Another FBI-facilitated attack?
As the Boston Marathon bombing continues to dominate the news,
several characteristic responses to terrorism are becoming obvious once
again. To begin with, reports of terrorist acts in America have become
like the throwing of a mental switch that stops people from thinking.
Emotion is high and critical thought is rare in the midst of the initial
media frenzy. Propaganda has made it easy for people to fear and hate
while forgetting facts about the government’s role in terrorism and its
tendency to benefit from terrorist acts. Additionally, the Boston
incident has shown again how official accounts of terrorist events tend
to change dramatically as time passes.
Immediately after the attacks, the entire city of Boston, an icon of independence and freedom since the American Revolution, was locked down in a frantic search for one scared teenage boy. The suddenly “infantilized” public responded by accepting an unprecedented police-state occupation of the city.[1] The mainstream media did not question any of these obviously anti-American actions and reported only the sensationalist viewpoint of the government “protectors.”[2]
The Boston story began to change quickly, however. For example, just days after the bombing, the mother of the two suspects made some startling remarks about her son’s relationship to the FBI.
“He
(Tamerlan) was ‘controlled’ by the FBI, like, for three to five years,”
she said, “They knew what my son was doing. How could this
happen?…They were controlling every step of him, and they are telling
today that this is a terrorist attack,” she added.[3]
Although surprising, these claims agree with facts known about FBI-sponsored terrorist acts that have played out in the last decade. In 2011, journalist Glenn Greenwald reported that the cases in which the FBI had supposedly stopped terrorist plots were actually instances of the FBI itself plotting the terrorist acts and entrapping the young suspects.
Therefore it is not surprising that the mother of the Boston bombers, who declared that the Bureau had been controlling her son, was labeled as a terrorist suspect just a week after her accusations against the FBI.[7] Supposedly, the CIA had put her name in its terrorism database months before her sons’ actions in Boston. This was followed up more recently by vague claims from “U.S. officials” that the mother was recorded by Russian authorities speaking to her son about “the idea of jihad.”[8] Although these late claims appear to be a matter of the government declaring an unwanted witness to be untrustworthy, the growing myth of the Boston bombing raises a number of interesting questions.
Immediately after the attacks, the entire city of Boston, an icon of independence and freedom since the American Revolution, was locked down in a frantic search for one scared teenage boy. The suddenly “infantilized” public responded by accepting an unprecedented police-state occupation of the city.[1] The mainstream media did not question any of these obviously anti-American actions and reported only the sensationalist viewpoint of the government “protectors.”[2]
The Boston story began to change quickly, however. For example, just days after the bombing, the mother of the two suspects made some startling remarks about her son’s relationship to the FBI.
“He
(Tamerlan) was ‘controlled’ by the FBI, like, for three to five years,”
she said, “They knew what my son was doing. How could this
happen?…They were controlling every step of him, and they are telling
today that this is a terrorist attack,” she added.[3]Although surprising, these claims agree with facts known about FBI-sponsored terrorist acts that have played out in the last decade. In 2011, journalist Glenn Greenwald reported that the cases in which the FBI had supposedly stopped terrorist plots were actually instances of the FBI itself plotting the terrorist acts and entrapping the young suspects.
“None of these cases entail the FBI’s
learning of an actual plot and then infiltrating it to stop it. They
all involve the FBI’s purposely seeking out Muslims (typically young and
impressionable ones) whom they think harbor animosity toward the U.S.
and who therefore can be induced to launch an attack despite having
never taken even a single step toward doing so before the FBI targeted
them. Each time the FBI announces it has disrupted its own plot, press
coverage is predictably hysterical (new Homegrown Terrorist caught!),
fear levels predictably rise, and new security measures are often
implemented in response.”[4]
The 1993 WTC bombing was also a case of suspicious FBI activities gone wrong. As the New York Times reported, it was clear that the FBI was somehow involved in the WTC plot.
“Law-enforcement officials were told that
terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the
World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly
substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after
the blast. The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb
and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I.
supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem,
should be used, the informer said.”[5]
In the years leading up to 9/11, the FBI failed miserably at
preventing terrorism when preventing terrorism was the FBI’s primary
goal. Moreover, the actions of FBI management suggest that it was
facilitating and covering-up acts of terrorism. When 9/11 happened,
some agents accused their own agency of being responsible.[6]Therefore it is not surprising that the mother of the Boston bombers, who declared that the Bureau had been controlling her son, was labeled as a terrorist suspect just a week after her accusations against the FBI.[7] Supposedly, the CIA had put her name in its terrorism database months before her sons’ actions in Boston. This was followed up more recently by vague claims from “U.S. officials” that the mother was recorded by Russian authorities speaking to her son about “the idea of jihad.”[8] Although these late claims appear to be a matter of the government declaring an unwanted witness to be untrustworthy, the growing myth of the Boston bombing raises a number of interesting questions.
- What could the mother have possibly gained from offering up her two sons as fodder for the terrorism-industrial complex?
- Why didn’t the FBI and CIA immediately report that the mother was a terrorism suspect, instead of waiting two weeks and saying something only after the mother had publicly made accusations against the FBI?
- Why haven’t the mother’s claims with regard to the FBI controlling her sons been investigated by independent reporters in the U.S. mainstream media?
- How does this case relate to reports that the “underwear bomber” was working for the CIA?[9]
- Will the media follow-up on the recent revelations that the Boston suspects were related to a top CIA official?[10]
[1] John Kirby, Infantilized Americans made to ‘shelter in place’, Providence Journal, April 21, 2013, http://blogs.providencejournal.com/ri-talks/this-new-england/2013/04/xxx-4.html
[2] James Corbett, The War On Terror Is Over. America Lost., CorbettReport, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2w_FdHYV8
[3] Grace Wyler, Mother Of Boston Bombing Suspects Says FBI Was In Contact With Her Son, Business Insider, April 19, 2013, http://www.businessinsider.com/tsarnaev-brothers-mother-fbi-boston-bombing-2013-4#ixzz2RldCqAPv
[4] Glenn Greenwald, The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot, Salon, September 29, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/09/29/fbi_terror/
[5] Ralph Blumenthal, “Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast,” New York Times, October 28, 1993
[6] Kevin R. Ryan, Why Louis Freeh Should Be Investigated For 9/11, DigWithin.Net, November 21, 2012, http://digwithin.net/2012/11/21/louis-freeh/
[7] Daily Mail Online, Revealed: Mother of Boston ‘bombers’ was put
on CIA terrorist watchlist 18 months before attacks and is now a ‘person
of interest’, April 26, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315440/Boston-bombers-mother-CIA-terrorist-watchlist-18-months-attacks-person-interest.html#ixzz2RllkLYZs
[8] Kim Murphy and Ken Dilanian, Russians monitored calls of Boston
suspect’s mother, U.S. says, The Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2013, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-boston-bombings-20130428,0,5275223.story
[9] Paul Harris and Ed Pilkington, ‘Underwear bomber’ was working for the CIA, The Guardian, May 8, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/09/underwear-bomber-working-for-cia
[10] Sibel Edmonds, BFP BREAKING NEWS: Boston Terror, CIA’s Graham
Fuller & NATO-CIA Operation Gladio B-Caucasus & Central Asia,
Boiling Frogs, April 27, 2013, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/04/27/bfp-breaking-news-boston-terror-cias-graham-fuller-nato-cia-operation-gladio-b-caucasus-central-asia/
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