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Will
we ever learn the full truth about the Boston Marathon bombing?
Personally, I have been looking into this attack for days, and I just
keep coming up with more questions than answers. At this point, I
honestly have no idea what really happened. Why was a bomb drill being
held on the day of the attack? Why have authorities denied that a bomb
drill was taking place? Were Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev acting
alone? What was the nature of their previous contacts with the FBI and
other federal agencies? Why did the FBI at first deny that they had
been in contact with the Tsarnaev brothers previously? Why was the
investigation of a mysterious Saudi national with familial links to
al-Qaeda suddenly dropped shortly after the Saudi ambassador held an
unscheduled meeting with Barack Obama? Why did Michelle Obama
subsequently visit that mysterious Saudi national in the hospital? If
you are looking for answers to these questions, I am afraid that I don’t
have them at this point. But what alarms me is that the mainstream
media seems to be afraid to ask any of the hard questions that they
should be asking. They just seem to swallow whatever the authorities
tell them hook, line and sinker without following up on any of the
things in this case that simply do not seem to make sense.
So
what kinds of questions should they be asking? The following are 17
unanswered questions about the Boston Marathon bombing that the media
appears to be afraid to ask…
#1 Why were runners being told that a bomb squad
drill was taking place during the Boston Marathon? The following is
from an article
by Natural News…
Alastair Stevenson is a veteran marathon runner who has
competed in dozens of marathons around the world, including the London
Marathon. He’s very familiar with the security typically found at
marathons, and he immediately noticed something odd about the Boston
marathon security.
“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,” he
was quoted as saying by Local15TV.com.
In the interview, you’ll hear Stevenson say:
“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.”
#2 Why did authorities deny that a bomb squad drill was being held?
#3 According to
The Mirror, the FBI is reportedly “hunting” a 12-strong terrorist “
sleeper cell” that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were allegedly a part of…
A source close to the investigation said: “We have no
doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate
the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people
learn from Google.
“They were too advanced. Someone gave the brothers the skills and it
is now our job to find out just who they were. Agents think the sleeper
cell has up to a dozen members and has been waiting several years for
their day to come.”
If that is the case, why are authorities in Boston adamantly insisting that the two brothers were acting alone?
#4 CBS News
is reporting
that the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev back in 2011. The mother of
the two Tsarnaev brothers insists that the FBI had been in contact with
them
for up to five years.
At first, the FBI denied any previous contact with the two suspects.
Will we ever learn the true scope of the previous relationship between
the FBI and the Tsarnaev brothers?
#5 Debka is reporting
that the Tsarnaev brothers were “double agents” which had been “hired
by US and Saudi intelligence to penetrate the Wahhabi jihadist networks
which, helped by Saudi financial institutions, had spread across the
restive Russian Caucasian.” Could this possibly be true? If so, will
the American people be told the truth about these links?
#6 According
to their uncle, there were “mentors” that “radicalized” the Tsarnaev brothers. So precisely who were those “mentors”?
#7 What happened during Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s trip
to Dagestan and Chechnya last year?
#8 Were the Tsarnaev brothers in contact with a rebel leader named
Doku Umarov who is known as “Russia’s Bin Laden”?
#9 Did Tamerlan Tsarnaev
post a video on YouTube last summer
that expresses a belief that the 12th Imam, Mahdi, will soon come and
that an Islamic army with black flags with arise out of a province in
Iran known as Khorasan?
#10 Why aren’t we being told that the “pressure
cooker bombs” used in the Boston Marathon attacks are very similar to
the kind of pressure cooker bombs that are commonly used
in the Middle East?…
The Daily Beast has confirmed with U.S. counter-terrorism
officials that the bombs placed Monday at the marathon were made from
pressure cookers, a crude kind of explosive favored by insurgents in
Pakistan and Afghanistan. A recipe for a bomb that uses the pressure
cooker was part of the debut issue of Inspire, the English-language online magazine of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
#11 Initially we were told that Saudi national
Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi was a “person of interest” in the case. But now
he is scheduled
to leave the country with the full blessing of the U.S. government. Why is there such a rush to get him out of the United States?
#12 Why aren’t we being told that Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi was photographed
with two other Saudis in the vicinity of the Boston marathon bombings?
#13 Why aren’t we being told of the shocking
familial links that Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi has to known members of
al-Qaeda? The following is from research complied
by Walid Shoebat…
Many from Al-Harbi’s clan are steeped in terrorism and are members of Al-Qaeda. Out of a list of 85 terrorists listed by the Saudi government shows several of Al-Harbi clan to have been active fighters in Al-Qaeda:
#15 Badr Saud Uwaid Al-Awufi Al-Harbi
#73 Muhammad Atiq Uwaid Al-Awufi Al-Harbi
#26 Khalid Salim Uwaid Al-Lahibi Al-Harbi
#29 Raed Abdullah Salem Al-Thahiri Al-Harbi
#43 Abdullah Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al-Harbi (leader)
#60 Fayez Ghuneim Humeid Al-Hijri Al-Harbi
Source: http://aalhameed1.net/vb/showthread.php?t=1565
Then you have Al-Harbi clan members in Gitmo:
Salim Salman Awadallah Al-Sai’di Al-Harbi
Majid Abdullah Hussein Al-Harbi
Muhammad Abdullah Saqr Al-Alawi Al-Harbi
Ghanem Abdul Rahman Ghanem Al-Harbi
Muhammad Atiq Uwaid Al-Awfi Al-Harbi
Source: http://www.muslm.net/vb/showthread.php?169019-أسماء-(90)-سعودياً-لا-زالوا-محتجزين-في-جوانتانامو
There are specific Saudi clans that are rife with members of
Al-Qaeda, which makes it quite alarming as to why nearly a hundred
thousand student visas are issued to these. Americans are clueless as to
clan ties when it comes to terrorism.
#14 Why did U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
have a private meeting with a Saudi foreign minister shortly after Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi was identified as a potential suspect?
#15 Why did Barack Obama
hold an unscheduled meeting with the ambassador from Saudi Arabia shortly after Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi was identified as a potential suspect?
#16 Why did
Michelle Obama visit Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi in the hospital?
#17 Why did numerous mainstream media outlets openly suggest that “
right-wing extremists” were behind the bombings in the immediate aftermath of the attack?
Are there any other unanswered questions that you would add to this
list? Please feel free to share your thoughts by leaving a comment
below…
Michael Snyder is the publisher of
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