Boston Bombing of 2013: Another case of Brzezinski-linked blowback from managing Central Asian terrorism?
The Boston Marathon Bombing took place on April 15, 2013. Two "pressure cooker bombs", filled with simple black powder and various metalic shrapnel, exploded in the crowd near the finish, killing three people and leaving 260 others wounded. While this seems relatively mild compared to most terrorist attacks, the critically injured included young children, as well as seventeen persons who lost part of their legs. On April 18, the FBI released photographs and surveillance footage of the two suspects, who were quickly identified as the Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar ("Jakar") Tsarnaev. During the manhunt Dzhokhar reportedly ran over his brother with a SUV, killing him. Dzhokhar himself was arrested on April 19. Completely shielded from the public, Dzhokhar's trial will begin either in 2014 or 2015.
Caspian Sea oil routes. Dagestan and Chechnya are located immediately north to the very
beginning
of the westward red route. The Russian route runs through Dagestan. It used to
pass through
neighboring Chechnya, which may have something to do with two wars ha-
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been fought here between Russia and the Chechen state/mafia, the latter supported
by
Zbigniew Brzezinski and allies. The Boston bombers hail from this region.
It's going to be interesting to see what the public will learn during the course of the trial, because almost immediately it became clear that family members of the brothers have very peculiar backgrounds. Why not instantly get to the meat? Two uncles of the terrorist brothers, Ruslan Tsarni and Alvi Tsarnaev, were deeply tied to the CIA, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the Chechen resistance - key elements involved in the western route of Caspian Sea oil. The CIA link of Ruslan Tsarni goes through his former father-in-law, Graham Fuller [1], a former vice chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council and a geopolitical scholar along the lines of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel Huntington. In fact, both men supported Fuller's work [2] and both, along with Henry Kissinger, seem to have been Fuller's mentors since their days at Harvard in the late 1950s, both at the Department of Government and the CIA-linked Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. [3] Fuller is primarily occupied with the question of how to manage the Islamic world. To illustrate, in 1999 he wrote in Le Monde Diplomatique:
"In the West the words Islamic fundamentalism conjure up images of bearded men with turbans and women covered in black shrouds. And some Islamist movements do indeed contain reactionary and violent elements. But we should not let stereotypes blind us to the fact that there are also powerful modernising forces at work within these movements. Political Islam is about change. In this sense, modern. Islamist movements may be the main vehicle for bringing about change in the Muslim world and the break-up of the old "dinosaur" regimes. ... "Islam is solidly rooted in traditions of mercantilism and private enterprise. ... Islam does not glorify the role of the state in the economy [read: communism or socialism], or in general. ... Islam is quite compatible with modern ideas of a limited state role in the economy. It has regularly opposed the introduction of socialist measures in the Muslim world and expresses its preference for market principles... The Islamists’ attack on "capitalism" is usually a reference to "consumerism" or intense materialism that they see as a negative characteristic of the West. Islamists want less borders among Muslim states and see the European Union as a potential model." [4] |
Journalist and French intelligence asset Richard Labeviere seems to have rather liberally paraphrased this article in his 2000 book Dollars for Terror, but the essence of what was said is correct. Of course, Labeviere and his book we already met at ISGP in relation to Yeslam bin Laden's terrorist-sponsoring activities and Labeviere's claim that Osama bin Laden met with Prince Turki al Faisal of Saudi Arabia and CIA officer Larry Mitchell in a Dubai hospital only weeks before 9/11. Labeviere also quoted an unnamed CIA analyst as having explained to him:
"The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against [the Russians]. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia." [5] |
This quote is often attributed to Fuller, but, judging from Labeviere's book, this appears to be incorrect. Nevertheless, it is clear that this policy is supported and implemented by Fuller and allies as Brzezinski. Both Fuller and Brzezinski are part of group that opposes the Israel Lobby. Others in the group are Chas Freeman (see ISGP's Superclass Index), former long-time president of the anti-neocon Middle East Policy Council, where Fuller is a member of the editorial advisory committee; and the authors of the book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. [6]
Fuller's anti-Israel and anti-neocon stance, as well as Islamic world expertise, should also be clear from his inclusion in the 2004 documentary Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War, financed and promoted by "liberal CIA" foundations as Ford, Soros, Tides and others through Brave New Films. The film is loaded with CIA operatives. Apart from the bizarre ties Fuller developed to the Boston Bombing, other included operatives can be linked to 9/11-no-plane and CIA drug trafficking disinformation. It should be clear that only deep insiders were invited to do the "exposing" in this film.
Fuller appears here and there in ISGP's index of institutes, but is only an aide to top level players. Besides Brzezinski, Huntington, and likely Kissinger, Fuller has also cooperated with Morton Abramowitz [7], a person who also appears around the 85th place in ISGP's Superclass Index of 2013-2014. Together, Abramowitz and Fuller have reportedly brought Turkey's recent political leaders to power [8] and certainly have been protecting Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Muslim leader who escaped prosecution in his own country by fleeing to the United States in 1998. Abramowitz and Fuller, along with the CIA's George Fidas, helped prevent his extradition back to Turkey by claiming the movement, which has about 600 schools and 4 million followers worldwide, didn't represent a radical or subversive form of Islam. [9] As anyone familiar with the Muslim religion could predict, this is quite a questionable claim. There is widespread evidence that the Gulen schools exhibit medieval cult-like behavior, refuse to teach Darwinism, ban anything related to love and romance, and are not at all opposed to jihadism. [10] It wants Islam to play a larger role in political life and is widely suspected of subversive activities. As a result, schools in Russia and Uzbekistan have been closed by the government [11], but in Turkey young teenagers continue to be recruited and prepared for the highest positions in government, where they seemingly are taught to always consult the Gulen organization. [12]
The Gulen operation really sounds like a classical CIA operation, which Turkey has had its fair share of, most notably the Grey Wolves and the coups of 1960, 1971 and 1980 (Fuller was stationed here at some point). Probably not a coincidence, the Gulen movement has been accused by Turkish intelligence of being used as a front for CIA operations in many different countries, including Kyrgizstan and Uzbekistan [13], places very familiar to Fuller's daughter and former son-in-law, Boston Bomber uncle Ruslan Tsarni, who were "rolling out World Bank and US AID privatisation programmes" here. [14] In 2008 State Department attorneys even pointed out there are suspicions of covert ties between the Gulen movement, Saudi Arabia and Iran, this because of the movement's access to large amounts of funds. [15]
Coincidences like these demonstrate that Fuller's days as a CIA operative are only over on paper. Hardly surprising, Fuller has been accused of involvement in a number of illegal CIA operations. The first is Iran Contra, a program he famously helped put in place with a 1984 memo to CIA director William Casey which included a discussion of a meeting in Hamburg between CIA officer Ted Shackley, Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar, and a representative of Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. [16] At this point the operation did not yet include Israel. Quite possibly it was this scandal that resulted in his official retirement from the Agency in 1988. Not that this mattered. Throughout the 1990s Fuller was listed among a dozen "key researchers" of RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP). The center was founded by Carlyle chairman Frank Carlucci, an old CIA friend of Ted Shackley and George H. W. Bush. Another board member was the Iranian Hushang Ansary, a former member of the Shah's inner circle and a close business friend of Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller. The top level Zionist and owner of General Dynamics, Lester Crown, was on the board. Right here, with these few individuals we are looking at a continuation of the Iran Contra network at RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy. The elitist Rita Hauser was another board member. [17]
As for conspiracies, a source of Rodney Stich claimed that Fuller, together with CIA director Robert Gates, was involved in running assassination teams against witnesses and operatives of illegal CIA operations, primarily the October Surprise. [18] This may be less far-fetched than it sounds. As discussed in ISGP's Cercle Pinay article in particular, George H. W. Bush, Frank Carlucci, Ted Shackley and Robert Gates were/are a closely-knit private CIA club accused of everything from drug trade to assassinations. Men like Brzezinski and Kissinger are equally close. Stich's source also claimed that Fuller was involved in a canceled 1992 plot to assassinate Bill Clinton, the opponent of George H. W. Bush in the presidential elections. [19]
In 2008, several years before the Boston bombing, Fuller's name was mentioned by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, who had become known for her statements that the FBI ignored warnings that Osama bin Laden was planning a major attack in the United States. Half Turkish, half Iranian, Edmonds was employed as an interpreter and translator of covertly recorded conversations of Turkish diplomatic and political targets. Later, when asked what she knew about Fethullah Gulen and his organization, she explained:
"He has since established more than 300 madrasahs [Islamic schools] in Central Asia and what he calls universities that have a front that is called Moderate Islam, but he is closely involved in training mujahideen-like militia Islam who are brought from Pakistan and Afghanistan into Central Asia where his madrasahs operate... "It is supported by certain U.S. authorities here because of the operations in Central Asia, but what they have been doing since the late 1990s is actually radical Islam and militarizing these very, very young, from the age 14, 15, by commandoes they use, and this is both commandoes from Turkish military, commandoes from Pakistani ISI in Central Asia and Azerbaijan, and after that they bring them to Turkey, and from Turkey they send them through Europe, to European and elsewhere. "It's a continuation of Cold War over those nations, and what we did in Afghanistan in early 1980s with mujahideen, we have been joined now in Central Asia by using Islam and extremism and these madrasahs, and Pakistani and Afghani elements to build (unintelligible) and staff in terms of those resources towards certain business interests." [20] |
If this information of Sibel Edmonds is true, it appears that Graham Fuller, his daughter, Ruslan Tsarni, Halliburton, and oil interests represented by Brzezinski all play a role in managing these radical islamist networks. Anybody even contemplating setting up such a network would consult Brzezinski, as he the main expert in this domain. Along with Fuller, that is - who was a station chief in Kabul, Afghanistan from 1975 to 1978. This was still at least six months before national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski began provoking the Soviets into attacking Afghanistan, but undoubtedly Fuller played an important role in the planning and intelligence gathering process before Brzezinski was able to convince Carter of his new-found strategy. Back in 1998, when asked if his operation to draw Russia into the Afghan War, Brzezinski didn't display even the slightest remorse over the millions of deaths, mutilations, addicts, traumas and religious suppression the Afghanistan war caused - whether it was a necessary step or not. Humanitarianism doesn't seem to play even the slightest role for Brzezinski.
"Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? ...
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?" [21] |
Looking at all of Fuller's connections and the accusations against him, one shouldn't be surprised if he is, or was, in contact with Russian-Ukrainian GRU firm Far West, LLC. *
* Note: See ISGP's 9/11, Part II article. Far West appears to be involved in the managing of international terrorism, including from Chechnya and Al Qaeda, with partners as Cheney's KBR Halliburton, Saudis as Prince Turki and Adnan Khashoggi, and CIA front firm Diligence, LLC.
Far West's Ruslan Saidov, who reportedly resides in Turkey, comes to mind in particular. But Far West is active in many Central Asian locations, including Turkey, Iran, Kyrgizstan and Afghanistan. Ruslan Tsarni also fits the profile of a potential Far West contact. Much of Tsarni's family lives in Kyrgyzstan, first exiled there from Chechnya by Stalin in 1944 with many returning during the First Chechen War. Future Boston bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar grew up here in their early years. [22] Tsarni and Fuller's daughter, married in the 1995-1999 period, for a year lived in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan Tsarni's family lived next door to leading Chechen-Kyrgyz mafia boss, Aziz Batukaev, with whom they were very friendly. [23] Batukaev sparked major controversy in April 2013, when he was prematurely escorted out of jail and given free passage to Chechnya. [24] The Tsarni/Tsarnaev family also had unspecified connections to Kyrgyz intelligence or had family members who somehow were known to the intelligence services. [25] In 1999 Tsarni began working for Halliburton contractors and under at least one Halliburton executive, usually in the oil and mineral exploration business surrounding the Caspian Sea. [26] Halliburton, mafia neighbors connected at the presidential level, intelligence ties, terrorist family members: it's not at all incompatible with Far West's activities.
On to Alvi Tsarnaev, the other uncle of the Boston bombers. This person used to live in Silver Spring, Maryland at the same address where the United States-Chechen Republic Alliance (USCRA) was registered. [27] Manager of the USCRA was Lyoma Usmanov, the official Chechen ambassador to the U.S. under President Aslan Maskhadov 1997-2005. Brzezinski had made it possible for Usmanov to come to the United States. [28] While in the U.S., at a time when Chechnya was at war with Russia, Usmanov was briefly retained by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center). [29] Brzezinski, Kissinger, James Baker, George Shultz, Robert Kagan and other elites have all been involved with the Wilson Center. Some of these elites could also be found at the top-level American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, largely set up by Brzezinski. Seeing Brzezinski's name pop up this close to two uncles of Boston bombers should be less of a surprise than people may think. No one has been more involved in the Central Asian and Caucasus region than Brzezinski. Since the mid-1990s, immediately after the potentially huge oil reserves of the Caspian Sea were realized, he has been a oil company representative in the Azerbaijan/Chechnya region. [30] He has even been in contact with Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev [31] , the Chechen mafia leader who worked for the thuggish Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev. Seeing the names of the Boston bombers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan, the latter named after an Uzbek who tried to revive the Genghis Khan empire, and it is clear that other members of the brother's family - besides the uncles - were also deeply committed to radical Chechen nationalism. Unsurprisingly, in the years prior to the Boston bombing, the FSB, FBI and CIA all had Tamerlan and his mother on watchlists for suspected jihadis. [32] Most Chechens may not be Wahhabists, but they are at least as radical as the Gulen movement.
There are more bizarre circumstances revolving Alvi Tsarnaev and the United States-Chechen Republic Alliance (USCRA). First of all, this whole area, Silver Spring, Maryland, has quite a few CIA spooks in the neighborhood, including Raymond Wannall of the American Security Council and the AFIO. [33] More incredibly, at one point John Walker Lindh grew up right next door. Strangely, a neighbor interviewed about the Lindh family lived in the exact same house - 8920 Walden Road - where Alvi Tsarnaev and the USCRA were registered, seemingly all at the same time. [34] Lindh, of course, was the American captured as an Al Qaeda operative and Taliban soldier during the 2001 Afghanistan invasion. It can be argued that the propagandist Homeland miniserie is loosely based on the John Walker Lindh affair.
Just as incredible is the link between Boston bomber Dzhokhar and Brian Glyn Williams, professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, where the younger brother, Dzhokhar, studied. In fact, Dzhokhar contacted Williams in May 2011 for information on Chechnya, after a referral from his teacher who had instructed his students to write a paper on their countries of origin. Williams was the obvious choice, as he is the only professor in the United States who teaches a course on Chechen history.
There are not a whole lot of decent interviews with Williams. Steve Urbon of South Coast Today in Massachusetts was the first to interview him, after Williams, for some reason, himself informed Urbon that he had interacted with Dzhokhar. To Urbon he explained:
"[Dzhokhar] wanted to learn more about Chechnya, who the fighters were, who the commanders were. I sort of gave him background. ... I hope I didn't contribute to [the bombing], as that kid and his brother identified with the Chechen struggle..." [35] |
The New York Times also published a (partial) story of Williams. However, the only publication that has conducted a somewhat in-depth interview with Williams is PRI The World. Interestingly, this "one-hour, weekday radio news magazine" is a co-production of WGBH/Boston, Public Radio International and BBC World Service that also receives financing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with many programs and projects being sponsored by the Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie and Henry Luce foundations. During his interview with PRI The World, Williams explained:
"One of the biggest sort of lies on the War on Terror is that the Chechens are somehow a sub-plot to Al Qaeda's war with America. And this is an effort on the part of the Russians. ... There have been foreign fighters who have come to Chechnya to help the Chechens out, mainly Arabs and Turks, but the Chechens have their own hands full fighting the Russians. They don't see America as their enemy. And they certainly haven't contributed to any Al Qaeda plots. ... "During the 1980s, when the Mujahideen freedom fighters were fighting against the Soviet Union, Chechens fought in the ranks of the Soviet army. Remember, Chechens are Soviet citizens. ... And, in fact, no Chechens are arrested in Afghanistan, no Chechens have been sent to Guantanamo Bay. I have traveled to Afghanistan myself in 2003 and interviewed Taliban prisoners of war, looking for Chechens, and I couldn't find any. ... There are only a few hundred fighting [internationally]... "I'm friends with the former Chechen foreign minister, Ilyas Akhmadov*** ... He and the other Chechens I've met are all full of admiration for America. ... We haven't engaged in any interim support for the Russians against the Chechens. And the ones that are here tend to love America. So I think this Boston marathon bombing has nothing to do with Chechen objectives, Chechen desires, or their historical view of America. ... [*** Long-time assistant to Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov, a Sufi Muslim who opposed Jihadist fundamentalists as Basayev but couldn't control them. Akhmadov was only granted asylum in the U.S. after heavy lobbying of the Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC) and public support of people as Brzezinski, Haig, Albright and McCain.] "Well, you see, he wasn't a student of mine. He was a student of a friend of mine at the Cambridge Rindge [and] Latin [high school], who then sent him to me to learn more about Chechnya. It was such a brief interaction. It doesn't mean much to me. ... "I was out a mile when the bomb went off. We had two friends racing and I had friends at the finish line. We were very upset. We didn't know what was happening at the time. My friend Steve [Matteo], whose at Cambridge Rindge Latin, his very close friend, that I'm not close with, he had a friend there whose children were injured in the bombing. That just drives home just how close all this is. "But certainly I take advantage of this moment to teach and educate, to plug some history into this thing, and to shed light on Chechnya, not just as a terror nation, but also as victims. The Chechens have lost over 200,000 people to the Russians since this war began. That is almost genocidal. There are less than a million Chechens. So I hope we can put a human face on the Chechens in this time of grieving, as well as that nothing can explain or rationalize this sort of terrorism." [36] |
It seems obvious that Williams is a person with strong anti-Russian and anti-communist opinions. He is consistently referring to the Mujahideen as "freedom fighters," accuses Russia of propaganda and genocide in Chechnya, and makes it clear that Chechens normally love America. He also comes across as agitated that people have no clue that Chechen nationalist freedom fighters are very different from Al Qaeda. In his New York Times interview he used similarly strong, undiplomatic language whenever possible: "[Dzhokhar] wanted to know more about Russia's genocidal war on the Chechen people." [37]
Khozh-Akhmed Noukhaev, leader of the Chechen mafia for Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev. Both completely criminalized and destroyed the Chechen economy in the early 1990s. In Moscow they fought a bloody war with Solntsevskaya. By the mid-1990s, due to renewed interest in Caspian Sea oil, Noukhaev's western contacts included Zbigniew Brzezinski, James Baker, Enders Wimbush [RAND Corporation, like Brzezinski and Graham Fuller; German Marshall Fund; National Bureau of Asian Research; Hudson Institute; Office of Net Assessment; Booz Allen Hamilton; SAIC] and Adnan Khashoggi. [55] British contacts included superspook Sir James Goldsmith [56] , an insider to SAS and MI6 terrorist operations in South Africa and a good friend of Henry Kissinger; and Margaret Thatcher, whose son in 2004 became embroiled in an oil-related coup in Equatorial Guinea, organized by a retired SAS veteran and a group of mercenaries. Noukhaev appears to have had ties to Boris Berezovsky, Far West's Ruslan Saidov and quite possibly also Chechen-Kyrgyz crime boss Aziz Batukaev, who was close to the Tsarnaev family of the Boston bombers.
The point here is that Williams doesn't come across as an independent academic, but primarily as an anti-communist propagandist, as was so common during the Cold War. And lo and behold, this is exactly what he is. First of all, he's the CIA's primary expert on suicide bombings and has traveled much of Central Asia on its behalf. [38] How is that for yet another bizarre coincidence? Also, he's referred to by the Jamestown Foundation as one of their analysts. Between May 2005 and May 2013 about 30 articles of Williams were published by this anti-communist foundation. [39] We just discussed that Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the leading lights in the Jamestown Foundation, as well as Freedom House and the ACPC, all located at the same address, was a contact of Chechen mafia leader Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev, who began and ended all of his articles with "Alluha Akhbar!", but was useful in the fight against Russian expansion towards Central Asia. Noukhaev, just as the equally criminal Chechen presidents Dzhokhar Dudayev and Aslan Maskhadov, who employed Noukhaev as their right-hands, were what Brian Glyn Williams would label a "nationalist freedom fighters." They weren't, unless we're talking about their own personal freedom to kill and plunder. As already mentioned (in the 9/11 Part II article), these men destroyed and criminalized the Chechen economy and with their radicalism invited two destructive wars with Russia. These nationalist leaders never represented the ordinary people, many of whom were happy to make compromises in return for economic prosperity. Who are the "Chechen nationalists" Professor Williams is talking about? The primary Wahhabist/Salifist who managed to introduce Sharia Law in Chechnya in 1999 was Shamil Basayev, a Chechen-born nationalist, although he may have been under a little bit of Saudi/Far West influence. The only well-known foreign militia leader in Chechnya was the Saudi-Jordanian Ibn Al-Khattab, reportedly introduced into the region by Sheikh Fathi Shishani and at one point the commander of 9/11's "20th hijacker", Zaccarias Moussaoui. Looking at his name, Sheikh Fathi Shishani was a Saudi (who would have worked under the authority of Saudi intelligence). Interestingly, it was the Congress of Chechen International Organizations (CCIO) of Ruslan Tsarni and Graham Fuller who helped finance Sheikh Fathi's activities. [40] It seems that the more info we find, the more we keep going in circles.
The definitions for radical Islam Professor Williams uses are strictly geopolitical: it's very easy for any strict Muslim youth, even if he is not a Wahhabist, to turn against the West, and the United States in particular (which is ironic, as the U.S. is still extremely religious compared to other western countries). The Muslim faith, much like other religions, is a backward, medieval movement that opposes science and common sense, freedom of thought, freedom to express oneself, equal opportunities for men and women, and free sexual relationships. In other words, it suppresses all positive aspects of life and personal development. Because of these reasons it opposes the West by definition, which has largely fought itself free from religious oppression. Western-gained freedoms are considered negative by all Muslims. Muslims living in the West don't integrate, are much more religious than the average westerner, often the family still chooses partners for their children, husbands are still looking for virgins, there's little understanding for homosexuality, flirting and sex in general is taboo, woman need male family members to supervise their interaction with men, youths have a disrespectful attitude towards women much more often, a basic fact as Darwinism is not accepted, and due to the poorer, third world background, Muslims aren't even remotely as cultured as the western middle class. And these are generally Muslims who do not pray! Members of the Gulen movement pray fives times a day very religiously. Chechen militants are equally religious. The Saudi and Taliban Wahhabists may be the most extreme in imprisoning men and especially women into an evil, hellish thought prison (nothing about this is exaggerated, read Salon's 'I married a Bin Laden'), but Chechen militants and Gulen Movement graduates are not moderates. They are cult members who do not believe in western values.
An article in the Russian press claimed that the Jamestown Foundation, which counted the involvement of Brzezinski, Fuller (speech in 2008) and Professor Williams, ran pro-Chechen Jihadist networks in the Caucuses through the Georgian-based Fund of Caucasus. Tamerlan, who resided in the Muslim-dominated Russian republic Dagestan from January to July 2012, was said to have been recruited by this network. [41] There's little evidence for these claims, however. Both Jamestown and Fund of Caucasus were involved in organizing annual conferences at Tbilisi State University and the nearby Ilia State University, usually separate from each other, which promoted independence of the Caucasian republics from Russia. [42] But there's no evidence that terrorists were invited to these conferences. Also, according to the FBI, the border control service database of Georgia showed that Tamerlan never moved across the border from Dagestan into Georgia. [43] So either Jamestown and Fund of Caucasus held off-the-book conferences with Tamerlan using a fake passport, which is a possibility, or the Russian article has a few mistakes in it and most likely was a leak of some sort.
That having been said, it's more than likely that the United States is managing a network of radicals to undermine Russian efforts to destabilize Chechnya and Dagestan. Anton Surikov actually explained in 1995 what Brzezinski almost completely skipped in his 1998 book The Grand Chessboard:
"Another aspect of the West's Caspian policy is the attempt to cut Russia off from the Transcaucasus by encouraging separatism in the North Caucasus, above all in Chechnya. In particular, there are projects for establishing an anti-Russian "Confederation of Mountain [Gorskiy] Peoples" made up of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygea. It is presumed this formation will gain direct access to the Black Sea and to Turkey through the territory of Abkhazia. Plans for assisting separatism in Tatarstan and Bashkiria for the purpose of actually cutting off from central Russia regions of the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East rich energy sources are being considered in the long term." [44] |
Of course, until his death in November 2009 Anton Surikov was the most important player in Far West and the reported runner of Chechen jihadist terrorist Shamil Basayev. In fact, if anyone could help the United States and men as Zbigniew Brzezinski in running jihadist networks it would be Far West. And it seems that in the peculiar netherworld of Far West, this is exactly what has been going on. Other key elements here appear to be Far West's American partners KBR Halliburton and senior, retired CIA officers, Prince Turki and Adnan Khashoggi from Saudi Arabia, possibly other Middle Eastern elements, the Gulen Movement, the Chechen support groups affiliated with the uncles of the Boston bombers, Brzezinski and Fuller; the Jamestown Foundation, the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, and the RAND Corporation.
Sources only given for material not discussed earlier:
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In the years prior to the bombing the FBI, CIA, and Russian intelligence all suspected Tamerlan and his mother of having Jihadist sympathies.
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Two uncles of the terrorist brothers, Ruslan Tsarni and Alvi Tsarnaev, have worked for the CIA and State Department for roughly 15 years in an effort to bolster the anti-Russian Chechen resistance.
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Ruslan has closely cooperated with CIA covert operations veteran and Islam expert Graham Fuller, who used to be his father-in-law.
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Alvi cooperated with Chechnya's U.S. representative, Lyoma Usmavov. Both Fuller and Usmavov were in contact with Zbigniew Brzezinski over the Chechen situation.
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There's some evidence that Fuller, Brzezinski and the CIA are using the Gulen Movement as a means to recruit and indoctrinate young Muslim extremists, with the intent to have them oppose Russian influence in the Caspian Sea region.
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Fuller's daughter, Samantha, and her husband from 1995 to 1999, Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle of the Boston bombers, have been running USAID, World Bank and various corporate programs in Central Asia to promote capitalism.
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Since 1998 Tsarni has been involved in Caspian Sea region oil and gas exploration companies, often as a contractor of, or in coordination with, Halliburton, Dick Cheney's company that is a long time partner of Far West. In turn, Far West is linked to the management of international terrorist networks, including Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden and Russia's most notorious terrorist, Shamil Basayev.
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John Walker Lindh, the American arrested as a Taliban fighter in 2001 who at least partly inspired the creation of the propaganda miniserie Homeland, used to live next-door to the (later) United States-Chechen Republic Alliance, ran by Chechen ambassador Lyoma Usmavov, who was brought into the U.S. by Zbigniew Brzezinski; and Alvi Tsarnaev, an uncle of the Boston bombers.
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The extremely anti-Russian Brian Glyn Williams, a professor who briefly educated Boston bomber Dzhokhar on the dire situation in Chechnya, is the CIA's number one expert on international suicide bombings. He has also been in close contact with the Jamestown Foundation, ran by Brzezinski and his top-level CIA friends. Fuller is known to have given a keynote speech to the Jamestown Foundation in 2008.
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Footage and limited testimony of the shooting in Watertown, Boston, strongly indicates that the police, for whatever reason, was purposely trying to kill Boston bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar. Seemingly banned footage of the shootout reveals that the Boston bombers were yelling "chill out, chill out", "we give up, we give up", "we didn't do it" with the police continuing to fire. [45] The police claimed Tamerlan ran out of ammunition and gently tried to arrest him after that, at which point Dzhokhar and a stolen SUV came out of left field and ran over his brother. [46] This appears to have been a complete lie. At the very least an autopsy report revealed that Tamerlan, in addition to having sustained blunt trauma, had half a dozen bullet holes in his torso and extremities. [47] At least one witness, "Linda", claimed Tamerlan was "hit by a police SUV [quite possibly Dzhokhar] and then after he was hit, shot multiple times," followed by the statement "I personally haven't heard any explosions." [48] If true, why would the police execute a helpless person who has just been driven over by a car, instead of arresting him? There are conflicting reports about the amount of weapons the brothers had, and if they were throwing bombs.
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Dzhokhar's throat wound is a topic of debate. According to the authorities it is a self-inflicted gunshot wound that damaged Dzhokhar's voice box, making it impossible for him to speak. [49] However, according to the SWAT team that arrested him, it "didn't look like a bullet wound ... more like a cut of some kind ... possibly from a piece of shrapnel from one of the explosives they were using the night before." [50] The officer making this statement gestures to the right-front his throat. The cut must have been very high up on Dzhokhar's throat, under his jaw, as pictures taken at the time of his arrest do not reveal a throat wound. The statement of the SWAT officer indicates the wound didn't look fresh, which may explain why there also wasn't any dried blood visible on Dzhokhar's throat. Whatever the case, when Dzhokhar first appeared in court in July, it appeared he had damage and swelling around his jaw, and was able to speak. [51] But at this point we don't know for certain what caused the damage. He's kept away from the public by the authorities.
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A friend of Tamerlan, Ibragim Todashev, a competing MMA fighter, was shot seven times, including once in the back of the head, under mysterious circumstances while being questioned by the FBI at his home. It appears roughly half a dozen officers were present in the room, with Todashev having a knee injury. Why he wasn't questioned at a police station is unclear. Also here the story changed, with FBI officers first claiming Todashev attacked them with a weapon, but later denying this. Friends of his claimed to be intimidated by the FBI, including his girlfriend, who was deported in October 2013. She claimed the FBI refused to extent her VISA after having given an interview to a Boston magazine. [52]
Looking at all the information, it is hard to imagine what kind of motive Brzezinski or the U.S. government in general would have in Chechens carrying out terrorist attacks in the United States. It only helps to undermine crucial U.S. support for Chechen independence. The only one to benefit is Russia, who would love to see the Americans disappear from the region. It's exactly because Brzezinski and Fuller have no interest in carrying out false flag operations like these, and most likely wouldn't try to use terrorists whose family they can be easily connected to, that ISGP theorizes that the Boston bombing was a case of blowback from trying to manipulate and manage a network of terrorists. This would explain every aspect of the terrorist attack and its subsequent cover up.
Maybe Professor Brian Glyn Williams' general job as the nation's leading Chechnya expert, was to plant a seed of activism and militancy in every Chechen who came to him for information on their home country. Judging from Williams' emotional and unbalanced statements about the Chechen conflict, always bashing the Russians and seemingly overlooking the criminal nature of the Dudayev regime or western ties to Chechen mafia head Noukhaev, makes his statement "[Whoops!] I hope I didn't contribute to [the bombing]" almost seem comical. And he may well generally wonder how much he is to blame. Considering he and his Jamestown Foundation cohorts do not seem to have much against Chechens and Dagestanis carrying out terrorist attacks against Russian citizens, this may have been a sound lesson for him. But don't expect Brzezinski to show remorse. There's no evidence a genocide here or terrorist attack there that he aided, has any effect on him.
This last aspect is just speculation, of course. But whatever exactly happened with the Boston bombing, it is blatantly obvious that something is wrong here and that the media is aiding in the cover up. And if something is wrong here, that increases the chances 10-fold that something is wrong with 9/11 also, not to mention our supposedly free news media.
[1] | *) Ruslan Tsarni is an uncle of the Boston bombers. In 1995 he was the founder of the Congress of Chechen International Organizations (CCIO) through which he provided material support to the Chechan resistance, among them to the violent jihadist Sheikh Fathi Shishani.
The CCIO was registered at the home of Tsarni's father-in-law (at the time) Graham Fuller, a top level CIA officier. *) Bizapedia.com (accessed: November 4, 2013): "Company Name: Congress of Chechen International Organizations, Incorporated. Status: Forfeited. Filing Date: 08/17/1995. Entity Type: General Business File Number: D04207312. ... Registered Agent: Ruslan Tsarnaev. 11114 Whisperwood Lane Rockville, MD 20852." *) City-data.com/montgomery-county/W/Whisperwood-Lane-2.html: "11114 Whisperwood Lane Rockville, MD 20852. Owner: Graham E. Fuller & E. P. Fuller. Total land value: $476,140. ... Date of current assessment: 09/2006. Year property was built: 1964." *) April 27, 2013, The Back Channel, 'Former CIA officer: 'Absurd' to link uncle of Boston suspects, Agency': "“Samantha was married to Ruslan Tsarnaev (Tsarni) for 3-4 years, and they lived in Bishkek for one year where Samantha was working for Price Waterhouse on privatization projects,” [Graham] Fulller, a former CIA officer in Turkey and vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council, told Al-Monitor by email Saturday. “They also lived in our house in [Maryland] for a year or so and they were divorced in 1999, I believe.” “I, of course, retired from CIA in 1987 and had moved on to working as a senior political scientist for RAND,” Fuller continued. Fuller said his former son in law was interesting but homesick, and moved back to Central Asia after the divorce. “Like all Chechens, Ruslan was very concerned about his native land, but I saw no particular involvement in politics, [although] he did try to contact other Chechens around,” Fuller continued. “He also felt homesick and eventually went back to Central Asia after the divorce. His English was shaky. (We always spoke Russian together).” A story on the Internet implying “possible connections between Ruslan and the Agency through me are absurd,” Fuller said. “I doubt [Ruslan] even had much to say of intelligence value other than talking about his own family’s sad tale of deportation from Chechnya by Stalin to Central Asia,” Fuller said. “Every Chechen family has such stories.” Fuller said he had made several visits to Central Asia to do research on post-Soviet political developments, and visited his daughter and Tsarni there. “Our visit is briefly mentioned in my recent memoir, Three Truths and a Lie, as well as their marriage celebration in [Maryland],” he wrote. A former Russian history and literature major at Harvard, Fuller said he had a long interest in Soviet minorities, and found Ruslan interesting." ... U.S. officials this week said that they added Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva to a US counterterrorism database in the fall of 2011, based on a warning from Russia’s intelligence service that they were suspected of being followers of radical Islam. Russia secretly recorded some telephone conversations of Tamerlan and his mother Zubeidat, including one between the two in 2001 “vaguely” discussing jihad in Palestine, the Associated Press reported Saturday." *) Biography of Graham Fuller: born in 1937. He graduated from Harvard with a BA and later a MA in Russian and Middle Eastern Studies. By the late 1950s it appears he had joined the State Department's Foreign Service, where his various overseas positions soon acted as a cover for his CIA activities. For about two decades he worked as a CIA operations officer in Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, North Yemen, Afghanistan (until 1978) and Hong Kong. Over the years he became fluent in Russian, Turkish, Arabic and Chinese. In 1982 he was promoted to the CIA's national intelligence officer for Near East and South Asia. Four years later he was appointed to the highest position he held in his career: vice-chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council. Fuller's last two positions overlapped with his role in the Iran Contra affair, a program he famously helped put in place with a 1984 memo to CIA director William Casey about a meeting in Hamburg between CIA officer Ted Shackley, Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar and Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. At this point the operation did not yet include Israel, a country whose anti-Arab policies Fuller would never come to appreciate. This actually puts him in the more liberal camp of the CIA, in contrast to men as William Casey and Ted Shackley who soon ran much of the Iran Contra affair through the Israelis. Fuller officially retired from the agency in 1988, quite possibly as a result of his involvement in the Iran Contra affair, and has since served as a political scientist at the RAND Corporation. For several decades now he has been one of the leading (retired) CIA experts on the Muslim world. In newspapers and magazines he advocated for closer ties with Iran under Khatami and he supported the Palestinian cause over Israel's expansionist policies. Fuller has actually been widely respected for his geostrategic views. Samuel Huntington has publicly cited his work. Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote a glaring review of Fuller's 2008 book The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivitol State in a Muslim World. More than likely it's not a coincidence that Fuller's geostrategic views completely overlap with those of these two men, the only difference being Fuller's specialty in Islamic relations. When Fuller was studying Russian and Middle Eastern studies at Harvard in the 1950s, both Brzezinski and Huntington were professors here at the Department of Government, with Brzezinski specializing in Soviet Studies at the Russian Research Center (Henry Kissinger was also active at Harvard throughout Fuller's period). This means that a claim that Brzezinski was one of Fuller's professors at the time is most likely correct. What is clear is that Fuller completely shares the anti-communist/anti-Russian attitude and relatively pro-Arab views of Brzezinski and Huntington. To illustrate, in 1999 Fuller wrote the following in Le Monde Diplomatique: "In the West the words Islamic fundamentalism conjure up images of bearded men with turbans and women covered in black shrouds. And some Islamist movements do indeed contain reactionary and violent elements. But we should not let stereotypes blind us to the fact that there are also powerful modernising forces at work within these movements. Political Islam is about change. In this sense, modern. Islamist movements may be the main vehicle for bringing about change in the Muslim world and the break-up of the old "dinosaur" regimes. ... Islam is solidly rooted in traditions of mercantilism and private enterprise. ... Islam does not glorify the role of the state in the economy [read: communism or socialism], or in general. ... Islam is quite compatible with modern ideas of a limited state role in the economy. It has regularly opposed the introduction of socialist measures in the Muslim world and expresses its preference for market principles... The Islamists’ attack on "capitalism" is usually a reference to "consumerism" or intense materialism that they see as a negative characteristic of the West. Islamists want less borders among Muslim states and see the European Union as a potential model." Journalist and French intelligence assett Richard Labeviere seems to have rather liberally paraphrased Fuller in his 2000 book The Terror Dollars, but the essence of what was said is correct. Labeviere and his book, of course, we already referred to earlier in relation to Yeslam bin Laden and also Labeviere's claim that Osama bin Laden met with Prince Turki al Faisal and CIA officer Larry Mitchell in a Dubai hospital only weeks before 9/11. Labeviere also quoted an unnamed CIA analyst as having explained to him: "The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against [the Russians]. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia." This quote is often attributed to Fuller, but, judging from Labeviere's book, this appears to be incorrect. Nevertheless, it is clear that this policy is supported and implemented by Fuller and allies as Brzezinski. As can be expected, Fuller never really retired from the CIA. Three years after his resignation, in 1991, Fuller was called in to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee to protect future CIA director and defense secretary Robert Gates from allegations that he had been skewing intelligence for political purposes (which he did, of course). Gates had the support of Brzezinski at the time. David Cohen, another officer working under Gates and suspected in this article of having ran the operation to bring down the WTC towers, also testified on behalf of Gates. |
[2] | *) 1996, Samuel P. Huntington, 'Clash of Civilizations', p. 238: "Are these three states likely to become the core of a broader grouping involving other Muslim and Asian countries? An informal "Confucian-lslamist alliance," Graham Fuller argues, "could materialize, not because Muhammad and Confucius are anti-West but because these cultures offer a vehicle for the expression of grievances for which the West is partly blamed-a West whose political, military, economic and cultural dominance increasingly rankles in a world where states feel 'they don't have to take it anymore.' '; The most passionate call for such cooperation came from Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi, who in March 1994 declared:" *) Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote a glaring review of Fuller's 2008 book The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivitol State in a Muslim World. It appears on the back cover of the book: "A Turkey rejected by Europe will bring the Middle Eastern problem into Europe. Fuller's incisive analysis of this dilemma is truly of great and even immediate geopolitical import." |
[3] | *) Graham Fuller: Born in 1937. Seemingly graduated from Harvard with a BA in Russian Studies (and later with an MA in Middle Eastern Studies) in 1959. In 1959 he also appears to have joined the State Department's Foreign Service, where his various overseas positions soon acted as a cover for CIA activities. In 2001 he gave a speech to the Weatherhead Center entitled 'The Future of Political Islam'. *) Zbigniew Brzezinski: Professor at Harvard's Russian Research Center 1953-1959 and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 1958-1959. Moved to Colombia after that. *) Samuel Huntington: Professor at Harvard's Department of Government 1950-1959, 1963-2008. Also at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, founded in 1958. *) Henry Kissinger: Director of the Harvard International Seminar between 1951 and 1971. Professor Department of Government since 1954. Co-founder and director Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 1958, together with the CIA's Robert R. Bowie. |
[4] | September 1999, Graham Fuller for Le Monde Diplomatique, 'Islam, a force for change' http://web.archive.org/web/20000302154110/http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/09/?c=16islam |
[5] | 2000, Richard Labeviere, 'Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam', p. 6 |
[6] | Graham Fuller, a member of the anti-neocon Middle East Policy Council's (MEPC's) editorial advisory committee, has a personal site named Afghanistan - The Futile War (sites.google.com/site/afghanistanthefutilewar), which he set up together with Chas Freeman, former long-time president of the MEPC and high up in ISGP's Superclass Index, and the authors of the book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy: John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. The site includes a speech of Zbigniew Brzezinski as chairman of RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP). |
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[8] | *) June 13, 2013, poster at Archinect Forum (information not checked, as much seems to be from Turkish sources, but quite possibly very accurate): "I'll give a very brief story of how Erdogan [Turkish prime minister since 2003] came to power. As of the 1980s Graham Fuller and Paul Henze started saying "Ataturkism is dead. The period of nation-state is over. Turkey should adopt a multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multicultural structure like the Ottoman Empire. The best way to do it is following the road of moderate Islam." Graham Fuller is the original owner of the "moderate Islam" definition. It was the CIA Station Chief Graham Fuller who wanted a new movement to be born within the Walfare Party and for this purpose, in 1996 Fuller gave advice to Abdullah Gul [prime minister 2002-2003; deputy prime minister and foreign minister 2003-2007; president of 2007]. It was even said that Tayyip Erdogan was going to be the Prime Minister and Abdullah Gul was going to be Foreign Minister. During the collapse of DSP (Democratic Left Party), Abdullah Gul had meetings with the CFR's (Council on Foreign Relations) Morton Abramowitz and the US Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Marc Grossman. Tayyip Erdogan joined the Welfare Party in 1984. When he was the president of the Beyoglu district, he also met with Morton Abramowitz and contacted Graham Fuller. Erdogan was also having meeting with Elizabeth Shelton of the US Adana Embassy, Caroline Hagins of US Istanbul Embassy and the CIA official Kenny Bob. Before Erdogan founded AKP, when he met with the Israeli Ambassador David Sultan in 2001 it was reflected in the press as "Erdogan guaranteed that the newly formed party will never be opposed to the Israel and the US politics." In the meantime, Abdullah Gul was visiting the British Ambassador Sir David Logan and informing him about the new party formation process. During that time Graham Fuller was also saying that the young people in the Welfare Party will get more powerful and be the leaders of moderate Islam. ... In Stratfor correspondences, it is stated that Erdogan said to Kissinger "At some point bridges will be formed with Israel, moving towards an Islamic world". According to Kissinger "Erdogan intends to become the leader of the Islamic world". ... As far as the elections..they were manipulated and rigged. In the last elections out of 76 million people 55 million voted and they got 21 million votes total. We have a threshold and votes for parties who don't make it to 10% threshold are all wasted." *) May 14, 1997, Turkish Daily News, 'US Strategic Report: 'Islam Will Not Dominate Turkey'': "An American think-tank report on Turkey, entitled "Turkey Futures Workshop Final Report," which grew out of a December 1996 conference attended by senior current and former members of the U.S. intelligence community, plus Administration officials and scholars... The SAIC report in question was prepared after a one-day conference held on December 9, 1996. The participants in this Pentagon-sponsored conference were as follows: ... Graham Fuller [CIA and Turkey expert], Senior Fellow at RAND Corporation. ... Paul Henze, Senior Fellow at RAND Corporation, a specialist in Turkish and Central Asian affairs, who worked at U.S. Embassy in Ankara in 1958-59, and 1974-77 [CIA station chief]. ... S. Enders Wimbush [contact of Chechen mob leader Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev], SAIC. Former director of Radio Liberty." |
[9] | *) June 27, 2008, Milliyet (major Turkish daily newspaper founded in 1950), 'Gülen’e ret gerekçesinde CIA ile ilişki kuşkusu' ('CIA Suspicion in Gulen's Refusal'): "Along with this application, Gülen presented reference letters to the court that had been written by 26 academicians and religious scholars. Some of these are Morton Abramovitz, Graham Fuller, and Mehmet Sağlam. ... George Fidas [also listed as a petitioner in favor of Gulen]." *) January 5, 2011, Washington Post, 'Islamic group is CIA front, ex-Turkish intel chief says': "According to Intelligence Online, he obtained a residence permit only in 2008 with the help of Fuller and George Fidas [CIA], whom it described as head of the agency’s outreach to universities." ... [Fuller:] “I did not recommend him for a residence permit or anything else [when Gulen first came to the United States in 1998]. As for [the CIA's] George Fidas, I have never even heard of him and don't know who he is.” “What I did do,” Fuller explained, “was write a letter to the FBI in early 2006 [as did George Fidas and Morton Abramowitz, which were later used by Gulen for his VISA extension in 2008] …at a time when Gulen's enemies were pressing for his extradition to Turkey from the U.S. In the post 9/11 environment, they began spreading the word that he was a dangerous radical. In my statement to the FBI I offered my views…that I did not believe he posed a security threat of any kind to the U.S. I still believe that today, as do a large body of scholars on contemporary Islam. “I do not at all consider Gulen a radical or dangerous.” Fuller continued. “Indeed in my view--and I have studied a lot of Islamist movements worldwide--his movement is perhaps one of the most encouraging in terms of the evolution of contemporary Islamic political and social thinking…” Fidas could not be reached for comment, nor would the CIA answer questions about him. George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs lists him as a visiting professor and “Director for Outreach in the Office of the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production.” But the title was abolished when the Director of National Intelligence was created several years ago, an informed source said." |
[10] | *) May 6, 2013, Pamela Geller for Freedom Outpost, 'The Gulen Movement: Indoctrinating For Jihad In Charter Schools': "The "Turkish Khomeini," Fethullah Gulen, lives in Pennsylvania. From there he runs a $25 billion international network. He is a prime mover behind the rapid Islamization of Turkey, and he urges Muslims to build schools to indoctrinate an entire generation. He is tied to hundreds of Gulen charter schools right here in the United States. (Texas alone has 36 of these Gulen charter schools.) I recently heard from a teacher at a Gulen Movement school. "There are so many ethical violations occurring here every day," he told me, "that it is hard to know where to start." And worse, there is open support for jihad: When news broke of the Boston Marathon jihad bombings, several students defended the attack and expressed concern for the well-being not of the victims, but of the bombers. ... Beyond that, the educational standards and priorities are abominable. "This school cares little for education and more for PR," says the teacher. The administration, he says, doesn't appear to have any background or training in either education or leadership. ... That could be said of many schools. But in this Gulen school, "as far as curriculum goes, the priority is Islam, not education. Evolution and Darwin are forbidden in biology, and literature classes are censored in order to ensure no one talks about relationships. ... The school doesn't have a library, teacher evaluations are nonexistent, and "the cheating here is rampant – and encouraged. Students have broken into teachers' rooms; they not only steal tests but they also think that the entirety of the building exists for them alone." Not only that, but "in the dorms, the students are 'chaperoned' by several young Turkish men who do not speak English. The chaperones are tasked with ensuring that the students adhere to Islam, and they have meetings in the dorms to pressure kids into practicing their faith. School days are planned around Islamic prayer (Fridays are shortened, for example; during the winter months, there is a 90-minute break in the middle of the day for lunch and prayer). The school is registered as nonsectarian, yet every student is Muslim." ... When all of the teachers were fingerprinted and had background checks per state law, the chaperones were not required to do so. It will come as no surprise that the finances of the school are suspicious at best. ... . They seem to have local politicians in their pockets. In addition to the ethical problems this school poses, I am also concerned with the real reason for its existence." *) April 26, 2010, Time magazine, 'The Turkish Imam and His Global Educational Mission Read more: Turkish Imam Gulen's School Movement: Modern Islam?' "Like an American evangelist, Gülen's appeal lies mainly in his delivery. He is media savvy and emotional, frequently breaking into poetry or tears. That strikes a chord with millions of Turks who feel that modern, secular Turkey has alienated them from their Muslim belief. He also glorifies the Ottoman imperial past, appealing to a time when religion was a part of public life and the Turks were far mightier. His is not a new interpretation of Islam — he believes that Islamic tenets as revealed in the Koran are unalterable — but he engages with modern concerns like running a successful business or how to pray while on a plane. He doesn't sport a beard and he wears suits. ... Gülen's method is similar to the way in which Catholic Jesuits spread religion by emphasizing a well-rounded education. In fact, Gülen's first recruits were instructed by Christian missionaries with experience in Africa and South America. The method is also deeply controversial, and Russia and Uzbekistan have closed several of the schools. Depending on whom you ask, Gülen is either a saint or the next Khomeini... The schools owe their success in part to strict control. Every minute of the day is structured. Boarding is mandatory and students live with older "brothers" and "sisters" [they are separated] who act as both confidants and mentors. Originally these came from Turkey but local graduates have taken over. Temsil, or leading by example, is key, not least because proselytizing in most Central Asian nations is banned. "The kids are socialized into a Muslim way of life," says Berna Turam, a sociologist at Northeastern University who has spent a decade studying the Gülen movement. "There is a very religious universe indoctrinated by extracurricular activities. That's what makes the schools like Catholic schools." The schools also vigorously promote Turkic pride. They all teach Turkish language, and Istanbul occupies the aspirational place in students' imagination that New York City does elsewhere in the world. ... Add a quest for power to that fervor, though, and it gets complicated. In Turkey the movement is insular, growing and seems to harbor a mysterious political agenda. "On one level you have activities like the schools, which are hard not to be impressed by," says King's College lecturer Park. "Then there's the political element, which appears suspicious because it's rich, secretive and nobody really knows what it's up to." Gülen says he is opposed to theocracy, yet his supporters suggest that they would like more space for Islam in public life." |
[11] | *) April 26, 2010, Time magazine, 'The Turkish Imam and His Global Educational Mission Read more: Turkish Imam Gulen's School Movement: Modern Islam?' "In fact, Gülen's first recruits were instructed by Christian missionaries with experience in Africa and South America. The method is also deeply controversial, and Russia and Uzbekistan have closed several of the schools. |
[12] | *) June 26, 2006, Kanalturk, Nurettin Veren interview (Gulen's right-hand man for thirty-five years):"These schools are like shop windows. Recruitment and Islamization activities are carried out through night classes ... Children whom we educated in Turkey are now in the highest positions. There are governors, judges, military officers. There are ministers in the government. They consult Gulen before doing anything." |
[13] | *) January 5, 2011, Washington Post, 'Islamic group is CIA front, ex-Turkish intel chief says': "A memoir by a top former Turkish intelligence official claims that a worldwide moderate Islamic movement based in Pennsylvania has been providing cover for the CIA since the mid-1990s. The memoir, roughly rendered in English as “Witness to Revolution and Near Anarchy,” by retired Turkish intelligence official Osman Nuri Gundes, says the religious-tolerance movement, led by an influential former Turkish imam by the name of Fethullah Gulen, has 600 schools and 4 million followers around the world. In the 1990s, Gundes alleges, the movement "sheltered 130 CIA agents" at its schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone, according to a report on his memoir Wednesday by the Paris-based Intelligence Online newsletter. The book has caused a sensation in Turkey since it was published last month. Gulen could not be reached for comment. But two ex-CIA officials with long ties to Central Asia cast doubt on Gundes’s charges. Former CIA operative Robert Baer [9/11 "skeptic" who claimed there's evidence Iran was involved in 9/11; came onto Alex Jones' Infowars; has been involved with the radical Mossad-CIA outfit Intelligence Summit], chief of the agency’s Central Asia and Caucasus operations from 1995 through 1997, called the allegations bogus. "The CIA didn't have any ‘agents’ in Central Asia during my tenure,” he said. ... Likewise, Graham Fuller [protector of Gulen, along with Morton Abramowitz], a former CIA station chief in Kabul and author of “The Future of Political Islam,” threw cold water on Gundes’s allegations about Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. “I think the story of 130 CIA agents in Gulen schools in Central Asia is pretty wild,” Fuller said by e-mail. ... Imam Gulen, “whose views are usually close to U.S. policy,” according to Intelligence Online, favors toleration of all religions, putting his movement in direct competition with al-Qaeda and other radical groups for the affection of Muslims across Central Asia, the Middle East and even Europe and Africa, where it has also expanded its reach. Gundes, who was Istanbul station chief for Turkey’s MIT intelligence agency, “personally supervised several investigations into Gulen’s movement in the 1990s,” according to the newsletter’s report on his memoir, which has not been translated into English. The purpose of Gundes's investigation was not immediately clear. His own religious views could not be determined, but the influence of radical Islamist forces in Turkey swelled in the 1990s. The imam left Turkey in 1998 and settled in Saylorsburg, Pa., where the movement is headquartered. According to Intelligence Online, he obtained a residence permit only in 2008 with the help of Fuller and George Fidas [CIA], whom it described as head of the agency’s outreach to universities." *) June 27, 2008, Milliyet (major Turkish daily newspaper founded in 1950), 'Gülen’e ret gerekçesinde CIA ile ilişki kuşkusu' ('CIA Suspicion in Gulen's Refusal'): "Among the reasons given by the US State Department's attorneys as to why Gülen's permanent residence application was refused, is the suspicion of CIA financing of his movement. ... Along with this application, Gülen presented reference letters to the court that had been written by 26 academicians and religious scholars. Some of these are Morton Abramovitz, Graham Fuller, and Mehmet Sağlam. In March 2008, Gülen's appeal was rejected. The court demanded recent information and documentation from the petitioner Gülen and the State Department. The attorneys for the State Department, Patrick Meehan and Mary Catherine Frye, in their documents stated that "The petitioner indicates that he is a religious scholar and he has activities in the educational field. However, he presented, in addition to the absence of any documentation that proves he is an educator, he surrounds himself with academicians and pays them for speaking and criticizing his ideas in conferences that he organizes." ... "Because of the large amount of money that Gülen's movement uses to finance his projects, there are claims that he has secret agreements with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkic governments. There are suspicions that the CIA is a co-payer in financing these projects," claimed the attorneys. George Fidas [also listed as a petitioner in favor of Gulen]." |
[14] | *) April 27, 2013, The Back Channel, 'Former CIA officer: 'Absurd' to link uncle of Boston suspects, Agency': ""Samantha was married to Ruslan Tsarnaev (Tsarni) for 3-4 years, and they lived in Bishkek [Kyrgyzstan, where Ruslan's mafia and intelligence-connected family lived] for one year where Samantha was working for Price Waterhouse on privatization projects," [Graham] Fulller, a former CIA officer in Turkey and vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council, told Al-Monitor by email Saturday. "They also lived in our house in [Maryland] for a year or so and they were divorced in 1999, I believe."" *) April 15, 2005, Globeinvestor.com, 'Big Sky Energy Corporation Announces Management Additions': "From 1994 to 1996, Mr. [Ruslan] Tsarni served as a consultant for Financial Markets International LLC and Arthur Andersen LLP contracted by USAID for projects aimed to develop securities markets in Central Asia, where he trained corporate governance and corporate finance principals to state and private companies." *) Cleantech Investor, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), biography of Samantha A. Fuller (daughter of Graham E. Fuller): "Samantha Fuller ... Prior to SSE, she worked as a bond analyst covering Emerging Market Corporations for DrKW [Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein], and European Utilities for J.P. Morgan. Earlier, she roved the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan rolling out World Bank and US AID privatisation programmes." *) April 20, 2005, Senate Foreign Relations Committee session, Melody Townsel to Brian McKeon: "A joint staff retreat [was] arranged by a Pricewaterhouse employee, Samantha Ankarra Fuller, for the in-country staffs of all US AID contractors extant within Kyrgyzstan at that time [in the mid-1990s]." |
[15] | June 27, 2008, Milliyet (major Turkish daily newspaper founded in 1950), 'Gülen’e ret gerekçesinde CIA ile ilişki kuşkusu' ('CIA Suspicion in Gulen's Refusal'): ""Because of the large amount of money that Gülen's movement uses to finance his projects, there are claims that he has secret agreements with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkic governments. There are suspicions that the CIA is a co-payer in financing these projects," claimed the [State Department] attorneys." |
[16] | *) May 3, 1987, Associated Press, 'Chronology of Iran-Contra Affair': "May 17, 1985 - Graham Fuller, CIA national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, submits a memo to CIA Director William Casey titled, ''Toward a Policy on Iran.'' It finds an ''urgent need'' to develop new policy moves to counter what is seen as superior Soviet potential for influence, and argues that current policies denying arms are counterproductive. The arguments evolve into a draft national security decision directive encouraging the United States to meet Iranian arms needs as a way of shutting out Soviet influence. Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger register strong objections, but a turbulent atmosphere because of kidnappings and the hijacking in June of TWA Flight 847 keeps the idea alive." *) Remember having seen the whole Fuller memo mentioning the Hamburg meeting between Shackley, Ghorbanifar and the representative of Khashoggi. January 6-December 22, 1987, U.S. Senate, 'Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Imn-Contra Affair', Serial Number 13739: "Ghorbanifar continued to seek a relationship with the U.S. Government. His first chance came in No- vember 1984 when he met Theodore Shackley, a former Associate Deputy Director for Operations of the CIA who had retired from the Agency in 1978. On behalf of his "risk management" firm, Research Associates, Inc., Shackley maintained contact with the former head of the Shah's SAVAK Counterespio- nage Department VIII, General Manucher Hashemi. At the suggestion of Hashemi, Shackley traveled to Hamburg, West Germany, where he met with a group of Iranians, including Ghorbanifar, the First Iranian and a Dr. Shahabadi, chief of the Iranian purchasing office in Hamburg and purportedly a friend of Saudi entrepreneur and arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. At one meeting, on November 20, Ghor- banifar told Shackley that for a price he could ar- range for the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon through his Iranian contacts. Ghorbanifar said he re- quired a response on the "ransom deal" by December 7. Ghorbanifar added that he would not work with the CIA because the Agency was "unreasonable and unprofessional." '° Upon his return to the United States, Shackley sent a memorandum about his meet- ings with Ghorbanifar to Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters, Ambassador-at-Large in the State Department and a former Deputy Director of the CIA." Walters referred the memorandum to Hugh Montgomery, Director of Intelligence and Research in the State Department. Montgomery, in turn, passed the Shack- ley memorandum to Ambassador Robert B. Oakley, head of the State Department's counterterrorism ef- forts, and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East- ern Affairs Richard W. Murphy. Oakley and Murphy regarded the hostage ransom proposal as a "scam," and on December 11, 1984, Montgomery told Shack- ley that the State Department was not interested in pursuing the Ghorbanifar ransom proposal. Ghorbanifar still did not give up. Having failed with the CIA, the Army, and the State Department, he found another and ultimately more fruitful channel into the U.S. Government through Israel. A New York businessman, Roy Furmark, served as the con- tact point. Furmark had previously worked for Adnan Khashoggi, and was a friend of CIA Director William Casey. Furmark also knew Cyrus Hashemi, a natural- ized U.S. citizen of Iranian extraction whom Furmark tried to interest in a number of business ventures.'^ In January 1985, Furmark and Ghorbanifar met while Furmark was in Europe to discuss business opportuni- ties in Iran.'* Furmark later introduced Ghorbanifar to Hashemi and Khashoggi. ... Both the SNIE circulated on May 20 and a memo submitted by Fuller three days earlier to CIA Director Casey, included a recommendation of arms sales through an ally as one of a number of options for pursuing an opening to Iran. 3' The NSC staff concluded that Israel should be that country..." |
[17] | *) www.rand.org/centers/cmepp (accessed: January 21, 1998): "Key Researchers: Bob Anderson, Walter Baer, Graham E. Fuller .... " *) www.rand.org/organization/LISTS/CMEPP.html (accessed: January 21, 1998): "Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP) Advisory Board: Rita E. Hauser (Co-Chair), President, The Hauser Foundation. Hushang Ansary, Chairman, IRI International Corporation. Frank C. Carlucci, Chairman, The Carlyle Group. Lester Crown, Chairman, Material Service Corporation." |
[18] | 2008, Rodney Stich, 'Defrauding America', p. 261: "[Robert J.] Hunt described his knowledge of CIA assassination teams. Hunt wrote that the training for Operation Ringwind occurred at Camp Perry near Washington, D.C., and his initial handlers were John Michoud of the Office of Naval Intelligence and Blain McCurts of the CIA. Later, Graham Fuller took over. The operation was created by Charles McKee, Matthew Gannon, John McChoud, and Blain McCurts, and put under the control of Robert Gates when he was Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency [1986-1989]. Referring to the assassination teams, Hunt said: "They call it Operation Ringwind, formed in early 1981. It was strictly to take care of all participants in October Surprise until they decide to shut the operation down. And that could be tomorrow morning, or ten years from now. Whoever they think is involved."" |
[19] | 2008, Rodney Stich, 'Defrauding America', pp. 270-271: "[September 20, 1993, Robert J. Hunt letter:] I was ordered last summer [1992] to go to San Francisco by Graham Fuller, CIA [and others, as part of an assassination plot against Clinton]" |
[20] | *) Fuller's name was first listed since 2008 among Sibel Edmonds 'State Secrets Privilege Gallery'. *) August 8, 2009, Sibel Edmonds desposition: "I know. He has since established more than 300 madrasahs [Islamic schools] in Central Asia and what he calls universities that have a front that is called Moderate Islam, but he is closely involved in training mujahideen-like militia Islam who are brought from Pakistan and Afghanistan into Central Asia where his madrasahs operate, and his organization's network is estimated to be around $25 billion. He has opened several Islamic universities in the United States. As I said it's being promoted under Moderate Islam. It is supported by certain U.S. authorities here because of the operations in Central Asia, but what they have been doing since late 1990s is actually radical Islam and militizing (phonetic) these very, very young, from the age 14, 15, by commandoes they use, and this is both commandoes from Turkish military, commandoes from Pakistani ISI in Central Asia and Azerbaijan, and after that they bring them to Turkey, and from Turkey they send them through Europe, to European and elsewhere. Up until 1999, the Turkish government, also paramilitary units in Central Asia, they operated under the groups that call themselves Gray Wolves, ultra-nationalists, and their method was, you know, assassination of certain leaders in the Central Asian countries, and militizing, but not through Islam. But after this scandal that took place in Turkey, Susurluk scandal, they were no longer supported by certain segments in the United States, and instead some of our people involved in foreign policy, they supported the Islamic movements of Gulan in the Central Asian countries in order to counter Russia as far as the energy sources are concerned in those countries. ... The best way to describe it is Cold War is not over. It's a continuation of Cold War over those nations, and what we did in Afghanistan in early 1980s with mujahideen, we have been joined now in Central Asia by using Islam and extremism and these madrasahs, and Pakistani and Afghani elements to build (unintelligible) and staff in terms of those resources towards certain business interests." |
[21] | 15-21 January 1998, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 'The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan': |
[22] | April 20, 2013, Radio Free Europe, 'Kyrgyz Former Neighbors Talk About Tsarnaevs, North Caucasus Ties': "Before their family moved to the United States a decade ago, Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent some of their early, formative years in the northern Kyrgyz town of Tokmok, home to the country's largest ethnic Chechen community. RFE/RL Kyrgyz Service correspondent Timur Toktonaliev and cameraman Ulan Asanaliev traveled to Tokmok, which sits near the border with Kazakhstan, one day after the death of Tamerlan and the capture of Dzhokhar after a massive manhunt in the Boston area. They spoke to family friends and other members of the community who knew the Tsarnaevs. The Tsarnaevs' large extended family is well-known in Tokmok. Locals say the family arrived along with a flood of 85,000 Chechens who were expelled from their native region in 1944 by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. ... Members of the Tsarnaev family had been in Tokmok for decades. But Batruddin Tsakaev, a family friend, told RFE/RL that the boys' father decided to move to the North Caucasus in the early 1990s. "In 1992 or 1993, I think they left for Chechnya because the family has a house there from the early Soviet times," Tsakaev said. "After the Chechen War started, they came back with whole family in 1995. In the beginning of the 2000s they left for Daghestan, where many Chechens live." Batruddin and other neighbors later confirmed that 1992 was the year the family left Kyrgyzstan. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born in Russia's republic of Daghestan in 1993. Neighbors say his mother was from that North Caucasus republic, which neighbors Chechnya. They told RFE/RL Zubeidat Tsarnaeva gave birth to Dzhokhar there in order to be closer to her family. ... The extended Tsarnaev family was well-known even beyond their local community. A high-level Interior Ministry official told RFE/RL that security services were very familiar with some members of the clan. However, the official would not provide any details regarding specific family members or their activities. It is not known if there was anything more than a personal connection but organized crime boss Aziz Batukaev, who is also an ethnic Chechen, lived next door to the Tsarnaevs. Batukaev grew up and lived in Tokmok, but is now in Chechnya. Movsar Batukaev, Aziz's brother, told RFE/RL the Tsarnaevs were good neighbors. "Since the time that their family settled [in Tokmok], they lived here behind my [property's] wall," Movsar Batukaev said. "Later on, when their grandfather accidentally died, they moved to another place, but anyway I knew the Tsarnaevs very well." The Kyrgyz parliament is currently investigating why Aziz Batukaev was released early from prison at the beginning of April. He was sentenced to almost 17 years in prison in 2006 for his involvement in several crimes, including the murder of a Kyrgyz lawmaker, his two associates, and an Interior Ministry official. Prison officials in the northern Kyrgyz city of Naryn, where Batukaev was serving his sentence, say he was released because he suffers from leukemia." |
[23] | Ibid. |
[24] | May 30, 2013, Radio Free Europe, 'Kyrgyz Crime Boss's Cushy Prison Life Prompts Calls For Government Purge': "Many in Kyrgyzstan were astonished when Aziz Batukaev was released from jail. Batukaev, after all, was notorious -- an ethnic Chechen crime boss with a long history of drug trafficking and ties to violent crime, including the 2006 murders of a parliamentary deputy and a state prison official. ... In early April, Batukaev walked out of Naryn prison and was escorted to a chartered plane waiting to fly him to Chechnya. His red-carpet departure sparked an outcry among Kyrgyz lawmakers, who questioned Batukaev’s diagnosis [leukemia] and accused the government of facilitating his premature release. On May 30, the Kyrgyz parliament went a step further, voting to recommend the immediate resignation of nearly a dozen high-ranking officials who they say helped usher a perfectly healthy Batukaev out of jail and out of the country, in a plan lawmakers wryly called "Operation: Free Batukaev." The parliamentary resolution calls for the dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Shamir Atakhanov, Interior Minister Abdylda Suranchiev, Ombudsman Tursunbek Akun, and prison chief Zarylbek Rysaliev, among others. The vote followed a day-long parliamentary debate on May 29 in which lawmakers confronted officials with evidence of Batukaev’s good health -- and a photograph of the crime boss in his Naryn prison cell, dragging on a cigarette while sitting next to a table groaning with alcohol and platters of sumptuous food. ... Batukaev's release came amid a heavily publicized government anticorruption campaign led by President Almazbek Atambaev, who has made a priority of the issue since taking office in December 2011. Atambaev has frequently accused politicians of harboring ties to Batukaev and another notorious crime boss, Kamchybek Kolbaev, both of whom were seen as close to former President Kurmanbek Bakiev. Bakiev was ousted in bloody public riots in 2010 and has since been convicted in absentia of abuse of power. Batukaev's release has stirred fresh speculation that the pro-Bakiev camp remains a force in Kyrgyz politics." |
[25] | April 20, 2013, Radio Free Europe, 'Kyrgyz Former Neighbors Talk About Tsarnaevs, North Caucasus Ties': " A high-level Interior Ministry official told RFE/RL that security services were very familiar with some members of the clan. However, the official would not provide any details regarding specific family members or their activities." |
[26] | See note 315. |
[27] | *) April 19, 2013, USA Today, 'Uncle: Tamerlan Tsarnaev called, asked for forgiveness': "Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old identified by police as the dead Boston bombing suspect, called his uncle Thursday night and asked for forgiveness, the uncle said. Alvi Tsarnaev told The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News that his nephew phoned him Thursday night for the first time in about two years. The call came at 7 p.m., just a couple of hours before Tamerlan was shot dead." *) Radaris.com/p/Alvi/Tsarnaev/ (accessed: November 4, 2013): "Alvi Tsarnaev ... Related to Ruslan Tsarni, 42 ... Silver Spring, MD 8920 Walden Rd Phone: (301) 565-0365" *) Taxexemptworld.com/organization.asp?tn=325161 (accessed: November 4, 2013): "United States-Chechen Republic Alliance Inc.; 8920 Walden Rd; Silver Spring, MD, 20901-3823 ... In Care Of Name (the officer, director, etc. to whose attention any correspondence should be directed) Lyoma Usmanov ... [founded:] 07/1999" |
[28] | 2003, James M. Goldgeier and Michael McFaul, 'Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy Toward Russian After the Cold War', p. 283: "Zbigniew promoted direct American development assistance to Chechnya and the region. Finally, Brzezinski helped to establish and finance Chechen representation in Washington headed by Lyoma Usmanov. Eventually, Chechen representatives opened offices in eleven countries. Few devoted energy to the Chechen issue like Brzezinski. Yet his view on the war was shared by many." |
[29] | Wilsoncenter.org/staff/lyoma-usmanov (accessed: November 4, 2013): "Wilson Center Experts Lyoma Usmanov Short-Term Grant Kennan Institute Expertise: Russia and Eurasia ; Russia Affiliation: Chairman, U.S.-Chechen Republic Alliance, Inc. Wilson Center Project(s): Documents on Russian-Chechen Relations Term: Mar 01, 2000 - Mar 01, 2000 Project Summary Assembled documents on three contemporary periods of Chechen-Russian (Soviet) relations, noting legislative acts of the USSR, RSFSR and RF that regulate relations of Moscow and the autonomous republics." |
[30] | October 4, 1998, Washington Post, 'Azerbaijan's Riches Alter the Chessboard': "Soon after the AIOC decision, national security adviser Anthony Lake privately asked Zbigniew Brzezinski, his predecessor in the Carter administration, to carry a letter from Clinton to [Azerbaijan's] Aliyev. The letter stressed the U.S. preference for two pipelines and, as an incentive, offered Washington's help in resolving the dispute with Armenia. Brzezinski eventually would become a paid consultant to Amoco. But as he left for Baku in September 1995, he later recalled, he was motivated by anxiety over Russian intentions in the Caucasus." |
[31] | 2000, Noukhaev.info, 'КТО ВЫ, ГОСПОДИН НУХАЕВ?' ('Who are you, Mr. Nuh?'): "[First words:] Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Corr. ... [correspondent]: KavkORa head office is in London. You communicate with Margaret Thatcher and Zbigniew Brzezinski, film star Elizabeth Taylor and renowned Hollywood director Phillip Noyce. Your consultants are Americans as Enders Wimbush [RAND Corporation; German Marshall Fund; National Bureau of Asian Research; Hudson Institute; Office of Net Assessment; Booz Allen Hamilton; SAIC], consultant of the U.S. State Department for the South Caucasus, and James Baker, former U.S. secretary of state, head of the law firm, "Baker & Botts" (Baker & Botts LLC), Frenchmen Jacques Attali, at one time head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Andre Glucksmann, the renowned philosopher and human rights activist. Moreover, you have secured, as far as I know, the support of the World Bank president James Wolfensohn your economic projects. This means that you have set on America and the West? H.-A. Nukhaev: No, it was seeking a way out of the difficult situation in Chechnya. We are prepared to cooperate with all nations of the world, including Russia. But only under mutually beneficial partnership conditions. Those who think they can try to impose their own terms here in our mountains, to represent their own interests, be it Russia, the West or the East will inevitably become our enemies. And to the western and eastern civilization we are equally alien. The future of the Caucasus is based on the commandments of the prophets and the shared values between Muslims, Christians and Jews. We are committed to the revival of a Chechen theocratic order to see it as a guarantee for true freedom for us and for all the people in the world. This is our mission. Corr.: And why do you not accept Western civilization? H.-A. Nukhaev: Look at America. It is the model of Western civilization. But this is, in fact, the most superficial, decaying culture. The United States, as a nation, operates in our interest, but the society is deprived of a foundation - the family and kinship ties. ... [last words:] I - the one who believed. Allahu Akbar!" |
[32] | Described with sources on wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_and_Tamerlan_Tsarnaev. |
[33] | Cryptome.org/cia-2619.htm: "Joseph Trento has published "The Secret History of the CIA," in which he cites papers and interviews of Robert Crowley as sources for the book. ... Robert Trumbull Crowley died in a Washington DC hospital on October 8, 2000. He was a senior Central Intelligence Agency officer from 1948 until the mid-1980s. During his tenure with the CIA, Crowley became Assistant Deputy Director for Operations and the second-in-command of the clandestine Directorate of Operations. He wrote a book entitled The New KGB: Engine of Soviet Power that was published in 1985 by William Morrow. In 1996, prior to what Crowley felt might be a fatal major surgery for suspected lung cancer, he gave a number of historical documents from his extensive personal files to an American journalist with whom he had been working. One of the caveats of this gift was that none of the material could be used or published until after his death. Among the treasure trove of historical material on the genesis and operations of the influential CIA was an alphabetical listing of CIA sources throughout the world, provided below. A source is not a paid agent but an individual who can occupy a position of influence, such as an international banker, a member of the print or television media, or a scholar or academic, who might be in a position to influence official decisions or supply necessary support for an official CIA position. ... CIA Sources (2,619 total) ... Bernard, Richard L. 10009 Renfrew Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20901 ... Loosararian, Armen 10703 Edgewood Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20901 ... Painter, Robert 10304 Pierce Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20901 ... Pritchard, Charles G. 10612 Margate Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20901 ... Wannall, Mr. W. Raymond [ASC] 305 Southwest Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20901 ... Zaslow, Milton S. 9039 Sligo Creek Pkwy., No. 308, Silver Spring, MD 20901 ... [also:] Jentsch, Heber [Scientology president since 1982, but missing since 2004] ... Miscavige, David [Scientology leader after a power struggle since 1987; listed as a CIA source on the Crowley list; accused of being very cruel and abusive to his personnel; extremely close friend of Tom Cruise]... Bush, George H.W. P.O. Box 79798, Houston, TX 77297 [former CIA director, vice president and president, part of Shackley's circle] ... Goss, Porter J. US House of Rep. 509 Cannon Building, Washington, DC 20515 [once part of Shackley's JM/WAVE and questionable CIA operations; later CIA director] Jenkins, Carl E. [part of Ted Shackley's network; suspected of involvement in the JFK assassination]... Larkin, Maj-Gen Richard USA [ASC] ... Singlaub, MajGen John K. [ASC, chair WACL, chair OSS Society] ... " |
[34] | *) Spokeo.com (accessed: November 4, 2013): "Frank R Lindh ... Gender & Age Male | Early 60's ... Current Address ****** Walden Rd ... City & State Silver Spring, MD 20901." *) December 9, 2001, San Jose Mercury News, 'John Walker's parents supported their scholarly son's conversion to Islam. But there were signs his views were turning militant. An American teenager's road to becoming a Taliban fighter': "In suburban Maryland, where the Lindhs lived before moving to the Bay Area when John was 10, neighbors remember that the family attended Mass every Sunday and socialized with neighbors at annual block parties. Marilyn Walker was a stay-at-home mom. On Halloween, Frank Lindh, a lawyer with the Department of Justice, would dress up in costume and take his three children trick-or-treating. Around Christmas he often baked brownies for neighbors. But still, one neighbor, Christina Reichel, said, something about the Lindhs set them apart in the quiet, buttoned-down, middle-class neighborhood. "I would describe them as very independent thinkers," said Reichel, who still lives on Walden Road in Silver Spring, Md. "They had what I would call -- Marilyn more than Frank -- a more bohemian lifestyle. They were too old to be hippies, but they were more casual, more eclectic than most." In 1991, the family moved to California and Marin County, an area known for its wealth and liberal politics." *) http://www.city-data.com/montgomery-county/W/Walden-Road-2.html (accessed: November 4, 2013): "8910 Walden Road: Owner: CHRISTOPHER A BAUMGARTEN ET AL ...8916 Walden Road: Owner: WILLIAM GILCHER & W K GILCHER ... 8917 Walden Road: Owner: JACQUELINE H HAMILTON. 8918 Walden Road. Owner: ROBERT L MAPOU ET AL ... 8920 Walden Road Silver Spring, MD 20901. Owner: CHRISTINA A REICHEL Total land value: $313,020 Total value for property: $492,360 Total assessed value for property: $492,360 Base area of building: 1,372 square feet Number of stories: 1 Air conditioning: yes Number of fireplace stacks: 1 Date of current assessment: 10/2006 Year property was built: 1950" |
[35] | April 20, 2013, Steve Urbon for South Coast Today, 'UMD professor: 'I hope I didn't contribute'' |
[36] | April 22, 2013, PRI The World, 'Professor of Chechen History Ponders Brief Contact with Boston Bombing Suspect' (ISGP-made transcript of a 7 minute audio interview) |
[37] | April 20, 2013, New York Times, 'Suspects With Foot in 2 Worlds, Perhaps Echoing Plots of Past' |
[38] | 2011, Brian Glyn Williams, 'Afghanistan Declassified', preface and p. 203: "Throughout the 2000s, I traveled across Afghanistan, living with warlords... My adventures ranged from the mundane ... to the exciting--tracking suicide bombers for the CIA's Counterterrorist Center. ... In 2008 I [was] an advisor to the U.S. military's Joint Information Operations Warfare Command (JIOWC). ... My own fieldwork on this issue for the CIA's Counterterrorist Center revealed a strange trend wherein Taliban suicide bombers in dozens of cases per year set off their bombs and killed only themselves." |
[39] | Jamestown.org, Éxperts, Brian Glyn Williams (accessed: November 7, 2013): "Dr. Brian Glyn Williams is Associate Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. His interactive web page can be found at: www.brianglynwilliams.com. ... * The Sultan’s Raiders: The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in the Ottoman Empire * Jamestown Analyst Brian Glyn Williams Is Interviewed by the Atlantic * Shattering the al-Qaeda-Chechen Myth * Jamestown Analyst Brian Glyn Williams Is Interviewed by PRI on Chechens and Jokhar Tsarnaev * Private Approval, Public Condemnation: Drone Warfare’s Implications for Pakistani Sovereignty * Pakistan's Tribal Militants: A Militant Leadership Monitor Special Report * From Pakistan to Yemen: Adapting the U.S. Drone Strategy * Predators, Reapers and Ravens: The Drone Revolution in Tactics and Strategy * New Light on the Accuracy of the CIA’s Predator Drone Campaign in Pakistan * Pakistani Responses to the CIA’s Predator Drone Campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda * Turkish Jihadis Respond to Ankara’s Anti-Al-Qaeda Operations * Death from the Skies: An Overview of the CIA’s Drone Campaign in Pakistan – Part Two * Death from the Skies: An Overview of the CIA’s Drone Campaign in Pakistan - Part One * The Return of the Kingmaker: Afghanistan’s General Dostum Ends his Exile * TURKISH VOLUNTEERS IN CHECHNYA * El Kaide Turka: Tracing an al-Qaeda Splinter Cell * Turkey’s Al-qaeda Blowback * The 'chechen Arabs': An Introduction To The Real Al Qaeda Terrorists From Chechnya * Rashid Dostum: America's Secular Ally In The War On Terror * Dostum: Afghanistan’s Embattled Warlord * The Taliban Fedayeen: The World's Worst Suicide Bombers? A Report from the Field: Gauging the Impact of Taliban Suicide Bombing * Cheney Attack Reveals Taliban Suicide Bombing Patterns * Turks Join the Jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan * Target Dostum: The Campaign Against Northern Alliance Warlords * Rashid Dostum: America's Secular Ally In The War On Terror * The 'Chechen Arabs': An Introduction To The Real Al-Qaeda Terrorists From Chechnya * Turkey’s Al-Qaeda Blowback * El Kaide Turka: Tracing an al-Qaeda Splinter Cell * Turkish Volunteers in Chechnya" |
[40] | Daniel Hopsicker for Madcowprod, ''Uncle Ruslan' aided terrorists from CIA official's home': "The documents include a letter written by the President of the Congress of Chechen Organizations International that, at least on the surface, could not have seemed more ordinary. It was all about shoes. In the letter, Congress of Chechen Organizations International President Mohammed Shoshani is interceding with the Board of Directors of Benevolence International, a "charity" that would later he designated "financiers of terrorism" by the Treasury Department, and shut down by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald after the 9/11 attack. Shoshani was interceding with Benevolence on behalf of a new military commander in Chechnya named Sheikh Fathi, who had just arrived from spending 10 years fighting in Afghanistan. Sheikh Fathi was a "military commander in the violent jihadist movement in Chechnya," noted U.S. Atty Patrick Fitzgerald in a later indictment, (pdf.)" as well as an influential "preacher of violent jihad." In the Benevolent International indictment, Fitzgerald said "Sheikh Fathi was a major conduit for providing material support to the Chechen rebels." The uncle of the alleged Boston bombers was part of that conduit. Just how connected are these people? Fathi would gain a measure of infamy several years later when he introduced the top Al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan, Al Khattab, into the Chechen conflict. Later Al-Khattab became the so-called 20th hijacker Zaccarias Moussaoui's commander in Chechnya, according to French intelligence, and had close links with Osama bin Laden, according to former New York Times journalist Phil Shenon’s book "The Commission."" |
[41] | April 24, 2013, Izvestia, 'Tamerlane Tsarnaeva recruited via the Georgian Foundation': book "One of the organizers of the terrorist attack in Boston, studied at the workshop held in conjunction with the Georgian special services Americans. At the disposal of "Izvestia" has documents Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, confirming that the Georgian organization "Fund of Caucasus", which cooperates with the U.S. non-profit organization "Jamestown" (the board of directors of NGOs previously entered one of the ideologists of U.S. foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski), was engaged in recruiting residents North Caucasus to work in the interests of the United States and Georgia. According to the reports of Colonel Chief Directorate Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia Gregory Chanturia to the Minister of Internal Affairs Irakli Garibashvili, "Caucasian fund" in cooperation with the Foundation "Jamestown" in the summer of 2012 conducted workshops and seminars for young people of the Caucasus, including its Russian part. Some of them attended Tsarnaev Tamerlane, who was in Russia from January to July 2012. "Caucasian fund" writes Tchanturia was established November 7, 2008, just after the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, "to control the processes taking place in the North Caucasus region." Accordingly, the Department of the Interior Ministry counterintelligence case was brought intelligence operations called "DTV". Main purpose is to recruit young people and intellectuals of the North Caucasus to enhance instability and extremism in the southern regions of Russia. "In order to finance the organization was determined monthly amount of $ 33 million lari (660 thousand). Since the establishment of the organization before 1 January 2013 the amount allocated in the end amounted to 4.058 million GEL (81.1 million), "- wrote in a report Tchanturia. The documents referred to, and the work of the "Caucasian fund" in the three border areas of Azerbaijan and Dagestan - Balacan, Zakatalsky and Kakh. In addition, Colonel counterintelligence Tbilisi reports that security forces in Chechnya through Georgia "Caucasian fund" and fund "Jamestown" are sympathetic to the Georgian people, who are invited to various events in the republic under the innocent pretexts. In these seminars, the Russians are recruiting and preparing acts of terrorism. Deputy head of the NGO "Agency of the socio-political initiatives" Tatiev Iles, who oversees the North Caucasus Federal District, said that the activities of the "Caucasian fund" raises too many questions. - Where in Georgia, which exists on the loans, the extra money for some funds? - Ask the expert. - I do not exclude that this fund is affiliated with the Department of State in the North Caucasus. The head of the New York office of the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation Andranik Migranyan, who learned about the "Caucasian fund" from the "News", believes that the activities of the organization, as it is depicted in the documents that fits into the policy of the Georgian authorities. - Saakashvili administration is conducting an overt anti-Russian line - says the analyst. Director General of the National Strategy Council Valery Hamsters argues that exaggerated the force of external enemy in Georgia may be beneficial to the management of the North Caucasian republics. - I think the danger is exaggerated Georgian factor - the expert believes. - Personally, I have no doubt that Georgia only deals with the introduction of its spies and recruit Russian citizens. A member of the security committee Anatoly Elected even promised according to their ability to connect to the investigation of the "Caucasian fund." - Documents of which you speak, like the truth. Real friendly moves by Georgia and the U.S., we do not see, their goal is to make Russian state, which can be controlled, - the Elected. Jamestown Foundation has repeatedly demonstrated its interest in Georgia and the state of affairs in Russia's North Caucasus. In 2007, the Foundation held a seminar "The Future of Ingushetia," which was attended by former fighters of Aslan Maskhadov. In March 2010, the Jamestown Foundation asked the IOC to not hold the Olympic Games in Sochi, citing the tragic events of the Caucasian War of XIX century. In 2011, political scientists Fund predicted that Georgia in the coming year will take a leading role in the Caucasus and Russia will be serious competition as a "regional leader". The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly responded to the ongoing policy of the fund, handing over a protest note to U.S. in Moscow." |
[42] | *) The following text is from an ISGP article on the Boston bombings that was never published. The sources used to write this article were deleted unfortunately, but the following text does make clear what ISGP was and wasn't able to confirm about the activities of Jamestown, the Fund of Caucasus and Tamerlan in the Caucasus. *) It has been claimed that Williams was present at a May 24, 2012 conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, organized by Ilia State University and the Jamestown Foundation. This is where information gets less clear. First of all, I've seen no proof that Williams was present at this meeting. However, his presence is definitely a possibility. Since 2010, Jamestown, the Georgian government and the Circassian Cultural Centre have organized various conferences about the Circassian genocide at Ilia State University in Tbilisi. The first such conference was March 20, 2010, a second one on November 19-21, 2010. Another meeting was indeed held on May 24, 2012. Most likely there were more such meetings, but information is very scarce. What can be said for certain is that Glen Howard, chairman of the Jamestown Foundation since 2003, has been present at these meetings, along with over a hundred anti-Russian officials from regions neighboring Georgia. Did he take Brian Glyn Williams along during one or more of these meetings. It is a possibility, as Williams is an expert on the region. Also, present at these meetings was Walter Richmond, author of the 2013 book The Circassian Genocide. Williams' review prominently appears on the book's back cover. This information is important, because two weeks after the Boston marathon bombing, Russian newspaper Izvestia reported that Tamerlan, the older brother, had secretly been recruited as a Jihadist extremist through a network involving the Fund of Caucasus, a Georgia-based foundation that also organizes conferences with participants from surrounding countries. According to the newspaper, Tamerlan was participating in various meetings of this fund in the January-July 2012 period, and that some of these meetings were co-sponsored by the Jamestown Foundation. The Fund of Caucacus and the Jamestown Foundation both claimed nothing was true about these accusations. That having been said, the president of the Fund of Caucasus did acknowledge that his foundation had co-organized a meeting with the Jamestown Foundation in 2011. The subject? Once again, the Circassian genocide, a subject quite dear to the heart of Brian Glyn Williams. Almost annual meetings of the Fund of Caucasus were organized at Tbilisi State University, just over a mile away from Ilia State University. But is there evidence at this point that Williams was present at this meeting? No, there isn't. At this point it seems impossible to find any information that this conference even took place. Did Tamerlan attend? Very, very doubtful. There's zero evidence of that and he didn't have any kind of useful expertise to be invited to the conference. Also, apparently the border control service database of Georgia shows that Tamerlan never moved across the border from Dagestan into Georgia. Furthermore, it can be argued that Izvestia most likely invented a link between Tamerlan, the Fund of Caucasus and the Jamestown Foundation, based on already public information at the time that Brian Glyn Williams was a Jamestown analyst, had been in contact with Dzokhar and that Tamerlan visited the Caucasus. |
[43] | Most certainly read this in a newspaper report on the FBI concluding its investigation on a Russian report that Tamerlan was in Georgia. Unfortunately, can't find the newspaper article in question. |
[44] | October 1995, Anton Surikov paper, published by the Institute for Defense Studies (INOBIS), founded by his father Victor Surikov and a political mentor, former defense minister Yuri Maslyukov. |
[45] | April 19, 2013, ABC, WCBV, Boston, Watertown video shot by a certain "Mike". Youtube.com/watch?v=EtKO-hV44cU - 'Actual Footage Boston Bombing Suspects Fire Fight With Police, Watertown' (uploaded by PeoplesUnderground) |
[46] | April 22, 2013, The Telegraph, 'Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 'awake and responding': "As five other officers arrived, 200 shots were fired in 10 minutes. One of the brothers threw exploding devices including a pressure cooker bomb which landed on a car. Tamerlan then broke cover and walked directly at officers firing a gun. The police chief said: “They were having a gunfight 10 feet apart. And then for us, thank God, he ran out of ammunition. He runs out of ammunition, the bad guy, and so one of my police officers comes off the side and tackles him in the street.” As they tried to handcuff him, Dzhokhar drove the Mercedes straight at them but missed the police, hitting his own brother and dragging him 20ft before racing off. Chief Deveau said: “The officers dive out of the way and he (Dzhokhar) drives over his brother and drags him a short distance down the street.” Doctors said Tamerlan had injuries “head to toe”. There were so many they did not know which one had killed him. The brothers were found to have had six improvised explosive devices including a satchel bomb, handguns, a rifle, 250 rounds of ammunition, and home-made grenades. Dzhokhar dumped the Mercedes a few streets away." |
[47] | May 4, 2013, New York Times, 'Autopsy Says Boston Bombing Suspect Died of Gunshot Wounds and Blunt Trauma': "The certificate says Tamerlan Tsarnaev's cause of death was "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and also cites "blunt trauma to head and torso." It says Mr. Tsarnaev was "shot by police then run over and dragged by motor vehicle." He was pronounced dead on April 19 at 1:35 a.m. after being taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The death was ruled a homicide." |
[48] | April 19, 2013, witness "Linda" from Dexter Street, Watertown, live on the Dennis & Callahan Morning Show, Boston: "We saw the first get hit by a police SUV and then after he was hit, shot multiple times. ... I personally haven't heard any explosions." As could be expected, she has never been re-contacted by any media outlet. audio.weei.com/a/77181930/linda-calls-in-to-describe-the-scene-on-dexter-st-in- watertown-ma.htm |
[49] | April 22, 2013, The Mirror, ' Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 'shot himself in throat in botched suicide attempt during last stand with police' 22 Apr 2013 00:02 Still in hospital, he is unable to talk due to his damaged larynx following Friday’s huge manhunt': "Cornered Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shot himself in the throat in a botched suicide attempt during his last stand with armed police, it was claimed last night. FBI interrogators are desperate to question the 19-year-old to find out if anyone else was involved in last week’s deadly attacks. But Chechen-born Dzohkhar, who remains in a serious condition in the same hospital as 11 of his victims, is unable to talk due to his damaged larynx following Friday’s huge manhunt. A source close to the investigation said: “Dzhokhar can’t speak due to his injuries. "He will be asked to indicate his answers by any means possible – either writing them down or even blinking with his eyes to say yes or no.” It is thought the teenager placed a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger in a desperate bid to avoid capture and a possible death penalty. Reports say the bullet passed through his throat, just missing his spinal cord, and came out the back of his neck." |
[50] | April 22, 2013, Anderson Cooper on CNN, 'Inside Boston manhunt's end game', Officer Campbell of the Transit Police (SWAT) (video): "I did see a throat injury. To me it looked more like a knife wound. To me it wasn't a puncture hole. It was a slice where it was spread open [gestures to right-front side neck], possibly a piece of shrapnel from one of the explosives they were using the night before. It didn't look like a bullet wound to me, more like a cut of some kind. [none of the half a dozen officers standing next to him corrects him or adds to his account]" |
[51] | July 10, 2013, Huffington Post, 'Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Bombing Suspect, Pleads Not Guilty To 30 Charges': "He appeared to have a jaw injury and there was swelling around his left eye and cheek. Leaning into the microphone, he told a federal judge, "Not guilty" in his Russian accent and said it over and over as the charges were read." |
[52] | October 15, 2013, The Guardian, 'US authorities accused of intimidating associates of Chechen killed by FBI': " The family and supporters of an unarmed Chechen, shot in mysterious circumstances by FBI agents investigating his friendship with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, have accused US authorities of mounting a campaign of “intimidation and harassment” against his associates. The girlfriend of Ibragim Todashev was deported at the weekend after spending two weeks at an immigration detention center in Florida. She had already spent several months in jail for having an expired visa earlier this summer. Another friend of Todashev is also in jail. Todashev, 27, was shot on 22 May after being questioned about his friendship with Tsarnaev, one of two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing on 15 April that killed three spectators and injured more than 260. Several inquiries into Todashev’s death are under way. His family believe that authorities investigating the Boston bombing have unfairly targeted people close to Todashev. Tatiana Gruzdeva, 20, who lived with Todashev at the apartment in Orlando, Florida, where he was killed, arrived in Moscow on Saturday morning after being deported from the US. Todashev’s father Abdulbaki and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Florida-based Islamic advocacy group representing the family, told the Guardian that the deportation followed months of “hounding” of his son’s friends by federal authorities. Another roommate, Ashurmamad Miraliev, 20, has been in jail since 18 September on a charge of tampering with a witness in a year-old assault case. The Florida chapter of CAIR said he was denied access to a lawyer. “People who had anything to do with him are being put behind bars. I don’t know why. It’s supposed to be America, it’s supposed to be a democracy,” Abdulbaki Todashev said. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said he had no knowledge of Gruzdeva’s deportation and would not comment on CAIR’s claim that Todashev’s friends had been intimidated. But CAIR communications director Samantha Bowden said Gruzdeva, who is originally from Moldova, was told by FBI agents when she was detained earlier this month that a year’s extension to her visa, granted after her first period in jail, was being rescinded simply because of an interview she gave to a Boston magazine. The Guardian has learned she was questioned briefly by Russian authorities on her arrival in Moscow, then released to join her mother. “We’re glad it was a successful deportation and that she is safe and well,” Bowden said. Todashev, meanwhile, said he is still waiting for an explanation of his son’s death, almost five months after the shooting and the launch of separate inquiries by the FBI, the Department of Justice and Jeff Ashton, the state attorney for the Orlando area. Speaking to the Guardian from his home in Grozny, he said that he has heard nothing, despite personal assurances from state and federal officials in Florida that he would be kept informed. “They promised it would be an honest and just investigation, but so far there has been no information at all,” said Todashev, who met Ashton during a trip to the US in August. “I said to them: ‘Everything is obvious. You can investigate what you like, but everything is already clear.’” Todashev was killed in May after FBI and other law enforcement agents questioned him for several hours about his friendship with Tsarnaev. After the bombing, there was speculation that Tsarnaev may have been involved in a 2011 triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, in which his best friend was killed. According to initial media reports, Todashev had just confessed to having also been involved in the Waltham murder when he lunged at the FBI agents with a knife or ceremonial sword that was hanging on a wall. However, several different accounts of the shooting soon emerged and the FBI backtracked from the initial assertion that Todashev was armed. Lawyer Hassan Shibly, executive director of CAIR’s Florida chapter, said an investigation by the group, including a private postmortem, concluded that Todashev was shot seven times, including once in the back of the head. “We have also been able to ascertain that only one agent drew his weapon, and fired the shots,” Shibly said. “Agents are trained to draw their weapons the minute there is a threat. If Ibragim was really such a threat, why did the other officers not draw their weapons?” Abdulbaki Todashev said he was convinced his son was subjected to a cold-blooded execution by federal agents acting “worse than bandits”. He said his son knew Tsarnaev only casually from a mixed martial arts gym in Boston they both used to attend and that he was almost immobile from recent knee surgery and unable to threaten anybody. Apart from brief statements in which the FBI claimed Todashev turned violent during questioning, the agency has consistently refused to comment. Bresson said: “The review is still ongoing. Keep in mind it’s not just the FBI conducting a review. The Department of Justice and other outside entities are also reviewing. While that is still ongoing, we cannot discuss.” CAIR says that Gruzdeva and Miraliev were both held without access to lawyers. The pair acted as drivers for Todashev during his recent visit to the US. “It’s intimidation and retaliation, pure and simple,” Bowden said. “These are two people very close to Ibragim, who helped his father in his quest for justice while here, who have spoken out against the FBI for its overreach and intimidation tactics. “Neither had any connection to any terrorism whatsoever, yet the FBI has been following their every move and denied them the right to an attorney and of free speech.” The progress of the Department of Justice inquiry is uncertain, and its press office is currently closed due to the US government shutdown. A spokeswoman for state attorney Ashton told the Guardian only that his investigation was ongoing and that he would not comment until it was complete. Bowden said that CAIR would wait for the results of the inquiries before deciding on possible civil legal action, but that the group was “sceptical of the FBI policing itself”. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a shootout with Boston police on April 19, four days after the bombing. His brother Dzhokhar, 20, remains in custody charged with murder and using a weapon of mass destruction." |
[53] | *) See note 31 . *) April 30, 2013, Pravda, 'US/Saudi covert operations in Chechnya: Ricin, diamonds, Stingers': "According to the Russian research group Civil Research, ... "In 1997 Khashoggi introduced Khozh-Akhmed Nukhaev [Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev] (Chechen Mafia leader and opponent of Radical Islam and the USA) to former US Secretary of State James Baker ... Baker was Khashoggi's partner in BCCI and the Carlyle Group." ... "We are inclined to think that Nukhaev's structures were managed by American and Saudi Special Services and were financed by Khashoggi through BCCI," said Civil Research. "The funds were used to purchase and deliver the modern means of Terrorist War to Chechnya: high accuracy weapons like anti-aircraft Stingers, satellite communication gear, intelligence tactics, sabotage devices, and well trained instructors mainly from the General Secret Service of Saudi Arabia...There are serious reasons to think that a batch of 70 Stingers came to Chechnya from Saudi Arabia."" |
[54] | *) See note 300 of ISGP's 9/11 article for Noukhaev's own admission he set up the Chechen mafia. *) October 23, 1999, Punch magazine, 'Chechnya: The Tory connection: When the Godfather of the Chechen mafia came to town, he knew who to call on', p. 24: "A Punch investigation has discovered that the main point of contact for the British connection was a man the Russians claim is the godfather of the Chechen mafia, which runs protection rackets in Moscow and other Russian cities and has now spread its tentacles into the West. ... One morning in March 1998 a plane landed carrying Aslan Maskhadov, President of the self-proclaimed Chechen republic of Ichteria, and his entourage of minders. Standing on the tarmac waiting to meet them were the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine and Gerald Howarth, Tory MP for Aldershot. McAlpine, by then leader of Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Party Movement, was to act as Maskhadov's host, while Howarth was to provide him with Westminster contacts. ... On the evening of Maskhadov's arrival, he dined at the Ritz with Baroness Thatcher and they discussed the establishment of an international commission to determine Chechnya's legal status. For Maskhadov that meal was one of many memorable moments during his five-day visit. He went on a walk-about with Imran Khan, Goldsmith's son-in- law, and met British Muslim leaders. ... One of the men who flew in with Maskhadov and was at his side throughout the visit was Khozh Akhmed Noukhaev, the former first deputy prime minister Chechnya who remains a roving ambassador for the territory and is a man with powerful international connections and a rapidly expanding private business empire. The Russians regard Noukhaev as gangster. According to Moscow's Anti-Organised Crime Directorate and Russian newspaper reports, Noukhaev's business connections extend to Moscow's Chechen mafia, which runs protection rackets throughout the city, the proceeds of which once went to fund the Chechen war effort. The idea of attracting Western investment to oil-rich Chechnya was largely Noukhaev's brainchild. Before his visit to London, he had already come across McAlpine. Noukhaev had proposed a Caucasus common market, made up of partnerships between communities in the region and outside investors. An international group of experts was assembled to advise on his scheme, including American lawyer Samuel Pisar, a trustee of Goldsmith's estate. Later, Noukhaev was introduced to McAlpine at a Paris social event. ... Mansour Jachimczyk, chief adviser to the Chechen government on foreign affairs and Noukhaev's right-hand man, says: "We very much relied on McAlpine's network of friends." He says McAlpine's initial interest was purely social and personal. ... So,i n mid-Septembe1r 997M cAlpine visited Chechnyaw ith the investmentb anker Robert Pike, who is married to one of Goldsmith's daughterst,o seew hat the long-termp otential of the region was and how to create the framework needed for investors. The Chechens paid for the flights and expenses. On a follow-up visit in October 1997 attended by Robertson and Imran Khan - the Chechens signed a letter of intent to look into setting up a trans-Caucasus energy company, backed by an international consortium of companies and investment banks." |
[55] | *) See note 31. *) April 30, 2013, Pravda, 'US/Saudi covert operations in Chechnya: Ricin, diamonds, Stingers': "According to the Russian research group Civil Research, ... "In 1997 Khashoggi introduced Khozh-Akhmed Nukhaev [Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev] (Chechen Mafia leader and opponent of Radical Islam and the USA) to former US Secretary of State James Baker ... Baker was Khashoggi's partner in BCCI and the Carlyle Group." ... "We are inclined to think that Nukhaev's structures were managed by American and Saudi Special Services and were financed by Khashoggi through BCCI," said Civil Research. "The funds were used to purchase and deliver the modern means of Terrorist War to Chechnya: high accuracy weapons like anti-aircraft Stingers, satellite communication gear, intelligence tactics, sabotage devices, and well trained instructors mainly from the General Secret Service of Saudi Arabia...There are serious reasons to think that a batch of 70 Stingers came to Chechnya from Saudi Arabia."" |
[56] | *) 1999, Jos de Putter, 'The Making of a New Empire' documentary about Chechen mafia founder Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev: "[Noukhaev:] It was clear to me that this system was a communist government mafia. And that you can only fight a mafia like that if you set up a similar structure yourself. We had to earn money fast. And that was difficult. We had to bring Chechens to Moscow, because an army had to be formed. And that's how we started. This is what led to my activities in Moscow. My activities were described as mafia actions by the mass media in Russia and later worldwide: the Chechen mafia. ... They called us beasts, as cruel as wolves, that had to be exterminated. ... This [setting up our own mafia] helped us in our struggle for independence ... Dzhokhar was a truly great man. His way of thinking illustrated that. ... When hostilities broke out, I had just arrived in Moscow on Dudayev's orders. There I was to meet the head of Yeltsin's guard, Korzhakov. Because we knew what was going to happen. That they would start a war against us. I couldn't stay in Moscow and returned. When I came home, I went straight to the presidential palace. That was January 1, 1995. Mashadov and the General Staff were there too. And then I heard that Russian troops were already in Parliament. The Parliament was here opposite about 200 meters away." *) June 12, 1992, The Guardian, 'Mob Rule in Moscow': "As if Boris Yeltsin didn't have enough on his plate with the resignation of Moscow's mayor at the weekend, some of the roughest gangsters in the entire Commonwealth of Independent States - the Chechen mafias - are increasing their grip on the capital's drug-dealing, prostitution, extortion, transport and other forms of organised crime. ... In the words of the Chechen president, General Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechnya's relations with Russia are under strain and it is prepared to arm up to 600,000 men. Dudayev and others are seeking ways of standing up to the Russian government. They say these could include turning Moscow into a poverty zone and that they have the mechanisms to carry out this threat, a fairly blatant reference to the mafias. ... Earlier this year, a curious report came out of Grozny, capital of Chechnya. Dudayev had signed a decree which said that no criminals within the republic's territory would be handed over to a state which did not recognise Chechnya. In other words, this corner of the Caucasus could become a haven for bandits. It is not difficult to imagine how Dudayev's decree was received in the criminal world, especially in Moscow where, according to Interior Ministry and Special Service intelligence, the big Chechen gangs are based. The three main ones - Centralnaya, Avtomobilnaya and Ostankinskaya - are named after districts of Moscow. Each has a well-defined structure consisting of a gang leader, his lieutenants, foot soldiers and reserves. The groups, which co-operate very closely, have their own [methods of fund raising] ... Mass unemployment in Chechnya ensures that the ranks of the Moscow clans are constantly filled with young recruits. ... There is a precise division of labour. The most powerful gang is Centralnaya, now based in the Belgrad, Zolotoe Kol'tso and Rossiya hotels. ... All three gangs run narcotics. Their network takes in parts of the Moscow military district. If in 1989 only 150 Chechens were doing their military service in Moscow, in 1990 there were 750, and in 1991, 1,700. Many of them traded in anasha - an opiate found in central Asia - hashish and opium. They also use this channel for arms supplies. The gangs, which are expanding into western markets, operating in Austria, Germany and Hungary, have set themselves the business aim of infiltrating joint stock companies trading in oil and gas with the West. ... The underlying question is: do the mafias help Dudayev? No one can give a definite answer to that. True, the special forces heard that terrorist groups were being prepared for transfer to Moscow, but this rumour remains unconfirmed. ... ALL the same, most Interior Ministry officials believe that Moscow cannot escape acts of terrorism. On balance, the Moscow cells wouldn't survive for long without active support from Chechnya. Therefore, to bolster their shaky authority and emphasise their loyalty to Chechnya, the criminals might agree to perform a series of terrorist acts. Neutralising them may not be all that easy, as gang security has increased." *) October 23, 1999, Punch magazine, 'Chechnya: The Tory connection: When the Godfather of the Chechen mafia came to town, he knew who to call on', p. 24: "A Punch investigation has discovered that the main point of contact for the British connection was a man the Russians claim is the godfather of the Chechen mafia, which runs protection rackets in Moscow and other Russian cities and has now spread its tentacles into the West. ... One morning in March 1998 a plane landed carrying Aslan Maskhadov, President of the self-proclaimed Chechen republic of Ichteria, and his entourage of minders. Standing on the tarmac waiting to meet them were the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine and Gerald Howarth, Tory MP for Aldershot. McAlpine, by then leader of Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Party Movement, was to act as Maskhadov's host, while Howarth was to provide him with Westminster contacts. ... On the evening of Maskhadov's arrival, he dined at the Ritz with Baroness Thatcher and they discussed the establishment of an international commission to determine Chechnya's legal status. For Maskhadov that meal was one of many memorable moments during his five-day visit. He went on a walk-about with Imran Khan, Goldsmith's son-in- law, and met British Muslim leaders. ... One of the men who flew in with Maskhadov and was at his side throughout the visit was Khozh Akhmed Noukhaev, the former first deputy prime minister Chechnya who remains a roving ambassador for the territory and is a man with powerful international connections and a rapidly expanding private business empire. The Russians regard Noukhaev as gangster. According to Moscow's Anti-Organised Crime Directorate and Russian newspaper reports, Noukhaev's business connections extend to Moscow's Chechen mafia, which runs protection rackets throughout the city, the proceeds of which once went to fund the Chechen war effort. The idea of attracting Western investment to oil-rich Chechnya was largely Noukhaev's brainchild. Before his visit to London, he had already come across McAlpine. Noukhaev had proposed a Caucasus common market, made up of partnerships between communities in the region and outside investors. An international group of experts was assembled to advise on his scheme, including American lawyer Samuel Pisar, a trustee of Goldsmith's estate. Later, Noukhaev was introduced to McAlpine at a Paris social event. ... Mansour Jachimczyk, chief adviser to the Chechen government on foreign affairs and Noukhaev's right-hand man, says: "We very much relied on McAlpine's network of friends." He says McAlpine's initial interest was purely social and personal. ... So,i n mid-Septembe1r 997M cAlpine visited Chechnyaw ith the investmentb anker Robert Pike, who is married to one of Goldsmith's daughterst,o seew hat the long-termp otential of the region was and how to create the framework needed for investors. The Chechens paid for the flights and expenses. On a follow-up visit in October 1997 attended by Robertson and Imran Khan - the Chechens signed a letter of intent to look into setting up a trans-Caucasus energy company, backed by an international consortium of companies and investment banks." |