Is Tamerlan Tsarnaev the New Lee
Harvey Oswald?
Cliff Kincaid — May
1, 2013
The claim that the Russians somehow
“warned” the U.S.
about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamic
connections has been accepted by most news organizations and commentators as
established fact. But while U.S.
intelligence agencies have a lot to explain, the Russian security services have
been treated with kid gloves and even as the “good guys” in this affair.
Russian media, including the
English-language propaganda channel Russia Today (RT), have been insisting that
the U.S. is to blame for the
Boston bombings because vague “warnings” from Moscow were ignored.
It is reminiscent of when Lee Harvey
Oswald, a pro-Castro Marxist who had traveled back and forth to Russia,
assassinated President John F. Kennedy, and the Russian KGB promptly launched a
disinformation campaign in the media blaming right-wingers in Dallas and the
CIA for the murder. The Soviets—and the Cubans—were determined to obscure their
links to the assassin.
The obvious question in this case is: If
the Russian intelligence agencies were suspicious of the brother’s terror ties,
why did they not arrest and imprison him?
The Moscow
regime of Vladimir Putin, a former Soviet KGB officer, rules with an iron fist
and has supposedly been waging a vicious war against Muslim terrorists within
its own borders. So why would they let a suspected terrorist from America come
and go at will? And why, if Tamerlan Tsarnaev had a grudge against the Russians
over their handling of those Muslim regions in Russia,
did he attack the U.S. and
not Russia?
There is something about the Russian angle
that doesn’t add up.
The claim about Russian “warnings” to the U.S. ignores the sensational evidence uncovered
in the 2007 book, Blowing Up Russia, that the Russian security forces are
behind much of the Islamic terrorism that supposedly originates in the Muslim
regions of Russia.
The book was “banned in Russia,”
where journalists investigating the Kremlin get threatened or even murdered.
The book’s co-author, Alexander
Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence agent, not only blamed Moscow for Islamic
terrorism, but said that al-Qaeda terrorist leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been
trained by the KGB and was an agent of the Russian security services.
Litvinenko died in 2006 in London,
where he had fled from the Russian regime, as a result of being poisoned by
Russian intelligence on the orders of Russian President Putin. A film,
“Poisoned by Polonium,” examines how the highly radioactive substance Polonium
was used to kill him.
He gave an interview to a Polish newspaper
in 2006 and said, “The bloodiest terrorists in the world were or are agents of
the KGB-FSB.” The FSB is Russian’s Federal Security Service, a successor to the
KGB.
“I can definitely say that the center of
global terrorism is not in Iraq,
Iran, Afghanistan or the Chechen Republic,”
he said. “The terrorist infection is spread worldwide from Lubyanka Square and the Kremlin cabinet.”
In other words, the Soviet-sponsored
international terror networks of the 1980s did not go away, despite the
collapse of the Soviet economic system.
In the U.S.,
after the Boston
bombings, radio talk-show host Alex Jones made headlines by claiming that the
attacks were a “false flag” intelligence operation staged by the U.S.
Government, so that the bombings could be blamed on Islamists and the “war on
terror” could expand at home and abroad.
But what if there were a Russian
government hand in the bombings? What if Tamerlan Tsarnaev were a Russian
agent?
The FBI says that it “reviewed its records
and determined that in early 2011, a foreign government [Russia] asked
the FBI for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.” The FBI says, “The request
stated that it was based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam
and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he
prepared to leave the United
States for travel to the country’s region to
join unspecified underground groups.”
The statement said, “The FBI requested but
did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign
government.”
It now appears, however, that the Russians
had far more “information” about Tsarnaev than the FBI had. It looks like they
did not share that information but were trying to determine what, if anything,
the FBI and CIA knew about him.
The request was made before his reported
trip to Russia
in 2012. Yet Russia
apparently already knew by then that he was “a follower of radical Islam and a
strong believer” and wanted to join “underground groups.” How did Russia know
this? We have since been told by the media that Russian “authorities” have
turned over wire taps from 2011 of the Tsarnaev family talking to the older
brother.
If the Russians had clean hands they would
not be resorting to sensational claims about his travels and contacts in
Russia, such as the report on the Russia Today (RT) propaganda channel that he
was then under the control of the FBI. This appears to be the real “false flag”
campaign.
Consider the report in the Russian
government newspaper, Izvestia, that Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended “seminars”
organized in Georgia, the former Soviet republic, by the U.S.-based Jamestown
Foundation, where he was “recruited and trained in staging terrorist acts”
against Russia.
The Jamestown Foundation “categorically
rejects the content and premise” of the Izvestia report, the think tank said in
a statement. “The story presented in the Izvestia article is entirely false and
groundless. Our organization has never had any contact with the Tsarnaev
brothers, and we have no record or knowledge of either of them ever attending
any Jamestown event in Washington, DC,
or elsewhere. Furthermore, Jamestown
has never hosted any seminars to train terrorists or subversive agents.”
Significantly, the Jamestown Foundation
has published an article by Valery Dzutsev, drawing attention to the
sympathetic coverage of the parents of the Tsarnaev brothers by official
Russian media. He writes, “On April 28, one of the country’s major TV channels,
NTV, featured an interview with the mother of suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, in
which she again insisted that her sons had been ‘framed.’ The substantive part
of the interview revealed little that was new, but what was interesting was the
very fact that she was featured on a major Russian TV channel. This is normally
not the way relatives of suspected terrorists are treated in Russia.”
To the contrary, he notes, “Russian media
are threatened by the law against ‘propagating terrorism,’ and featuring a
suspected terrorist’s mother would count as such an act.”
The article goes on to say, “If the
Russian security services had prior information about Tamerlan’s attempt to
join the North Caucasian insurgency, then they surely cannot trust his parents.
Yet the Russian security services appear to be courting the parents instead of
persecuting them. Zubeidat and Anzor Tsarnaev reportedly left Dagestan for Moscow. While in Dagestan, the police protected Anzor Tsarnaev from
excessive contacts with journalists. This level of protection for someone whose
sons are accused of terrorist activities, not only abroad, but also
domestically, is highly unusual in Russia.”
In another example of this approach,
Russia Today (RT) has featured an interview with a “journalist” by the name of
Assed Baig, who specializes in writing about “anti-Muslim violence” perpetrated
by the U.S.
and other countries. He tells RT that U.S.
authorities “thought that the Tsarnaevs were only a threat to Russia, not the U.S.” In other words, the
allegation is that Tsarnaev was possibly an American agent. This comports
nicely with the claims made by Alex Jones, who has gone to Russia’s defense in the past, such as when Moscow invaded Georgia and blamed the West for
allegedly interfering in that former Soviet region. Jones has been a frequent
guest on RT.
Soon after the bombings, an RT “team” flew
to Dagestan, with the obvious permission of
Kremlin authorities, to speak to Tsarnaevs’ parents and neighbors. While airing
claims that the FBI was in control of Tsarnaev, even while he was traveling in
Russia, RT has conspicuously failed to investigate what exactly Moscow knew
about his time there and his “underground” connections. This subject is out of
bounds for the Kremlin-funded “news” channel, which never investigates the
activities of the Russian security services.
However, in an article, “How Vladimir
Putin Could Help Boston,” left-wing writer Fred Kaplan stumbled on the truth,
writing, “Russian intelligence services are all over Chechen radicals. That
means that if—and this is a very big if—the Tsarnaevs had ever been in touch
with Chechen radicals or with Islamists elsewhere who have ever been in touch
with Chechen radicals, then Putin’s spy agencies have a record of it.”
The FBI has a lot to answer for in its
handling of this terrorist, as he traveled to and from Russia, but Moscow knows more about Tsarnaev than Putin
is telling us.
It seems incredible that a Russian agent
would organize the bombing of a sporting event in Boston, with the inevitable negative fallout
that would result from revelations about a Russian connection. Former KGB
officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky told me that Russian involvement in the Boston bombings would be extremely counter-productive for Moscow, and would jeopardize and risk exposure for other
Russian intelligence operations in the U.S.
On the other hand, the Russian media are
acting as if Moscow
is guilty of some role in the terror attacks, and that the world’s attention
must therefore be diverted elsewhere.
As Dzutsev puts it, “The Russian security
services’ gradual leaking of information invites more questions than it
answers.Much more information will have to be released in order to understand
why the Tsarnaev brothers turned so violent in Boston.”
One thing is certain: Obama has used the
attacks to seek closer cooperation with the Putin regime.
At his news conference on Tuesday, Obama
said, “The Russians have been very cooperative with us since the Boston bombing.
Obviously, old habits die hard; there are still suspicions sometimes between
our intelligence and law enforcement agencies that date back 10, 20, 30 years,
back to the Cold War. But they’re continually improving. I’ve spoken to
President Putin directly. He’s committed to working with me to make sure that
those who report to us are cooperating fully in not only this investigation,
but how do we work on counterterrorism issues generally.”
It looks like Obama is satisfied with the
propaganda coming from Moscow.
Boston
Micho F.
Spring was the deputy mayor for Boston (MA),
and is a director at the John F. Kennedy Library
Foundation.
Note: Peter
Meade was the public safety coordinator for Boston (MA),
and a director at the John F. Kennedy Library
Foundation.
Kenneth
R. Feinberg is the chairman for the John F. Kennedy Library
Foundation, the victim compensation administrator for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, an adviser on victim claims
after 2014 recall for General Motors,
the administrator for One Fund Boston,
a director at Human Rights First, was the administrator
of victim payments for the 2012 Aurora (CO) theater
shootings, an administrative assistant for Edward M.
Kennedy, and the special master for the September
11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.
One Fund
Boston is the victim assistance fund for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
Harold H. Koh
was a director at Human Rights First,
a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and the State Department legal adviser for the Barack Obama
administration.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Human Rights
First, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund, and the International Rescue
Committee.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and a contributor for the American
Bridge 21st Century.
Martin
S. Indyk was a VP & director of the Foreign Policy Program for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is
a director at the New Israel Fund.
Paul
Egerman is a director at the New Israel Fund,
a trustee at the Boston Medical Center, and was a contributor
for the American Bridge 21st Century.
Richard
B. Slifka is a trustee at the Boston Medical Center,
and was a contributor for the American Bridge 21st
Century.
Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend is the chair for the American Bridge 21st
Century, and was a director at the John F.
Kennedy Library Foundation.
Caroline
B. Kennedy is the honorary president for the John F.
Kennedy Library Foundation, and was a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
William
T. Coleman Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a co-chair emeritus for
the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational
Fund, and was a senior consultant & assistant counsel for the Warren Commission.
Context The Warren
Commission (Connecting the Dots) Past Research for the Warren Commission
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Raben
Group is the lobby firm for the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and Mayors
Against Illegal Guns.
Thomas M.
Menino is a co-chair for Mayors Against Illegal
Guns, and the Boston (MA)
mayor.
John
Francis Fitzgerald was the Boston (MA) mayor,
and John F. Kennedy, Edward M.
Kennedy & Jean Kennedy Smith’s
father.
Jean
Kennedy Smith is John Francis Fitzgerald’s
daughter, and an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee.
William
J. Bratton was the police commissioner for Boston (MA),
the superintendent for the Boston Metropolitan Police,
and is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council.
Lee H.
Hamilton is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory
Council, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Human Rights
First, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the International Rescue
Committee, and the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and is a board member for the International Crisis Group.
Cass R.
Sunstein is a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to Samantha
Power.
Samantha
Power is married to Cass R. Sunstein,
the United Nations U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administration, was a director at the International Rescue Committee, Barack Obama’s
aide, a board member for the International Crisis Group,
and a correspondent for the Boston Globe.
Thomas
R. Pickering is a co-chair for the International Crisis Group,
a distinguished fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), the chairman of review board
that investigated the 2012 attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi,
Libya in 2013,
and a U.S. ambassador for Russia.
Vladimir
Putin is the president of Russia, and was a lieutenant
colonel for the KGB.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
was a board member for the International Crisis Group,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview
with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for
population control by involving the United States in war)
L. Rafael
Reif is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the president of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Tamerlan
Tsarnaev was captured on camera at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), a suspected bomber in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, and the Federal Security Service (Russia) contacted the FBI
& CIA about him.
Franklin
M. Fisher is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), and a director at the New Israel
Fund.
Martin
S. Indyk is a director at the New Israel Fund,
and was a VP & director of the Foreign Policy Program for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Paul
Egerman is a director at the New Israel Fund,
a trustee at the Boston Medical Center, and was a contributor
for the American Bridge 21st Century.
Richard
B. Slifka is a trustee at the Boston Medical Center,
and was a contributor for the American Bridge 21st
Century.
Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend is the chair for the American Bridge 21st
Century, and was a director at the John F.
Kennedy Library Foundation.
Caroline
B. Kennedy is the honorary president for the John F.
Kennedy Library Foundation, and was a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
William
T. Coleman Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a co-chair emeritus for
the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational
Fund, and was a senior consultant & assistant counsel for the Warren Commission.
Context The Warren
Commission (Connecting the Dots) Past Research for the Warren Commission
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
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