Boston Marathon bomber -=-

[MosJan]

" he and his brother wanted to defend Islam after the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

 

 

co you collect $$ from US , use free housing, get free medical. raise your kid in USA in a safe home.. then you kill people for Iraq and Afghanistan.. .. the old Armenian saying .. Odz@ taqatsnoghina ktsum...

[MosJan]

“Mischa”: Also spelled in some accounts as “Misha.” Described by Tsarni, the uncle, as a friend from the United States who may have radicalized Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Tsarni told NBC News that Mischa presented himself as an “exorcist” who specialized in “removing demons from people’s bodies.” Investigators later downplayed Mischa’s role in the story.

[Yervant1]

THE MYSTERY DEEPENS

 

http://www.mirrorspectator.com/2013/04/30/the-mystery-deepens/

EDITORIAL | APRIL 30, 2013 8:08 PM

 

By Edmond Y. Azadian

 

While Armenians around the country were grieving the loss of four

victims and 200 wounded as a result of the Boston Marathon bombings -

a story which ended in the Armenian neck of the woods of Watertown,

Mass. - suddenly a bomb was also hurled in the news media calling

Armenians for cover.

 

While investigations were continuing relentlessly and the events

leading to the bombing were evolving, Armenians had to focus on the

unexpected turn of events, when the bombers' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni,

interjected the name of a shadowy character called, "Misha," who

had "taken the brain" of the bombers and supposedly "brainwashed

completely" the elder brother, Tamerlan. And this character is supposed

to be of "Armenian descent," converted to Islam - a rare concoction

of a character, indeed.

 

As the authorities were after the criminal aspects of the case,

Armenians had to tend to their own wounds, right on the eve of the

April 24 commemoration of the Armenian Genocide.

 

The surviving younger bomber has confessed that the next target was

Times Square in New York City. No one has yet asked the question:

why was that particular target selected? Was there any connection

with the Armenian Genocide commemoration to take place at that very

same location a few days later?

 

As Armenians began to wonder and look into the implications of Uncle

Tsarni's statement, the mystery turned even darker and more complex

looking like the characterization of Soviet Russia by Winston Churchill

who said, "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a

riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is

a key."

 

When, finally that key was found, it turned out to be a big lie. And

as soon as that lie was discovered, the Soviet Empire collapsed.

 

Now the question is who will be able to find the key to this new

mystery. As the characters of this drama are revealed the mystery

gets even thicker. Only investigative journalists with connections

to the darker alleys of the intelligence community may be able to

get to the bottom of this "Armenian connection."

 

Prominent lawyer, Mark Geragos, set the record straight with CNN's

Anderson Cooper, who was harping continuously on the Armenian ancestry

of the character Misha who suddenly had become a major player. Had

he known the background of the characters, as we now know, he would

have certainly made more of an in-depth case on the issue.

 

Of course, on Tuesday, April 30, Tsarni contacted the Armenian

Mirror-Spectator to apologize to the Armenian community. (See story on

page 1.) What is the reason for the change of heart at this juncture?

 

As journalists investigate this event and its aftermath, they

publish more facts and information about the players in this game. Of

particular interest for us here, is the character of Ruslan Tsarni

who threw the "Armenian bomb" at the media. He does not seem to be a

simple by-stander. His involvement and activities are entwined with

oil politics and covert operations.

 

Ruslan Tsarni turns out to be an oil executive serving a company

active in the Caspian region. He served for two years (1999-2001)

as the head of the legal department of the oil company, Golden Eagle.

 

Earlier he was a Halliburton contractor and for two years he was a

consultant to USAID in Kazakhstan.

 

In light of the furtive lobbying campaign of the oil companies,

against the passage of the Armenian Genocide resolution in Congress,

Mr. Tsarni's Armenian reference cannot be construed as coincidental.

 

It must be deliberate especially given his legal background.

 

Besides his business relations, his family ties are even muddier,

and he cannot extricate himself from the family web that drags him

further into the shady world of covert activities.

 

In a revelation published in Boiling Frogs by Sibel Edmonds (April 27,

2013), it turns out that Mr. Tsarni was married to the daughter of

Graham Fuller. Who is Graham Fuller? The publication writes, "A major

break in the Boston terror CIA connection took place last night when

I came across a post outing CIA operative Graham Fuller as the father

of a woman married to the Boston terror suspects' infamous uncle,

Ruslan Tsarni. Further confirmation of this bombshell was received

via mainstream reporter, Laura Rozen."

 

We further read in the Boiling Frogs expose: "On a more ominous note,

Graham Fuller was listed as one of the American Deep State rogues on

Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery. Edmonds explained it

featured subjects of FBI investigations she became aware of during

her time as an FBI translator.

 

"Criminal activities were being protected by claims of State Secrets,

she asserted. After Attorney General John Ashcroft went all the way

to the Supreme Court to muzzle her under a little-used doctrine of

State Secrets, she put up 21 photos, with no names. One of them was

Graham Fuller."

 

A more revealing testimony by Edmonds brings Mr. Fuller's activities

and goals closer home to Caucasus and consequently to Armenia: "You

may remember one of these foreign policy makers from my State Secrets

Privilege Gallery and my under oath testimony in the Krikorian case.

 

Here is a quote from Graham A. Fuller, former Deputy Director of

the CIA's National Council on Intelligence: 'The policy of guiding

the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries

worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army. The

same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of

Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in

Central Asia.'"

 

Mr. Fuller's activities do not necessarily reflect on Mr. Ruslan

Tsarni, but his place in the tangle of oil politics and covert

operations shed light on his statements and his intent to drag the

Armenian name into this mess.

 

Also special attention must be focused on Mr. Fuller's "doctrinal"

ideas; while the West and specially the US are fighting radical Islam,

on the other hand, that same weapon is being used to "destabilize

what remains of Russian power." That certainly implicates Armenia,

where one of the last power bases of Russia is located.

 

Therefore, it is no surprise that Russia recently expelled most of the

foreign NGOs operating in its territory. But they are still active in

Armenia. And in conjunction with the infiltration of religious sects

they are intent on undermining the foundations of the country. None

of the foreign organizations may entertain altogether altruistic goals.

 

They are all self-serving at Armenia's expense.

 

Returning to Misha, he seems to be the remotest person to be connected

with anything Armenian. But Uncle Ruslan implicates him as the main

culprit in misguiding his "innocent" nephews. Misha also seems to be

a shady character. Interviewed in his Rhode Island home by New York

Review of Books, Misha turns out to be Mikhail Allakhverdov, a person

of mixed Armenian and Ukrainian parentage. Certainly he has inherited

his red beard from his Ukrainian ancestry. Then why is his Armenian

parentage thrust into the news media and not the Ukrainian? What

is inconceivable with Misha is that his family was persecuted as

Christians in Muslim Azerbaijan and he seems to be among the 400,000

Armenians who were either murdered or deported from Baku and Sumgait.

 

And then, one needs a psychologist's genius to understand that

after arriving in a free country, he decided to convert to the

Islamic religion of his persecutors. And as if that was not enough,

he acquired the power to radicalize actual, practicing Muslims.

 

All these incredible factors are being used to cover his main purpose

and activity. Indeed, Walter Katz in The Week suggests that Misha

may have been "an FBI informant" who started grooming Tamerlan for a

sting operation before giving up [prematurely]." As we can see, Misha

is also a character in the shadowy underworld, pursuing a mischievous

mission turned sour. We can speculate on any potential goal; perhaps

Tamerlan was being groomed to be involved in one of the Mr. Fuller's

operations in the Caucasus, and like Osama Bin Laden before him,

he turned against his handlers. That is one of the possibilities.

 

As bombing victims and their families suffer, no one has an interest

in digging further to find where the network of conspiracy against

Armenians leads.

 

As Armenians we may air our anger for being hurled into this tragedy,

but our resources are limited for damage control. Therefore, beyond

saving the Armenian name, must we also worry about Armenia itself

caught in this complex crossfire?

[Yervant1]

Wicked Local, MA

May 4 2013

 

 

Strength in the Face of Tragedy: A Thank You to the Armenian-American Community

 

 

Belmont, Mass. - On April 19, the Massachusetts Armenian community

demonstrated the kind of resilience and courage that has inspired us

to be `Boston Strong' in the wake of last week's tragedies.

 

The 98th anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide was to

take place on Friday, April 19, at the Massachusetts State House. We

expected hundreds of people from Watertown and surrounding communities

to attend. The planned march to the New England Holocaust Memorial

and Armenian Heritage Park had already been cancelled due to the

Boston Marathon bombings - but there was a considered decision by the

planning committee to move forward with the State House event.

All that transpired in the early hours of Friday changed those plans.

With Boston and Watertown on lockdown, the plans for the Commemoration

were put aside, our energy directed toward getting the stay-indoors

request out to residents of Watertown and surrounding communities.

 

Beyond Watertown's borders, other communities were also impacted by

Friday's events. A class of Wilmington High School students, who had

studied the Genocide and had planned to attend the Commemoration, is

now part of a community mourning the loss of Officer Sean Collier.

 

Our months of planning would no longer culminate in a Commemoration

that would fill the House of Representatives Chamber with hundreds of

people, young and old, school children and scouts, guest speakers and

Genocide survivors. Any momentary disappointment was soon replaced

with concern and prayers for our friends in Watertown, who were

undergoing a horrific ordeal.

We spread the word that the Commemoration had been cancelled, but the

catering order for 350 had already been prepared by Ani Catering of

Belmont. The planning committee agreed to donate the food to law

enforcement in Watertown.

 

Coordinating this donation, when most of the committee members were

subject to the shelter-in-place order, was hardly an easy task. Lalig

Musserian of Belmont, the Commemoration coordinator, worked quickly,

contacting Hovannes Janessian of Ani Catering. They worked out a plan

with Sheriff Peter Koutoujian's office to have the food safely

delivered to law enforcement in Watertown. Hovannes waited for hours

with the food before the police granted Lalig permission to drive to

his catering shop in Belmont. Around noon on Friday, Lalig and her

husband received clearance. Together, they loaded the van with brown

bags of sweet rolls, cookies, brownies, cheeses, and beverages. They

drove through empty streets and made their way through checkpoints

before a member of the Sheriff's office greeted them and accepted the

donation. They were also able to hand out brown bag lunches to several

Watertown police officers on patrol.

 

 

We are sure that there are many more untold stories of kindness,

courage, and generosity in the face of danger that will eventually

emerge. But Lalig, Hovannes, and Watertown: you inspired us with your

strength on Friday. The Armenian Genocide Commemoration would have

allowed us to gather together to remember the 1.5 million lives lost

in the Armenian Genocide, to stand up for survivors, and to celebrate

the contributions of Armenian-Americans to our society. Your

contribution on Friday touched us deeply.

 

Last week, we saw people from all over the world come together to

support Boston. The sense emerged that `We are all Bostonians.' The

Armenian community also came together- once again- in the face of

tragedy. Yours is truly a story of perseverance, and we thank you for

your example.

 

Megan Wood is Representative Jonathan Hecht's legislative aide. Jeanne

Mooney and Anne Johnson Landry serve on Senator Will Brownsberger's

legislative staff.

 

 

 

http://www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/news/opinions/x63474591/Strength-in-the-Face-of-Tragedy-A-Thank-You-to-the-Armenian-American-Community#axzz2SLnWhxMP

[Johannes]

http://azg.am/AM/2013050806

 

Made in USA

 

[Yervant1]

And the comedy continues!!!!

Did the CIA commandeer the Boston bombing investigation?

 

MadCow

Morning News

May 3, 2013

 

by Daniel Hopsicker

 

It's been more than 300 years ago since demonic possession figured as

heavily in a criminal probe as it has in the investigation into the

Boston Marathon bombing.

 

Not since the Salem Witch Trials has the search for accomplices to a

major crime centered so heavily on finding a suspect who believed he

could talk to demons.

 

"He took (and ate?) his brains"

 

Since the remaining of the two brothers accused of planting the bombs

was found cowering under a tarpaulin in a boat in a backyard in

Watertown Massachusetts two weeks ago, coverage of the bombing by the

most respected organs of the American mainstream media has been full

of breathless updates-delivered with a straight face-about the

progress of an FBI manhunt for a red-haired Muslim who talked to

demons, dabbled in exorcism, and walked around carrying other people's

brains.

 

The drumbeat was started by Ruslan Tsarni, who became famous as

=80=9CUncle Ruslan' for his forthright condemnation of the attack in a

now-famous news conference on his front lawn just four days after the

Boston Marathon Bombing.

 

`There is someone who brainwashed him, some new convert to Islam,''

Tsarni said. I would like to stress (the acquaintance was) of

Armenian descent.''

 

Since then he has been using the media to press investigators to find

Misha, a man who appeared to combine the worst features of villains

from two different horror movies.

 

`The Exorcist' meets `The Walking Dead.'

 

"This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely,"

Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told CNN from his home in Maryland,

describing the friend as an Armenian convert to Islam.

 

`The bombers' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, depicts Misha as a Rasputin-like

figure who "took [Tamerlan's] brain" and said that his presence soon

became a source of tension within the family,' reported USA Today.

 

Also citing the boys' uncle, London's Daily Mail reported that `Misha

used to give one-on-one sermons to Tamerlan over the kitchen table,

during which he claimed he could talk to demons.'

 

Tsarni, Tsarnaev's uncle, told CNN he was so concerned about someone

brainwashing his nephew that he called a family friend in the

Cambridge area to investigate.

 

"I said, 'Listen, do you know what is going on with that family? With

my brother's family?' Then he says ... there is a person, some new

convert into Islam of Armenian descent," Tsarni told CNN's Shannon

Travis.

 

Tsarni said, "Armenians, I have no intention to say anything about

Armenians.'

 

Then he proceeded to do just that. =80=9CIt's a neighboring region

with North Caucasus," the same area where the Tsarnaev family also

hails from.'

 

A red-haried Armenian exorcist...with a big mouth...in Cambridge

 

Tsarni described Misha as being "chubby, a big guy, big mouth

presenting himself with some kind of abilities as exorcist

. . . having some part-time job in one of the stores, not married. All

of the qualifications of a loser, just another big mouth.'

 

According to Uncle Ruslan, Misha, over a considerable period of time,

had radicalized Tamerlan.

 

=80=9CBut there are signs that Tamerlan had become radicalized -

apparently from a friend in the United States named `Mischa' -

described as a Russian of Armenian descent who was a relatively recent

convert to Islam and who lived in Cambridge, according by Tsarnaev's

uncle, Ruslan Tsarni,' NBC reported.

 

Tsarni told NBC News that Mischa presented himself as an `exorcist'

who specialized in `removing demons from people's bodies.'

 

Not a day went by without references in the press to the search for

Misha. There were literally hundred of news reports about him. Very

soon, it began to appear there was nothing new to be said.

 

But that didn't stop anyone. Reported New York magazine:

 

`According to reports, family members point the finger at a man

identified only as Misha, a friend whom Tamerlan knew through a local

mosque. Misha is described as a bald, red-bearded, 30-year-old

Armenian convert to Islam who "claimed to be an exorcist who is

fighting with demons."

 

 

OMG...you mean he's even scarier than...Alex Jones?

 

There was also a half-hearted attempt to draw Alex Jones into the

controversy. Reported the Atlantic Magazine online:

 

`The major development in the sleuthing of the Tsarnaev brothers,

specifically sinister Tamerlan, involves a red-bearded exorcist named

Misha.'

 

`Tamerlan listened to Alex Jones's popular and usually looney radio

show Infowars. BuzzFeed's Rosie Grey reached out to Jones to see how

he felt about having a suspected terrorist as a listener.'

 

It's hard to imagine anyone asking Alex Jones, =80=9CHow does that

make you feel.' But the effort to smear him was no doubt duly

noted. But the problem with doing any serious damage to Alex Jones was

simple: When you're lookng for an Armenian exorcist who talks with

demons, slandering a poor radio host in the bargain loses its lustre.

 

The fever over finding Misha finally broke when somebodsy actually

found him. Christian Caryl of the New York Times Review of Books

scored the first media interview with Misha. In her interview with the

alleged Boston Bomber's `Svengali,' he told her he hadn't seen or

spoken to anyone in the Tsarnaev family for more than three years.

 

Ooops! Uncle Ruslan's response spoke volumes about him. Was he

abashed? Far from it. He changed his story without batting an eye, and

turned his attention to a secondary target, a woman who, if you're

trying to create a distraction, is right out of Central Casting.

 

`Check out Bomb Mom'

 

Ruslan dismissed Zubeidat, who was arrested last year for stealing

$1,600 of lingerie from a department store, as a `bad character'.

 

`Ruslan Tsarni, told the AP from his home in Maryland that he

believed his former sister-in-law had a "big-time influence" on her

older son's growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit

boxing and school.'

 

` Ruslan Tsarni claimed that Zubeidat allowed a firebrand cleric into

their house to give one-on-one sermons to Tamerlan over the kitchen

table during which he claimed he could talk to demons and perform

exorcisms.'

 

He told London Daily MailOnline : `The change of the older boy, one of

the biggest causes is her. `First she started playing into this

religious crap, they say is a devotion to Islam.'

 

"I work. Why do you want to know?"

 

Tsarni was cagey with reporters about what he did for a living.

 

`Tsarni was careful not to give out too much information, reported the

Washington Post. `When asked about his profession, he responded, `I

work, I work.''

 

And with good reason, because for the past twenty years he has almost

certainly been a CIA asset operating in a number of former Soviet

Republics.

 

Tsarni's bio, in an official SEC filing, stated he worked for the US

Agency for International Development, USAID, during the early

1990's. Bloomberg Business Review revealed last week that since 2008,

he's again been working for USAID.

 

Famously, USAID workers build schools, as well as provide cover for

CIA assets overseas. Recently they were thrown out of Russia. Just

last week, they were asked to leave Bolivia.

 

In between his stints with the obviously-conflicted US Agency, Ruslan

Tsarni worked for several Halliburton-controlled oil companies, as

well as a Kazakh man charged with a major banking scandal in

Kazakhstan whose repercussions earlier this year stretched all the way

to London.

 

Maybe Ruslan Tsarni's commute car doesn't bear a `smoking gun' parking

sticker from CIA headquarters in Langley. But neither his bio nor his

demeanor since the bombings qualify him for a `Humanitarian of the

Year' award, either.

 

Of demons, exorcists, and shoddy shoddy journalism

 

The search for foreign involvement in the Boston Marathon Bombings has

been a sad joke.

 

The fact that no one has stood up and called "shenanigans" on the

mainstream purveyors of what is supposed to be responsible journalism

in this country is a national disgrace.

 

When you look at how this happened, its hard not to suspect that a

`higher power' than the FBI was steering the investigation.

 

This raises the strong possibility that the FBI's investigation into

the bombing has been manipulated, or steered, by the CIA.

 

In the post-mortems to come on the Boston Marathon bombing

investigation, the crucial question will be: Who was behind this

effort, and why?

 

A big question is what Uncle Ruslan stood to gain by making

accusations about Misha.

 

If you're on a CIA's crisis management team, and your job is to play

for time and try to run the clock out on the American people's

attention span, the result might look something very much like the

last two weeks in America.

 

And if your goal was to forestall pointed questions about Ruslan

Tsarni and top CIA official Graham Fuller's roles in the Tsarnaevs

family's frequent trips to Dagestan, you couldn't have played it

better.

 

 

Daniel Hopsicker is an investigative journalist dubious about the

self-serving assertion of U.S. officials that there are no American

Drug Lords.

 

 

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Elderly Armenian Couple Targeted with Racist Letter

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YEREVAN, MAY 9, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian National Committee of America - Greater Washington (ANCA-GW) today called upon police and postal authorities to fully investigate and prosecute an anti-Armenian threat against an elderly Rockville couple of Armenian heritage, ANCA informed Armenpress.

An envelope addressed to A. Sahagian included a news clipping (see attached image) about the recent Boston Marathon bombing, with the handwritten message: "Another Armenian Bastard," pointing to a discredited link between this act of terrorism and what the news story incorrectly referenced as "an Armenian man named 'Misha.'"

"We call upon federal and local authorities to immediately investigate and fully prosecute those responsible for this hate crime," said ANCA-Greater Washington spokesperson Sevan Kolejian. "This hateful act of intolerance and intimidation also serves to remind the media of the human price innocent citizens are paying for their flagrant and repeated misreporting of the 'Misha' story."

Ara and Salpee Sahagian are both long-time residents of Maryland, having served in the lay leadership of Bethesda's Soorp Khatch Armenian Apostolic Church, and as active members in a range of community and civic organizations. A U.S. Army veteran, Ara worked for four decades as an engineer for the Department of the Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. His wife, Salpee, worked at the Library of Congress and later served as an aide to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield.

In the days following the Boston Marathon bombing, Armenian Americans protested news outlets that repeated the unsubstantiated, and now fully discredited, allegation by the uncle of the two suspects, Ruslan Tsarni, that they were somehow inspired to commit these crimes by an ethnic Armenian convert to Islam. News reports later identified 'Misha' as Mikhail Allakhverdov, an Armenian-Ukrainian from Azerbaijan, whose family fled anti-Armenian persecution in the early 1990's.

The ANCA-Greater Washington, DC has reached out to local churches and community groups to collect information regarding any other reported instances of anti-Armenian hatred, and calls upon all Armenian Americans to report documented cases of anti-Armenian hate crime.

[MosJan]

Boston Bombing Suspects Investigated in Triple Murder

 

 

Police have "mounting evidence" that both Tsarnaev brothers are linked to an unsolved triple murder.

[MosJan]

ABC News has obtained a document suggesting for the first time that the Boston bombing suspects may have had outside help.

[MosJan]

Florida man killed by FBI agent reportedly had link to Boston Marathon bomber, triple murder

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/22/man-fatally-shot-by-fbi-agent-in-florida/#ixzz2U3LLIonZ

 

A former mixed martial arts fighter who was fatally shot by an FBI agent in Florida following a "violent confrontation" knew one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and was being questioned about an unsolved triple homicide that may be linked to him, according to reports.

Ibragim Todashev, who was shot and killed early Wednesday during a shooting at an apartment complex near Universal Studios in Orlando, knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers suspected in the April 15 bombing attack. Todashev was shot while being questioned about an unsolved 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Mass., in which one victim was a onetime associate of Tsarnaev, two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation and the FBI told the Boston Globe.

"The agent, along with other law enforcement personnel, were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a violent confrontation was initiated by the subject," FBI Agent Dave Couvertier said in a statement obtained by FoxNews.com. "During the confrontation, the individual was killed and the agent sustained non-life threatening injuries. As this incident is under review, we have no further details at this time."

Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that Todashev after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife.

In the aftermath of the bombing, questions were raised about a possible Tsarnaev connection to the triple murder, in which the throats of the victims in the 2011 incident were slashed and their bodies were covered with marijuana. According to the Globe, police were eyeing Todashev as a suspect in the triple murder. Two Massachusetts State Police troopers took part in the questioning that ended in Todashev's death, the FBI said. State Police spokesman David Procopio declined comment, the newspaper reported.

Khusen Taramov, who was at the scene and identified himself as the victim's friend, said Todashev, 27, knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old former amateur boxer suspected in the April 15 bombings that killed three and injured more than 260, MyFoxOrlando.com reports.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/22/man-fatally-shot-by-fbi-agent-in-florida/#ixzz2U3JY3ZYc

[MosJan]

Killed Chechen’s father arrives in US to sue the FBI

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The father of a Chechen man who was fatally shot by a Boston FBI agent has arrived in the United States, where he intends to file a lawsuit against the agency and investigate the mysterious death of his son.

Abdulbaki Todashev is the father of 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, a mixed martial arts fighter who was fatally shot seven times by the FBI during an extensive interview about his connection to alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as well as any knowledge about a triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts. Todashev, who lived in Orlando, Florida at the time of the interrogation, had been friends with the suspected bomber when they both lived in Massachusetts.

After several hours of questioning, Todashev was shot dead by the FBI in a case that continues to be shrouded in mystery. The man’s father, who lives in Chechnya, described the incident as an execution-style murder.

 

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This undated mugshot released by the Orange County (Florida) Sheriff's Office shows Orlando, Florida resident Ibragim Todashev (AFP Photo)

“He was shot seven times,” Mr. Todashev told TIME. “In the heart and in the head. What is that if not murder?”

Conflicting reports surfaced after the man’s death, with some suggesting that the young Todashev attacked an FBI agent with a knife, metal pole, or broomstick. Other reports claimed the Chechen-American was unarmed.

“The FBI has offered completely incompatible explanations, they have failed to explain how these inconsistent stories found their way into newspaper accounts of the shootings, and have not offered any clarifying comment about what really happened,” Howard Simon, the Florida executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), told TIME.

The victim’s grieving father does not believe that his son posed any serious danger to the officers who were interrogating him, especially since he was injured. A photograph of his son’s dead body shows a row of stitches over the right knee.

“He had just had surgery on his knee and was still walking with crutches,” Todashev said.

The FBI has opened an internal investigation into the killing, but refuses to comment on the case and blocked the release of the victim’s autopsy report.

The distressed father says he is determined to independently discover the truth behind his son’s death, and plans to travel to the US, where he will employ the help of human rights organizations to get answers. Todashev speaks little English, cannot afford a lawyer, and has nothing more than a tourist visa to the US, but the ACLU has vowed to help him.

 

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Reniya Manukyan seen with her husband, Ibragim Todashev. (Image from vk.com)

He says he wants to sue the FBI - not for compensation, but for answers about his son’s death. However, uncovering the truth is likely to come with numerous hurdles: state investigators in Florida last week rejected an ACLU request for an independent investigation into the shooting, claiming it would be “inappropriate” for the human rights organization to intervene.

“Secrecy fosters suspicion and the people of Florida deserve better than to be left without an explanation from their government about what led to a person being shot to death,” Simon said in a statement last Wednesday. “This means it is more likely that the family of Ibragim Todashev will have to file a lawsuit in order to get answers about how their son died.”

An ACLU request to investigate the death was also rejected by the Massachusetts attorney general.

Todashev announced his plans to sue the agency just a few days after the ACLU’s requests were denied, and told TIME that he would file a wrongful death suit - which would force the FBI to reveal all the facts of his son’s death and accept responsibility for any wrongdoing.

“At least once they must be made to admit they were wrong,” he said. “What, is the FBI infallible?”

[MosJan]

Holder: Tsarnaev will face death penalty in Boston bombing case
Published time: January 30, 2014 19:28

 

 

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United States Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the Department of Justice will seek the death penalty against Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the 20-year-old ethic Chechen man accused of being involved in last year’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing.

“After consideration of the relevant facts, the applicable regulations and the submissions made by the defendant’s counsel, I have determined that the United States will seek the death penalty in this matter,” Holder said in a brief statement released Thursday afternoon.

No trial is currently set for Tsarnaev, but the attorney general said prosecutors will ask that he be sentenced to die if he’s found guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction.

"The nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm compel this decision," Holder said in a statement released Thursday.

In an official Notice of Intent to Seek the Death Penalty filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Thursday, US attorney Carmen Ortiz wrote that Tsarnaev is worthy of execution because he intentionally killed, inflicted serious bodily injury and participated in acts that resulted in death.

“Tsarnaev intentionally and specifically engaged in acts of violence,” Ortiz wrote at one point, “knowing that the acts created a grave risk of death to a person or persons, other than one of the participants in the offense, such that the participation in the acts constituted a reckless disregard for human life.”

 

http://rt.com/usa/death-penalty-dzhokar-tsarnaev-432/

[Sip]

Sounds like maybe they should save us all the trouble with seeking the death penalty and let the FBI "interrogate" Dzhokar a bit more.

[hagopn]

The "death penalty" is probably the last plug in the big gaping hole they opened when having their talking head utter the magic word "Armenian"

 

The rule of thumb is that whenever you hear "Armenian" mentioned out of the blue associated in some bewilderingly bizarre manner to, say, Pygmies of the Congo, the Chechens of the north caucasus or the Tuaregs of Tamanraset, it is likely CIA/MOSSAD/MYT at work.

Edited January 31, 2014 by hagopn

[MosJan]

FBI agent cleared of killing man with ties to alleged Boston Marathon bomber
Published time: March 21, 2014 20:05
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Ibragim Todashev is pictured in this undated booking photo courtesy of the Orange County Corrections Department. (Reuters/Orange County Corrections Department)

Ibragim Todashev is pictured in this undated booking photo courtesy of the Orange County Corrections Department. (Reuters/Orange County Corrections Department)
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An FBI agent has been cleared in the fatal shooting of a Chechen man who was associated with alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Prosecutors ruled that the agent acted in self defense and did not violate any laws.

Florida prosecutors concluded that the agent – whose name has not been disclosed – was reacting to an attack from 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, who used a metal pole against the agent during questioning in his Orlando apartment. Todashev was a mixed martial arts fighter.

The agent suffered a wound to the back of the head which required stitches.

First accounts from law enforcement officials said the agent had been attacked with a knife. However, federal agents later said that Todashev was unarmed.

Florida prosecutor Jeffrey L. Ashton said his findings will be released on Tuesday.

The Boston-based FBI agent came to the young man’s Orlando apartment to question him about his friendship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers. The latter died from injuries sustained in a shootout with police days after the bombing, which killed three people and injured more than 250 others.

According to law enforcement officials, Todashev implicated himself and Tsarnaev in connection with a triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, on September 11, 2011. Police suspected him and Tsarnaev in the killings of the three men in a well-kept rental home.

At the same time, Todashev’s family insisted that he had never spoken to them about his friendship with the elder Tsarnaev brother.

Commenting after her husband’s death, Todashev’s widow told media that “they weren’t friends or anything.”

Shortly after the incident in Todashev’s apartment, the FBI claimed the suspect "just went crazy" and attacked the agent after agreeing to sign a confession which would have implicated both he and Tsarnaev in the unsolved 2011 killings.

The FBI first began surveillance and later questioned Todashev several days after the April 15 Boston attack took place. He had cooperated with investigators up until his death.

The FBI cleared its agent several months ago.

The Florida ruling mostly brings the 10-month process to a close. However, the Justice Department’s (DoJ) Civil Rights Division’s ruling is still to come. The DoJ is in the final stages of finishing its own investigation and is also expected to clear the agent, according to officials.

The surviving Boston Marathon suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is to go on trial in November and could face the death penalty if convicted. He has been charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, and with malicious destruction of property resulting in death.