Seems like the old Ukraine:
"Ukraine adopts law to purge government officials" Associated press October 10, 2014
KIEV — Ukraine’s president approved legislation Thursday to purge government bodies of officials linked to the rule of the country’s previous leader, Viktor Yanukovych.
The law is aimed at restoring public trust in authorities and building ‘‘a new system of government in line with European standards,’’ President Petro Poroshenko’s office said in a statement.
Meaning they have lost it. The E.U.-U.S.-installed junta lasted what, less than a year?
Yanukovych was overthrown in February after months of sometimes violent protests ignited by widespread discontent over corruption and poor administration. Poroshenko was elected president in May on the back of pledges he would usher in ambitious reforms — promises that his critics charge he is failing to enact swiftly enough.
The prime minister says around 1 million people could be affected by the law, which lays out the terms for checks on officials in national and local government. Government workers employed for at least one year during Yanukovych’s four-year tenure could be barred from state service for a period of five to 10 years under the regulations.
Similar initiatives were pursued in many former Soviet bloc nations in the early 1990s as post-independence governments sought to overturn the legacy of decades of communist rule.
We are a long way from that as the agenda-pushing press tries to justify this?
Critics of Ukraine’s law say the public nature of the purge amounts to a political witch hunt.
Imagine if the Obummer came out tomorrow and said all Republicans are purged from government. How would that go over?
Ukraine’s top prosecutor has warned the legislation may be unconstitutional and lead to unforeseen circumstances.
Must be following US orders.
Opponents of Poroshenko’s government say firing leftovers of the Yanukovych era is an attempt at suppressing political opposition.
Poroshenko has said the legislation may in the future be revised on the recommendations of international legal experts.
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"Clashes erupt outside Ukraine’s parliament in Kiev" by Peter Leonard | Associated Press October 15, 2014
KIEV — Clashes broke out Tuesday between demonstrators and police in front of Ukraine’s Parliament in Kiev as deputies inside repeatedly voted down proposals to recognize a World War II-era Ukrainian partisan group as national heroes.
Thousands of Svoboda nationalist party supporters rallied earlier in the capital in celebration of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose struggle for independence for Ukraine was tainted by its collaboration with the Nazis.
Same as now.
Later, masked men attacked and threw smoke grenades at lines of police outside Parliament as lawmakers met inside. The Interior Ministry said 36 people were detained by police.
Meanwhile, at least 14 people, including seven civilians and seven servicemen, were killed in fighting between pro-Russian separatists and government forces in eastern Ukraine. A cease-fire has been in place since early September but violations are reported daily.
The fire never really ceased, and the rebels have rolled back the Ukraine Army. That's why pre$$ coverage has greatly diminished. This has become a loss.
Svoboda said its members were not responsible for the unrest in Kiev, which police said was orchestrated by a small group of people.
Most everything is.
The unrest overshadowed the passage of laws that the government hopes will contain the galloping corruption that has long hindered Ukraine’s economy.
People don't like being purged, huh?
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"Putin orders troops away from Ukraine border" Associated Press October 13, 2014
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered thousands of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border to return to their usual bases, according to his spokesman.
Once again, Putin has avoided war!
He's the one deserving of a Peace Prize. First Syria, now this!
Dmitry Peskov told Russian news outlets late Saturday in Sochi that Putin had ordered approximately 17,600 troops to return home from Rostov, a southern region that borders east Ukraine, where pro-Russia insurgents have been battling government troops since April.
The Kremlin has said that troops stationed in Rostov were participating in drills, but Ukraine and the West have repeatedly accused Russia of fueling the insurgency with arms, expertise, and fighters, and have slapped Moscow with sanctions in response to its moves in the region.
Previous Russian claims of troop withdrawals have been countered by NATO.
The withdrawal may be a sign of good will ahead of Putin’s trip to Milan on Thursday, where he is set to meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and European Union leaders.
What of Petroshenko cuts a deal? Where will the West be then?
As EU and US sanctions against Russia begin to bite and economic growth falters, Moscow may also hope that a troop withdrawal will bolster the chance Western nations will revoke those measures.
Pfffft!
Late last month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the European Union was still not considering removing the sanctions because of ongoing fighting in east Ukraine. That's why Germany's economy is going into the toilet.
The sanctions are hurting them worse than Russia.
In Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, the city center was quiet but explosions rang out in the direction of the airport, where fighting between government troops and pro-Russia forces has been waged despite a cease-fire declared Sept. 5.
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"NATO says no sign of Russian withdrawal near Ukraine" Associated Press October 16, 2014
THESSALONIKI, Greece — NATO’s top military commander said Wednesday that the alliance would welcome the withdrawal of Russian troops from a Russian region bordering Ukraine but that it has seen no ‘‘major movement’’ so far.
On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 17,600 Russian troops to return to their bases from Rostov. The region in Russia borders east Ukraine, where pro-Russia insurgents have battled government troops since April.
‘‘We would welcome withdrawal of troops on that border, and we are anxiously watching what is happening,’’ US Air Force General Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, said on the sidelines of a NATO conference in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
‘‘We have not seen major movements yet,’’ he said. ‘‘Now we will watch to see if there is delivery on the promise.’’
I don't believe you, war-monger.
Russia has denied Ukrainian and Western charges that it has supported the insurgency in eastern Ukraine with weapons, expertise, and fighters, saying that troops are participating in drills.
Breedlove noted it was important for the West to comprehend the possible motives for Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
Putin has repeatedly accused the United States, the EU, and NATO of stonewalling Moscow’s economic and security concerns and trying to pull Ukraine into the Western orbit.
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Related: Putin's Hokey Pokey in Ukraine
He's still dancing.
Boston reporter detained in Russia
Old Russia?
New Russia: "Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished, mostly Muslim Central Asian nation on China’s mountainous western border, has cultivated close ties with Russia and aspired to become a member of a Moscow-led economic bloc."
That's the threat!
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Friday, October 17, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Tsarnaev's Took Taxi to Bomb Marathon
FBI has the driver in custody.
"Man charged with obstructing bombing probe" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe staff May 30, 2014
A cab driver from Quincy who was close to the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers was arrested Friday on charges of lying to investigators and destroying evidence, allegedly obstructing the ongoing investigation of the 2013 attack that shocked the city and the nation.
Khairullozhon Matanov, a 23-year-old Kyrgyzstan national, allegedly contacted Tamerlan Tsarnaev 42 minutes after the April 15, 2013, bombings, and he bought him and his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, dinner at a restaurant that night. Matanov visited Tamerlan, whom he knew from playing soccer and from places of worship, at the suspected bomber’s Cambridge home two days later.
Over several days after the bombings, he also called the brothers repeatedly.
Authorities alleged in a sweeping indictment unsealed Friday that Matanov realized the FBI would want to interview him about his relationship with the suspected bombers, but that he deleted files from his computer and tried to get rid of his cellphones. They also allege that he lied to investigators about his encounters with the brothers in the days after the bombings.
It didn't crash like the IRS computers with Lerner's e-mails?
He is not, however, accused of playing any role in the bombing itself.
“Matanov understood that federal investigators were investigating the Tsarnaevs as the suspected Boston Marathon bombers,” prosecutors said. “. . . Matanov then tried to discourage and impede that investigation.”
Matanov was charged with obstruction of justice by destruction, alteration, and falsification of records or documents in a federal investigation, which carries a punishment of up to 20 years in prison. He was also charged with three counts of making false statements to agents in a terrorism investigation, each of which carries a punishment of up to eight years in prison.
Matanov made a brief appearance in US District Court in Boston Friday. The native of Kyrgyzstan said he understood the charges and asked that a lawyer be appointed on his behalf.
Prosecutors asked that he be detained pending trial, and a hearing was scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday. Matanov was ordered held until then by the US Marshals Service.
Outside the courthouse, his lawyer, Edward Hayden, said Matanov understood the seriousness of the charges and was “very frightened.”
He should be. They murdered Todashev and made an example out of Tazhayakov.
Hayden argued that none of his allegedly false statements made to federal agents were material to the investigation.
“There’s a lot of unsubstantiated allegations, many [that] are not material,” Hayden said. “He had no intent to mislead the FBI, and, from what I can see, whatever he did didn’t impede the investigation.”
Prosecutors would not say why Matanov was arrested Friday, as the allegedly false statements were made a year ago. Hayden called it the “million-dollar question.”
A federal grand jury continues to meet in secret to investigate the bombings, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation, who would not rule out the possibility of more arrests. The official requested anonymity because of not being authorized to speak publicly about the secret grand jury process.
The arrest early Friday by a SWAT team and a host of FBI agents startled the Quincy neighborhood where Matanov lives, a place where he often stood out as an outsider.
A neighbor, Leslie Aiello, 49, said she awoke around 5:30 a.m. to find Matanov’s brick apartment building on Common Street surrounded by agents. About 30 minutes later, Matanov was led out the front door in handcuffs. He was not struggling, she said.
People who knew Matanov described him as a hardworking immigrant cab driver who loved to play soccer and was a devoted Muslim. Ahmed Goutay, who organized a soccer team that included Matanov, said he was a reliable presence at Friday services at the Islamic Center of New England’s Quincy mosque and would trek with other worshipers to soccer games played afterward in Cohasset.
How did he like the World Cup™?
Goutay said he had been questioned by FBI agents about Matanov. He told Matanov about the interview, but “he said he had nothing to do with” the bombings, Goutay said.
Matanov arrived in the United States around May 2010 on a student visa. He attended computer technology at Quincy College for several months but ran into financial troubles, his lawyer said.
Hayden said Matanov then sought and was granted political asylum from the unrest in Kyrgyzstan. His mother and father, both severely ill, still live there, Hayden said. Matanov has two brothers there and two brothers in Russia.
That long forgotten nation?
Hayden said Matanov was born in Kyrgyzstan and worked in Russia for a year before returning to his homeland and then came to the United States. He has not traveled abroad since arriving here.
Russians connected to terrorists!
Court records related to Matanov’s arrest provided an eerie window into the lives of the Tsarnaev brothers in the days after the bombings. Tamerlan told Matanov at dinner on the night of the bombings that he did not believe Al Qaeda was involved because it would typically accept responsibility within hours of an attack.
I think Al-CIA-Duh is involved.
Three people were killed in the attack at the Marathon finish line and more than 260 were injured. The two brothers also allegedly shot MIT police Officer Sean Collier three days after the bombings, following release of their photos.
Tamerlan, 26, was killed during a violent confrontation with police in Watertown, when he tried to flee the area. Dzhokhar, now 20, was arrested after a manhunt. He faces multiple charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty and is slated to go to trial in November. He is being held without bail.
Authorities allege the brothers carried out the bombings as jihad, or holy war, against the United States.
Three of Dzhokhar’s friends from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth were arrested not long after the attack on accusations of lying to investigators.
Larry Marchese, a spokesman for the family of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old Dorchester boy who was killed in the blasts, welcomed the news of the latest arrest.
“While so many worked so hard to move forward from the painful events of that day, it is comforting to know the investigation continues and that the investigators won’t rest until they get to the bottom of what happened and how it came about,” Marchese said.
Every time they wave a dead kid at me I think GAZA!
Authorities said that before the attack, Matanov participated in a variety of activities with Tamerlan, “including discussing religious topics and hiking up a New Hampshire mountain in order to train like, and praise, the mujahideen,” or Muslim religion fighters, according to the indictment.
After the bombings, Matanov told an unidentified witness, who Hayden said was his roommate, that the bombings would have been justified if they were in the name of Islam.
Let me off here because this ride of propaganda has already been long enough.
According to the indictment, he later said the bombings might have been wrong, and expressed sympathy for the victims’ families.
On April 18, 2013, after the FBI released photos of the suspected bombers, Matanov accessed them on the FBI’s and CNN’s websites several times, and he called Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s cellphone, but did not connect with him, according to court records. He told a friend the next day that Tamerlan had been killed.
Throughout that Friday, April 19, 2013, while authorities searched for Dzhokhar, Matanov told witnesses about his relationship with the brothers, but he falsely said he had not seen them recently, according to the court records. He then allegedly tried to give cellphones to unidentified witnesses, saying they were illegal and the FBI could find them if agents searched his apartment because of his relationship to the brothers. The witnesses would not take the phones.
NSA would surely have them, though.
Matanov ultimately contacted Braintree police to say he knew the Tsarnaev brothers, but he denied seeing their photos. Then, he allegedly deleted 902 of 903 folders from his “videos” folder on his computer, and 377 of 402 documents from his documents folder, after police told him he should talk with the FBI.
So HE CAME FORWARD, did he?
Some of the videos contained violent content or calls to violence, authorities said, adding that the deletions of the files “obstructed the FBI’s investigation of the bombings and the suspected bombers and have caused the FBI to expend considerable additional resources during its investigation of the bombings and the suspected bombers.”
I hope this narrative reinforcement of the myth is worth it.
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"Suspect called ‘go-getter’ who showed no extremist views" by Peter Schworm and John R. Ellement | Globe staff May 31, 2014
QUINCY — At the mosque where he worshiped each Friday, Khairullozhon Matanov was seen as an unassuming, affable young man, a hard-working cab driver trying to make his way in a new country. He played in a weekly soccer league, wore blue jeans and T-shirts.
Nothing about him, several members of the mosque said, seemed at all extreme.
But at the brick apartment complex where the 23-year-old lived, some neighbors saw Matanov in a more mysterious, even menacing light. He never spoke to anyone, and walked with his head down, avoiding eye contact even when people said hello. Looking down into his basement apartment, neighbors saw that he slept on a mattress on the floor.
He must have thought Boston was New York.
“He kind of scared me,” said Leslie Aiello, 49.
Then that proves his involvement.
About 5:30 Friday morning, Aiello and other neighbors woke up to find their building surrounded by a SWAT team and some 30 FBI agents, who took Matanov into custody on charges of obstructing the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings.
He must have been a real threat!
Neighbors said they had noticed an intermittent police presence outside the apartment over the past year, particularly around the anniversary of the bombings. Some suspected that Matanov was the target of the surveillance.
Yet Monday’s disclosure that Matanov had been friends with the bombing suspects and may have shared their radical beliefs left many who knew him stunned and deeply shaken.
May have?
“I had no clue he was this closely tied to them,” said neighbor Tyler Young, 27. “It’s shocking. I didn’t understand the gravity of the whole thing.”
To cabdrivers in Braintree, where Matanov had worked for more than two years, his friendship with the bombing suspects was no secret.
His boss at Braintree Checker Cab said Matanov revealed to colleagues that he knew the Tsarnaev brothers in the days after they had been identified as the bombing suspects and was “adamant they didn’t do it.”
“Not those guys — they got it wrong, or they are being framed,” the company owner recalled Matanov saying. “They would never have done that.”
And that is why this guy needed to be taken into custody.
The owner, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Nour, said Matanov made no secret of his friendship with the suspects. But with the shock of the bombings still raw, drivers asked few questions.
“When it just happened, nobody wanted to talk about it,’’ Nour said. “It was cut short. And nobody probed any further, so he didn’t say anything else.”
Matanov said he had met the Tsarnaevs while playing soccer, Nour said.
At the cabstand in Braintree, drivers who knew Matanov described him as a likeable, regular guy who showed no signs of extremist tendencies.
“That would be a surprise,” said Jerome Shea, a Checker Cab driver. “He’s a real nice guy, hard-working kid. He’s always been pleasant to me.”
Matanov, who is a native of Kyrgyzstan and had no family in the United States, came here on a student visa in 2010, his lawyer, Edward Hayden, said in court.
He studied information technology at Quincy College, but discontinued college at some point. Hayden said he believed it was because of financial problems.
Matanov then applied for asylum and was granted it because of turmoil in Kyrgyzstan.
Matanov comes from Suzak, a small town on Kyrgyzstan’s border with Uzbekistan in the volatile Fergana Valley region of the former Soviet Union. The area was riven with violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks that took hundreds of lives in 2010, the year Matanov came to the United States. The Fergana Valley has a large population of devout Muslims and has been a fertile recruiting ground for Islamic militants since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
I see the hallmarks of Al-CIA-Duh, don't you?
The Tsarnaev family emigrated from a different part of Kyrgyzstan in the early 2000s.
Matanov has four brothers, two in Kyrgyzstan, two in Russia, Hayden said. His mother is very ill with diabetes and his father had a stroke and is partially paralyzed, the lawyer said.
Matanov was a reliable presence at Friday services at the Islamic Center of New England’s Quincy mosque and played soccer with members in Cohasset, said Ahmed Goutay, who organized the team.
Goutay said FBI agents had questioned him about Matanov in the weeks after the bombings. When he told Matanov that he had been interviewed, Matanov said he was not involved. “He said he had nothing to do with it,’’ Goutay said.
As time passed and Matanov was not arrested, Goutay and others assumed the questioning was just a formality.
“If he is not in prison, he must be innocent” he said
Matanov never discussed his feelings about the bombings, terrorism, or Islamic fundamentalism, said Goutay, who was surprised by the arrest and the allegations.
Nour said he believed that Matanov also attended services in Cambridge and Sharon, when his job took him there at the time of services.
Administrators at the Islamic Society of Boston’s Cambridge mosque attempted Friday to determine if Matanov was the same Russian-sounding young man who occasionally sat with Tamerlan in the rear of the mosque during Friday services.
Ismail Fenni — acting imam of the mosque, which Tamerlan attended occasionally with his brother — said Tamerlan once introduced him to a friend who appeared to speak the same language and to be of similar descent.
Fenni said that the man attended the mosque several times after the Marathon bombing but has not shown up lately.
The mosque has no record of Matanov’s name, Fenni said. But he added that many who attend do not register their names.
Nour said that when Matanov began working for him about two years ago, the young man would avoid looking at attractive women as they walked by, but that more recently he changed his ways.
How much more proof do you need that this guy is a terrorist?
At least he isn't a pervert.
“He was a little bit more observant at the beginning; he would not look at a girl . . . walking by,’’ Nour recalled. “But lately, he’s a little bit more open to the average 23-year-old’s behavior.’’
Nour said he never observed Matanov listening to recorded sermons from imams, but instead listened to standard radio stations, especially while working as a cabdriver.
Oh, no. This is like the 9/11 hijackers hitting the clubs and casinos.
Nour said Matanov dressed like any other person in their 20s and would usually wear jeans, sneakers, and a shirt. “He wasn’t dressed in, like, a radical way, or in any odd way,’’ Nour said. “He was dressed the same way that the majority of people would dress.’’
Nour said that if Matanov is found not guilty of the charges he faces, he would readily hire him back.
“If the law proves he didn’t do it, then, yeah, I would definitely offer him a job,’’ Nour said. “He’s a go-getter. He would go and get it done.’’
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Being a good employee is not enough, even if you “never drink or play the lottery.’’
Related: Suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing case
Tsarnaev's Circle of College Friends
Matanov was not among them!
"FBI reveals surveillance of friend of Tsarnaevs; Says cab driver knew he was being tracked, complied with requests" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff June 04, 2014
The FBI launched intensive surveillance of a friend of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers last year, tracking him by car through the area and at one point urging him to stay away from Boston on the Fourth of July, authorities said Wednesday.
How much did all this cost the taxpayers?
FBI agents were under orders to “make sure they stay with Mr. [Khairullozhon] Matanov, and don’t lose him,” FBI Special Agent Timothy McElroy told US Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler in court. He said that Matanov knew about the surveillance and that “it was not covert in any manner.”
McElroy said the FBI also asked Matanov to stay away from Boston’s July 4 festivities because “for obvious reasons, the city was on edge.” Matanov was also asked by agents to avoid Boston on Patriots Day, or April 21 of this year, when the first Boston Marathon since the April 15, 2013, bombings was held, McElroy said.
So this guy was assumed to be terrorist right from the start even thought there was really nothing to indicate it.
What, the FBI try to set him up and he say no?
He said that the 23-year-old cab driver from Quincy, who by then had obtained a lawyer, complied with the requests.
Matanov had first contacted authorities four days after the bombings to say he knew the Tsarnaev brothers. He was arrested last week on charges of obstruction of justice, accused of allegedly destroying computer documents in an attempt to hide his relationship with the Tsarnaev brothers.
I guess you should never do that.
Prosecutors said he also lied about interactions he had with the brothers during the week of the bombings, including a dinner the very night of the attacks.
McElroy, who assisted in the arrest of Matanov last week, revealed the surveillance at a hearing Wednesday to determine whether Matanov should be held pending a trial on the charges.
In asking that he be held, prosecutors called Matanov a flight risk, saying he is not a US citizen, has no community support or assets, and he has extensive family and resources abroad.
Matanov shook his head in apparent disagreement.
Wasn't he granted asylum?
Dressed in orange prison garb, Matanov, a native of Kyrgyzstan, loudly pleaded not guilty in a thick accent. Prosecutors said a trial could last two to three weeks, with 20 to 30 witnesses. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
Matanov’s lawyer, Edward Hayden, said after the 90-minute hearing in US District Court in Boston that he could not credibly contest the request to keep Matanov detained, acknowledging his client would have no job and no place to stay, and had little money to post bail. Matanov was ordered held.
Where the government can work him over some more.
Hayden used the hearing and the cross-examination of McElroy, however, to provide his own interpretation of Matanov’s interactions with the FBI and his relationship with the Tsarnaev brothers. It was also disclosed that Matanov bought dinner for the brothers at the Man-O-Salwa Kabob & Grill in Somerville on the night of the bombings.
Hayden said Matanov contacted Braintree police April 19, the day after authorities released photos of the suspected Marathon bombers, and he identified them as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He also provided their addresses and phone numbers.
“He gave [the FBI] access to information about the Tsarnaev brothers,” Hayden told reporters after Wednesday’s hearing. “Names, phone numbers, where they lived. Whether or not they met at the restaurant or whether he drove them there is not that important in the scheme of things, where he gave [the FBI] other truly valuable information.”
Matanov told Braintree police he had heard about the bombing suspects on the radio, that Tamerlan was dead, and added, “I can’t imagine that he did it.” He offered to provide information, and “anything I can do to help,” McElroy, the FBI agent, said under cross-examination.
He's doing it by having been arrested and incarcerated while this propaganda is shoveled!
By then, authorities had identified the brothers, after they had a violent confrontation with police in Watertown and Tamerlan was killed. Authorities were still searching for Dzhokhar, however.
Hayden said a Braintree police detective thought Matanov’s information was so material, he wanted to call the FBI right away. But the agency did not contact Matanov until the next day, the Saturday after the bombings, Hayden said, questioning whether the bureau believed him to be important.
???????
Prosecutors say Matanov gave FBI agents differing accounts of how he came to learn the Tsarnaev brothers were the alleged bombers. He said he learned that Friday, April 19, 2013. But prosecutors say he deleted computer information showing he realized they were the bombers the previous Thursday, after the FBI released its photos.
Hayden sought Wednesday to minimize Matanov’s interaction with authorities.
He did not contest that Matanov deleted information from his computer, but said it was immaterial to the investigation. He acknowledged that Matanov tried to give away cellphones to two witnesses, telling the witnesses they were illegal and the FBI could find them in a search of his home. But Hayden argued that the phones could be illegal for a variety of reasons.
“Even if it has nothing to do with terrorism?” he asked. McElroy agreed.
Hayden also downplayed allegations that Matanov denied being a friend of the brothers. He said his client clearly told authorities that he boxed with Tamerlan, played soccer with him, and went to his home in Cambridge and met his parents.
McElroy also testified that authorities believe Matanov wired money to people abroad 114 times from 2010 to 2013, totaling more than $71,000. Many times, he used aliases. The money went to 15 different recipients, and prosecutors argued that the money shipments showed Matanov’s extensive contacts in foreign countries, including Egypt, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Jordan, and Greece.
Now I am starting to wonder if this guy was in fact a U.S. AGENT or ASSET that has been DOUBLE-CROSSED like the Tsarnaevs!
Hayden argued that most of the money went to Matanov’s family members.
Like most immigrant remittances.
The defense attorney also sought to show that his client did not attempt to flee even when he first thought the FBI was tracking him.
At one point in May 2013, a month after the bombings, Matanov realized an agent had followed him to Boston University, and he started a conversation with the agent, McElroy testified.
That same month, Matanov started to drive “recklessly” on the highway, in a possible attempt to evade authorities, McElroy said. He said the FBI asked Matanov’s lawyer at the time to advise him to follow public safety precautions.
“The only thing he did wrong was drive recklessly,” Hayden said, “and once he was told to knock it off, he did.”
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Even the Boston Globe is seeing though the charade!
"Matanov charges look like a vindictive overreach | June 06, 2014
After every major terrorist attack, there is a danger that society will, at least briefly, lose sight of its better judgment. That’s part of the intention of terrorism — to conjure up a state of confusion, rashness, and fear. Over time, the disastrous Iraq war will probably be judged by historians to have been an overreaction to the events of 9/11. So too will the use of water-boarding and some other enhanced interrogation tactics be seen as an hysterical lapse in judgment. Thankfully, the aftermath of last year’s Boston Marathon bombings — a more contained event than 9/11 in all respects — was far less freighted with excesses and misjudgments. Nonetheless, the decision last week by federal authorities to prosecute 23-year-old taxi driver Khairullozhon Matanov with crimes meriting up to 44 years in prison for allegedly lying and obstructing the investigation feels like an act of vindictiveness that many people will regret in coming years.
Or they are putting pressure on the kid.
As for Iraq, we have judged it to be far worse than that. The government and mouthpiece media lied us into a war, and have been lying before and since.
Matanov, a Muslim immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who was a friend of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, allegedly lied about having watched videos, tried to cover up cellphone calls to Tamerlan and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the hours and days after the bombings, and wasn’t entirely forthcoming about his contacts with the two brothers. These alleged offenses occurred while he was apparently cooperating with police and the FBI, and his lawyer insists his alleged misstatements didn’t impede the investigation into the bombings.
Message received. Don't seek out authority, ever. Let the illegal immigrants know, too.
Former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis’s sweeping claim that Matanov was responsible for the death of MIT police officer Sean Collier, who was killed during the Tsarnaevs’ flight from justice, is misleading in many respects: Davis apparently meant that if Matanov had recognized the surveillance photos of the Tsarnaevs when they were first released and immediately gone to authorities, he might have brought about a speedier arrest, thus sparing Collier. Yet that allegation applies to anyone who might have recognized the brothers. But Davis’s comment does seem to reveal the state of mind of those who are bringing the charges against Matanov: They think he was covering up his own jihadist sympathies, which made him unwilling to help police.
The MISLEADING Ed Davis is going to be in charge of security where?
That may well be true, and his lies about, for example, not having viewed any videos during a period when evidence indicates he was frantically trying to erase videos from his computer, may have been intended to hide extremist sympathies. But this is a good time to remember that watching jihadist videos isn’t a crime. The US Constitution rightly guarantees freedom of speech and thought, in the belief that extreme politics of the type Matanov may have shared (or dabbled in, or simply been curious about) are best addressed by an open exchange of ideas. Coming from repressive Kyrgyzstan, Matanov may not have understood that, in this country, watching extremist videos isn’t remotely the same thing as committing a terrorist act.
If indeed he misled investigators about his own activities, Matanov deserves some degree of punishment. But does that require four separate charges with a cumulative possible sentence of up to 44 years? Throwing the book at a scared 23-year-old immigrant because he lied about his video-watching and hid details of his contacts with bombing suspects? If the authorities believe Matanov was in any way involved in the bombings, these charges might make sense. But they aren’t saying that — not even by implication. Otherwise, this is just the kind of overly aggressive prosecution that gives the wrong impression of America’s commitment to freedom, civil liberties, and proportionate justice.
Oh, the problem is the imagery, illusion, and impression people are to get of AmeriKa Ju$tice. Gotcha, Globe.
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Also see: Judge says no bail for Tsarnaev friend
That is so he keeps his mouth shut.
Btw, did you know the bombers were heading to New York after they were done at the Marathon?
"Man charged with obstructing bombing probe" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe staff May 30, 2014
A cab driver from Quincy who was close to the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers was arrested Friday on charges of lying to investigators and destroying evidence, allegedly obstructing the ongoing investigation of the 2013 attack that shocked the city and the nation.
Khairullozhon Matanov, a 23-year-old Kyrgyzstan national, allegedly contacted Tamerlan Tsarnaev 42 minutes after the April 15, 2013, bombings, and he bought him and his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, dinner at a restaurant that night. Matanov visited Tamerlan, whom he knew from playing soccer and from places of worship, at the suspected bomber’s Cambridge home two days later.
Over several days after the bombings, he also called the brothers repeatedly.
Authorities alleged in a sweeping indictment unsealed Friday that Matanov realized the FBI would want to interview him about his relationship with the suspected bombers, but that he deleted files from his computer and tried to get rid of his cellphones. They also allege that he lied to investigators about his encounters with the brothers in the days after the bombings.
It didn't crash like the IRS computers with Lerner's e-mails?
He is not, however, accused of playing any role in the bombing itself.
“Matanov understood that federal investigators were investigating the Tsarnaevs as the suspected Boston Marathon bombers,” prosecutors said. “. . . Matanov then tried to discourage and impede that investigation.”
Matanov was charged with obstruction of justice by destruction, alteration, and falsification of records or documents in a federal investigation, which carries a punishment of up to 20 years in prison. He was also charged with three counts of making false statements to agents in a terrorism investigation, each of which carries a punishment of up to eight years in prison.
Matanov made a brief appearance in US District Court in Boston Friday. The native of Kyrgyzstan said he understood the charges and asked that a lawyer be appointed on his behalf.
Prosecutors asked that he be detained pending trial, and a hearing was scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday. Matanov was ordered held until then by the US Marshals Service.
Outside the courthouse, his lawyer, Edward Hayden, said Matanov understood the seriousness of the charges and was “very frightened.”
He should be. They murdered Todashev and made an example out of Tazhayakov.
Hayden argued that none of his allegedly false statements made to federal agents were material to the investigation.
“There’s a lot of unsubstantiated allegations, many [that] are not material,” Hayden said. “He had no intent to mislead the FBI, and, from what I can see, whatever he did didn’t impede the investigation.”
Prosecutors would not say why Matanov was arrested Friday, as the allegedly false statements were made a year ago. Hayden called it the “million-dollar question.”
A federal grand jury continues to meet in secret to investigate the bombings, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation, who would not rule out the possibility of more arrests. The official requested anonymity because of not being authorized to speak publicly about the secret grand jury process.
The arrest early Friday by a SWAT team and a host of FBI agents startled the Quincy neighborhood where Matanov lives, a place where he often stood out as an outsider.
A neighbor, Leslie Aiello, 49, said she awoke around 5:30 a.m. to find Matanov’s brick apartment building on Common Street surrounded by agents. About 30 minutes later, Matanov was led out the front door in handcuffs. He was not struggling, she said.
People who knew Matanov described him as a hardworking immigrant cab driver who loved to play soccer and was a devoted Muslim. Ahmed Goutay, who organized a soccer team that included Matanov, said he was a reliable presence at Friday services at the Islamic Center of New England’s Quincy mosque and would trek with other worshipers to soccer games played afterward in Cohasset.
How did he like the World Cup™?
Goutay said he had been questioned by FBI agents about Matanov. He told Matanov about the interview, but “he said he had nothing to do with” the bombings, Goutay said.
Matanov arrived in the United States around May 2010 on a student visa. He attended computer technology at Quincy College for several months but ran into financial troubles, his lawyer said.
Hayden said Matanov then sought and was granted political asylum from the unrest in Kyrgyzstan. His mother and father, both severely ill, still live there, Hayden said. Matanov has two brothers there and two brothers in Russia.
That long forgotten nation?
Hayden said Matanov was born in Kyrgyzstan and worked in Russia for a year before returning to his homeland and then came to the United States. He has not traveled abroad since arriving here.
Russians connected to terrorists!
Court records related to Matanov’s arrest provided an eerie window into the lives of the Tsarnaev brothers in the days after the bombings. Tamerlan told Matanov at dinner on the night of the bombings that he did not believe Al Qaeda was involved because it would typically accept responsibility within hours of an attack.
I think Al-CIA-Duh is involved.
Three people were killed in the attack at the Marathon finish line and more than 260 were injured. The two brothers also allegedly shot MIT police Officer Sean Collier three days after the bombings, following release of their photos.
Tamerlan, 26, was killed during a violent confrontation with police in Watertown, when he tried to flee the area. Dzhokhar, now 20, was arrested after a manhunt. He faces multiple charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty and is slated to go to trial in November. He is being held without bail.
Authorities allege the brothers carried out the bombings as jihad, or holy war, against the United States.
Three of Dzhokhar’s friends from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth were arrested not long after the attack on accusations of lying to investigators.
Larry Marchese, a spokesman for the family of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old Dorchester boy who was killed in the blasts, welcomed the news of the latest arrest.
“While so many worked so hard to move forward from the painful events of that day, it is comforting to know the investigation continues and that the investigators won’t rest until they get to the bottom of what happened and how it came about,” Marchese said.
Every time they wave a dead kid at me I think GAZA!
Authorities said that before the attack, Matanov participated in a variety of activities with Tamerlan, “including discussing religious topics and hiking up a New Hampshire mountain in order to train like, and praise, the mujahideen,” or Muslim religion fighters, according to the indictment.
After the bombings, Matanov told an unidentified witness, who Hayden said was his roommate, that the bombings would have been justified if they were in the name of Islam.
Let me off here because this ride of propaganda has already been long enough.
According to the indictment, he later said the bombings might have been wrong, and expressed sympathy for the victims’ families.
On April 18, 2013, after the FBI released photos of the suspected bombers, Matanov accessed them on the FBI’s and CNN’s websites several times, and he called Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s cellphone, but did not connect with him, according to court records. He told a friend the next day that Tamerlan had been killed.
Throughout that Friday, April 19, 2013, while authorities searched for Dzhokhar, Matanov told witnesses about his relationship with the brothers, but he falsely said he had not seen them recently, according to the court records. He then allegedly tried to give cellphones to unidentified witnesses, saying they were illegal and the FBI could find them if agents searched his apartment because of his relationship to the brothers. The witnesses would not take the phones.
NSA would surely have them, though.
Matanov ultimately contacted Braintree police to say he knew the Tsarnaev brothers, but he denied seeing their photos. Then, he allegedly deleted 902 of 903 folders from his “videos” folder on his computer, and 377 of 402 documents from his documents folder, after police told him he should talk with the FBI.
So HE CAME FORWARD, did he?
Some of the videos contained violent content or calls to violence, authorities said, adding that the deletions of the files “obstructed the FBI’s investigation of the bombings and the suspected bombers and have caused the FBI to expend considerable additional resources during its investigation of the bombings and the suspected bombers.”
I hope this narrative reinforcement of the myth is worth it.
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"Suspect called ‘go-getter’ who showed no extremist views" by Peter Schworm and John R. Ellement | Globe staff May 31, 2014
QUINCY — At the mosque where he worshiped each Friday, Khairullozhon Matanov was seen as an unassuming, affable young man, a hard-working cab driver trying to make his way in a new country. He played in a weekly soccer league, wore blue jeans and T-shirts.
Nothing about him, several members of the mosque said, seemed at all extreme.
But at the brick apartment complex where the 23-year-old lived, some neighbors saw Matanov in a more mysterious, even menacing light. He never spoke to anyone, and walked with his head down, avoiding eye contact even when people said hello. Looking down into his basement apartment, neighbors saw that he slept on a mattress on the floor.
He must have thought Boston was New York.
“He kind of scared me,” said Leslie Aiello, 49.
Then that proves his involvement.
About 5:30 Friday morning, Aiello and other neighbors woke up to find their building surrounded by a SWAT team and some 30 FBI agents, who took Matanov into custody on charges of obstructing the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings.
He must have been a real threat!
Neighbors said they had noticed an intermittent police presence outside the apartment over the past year, particularly around the anniversary of the bombings. Some suspected that Matanov was the target of the surveillance.
Yet Monday’s disclosure that Matanov had been friends with the bombing suspects and may have shared their radical beliefs left many who knew him stunned and deeply shaken.
May have?
“I had no clue he was this closely tied to them,” said neighbor Tyler Young, 27. “It’s shocking. I didn’t understand the gravity of the whole thing.”
To cabdrivers in Braintree, where Matanov had worked for more than two years, his friendship with the bombing suspects was no secret.
His boss at Braintree Checker Cab said Matanov revealed to colleagues that he knew the Tsarnaev brothers in the days after they had been identified as the bombing suspects and was “adamant they didn’t do it.”
“Not those guys — they got it wrong, or they are being framed,” the company owner recalled Matanov saying. “They would never have done that.”
And that is why this guy needed to be taken into custody.
The owner, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Nour, said Matanov made no secret of his friendship with the suspects. But with the shock of the bombings still raw, drivers asked few questions.
“When it just happened, nobody wanted to talk about it,’’ Nour said. “It was cut short. And nobody probed any further, so he didn’t say anything else.”
Matanov said he had met the Tsarnaevs while playing soccer, Nour said.
At the cabstand in Braintree, drivers who knew Matanov described him as a likeable, regular guy who showed no signs of extremist tendencies.
“That would be a surprise,” said Jerome Shea, a Checker Cab driver. “He’s a real nice guy, hard-working kid. He’s always been pleasant to me.”
Matanov, who is a native of Kyrgyzstan and had no family in the United States, came here on a student visa in 2010, his lawyer, Edward Hayden, said in court.
He studied information technology at Quincy College, but discontinued college at some point. Hayden said he believed it was because of financial problems.
Matanov then applied for asylum and was granted it because of turmoil in Kyrgyzstan.
Matanov comes from Suzak, a small town on Kyrgyzstan’s border with Uzbekistan in the volatile Fergana Valley region of the former Soviet Union. The area was riven with violence between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks that took hundreds of lives in 2010, the year Matanov came to the United States. The Fergana Valley has a large population of devout Muslims and has been a fertile recruiting ground for Islamic militants since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
I see the hallmarks of Al-CIA-Duh, don't you?
The Tsarnaev family emigrated from a different part of Kyrgyzstan in the early 2000s.
Matanov has four brothers, two in Kyrgyzstan, two in Russia, Hayden said. His mother is very ill with diabetes and his father had a stroke and is partially paralyzed, the lawyer said.
Matanov was a reliable presence at Friday services at the Islamic Center of New England’s Quincy mosque and played soccer with members in Cohasset, said Ahmed Goutay, who organized the team.
Goutay said FBI agents had questioned him about Matanov in the weeks after the bombings. When he told Matanov that he had been interviewed, Matanov said he was not involved. “He said he had nothing to do with it,’’ Goutay said.
As time passed and Matanov was not arrested, Goutay and others assumed the questioning was just a formality.
“If he is not in prison, he must be innocent” he said
Matanov never discussed his feelings about the bombings, terrorism, or Islamic fundamentalism, said Goutay, who was surprised by the arrest and the allegations.
Nour said he believed that Matanov also attended services in Cambridge and Sharon, when his job took him there at the time of services.
Administrators at the Islamic Society of Boston’s Cambridge mosque attempted Friday to determine if Matanov was the same Russian-sounding young man who occasionally sat with Tamerlan in the rear of the mosque during Friday services.
Ismail Fenni — acting imam of the mosque, which Tamerlan attended occasionally with his brother — said Tamerlan once introduced him to a friend who appeared to speak the same language and to be of similar descent.
Fenni said that the man attended the mosque several times after the Marathon bombing but has not shown up lately.
The mosque has no record of Matanov’s name, Fenni said. But he added that many who attend do not register their names.
Nour said that when Matanov began working for him about two years ago, the young man would avoid looking at attractive women as they walked by, but that more recently he changed his ways.
How much more proof do you need that this guy is a terrorist?
At least he isn't a pervert.
“He was a little bit more observant at the beginning; he would not look at a girl . . . walking by,’’ Nour recalled. “But lately, he’s a little bit more open to the average 23-year-old’s behavior.’’
Nour said he never observed Matanov listening to recorded sermons from imams, but instead listened to standard radio stations, especially while working as a cabdriver.
Oh, no. This is like the 9/11 hijackers hitting the clubs and casinos.
Nour said Matanov dressed like any other person in their 20s and would usually wear jeans, sneakers, and a shirt. “He wasn’t dressed in, like, a radical way, or in any odd way,’’ Nour said. “He was dressed the same way that the majority of people would dress.’’
Nour said that if Matanov is found not guilty of the charges he faces, he would readily hire him back.
“If the law proves he didn’t do it, then, yeah, I would definitely offer him a job,’’ Nour said. “He’s a go-getter. He would go and get it done.’’
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Being a good employee is not enough, even if you “never drink or play the lottery.’’
Related: Suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing case
Tsarnaev's Circle of College Friends
Matanov was not among them!
"FBI reveals surveillance of friend of Tsarnaevs; Says cab driver knew he was being tracked, complied with requests" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff June 04, 2014
The FBI launched intensive surveillance of a friend of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers last year, tracking him by car through the area and at one point urging him to stay away from Boston on the Fourth of July, authorities said Wednesday.
How much did all this cost the taxpayers?
FBI agents were under orders to “make sure they stay with Mr. [Khairullozhon] Matanov, and don’t lose him,” FBI Special Agent Timothy McElroy told US Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler in court. He said that Matanov knew about the surveillance and that “it was not covert in any manner.”
McElroy said the FBI also asked Matanov to stay away from Boston’s July 4 festivities because “for obvious reasons, the city was on edge.” Matanov was also asked by agents to avoid Boston on Patriots Day, or April 21 of this year, when the first Boston Marathon since the April 15, 2013, bombings was held, McElroy said.
So this guy was assumed to be terrorist right from the start even thought there was really nothing to indicate it.
What, the FBI try to set him up and he say no?
He said that the 23-year-old cab driver from Quincy, who by then had obtained a lawyer, complied with the requests.
Matanov had first contacted authorities four days after the bombings to say he knew the Tsarnaev brothers. He was arrested last week on charges of obstruction of justice, accused of allegedly destroying computer documents in an attempt to hide his relationship with the Tsarnaev brothers.
I guess you should never do that.
Prosecutors said he also lied about interactions he had with the brothers during the week of the bombings, including a dinner the very night of the attacks.
McElroy, who assisted in the arrest of Matanov last week, revealed the surveillance at a hearing Wednesday to determine whether Matanov should be held pending a trial on the charges.
In asking that he be held, prosecutors called Matanov a flight risk, saying he is not a US citizen, has no community support or assets, and he has extensive family and resources abroad.
Matanov shook his head in apparent disagreement.
Wasn't he granted asylum?
Dressed in orange prison garb, Matanov, a native of Kyrgyzstan, loudly pleaded not guilty in a thick accent. Prosecutors said a trial could last two to three weeks, with 20 to 30 witnesses. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
Matanov’s lawyer, Edward Hayden, said after the 90-minute hearing in US District Court in Boston that he could not credibly contest the request to keep Matanov detained, acknowledging his client would have no job and no place to stay, and had little money to post bail. Matanov was ordered held.
Where the government can work him over some more.
Hayden used the hearing and the cross-examination of McElroy, however, to provide his own interpretation of Matanov’s interactions with the FBI and his relationship with the Tsarnaev brothers. It was also disclosed that Matanov bought dinner for the brothers at the Man-O-Salwa Kabob & Grill in Somerville on the night of the bombings.
Hayden said Matanov contacted Braintree police April 19, the day after authorities released photos of the suspected Marathon bombers, and he identified them as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He also provided their addresses and phone numbers.
“He gave [the FBI] access to information about the Tsarnaev brothers,” Hayden told reporters after Wednesday’s hearing. “Names, phone numbers, where they lived. Whether or not they met at the restaurant or whether he drove them there is not that important in the scheme of things, where he gave [the FBI] other truly valuable information.”
Matanov told Braintree police he had heard about the bombing suspects on the radio, that Tamerlan was dead, and added, “I can’t imagine that he did it.” He offered to provide information, and “anything I can do to help,” McElroy, the FBI agent, said under cross-examination.
He's doing it by having been arrested and incarcerated while this propaganda is shoveled!
By then, authorities had identified the brothers, after they had a violent confrontation with police in Watertown and Tamerlan was killed. Authorities were still searching for Dzhokhar, however.
Hayden said a Braintree police detective thought Matanov’s information was so material, he wanted to call the FBI right away. But the agency did not contact Matanov until the next day, the Saturday after the bombings, Hayden said, questioning whether the bureau believed him to be important.
???????
Prosecutors say Matanov gave FBI agents differing accounts of how he came to learn the Tsarnaev brothers were the alleged bombers. He said he learned that Friday, April 19, 2013. But prosecutors say he deleted computer information showing he realized they were the bombers the previous Thursday, after the FBI released its photos.
Hayden sought Wednesday to minimize Matanov’s interaction with authorities.
He did not contest that Matanov deleted information from his computer, but said it was immaterial to the investigation. He acknowledged that Matanov tried to give away cellphones to two witnesses, telling the witnesses they were illegal and the FBI could find them in a search of his home. But Hayden argued that the phones could be illegal for a variety of reasons.
“Even if it has nothing to do with terrorism?” he asked. McElroy agreed.
Hayden also downplayed allegations that Matanov denied being a friend of the brothers. He said his client clearly told authorities that he boxed with Tamerlan, played soccer with him, and went to his home in Cambridge and met his parents.
McElroy also testified that authorities believe Matanov wired money to people abroad 114 times from 2010 to 2013, totaling more than $71,000. Many times, he used aliases. The money went to 15 different recipients, and prosecutors argued that the money shipments showed Matanov’s extensive contacts in foreign countries, including Egypt, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Jordan, and Greece.
Now I am starting to wonder if this guy was in fact a U.S. AGENT or ASSET that has been DOUBLE-CROSSED like the Tsarnaevs!
Hayden argued that most of the money went to Matanov’s family members.
Like most immigrant remittances.
The defense attorney also sought to show that his client did not attempt to flee even when he first thought the FBI was tracking him.
At one point in May 2013, a month after the bombings, Matanov realized an agent had followed him to Boston University, and he started a conversation with the agent, McElroy testified.
That same month, Matanov started to drive “recklessly” on the highway, in a possible attempt to evade authorities, McElroy said. He said the FBI asked Matanov’s lawyer at the time to advise him to follow public safety precautions.
“The only thing he did wrong was drive recklessly,” Hayden said, “and once he was told to knock it off, he did.”
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Even the Boston Globe is seeing though the charade!
"Matanov charges look like a vindictive overreach | June 06, 2014
After every major terrorist attack, there is a danger that society will, at least briefly, lose sight of its better judgment. That’s part of the intention of terrorism — to conjure up a state of confusion, rashness, and fear. Over time, the disastrous Iraq war will probably be judged by historians to have been an overreaction to the events of 9/11. So too will the use of water-boarding and some other enhanced interrogation tactics be seen as an hysterical lapse in judgment. Thankfully, the aftermath of last year’s Boston Marathon bombings — a more contained event than 9/11 in all respects — was far less freighted with excesses and misjudgments. Nonetheless, the decision last week by federal authorities to prosecute 23-year-old taxi driver Khairullozhon Matanov with crimes meriting up to 44 years in prison for allegedly lying and obstructing the investigation feels like an act of vindictiveness that many people will regret in coming years.
Or they are putting pressure on the kid.
As for Iraq, we have judged it to be far worse than that. The government and mouthpiece media lied us into a war, and have been lying before and since.
Matanov, a Muslim immigrant from Kyrgyzstan who was a friend of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, allegedly lied about having watched videos, tried to cover up cellphone calls to Tamerlan and his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the hours and days after the bombings, and wasn’t entirely forthcoming about his contacts with the two brothers. These alleged offenses occurred while he was apparently cooperating with police and the FBI, and his lawyer insists his alleged misstatements didn’t impede the investigation into the bombings.
Message received. Don't seek out authority, ever. Let the illegal immigrants know, too.
Former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis’s sweeping claim that Matanov was responsible for the death of MIT police officer Sean Collier, who was killed during the Tsarnaevs’ flight from justice, is misleading in many respects: Davis apparently meant that if Matanov had recognized the surveillance photos of the Tsarnaevs when they were first released and immediately gone to authorities, he might have brought about a speedier arrest, thus sparing Collier. Yet that allegation applies to anyone who might have recognized the brothers. But Davis’s comment does seem to reveal the state of mind of those who are bringing the charges against Matanov: They think he was covering up his own jihadist sympathies, which made him unwilling to help police.
The MISLEADING Ed Davis is going to be in charge of security where?
That may well be true, and his lies about, for example, not having viewed any videos during a period when evidence indicates he was frantically trying to erase videos from his computer, may have been intended to hide extremist sympathies. But this is a good time to remember that watching jihadist videos isn’t a crime. The US Constitution rightly guarantees freedom of speech and thought, in the belief that extreme politics of the type Matanov may have shared (or dabbled in, or simply been curious about) are best addressed by an open exchange of ideas. Coming from repressive Kyrgyzstan, Matanov may not have understood that, in this country, watching extremist videos isn’t remotely the same thing as committing a terrorist act.
If indeed he misled investigators about his own activities, Matanov deserves some degree of punishment. But does that require four separate charges with a cumulative possible sentence of up to 44 years? Throwing the book at a scared 23-year-old immigrant because he lied about his video-watching and hid details of his contacts with bombing suspects? If the authorities believe Matanov was in any way involved in the bombings, these charges might make sense. But they aren’t saying that — not even by implication. Otherwise, this is just the kind of overly aggressive prosecution that gives the wrong impression of America’s commitment to freedom, civil liberties, and proportionate justice.
Oh, the problem is the imagery, illusion, and impression people are to get of AmeriKa Ju$tice. Gotcha, Globe.
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Also see: Judge says no bail for Tsarnaev friend
That is so he keeps his mouth shut.
Btw, did you know the bombers were heading to New York after they were done at the Marathon?
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Belarusian Belligerence
Belarus says it will give up nuclear materials by 2012
That doesn't seem belligerent at all.
What does is how the article turns into one about Iran.
Related:
Opposition protesters beaten by riot police after Belarus election
Belarus president tops election win with crackdown on rivals
Opposition leaders face jail in Belarus
Belarus’s strongman president reelected; rivals reject results
Belarusian KBG raids focus on media
Also see: Kyrgyzstan puts exiled former leader on trial
He's the CIA's man; that is why you have not seen a word in the Boston Globe since.
That doesn't seem belligerent at all.
What does is how the article turns into one about Iran.
Related:
Opposition protesters beaten by riot police after Belarus election
Belarus president tops election win with crackdown on rivals
Opposition leaders face jail in Belarus
Belarus’s strongman president reelected; rivals reject results
Belarusian KBG raids focus on media
Also see: Kyrgyzstan puts exiled former leader on trial
He's the CIA's man; that is why you have not seen a word in the Boston Globe since.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Russian Republics and Former Soviet Satellites
Seeing as we were in the neighborhood:
"Ukraine’s president given more control" by Associated Press | October 2, 2010
KIEV — Ukraine’s Constitutional Court yesterday shifted key powers from parliament to the presidency, a move that boosted the influence of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, but also threw the country into legal uncertainty.
Why? It's a constitutional court.
The court invalidated a controversial political reform passed at the height of the 2004 Orange Revolution protests. Those amendments significantly strengthened the legislature and weakened the president’s powers. The court ruled that those changes were unconstitutional and returned to the president the power to name the prime minister and other officials....
Some observers said the decision raises questions about the legitimacy of the current president and parliament and that new elections must be called.
Why? They won the vote!
Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko called for immediate presidential and parliamentary elections....
You just lost!
Related: Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead!
Apparently not. Where is Chrissy O'Donnell when you need her.
Thanks, Delaware!
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"Train crashes into stalled bus at Ukraine crossing, killing 43 and injuring 8" by Associated Press | October 13, 2010
KIEV — A locomotive rammed through a stalled passenger bus on a railroad crossing in eastern Ukraine yesterday, killing 43 people and injuring 8 others as the bus was pushed 300 yards down the tracks....
Road and railway accidents are common in Ukraine, where the roads are in bad condition, vehicles are poorly maintained, and drivers and passengers routinely disregard safety and traffic rules....
Isn't that a bit like blaming the victim.
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It's all in the democracy, of course -- provided you vote for the guy we want:
"Kyrgyzstan protest targets nationalist party" by Associated Press / October 7, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Protesters stormed the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital of Kyrgyzstan yesterday, ratcheting up tensions a few days ahead of a decisive parliamentary election in the Central Asian country.
The protesters seized the building of the nationalist Ata-Zhurt party, which includes several representatives of the government led by former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted during bloody street protests in April.
Bakiyev is the CIA's man-in-exile (in Belarus these days). Kyrgyzstan has called for extradition; however, that has gone nowhere and remains unmentioned here.
Ata-Zhurt is expected to make a strong showing in Sunday’s election, with independent polls putting it in third place with at least 10 percent of the vote.
People identifying themselves as relatives of people killed in the April riots said former Bakiyev officials should be held accountable for the deaths of people killed by government troops.
The protesters gathered outside Parliament in the morning calling for Ata-Zhurt to be disqualified from the vote. Angry demonstrators later congregated at party headquarters and forced their way into the building.
Men looted the building and threw banners and leaflets out of the window onto a bonfire below.
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Also see: The Crown Jewel of Central Asia
Just wanted you to know why it is of interest.
And what was the result of the rigged vote?
"No majority expected in Kyrgyzstan vote" by New York Times | October 11, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Supporters of the government that took power after an uprising in April appeared to be on the way to winning seats in a new Parliament, but were likely to be compelled to form a coalition with at least some figures from the previous government, according to preliminary results from an election in Kyrgyzstan yesterday.
If the pattern holds, no single party will have a majority, muddying the political waters in a country where both the United States and Russia have military bases.
The elections were the first here since a new Constitution was adopted in June, making Kyrgyzstan the first parliamentary republic in Central Asia, where nations are typically ruled by authoritarian leaders. The total vote is expected by later today.
Last spring, members of the interim government had expected the election to pivot on issues of political freedoms and corruption in the government of the ousted president, Kurmanbek S. Bakiyev.
Their criticism of his rule included allegations that United States military contractors had made financial deals with his family and associates.
Yeah, his SON was getting CUTS and KICKBACKS from the CONTRACTS!
Instead, according to analysts and politicians here, security became the pivotal issue after an outbreak of ethnic violence in June between the Kyrgyz majority and Uzbek minority killed at least 400 people.
And CUI BONO?
Since then, Kyrgyz nationalist parties and parties whose candidates include former generals and police officials, some affiliated with the former government of Bakiyev, have gained ground.
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Also see: Kyrgyz Concentration Camps Expand As Crisis Calms Down
That coverage sure faded quick (our guy responsible, that's why).
Yup, Baltics were freed from the Russians and liberated to.... bankers?
"Latvia’s coalition to continue reforms" by Associated Press | October 4, 2010
RIGA, Latvia — Members of Latvia’s center-right coalition government yesterday agreed to keep working together after voters backed their plans for painful reforms required by an international bailout program to fix the Baltic country’s crippled economy....
I guess if you have been under someone's boot for so long you grab it and put it back on your throat.
Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has promised further austerity measures to comply with the terms of a $10.3 billion bailout package designed by the International Monetary Fund and European nations to help Latvia stave off bankruptcy.
Latvia’s economy started nose-diving in 2008, plunging 25 percent in two years — the worst drop in the European Union.
The next government will have to make some $770 million in both tax hikes and budget cuts to bring the 2011 budget deficit down to 6 percent as mandated by the IMF-led deal.
All so BANKERS can GET PAID!
Dombrovskis he would meet with the center-left Harmony Center to find common ground for future cooperation.
Translation: It doesn't matter which party you elect or change you make.
Greece found that out, the U.S. now knows it, and so should every other nation. Governments serve banks and monied interests, not people.
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Good thing there are "terrorists" out there to fight!
"Militants kill 23 soldiers in Tajikistan" by Associated Press / September 20, 2010
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — At least 23 soldiers were killed in Tajikistan after a convoy was ambushed by heavily armed Islamic militants, a devastating blow to an impoverished nation that shares a poorly secured border with Afghanistan.
The military convoy was heading for eastern Rasht district, an area near the border with Afghanistan, when it was attacked in a valley yesterday, Defense Ministry spokesman Faridun Makhmadaliyev said today....
The attack comes amid rising tension following a string of terrorist blasts and a large-scale prison escape by Islamist insurgents and government opponents.
The gunmen are believed to have included citizens from Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as fighters from the volatile southern Russian region of Chechnya, Makhmadaliyev said.
The attackers were led by Mullo Abdullo, a radical Islamic commander who came to prominence during the civil war that devastated this former Soviet republic in the 1990s, Makhmadaliyev said.
Abdullo fled to Afghanistan after the end of the civil war in 1997, but he is believed to have returned to his native country some time last year in an effort to overthrow the government led by President Emomali Rakhmon.
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Let's bring it on back in the USSR, readers:
"Gunmen kill 3 in Chechen Parliament attack; Assailants wound more than dozen, then die under fire" by Michael Schwirtz New York Times / October 20, 2010
MOSCOW — Heavily armed gunmen burst into the Parliament building of Chechnya, in southern Russia, yesterday morning, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen before the assailants were killed by police officers or by their own explosives, officials said.
The assailants, including one suicide bomber, sprayed automatic rifle fire and set off at least one explosion in one of the most brazen assaults to occur for some time in Chechnya, a region in the volatile North Caucasus where violence linked to a simmering Islamist insurgency is common....
Russian television showed panicked workers, some with wounds, stumbling past corpses to flee the Parliament grounds, while heavily armored police officers in helmets and bulletproof jackets raced in....
No one immediately took responsibility for the attack, though it bore all the hallmarks of similar violence carried out by the region’s Islamist insurgents.
That's the AmeriKan corporate media's clue that this was a western intelligence false flag.
An embattled, though still potent, force, the insurgency arose from the remains of a fierce separatist movement that kept Russian forces at bay during nearly a decade of intermittent war in Chechnya that began in the mid-1990s.
At a parliamentary session in Grozny held later yesterday despite the attacks, Kadyrov accused the insurgents of seeking to spread “chaos and anarchy’’ through the region.
And DESTABILIZE RUSSIA and give them problems to keep them busy as USrael begins the WWIII. It will be a lot harder for Russia to help Iran if Georgia and these other places are erupting into chaos.
“Today’s incident shows once again that these remaining gangs are truly devils,’’ he said on his website. “They have no humanity and have nothing in common with Islam. They are not human beings.’’
I agree.
Human rights groups say the Kremlin has given Kadyrov tacit approval to wage a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and murder against suspected insurgents.
Being an AmeriKan citizen means I can't complain.
Russia has acknowledged that counterinsurgency tactics have failed to address the poverty that has contributed to the militancy.
U.S. still hasn't learned that lesson.
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Related: The Return of "Al-CIA-Duh" to Russia
Did they ever really leave?
"Ukraine’s president given more control" by Associated Press | October 2, 2010
KIEV — Ukraine’s Constitutional Court yesterday shifted key powers from parliament to the presidency, a move that boosted the influence of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, but also threw the country into legal uncertainty.
Why? It's a constitutional court.
The court invalidated a controversial political reform passed at the height of the 2004 Orange Revolution protests. Those amendments significantly strengthened the legislature and weakened the president’s powers. The court ruled that those changes were unconstitutional and returned to the president the power to name the prime minister and other officials....
Some observers said the decision raises questions about the legitimacy of the current president and parliament and that new elections must be called.
Why? They won the vote!
Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko called for immediate presidential and parliamentary elections....
You just lost!
Related: Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead!
Apparently not. Where is Chrissy O'Donnell when you need her.
Thanks, Delaware!
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"Train crashes into stalled bus at Ukraine crossing, killing 43 and injuring 8" by Associated Press | October 13, 2010
KIEV — A locomotive rammed through a stalled passenger bus on a railroad crossing in eastern Ukraine yesterday, killing 43 people and injuring 8 others as the bus was pushed 300 yards down the tracks....
Road and railway accidents are common in Ukraine, where the roads are in bad condition, vehicles are poorly maintained, and drivers and passengers routinely disregard safety and traffic rules....
Isn't that a bit like blaming the victim.
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It's all in the democracy, of course -- provided you vote for the guy we want:
"Kyrgyzstan protest targets nationalist party" by Associated Press / October 7, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Protesters stormed the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital of Kyrgyzstan yesterday, ratcheting up tensions a few days ahead of a decisive parliamentary election in the Central Asian country.
The protesters seized the building of the nationalist Ata-Zhurt party, which includes several representatives of the government led by former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was ousted during bloody street protests in April.
Bakiyev is the CIA's man-in-exile (in Belarus these days). Kyrgyzstan has called for extradition; however, that has gone nowhere and remains unmentioned here.
Ata-Zhurt is expected to make a strong showing in Sunday’s election, with independent polls putting it in third place with at least 10 percent of the vote.
People identifying themselves as relatives of people killed in the April riots said former Bakiyev officials should be held accountable for the deaths of people killed by government troops.
The protesters gathered outside Parliament in the morning calling for Ata-Zhurt to be disqualified from the vote. Angry demonstrators later congregated at party headquarters and forced their way into the building.
Men looted the building and threw banners and leaflets out of the window onto a bonfire below.
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Also see: The Crown Jewel of Central Asia
Just wanted you to know why it is of interest.
And what was the result of the rigged vote?
"No majority expected in Kyrgyzstan vote" by New York Times | October 11, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Supporters of the government that took power after an uprising in April appeared to be on the way to winning seats in a new Parliament, but were likely to be compelled to form a coalition with at least some figures from the previous government, according to preliminary results from an election in Kyrgyzstan yesterday.
If the pattern holds, no single party will have a majority, muddying the political waters in a country where both the United States and Russia have military bases.
The elections were the first here since a new Constitution was adopted in June, making Kyrgyzstan the first parliamentary republic in Central Asia, where nations are typically ruled by authoritarian leaders. The total vote is expected by later today.
Last spring, members of the interim government had expected the election to pivot on issues of political freedoms and corruption in the government of the ousted president, Kurmanbek S. Bakiyev.
Their criticism of his rule included allegations that United States military contractors had made financial deals with his family and associates.
Yeah, his SON was getting CUTS and KICKBACKS from the CONTRACTS!
Instead, according to analysts and politicians here, security became the pivotal issue after an outbreak of ethnic violence in June between the Kyrgyz majority and Uzbek minority killed at least 400 people.
And CUI BONO?
Since then, Kyrgyz nationalist parties and parties whose candidates include former generals and police officials, some affiliated with the former government of Bakiyev, have gained ground.
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Also see: Kyrgyz Concentration Camps Expand As Crisis Calms Down
That coverage sure faded quick (our guy responsible, that's why).
Yup, Baltics were freed from the Russians and liberated to.... bankers?
"Latvia’s coalition to continue reforms" by Associated Press | October 4, 2010
RIGA, Latvia — Members of Latvia’s center-right coalition government yesterday agreed to keep working together after voters backed their plans for painful reforms required by an international bailout program to fix the Baltic country’s crippled economy....
I guess if you have been under someone's boot for so long you grab it and put it back on your throat.
Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has promised further austerity measures to comply with the terms of a $10.3 billion bailout package designed by the International Monetary Fund and European nations to help Latvia stave off bankruptcy.
Latvia’s economy started nose-diving in 2008, plunging 25 percent in two years — the worst drop in the European Union.
The next government will have to make some $770 million in both tax hikes and budget cuts to bring the 2011 budget deficit down to 6 percent as mandated by the IMF-led deal.
All so BANKERS can GET PAID!
Dombrovskis he would meet with the center-left Harmony Center to find common ground for future cooperation.
Translation: It doesn't matter which party you elect or change you make.
Greece found that out, the U.S. now knows it, and so should every other nation. Governments serve banks and monied interests, not people.
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Good thing there are "terrorists" out there to fight!
"Militants kill 23 soldiers in Tajikistan" by Associated Press / September 20, 2010
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — At least 23 soldiers were killed in Tajikistan after a convoy was ambushed by heavily armed Islamic militants, a devastating blow to an impoverished nation that shares a poorly secured border with Afghanistan.
The military convoy was heading for eastern Rasht district, an area near the border with Afghanistan, when it was attacked in a valley yesterday, Defense Ministry spokesman Faridun Makhmadaliyev said today....
The attack comes amid rising tension following a string of terrorist blasts and a large-scale prison escape by Islamist insurgents and government opponents.
The gunmen are believed to have included citizens from Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as fighters from the volatile southern Russian region of Chechnya, Makhmadaliyev said.
The attackers were led by Mullo Abdullo, a radical Islamic commander who came to prominence during the civil war that devastated this former Soviet republic in the 1990s, Makhmadaliyev said.
Abdullo fled to Afghanistan after the end of the civil war in 1997, but he is believed to have returned to his native country some time last year in an effort to overthrow the government led by President Emomali Rakhmon.
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Let's bring it on back in the USSR, readers:
"Gunmen kill 3 in Chechen Parliament attack; Assailants wound more than dozen, then die under fire" by Michael Schwirtz New York Times / October 20, 2010
MOSCOW — Heavily armed gunmen burst into the Parliament building of Chechnya, in southern Russia, yesterday morning, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen before the assailants were killed by police officers or by their own explosives, officials said.
The assailants, including one suicide bomber, sprayed automatic rifle fire and set off at least one explosion in one of the most brazen assaults to occur for some time in Chechnya, a region in the volatile North Caucasus where violence linked to a simmering Islamist insurgency is common....
Russian television showed panicked workers, some with wounds, stumbling past corpses to flee the Parliament grounds, while heavily armored police officers in helmets and bulletproof jackets raced in....
No one immediately took responsibility for the attack, though it bore all the hallmarks of similar violence carried out by the region’s Islamist insurgents.
That's the AmeriKan corporate media's clue that this was a western intelligence false flag.
An embattled, though still potent, force, the insurgency arose from the remains of a fierce separatist movement that kept Russian forces at bay during nearly a decade of intermittent war in Chechnya that began in the mid-1990s.
At a parliamentary session in Grozny held later yesterday despite the attacks, Kadyrov accused the insurgents of seeking to spread “chaos and anarchy’’ through the region.
And DESTABILIZE RUSSIA and give them problems to keep them busy as USrael begins the WWIII. It will be a lot harder for Russia to help Iran if Georgia and these other places are erupting into chaos.
“Today’s incident shows once again that these remaining gangs are truly devils,’’ he said on his website. “They have no humanity and have nothing in common with Islam. They are not human beings.’’
I agree.
Human rights groups say the Kremlin has given Kadyrov tacit approval to wage a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and murder against suspected insurgents.
Being an AmeriKan citizen means I can't complain.
Russia has acknowledged that counterinsurgency tactics have failed to address the poverty that has contributed to the militancy.
U.S. still hasn't learned that lesson.
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Related: The Return of "Al-CIA-Duh" to Russia
Did they ever really leave?
Friday, September 3, 2010
The Crown Jewel of Central Asia
Where and why, do you ask?
"Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation that hosts an American air base critical to the battle against the Taliban.... the facility is a staging post for American troops entering and exiting Afghanistan.... the base also acts as a giant gas station"
And it is SMACK DAB in the MIDDLE of all those ENERGY RESOURCES of Central Asia!
What a COINCIDENCE, huh?
"Kyrgyzstan breakdown a US problem" by Andrew Higgins, Washington Post | September 1, 2010
Ah! The CIA'S newspaper!
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Beset by mounting casualties on the battlefield and deepening disquiet at home over America’s longest war, President Obama’s Afghan policy now faces another big headache: the unraveling of central authority in Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation that hosts an American air base critical to the battle against the Taliban.
Deepening disquiet.
We are angry as hell and want the damn things ended right now, WaPo!
Can't you tell by my strident and pained commentaries?
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Related: Kyrgyz Concentration Camps Expand As Crisis Calms Down
Don't read anything about those anymore, either.
In a humiliating blow to the president’s authority, the mayor of Osh, a rabble-rousing Kyrgyz nationalist hostile to what he sees as foreign interference, last week defied an order that he give up his post. “I am going nowhere,’’ the mayor, Melis Myrzakmatov, told supporters at a late-August rally.
Yeah, just ignore the U.S. backing, readers.
A minister from Bishkek sent to calm the crowd was roughed up and fled the city.
"Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation that hosts an American air base critical to the battle against the Taliban.... the facility is a staging post for American troops entering and exiting Afghanistan.... the base also acts as a giant gas station"
And it is SMACK DAB in the MIDDLE of all those ENERGY RESOURCES of Central Asia!
What a COINCIDENCE, huh?
"Kyrgyzstan breakdown a US problem" by Andrew Higgins, Washington Post | September 1, 2010
Ah! The CIA'S newspaper!
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Beset by mounting casualties on the battlefield and deepening disquiet at home over America’s longest war, President Obama’s Afghan policy now faces another big headache: the unraveling of central authority in Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation that hosts an American air base critical to the battle against the Taliban.
Deepening disquiet.
We are angry as hell and want the damn things ended right now, WaPo!
Can't you tell by my strident and pained commentaries?
Just a month after agreeing to extend for a year a $60 million lease on a US Air Force base here, Kyrgyzstan’s generally pro-Western but increasingly impotent president, Roza Otunbayeva, has retreated from US-backed security programs that Washington hoped would help fortify a fragile Kyrgyz government. These include a counterterrorism and antinarcotics training center and an international police mission.
There is your first distortion and lie.
They came to power by sacking our man and threatened the air station.
You can already see the slanted, agenda-pushing tone this article is taking.
The government’s paralysis, most notable in its inability to control truculent Kyrgyz nationalists in the south of this former Soviet republic, does not pose any immediate physical threat to the US base, about 20 miles from Bishkek, the capital, in the north.
Yeah, those "nationalists" are the CIA-SUPPORTED forces raising hell in the south!
And the REAL THREAT is the GOVERNMENT POSSIBLY THROWING OUT the United States. That is why the WaPo and Globe is furnishing you with this piece of propaganda.
But it does raise the prospect of prolonged and possibly bloody clashes ahead and strengthens forces inimical to Washington’s interests in the region....
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
If there is CHAOS then the attention is taken OFF the BASE!
If there is PEACE then it is TIME for Amerika to LEAVE!!
Are AmeriKa's top news organizations s*** or what?
Otunbayeva, a former Kyrgyz ambassador to Washington, came to power in April after the country’s second “revolution’’ in five years and had been seen by Western capitals as the best hope for a restoration of stable, democratic rule. Instead, the government she heads has been hobbled by crisis, most notably a June explosion of ethnic violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad. The official death toll is nearly 400. Many more are thought to have died.
Related:
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Related: Kyrgyz Concentration Camps Expand As Crisis Calms Down
Don't read anything about those anymore, either.
In a humiliating blow to the president’s authority, the mayor of Osh, a rabble-rousing Kyrgyz nationalist hostile to what he sees as foreign interference, last week defied an order that he give up his post. “I am going nowhere,’’ the mayor, Melis Myrzakmatov, told supporters at a late-August rally.
Yeah, just ignore the U.S. backing, readers.
A minister from Bishkek sent to calm the crowd was roughed up and fled the city.
“The president has lost face and also power,’’ said one Western official. “This is a catastrophe.’’
The US base outside Bishkek, operated by the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing, plays a central role in Obama’s Afghan surge. It “is critical to all our mission sets’’ in Afghanistan and is “the crown jewel of Central Asia,’’ said Colonel Dwight C. Sones, base commander, in an interview.
Located at Bishkek’s Manas International Airport, the facility is a staging post for American troops entering and exiting Afghanistan. In May it handled a record 55,000 transiting troops. The base also acts as a giant gas station, with a fleet of KC-135 aero-tankers that are sent into the sky over Afghanistan. Through in-flight refueling, these tanker planes provide gas for about a third of all US air operations inside Afghanistan.
Related: The $9 Billion Dollar Fuel Bill
All so we can drop bombs and missiles on people that never did anything to us, America.
Set up in December 2001, the base was originally called the Ganci Air Base in honor of Peter J. Ganci, the New York fire chief killed in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but last year its name was changed to the Manas Transit Center, partly in deference to Moscow’s concerns of a US military presence on former Soviet territory.
I know it is just me; however, I'm offended by naming these bases after 9/11 heroes who were lied to by this government.
And the OTHER THING is the CHAOS and INSTABILITY keeps the RUSSIANS ATTENTIVE to the situation -- tying up troops just in case an attack on Iran is ordered.
And CUI BONO again?
The International Crisis Group report warned that the withering of central authority, particularly in the south, emboldens organized crime, and may increase the appeal of militant Islam to minority Uzbeks, who suffered most during the June violence.
PFFFFFT!
So WHEN is the CIA MOVING THEM in there, WaPo?!
If anyone would know, you would!
And who fed you these distortions and obfuscations, AmeriKan newspaper readers?
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Solving the Kyrgyzstan Crisis
[This is the answer to conflict and the way to peace. It is human nature to help when tragedy strikes. It is only natural that we reach across oceans and outstretch our hands deeply into the the Asian continent, when great conflict causes equally great misery. This is the edge of humanity, the former front lines where the two superpowers once came head to head. Now it is the front lines in the "peace war." The battle for peace must be won right here. We see how the giving process can overtake the organized taking, if only we rub the sand from our eyes. Feed the world and you will make friends. Wage war upon humanity and you will be hated by all mankind. With the shrinking of the world through the growth of the electronic mind, comes an awareness of the human faces involved in the latest tragedies, bringing with it the compassionate response.
The suffering child (just like the smiling healthy girl in the picture below) could just as easily be our own daughter. Easing their pain just a little, or making the path unto a better future just a little easier, sets a spirit of giving into motion. Enough people begin giving a little and a unified stream of hope begins to flow. The flowing river of hope begins to connect sources of help to needy people. With each act of giving or receiving, perceptions begin to change.
The changing of perceptions is as important as fighting against the greater war. In fact, changing human nature for the better is the real war. One side strives to overcome the will of man by force--the other side, my side, works to overcome human nature by appealing to reason. Draw out that force for goodness which lies dormant within each man or woman, so that each person can see for themselves what is the better way. Everyone of us will agree that there has to be a better way. I tell you, this is it.] -- Aid From ‘Humanity United’ Beginning To Flow Into Southern Kyrgyzstan
Also see: Kyrgyzstan Coming Under Control
Like two different worlds, isn't it?
I know whom I am believing from now forward.
"Soldiers helped Kyrgyz mobs, group says" by Associated Press | August 17, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces helped ethnic Kyrgyz mobs attack the minority Uzbek community in violence that left at least 370 people dead in June, a prominent human rights group said yesterday.
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Human Rights Watch said many witnesses reported seeing individuals in camouflage attacking Uzbeks and using armored military vehicles to remove improvised roadblocks barring entry into Uzbek neighborhoods.
As far as I know those have not been closed down or emptied, nor have they been referenced in my MSM.
They should be ashamed of themselves for forgetting modern-day concentration camps of all things!
The suffering child (just like the smiling healthy girl in the picture below) could just as easily be our own daughter. Easing their pain just a little, or making the path unto a better future just a little easier, sets a spirit of giving into motion. Enough people begin giving a little and a unified stream of hope begins to flow. The flowing river of hope begins to connect sources of help to needy people. With each act of giving or receiving, perceptions begin to change.
The changing of perceptions is as important as fighting against the greater war. In fact, changing human nature for the better is the real war. One side strives to overcome the will of man by force--the other side, my side, works to overcome human nature by appealing to reason. Draw out that force for goodness which lies dormant within each man or woman, so that each person can see for themselves what is the better way. Everyone of us will agree that there has to be a better way. I tell you, this is it.] -- Aid From ‘Humanity United’ Beginning To Flow Into Southern Kyrgyzstan
Also see: Kyrgyzstan Coming Under Control
Like two different worlds, isn't it?
I know whom I am believing from now forward.
"Soldiers helped Kyrgyz mobs, group says" by Associated Press | August 17, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces helped ethnic Kyrgyz mobs attack the minority Uzbek community in violence that left at least 370 people dead in June, a prominent human rights group said yesterday.
Related:
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Human Rights Watch said many witnesses reported seeing individuals in camouflage attacking Uzbeks and using armored military vehicles to remove improvised roadblocks barring entry into Uzbek neighborhoods.
“This pattern raises serious concerns that some government forces either actively participated in, or facilitated attacks on, Uzbek neighborhoods by knowingly or unwittingly giving cover to violent mobs,’’ the group said.
How come HRW only tells you HALF of the STORY?!!
The report by the New York-based organization is the most ambitious attempt at an independent survey of the causes and consequences of the clashes, which also sent hundreds of thousands of people fleeing to neighboring Uzbekistan.
Translation: It is the West's compassionate cover-up arm as opposed to some government we no longer believe.
The spokesman for Kyrgyzstan’s interim government wouldn’t immediately comment on the report but said the government welcomes the probe.
They might; however, history tells us no government ever likes a probe.
Kyrgyzstan, a strategically located ex-Soviet Central Asian nation that hosts US and Russian military bases, has remained tense ahead of October’s parliamentary elections.
Someone would sure like it that way.
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Also see: Kyrgyz Concentration Camps Expand As Crisis Calms DownAs far as I know those have not been closed down or emptied, nor have they been referenced in my MSM.
They should be ashamed of themselves for forgetting modern-day concentration camps of all things!
Friday, August 6, 2010
Kyrgyzstan Coming Under Control
Then the CIA coup attempt failed and destabilization is now the name of the game.
"Kyrgyz troops break up antigovernment rally" by Associated Press | August 6, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyz forces fired live ammunition, tear gas, and stun grenades into the air to disperse hundreds of antigovernment protesters yesterday and arrested their leader, raising fears of new instability in the turbulent central Asian nation.
"Kyrgyz troops break up antigovernment rally" by Associated Press | August 6, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyz forces fired live ammunition, tear gas, and stun grenades into the air to disperse hundreds of antigovernment protesters yesterday and arrested their leader, raising fears of new instability in the turbulent central Asian nation.
Some of the 27 protesters arrested are being investigated on suspicion of “attempting to seize power,’’ government spokesman Farid Niyazov said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
The confrontation demonstrated that tensions in Kyrgyzstan remain high four months after President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted and fled the country after a bloody revolt over alleged corruption.
Breaking up yesterday’s protest could bolster the interim government’s confidence that it can fend off similar uprisings, despite ethnic rampages in June in which hundreds of minority Uzbeks were killed.
Yeah, the ethnic rampages began when the CIA-backed Bakiyev's forces ATTACKED BOTH Uzbeks and Krygyz.
That is how covert operations are carried out when trying to ignite strife and conflict between groups.
Kyrgyzstan’s security chief, Keneshbek Duyshebayev, said authorities arrested Urmat Baryktabasov, who leads the obscure Mekin-Tuu political party, which is financed by Bakiyev’s family.
The unrest yesterday began in the capital, Bishkek, when about 1,000 supporters of Baryktabasov gathered outside Parliament to denounce the interim leadership and insist the country is not ready for parliamentary elections scheduled for October.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Kosovo and Kyrgyzstan
Can Gaza claim independence?
How about my state, county, or city?
I'm all for this one, folks, because being a libertarian means local control, local control, local control.
The less centralization the better, as history has borne out.
"Kosovo’s independence is legal, UN court rules; Serbia won’t recognize statehood" by Dan Bilefsky, New York Times | July 23, 2010
PRAGUE — Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, the United Nations’ highest court said yesterday in a ruling that Kosovo heralded as a victory but that legal analysts warned could spur separatist movements around the world.
Uh-oh.
Legal specialists said that while the International Court of Justice had ruled that Kosovo’s declaration of independence was legal, it had avoided saying that the state of Kosovo was legal under international law, a narrow and carefully calibrated compromise that they said could allow both sides to declare victory in a dispute that remains raw even 11 years after the war.
So WHOSE NEXT, the Kurds?
And while we are in Russia's backyard:
"Security summit to focus on Kyrgyzstan" by Peter Leonard, Associated Press | July 17, 2010
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Dozens of top officials from Western and former Soviet countries will meet today to redress international inaction over the teetering Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, which has been rocked by months of instability and violence.
"AIDS spreads in Eastern Europe, UN says" by Associated Press | July 21, 2010
VIENNA — Scientists and activists are warning that AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is on the rise even as a global conference reports progress on other fronts....
Of particular concern to analysts, policymakers, and activists gathered at the AIDS 2010 conference is that those suffering from the deadly disease in the region are often stigmatized, criminalized, and denied access to lifesaving treatment....
I didn't know they were all living in Gaza?
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How about my state, county, or city?
I'm all for this one, folks, because being a libertarian means local control, local control, local control.
The less centralization the better, as history has borne out.
"Kosovo’s independence is legal, UN court rules; Serbia won’t recognize statehood" by Dan Bilefsky, New York Times | July 23, 2010
PRAGUE — Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, the United Nations’ highest court said yesterday in a ruling that Kosovo heralded as a victory but that legal analysts warned could spur separatist movements around the world.
Uh-oh.
Legal specialists said that while the International Court of Justice had ruled that Kosovo’s declaration of independence was legal, it had avoided saying that the state of Kosovo was legal under international law, a narrow and carefully calibrated compromise that they said could allow both sides to declare victory in a dispute that remains raw even 11 years after the war.
Political analysts said the advisory opinion, passed in a 10-to-4 vote by the court judges, is likely to spur other countries to recognize Kosovo’s independence.
Yeah, sometimes that is good, sometimes bad(?).
Of the 192 countries in the UN General Assembly, so far 69, including the United States and a majority of European Union nations, have recognized Kosovo....
Oh, so when it is a GLOBALIST GOAL it is ALL GOOD!
Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia on Feb. 17, 2008, marked the culmination of a showdown between Serbia and the West in which the United States and a majority of European nations said Serbia’s violent repression of Kosovo’s majority ethnic Albanians under a former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, had forfeited Serbia’s right to rule the territory.
Well, we know who lost there.
Related: Musical Mass Graves in the Balkans
Puts the U.N. decision into perspective, doesn't it?
Serbia and its ally Russia countered that the declaration of independence by Kosovo was a reckless breach of international law that would inspire separatists everywhere....
Yeah, when THEY have a COMPLAINT or THEY RECOGNIZE someone that is NOT GOOD!!
Analysts said that the legal legitimacy conferred on the independence declaration by the court could have profound consequences for global geopolitics by potentially being seized upon by secessionist movements in places as diverse as northern Cyprus, Somaliland, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria....
Yeah, RUSSIA HAS RECOGNIZED THEM after GEORGIA ATTACKED THEM in 2008!!!
One might even think of it as DEFENDING and PROTECTING (but not in my newspaper).
So WHOSE NEXT, the Kurds?
And while we are in Russia's backyard:
"Security summit to focus on Kyrgyzstan" by Peter Leonard, Associated Press | July 17, 2010
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Dozens of top officials from Western and former Soviet countries will meet today to redress international inaction over the teetering Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, which has been rocked by months of instability and violence.
The informal summit will bring together diplomats from 56 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe member states for talks that will touch upon security in Afghanistan.
Impoverished Kyrgyzstan has returned to relative calm since clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks last month claimed hundreds of lives and reduced swathes of the southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad to smoldering ruins. Most of the violence involved majority ethnic Kyrgyz burning and looting Uzbek neighborhoods.
The AmeriKan MSM's way of saying the attempted CIA retaking didn't work and the MSM stopped covering it.
Also see: Kyrgyz Concentration Camps Expand As Crisis Calms Down
No mention of those.
The OSCE summit being held outside Kazakhstan’s former capital, Almaty, is expected to consider the option of dispatching international police to the south. That outcome would present a rare opportunity for the organization to define its security role in the region.
Well, THAT SURE MAKES the MAYHEM STINK, cui bono?
Kyrgyzstan’s fate is of acute interest to the United States, which has an air base in the country that acts as a transit point for soldiers and nonmilitary supplies to and from nearby Afghanistan.
Didn't I just ask the question?
Russia also has a military base about 19 miles outside the capital, Bishkek.
Nonetheless, there have been few international attempts to remedy the fallout of June’s ethnic violence, and the bloody uprising in April that led to the overthrow of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Russia has resisted calls from Kyrgyz citizens and politicians to send peacekeeping troops unilaterally or as part of a mission under the auspices of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Moscow-led military bloc intended as a counterweight to NATO.
Have I ever told you I hate globalist globe-kickers, dear readers?
Some analysts see the prospect of a security contingent forged under the umbrella of the OSCE as a compromise solution that will avoid inciting rival strategic claims for influence over the region.
As long as it is NOT led by the RUSSIANS, right?
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And nothing going on but low-level human rights abuses:
"UN receiving reports of torture in Kyrgyzstan prisons" by Associated Press | July 21, 2010
GENEVA — Kyrgyzstan forces have been jailing and torturing ethnic Uzbeks in the Central Asian nation, according to reports to the United Nations.
Hundreds of the Uzbeks are being imprisoned because of their ethnicity, and there are reports of forced confessions, beatings, police intimidation of families, and extortion, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said in a statement yesterday.
Hundreds of minority Uzbeks were killed in rampages last month by ethnic Kyrgyz and hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks fled their homes ahead of arson mobs. Tensions still simmer in the southern part of the country.
That is where OUR CIA-BACKED MAN is from!
Pillay said local authorities are “routinely turning a blind eye’’ to abuses, including doctors refusing to provide medical care.
So what you have here -- no thanks to the obfuscating AmeriKan MSM -- is a SPLIT in the Kyrgyz military with forces loyal to the former regime controlling the south.
Kyrgyz government spokesman Farid Niyazov said several criminal investigations have been launched into rights violations. He did not elaborate.
Same as the newspaper here.
“The government is aware of these problems,’’ he said, adding that officials support an independent investigation into the ethnic violence.
Problem is they can't get in there without creating even more violence.
Kyrgyzstan has endured months of turbulence since Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed from the presidency in April.
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"Ethnic Uzbeks reportedly deprived of care" by Associated Press | July 22, 2010
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — International health and rights groups said yesterday that minority ethnic Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan are being deprived of medical treatment and opportunities to seek refuge in neighboring Uzbekistan.
Here?
An uneasy peace has descended on Kyrgyzstan since June....
But activists say Uzbeks, who suffered the worst of the violence, are now being persecuted by police and security forces.
The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said armed security forces posted near hospitals are deterring many from seeking much-needed care....
Gerry Simpson, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, said dozens of families seeking to flee to Uzbekistan have been stopped from leaving by Kyrgyzstan troops.
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Also see: Can't We All Get Along in Kyrgyzstan?
"AIDS spreads in Eastern Europe, UN says" by Associated Press | July 21, 2010
VIENNA — Scientists and activists are warning that AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is on the rise even as a global conference reports progress on other fronts....
Of particular concern to analysts, policymakers, and activists gathered at the AIDS 2010 conference is that those suffering from the deadly disease in the region are often stigmatized, criminalized, and denied access to lifesaving treatment....
I didn't know they were all living in Gaza?
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