© Reuters/Dan Lampariello
Runners continue to run towards the finish line of the Boston Marathon as an explosion erupts near the finish line of the race in this photo exclusively licensed to Reuters by photographer Dan Lampariello after he took the photo in Boston, Massachusetts, April 15, 2013.
The US is trying to blame Russia for missed opportunities to prevent the Boston marathon bombing last year, Russian Foreign Ministry said in response to recently released report that accused Moscow of withholding information about the bomber.
The report by the inspector general for the intelligence community examined how the US's 17 intelligence agencies handled information it had prior to the attack that killed three people and left more than 200 others injured on April 15, 2013.
Issued on Thursday, the report states that the US federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies
"generally shared information and followed procedures appropriately" in their investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother, Dzhokhar, in the years before the Boston Marathon bombing.
However, they should have more closely scrutinized Tamerlan when he returned to the United States from Dagestan in 2012, it said.
In 2011, Russian officials already warned the FBI that Tamerlan Tsarnaev
"was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer" and "had changed drastically since 2010."
According to the report, a reason for not thorough enough assessment in FBI's pre-bombing investigation is that the Russian government, despite requests from the FBI, withheld key information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with the police after the bombing last April.
Comment: Given the strong evidence that the Boston Bombings were yet another instance of manufactured terror, the inspectors general's findings strike us as just more anti-Russian grandstanding and muckraking. How convenient. Ironically, and tellingly, Russia
did provide the US with relevant information about Tamerlan -- information that
had to be ignored in order for the 'secret team' to get the 'terror attack' they wanted. And then they have the gall to blame Russia. Talk abut chutzpah!
For more information on what really happened in Boston, see SOTT editors Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley's new book,
Manufactured Terror: The Boston Marathon Bombings, Sandy Hook, Aurora Shooting and Other False Flag Terror Attacks.
Comment: Innocent people, 88% of whom are children, have been harmed or killed by these unexploded ordnance left by the U.S. Yet U.S. officials dare to claim they are not legally obligated to clear any of it. This should have been dealt with from the get-go! Interestingly, there always seems to be enough time and money available for invading countries, supporting terrorists, staging coups, expensive vacations and so forth, but when it comes to helping people and taking responsibility, the 'Muricans just ain't got no time 'nd money fer that - at least not yet, if at all.
We can only hope that the Afghan government or people will find measures to solve the problem if funding doesn't come through, which seems likely as the Western psychopaths so far have done nothing but damage to this land and its citizens and are too busy screwing up other countries, including their own. Heroic American leaders, yeah right.