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The vaccine is coming. The Cool Zone is experiencing a warm spell. The cries of "Truml", "Trimp", and "Turg" have mellowed to a gentle murmer. The forums have devolved into debating whether Taintrunner is a lib. The earth is healing. The libs have gone back to brunch.  I've been trying to keep my mind as sharp as possible during the down time, and have started to crack open a few books that have been recommended in the Epstein thread. The problem is there are too many for my semi-fuctional, C-Spam addled brain to handle. So I reach out to my fellow broke-brained posters for aid in this task.  While we have the book thread for general book discussion, I would like to have a repository for any common knowledge we gain from reading books about how this hell world came to be. So here is my proposal: If you got the stones (and the free time) for it, grab a book, crack the spine, and get to reading. When you're done, provide a review, a summary or analysis. Was it good? Bad? Would you reccomend it? What were the key take-aways for those of us who won't be reading it? I'll keep track of goon contributions for easy browsing. Here is a preliminary list of books, most of which were recommended in the Epstein thread. If any of these strike your fancy, them go ahead and claim one. Most are of the conspiratorial variety, but if you know a non-fiction book that is sufficiently C-SPAM,  Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties Tom O'Neil A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. We already have a thread for this one so go ahead and just read that thread instead.  The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & BetrayalNick Bryant. A chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places. Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex Yasha Levine. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project.Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism Micheal Parenti. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti’s trademark.Washington Bullets Vijay Prashad. A history of CIA coups and assassinations.The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also a burgeoning social epidemic was groundbreaking. His diagnosis of American culture is even more relevant today, predicting the limitless expansion of the anxious and grasping narcissistic self into every part of American life. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Now Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA—and everything is on the record. LEGACY OF ASHES is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossFshahus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder David McGowan. An Alternate view into serial killers, violent crime, & human trafficking. Supposedly a lot more speculative than many more on this list. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror Stephen Kinzer. Operation Ajax and the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh. NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe Daniele Ganser. This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War II. The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century Christopher Simpson. The 'Rat Lines.' Or how the CIA rescued Nazi war criminals and how international law and commerce encourages mass killings. Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy Christopher Simpson. Proabably a similar topic, actually showing where these Nazis went and what they did. The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump Max Blumenthal. The Rise of jihad and western ultra-nationalism. Operation Mind Control Walter H. Bowart. Written all the way back in 1977. Linking Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray and Sirhan Sirhan with Operation Mind Control. Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America Kurt Andersen. Ther re-emmergence of the right wing in economics and law, and liberal "useful idiots." Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right Jane Mayer. Going into the right-wing influence networks funding libertarian ideas and the Koch network. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion Gary Webb. The immergence of crack-cocaine and the link to the CIA and contra affair. Gary Webb committed "suicide" after the book came out. The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan Michael Hastings. Expose on the Afghan war which led to Stanley McCrystal's resignation. Micheal Hasting's car mysteriously accelerated to a deadly crash. 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So here's a book that was a low priority on my book list. But something about "Guy blows up his RV outside an AT&T building that was a major communications hub but wasn't known publicly as such. Also the guy's girlfriend called the cops saying that he was building bombs, and they showed up put very little effort into finding said bombs, and then tried to get the lady committed to a mental institution" made me decide to bump it up the queue. So I present to you: Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI and the Road to the Marathon Bombing by Michele R. McPhee  Quotes directly from the book, (italicized items in quotes added by me) The prologue covers the actual day of the Boston marathon bombing. The carnage caused was legitimately horrifying, especially as the pressure-cooker bombs were placed on ground level in the middle of tighly packed crowds. Dozens of lost limbs, mostly legs and 2 women and a young boy lost their lives, the details are genuinely  . It is, however, darkly humorous how often a cop on the scene is interviewed and it goes something like "Police Sargeant Sean O'BlackKidBeater was in the infantry in Iraq and said, "There was blood everywhere, I expect that kind of carnage in Fallujah, but not here!'" without the slightest twinge of irony.But if the day of the bombings were tragedy, the manhunt quickly devolves into farce. It's obvious very early that the while the BPD and FBI are investigating the bombing, the the feds are watching the cops. quote:“We got a report of a suspicious vehicle,” Lowe told the driver. “Can I ask why you are parked here?” This is a pattern we'll see over and over again; the FBI behaves in a way in which they know more about the bombers than they'll admit to. quote:The Boston Marathon attack was at the forefront of everyone’s minds and was the focus of dozens of federal agents who flew in from all over the country to assist agents in the FBI’s Boston field office, as well as every rank-and-file cop in the state and (Officer) DiFava. In the months before the marathon bombings, MIT had its own set of problems that did not, at first glance, appear to have anything to do with the bloodbath on Boylston Street. Four days after the bombings, MIT police officer Sean Collier gets murdered on routine patrol by Tamerlan, and his little brother Dzhokhar attempts to take his gun, but can't get past Collier's holster lock. Tamerlan then carjacks a Chinese business man, Dun Meng and forces Meng to drive him around Boston, picking up his little brother Dzhokhar, who load equipment into Meng's mercedes and follows in another car. Meng later manages to slip out of the car and run to a gas station, where the clerk calls 9-11. quote:That same night another incident sent Cambridge police officers racing to the area around MIT. Around 10:20 P.M., at the same time Collier was murdered, a bearded man in a floppy hat pulled a gun on a clerk at a 7-Eleven—while talking on his cell phone. The robber held up the convenience store while calmly chatting with someone. A patrol car notices Meng's Mercedes, and as he begins to follow, the brothers leave their car and start shooting. A shootout ensues as more cops begin to show up. Tamerlan begins throwing pipe bombs and another pressure-cooker bomb at the police. quote:Looking toward MacLellan, he knew his sergeant hadn’t seen the size of the bomb. Reynolds grabbed MacLellan’s shoulder and pulled him along. The blast knocked both policemen and Floyd to their knees and terrified everyone in the neighborhood. All the cops on the scene agree that two hand guns were being fired at the police, and Dun Meng would later state that both brothers had guns. Which would raise the question why only one gun is ever found, and. if they acted alone, they would need to try to get a third gun by killing Collier. One cop almost died from a gunshot to the groin, and another suffers head trauma from a blast that would countirbute to his death from an aneurism a year later. Eventually Tamerlan's gun jams and Pugliese rushes to tackle him. No one notices Dzhokhar get back into the Mercedes where he tries to run over Pugliese. He barely misses and hits Tamerlan then drives away and escapes on foot. Tamerlan dies in an ambuance a few minutes later. A manhunt begins for suspect 2 (Dzhokhar). quote:FBI agents then congregated at a two-family house at 89 Dexter Avenue in Watertown that would soon become a focus of the Boston Marathon bombings investigation, one that would be conducted in top secrecy by the FBI. This was the two-family house that the carjacking victim Dun Meng told investigators the smaller carjacker emerged from when Meng pulled up with the larger man. Agents went into the house multiple times on the night that Meng reported its address to police. quote:Every fragment of evidence needed to be processed and catalogued. In the first twenty-four hours after the dual blasts were detonated, the FBI computer forensics teams had amassed an astonishing ten terabytes of data, enough to fill the hard drives of ten high-end laptop computers. Every shred of material had been painstakingly collected during three straight days of work at the Boylston Street crime scene by agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), working with BPD crime scene technicians and even firefighters from Ladder 15/Engine 33, who used ladders to retrieve shrapnel from rooftops. Empire comes home. A wounded Dzhokhar hids himself in a boat, where we finds a pencil and writes: quote:I’m jealous of my brother who has received the reward of jannutul Firdaus heaven inshallah before me. I do not mourn because his soul is very much alive. God has a plan for each person. Mine was to hide in this boat and shed some light on our actions. I ask Allah to make me a shahied, to allow me to return to him and be among all the righteous people in the highest levels of heaven. Note: [hole] means a bullet hole. The SWAP team properly ventilated the boat. quote:McCarthy was among the bomb scene technicians who made their way to the stolen Mercedes. The SUV’s doors were open, and on the floorboard in the backseat on the driver’s side was a plastic container with a long piece of green hobby wire (part of an explosive’s chain that acts to ignite items like fireworks or toy rockets, hobby wire burns down and then hits an explosive charge to spark a blast). The boat owner finds a bloodied man in the boat and calls the police. A SWAT team arrives, fully kitted out with M4 rifles and gear and surround the boat. quote:The FBI was about to throw flash-bang and stun grenades into the boat to disorient the suspect. “There is movement on top of the stairs. Beware of booby traps,” a dispatcher transmitted over the radio. These SWAT idiots almost ventilated each other given that they surrounded the boat. Just the kind of competence you expect from {In Mark Whalberg voice:} "Ouha fine boys in blueh!" {Beats Vietnamese man}
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PART 2: I HAVE NO CRACK, YET I MUST PINGquote:In 2002 the odd jobs dried up for Anzor(The Father), and he had some trouble with local government officials. Anzor and Zubeidat (Mother) successfully applied for a ninety-day tourist visa to visit family members in the Boston area.2 Even though it was one of nearly a dozen moves the family had made, this time they were leaving the country. Zubeidat met her family for a last goodbye before she left. The mood was subdued. For once, Zubeidat was quiet and acting like a dutiful wife to Anzor. For one thing, would be his family they would be relying on for help in the United States—in particular, his younger brother Ruslan Tsarni (he had changed his surname). A lawyer, Ruslan had moved to the United States in 1995 and had become an American citizen after marrying the daughter of a Russian-speaking CIA official, a Harvard University graduate who had served as the vice chair of the National Intelligence Council, a prestigious post reserved for the most revered spooks. Two copies of Tamerlan's immigration file. The one one the left looks like Tamerlan, the one one right does not.   Let't take a closer look, shall we?  Not only is the shirt a pixel-perfect copy, so is the neck, mouth and hairline (though it has been stretched a bit on the right, perhaps due to the photocopy machine.) If one looks like it's been touched up, its definitely the left one, but it's a bit hard to know for certain.  So let's recap, the Tsarnaev familiy was in the US because a spook wanted them there. And I mean wanted him here enough to fake immigration documents. And not just any spook. Some independant research here: Graham Fuller is supposedly the man who convinced CIA Director Bill Casey and the Reagan Administration to recruit fundamentalist Muslim Salafists or Jihadists from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and elsewhere, train them in techniques of guerilla insurgency and send them against the Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. And was the Kabul station chief up until the Soviets invasion of Afghanistan. Not well reported on (for obvious reasons) was that Mujahadeen fighters were leading attacks against the Soviet Union proper, launched out of Afghanistan. It seems inconvievable that Fuller did not at minimum know about these attacks, if not materially support them. Fuller was also akey CIA figure in convincing the Reagan Administration to tip the balance in the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war by using Israel to channel weapons to Iran in what became the Iran-Contra Affair. As well, in 1999, around the time his daughter Samantha and “Uncle” Ruslan Tsarnaev lived at his home near Washington, Fuller, former Deputy Director of the CIA’s National Council on Intelligence, then a senior figure at the Pentagon and CIA-linked RAND corporation, advocated using Muslim forces to further US interests in Central Asia. Stating: “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against [the Russians]. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.” We should also note that Ruslan has worked in the past for companies tied to Dick Cheney’s Halliburton as well as a “consultant” in Kazakhstan with the State Department’s USAID which has been identified as a CIA front. Also, WHY THE gently caress WOULD YOU NEED TO FAKE THE PICTURES, UNLESS YOU KNEW YOU WERE RECRUITING A SPOOK? Shortly after the move, Ruslan moves to D.C. He has a strong dislike for Zubeidat, whom he blames for the children going rotten. Tamerlan's sisters turn into unwed teenage mothers, and Tamerlan gets arrested for beating his girlfriend, they break up and he starts a new relationship with Katherine Russell. Her mother is horrified in 2010 when Katherine starts wearing a hijab and begins studying the Quran. Katherine grows distant from her family and friends. quote:Tamerlan was not just verbally and physically abusive; he was also a womanizer who cheated on Katherine repeatedly. The cheating came as a relief to (Kathrine's mother) Judy, she said: “I didn’t really want her to be with him. I didn’t think they were a good match. He didn’t seem to have any—[pause]. The only thing he had passion about, what really was driving him was boxing at that point. So he didn’t really have a job.” Brendan Mess lived in an apartment in Waltham, dating a "smoking hot" Sudanese woman named Hibatalla Eltilib. Hiba had recently been trying to convert Brendan to Islam, and he was unreceptive. During one fight she exploded and threw beer bottles and knives at him, and he kicked her out. quote:Erik was excited when he got to Brendan’s. It was going to be their first boys’ night in a while. Brendan and Erik had been friends for a long time, even though Brendan was twenty-five and Erik thirty-one. Both men were from Cambridge and had graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin. Raphael “Rafi” Teken—at thirty-seven, the oldest of the group of friends—was a rich kid who had gone to private school, but he enjoyed the company of Erik and Brendan. All three were regulars at Wai Kru, the mixed martial arts gym in nearby Brighton that Tamerlan Tsarnaev also frequented. Tonight the boys planned to smoke weed and stay in. Rafi had never been a fan of Hiba either, so when Erik walked in, they high-fived each other that the crazy bitch was gone and they could go back to the lifestyle they liked. They also liked to record that lifestyle in cell phone videos, like the one that showed Brendan at a pool party taking a deep drag on a fat blunt and then blowing it out, smiling, and declaring it “extra funky.”3 Brendan had no room in his life for drama—even if it came from a smoking hot woman, and especially when she started to say what his friends would remember as “a lot of controversial poo poo.” Everyone and their dog suspects Tamerlan. quote:But Tamerlan was conspicuously absent from the service and the funeral. “It’s no coincidence that the last time I saw my friend Brendan alive he was walking out of that fight with that kid Tam,” said Wood. “I really thought I would have been coaching that kid [Brendan] in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Brendan’s no saint, he liked to party. But nothing that he was into should have taken him to his end.” Good to know the FSB was watching him. I'm glad there are actual adults in charge. quote:The Russians were very worried about Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his crazy mother, Zubeidat, and, in an unusual move, they shared their concerns with their counterterrorism counterparts in the United States. There had long been tensions between the American FBI and the Russian FSB. FSB agents had been known to break into apartments of American agents and defecate on their pillows. (Whom amongst us hasn't dropped a hot one on a fed's pillow? Be honest...) The relationship between the two countries—both of which were trying to eradicate Islamic terrorism—was based more on need than trust, to say the least. Ok, so let's do a little recap: Tamerlan exchanged texts with an Islamist sympathizer in Russia, and the FSB warns the FBI, and the FBI sends a mother-loving spook to give Tamerlan the all-clear to travel to Russia. A loving redacted organization wiaves his fees, and he flies to Russia without a hitch, DESPITE BEING ON SEVERAL TERROSIT WATCH LISTS AND BEING THE CHIEF SUSPECT IN A TRIPLE HOMICIDE. Everything seems to be on the up-and-up, really. quote:When Tamerlan left the United States for Russia just months later, his presence on those lists should have raised alarm bells. Somehow it didn’t. Defense attorneys for Dzhokhar would soon make an accusation in a court filing, writing that “the FBI made more than one visit to talk with Anzor, Zubeidat and Tamerlan, questioned Tamerlan about his internet searches, and asked him to be an informant,” a claim the FBI would quickly deny: “The FBI checked U.S. government databases and other resources to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history. The FBI also interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and family members. The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign, and those results were provided to the foreign government in the summer of 2011.” How odd that the FBI warns about American Jihadis and then one pops up and does a terrorism, and then invariably their funding increases. Nothing can be gleamed from that at all. Nope, nothing. quote:Muslim informants have become a controversial topic since 9/11. It is no secret that the same techniques the FBI used to flip informants in the drug wars were redirected toward finding so-called mosque crawlers to inform on radical Muslims after 9/11. The practice had led to multiple lawsuits filed by Muslims who said that police had infiltrated dozens of mosques and student groups, which was tantamount to unconstitutional profiling. Lol: quote:The Islamic Society of Boston was started in 1982 by a loose association of Muslim student organizations at Harvard University, Boston University, MIT, Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute, Suffolk University, and Tufts University. One of the students involved was Abdurahman Alamoudi, who would become the founder of the society’s first mosque, at a building on Prospect Street that had been a Knights of Columbus hall. Alamoudi is currently serving twenty-three years for terrorism after being arrested in 2003 in London on US federal charges that he had funneled money to Al Qaeda. He eventually pleaded guilty to three charges of illegal financial transactions with the Libyan government, unlawful procurement of citizenship, impeding administration of the Internal Revenue Service, and receiving more than $500,000 in cash from Libyan officials as part of a bizarre plot to assassinate a Saudi prince. drat. Alamoudi has selfies with two presidents. He's tied with my other role-model, Jefferey Epstein. Tamerlan wasn't stopped when he left Logan airport, not when he transferred at JFK, nor was he stopped when he arrived in Moscow. He must just be a really lucky guy. He meets with his mother's cousin, a cleric with radical sermons. quote:“Tamerlan knew a lot about Magomed from his mother, who had been texting with him. He didn’t wait long to ask Magomed to help him achieve the goal that had brought him to Russia. He told Magomed: “I want to go into the forests. I want to train. I want to go to Syria. I came here to get involved in jihad.” Magomed was suspicious of Tamerlan's new-found devotion. He knew his parents weren't particularly devout. And Nor was he as radical as Tamerlan seemed to think we was. Also at this time Zebeidat (Tamerlan's Mother) returns to Dagestan, after getting arrested shoplifting $1,600 in designer clothes. Why a fundamentalist in a burka would want such clothes casts some doubt into the legitimacy of her religeous devoution. quote:Magomed was not a bomber or a beheader of infidels. But he certainly didn’t condemn his Muslim brethren who used violence as a tool. Those men included Mamakaev Rizvan, the former husband of Tamerlan’s sister Bella—another person whom the FSB had found was exchanging frightening text messages with his former mother-in-law supporting jihad. The FSB warned the FBI that Mamakaev was considered an extremist, a warning that the FBI would dismiss as questionable intelligence because the text messages had been obtained illegally. The FBI was happy to put Tamerlan on whe watch list just because the FSB warned them, but not Mamakaev. Man, the FBI really finds interesting times to care about legality. quote:Mamakaev was among the men who attended the Kotrova Street mosque, where Salafism was preached and a black flag now associated with ISIS hung over the door. It was known as a hotbed of terrorism and was constantly under surveillance by Russian antiterrorism agents. That’s where Tamerlan had met Mamakaev for the drive into the rural area where Magomed lived. Tamerlan’s mother had another former son-in-law who traveled with Tamerlan and Mamakaev on those visits-Elmirza Khozhugov, Ailina’s (Tamerlan's sister) former husband, to whom she had been introduced by her Uncle Ruslan.  quote:“I saw everything on Russian television,” Magomed told the two FBI special agents who visited the penal colony where he was being held on June 5, 2013. The FSB had already been there to interview him weeks earlier. On the wikipedia on the Jamestown Foundation, as you can guess, it's the biggest group of spooks that ever spooked: quote:The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.C.-based institute for research and analysis. Founded in 1984 as a platform to support Soviet defectors, its stated mission today is to inform and educate policy makers about events and trends, which it regards as being of current strategic importance to the United States. Jamestown publishes publications that focus on China, Russia, Eurasia, and global terrorism. From Wikpedia on the Kavkaz center: quote:The Kavkaz Center (KC; Russian: Кавказ-центр, romanized: Kavkaz-centr, lit. 'Caucasus Center') is a privately run website/portal which aims to be "a Chechen internet agency which is independent, international and Islamic".[1] The stated mission of the site is to report events related to Chechnya and also to "provide international news agencies with news-letters, background information and assistance in making independent journalistic work in Caucasus".
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quote:After Tamerlan returned to the United States in July 2012, he stayed in touch with Magomed using the Russian social networking site VK (that country’s version of Facebook) quote:He (Plotnikov) still had traces of the middle-class young man he had been with a Western education, a closet crammed with designer ensembles, a quick wit, and the nickname “Willy.” In high school he had talked about joining the Canadian army. Now he was living in the woods undergoing terrorism training. Chechen rebels have been found fighting alongside Al Qaeda insurgents all over the world. In fact, one such terrorist trained in Chechnya was Nawaf Alhazmi, who boarded American Airlines Flight 11 on the morning of September 11, 2001, and with his younger brother, Salem Alhazmi, slit the throats of two flight attendants as the plane left Logan Airport and hurtled toward the World Trade Center towers with Muhammad Atta at the controls, according to the 9/11 Commission Report. Interesting how often Islamists that are supported by the CIA (in this case Fuller) come back to attack the USA. quote:“The Canadian” would not be hard for the FSB to locate. Even after he shed his expensive clothing for camouflage, he stuck out among the Chechens in Dagestan. Plotnikov was picked up and interrogated after his father called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who contacted their counterterrorism counterparts in Russia. But there was not a lot Russian investigators could do. Plotnikov had every right to be in the country. He was Russian by birth, and the missing person’s report filed by his parents (in Canada) would not be enough to compel him to go home. Certainly, his Internet activity was a concern, but not a crime. The FSB demanded that Plotnikov give its agents the names of all of his contacts in Canada and the United States who were English-speaking Russian natives and who, like him, identified with the beliefs of the Caucasus Emirate. Some of those contacts came from the online network World Association of Muslim Youth, whose website was riddled with propaganda from Al Qaeda sympathizers. Russian Interior Ministry forces surrounded the compound and a harrowing gun battle ensued, losing one man, but eventually killing the insurgents. quote:The Russian Interior Ministry’s National Anti-Extremism Center (NAC) released a statement that praised the Utamysh killings and hinted at how the terrorist enclave had been discovered. “We received information about their possible movements from an informant,” quote:High-level generals in the Pentagon and CIA agents likely exchanged classified intelligence regarding the successful Russian raid in the Northern Caucasus. The region had become an international problem not just because of persistent internecine war between Chechens and the Russian Federation, but also because of its geography. It is located at Europe’s doorway into Asia and contains critical oil and gas pipelines. World leaders were interested in Russian oil, and many of them paid attention when seven armed militants with a history of targeting civilians in Chechnya and Dagestan were killed in the troubled Caucasus. Any reduction in the number of Islamic insurgents there was indeed something to crow about. So Tamerlan spends 6 months in a insurgent hotspot, loses his passport, and the 2 separate Islamist leaders he meets with get iced, and he runs back to the US and is waived through security by the same Customs agent (Jim Bailey) that added him to the terror watchlist (TECS) in the first place. quote:“The DHS secretary at the time of the Boston Marathon blasts, Janet Napolitano, was grilled about lapses at a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on immigration in April 2013. Napolitano said that even though Tsarnaev’s name had been misspelled, redundancies in the DHS computer system allowed US authorities to be aware of his departure from the country in January 2012. But she said that by the time he “came back six months later, an FBI alert on him had expired, so his reentry was not noted. “The system pinged when he was leaving the United States. By the time he returned all investigations had been closed,” Napolitano testified.” Thought I'd give you some relation to the Pulse Nightclub shooter, as a treat. quote:“During the height of Hoover’s COINTELPRO operations in the 1960s and 1970s, the FBI had roughly 1,500 informants. In the 1990s the drug wars brought that number up to about 6,000. Then, after 9/11, the FBI recruited so many new informants—including derelicts looking for leniency in their own legal problems or upcoming jail sentences, liars looking for immigration favors, Muslims looking for revenge on the members of competing Islamic sects, and narcissistic egomaniacs who wanted to be revered as a Jason Bourne‒type figure—that it had to hire an outside software company to help agents track their secret spies. Today, there are anywhere from 15,000 to 20,000 snitches on the FBI’s payroll, and many of them are “mosque crawling” to inform on fellow Muslims in the United States and overseas, as part of a preemptive counterterrorism initiative that former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly helped create by recruiting Muslims who took the civil service test to become police officers. He would send appropriate applicants a letter that they had been accepted into the police academy. Meanwhile they were trailed, evaluated, and—if selected by commanders of the NYPD initiative, trained like CIA operatives before being placed in undercover operations all over the country.”
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PART 3: You know that old joke about a Communist meeting where every member is a spook reporting on every other member? A mosque works the same way.quote:Khairullozhon Matanov couldn’t keep quiet any longer. The Quincy cab driver turned to his passenger, a businesswoman named Ann Munson whom he picked up most mornings to drive to the MBTA’s station in Braintree so she could take the Red Line into town. “Those guys on TV,” he said. “The bombers. I know them. I was just at their house. I was at their house that night. They are from Chechnya.” Munson convinces Matanov to go to the police, where he tells the police about his friendship with Tamerlan. The FBI begins to tail him with a low flying plane and follows him around the clock. quote:“On September 11, 2011, Khairullozhon Matanov, the cab driver who had dinner with the bomber brothers on the night of the Boston Marathon attack a year and a half later, came home just after 10:30 P.M. to find the door to his Brighton apartment open and unlocked. He was perplexed, but not panicked. He was letting his friend Ibragim Todashev crash at his place, and Ibragim had already proven irresponsible about things, like locking the door behind him. He dialed his roommate’s phone and heard it ring in the bathroom. The shower was running. Khairullozhon went into his garage where he could steal his neighbor’s wireless signal and download some videos on his laptop. Ibragim came in a few minutes later and said, “I’m leaving town.” He had three duffel bags packed in his room, and his laptop under his arm. A car was waiting outside. Khairullozhon helped him carry the bags out. As they hugged goodbye, Ibragim gave his EBT card to Khairullozhon, scribbling the PIN on the top so his friend could withdraw the cash still available on it, and returned the spare key to the apartment. Khairullozhon went back inside and threw away the towel[…]” Turns out all district attorneys are bastards, who'd thunk? In April 2010, Ibragim got in a fight after getting in a fender-bender. Three police officers had to hold him down to subdue him. Normally, getting in a fight with police can be grounds for deportation, but strangely nothing happend to him. Nor was he surveilled after the Waltham killings. quote:And on May 4, just weeks before the Massachusetts investigators’ arrival in Florida, FBI agents from the Tampa field office had been surveilling Ibragim’s movements with low-flying surveillance planes and around-the-clock teams when they saw him get into an argument over a parking spot with a father and his son. It was vicious. Ibragim tried to pull his white Mercedes into the spot at an outlet mall that the other two men had been waiting for. The father yelled: “No way, I was here first. My blinker was on.”15 All hell broke loose. The argument turned into a fistfight. The son was knocked unconscious and lost several teeth. His father was badly bloodied. The FBI watched the entire event but could not intervene. It was their job to watch a possible terrorist, not stop a felonious assault. Off-duty Orange County Deputy Sheriff Larry Clifton responded to a 911 call placed by a passerby and arrested Ibragim for aggravated battery. Clifton wrote in his report: “I immediately recognized the marks on his ears as [those of] a cage fighter/jujitsu fighter. I know from training, experience, and watching a lot of sanctioned fights how dangerous these men can be. I told this suspect that if he tried to fight with us I would shoot him.”16 With that warning Ibragim quieted down and was taken into custody. According to the FBI, Ibragim began to write out a confession, then threw a coffee table at one agent, then grabbed a broom and started to charge the other agent, so he had to put seven bullets in him. The FBI has such a sterling reputation, I have no reason to doubt their side of the story at all. quote:Ibragim’s death became an international incident. His father, Abdul-Baki Todashev, held a press conference in Moscow where he called the FBI agents “bandits” who had tortured and executed his son. “I want justice and an investigation in accordance with American laws to punish those who are guilty,” Abdul-Baki Todashev said. “They were not FBI employees, but bandits.”20 He held pictures of his dead son’s bullet-riddled body over his head and described the carnage as a scene out of a movie. Of course, Ibragim was not a US citizen. He was instead, like Tamerlan, a lawful permanent resident holding a Russian passport. His brushes with the law should have led to deportation hearings, but that never happened. Tatiana Gruzdeva, his girlfriend, who had been arrested as leverage against him, would not be so lucky: she was deported. quote:One of the questions that died with Ibragim Todashev was about a gun that was stashed “for protection” at 12 Harding Avenue in Waltham, a gun that went missing after the murders. The gun belonged to Brendan Mess, Hiba Eltilib, his girlfriend, told investigators in the hours after she saw the bodies of her boyfriend (with his throat slashed ear to ear) and his friends (sexually mutilated, with their necks sliced by a blade as well). Left in the apartment was $5,000 in cash and thousands of dollars’ worth of hydroponic marijuana, but the gun was gone, she said. Ibragim had been in the process of confessing to the robbery that he committed with Tamerlan on September 11, 2011, when he died. He never got around to writing exactly what they had stolen. 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Part 5: quote:But then a man named Daniel Morley was arrested for attacking his mother, and with that arrest came the discovery of a massive cache of bomb-making materials, including a giant pressure cooker concealed in a duffel bag along with blue surgical gloves, a machete, Russian assault rifles, and an empty box that had contained the exact size and brand of pressure cooker—a six-quart Fagor—used in the bombs that had exploded at the Boston Marathon’s finish line.” Somethine weird happened as they were arresting Morley: quote:Before long, FBI agents from the Boston field office showed up, which struck the cops on the scene as strange. No one had called the FBI yet. One bomb squad technician would later say, “It was very surprising to us that the FBI responded immediately to a scene for a crackpot.” The commanding officers from the MSP and the Topsfield Police Department looked at one another with raised eyebrows. Did you call them?, the questioning looks said. Both shook their heads. The FBI hadn’t been notified, and it was unusual for them to respond without being summoned by a police official. No one knew if they had overheard the radio transmission to Topsfield PD, which was unlikely, or if they had gotten a call from someone inside the house. Ah, the lame kind of anarchists. quote:“I never purchased a firework in my life and I didn’t know why I was suddenly getting these flyers,” David explained.10 He was puzzled that his girlfriend’s son was not being looked at more closely, especially given the government’s fears that a large network was involved in the marathon bombing plot. It was something that had been discussed by public officials and had been covered by the press after the US Attorney’s office filed a motion for a search warrant at the Tsarnaevs’ home. Hmm, prosecutors mentioned a machete that was never found. Perhaps because it was used to slit the throats of the Waltham victims. quote:“The machete is part of another mystery that continues to swirl around Daniel: the unsolved 7-Eleven robbery that took place at 10:20 P.M. on Thursday, April 18—at the same time Collier was murdered. A video of the robbery shows a man talking on a cell phone while he robbed the clerk of less than $29 in cash. Initially police officials, including MSP Colonel Tim Alben (now retired), blamed the bombers for the 7-Eleven robbery. The following day that statement was retracted, and police officials said the bombers were not responsible. But multiple sources—including David, his mother’s boyfriend and the man he lived with—have said the robber was Daniel.” quote:In November 2011, Los Angeles native Danny Sun Jr. had purchased the 9mm Ruger P95 at a Cabela’s hunting and fishing store in South Portland, Maine, as part of a multigun purchase. Sun later told police that at some point over the next year, he paid off a drug debt by giving the gun to his dealer, Biniam “Icy” Tsegai, the main target in the Operation Run This Town case. Sometime in 2012, Icy handed the gun off to twenty-one-year-old Merhawi “Howie” Berhe, a fellow Eritrean, who then gave it to Stephen. Stephen said he got the gun after Berhe’s mother had cleaned his room, found it in her son’s sock drawer, and ordered him to get rid of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV1-r6FRpwo quote:“The trip to Russia was like part of the plot of a Steven Seagal movie. In case you don't know who Whitey Bulger is Sen. Keating writes to ask the newly appointed James Comey about information sharing: quote:1. As mentioned earlier, I was relayed the information contained in both warnings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev while I was in Moscow. The March 4, 2011 message, in particular, was quite detailed. The FBI has admitted to receiving communications from the Russians and has reportedly tried to follow up on the March warning twice. (According to former Director Mueller’s recent testimony before the Senate, the FBI followed up in August and October of 2012.) When I asked the FSB why they didn’t respond to the FBI’s follow-up inquiries, the senior, deputy-level FSB officials in the room vehemently denied that any follow-up from the FBI occurred and asked me to provide them with concrete dates and names associated with such requests. I would ask that the FBI provide the exact dates of any follow-up communications stemming from the US and detail where they were sent. This information can aid in illustrating a lapse within the Russians’ own internal communications and provide the opportunity to correct this in the future.” Anytime you hear about a terrorist attack happening because "Intelligence agencies not sharing information," it's horseshit. quote:Lawmakers, including Keating, and law enforcement officials, including BPD Commissioner Ed Davis, were also confused about why Tamerlan’s naturalization application—which had already been denied—was reopened after his return from Russia. During his trip, the Russian Interior Ministry—the country’s version of the CIA—managed to track down and kill multiple high-level terrorists who had been spotted with Tamerlan, including the Canadian boxer William Plotnikov.
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The last part of the book covers the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, it's mostly about testimony from various victims. Dzhokhar guilt was obvious, so instead the shifted to claiming that he was just a good-natured kid who was corrupted by his big brother's radicalization, which he was. His friends and teachers were genuinely shocked quote:[Judge] Bowler continued: “All right, I’d also like to remind counsel of the presumption of public access to judicial documents, and that this Court frowns upon the sealing of judicial documents unless it’s absolutely necessary. To date, many of the filings in this case have been sealed, and the Court will look carefully in the future because the public has a right to know about the nature of the proceedings.” They legit tried to try him for [treason]. Either it is a sign of a creeping authoritaritan state, a sign that the state really wanted this kid dead, or both. quote:Federal prosecutors wanted to use Dzohkar’s citizenship to level another aggravated charge against him in the thirty-count indictment, saying he had committed an act of treachery against his adopted country. They wrote that he “received asylum from the United States; obtained citizenship and enjoyed the freedoms of a United States citizen; and then betrayed his allegiance to the United States by killing and maiming people in the United States. By taking the oath of citizenship, Tsarnaev sought and received the trust of his fellow Americans. Among other things, he was granted the right to vote in American elections, run for public office, and thus to influence American foreign policy by peaceful means. Just seven months after swearing an oath to defend his adopted country and stand by his fellow Americans, Tsarnaev violated that oath by attacking America and terrorizing and murdering people on American soil. He did so, by his own account, to punish America for the actions of American soldiers who, in fulfilling their own oaths to protect and defend the Constitution, were waging a war against terrorism overseas. The government seemed absolutely dead set on putting Dzhokhar to death, despite that making the case much more difficult to prosecute than if the charge were life in jail. Perhaps they didn't want him writing a book about it decades later. quote:“Before you met with Jahar (Dzhokhar's nickname), did you know that he was Muslim?”1 So that's the book, or at least the most crack-ping parts of it. My thoughts? The author, Michele McPhee seems to think that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an FBI informant. That part is pretty much undeniable. However, there are a number of criss-crossing threads that McPhee is either uncomfortable or unable to connect due to a lot of speculation. But looking at it after having my C-SPAM third eye opened(see? you knew I'd get to goatse at some point) it's hard to believe that that is all there is to it. Lets look at some facts: 1: Temerlan was probably an informant on the Eritrean drug smugglers who were supposedly sending proceeds back Al-Shabab, run by Sawfan Madarati. Brendan Mess was probably suspected of being a rat by the gang, and was hiding out. After he and Hiba break up, he and his friends are murdered, likely by Tamerlan and Ibragim Todashev on Sept 11, 2011. 2: Tamerlan was spying on Chechen insurgents. None of these rebels had any obvious ties with terrorists who attacked targets in the US, except for Tamerlan himself. He recorded his interactions with his mother's cousin, Magomed Kartashov, a radical preacher whom none the less was not an insurgent himself. 3: Two groups of insurgents, Nidal's and Plotnikov's, get merc'd shorly after visiting with Tamerlan. He was either informing on them to the FSB or the FSB was following him. Shortly after Plotnikov's death, he leaves Russia in a hurry without picking up the passpord he applied for. 3: Sudden radicalizations. Both Zubeidat and Tamerlan radicalize really drat fast and go from fashionable euro-trash to fundamentalist muslim real quick. Despite walking around in hijab, Zubeidat shoplifts $1500 worth of designer clothing. 4: Zubeidat does a few odd-jobs, Dzhokhar deals a bit of weed. Aside from that, no one in the familiy makes any money and yet they are always flush with cash. CIA links 1: There is an established with Uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev (now Tsarni,) and Graham Fuller, the former Kabul station chief during the period just before the USSR invasion into Afghanistan. During his tenure, the mujahadeen is leading attacks on the USSR with CIA backing. 2: Someone really wanted the Tsarnaevs in the US. Despite Tamerlan testing positive for Tuberculosis, they're let in. His immigration file initially a completely different person posing as him. Also they come in from Turkey, depite being a Russian/Krgystani family. Perhaps Tamerlan was being considered for an asset from the get-go. 3: Tamerlan was spotted in Georgia (the country that went to war with Russia for 12 days in 2008) at an event from the Jamestown Foundation think tank, which occured in th summer of 2012, after the Waltham killings. 4: Glyn Williams, former CIA agent and UMass Dartmoth professor in Islamic studies, where Dzhohkar was enrolled, was also athe the Jamestown foundation event. He corresponded with Dzhokhar and later said “I hope I didn’t contribute to it [the brothers’ radicalization, which led to the marathon attack]. That kid and his brother identified with the Chechen struggle.” without mentioning Jamestown. 5: Tamerlan's presence in Georgia was at approximately the same time (summer 2012) as his meetings with Chechen rebels. 6: Tamerlan's radicalization lagely seems to come from reading Kavkaz.org, a pro-Islamist/anti-Russian website in English,Arabic,Ukrainian,Russian and Turkish. I'm not saying the Kavkaz Center is a CIA-funded organization, but if the CIA weren't funding it, they should be shot into the sun for incompetence. Possible bombing conspirators: Magomed Dolakov met with Tameran and his wife the day before the bobmbing, and fit the description of the man Pugliese saw on his way to the gun fight. After talking with the FBI, Dolakov dissapears, and the government doesn;t seem interested in finding him. Viskhan Vakhabov was a friend to the brothers. He received a phone call from Tamerlan after the murder of Sean Collier, he also lives five minutes away from where Dun Meng was carjacked. He also refused to testify at a grand jury because “he could incriminate himself in the Boston Marathon bombings.” The government never surveilled him nor arrested him. The government seems to have no interest in talking with Karima (Katherine) Tsarnaev. The landlord of 89 Dexter avenue (where Dun Meng picked up Dzokhar) collected toy car parts, like those used to detonate the bombs. Daniel Morley probably build the bombs. He probably also called an FBI handler when the police came by to arrest him for attacking his mom. Despite having all the parts for the bombs in his house, the govenment never tried to link him to the bombings, instead tossing him in a mental institution for 2 years. Ibragim Todashev likely helped Tamerlan kill the Waltham three. He possibly knew Omar Mateen, who also had several contacts with the FBI. I remember some post about that in the Epstein thread, if someone wants to find it. He was miraculously never investigated until after the bombings, and was shot dead in his apartment by the FBI. Khairullozhon Matanov was a friend of the bombers and Ibragim. He knew they were radicalized, suspected them after the bombings, and talked to the police after Tamelan's death. The is mericlessly surveilled by the FBI. There was a mass exodus of federal investigators after the bombings, including DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Russiagate hero Robert Mueller, presumably so they don't have to answer to congress. Middlesex County District Attorney Gerard Leone also resigns. He was not only in charge of the investigation of the Waltham killings, but the referee where Tamerlan was crowned Golden Gloves champion in 2009 and 2010. Sooo.... We can't dismiss the CIA links out of hand, and the Jamestown Foundation and Graham Fuller were likely doing the same thing they have been doing since when the USSR was still a thing: stirring up islamist rebels against Russia. If we look at Tamerlan's visit to Chechnya in this light, you don't come away with the same conclusion as as McPhee, that the CIA and FSB were hesitently working together against Islamists. I believe Tamerlan was there to spy on or to fact-find on ways that Chechen rebels can be supported. Maybe he thought he was flying below the radar, but when Plotnikov's band got killed, he got spooked and got out of Russia asap. Which brings us to the bomb plot itself. It's kind of obvious that the brothers weren't acting alone, and the FBI seems to know so many conspirators, most notably Morley, that the idea that they didn't know about the bomb plot seems kind of...unlikely. I'm not going to speculate whether Tamerlan's radicalization was real, or if there were any someone else was pulling the strings in the bomb plot. I can't dismiss it, but I can't say that its the case for sure. But can can say the Strategy of Tension sure as gently caress hasn't gone away. We know the FBI spent over a decade radicalizing and entrapping young Muslim idiots into fake terrorist plots so the can claim that they have stopped a terrorist plot. The only thing better for three letter agencies would be letting a real one happen. Whether this one was meant to happen, I don't know. The few people who can answer that have whisked away, been locked in a mental institution, or sit in solitary confinment on death row. 4/5 star book. Crack-pinged the whole way through. The information could have been a bit better organized. But most of the fun information I've put these posts, I've left out all the parts about people getting blown up. You're welcome.
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OK probably not as interesting as all of that but I recommend "Globalists" by Quinn Slobodian for an introduction to what the hell neoliberalism is other than a scary word people use, and how the actions of the state serve to protect capital from democracy.
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Leon Trotsky posted:
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The Atomic Man-Boy posted:The vaccine is coming. The Cool Zone is experiencing a warm spell. The cries of "Truml", "Trimp", and "Turg" have mellowed to a gentle murmer. The forums have devolved into debating whether Taintrunner is a lib. The earth is healing. The libs have gone back to brunch. thanks op. genuinely good thread
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