Posted on 05/03/2013 7:45:45 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Edited on 05/03/2013 8:23:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The claim that the Russians somehow “warned” the U.S. about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamic connections has been accepted by most news organizations and commentators as established fact. But while U.S. intelligence agencies have a lot to explain, the Russian security services have been treated with kid gloves and even as the “good guys” in this affair.
Russian media, including the English-language propaganda channel Russia Today (RT), have been insisting that the U.S. is to blame for the Boston bombings because vague “warnings” from Moscow were ignored. Boston-Marathon-Explo_Horo-13-e1366502918189 It is reminiscent of when Lee Harvey Oswald, a pro-Castro Marxist who had traveled back and forth to Russia, assassinated President John F. Kennedy, and the Russian KGB promptly launched a disinformation campaign in the media blaming right-wingers in Dallas and the CIA for the murder. [snip]
I know it, I don’t think it. My point is that one can kill the enemy “honorably”, not cut their throats and leave them to suffer while filming it.
It’s the only language the Islamists understand.
No, you just don’t know what you are talking about...
HA HA HA HA HA!
How was he able to board a plane and leave Russia if the Russian authorities were searching for him?
You’ll have to ask the KGB. Maybe they’re as bad as us for getting people on the list. Who’s to say he flew out of a Russian airport?
Nice catch. It’d be hard to imagine Heathfield’s handlers not being aware of the Tsarnaevs operating in their territory; which also raises the question of what the Bureau would’ve learned when Heathfield was arrested.
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