WASHINGTON — Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss told Channel 2 Action News late Tuesday afternoon that a law enforcement agency may have had information in advance of the Boston bombings that wasn't properly shared.
"There now appears that may have been some evidence that was obtained by one of the law enforcement agencies that did not get shared in a way that it could have been. If that turns out to be the case, then we have to determine whether or not that would have made a difference," Chambliss said.
Though Chambliss would not get into specifics on the information or whether or not the bombing could have been prevented, he told Channel 2 Action News that they will find out if someone dropped the ball.
"Information sharing between agencies is critical. And we created the Department of Homeland Security to supervise that. We created the National Counter Terrorism Center to be the collection point for all of this information, and we're going to get to the bottom of whether or not somebody along the way dropped the ball on some information and did not share it in a way that it should have been shared." [...]
In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family members said.
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.
SOTT 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...
Officials: Suspect unarmed when arrested in boat
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard.
Authorities originally said they had exchanged gunfire with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAHR’ tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) for more than one hour Friday evening before they were able to subdue him.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation, say investigators recovered a 9 mm handgun believed to have been used by Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan, from the site of a gun battle Thursday night, which injured a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer. Dzhokhar was believed to have been shot before he escaped.
The officials tell The Associated Press that no gun was found in the boat. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said earlier that shots were fired from inside the boat.
dantem said:The 'Black Ops' team guys with the skull logo have been identified with 'The Craft'. There's already so much around by googling or youtubeing 'Boston Bombings The Craft', that it look as yet as another counter-op to spread disinfo
ScottD said:dantem said:The 'Black Ops' team guys with the skull logo have been identified with 'The Craft'. There's already so much around by googling or youtubeing 'Boston Bombings The Craft', that it look as yet as another counter-op to spread disinfo
Interesting that the sniper that was killed recently at the gun range, Chris Kyle, was the President of The Craft. Did he know what was coming down the line, disagreed with it, and have to be eliminated?
Chris Kyle - Death
On Saturday, February 2, 2013, Kyle and a companion, Chad Littlefield, were shot and killed at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range in Erath County, Texas[16] by 25-year-old fellow veteran Eddie Ray Routh, whom Kyle and Littlefield had purportedly taken to the gun range in an effort to help him with his post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[17][18]
Local police captured Routh after a short freeway chase, which ended when Routh, who had left the scene of the shootings in Kyle's Ford F-350 truck, crashed into a police cruiser. Routh was arrested just before 9 p.m. the same day in Lancaster, Texas.[19] Erath County sheriffs said the motive for the killing was unclear.[20] Routh, from Lancaster, was arraigned February 2, 2013, on two counts of capital murder, according to Sgt. Lonny Haschel of the Texas Department of Public Safety. He was taken to the Erath County Jail for holding under a $3 million bond.[21]
A memorial service was held for Kyle at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on February 11, 2013. Kyle was buried on February 12, 2013, in Austin, Texas, after a funeral procession from Midlothian, Texas, to Austin, stretching over 200 miles. Thousands of local residents lined Interstate 35 to view the procession and pay their final respects to Kyle.
The question that remains is why the siblings would attack their adoptive nation. But a picture began to emerge Friday of Tamerlan Tsaernaev as an aggressive, possibly radicalized imigrant [. . .]
But as friends and neighbors pieced together recollections of the terrorism suspects and their family, a picture emerged of an older brother who seemed to grow increasingly religious and radical [. . .]
Was Tamerlan the disaffected radical and Dzhokhar the gullible kid brother?
But they also fit the profile of a growing danger faced by American communities: disaffected young people, prone to one form of radicalization or another, hoping to act out their frustrations in a blaze of carnage.
[. . .] investigators are looking for links to overseas terrorists. Thebrothers are just the kind of young people such networks are pursuing: amateur operatives with "clean hands" - that is, no previous ties to radical groups to put them on watch lists. But the brothers could just as easily have been "self-radicalized," like the chaplain who perpetuated the shootings at Fort Hood.
Young people without secure family relationships and communities are prone to radicalism of many varieties. The appeal of a charismatic imam isn't all that different than a charismatic white supremacist, anti-abortion militant, or animal-rights extremist: All have been known to motivate bombings in the past.
The burden of keeping young people from radicalism falls, inevitably, on parents and families, communities, and ultimately law enforcement.
And yet it appears that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsaenaev found radicalism - or it found them.
This is a threat that can't be contained through fences or wars, even though new security efforts should be pursued. Rather, it ahs to be fought at the human level. The best way to protect communities in Boston and across the nation is by combating foul and extremist ideologies of all stripes, through monitoring, countering with moderate appeals, reaching out to vulnerable young people, and calling the authorities when necessary.
Over time, the older brother, Tamerlan, became a more radical figure.
Yeah, things are not looking so good these days, but then I think of what the C's said in the session from December 29, 2009:
Q: (L) Could it be said that what we're doing is actually inducing these controlling actions?
A: Yes but that is actually good because it means that their desperation is being driven and they will make more mistakes and turn the masses against them sooner.
Q: (L) So the more positive things we do, and the more creative we become, the more it drives them to try to suppress and repress things in indirect ways to try to suppress and repress us without suppressing and repressing us directly - because that would be too obvious - and by so doing, they show their hand so to speak?
A: Yes"
anart said:jasminum said:I do choose otherwise, although it looks like I do not know what it means in practice. As to waking people up my idea was that I need to Work on myself in order to wake up myself first, at least to extent to be able to pass the knowledge to those who ask.
Of course - my main point here is that a person should strive to be response-able - to be capable of reacting to circumstances in a way that does not compromise the truth or their soul, and to be willing to do so because there IS a truth here. That's really the whole point, that we should strive to not be frightened, mindless sheep so easily herded.
j said:Also my idea was that it is a main purpose of our waking up - that if critical mass of awakened people would be achieved, things are going to change in material 3D plane, though I do not know in what way it will manifest, perhaps acting in such circumstances.
Perhaps, I don't know for certain either. All I do know is that if we don't base our thoughts and actions on truth and what is the right thing to do (to the extent we can do it and that is variable) in any specific circumstance, we're already lost.
j said:But what it means in terms of acting in this particular situation I still do not understand and I think that your post does not really answer it. It sounds to me (maybe I am wrong) like you are being impatient with me, like since I am here I should already know.
Not at all, what I'm doing is simply pointing out that you are regurgitating all of the programming that has been installed over the past dozen years as if it is the truth. It only becomes the truth if you follow it - and you don't have to. You're the one who brought up Nazi Germany and how a handful of soldiers controlled masses of people through fear - that's exactly how it works when people buy into the programming that has been installed over the last dozen years.
j said:I just imagine myself being there and I wonder what I could do? Practically. Realistically. I do not think I am buying into what they want us to believe, but aren’t we often powerless in many practical situations in life and we have to go with them?
If you think you are powerless, you are buying into what they want you to believe. The battle is through us, jasminum and it is a battle of the mind/heart/soul.