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Entire Boston Area Was in Lockdown
20 April 2013
(LPAC)—The entire Boston metropolitan area was in total lockdown until early Friday evening, after Thursday night’s shootout with the two named suspects in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings and the escape of one of the two young men. Early Friday evening, the FBI and Boston police announced that the virtual state of siege had been lifted, citizens were free to move about, and the subway system and other mass transit would be put back in service. As events transpired later on Friday evening, it turned out that law enforcement had tracked the second suspect to a drydocked boat in the backyard of a house in Watertown. At 8:43 PM, Dzokhar Tsarnaev was taken into custody and removed by ambulance to a local hospital. According to a report published today by the National Journal’s Global Security Newswire, Federal, state and local police, backed up by the National Guard and other military units, activated a longstanding plan, designed to deal with a weapons-of- mass-destruction attack on a major urban area. Governor Deval Patrick had signaled the activation of the WMD plan when he ordered all residents of the Boston metropolitan area to take "shelter-in-place." According to the GSN report, "The idea of staying in place is a disaster response procedure that heretofore has largely been reserved for use in response to a WMD attack or incident involving the release of chemical, biological, nuclear material or a weather emergency such as a tornado or snow storm." Such an overkill approach to a terrorist incident has never happened before in the United States — not when the Washington area snipers were on the loose, not when California police were hunting down a cop killer, and not when the abortion clinic assassin was on the loose. On Friday evening, a number of other details surfaced about the two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev. CNN first reported that the FBI had been asked in 2011 to question the older brother, Tamerlan, by an unidentified foreign government. The FBI reportedly concluded that he had no known links to any terrorist organizations. In fact, the parents of the two alleged bombers confirmed to Russia Today and other Russian news agencies that the two brothers had been contacted by the FBI and had been under watch for 3-5 years, and that the most recent contact by the FBI had occurred in the past six months. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN, "It’s new information to me, and it’s very disturbing that he’s on the FBI’s radar screen... If he was on their radar, and they let him out of their sight, then that’s an issue, certainly for me." An unnamed FBI official confirmed to CNN that they had made contact with Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011. It is almost certain that the unnamed foreign government that asked the FBI to question Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the Russian government. Senior intelligence sources close to the Obama State Department and National Security Council had reported on Friday morning that Russian President Putin had made repeated offers to the White House to provide assistance, given that Russia has had decades of experience dealing with Chechen terrorism, and that the modus operandi of the Boston Marathon bombings was similar to recent Chechen terror attacks in Moscow. Jacob Heilbrunn, writing in today’s The National Interest, urged that the Obama Administration drop the anti-Russian crap and seek out Moscow’s help, since they are the only people with any depth of insight into the Chechen problem. It should be recalled that in Dec. 2000, EIR had filed a brief with the U.S. State Department urging that the British government be placed on the official list of state sponsors of terrorism, as the result of formal diplomatic protests by nine governments — including the Russian government — over British protection and financing of known terrorists. The Russians cited specific incidents in Britain, where recruiting was allowed to go on in the open for jihadist fighters to be trained in Afghanistan, to then be sent to Chechnya to fight against Russia. While there remain too many unanswered questions to cite here at this time about the Boston incidents, one thing is perfectly clear: Such acts of irregular warfare and blind terrorism will continue to take place until the Anglo-Saudi top-down control of global terrorism is shut down via full public exposure and prosecution. One vital starting point is the release of the 28 pages of the original Joint Congressional investigation of 9/11, which has been suppressed by Presidents Bush and Obama, and which reveal details of the Saudi Monarchy’s funding of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. [JS_] |