As Professor Jacobson has noted, there’s no shortage of denial about Tsarnaev Brothers, the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Now that the two (primary, at least) terrorists from the Boston Marathon attack have been killed or captured, we enter a new phase in which the dominant politically correct, factually incorrect forces try to explain away the attack.
Can this be done? Will they really try? Well, yes. True, as one of my correspondents remarked, it is much easier to obfuscate distant Benghazi than a total shutdown and horror in the middle of a major American city. Yet the spin-masters are already at work.
In addition to the problem of motive, another aspect of the post-terror analysis is troublesome. In the New York Times report Suspects Seemed Set for Attacks Beyond Boston we learn:
Among the unanswered questions facing investigators are where the suspects acquired their weapons and explosives, how they got the money to pay for them, and whether others helped plan and carry out the attack last Monday. Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston said he believed the brothers were not affiliated with a larger network. “All of the information that I have, they acted alone, these two individuals, the brothers,” he said on ABC News’s “This Week.”
Similarly, later on the article tells us:
But the administration has said terrorism suspects arrested inside the United States should be handled exclusively in the criminal justice system, and gave no sign it intends to do otherwise in Mr. Tsarnaev’s case. Moreover, there is no evidence suggesting that he is part of Al Qaeda; the United States is engaged in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, not all Muslim extremists.
Today’s report, Boston Suspects Are Seen as Self-Taught and Fueled by Web reinforces the narrative that the Tsarnaev’s acted alone.
The portrait investigators have begun to piece together of the two brothers suspected of the Boston Marathon bombings suggests that they were motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs but were not acting with known terrorist groups — and that they may have learned to build bombs simply by logging onto the online English-language magazine of the affiliate of Al Qaeda in Yemen, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
But is the New York Times ignoring evidence that the Tsarnaev’s had help?
https://twitter.com/donsurber/status/326488985633447938
Tom Blumer at Newsbusters wrote on Sunday, Boston Mayor and U.S. Establishment Press Ignoring Marathon Bombing ‘Sleeper Cell’ Reports:
Currently, Matt Drudge and U.S. Blogs are relaying this information, while the U.S. establishment press, based on a Google News search at 11:30 a.m. sorted by date on “Tsarnaev sleeper cell” (not in quotes), are not. One would think that the U.S. press has better access to FBI and law enforcement sources than UK-based outlets. If so, unless the UK outlets are being played (which seems a remote possibility, given the degree of detail presented), why haven’t they learned these things? Or worse, have they learned them and chosen to hold off reporting them?
If the kind of disparity in public officials’ statements and press reports continues much longer, it will be worth asking whether there is an attempt to bottle up the truth of what led to the Boston Marathon bombings and the presence of other similar sleeper cells in the U.S.
I wish I found the UK reports more credible. They’re lacking direct quotes from identified sources. The Daily Mirror story, for example refers to a “source close to the investigation.” Still I can’t shake the feeling that there’s something the media isn’t telling us.
Boston bombers attended mosque affiliated w/Muslim American Society (MAS): usatoday.com/story/news/nat… Egypt MBs told me MAS is MB’s US branch.
— Eric Trager تراجر (@EricTrager18) April 24, 2013
But there’s another angle worth exploring whether or not, there was an actual sleeper cell or not and that is what motivated the Tsarnaevs? The New York Times assigned a book reviewer to offer her analysis of the brothers’ motives. In part she ascribed part of their motivation to “Holden Caulfield-like adolescent alienation,” which earned a lot of well deserved scorn.
Max Boot, on the other hand didn’t parse the brothers’ every Twitter message and instead focused on the bigger picture. In When terrorits act “alone,” Boot writes:
Even if no further links with al-Qaeda or related groups (such as the Caucasus Emirate) are discovered, it is still not correct to claim, as so many media outlets now do, that the brothers were “self-radicalized.” They were radicalized and trained by al-Qaeda–whether in cyberspace or outside of it. It is also likely, moreover, that older brother Tamerlan, the ring leader, came into contact with influential individuals in either Boston and/or Dagestan who guided his intellectual development toward becoming a jihadist. Whether those individuals formally belonged to a terrorist organization or not, they were doing its bidding as long as they were urging violence against the West.
In short, while we need to be worried about “lone wolf” terrorists, we must not lose sight of the fact that they are not entirely autonomous individuals. There is still a terrorist support structure that exists in Dagestan–and other places in the Muslim world such as Yemen and Pakistan–which is closely connected with acts of terror in the West and that needs to be dismantled.
If there was an alienation the terrorists felt it wasn’t that of a fictional character but that of Sayyid Qutb, as described by Paul Berman in The Philosopher of Islamic Terror.
In writing about modern life, he put his finger on something that every thinking person can recognize, if only vaguely — the feeling that human nature and modern life are somehow at odds. But Qutb evoked this feeling in a specifically Muslim fashion. It is easy to imagine that, in expounding on these themes back in the 1950’s and 60’s, Qutb had already identified the kind of personal agony that Mohamed Atta and the suicide warriors of Sept. 11 must have experienced in our own time. It was the agony of inhabiting a modern world of liberal ideas and achievements while feeling that true life exists somewhere else. It was the agony of walking down a modern sidewalk while dreaming of a different universe altogether, located in the Koranic past — the agony of being pulled this way and that. The present, the past. The secular, the sacred. The freely chosen, the religiously mandated — a life of confusion unto madness brought on, Qutb ventured, by Christian error.
It is the appeal of that philosophy that most likely motivated the brothers to seek out Al Qaeda carry out their heinous crime, not juvenile teenage angst.
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Chechnyans are simply evil. They are quite capable all by themselves . So yes they acted alone.
I always read the UK papers in the morning because the US LSM simply doesn’t report all the news. That certainly reinforces public perception that US news is filtered.
Perfect examples of sleeper cells are the liberal media waiting to pounce on the truth and public school children being taught to deny the truth.
Liberals, for the most part, deny the existence of evil. Instead, they believe that institutions are the problem not people. That is why, most importantly, they pound their fist on their desks demanding more money from taxpayers – they want to ‘fix’ things with money.
They are the people of the lie who are always looking for the scapegoat.
Gee, if I were a terrorist trainer, and I wanted to protect the group after a planned attack, would I train my members to deny association with the network?
We have already had the experience of terrorists captured abroad expecting to be protected under the US exaggerated version of the Geneva Conventions. We have already seen terrorist suspects in the US well-versed in the Miranda rights.
They did not act alone. In fact, their actions are carried out with the consent of the Ummah which extends no allegiance to any nation but the Dar Ul Islam, and offers no condemnation of any act of terror or solicitude for its victims. Instead, as self-referential as Obama, they don’t decry terror, they just become upset that Islam will be spoken ill of by the victims of Islamic terror. They blame everyone else but themselves for their actions. It is always someone else’s fault. They are always the victim. Someone else always does to them, and they are always the innocent party.
To them, it is immaterial that they struck first, that they are the aggressors. You see, the Koran tells them they have the right to kill the rest of us. The slaughtered have no right to refuse to be slaughtered or to object to their slaughter. They have no right to fight back because the Koran tells Muslims it is their DUTY to kill us when we refuse to convert or pay jizya. Therefore, they will always complain, always cite some instance where they were killed. They will not cite our dead, except to rejoice.
So, to me it does not matter whether the Boston Bombers were part of a cell or acted alone. Inasmuch as they are/were part of the Ummah, the Islamic Collective which silently consents to their acts, even as it engages in taqqiyah for the sake of Islam by denying that terroristic acts and jihad have nothing to do with Islam, the bombers did not act alone. Allegedly, someone from the mosque called the FBI. Nice move to forestall their connection. However, people had to have known them. Not even the bomber’s wife contacted police to turn her husband in.
So, don’t tell me the Tsarnaevs acted alone. The Ummah, the Koran, the Hadiths, every jot and tittle of Islamic thinking and writing in support of terrorism, all we part of it.
The Mongols have arrived. The older brother is named for a Mongol conquer of huge capacity. When one says Chechen, one should think Mongol.
This history plays merry hell with skin color-based race theory. Even Wikipedia has some useful background on this, to include about Circassia of the Caucuses.
Arabs are lousy fighters. Lazy, lascivious louts, sustained by slaves. Afghans are superb fighters, but only on their territory and only for raiding, not large-unit action. Neither Arabs nor Afghans produce their own fighting equipment. They are dependents. And radically in-bred.
Mongols, on the other hand, are unexcelled fighters and world-class administrators, as witness the extent and history of their conquest and rule. And they make things. Stalin deported them to Siberia and still Putin has to cope with them in their “Chechen” area – while they’re inside Moscow raising hell!
The Mongols have arrived in the USA. This is the most danger USA has faced, ever. The rattle we hear in the American soul is historical memory agitated by two errand boys delivering the “Howdy, folks!” with which they were entrusted. Putin said as much in reports today, and he is right about that.
The common thread that unites India, USA and Russia – the Axis of Good now and “forward” – is resolve – at least so far in India and Russia – to be not ruled (again, for India and Russia) by Mongols and to be not pushed around by a bunch of in-bred sheep stealers and goat herding drug dealers.
Mongolia supports Armed Forces that deploy in coalition with United States Armed Forces in Military Operations Other Than War as well as in Military Operations As War. They were integral with OEF and OIF, for example:
http://www.centcom.mil/mongolia/
And they were regarded by coalition partners as superb fighters, as one would expect.
It’s not Mongolia that threatens the USA, at least not at the moment. It’s the Mongol descent in Central Asia. That oceans stand between USA and Central Asia is proved inconsequential.
Perhaps one or more of the intellects guiding this blog would use their research resources to examine and exposit upon Mongol phenomenology.
http://juicyecumenism.com/2013/04/22/deval-patrick-replaces-boston-bombers-imam-at-prayer-service/
“…Imam Suhaib Webb of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center said on twitter that Governor Patrick’s office suddenly disinvited him to the service and he did not know why. The Clarion Project has documented the Muslim Brotherhood links of the ISBCC and its parent mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston…mericans for Peace and Tolerance released a video in May 2010 criticizing the Patrick Administration’s embrace of Islamists, including an imam who preached that the FBI was persecuting innocent Muslims and the community must “pick up the gun and sword.” Governor Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino initially embraced the Islamic Society of Boston and attended the grand opening of the Cultural Center.
Patrick’s trip to the Cultural Center was sponsored by Islamic Relief USA. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley even accepted a $50,000 grant from the Muslim American Society to pay for “sensitivity” training for law enforcement. In January, the Clarion Project discovered that the group has at least four officials with Muslim Brotherhood ties. It was previously found out that its CEO has served as an advisor to the U.S. State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development…”
http://shoebat.com/2013/04/21/massachusetts-governor-appears-to-have-some-explaining-to-do/
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick – a Democrat – appears to have himself a bit of an Imam problem dating back to 2010. On May 22nd of that year, Patrick embraced an Imam named Abdullah Faarooq and the Muslim American Society (MAS), a group whose secretary-general said was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood…
Here is a must-see video about Patrick’s embrace and a
disturbing reality about this cultural center. Take note that the Center’s founder is none other than Abdurahman Alamoudi, who is serving a multiple year prison sentence for charges related to terrorism. He also worked in the Clinton State Department as a goodwill ambassador (h/t BNI and Andrew Bostom)…
Coincidentally, in light of CNN’s expert on the attacks – Juliette Kayyem – tripping all over herself to avoid calling the bombings what they are – Jihadist attacks – it is interesting that Kayyem once served as Deval Patrick’s homeland security advisor…”