Boston Marathon Bombings

[qualia]

http://beforeitsnews.com/terrorism/2013/04/fbi-boston-bombing-video-altered-to-hide-fact-bomber-was-black-ops-mercenary-2445796.html

http://youtu.be/WJsUB7SaBXA

[botanika]

Was the Boston Bombing a “Dry-Run Disaster” Gone Live?

Posted on April 18, 2013

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By Lucas Bowser

Because the mainstream media outlets continue to treat questions concerning the possibility of false flag terrorism in the Boston bombing as absurd, the alternative media is left with the job of investigating this angle. For those considering this possibility, the evidence of drills is key in determining if the attacks might have been carried out through the establishment bureaucracy. So how likely is it that there were drills being run at the Boston Marathon?

A 2008 article from the Boston Globe indicates that it is very likely, as it explains the value of holding disaster drills during massive events like the Boston Marathon. The article by Arnold Bogis titled, “Marathon as a dry-run disaster” states, “today thousands of runners and hundreds of thousands of spectators are unwittingly taking part in a planned disaster.” While that may sound dangerous, Bogis assures us that the people are not only safe but they are actually making the, “citizens of Greater Boston safer in case of a natural catastrophe or terrorist attack.”

As a former policy analyst for a Department of Homeland Security grant at George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute, Bogis goes on to explain that organizers see these, “annual gatherings of hundreds of thousands of people” as perfect opportunities to, “evaluate new technologies” and “exercise disaster plans.” He states that to successfully manage the marathon, public safety agencies, “must have relationships…with a diverse set of private organizations” so that, “When a real disaster strikes, these contacts can be called upon to lend needed supplies and other assistance.” He finishes the article by saying:

“Massachusetts is better prepared for a real disaster because every Patriot’s Day and Fourth of July is treated as a ‘disaster.’ Instead of constant warnings about the inevitability of another terrorist attack or natural catastrophe, the public would be better served if this type of local homeland security innovation were promoted and adopted elsewhere.”

Every Patriot’s Day is treated as a disaster? Is there any reason to believe that this wasn’t the case this year? Arnold Bogis updates us in a Homeland Security blog in April of 2011 with an article titled, “The Boston Marathon: In preparedness, the old is new again.” His blog post outlines, “similarities between what (Presidential Policy Directive 8 ) calls for and the actions of Boston officials in preparing for and running the Boston Marathon as a ‘planned disaster.’” He explains:

“…today, in addition to being Tax Day, is Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts and the day on which the Boston Marathon is run. Why is this relevant to homeland security? As I wrote in and op-ed in the Boston Globe a few years ago: Today thousands of runners and hundreds of spectators are unwittingly taking part in a planned disaster.”

A recent ESPN article adds more information, reporting that, “… in recent years the Boston Marathon has become a training ground for state and local officials to develop their response to large-scale catastrophe, whether man-made (like terrorism) or natural (like an extreme heat wave.)” It goes on to say that the 2008 marathon turned into, “something of an anti-cataclysm laboratory as local agencies cooperated with tech companies and research facilities, bringing an impressive array of hardware to defend the event from disaster.”

According to the article, similar efforts were made at the 2009 marathon when, “the City of Boston first used an ‘enhanced situational awareness’ system developed by Raytheon.” The project named Athena, “integrated video, mapping and tracking software across the city’s police, fire and port security departments into one set of information that any public safety official could use.”

The dry-run disaster training continued into 2012 when the marathon, “deployed the Next-Generation Incident Command System…” The NICS is a, “sort of real-time virtual whiteboard developed by the Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded research center at MIT.”

This presentation put out by Richard Serino, the former Chief of Boston EMS, describes some of the aspects of these, “planned disasters.” It is titled, “Marathons – A Tale of Two Cities and the Running of a Planned Mass Casualty Event.” The document itself is not dated but the URL includes the year 2008. Under the section titled, “Collaboration” it recommends utilizing, “special events and drills as opportunities to plan and train together…” The subsection titled, “Working with the Media,” states, “Their mission is to get a story. Building a longstanding relationship with journalists and reporters ensures that they get the right story and that they serve as a resource when needed.” Serino was appointed by Obama as FEMA’s Deputy Administrator in 2009.

Another presentation by Serino, dated, “sept 2007″ in the URL , includes the Boston Marathon being used in, “Planned Disasters,” under the section, “Special Operations.”

So while the public thinks of the Boston Marathon as a yearly sporting event, the government views it as a yearly disaster planning/counter terrorism exercise. Since these exercises have been carried out from at least 2007 to 2012, it seems perfectly reasonable to believe they would have had similar drills this year. In fact an NBC affiliate, Local15TV.com of Mobile Alabama, covered a reliable eyewitness report of this kind of drill taking place at the time of the event. University of Mobile’s Cross Country Coach, Alastair Stevenson, told the local newscasters that, “They kept making announcements on the loud speaker that it was just a drill and there was nothing to worry about. It seemed like there was some sort of threat, but they kept telling us it was just a drill.”

While alternative websites covered the report, the mainstream media ignored it and failed to follow it up. Instead the job was left to independent journalist Anthony Gucciardi who did what a real journalist should do. He got an interview with the eyewitness, who then confirmed exactly what he had said earlier:

“At the start at the event, at the Athlete’s Village, there were people on the roof looking down onto the Village at the start. There were dogs with their handlers going around sniffing for explosives, and we were told on a loud announcement that we shouldn’t be concerned and that it was just a drill. And maybe it was just a drill, but I’ve never seen anything like that — not at any marathon that I’ve ever been to. You know, that just concerned me that that’s the only race that I’ve seen in my life where they had dogs sniffing for explosions, and that’s the only place where there had been explosions.”

Pictures showing a man walking on a rooftop at the scene seem to add weight to the eyewitness observations. Other pictures from the event have surfaced that appear to show members of a private military/security firm who were standing near the finish line at some point before the explosion. Gucciardi compares the pictures of their gear with that of private military/security firm Craft International.

http://victorypost.com

fuck damn.....

No-one is stupid enough to actually authorise running an actual bomb drill during a live public event. The EOD sweeps that did occur are standard procedure at any large public event.

The NICS is nothing odd - it's just software that links together the current software systems that they have. They're integrated systems for command purposes.

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

^sounds like something I heard a dodgy cop say onetime

D00d

[botanika]

^sounds like something I heard a dodgy cop say onetime

D00d

You got some logic from a dodgy cop??

[whitewind]

Three more questions for debate.

#18 Bombmaking just isn't that easy. People without training get killed that way. Untested bombs often end up being duds. People without weapons training can shoot a gun, but they generally can't hit what they're shooting at. Who was the bomb maker? How was he trained? Where were the bombs tested? What firing range did they use for target practice?

#19 The bombs and weapons wouldn't have been left just lying around the home of a student with an active social life or in the home of a house husband. Where were the bombs and weapons stored?

#20 One of the brothers was an unemployed student and the other was an unemployed house husband. Both had serious money problems. Their father was sending them money to pay their living expenses. Who paid for all the explosives and the weapons?

[qualia]

i was watching the interview on lateline last night and the professor of basically dismissed any and all fuck ups by the fbi saying something along the lines of "well thats something the internal review will look at and they will". like when police launch internal review when one of their members murders someone while wearing the uniform: "we've determined that there was some procedural breakdown and will advise our officers accordingly"

ffs,

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

Yeh pretty sure this is swept under the rug and closed off by now, unfortunately.

I'd love an answer to WW questions tho!

[botanika]

Three more questions for debate.

#18 Bombmaking just isn't that easy. People without training get killed that way. Untested bombs often end up being duds. People without weapons training can shoot a gun, but they generally can't hit what they're shooting at. Who was the bomb maker? How was he trained? Where were the bombs tested? What firing range did they use for target practice?

#19 The bombs and weapons wouldn't have been left just lying around the home of a student with an active social life or in the home of a house husband. Where were the bombs and weapons stored?

#20 One of the brothers was an unemployed student and the other was an unemployed house husband. Both had serious money problems. Their father was sending them money to pay their living expenses. Who paid for all the explosives and the weapons?

 

# 18

Their bombs were not impossible for them to make though. It was a pressure cooker bomb. There is nothing to suggest the bombers were expert shots and Im not even sure how relevent that question is ultimately. They killed a campus cop early in the night, which was a relatively easy target. Through two lengthy gun battles no other police were killed. Further it appears the younger brother even failed to commit suicide in the boat and shot his neck out instead. That's in addition to the allegation he ran over his older brother in a car while trying to escape. They didn't need to be expert marksmen - their plans primarily involved home made bombs, not all of which went off. They were young, amateur and possibly niaive. These guys ruined peoples lives including their own and their families.

# 19

It's unreasonable to suggest they 'just left them around home'. Not really that hard to hide the limited items they had. They weren't hiding cruise missiles. Hopefully the trial will procure more information.

# 20 I'm sure more than a few of us have used parents money for things other than what was asked :D They weren't carrying around an inventory that required vast sums of money.

Edited April 24, 2013 by botanika

[glimpse]

RE: WW #20 I read somewhere earlier that the kids uncle that so publicly outed them as antisocial losers or something similar is a pretty cashed up oil industry exec. or something similar and has some pretty sus' CIA connections or something similar............seemed a wee bit sus' to me, sorry I only half skimmed through the article while procrastinating about my studying and not sure where I read it

edit: should have probably kept my half-arsed unresearched, unsubstantiated gibberish to myself....fukit......, whatever

nother edit: here it is: http://beforeitsnews.com/scandals/2013/04/boston-bombers-uncle-on-feds-payroll-tied-to-cia-2431140.html

Edited April 24, 2013 by eatingsand

[bℓσωηG]

lol big freudian slip by Boston commissioner who calss Tamerlan and Dzhokhar ''Actors''

[bℓσωηG]

Boston Marathon Bombing Drill stick on bloodied stump slips off during the wheeling down the road , other actors stop to adjust them lol

 

[whitewind]

Handy that. Weren't they also running drills at the exact time of 9/11? Allows you to explain all sorts of otherwise suspicious activity.

[whitewind]

So this was a drill, right? That's why all the suspicious guys from Craft International were hanging around at the bomb site before it went off?

[whitewind]

Therefore you might have to explain what you are trying to say with those tweets. I don't get it?

[tipz]

“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
- Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.

“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”.
- Josef Stalin

[bℓσωηG]

Over 250 stores in the United States, has pulled pressure cookers from the shelves in response to the Boston Marathon bombing.

“It’s a temporary thing out of respect,” said Kent, who is the manager of the Williams-Sonoma at the Natick Mall, an upscale shopping center in Boston.

Pat Connolly, a Williams-Sonoma spokesperson, provided “Right Views” a statement regarding the decision, including an apology to anyone who was offended:

“Pressure cookers are available at all our stores nationwide."

“In the days immediately following the tragic bombings in Boston a local decision was made to remove pressure cookers from the sales floor of the stores near where the bombing occurred. We apologize if we offended anyone by this action.”

http://s388.photobucket.com/user/blowng/media/feinstein-pcooker_zps737e026e.jpg.html'>

[glimpse]

facepalm

[whitewind]

The timeline:

1. Craft International men at bomb site.

2. Bomb goes off

3. Craft International men seen running away, one without backpack

4. Mechanical fire breaks out at JFK Library (to create maximum confusion)

1 hour later

A controlled explosion @ Boston Public Library and Tweet went out an hour after the bombings.

I personally never said that the controlled explosion was at the same time. However, it could have been used as a cover to take away the heat from the photographs. It also doesn't answer the questions.

#1 Why were runners being told that a bomb squad drill was taking place during the Boston Marathon?

Well, that could be because there was a drill or other operation underway.

#2 Why did authorities deny that a bomb squad drill was being held?

This is the critical question. Why was it denied?

If the controlled explosion was part of a drill, why did they keep going with the drill when there was a real attack happening?

[bℓσωηG]

Dzhokar Tsarnaev's backpack is grey/white the backpack that had the bomb in it is black like the ones the government men are wearing...

notice the bag has been photoshopped out of the pic…just like they did to the four fake bombers on 7/7 in London false flag bombings.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Back-Pack was photo-shopped out

 

Edited April 26, 2013 by bℓσωηG

[Seldom]

[qualia]

[Bush Turkey]

Handy that. Weren't they also running drills at the exact time of 9/11? Allows you to explain all sorts of otherwise suspicious activity.

Speaking of 9/11, they reckon they have found landing gear from the planes wedged between two buildings. Roll eyes

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/world/planes-landing-gear-part-found-in-new-york/story-fnhrvhol-1226630471921

[mr b.caapi]

I dont understand why they would bother photo shopping that pic... wouldnt it make more sense to not release the photo ??

[botanika]

lol big freudian slip by Boston commissioner who calss Tamerlan and Dzhokhar ''Actors''

Not really - it's not a slip at all - criminals/terrorists are often called 'actors' in legislation just as terrorism or a criminal action is called an 'act'.

Title 2C, NJ Criminal law:

2C:1-14. Definitions.

2C:1-14. In this code, unless a different meaning plainly is required:

a. "Statute" includes the Constitution and a local law or ordinance of a political subdivision of the State;

b. "Act" or "action" means a bodily movement whether voluntary or involuntary;

c. "Omission" means a failure to act;

d. "Conduct" means an action or omission and its accompanying state of mind, or, where relevant, a series of acts and omissions;

e. "Actor" includes, where relevant, a person guilty of an omission;

f. "Acted" includes, where relevant, "omitted to act";

g. "Person," "he," and "actor" include any natural person and, where relevant, a corporation or an unincorporated association;

As you see, the "perepetrator" or "do-er" or "defendant" fits in with that legal definition of "actor" and that term is used in lots of the individual statutes use that term, like this excerpt from 2c:2-3:

"e. When causing a particular result is a material element of an offense for which absolute liability is imposed by law, the element is not established unless the actual result is a probable consequence of the actor's conduct."

Because the term is used in NJ criminal law, the police just tend to use it in their reports and news releases. Lots of states that use the "model; penal code" as the basis for their crimnal law use the word "actor" a lot.

The evidence against training drills is this:

1. Actual training Drills are never, ever run during the Boston Marathon.

They are always run in March, prior to the event.

In an eerie foreboding of the deadly Boston Marathon blasts, the state’s top emergency agency ran a training drill in March 2012 that specifically activated a plan for an attack that included bombs at the race finish line as well as one under the VIP grandstand on Boylston Street, officials said.

“It was always something we had to be concerned about ­— that someone would want to target it to make a political statement,” Peter Judge, director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, told the Herald. “This isn’t just our little race. There are 200 countries represented here, and it’s being watched across the world.”

Judge said the agency, which coordinates disaster response plans, runs training exercises every March that focus on responding to a variety of crises, including terrorism, dangerous weather, accidents and mass casualties at the marathon.

Source: The Boston Herald

So - how does the official story explain the two points used as evidence of a training drill?

1. Two Sweeps for Bombs DID occur.

The police have stated that two sweeps for Bombs did occur. These EOD sweeps are totally routine and happen every year at the Boston Marathon.

It's totally possible that the runners were told not to panic at the sight of the bomb squad checking, as there was no known bomb threat. It's also totally possible that the words "this is just a drill" for example, might have been used to convey that.

2. Dry-Run disasters do not include Bomb drills.

From the Boston Herald article linked above:

Although the principal goal during such events remains the safety of everyone involved, organizers have realized that these annual gatherings of hundreds of thousands of people present the perfect opportunity to evaluate new technologies, exercise disaster plans, and build vital relationships between public safety agencies and the private sector.

For example, a tracking system that utilizes barcodes and hand scanners to log a patient's condition and location has been tested during past races. During a real disaster, this technology could provide authorities quick access to the location and condition of casualties, information that currently takes hours, if not days, for friends and families of the injured to ascertain.

This year, as always, even more important than testing new technologies is the development of relationships between various public safety and medical communities, as well as with the private sector. Homeland security specialists often talk about the importance of not waiting to "exchange business cards at the scene of a disaster." This means that counterparts from different agencies meet each other before a disaster thrusts them together for the first time.

Just so people are clear on the motive, listen to the mothers words:

“If they are going to kill him. I don’t care. My oldest son is killed, so I don’t care. I don’t care if my youngest son is going to be killed today. I want the world to hear this. And, I don’t care if I am going to get killed too. And I will say Allahu Akbar!”

Many CT's would rather side with terrorists than facts. There are some genuine dangerous religous values out there that should not be ignored in favour of in vogue CT's. Islamic fundamentalism is dangerous and it is real.

The American press is notoriously flaky at getting actual facts. A fair bit of reporting is done via anonymous source - most of whom get their information via hearsay - because getting the story first is much more important than getting the story correct. The news cycle is no longer 24 hours - it's 24 seconds. Whoever breaks the story first, gets the clicks.

It's also not a coincidence that the birth of the Internet has also given birth to massive conspiracy theories, often based on mismatching press reports. It's because we are able to more readily compare sources of information that we are able to see the inconsistencies between them.

Boston Bombing Conspiracies and What’s Behind the ‘False Flag’ Crazies

by Lloyd Grove Apr 25, 2013

All the reality-based evidence in the world wasn’t enough to suppress the flood of conspiracy theories about the Boston blasts, from Michelle Obama’s Saudi visit to a naked Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Professor Stephan Lewandowsky tells Lloyd Grove where it’s all coming from.

The night of the Boston Marathon bombing, Slate political reporter David Weigel posted an essay arguing that unlike other tragedies and major crimes that have fired the imaginations of conspiracymongers, this one boasted too much reality-based evidence, especially photographic and video evidence, to give much encouragement to nutballs and magical thinkers.

“Why the Conspiracy Theorists Will Have a Tough Time With Boston,” the piece was headlined. It advanced a host of compelling reasons—notably that too many hard facts and high-def images were widely available on the Internet, that social media would quickly debunk bogus rumors and bad info, and that politicians wouldn’t be able to exploit the carnage to their advantage—to explain why crazy-paranoid conspiracy scenarios would rapidly fizzle.

Weigel’s prediction was overly optimistic.

In the 10 days since the lethal explosions, strange and alarming hypotheses have descended on the Web like a swarm of locusts: the Boston bombing was staged by the government; Michelle Obama plotted with a Saudi national; Tamerlan Tsarnaev was taken naked and alive, then killed by authorities before he could speak the truth. The proliferation and sheer power of such ideas come as no surprise to Stephan Lewandowsky, a professor of psychology who has made a study of the conspiracy-obsessed.

“Whenever there is a seemingly random tragic event, people seek to explain it in a way that reduces their fear,” Lewandowsky told me from Bristol University in the United Kingdom, where he is on sabbatical from his academic chair as a cognitive scientist at the University of Western Australia. “Paradoxically, it is much easier for people to accept the idea of a government conspiracy than it is to believe that it was just a random act.”

Lewandowsky, whose study of conspiracy-minded climate-change deniers was recently featured in The New Yorker, continued: “Now that sounds really weird if you think about it: why would a conspiracy make you feel happier than a random act? But it turns out that there is some data on that. If people have a specific enemy, that actually gives them a sense of control in their response, instead of to a diffuse sort of threat. I think that’s what’s driving this, in part—the need to control your fear of random evilness. It’s much a better picture to have an enemy whom you can blame.”

“I think they’re watching themselves being ignored, and that’s the one thing they hate. So they just crank up the volume and spread their falsehoods and nonsense.”

http://www.thedailyb...ag-crazies.html

A GOOD QUESTION TO BE ASKING IS HOW EFFECTIVE IS OUR SECURITY? AUTHORITIES AND SECURITY COMPANIES DID PLAN FOR THIS EVENT BECAUSE IT IS A HIGH PROFILE INTERNATIONAL EVENT. BOMB SWEEPS WERE DONE. SECURITY OFFICIALS/CONTRACTORS WERE PRESENT. YET TWO YOUNG TERRORISTS WERE ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY DETONATE A BOMB AND KILL AND INJURE PEOPLE. SAME THING WITH 7/7 AND 9/11. THE ONE THING THE GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY CAN'T HIDE AWAY FROM IS THAT NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY IS SPENT ON FIGHTING TERRORISM, NO MATTER HOW MANY DRILLS, EXCERCISES, TECHNOLOGY IS APPLIED - ALL IT TAKES IS RADICAL MOTIVATION AND A RELATIVELY UNSOPHISTICATED STRATEGIC PLAN TO DO A LOT OF DAMAGE. That's what we are really fighting.

Edited April 27, 2013 by botanika

[qualia]

A GOOD QUESTION TO BE ASKING IS HOW EFFECTIVE IS OUR SECURITY?

indeed, as the FBI were tracking both suspects (remember, no evidence has yet surfaced, only hearsay and circumstantial evidence), so how effective is the FBI/CIA? CCTV cameras were installed, watching everyone, police, special ops, bomb squad, bomb sniffing dogs, apparently the whole shebang. short of stopping and searching the entire state of Massachusetts what else can be done? what is the point of even having the FBI if they are tracking two suspects for years, and let them waltz right into the event and allegedly plant a bomb? it's inconceivable to me that the FBI didn't at the very least know about their plans, let alone allowing it to happen. so perhaps the question is not "did they do it?", or "how effective is security?", but "what did the FBI know?" or "why did the FBI allow it to happen?".

edited to insert link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Edited April 27, 2013 by qualia