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FBI concludes no wrongdoing by FBI in boston bombing
The F.B.I. has concluded that there was little its agents could have done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, according to law enforcement officials, rejecting criticism that it could have better monitored one of the suspects before the attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/us/fbi-said-to-conclude-it-could-not-have-averted-boston-attack.html?ref=us That conclusion is based on several internal reviews that examined how the bureau handled […]
ACLU calls for further investigation in Chechen’s murder by FBI
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday urged local law enforcement officials in Florida and Massachusetts to open investigations into how an F.B.I. agent killed a man who was being interrogated in his Orlando apartment about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/us/politics/aclu-urges-inquiries-in-shooting-of-man-tied-to-boston-suspect.html?ref=us The A.C.L.U. said the public had little faith in the F.B.I.’s ability to […]
Feds, media pin drug murders on dead Chechens
Three men murdered with knife slashes to their throats in a second-floor apartment in a Boston Suburb; each corpse precisely positioned, stomach down, head turned a quarter to the right, marijuana sprinkled on top. Investigators theorized that the killings had been the work of professionals, based on the savageness of the attacks on the three […]
17 journalists assassinated in Dagestan for reporting truth
A prominent journalist who had accused local authorities of persecuting and kidnapping Muslims was shot dead in an ambush in the violent Russian republic of Dagestan on Tuesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/world/europe/journalist-assassinated-in-violent-russian-republic.html?ref=world&_r=0 The journalist and deputy editor of the independent daily newspaper Novoye Delo, had already survived a January assassination attempt at the same spot just outside the […]
Parents of Chechens repudiate narrative
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said her son, surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told her in a phone call that he and his brother, killed in a police manhunt after the blasts, were innocent. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22725542 Mr Tsarnaev, who was shot and injured during the manhunt, is currently being held in a prison hospital. Mrs Tsarnaeva told […]
Recent attacks give way to police state rationale
“Short of a police state on East German lines the number of such individuals who can be subject to very intensive surveillance sufficient to detect preparations for violent action is but a small proportion of the total — and of course individuals can flip quickly even where they have been checked out previously.” http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/05/31/world/europe/ap-eu-tracking-terrorists.html?ref=world “This […]
FBI agents involved in Boston bombing investigation die
During a training mission Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw began their descent on Friday onto a ship roughly a dozen miles off the coast of Virginia, the helicopter suddenly tilted because of a strong gust of wind. The two men, holding onto the ropes and loaded down with gear, lost their grips and […]
FBI withheld info on bombing suspects
The F.B.I. did not tell the Boston police about the 2011 warning from Russia about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombings, the city’s police chief said Thursday during the first public Congressional hearing on the terrorist attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/us/boston-police-werent-told-fbi-got-warning-on-tsarnaev.html Officers worked with the F.B.I. on a Joint Terrorism Task […]
American sheeple clamor for police state
Americans overwhelmingly favor installing video surveillance cameras in public places, judging the infringement on their privacy as an acceptable trade-off for security. There are lingering questions about the role of the nation’s intelligence agencies before the recent attacks, with people divided about whether they had collected information that could have prevented them, 41 percent said […]
CIA, DHS also aware of Tsarnaev before bombing
One of the Boston bomb suspects was added to a terrorism database 18 months ago at the request of the CIA. Officials said Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been added to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (Tide) on the request of the CIA. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22289200 The Russian authorities had alerted US counterparts to the activities of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, […]
US agents move to silence suspects parents
US officials have travelled to the Russian republic of Dagestan to quiet the parents of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22277541 The suspects’ parents, Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev, have said they believe they are innocent and were framed by US security forces. The interior minister of Dagestan has denied that the dead suspect became a […]
Man Reddit named as suspect found dead
The body of a man found in a Rhode Island river may be a student mistakenly identified as one of the Boston bombers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22278224 Sunil Tripathi has been described as the other victim of the bombings after he was wrongly identified a suspect. On Monday social media website Reddit issued a public apology for its coverage […]
FBI explains relationship with bombing suspects
The F.B.I. apparently missed an opportunity to discover that one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings may have had become an extremist, saying they had no legal basis to monitor him in the months leading up to the attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/us/officials-say-they-didnt-have-authority-to-monitor-tamerlan-tsarnaev.html?hp The agency first looked into the suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in 2011 in response […]
The FBI and the Boston bombing suspects
The lead bombing suspect,Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by police Thursday night was interviewed by the F.B.I. in 2011 when a foreign government asked the bureau to determine whether he had extremist ties, according to a senior law enforcement official. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/us/details-of-tsarnaev-brothers-boston-suspects-emerge.html?pagewanted=2&ref=us According to the bombers mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, “He (Tamerlan) was ‘controlled’ by the FBI, […]
Security and the real threat of terrorism
The Sept. 11 attacks were an anomaly in an overall gradual decline in the number of terrorist attacks since the 1970s, according to the Global Terrorism Database. Since 2001, the number of fatalities in terrorist attacks has reached double digits in only one year, 2009, when an Army psychiatrist killed 13 people at Fort Hood, […]
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