.
Tsarnaev, who is also accused of killing an MIT police officer, faces 30 federal criminal charges, including use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and bombing of a place of public use resulting in death. Authorities allege that the 19-year-old was inspired by Al Qaeda publications and that he left a confession in the boat justifying the bombings as payback for US military action in Muslim countries....
An obvious attempt to tar the antiwar movement. "Inspired" by Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
The appearance of the former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student is expected to be brief and under heavy guard. It should answer questions about the extent of injuries he sustained during a firefight with police the night before he was captured and how much he has recovered over the past 2½ months....
Yeah, it sure should! I mean, regardless of what he did, he got the finest medical care anywhere as per our laws and such, right? I mean, this is America, right? We set an example for the world.
The indictment alleges that sometime before the bombings, Tsarnaev downloaded extremist Islamic propaganda from the Internet, including writings by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American citizen who became a senior operative in Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen and who was killed in a 2011 drone strike....
See: AmeriKan Missiles Keep Things All in the Family in Yemen
The CIA-Duh community!
Tsarnaev, who was hospitalized at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after his capture on April 19, will be escorted by deputies from the US Marshals Service from a locked medical facility for male prisoners at Fort Devens....
Where he apparently has been worked over in an attempt to get him to sign a confession.
Btw, that LOOKS like MILITARY CUSTODY to ME!
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For the first time since he emerged covered in blood from a boat in a Watertown backyard, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will appear in federal court Wednesday in Boston to face charges that he used weapons of mass destruction to kill three people and wound more than 260 others at the Boston Marathon.
Well, one photo had him clean as a white-shirted whistle, but whatever.
Tsarnaev, who is also accused of killing an MIT police officer, faces 30 federal criminal charges, including use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and bombing of a place of public use resulting in death. Authorities allege that the 19-year-old was inspired by Al Qaeda publications and that he left a confession in the boat justifying the bombings as payback for US military action in Muslim countries....
An obvious attempt to tar the antiwar movement. "Inspired" by Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
The appearance of the former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student is expected to be brief and under heavy guard. It should answer questions about the extent of injuries he sustained during a firefight with police the night before he was captured and how much he has recovered over the past 2½ months....
Yeah, it sure should! I mean, regardless of what he did, he got the finest medical care anywhere as per our laws and such, right? I mean, this is America, right? We set an example for the world.
The indictment alleges that sometime before the bombings, Tsarnaev downloaded extremist Islamic propaganda from the Internet, including writings by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American citizen who became a senior operative in Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen and who was killed in a 2011 drone strike....
See: AmeriKan Missiles Keep Things All in the Family in Yemen
The CIA-Duh community!
Tsarnaev, who was hospitalized at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after his capture on April 19, will be escorted by deputies from the US Marshals Service from a locked medical facility for male prisoners at Fort Devens....
Where he apparently has been worked over in an attempt to get him to sign a confession.
Btw, that LOOKS like MILITARY CUSTODY to ME!
--more--"
"As kin, survivors watch, Tsarnaev pleads not guilty" by David Abel and Eric Moskowitz | Globe Staff, July 10, 2013
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shuffled into the courtroom, appearing confident despite the ankle chains and an orange jumpsuit so big on him that it made him appear younger than his 19 years.
That's what Hitler did to those right-wing plotters that almost killed him. Gave them baggy clothes to humiliate them at show trial. Nice to know the U.S. is in good company here.
That's what Hitler did to those right-wing plotters that almost killed him. Gave them baggy clothes to humiliate them at show trial. Nice to know the U.S. is in good company here.
As federal prosecutors read the charges against him Wednesday in his first appearance since being captured in April, Tsarnaev repeatedly looked over his shoulder at the packed courtroom, at one point blowing a kiss to his sisters, one sobbing and another holding a baby.
Loved ones who, if anything worth their salt known this has been a tremendous patsy plot frame up by the FBI. They do it all the time to show us what a great job they are doing -- and to keep the narrative (and funding) flowing.
Loved ones who, if anything worth their salt known this has been a tremendous patsy plot frame up by the FBI. They do it all the time to show us what a great job they are doing -- and to keep the narrative (and funding) flowing.
He leaned into the microphone in the hushed courtroom to tell Judge Marianne B. Bowler with an accent that he pleaded not guilty to 30 charges, including use of weapons of mass destruction. More than 30 victims of the Marathon bombings and about a dozen supporters who say they believe Tsarnaev is innocent watched intently as the accused terrorist yawned and stroked the side of his face, which appeared swollen from a wound.
?????
?????
Tsarnaev, who could receive the death penalty, fidgeted in his seat as he listened to the charges, one of his attorneys patting him on the back gently several times. He had a visible scar just below his throat and had a cast on his left arm....
No questions regarding those injuries, of course.
No questions regarding those injuries, of course.
--more--"
The rest was all hate and government garbage so I didn't bother with it.
Some haven't finished yet:
"Lawmakers say FBI thwarts inquiry" by Bryan Bender and Noah Bierman | Globe Staff, July 10, 2013
WASHINGTON — Members of a congressional committee Wednesday accused the FBI of stalling an inquiry into the Boston Marathon bombings, saying the bureau had no grounds for withholding what it knew about Tamerlan Tsarnaev prior to the attacks.
They must have something to hide. Tamerlan is dead.
“The information requested by this committee belongs to the American people,’’ said Representative Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “It does not belong solely to the FBI.”
But they think it does.
So what has McCaul been up to that he wouldn't want the NSA to know?
The frustrations, aired publicly after FBI officials rebuffed an invitation to appear before the committee, stemmed from the FBI’s unwillingness to detail how it handled a security review of Tsarnaev nearly two years before the Marathon bombings. Critics have suggested the FBI may have missed a chance to prevent the bombings.
No, you don't get it, they call you up and tell you they want to come to the hill. That's how this thing works now.
“I went to Russia and was given more information,” said committee member William Keating, a Bourne Democrat who has been seeking information about Russian warnings to American authorities about Tsarnaev’s increasing radicalism dating to 2011.
Really, how sad is that and what more is there to type?
“The FBI continues to refuse this committee’s appropriate requests for information and documents crucial to our investigation into what happened in Boston,” McCaul declared as he opened a committee hearing. “I sincerely hope they do not intend to stonewall our inquiry into how this happened.”
Like they are doing in the Todashev killing?
The FBI interviewed the elder Tsarnaev in his Cambridge home in the spring and summer of 2011 but concluded he was not a threat and closed its inquiry.
Meaning he either agreed to be an informant or agent, or the FBI was told by the CIA he's one of ours. Then he was framed.
The bureau apparently did not reopen the case, despite additional warnings from Russia later that year, the subsequent decision by the CIA to add him to a database of potential terrorist suspects, and a tip in 2012 from the Department of Homeland Security that Tsarnaev traveled to Russia.
Yeah, we were told they missed because of a typo.
On Wednesday, the FBI strongly denied it was being uncooperative with Congress. It has said in the past that local authorities in Boston had access, in the years before the bombings, to the same information about Tsarnaev on its computers as FBI agents.
“We are not stonewalling,’’ FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said. “We have briefed [the] committee on several occasions and will continue to do so as necessary.”
Bresson said the FBI did not provide a witness for the Wednesday hearing in order to avoid compromising the legal case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev....
“We have an obligation to protect the integrity of the judicial process while it is ongoing,” Bresson said. “This involves ensuring both the government’s ability to conduct a successful prosecution as well as the rights of all parties involved, including the victims and the defendant, who, as it turns out, has a court appearance on the same day as this hearing.”
After a while you just stop listening to lame-ass excuses and weak sophistry. Totally tuned out.
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It was the hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee that drew the most attention on Wednesday.
Members were particularly frustrated by a July 3 letter to the committee from the FBI. The letter, reviewed by the Globe, said the bureau would not be responding to all the committee’s requests for information.
A key piece of information the committee wants is the original Russian warning to the United States in 2011, which said Tsarnaev might be planning to travel to Chechnya to meet with Islamist radicals.
“We don’t even have that copy [of the Russian warning] in this committee,” Keating said in an interview after the hearing.
The FBI has insisted that the Russian warning was vague, and that several of its requests to the Russians for more information went unanswered. But Keating said the Russians told him, during his own fact-finding trip to Russia in late May, that they don’t know what requests for information the FBI had referred to.
“Where’s the request?’’ Keating said. “Tell us the name, tell us the time, to whom that they have sent it to.”
FBI a bunch of f***ing fabricators!
Keating, a former Massachusetts prosecutor, also said that he believes the FBI is using the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an excuse to not be more forthcoming.
He said he does not believe the FBI’s contention that revealing information about its earlier review of Tamerlan Tsarnaev would jeopardize the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
And he said he is not persuaded by the FBI’s previous responses that it investigated Tsarnaev in 2011 and closed its case after an initial inquiry.
“The answer we keep getting back is that it wouldn’t have mattered anyway, because the case was closed,” Keating said. “Case closed.”
Other panel members, Democrats and Republicans, were critical of the FBI’s level of cooperation....
Only Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, is quoted.
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Related: Last Leg of Marathon Bombing Posts
The finishing kick:
"After FBI probes, questions on granting of asylum" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff, July 05, 2013
Ibragim Todashev told federal immigration officials he feared persecution in his native Russia and needed safe harbor in the United States. He won asylum in 2008, then a green card. Then, relatives said, Todashev made plans to return to the country he’d fled.
Before he could follow through on those plans, the 27-year-old was shot and killed in Orlando on May 22 by an FBI agent investigating the Boston Marathon bombings. But Todashev’s willingness to return to a place he said he feared is raising new questions about his asylum claim, and focusing new attention on the asylum case of his friend, suspected Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
“I haven’t seen any justification for the granting of asylum to any of them, to be honest,” said Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies program at Harvard, who is not involved in either case. “I am baffled because I’ve known of others who applied and been turned down in cases that seemed to me far more deserving than these.”
I'm not: No Defense For Terrorists
Agents and assets, my friend.
Federal immigration officials say they cannot discuss the cases because asylum claims are generally confidential to protect applicants, who might be victims of war, rape, or other atrocities.
After the way this government has violated privacy with its spying programs? Puh-leeze!
But critics say the law also protects people who concoct stories to win asylum and eventually, US citizenship.
They must protect mouthpiece media.
Thousands of foreigners seek asylum every year in the United States. According to federal law, to be granted asylum, they must fear persecution in their homeland based on their political opinion, race, religion, nationality, or membership in a particular social group, such as people who are gay or lesbian.
It's all based on politics, folks. If you have been oppressed by a friendly regime back you go.
Federal officials can revoke asylum for reasons that include if immigrants voluntarily return to the homeland they feared, but revocations are rare. Since 1994, immigration officials have rescinded 1,582 asylum grants, less than 1 percent of roughly 300,000 granted during that time. The Department of Justice’s immigration courts also grant asylum, but a spokeswoman said the courts do not track revocations.
Advocates for asylum seekers say the federal system is designed to prevent fraud. Asylum officers or immigration judges question immigrants, hear witness testimony, and review records, including newspaper accounts, research reports, and medical evaluations that can corroborate torture or post-traumatic stress.
Since when?
And advocates point out that it is not uncommon for asylum seekers to return home when they feel it is safe, after wars end or political regimes turn over.
“Country conditions change,” said Christy Fujio, director of the asylum program for Physicians for Human Rights, a Cambridge nonprofit that helps asylum applicants find doctors to evaluate their claims. “The fact that they feel safe going back now doesn’t mean that at the time they applied and were granted asylum that there wasn’t a very real danger for them.”
But others say the US government should better investigate cases in which immigrants such as Todashev are willing to return to the places they fled. They say the asylum system remains plagued by fraudulent applications from foreigners desperate to remain in the United States. In recent years, federal immigration officials have accused lawyers and others of submitting hundreds of fraudulent asylum claims from citizens of China, Albania, and other countries.
“If it was safe enough to go back, then it’s questionable why they should’ve gotten asylum in the first place,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington organization that favors tough controls on immigration. “It just indicates the difficulty of really verifying these claims.”
Todashev and the Tsarnaevs were ethnic Chechens, and in the past, the US government has granted asylum to Chechens who fled two brutal civil wars that started in 1994, when Russian troops clamped down on an uprising of Islamic separatists in Chechnya, a semiautonomous region in southern Russia.
But Todashev’s father, Abdulbaki, has told the Globe that his son had no reason to fear persecution in Chechnya. He said his family fled the fighting in Chechnya but returned home five or six years ago. Now he is a department head in the local government....
His father said Ibragim left for America in 2008 on an exchange visa to study English. Abdulbaki Todashev also obtained a visa in 2006 but never used it, a federal official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
On May 22, a Boston FBI agent shot and killed Ibragim Todashev, who had two prior arrests for violent attacks, after he allegedly initiated a violent confrontation during an interrogation. His family and friends dispute that account and called for an independent investigation.
First it was with a sword, then a knife, then a metal pole, then a broomstick, and it turns out he wasn't even armed and wasn't even mobile due to knee surgery -- but the FBI guy had to pump 7 bullets into him, including a for-sure head shot.
Anyway....
Todashev’s father said his son, who recently received a green card, was planning to come home to visit his family. He was the oldest of 12 children.
Recently got a green card, huh? FBI must have slipped up there, too.
The case of the Tsarnaev family is more complex. Friends and relatives say Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the suspected Marathon bombers, suffered effects from persecution, though it remains unclear what those effects are.
His son Tamerlan, 26, died after a shoot-out with police in Watertown, and his other son Dzhokhar, 19, remains in federal custody.
Relatives said Anzor Tsarnaev came to America in April 2002 and won political asylum, which also likely covered his wife and children. The country he feared persecution in is Kyrgyzstan, the former Soviet republic where he was born, according to a federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Maret Tsarnaeva, Anzor Tsarnaev’s sister, told the Wall Street Journal that Tsarnaev was fired from his job in the prosecutor’s office in Kyrgyzstan after the second war erupted in Chechnya. She said he suffered persecution in Kyrgyzstan because he was Chechen, and that she helped write his application for asylum.
“We were lucky to take him out of Kyrgyzstan alive,” Tsarnaeva, who lives in Canada, said in an interview broadcast online after the bombings. She did not elaborate and did not respond to messages left on her cellphone.
Representatives at the Kyrgyz Embassy in Washington declined to comment but said they would look into reports that Anzor Tsarnaev suffered persecution there.
About a year ago, according to media reports, Tsarnaev moved to Dagestan, the southern Russia home of his former wife, though researchers say the fighting is now more intense than when he came to America. His former wife, Zubiedat, also returned home, and their son Tamerlan, visited last year.
His former wife, a lawyer, is rarely mentioned because she was hollering conspiracy from the get go. Was denied a visa to this country when the whole dead body flap was permeating the media.
Former neighbors in Kyrgyzstan told reporters that Anzor Tsarnaev also visited his hometown of Tokmok in the past year, a decade after he sought asylum.
Anzor Tsarnaev had suffered health problems and divorced in 2011. But one former neighbor said Tsarnaev seemed content.
“He was very happy and proud of his sons’ success in the US,” Badrudi Tsokoev, a former neighbor told the Associated Press, describing Tsarnaev’s visit. “We also were happy for him.”
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Last burst:
"Meanwhile, “R.I.P.D.,” which was filmed here, is about to hit theaters. Before it does, stars Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds are coming to town for a special screening Sunday with some of the first responders to the Marathon bombings, including Boston police and fire, EMTs, MIT police, Watertown police, and volunteers from the Marathon medical tent."
Hollywood is in on this thing in more ways than one.
Also see: With grit and determination, Odoms adjust to a new life
For those who want to fully understand the Marathon false flag fraud I suggest you start at the beginning of the race and get scrolling -- and then decide who are the "nuts."
The rest was all hate and government garbage so I didn't bother with it.
Some haven't finished yet:
"Lawmakers say FBI thwarts inquiry" by Bryan Bender and Noah Bierman | Globe Staff, July 10, 2013
WASHINGTON — Members of a congressional committee Wednesday accused the FBI of stalling an inquiry into the Boston Marathon bombings, saying the bureau had no grounds for withholding what it knew about Tamerlan Tsarnaev prior to the attacks.
They must have something to hide. Tamerlan is dead.
“The information requested by this committee belongs to the American people,’’ said Representative Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “It does not belong solely to the FBI.”
But they think it does.
So what has McCaul been up to that he wouldn't want the NSA to know?
The frustrations, aired publicly after FBI officials rebuffed an invitation to appear before the committee, stemmed from the FBI’s unwillingness to detail how it handled a security review of Tsarnaev nearly two years before the Marathon bombings. Critics have suggested the FBI may have missed a chance to prevent the bombings.
No, you don't get it, they call you up and tell you they want to come to the hill. That's how this thing works now.
“I went to Russia and was given more information,” said committee member William Keating, a Bourne Democrat who has been seeking information about Russian warnings to American authorities about Tsarnaev’s increasing radicalism dating to 2011.
Really, how sad is that and what more is there to type?
“The FBI continues to refuse this committee’s appropriate requests for information and documents crucial to our investigation into what happened in Boston,” McCaul declared as he opened a committee hearing. “I sincerely hope they do not intend to stonewall our inquiry into how this happened.”
Like they are doing in the Todashev killing?
The FBI interviewed the elder Tsarnaev in his Cambridge home in the spring and summer of 2011 but concluded he was not a threat and closed its inquiry.
Meaning he either agreed to be an informant or agent, or the FBI was told by the CIA he's one of ours. Then he was framed.
The bureau apparently did not reopen the case, despite additional warnings from Russia later that year, the subsequent decision by the CIA to add him to a database of potential terrorist suspects, and a tip in 2012 from the Department of Homeland Security that Tsarnaev traveled to Russia.
Yeah, we were told they missed because of a typo.
On Wednesday, the FBI strongly denied it was being uncooperative with Congress. It has said in the past that local authorities in Boston had access, in the years before the bombings, to the same information about Tsarnaev on its computers as FBI agents.
“We are not stonewalling,’’ FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said. “We have briefed [the] committee on several occasions and will continue to do so as necessary.”
Bresson said the FBI did not provide a witness for the Wednesday hearing in order to avoid compromising the legal case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev....
“We have an obligation to protect the integrity of the judicial process while it is ongoing,” Bresson said. “This involves ensuring both the government’s ability to conduct a successful prosecution as well as the rights of all parties involved, including the victims and the defendant, who, as it turns out, has a court appearance on the same day as this hearing.”
After a while you just stop listening to lame-ass excuses and weak sophistry. Totally tuned out.
***********************
It was the hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee that drew the most attention on Wednesday.
Members were particularly frustrated by a July 3 letter to the committee from the FBI. The letter, reviewed by the Globe, said the bureau would not be responding to all the committee’s requests for information.
A key piece of information the committee wants is the original Russian warning to the United States in 2011, which said Tsarnaev might be planning to travel to Chechnya to meet with Islamist radicals.
“We don’t even have that copy [of the Russian warning] in this committee,” Keating said in an interview after the hearing.
The FBI has insisted that the Russian warning was vague, and that several of its requests to the Russians for more information went unanswered. But Keating said the Russians told him, during his own fact-finding trip to Russia in late May, that they don’t know what requests for information the FBI had referred to.
“Where’s the request?’’ Keating said. “Tell us the name, tell us the time, to whom that they have sent it to.”
FBI a bunch of f***ing fabricators!
Keating, a former Massachusetts prosecutor, also said that he believes the FBI is using the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an excuse to not be more forthcoming.
He said he does not believe the FBI’s contention that revealing information about its earlier review of Tamerlan Tsarnaev would jeopardize the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
And he said he is not persuaded by the FBI’s previous responses that it investigated Tsarnaev in 2011 and closed its case after an initial inquiry.
“The answer we keep getting back is that it wouldn’t have mattered anyway, because the case was closed,” Keating said. “Case closed.”
Other panel members, Democrats and Republicans, were critical of the FBI’s level of cooperation....
Only Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, is quoted.
--more--"
Related: Last Leg of Marathon Bombing Posts
The finishing kick:
"After FBI probes, questions on granting of asylum" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff, July 05, 2013
Ibragim Todashev told federal immigration officials he feared persecution in his native Russia and needed safe harbor in the United States. He won asylum in 2008, then a green card. Then, relatives said, Todashev made plans to return to the country he’d fled.
Before he could follow through on those plans, the 27-year-old was shot and killed in Orlando on May 22 by an FBI agent investigating the Boston Marathon bombings. But Todashev’s willingness to return to a place he said he feared is raising new questions about his asylum claim, and focusing new attention on the asylum case of his friend, suspected Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
“I haven’t seen any justification for the granting of asylum to any of them, to be honest,” said Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies program at Harvard, who is not involved in either case. “I am baffled because I’ve known of others who applied and been turned down in cases that seemed to me far more deserving than these.”
I'm not: No Defense For Terrorists
Agents and assets, my friend.
Federal immigration officials say they cannot discuss the cases because asylum claims are generally confidential to protect applicants, who might be victims of war, rape, or other atrocities.
After the way this government has violated privacy with its spying programs? Puh-leeze!
But critics say the law also protects people who concoct stories to win asylum and eventually, US citizenship.
They must protect mouthpiece media.
Thousands of foreigners seek asylum every year in the United States. According to federal law, to be granted asylum, they must fear persecution in their homeland based on their political opinion, race, religion, nationality, or membership in a particular social group, such as people who are gay or lesbian.
It's all based on politics, folks. If you have been oppressed by a friendly regime back you go.
Federal officials can revoke asylum for reasons that include if immigrants voluntarily return to the homeland they feared, but revocations are rare. Since 1994, immigration officials have rescinded 1,582 asylum grants, less than 1 percent of roughly 300,000 granted during that time. The Department of Justice’s immigration courts also grant asylum, but a spokeswoman said the courts do not track revocations.
Advocates for asylum seekers say the federal system is designed to prevent fraud. Asylum officers or immigration judges question immigrants, hear witness testimony, and review records, including newspaper accounts, research reports, and medical evaluations that can corroborate torture or post-traumatic stress.
Since when?
And advocates point out that it is not uncommon for asylum seekers to return home when they feel it is safe, after wars end or political regimes turn over.
“Country conditions change,” said Christy Fujio, director of the asylum program for Physicians for Human Rights, a Cambridge nonprofit that helps asylum applicants find doctors to evaluate their claims. “The fact that they feel safe going back now doesn’t mean that at the time they applied and were granted asylum that there wasn’t a very real danger for them.”
But others say the US government should better investigate cases in which immigrants such as Todashev are willing to return to the places they fled. They say the asylum system remains plagued by fraudulent applications from foreigners desperate to remain in the United States. In recent years, federal immigration officials have accused lawyers and others of submitting hundreds of fraudulent asylum claims from citizens of China, Albania, and other countries.
“If it was safe enough to go back, then it’s questionable why they should’ve gotten asylum in the first place,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington organization that favors tough controls on immigration. “It just indicates the difficulty of really verifying these claims.”
Todashev and the Tsarnaevs were ethnic Chechens, and in the past, the US government has granted asylum to Chechens who fled two brutal civil wars that started in 1994, when Russian troops clamped down on an uprising of Islamic separatists in Chechnya, a semiautonomous region in southern Russia.
But Todashev’s father, Abdulbaki, has told the Globe that his son had no reason to fear persecution in Chechnya. He said his family fled the fighting in Chechnya but returned home five or six years ago. Now he is a department head in the local government....
His father said Ibragim left for America in 2008 on an exchange visa to study English. Abdulbaki Todashev also obtained a visa in 2006 but never used it, a federal official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
On May 22, a Boston FBI agent shot and killed Ibragim Todashev, who had two prior arrests for violent attacks, after he allegedly initiated a violent confrontation during an interrogation. His family and friends dispute that account and called for an independent investigation.
First it was with a sword, then a knife, then a metal pole, then a broomstick, and it turns out he wasn't even armed and wasn't even mobile due to knee surgery -- but the FBI guy had to pump 7 bullets into him, including a for-sure head shot.
Anyway....
Todashev’s father said his son, who recently received a green card, was planning to come home to visit his family. He was the oldest of 12 children.
Recently got a green card, huh? FBI must have slipped up there, too.
The case of the Tsarnaev family is more complex. Friends and relatives say Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the suspected Marathon bombers, suffered effects from persecution, though it remains unclear what those effects are.
His son Tamerlan, 26, died after a shoot-out with police in Watertown, and his other son Dzhokhar, 19, remains in federal custody.
Relatives said Anzor Tsarnaev came to America in April 2002 and won political asylum, which also likely covered his wife and children. The country he feared persecution in is Kyrgyzstan, the former Soviet republic where he was born, according to a federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Maret Tsarnaeva, Anzor Tsarnaev’s sister, told the Wall Street Journal that Tsarnaev was fired from his job in the prosecutor’s office in Kyrgyzstan after the second war erupted in Chechnya. She said he suffered persecution in Kyrgyzstan because he was Chechen, and that she helped write his application for asylum.
“We were lucky to take him out of Kyrgyzstan alive,” Tsarnaeva, who lives in Canada, said in an interview broadcast online after the bombings. She did not elaborate and did not respond to messages left on her cellphone.
Representatives at the Kyrgyz Embassy in Washington declined to comment but said they would look into reports that Anzor Tsarnaev suffered persecution there.
About a year ago, according to media reports, Tsarnaev moved to Dagestan, the southern Russia home of his former wife, though researchers say the fighting is now more intense than when he came to America. His former wife, Zubiedat, also returned home, and their son Tamerlan, visited last year.
His former wife, a lawyer, is rarely mentioned because she was hollering conspiracy from the get go. Was denied a visa to this country when the whole dead body flap was permeating the media.
Former neighbors in Kyrgyzstan told reporters that Anzor Tsarnaev also visited his hometown of Tokmok in the past year, a decade after he sought asylum.
Anzor Tsarnaev had suffered health problems and divorced in 2011. But one former neighbor said Tsarnaev seemed content.
“He was very happy and proud of his sons’ success in the US,” Badrudi Tsokoev, a former neighbor told the Associated Press, describing Tsarnaev’s visit. “We also were happy for him.”
--more--"
Last burst:
"Meanwhile, “R.I.P.D.,” which was filmed here, is about to hit theaters. Before it does, stars Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds are coming to town for a special screening Sunday with some of the first responders to the Marathon bombings, including Boston police and fire, EMTs, MIT police, Watertown police, and volunteers from the Marathon medical tent."
Hollywood is in on this thing in more ways than one.
Also see: With grit and determination, Odoms adjust to a new life
For those who want to fully understand the Marathon false flag fraud I suggest you start at the beginning of the race and get scrolling -- and then decide who are the "nuts."
