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It could have been a covert op gone real bad. It could have been blowback from former ''freedom fighters'' - in this case ethnic Chechens - reconverted into terra-rists. It could have been straight blowback for United States foreign policy targeting Muslims, whether dispatching them to Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib or Bagram, extraordinarily renditioning them, or target assassinating them.
The FBI, predictably, is not admitting any of these three options. It sticks to a convoluted screenplay worthy of those cocaine-fueled Hollywood nights in the 1980s; a couple of bad guys who ''hate our freedoms'' because... they do.
As I've written elsewhere in a sort of preamble for this article, there are inter-galactic holes in the story of the Tsarnaev brothers. Now we also know - via their mother - that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was monitoring elder brother Tamerlan for at least five years. In a subsequent interview to CNN's Piers Morgan, the mother actually talked, significantly, about ''counseling''.
A programming error led to 194 residents being notified by telephone that a ship was leaking radioactive material near Port Penn this morning. It took nearly an hour until they were told there was no such disaster.
The message, part of a training exercise and not intended for public distribution, was sent out about 11:30 a.m. by First Call, the company that operates the state's reverse-911 system, said Kevin Wilson, of the Delaware Emergency Management Agency.
It instructed the recipients who live within a half mile of 5 South Congress St. in Port Penn to shelter in place and tune radios to the Emergency Alert System for details.
The message led the recipients to believe that an actual event had taken place, Wilson said.
Then at 12:25 p.m., First Call issued another message to the homes affected saying the first one was sent in error.
Matthew Teague, president of First Call, apologized to residents for any inconvenience.
The message, part of a training exercise and not intended for public distribution, was sent out about 11:30 a.m. by First Call, the company that operates the state's reverse-911 system, said Kevin Wilson, of the Delaware Emergency Management Agency.
It instructed the recipients who live within a half mile of 5 South Congress St. in Port Penn to shelter in place and tune radios to the Emergency Alert System for details.
The message led the recipients to believe that an actual event had taken place, Wilson said.
Then at 12:25 p.m., First Call issued another message to the homes affected saying the first one was sent in error.
Matthew Teague, president of First Call, apologized to residents for any inconvenience.
© Kim Kyung-Hoon/ReutersJia's death is the second case in two weeks of an official dying while being held in Communist party’s secret detention system.
A senior official at a city court in central China has died under mysterious circumstances, his body bruised after 11 days in the custody of anti-corruption investigators of the ruling Communist party, according to his family.
The case of Jia Jiuxiang, who was vice-president of the Sanmenxia City intermediate people's court in Henan province, is the second in two weeks to surface of an official dying while being held in the party's secret detention system, which is not regulated by law.
Jia's relatives say they suspect he was tortured in detention. His brother-in-law, Zhou Qiang, said Jia was detained on 12 April by the local party's discipline inspection committee, turned up in a local hospital on Monday night and died on Tuesday morning after attempts to save him failed.
Jia's wife, who was allowed to see the body, said his face had turned blue and his body was covered in bruises, Zhou said.
"We think that in handling the case, the discipline inspection committee used cruel tactics against him," Zhou said. He said that Jia, 49, had previously been in good health.
Another relative, Ma Weihua, who identified himself as Jia's nephew, confirmed details of Zhou's account and said local officials told the relatives they would conduct an investigation into Jia's death.
© Associated PressA security inspector searches a traveler's bag at Ben Gurion Airport. Recently, several tourists thought to be pro-Palestinian activists were asked by security agents to open their Gmail accounts.
Responding to a complaint filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Weinstein, in a response issued by his assistant, Nadeem Abboud, said, "given the limitations of intelligence coverage and the difficulty of obtaining relevant information about foreign citizens, the questioning conducted at the border crossings by the representative of the Shin Bet carries weight in bolstering or refuting the suspicions against a foreign national wanting to enter."
© The GuardianCharges against Mississippi man who was accused of sending ricin-laced letters to the President and others have been dropped. Paul Kevin Curtis was released from custody, while the home of a second man was searched.
A federal magistrate judge directed that charges against Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, be dismissed because "the ongoing investigation has revealed new information," according to his written order. The charges were dropped without prejudice, meaning that they could be reinstated.
But Tuesday afternoon, the FBI was searching the Tupelo, Miss., home of James Everette Dutschke in connection with the ricin case. Dutschke said he is innocent and does not know anything about the ingredients for ricin.
© UnknownUncle Ruslan
"Uncle Ruslan" Tsarni of Montgomery Village Md., whose name was the top trending topic worldwide on Twitter last Friday for his plain-spoken condemnation of his two nephews, has had a checkered business career, that began well before he graduated (as Ruslan Z Tsarnaev) from Duke Law School in 1998.
Tsarni, a well-connected oil executive, is currently involved in an international criminal investigation into a Kazakh billionaire banker-turned-fugitive alleged to have absconded with $6 billion from Kazakhstan's BTA Bank.
The story begins with The London Sunday Times on May 8, 2011, which reported the sale of the personal home of England's Prince Andrew to billionaire Kazakh Oligarch Timur Kulibayev, who "controls that country's oil industry and happens to be married to the daughter of its autocratic President Nursultan Nazarbayev."
What does that have to do with "Uncle Ruslan?" Let's take a look.
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The product of combined investigations by the House Committees on the Armed Services, Judiciary, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform, the report says that "There remain unanswered questions about the events surrounding the attacks, and the Administration owes answers to the American people."
According to the executive summary, the ongoing investigation by the five House committees has already determined that:
Thankfully, some Americans are taking note of the gaping holes in the official narrative about the Boston Bombings. Listen as concerned citizens call in to C-SPAN's Washington Journal to point out just some of the evidence pointing to last Monday's 'terror attack' being yet another false flag event.
Best of the Web: Tamerlan Tsarnaev was 'radicalized' by Truth, not Islam - 'Extremist websites' he visited described intelligence agencies' role in 9/11
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 'good all-American boy'... until he began to realize the ugly truth about the American Dream and was entrapped, probably murdered by the FBI and used to further the police state he realized they were creating.
Under the tutelage of a friend known to the Tsarnaev family only as Misha, Tamerlan gave up boxing and stopped studying music, his family said. He began opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He turned to websites and literature claiming that the CIA was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Jews controlled the world.
"Somehow, he just took his brain," said Tamerlan's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, who recalled conversations with Tamerlan's worried father about Misha's influence. Efforts over several days by The Associated Press to identify and interview Misha have been unsuccessful.
Tamerlan's relationship with Misha could be a clue in understanding the motives behind his religious transformation and, ultimately, the attack itself. Two U.S. officials say he had no tie to terrorist groups.
Throughout his religious makeover, Tamerlan maintained a strong influence over his siblings, including Dzhokhar, who investigators say carried out the deadly attack by his older brother's side, killing three and injuring 264 people.
Comment: Very interesting indeed. So the 'extremist websites' Tamerlan was visiting were not 'al_qaeda_forever.aol.com' and such nonsense set up by the CIA and the FBI to entrap young Muslims... he was merely broadening his mind by visiting websites in the alt.net community.
Also, by acknowledging that he had no ties to terrorist groups, the US govt recognises that his 'conversion to Islam' was irrelevant - the point is that Tamerlan 'converted' to Truth.
We wonder to what extent Tamerlan was aware of the ways of 'The Beast'? Surely he was not naive to the FB-Lie's entrapment of young Muslims into fake terror plots?
In light of this, it seems highly unlikely that he willingly participated in this terror 'drill'-turned-real deal.
An oft-used tactic in Israeli 'suicide bombings' is to coerce the young Palestinian into being in a certain place at a certain time by threatening that failure to do so would result in harm being visited on their families. Tamerlan leaves behind a wife and three-year-old daughter...
Comment: Say hello to the new normal - For the authoritarians and their followers it's a dream come true.