Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Boston Bombings Updates - Questions posed by Pepe Escobar ( lingering items to consider as we hit the tenth day after the debacle at the Boston Marathon - and unaswered questions surrounding the universe of events encompassing Boston ) ... Numerous visits to the White House by the young Saudi suspected of connections to the Boston Bombings .....Why was the Secret Service attempting to block questions at the thursday FBI Presser - especially one reporter in particular ? Further info on the dead / arrested alleged terrorists - the more you learn , the worse the FBI looks here .... And what about the surge in bomb threats since the beginning of the week


A review of where things stand and what we believe we know ...... Questions posed by Pepe Escobar


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-230413.html

Orwell does America
By Pepe Escobar

Welcome to the sweet abyss of an Orwellian vortex. 2013 increasingly looks like 1984.

In two previous articles, for RT RT and for Asia Times Online I have looked into the superimposed levels of blowback implied by the Boston bombing.

With still so many unanswered questions regarding what took place on the ground in Boston after the bombing, it's time to look at an extra, possible Top Ten list of lingering absurdities. And this without sidestepping other unanswered crucial questions, such as why a bomb drill - organized by Craft - was going on during the marathon at which the bombing took place; and why it was vehemently denied that a bomb drill was going on. For this current set of questions, I'm grateful for the help of Asia Times Online's Bostonian readers. 


Pick your Mercedes 
1. Will the FBI come clean and admit they knew everything there is to know about Tamerlan Tsarnaev - after five years of monitoring/controlling him - and still lied to public opinion by swearing they knew nothing about his and his brother's identity, posting their photos and asking for the public to act ''as eyes and ears'' to identify those ''suspects''?

2. Since 9/11, the preferred FBI modus operandi is to use informants to lure ''potential'' terra-rists to act. See for example the Fast and Furious<-style Iran cum Mexican cartel plot. There's a strong possibility the Tsarnaev brothers were set up. In this case, is there anyone anywhere among the vast US intel apparatus investigating the FBI investigators?

3. Will the FBI explain a tsunami of false reports by the usual, anonymous ''US officials'' of explosions or ''unexploded bombs'' - at two Boston hotels, a court house, and at the JFK library?

4. A Saudi student, injured at the bombing, who was in the US via a legal student visa, is suddenly deported on ''national security grounds'', even as investigators found ''unusual burns'' on his hand inconsistent with the injuries of other victims. He may have been a member of a Saudi clan notorious for its al-Qaeda connections. The FBI ''investigation'' is suddenly dropped shortly after the Saudi ambassador in the US held an unscheduled meeting with President Barack Obama. Add to it that even before the smoke had cleared, the Israel Lobby and the notorious disinformation website DEBKA were pointing their fingers at ''domestic terrorists with Middle East connections''.

5. The description of the car hijacked by the brothers, a Mercedes E350 SUV, matches the description of their car left at a service station in Cambridge for two weeks prior to the bombing. A mechanic in Cambridge said Dzhokhar, Tamerlan's brother, picked up his "black Mercedes SUV" on Tuesday, the day after the marathon. The two cars may be one and the same; that blows up the whole official ''carjacking'' narrative.

6. Additionally, there's a media blackout on the owner of the allegedly hijacked Mercedes, who in theory managed to escape and call the police, who maintains that the brothers went to three ATMs and withdrew US$800 from his account - not before telling him they were the ''marathon bombers and had killed an MIT police''. The driver said he was let off at a gas station on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. But some witnesses saw Dzhokhar at the station's convenience store - without any driver. Then the narrative of the brothers robbing a convenience store was revealed to be false. Police scanners referred to a "black top" person. Still, the official narrative is that the Tsarnaev brothers were at the same place and the same time of the robbery.

7. The slain MIT police. The initial police scanner report mentions the suspect in singular as ''a Hispanic with a hat on''. This happened on the MIT campus, at a side street, after the officer had responded to the report of ''a disturbance''. Now the whole US law enforcement apparatus takes for granted that the MIT cop was killed by the brothers - with no investigation whatsoever.

8. There's a whole murky story about a ''stolen police SUV with long guns and explosive'' - without any details. It is assumed by everyone the brothers stole it, but nobody can tell when, where and how. The official narrative sustains it to justify the guns that the brothers allegedly used in a firefight with the police in Watertown. Moreover, the chief of Watertown police maintains that the brothers drove into town in ''two separate cars''. The FBI and the Boston District Attorney say the brothers were in the hijacked Mercedes.

9. The whole law enforcement apparatus insisted that there was a heavy exchange of gunfire with Dzokhar while he was hiding in a boat, before his arrest. That is false. He was unarmed, barely moving and the hail of bullets towards the boat came from the police.

10. How come legions of police and mega-weaponized SWAT teams searching a ''20 block'' crime scene perimeter in Watertown simply could not locate Dzhokhar hiding in a street less than two blocks from where he had abandoned his car? Even a simple Google Maps search contradicts the claim that police did not find him for a whole day because the street he was hiding - Franklin - ''was slightly beyond the perimeter''. A number of residents in Franklin street even complained that they were not searched until after the lifting of the curfew and the discovery of Dzhokhar by the boat's owner, who is now a national hero.

Do the martial dance 
What the day-long delay in Dzhokhar's arrest indeed made possible was to turn Watertown into a monster dry run for urban martial law - euphemized as ''lockdown'' - in a very near future.

As total militarization of civilian life goes - featuring, for instance, Homeland Security running amok with hundreds of armored vehicles - this was a major success. Meanwhile, on the ''legal'' front, the White House and the Justice Department are firmly on track to finally suppress the Miranda warning; that went into effect already two years ago, when an Obama secret executive order ruled the Miranda warning would not apply to suspected terrorists.

Dzhokhar is a ''suspected'' terrorist - now charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, yet already convicted by corporate media. Welcome to Police State USA - where at least everyone still has the right to go out shopping. For now. 




shifting stories......


http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/officials-boston-suspect-had-no-firearm-when-barrage-of-bullets-hit-hiding-place/2013/04/24/376fc8a0-ad18-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_story.html



( So much for the last minute desperation suicide attempt - By the way , so much for the desperate shootout with the police as he had no gun ! ) 


Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place





Although police feared he was heavily armed, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombingshad no firearms when he came under a barrage of police gunfire that struck the boat where he was hiding, according to multiple federal law enforcement officials.
Authorities said they were desperate to capture Dzhokhar Tsarnaev so he could be questioned. The FBI, however, declined to discuss what triggered the gunfire.





Other law enforcement officials said the shooting may have been prompted by the chaos of the moment and some action that led the officers present to believe Tsarnaev had fired a weapon or was about to detonate explosives.
These new details emerged as investigators continued their examination of the movements and motives of Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother, Tamerlan, in last week’s coordinated bombing, which killed three people and wounded more than 250.
Law enforcement officials said they do not believe the brothers were connected with a terrorist organization, but they cautioned that the inquiry is at an early stage.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a confrontation with police in the early morning hours Friday, four days after the marathon bombings. A transit police officer was seriously wounded in the exchange, in which more than 200 rounds were fired and the suspects lobbed homemade explosives at police. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev escaped and was the subject of a massive manhunt. He was cornered hiding in a boat in the driveway of a house in Watertown, Mass., on Friday evening.
Law enforcement officials described the 30 minutes before the arrest of Tsarnaev as chaotic. One characterized it as “the fog of war” and said that in a highly charged atmosphere, one accidental shot could have caused what police call “contagious fire.”
Officers from several agencies gathered around the Watertown house as darkness fell. The FBI was in charge of the scene, but there also were officers from the Massachusetts State Police, local police and transit police.
“They probably didn’t know whether he had a gun,” said one law enforcement official, who like others interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. “Hours earlier he and his brother had killed a police officer, shot another officer and thrown explosives out of their cars as the police were chasing them. They couldn’t assume that he did not have a gun and more explosives.”
The FBI declined to discuss the exact sequence of events that led officers to open fire on Tsarnaev’s hiding place and whether the dozens of bullets that struck the boat caused any of his gunshot wounds.
A spokesman for the FBI said law enforcement agents were tracking an extremely dangerous suspect who had used guns and explosives on a public street to avoid arrest.
“Law enforcement was placed in an extraordinarily dangerous situation,” said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson. “They were dealing with an individual who is alleged to have been involved in the bombings at the Boston Marathon. As if that’s not enough, there were indications of a carjacking, gunfire, an ambushed police officer and bombs thrown earlier. In spite of these extraordinary factors, they were able to capture this individual alive with no further harm to law enforcement. It was a tremendously effective outcome under dire circumstances.”

more shifting tales....

http://intellihub.com/2013/04/24/boston-bombings-official-stories-change-like-fairy-tales/
( Leaking , leaking , official story full of holes - need someone to plug the dike... ) 


Boston Bombings: Official Stories Change Like Fairy Tales

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Some say that the FBI should have been notified sooner by DHS as there are many holes and unanswered questions that still remain regarding the Boston Marathon bombings, others think DHS is hiding something.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 24: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano addresses the American Hotel and Lodging Association's 2013 Legislative Action Summit on Capitol Hill April 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. Napolitano highlighted her department's 'If You See Something, Say Something' campaign and other steps toward smoothing air travel inside and outside the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 24: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano addresses the American Hotel and Lodging Association’s 2013 Legislative Action Summit on Capitol Hill April 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. Napolitano highlighted her department’s ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ campaign and other steps toward smoothing air travel inside and outside the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Shepard Ambellas
Intellihub.com

April 24, 2013
WASHINGTON — Tensions on Capitol Hill flare as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) director, Janet Napolitano, was questioned by a congressional member on DHS’s foreknowledge of the older Tsarneav brother’s activities and why nothing was done to counter his alleged activities.
Another attendee pointed out that if we want to stop terrorism in America, all agencies must work together.
Janet Napolitano stated during the committee, “Yes, the system pinged when he was leaving the United States, by the time he returned all investigations closed”, essentially admitting that DHS dropped the ball.
However, other factors could play into this media and governmental circus as there is likely more to the Boston Marathon bombings than reported at this time. For instance, why has there been no official mention of the contractors that were present near the finish line spotted before and after the bombing? These contractors look militarized, carrying 3 day assault packs and wearing Craft International spec ops gear typical of private contractors. In fact, questions by reporters on this very subject have been heavily deflected by officials raising eyebrows on some.
We also have the fact that one of the bombing suspects was reported to have been shot in the throat and missing most of his tongue, now this story is changing as well. 
RT reported that Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, was interrogated at the  hospital and admitted to authorities that he was indeed involved in planting bombs at the Boston Marathon. According to reporter, Anastasia Chirkina, “The motives behind the two bombings were the wars the United States was fighting against Iraq and Afghanistan”. This information contradicts earlier reports that the suspect was shot in the throat and can’t talk.
In fact the Washington Times reported, “According to Senator Dan Coats (R – Ind.) on ABC News’ “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” the Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, captured Friday night by law enforcement was shot in the throat and is unable to talk to the FBI.
Coats elaborated: “The information we have is that there was a shot to the throat, and it’s questionable when and whether he’ll be able to talk again. Doesn’t mean he can’t communicate. But right now I think he’s in a condition where they can’t get any information from him at all.”
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino earlier on the show had said, “We don’t know if we’ll ever be able to question the individual,” but he did not elaborate.
However, a source close to the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters News that not only was Tsarnaev shot in the throat, but that he had extensive tongue damage.”
All of this contradicts what is now being reported in the media, raising red flags for some. 
The Telegraph recently reported that, “Two US officials have also said that the brothers appear to have acted alone and were motivated by a radical brand of Islam.

The surviving brother communicated with his interrogators in writing, precluding the type of back-and-forth exchanges often crucial to establishing key facts, said the officials, who have not been named.The officials said preliminary evidence from Tsarnaev’s interrogation suggested the brothers were motivated by religious extremism but were apparently not involved with Islamic terrorist organisations.
They cautioned that they were still trying to verify what they were told by Tsarnaev and were looking at such things as his telephone and online communications and his associations with others. Tamerlan died on the night that Dzhokhar was captured.”
The official report is outrageous as the “lone wolf” angle will now be utilized to gain more control over the civilian population in America.
Yet even more preposterous is the fact that officials are claiming essentially that the Internet is a breeding ground for terror activities, further pushing control measures on the populace incrementally.
Then there is still the fact that the official story maintains that the older brother Tamerlan is dead and was actually ran over by his younger brother durring a get-away attempt from police. What is very suspicious about this report is that we have seen footage of Tamerlan being detained and put into a police car, alive. Tamerlan’s aunt positively identified him from the video stating to reporter Dan Dick’s on the phone that indeed that was Tamerlan in the video “naked” being detained by police. 

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( So much for the desperation shootout scene.... ) 

Eyewitness: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was Run Over By Police, No Bombs (Video)

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This keeps getting alittle more weird everyday doesn’t it?  Its a story that just won’t go awayand thats because there i more than meets the eye.  -Mort


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-24/guest-post-how-boston-bombing-already-being-exploited-introduce-tyranny


Guest Post: How The Boston Bombing Is Already Being Exploited To Introduce Tyranny

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Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com,
I have no personal experience in the business of false flag terrorism, but I imagine that engineering a successfully staged terror attack to be blamed on innocent or semi-innocent parties with the goal of psychologically manipulating a population requires that one also be an accomplished storyteller.  It demands an avid imagination and an organized sense of foresight.  And, most of all, it requires a consistency of narrative.  Without consistency, the audience’s ability to suspend its disbelief is damaged, and they become disconnected from the fantasy being portrayed.
If I were the “writer” behind the “story” of the Boston Marathon Bombing, I would consider my efforts an abject failure. 
The narrative of the event has changed multiple times in only a few days, following a hailstorm of conflicting observations from the government and the establishment-run media.  The “villain” of the original plotline was clearly meant to be “rightwing extremism” as numerous mainstream talking heads, led by federal agency inferences, began repeating the “homegrown right wing terrorist” meme everywhere.  This meme was partly abandoned after the alternative media and the Liberty Movement began its own investigation, revealing a large federal presence on the scene, including military Civil Support Teams often tied to the DHS and Northcom, as well as the witnesses who observed what on-scene officials called “training exercises” during the marathon.  I have no doubt that these citizen investigations forced the establishment to change the direction of their crime tale, and use Plan B patsies instead.  This, however, complicated the momentum of the fiction, and created even more questions. 

The Chechen brothers now implicated in the attack have been revealed as long time FBI contacts.  This is a bit awkward for the FBI considering they asked the American public to help them “identify the suspects in on-scene photos” while they failed to mention that they knew EXACTLY who the two young men were already (this is what we might call a contrived story arch).  Today, the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is conveniently dead.  The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had his throat conveniently shot out. The feds are now supplying the media with “written confessions” from Dzhokhar to which there is no proof of legitimacy.  For all we know the boy hasn’t written a word.      
The new “villains” get no voice in this drama, and thus become two dimensional characters.  They exist so that we can hate them.  Understanding them, or hearing their side of events from their own lips, is certainly out of the question.  Poorly fleshed out antagonists are a sure sign of a poorly constructed story.
Finally, we get to the “heroes”.  Though the criminal elements of our federal government and adjoining alphabet agencies did not yet get the right wing patriot patsy they obviously wanted, they have still so far gleaned considerable social capital from the bombings.  The point of a false flag is to frighten the population of any given nation into relinquishing freedom in the name of safety, which in the process gives the central government even more control.  In the wake of the Boston attack, the establishment is having a field day…
Martial Law Conditioning
For a few days, Boston became an Orwellian nightmare.  The city lockdown and subsequent militarization was swift, though any intelligent and guilty suspect could have easily left the area before hand.  This kind of response to catch only two supposed perpetrators is outlandish, unless you understand that it was not about catching the bombers.  Rather, it was an exercise designed to test the malleability of the American people during a crisis scenario.  In Watertown, residents were not only forced into lockdown; they were also subjected to house-to-house searches without warrant, pat downs, and numerous other violations of their 4th Amendment rights.  Take note that almost everything you see in the video below is an illegal and unconstitutional action on the part of Boston authorities:
As this was occurring, officials were consistently pushing media cameras away from the area in the name of “safety”, even though media cameramen are sent into domestic shootouts and foreign warzones on a regular basis.  The only real purpose that I can see to removing them from the scene was to reduce the amount of video footage depicting these illegal searches and seizures:
For those who can’t grasp what has happened here, let me explain; the dynamics of liberty have just been erased.  This kind of behavior on the part of government will not be limited to disasters like Boston, or New Orleans during Katrina; a precedence is being set to use martial law-style tactics anywhere for any reason at anytime.  The “national security argument” is being used as a free license to institute any measure regardless of law to achieve a particular combat objective.  The environment we saw in the dark days of Boston is an environment we’ll soon see all over the country, and here is why…
Escalation
Boston represents a clear escalation of the use of NDAA and martial law measures in the aftermath of a security event.  After the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012, his Miranda Rights under the Constitution were denied due to “extraneous circumstances of national security”.  Numerous lawmakers called for the suspect to be treated as an “enemy combatant” so that he could be interrogated under the laws of war without due process:
The Obama White House has cleverly called for a civilian trial of Tsarnaev in order to reduce criticisms of its support for numerous unconstitutional measures, including the NDAA and the use of assassination against American citizens.  The White House has always claimed that it would not use the combatant provisions against American citizens, but has never denied that those provisions could be applied to us.  The idea is that while the president does have these powers at his disposal, we’re supposed to have “faith” that he will not abuse them.  During the debate over the passage of the NDAA, Obama opposed certain language within the legislation that REQUIRED him to treat accused domestic terrorists as enemy combatants, not because he thought it was wrong, or unconstitutional, but because he wanted the OPTION to decide whether he would or would not black bag a citizen and throw him into an unspecified hole.   He has simply exercised his “option” for a citizen trial, at least this time around…
In the meantime, a simultaneous and so far poorly verified “train attack” has been averted in Canada, opening the door for more discussion on something the establishment has been trying to squeeze out of the populace for years:  consent for the federalized lockdown of travel and public events.  Whether through TSA, or the use of state authorities under the watch of the DHS, the government has been desperately clamoring to expand the control grid out of airports and federal buildings into the bus stations, subways, trains, highways and sidewalks of America:
I believe that we will soon see much greater presence of TSA VIPR teams at large public arenas and in transportation venues outside of airports, and that the Boston Bombing will be used as a primer for this expansion.  Recent comments by NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg only reinforce my belief.  Bloomberg, in reference to the marathon attack, stated that:
“…we live in a complex word where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”
“Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11…”
“We have to understand that in the world going forward, we’re going to have more cameras and that kind of stuff. That’s good in some sense, but it’s different from what we are used to…”
Ironically, the only enemy out there that appears ready to “take our freedoms away” are men like Bloomberg; snakes in the grass that pay lip service to the Constitution while constantly trying to undermine it. 
Free Speech Is Next
The bombings in Boston took place, apparently by coincidence, just before Oath Keepers, a national organization of current serving military, police officers, and veterans promoting adherence to their constitutional oath was to hold a large rally at Lexington Green.  The Lexington Green board, one member of which had been openly hostile to Oath Keepers in the past, decided to use the crisis as an excuse to deny the rally permit already attained by the liberty minded group. 
The Lexington Selectmen claimed that under the suggestions of “state officials” the rally had to be cancelled due to the “lack of police” available to secure the area and ensure public safety.  However, when Oath Keepers held a brief oath ceremony at the Green in protest of the decision, a police force was sent to watch them:
This means that public safety was not the issue.  Rather, safety and security were being used yet again to deny a constitutional right, and this time it was the most vital and valuable right of all – free speech.
During the height of the civil rights marches of the 50’s and 60’s, the exact same tactics were used to silence dissent.  Black protesters were told that they could not obtain proper permits for peaceful marches because their “own safety” and the safety of the public could not be ensured.  This matter of using broad hypothetical dangers as a catalyst for censorship was finally argued before the Supreme Court in Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham.  The court sided with the protestors, pointing out that the use of undefined safety concerns and “prior restraint” to silence speech was unconstitutional.  Unfortunately, the decision has not prevented the U.S. government from slowly undermining public protest rights ever since.  
The fascinating thing about incremental tyranny is the way in which naïve members of our society try to rationalize it.  They debate using logical fallacies like:
“How have your rights been violated in particular?  If your rights haven’t been violated, what right do you have to complain?”
And how about this gem…
“Yeah, there are problems in this country, but at least we have some freedom.  In many countries, you wouldn’t be allowed to complain the way you are…”
This is statist psychology at work.  Freedom, in their minds, is a privilege doled out by governments, rather than an inborn attribute outside of the realm of law.  They do not understand that the violation of the rights of one American is a violation of the rights of ALL Americans.  They do not understand that the destruction of some constitutional protections will one day lead to the destruction of ALL constitutional protections. 
The establishment and the useful idiots they manipulate want to make the “threat” the center of attention, but ultimately, the threat is irrelevant.  There will always be the danger of terrorism and death.  Always!  And, if our government is following the Operation Gladio false flag model (look it up, folks, it was openly admitted government funded terrorism), as I believe they are, then we can count on Boston-style bombings all over the U.S. very soon. 
True crisis lay in what we refuse to see, and the greatest crisis today is not the bombing of a marathon, but the destruction of our freedoms in the name of “security”.  The bottom line?  Our civil liberties are not up for compromise.  Period.  Shootings, bombs, nukes, nothing!  There is no rationalization that will ever make tyranny a moral enterprise.  I, like many other Americans, do not care what boogeyman fantasy is paraded in front of me.  We are not frightened, and we are not ignorant.  No attack, no matter how heinous, will ever convince us to hand over our freedom.






and......







Interesting connections for the Saudi man of mystery - White House connections.....



http://www.infowars.com/suspected-saudi-terrorist-al-harbi-visited-white-house-numerous-times/


Suspected Saudi Terrorist Al-Harbi Visited White House Numerous Times

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Visited by First Lady Michelle Obama while in hospital
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 24, 2013
Saudi national Abdul Rahman Ali al-Harbi, who was briefly held as a “person of interest” in the Boston bombings and then downgraded in less than 24 hours to a witness, visited the White House on numerous occasions since 2009, The Rightscoop reports today.

The startling allegation follows an earlier report indicating that al-Harbi was visited in the hospital by First Lady Michelle Obama after he allegedly sustained injuries from one of the explosives placed at the Boston Marathon.
Blogosphere sleuths subsequently put their hands on a photo definitively placing Obama at the hospital.
Saudi On Terror Watch List
The Department of Homeland Security confessed today that al-Harbi was on a terror watch list, although DHS boss Napolitano attempted to minimize this revelation by stating that he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“Because he was being interviewed, [after the he was at that point put on a watchlist, and then when it was quickly determined he had nothing to do with the bombing, the watch listing status was removed,” she told Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“Napolitano seems to either flatly contradict herself or openly admit that it is easy for someone to be put on a terrorist watchlist even though they don’t reach ‘person of interest’ status,” Walid Shoebatwrites on his blog today. “That’s either a lie or a chilling statement of what this government is doing.”
A couple obvious questions come to mind. First, why did the First Lady visit a man who was on a terror watch list, no matter how briefly, and second, how is it that he gained access to what is supposedly one of the most secure buildings in the United States?
Is it possible we can attribute the hospital visit and multiple visits to the White House to a special relationship shared between Saudi royals and at least two presidents? For instance, is well-known that George W. Bush had a close relationship with the corrupt Saudi monarchy.
It is important to note that it was the Department of Homeland Security that initially labeled al-Harbi as a suspected terrorist and the alternative media is merely following up on this fact.
Government released and micromanaged evidence in the Boston bombing case implicates the Tsarnaev brothers as the culprits and not Abdul Rahman Ali al-Harbi. His presence at the scene, while suspicious, does not implicit him in this crime.


Secret Service tried to cut off questions at the Press Conference on Thursday ? 


Secret Service tried to block press from bombing questions?


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Bidondi has told Infowars on record he was threatened before and after the press conference
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
April 24, 2013
Before the FBI’s rescheduled Thursday press conference, where they for the first time publicly presented blurry photos and surveillance footage of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev, Infowars.com reporter Dan Bidondi had earned a reputation for being the guy who asked about prior knowledge and “false flags.”

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick gives Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi the “stink eye.”
At the first Boston bombing press conference, which took place Monday, April 15 almost immediately following the bombings, Dan questioned Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis as to whether police had prior knowledge of the bombings, to which the Commissioner replied they had “no specific intelligence” regarding such a threat.
Bidondi also had the guts to ask Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick at a second press conference whether the Boston bombing was a false flag attack geared to take away our civil liberties and justify the TSA sticking their hands down our pants. While Gov. Patrick answered Bidondi with a terse, “No,” the ensuing police state takeover of Watertown, Mass., in which police forcibly (and without warrants) evacuated people from their homes, only proved Bidondi’s and Infowars’ prescient knowledge of such events.
As the press conferences were broadcast globally, Bidondi’s voice was heard by millions of people around the world, and as a result (and as we documented) subsequently caused a massive spike in the amount of people curious over the search term “false flag.”
It’s become evident the media did not anticipate Bidondi’s questions. It also appears that he turned the heads of higher ups, chiefly from the Obama administration.
At the FBI’s Thursday press conference, Bidondi was barred from asking any questions whatsoever. It also seems he caused them to prematurely shut down their presentation after only taking about two questions from the media.
As the FBI left the conference, two big, bald men approached Bidondi and blocked his repeated attempts to get a question in.
An Infowars reader has identified one of the men who approached Bidondi as a Secret Service member and specifically one entrusted with protecting Obama himself.
Undoubtedly, this will spur Internet sleuths to investigate if this person truly is a member of Obama’s security detail, which we encourage.
Examine the photos below and tell us what you think:





This would also mean the Obama administration was monitoring the press conference, but for what reason?
More on this as it develops…
Watch the bald men approach Bidondi at about 8:10 into the video below:
Below is a compilation of Bidondi asking questions at the press conferences:

http://www.debka.com/article/22922/Boston-Bombers-Had-Links-to-al-Qaeda-Terrorist-Cells


Boston Bombers Had Links to al Qaeda Terrorist Cells

DEBKAfile Video April 24, 2013, 8:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The surviving Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has every incentive for insisting that he and his brother acted alone and out of “ideological” motives in the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15.

That was predictable.

What is surprising is the acceptance of this claim by his federal interrogators.
He can’t speak because of a wound to the throat. But did they really expect him to write down the names and addresses of his and his brother Tamerlan’s fellow terrorists and associates?
Dzhokhar was formally charged Monday, April 22, with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. The charge related to the twin bombings of the Boston Marathon causing the deaths of three people including an 8-year old boy and injuring 180 others.
One way or another, the 19-year old Dzhokhtar is condemned to die – whether under a federal court sentence or from his injuries.
If he sticks to his story that they brothers acted alone in the cause of Islam, he dies a “a glorious martyr” to the sacred cause, celebrated across the radical Islamic world as a shining inspiration for more terrorist cells to go forth bearing his name.
Politicians are not the only ones who care about their legacies. To achieve this he must refrain from spilling the beans and lead the FBI inquiry up a blind alley.
DEBKA’s counter-terrorism sources say the investigation’s best bet would be to finally follow up on the treasure trove the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation – the FBS - relayed to Washington in 2011. They not only fingered Tamerlan, who died in a shootout with the Boston police, as a “suspect Islamist terrorist” but revealed that he had toured radical Islamic mosques in Dagestan and Chechnya in search of contacts in jihadist terror groups. The Russians also appended a whole list of terrorist suspects of Caucasian descent in the Boston area.
Also worth following up is Barack Obama’s call to Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 19 to thank him for Moscow’s cooperation n the marathon bombing investigation
What was that about? What made Russian assistance valuable enough for the two presidents to agree on better cooperation between the FBI and the FBS?
And the content of a second conversation that took place at the height of the search for the Boston bombers would be highly relevant too. On April 17, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal arrived unannounced at the White House and was immediately received by President Obama. Our sources report that he too handed a high-value dossier from confidential files in Riyadh containing data on clandestine Saudi terrorist cells in the Boston area.
By digging into an unsolved two-year old triple murder, the Boston Globe lifted a corner of the veil on the Tsarnaev brothers’ violent past in the service of radical Islam. The Boston police consequently reopened the case this week and are looking at Tamerlan for the murder of three young Jews found with slashed throats in a Waltham, Massachusetts apartment on Sept. 11, 2011. Brendan Mess was Tamerlan’s close friend, Erik Weissman, a Brandeis University graduate and Raphael Teken a devout Jew.
Look again at the date: The murders took place on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.









By the way , have you noticed the uptick in bomb threats being reported since Boston ? A small sampling.....

http://m.nbcnewyork.com/nbcnewyork/pm_107766/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=Uyfpe2sM


3 NJ Schools Briefly Evacuated After Bomb Threats
BRIAN THOMPSON
Posted:  04/24/2013 3:45 PM
    

Three New Jersey schools were evacuated Wednesday after bomb threats were phoned in for each location, but no suspicious devices were found and children were allowed back inside by midmorning.
Bomb-sniffing dogs and police responded to the three schools in Passaic; Roosevelt School on Harrison Street and Casimir Pulaski School on Fourth Street, both elementary schools, and Hope Academy, a high school serving special education students.

Students and teachers in all the schools were ushered outside and all schools in the district were placed on lockdown as a precaution while authorities swept the buildings.
Officials gave the "all clear" shortly after 10:30 a.m. and students were permitted to return to class.

Authorities believe the same person phoned in all three bomb threats, law enforcement sources tell NBC 4 New York. Passaic Mayor Alex Blanco called the threats "despicable" and said whoever made them "should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Law enforcement sources say the police department has seen an increase in bomb threats across Passaic County in the week since the twin bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 170 others.


http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/crime-and-justice-news/2013-04-jittery-public-hoax-calls-after-boston







After Boston Blasts, Police Report Surge of Phony or Mistaken Bomb Threats

April 23, 2013 10:38:48 am
Someone calls a bomb threat to 911, prompting the evacuation of a local TV station as police race to the scene. It is a hoax. Someone sees a package they think is a bomb, temporarily shuttering a local city hall over terrorism fears. It's a fake. Yet another "suspicious package" is found, this time an abandoned backpack. The Los Angeles Times says the Boston Marathon bombings have left police stretched thin as they are forced to deal with troubling consequences: a surge in bomb squad calls from people who think they've spotted an explosive and an uptick in fake threats from people seeking attention during a time of fear and frayed nerves. "We're getting three- of fourfold the number of bomb squad calls we usually do," said Jim Amormino of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department has seen a similar increase. The Los Angeles Police Department said that since last week's deadly attack in Boston, their bomb squad has been getting five to seven calls a day, a significant increase.
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Bay Area schools see spike in bomb threats since Boston attack



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SF State bomb threat April 22
SF State bomb threat April 22
KTVU.com
SAN FRANCISCO — 
The Bay Area has seen a discernible uptick in the number of bomb threats and reports of suspicious packages in the week since the Boston Marathon bombings.
San Francisco State University was one of the places impacted. There were some tense moments Monday morning after someone found a box with a threatening note inside the Creative Arts building.
Students said it's unsettling and they're on high alert.
The day was just starting for music and theater students when the threat was discovered about 9 a.m. and police were notified.
"It was a small box with a note that said a bomb would go off at a specific time, but there turned out to be no bomb," said SFSU spokeswman Ellen Griffin.
The building was evacuated and police conducted a search.
The all-clear was given about a half hour later when the threat was determined to be a hoax.
At SF State, some students say they've been on edge since the Boston bombings.
"I was really upset. Really worried," said SF State student Eva Schwendemann.
They learned about the threat here from an alert put out by school officials on social media, email and text.
"[I'm] little uneasy. Wherever I go, you never know what's going to happen," said SFSU student Crystal Kelley. She added the text just heightened her concern.
San Francisco police said calls reporting bomb threats and suspicious packages increase after a major incident such as the September 11th terrorist attacks and now the Boston bombings.
Police have some simple advice.
"If you see something, say something," said Officer Carlos Manfredi.
The San Francisco Unified School District said on its web page Monday that it too has received an unspecified threat.
Police told KTVU they take every report seriously.
"It's Murphy's law. You make that one mistake, you fail to act on a serious call because you've done it a hundred times, that will be the time something bad happens," said Manfredi.
In Antioch, Monday afternoon, Deer Vally High School also reported receiving a phone call around 1:45 p.m. saying there was a bomb on campus.
The school was evacuated and police conducted a search but found nothing to substantiate the threat.

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