Boston Marathon Conspiracy Theory Reasoning

 

Let me preface this by saying I am not a conspiracy theorist.  For the most part I think the facts that are presented by the mainstream media usually check out, and most things are as they appear.  I also don't believe in some widespread illuminati theory that we are all being controlled and everyone in government is in on it. 

 

That being said, I followed the events of the night of the Watertown shooting on a police scanner from beginning to end.  I watched the news coverage from beginning to end.  I was following people tweeting live from the scene from beginning to end.  As I continued following the story, I found more and more inconsistencies between what was actually happening, and what the following police and media statements were reporting. 

 

This has been bothering me so much that I felt the need to put my thoughts on paper and post it here.  I tried to keep it in chronological order.  I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, but rather encourage you to look at the facts yourself and draw your own conclusions.  If everything turns out to be as is being reported, I will be happy to say, "Great... I guess it was just a bunch of strange coincidences," but I believe that after you think about the evidence that I am about to layout, you will agree that some 'conspiracy theory' is more likely to be accurate than the story being portrayed.  Most of it is based on common sense logic if you put yourself in the mind of the suspected brothers, rather than an Alex Jones style military style analysis.

 

 

-The FBI interviewed both brothers in 2011 at the Russian government's request because Russia believed with were involved in radical Islamic terrorism.  This information was not made public by American officials, until Russian media reported it.  After the Russians reported this, the FBI quickly released their own statement confirming it was true.  The FBI cleared them both of any wrongdoing.  With the way the United States handles suspected terror suspects, you would think that they would keep tabs on them, or at the very least be beware of them and be able to immediately identify them when their pictures were first made public.  They would be specifically aware of Tamerlan's recent six month visit back to a part of Russia that is known as a hotbed for Islamic extremism.  The FBI would at the very least monitoring their travel and would scrutinize this trip.  Even if the marathon attack wasn't prevented, they would have at least been able to immediately identify them and take them into question, rather than posting their pictures three days later asking for the public's help.  Remember, the FBI has a file on both of them and they were at their listed address the entire week until their pictures were released.
 

- They were both popular student athletes with friends in good schools.  The older brother had a wife and a daughter.  They came from a stable family.  They just don't fit the 'lone wolf' profile.  Tamerlan's wife worked long hours in health care, and he was responsible for keeping up with the house and caring for the child.  She says that she never saw a hint of suspicious behavior from him, either before or after the bombing. 

 

- Tamerlan was applying for U.S citizenship and was in the middle of the process at the time of the attacks.  That seems like strange timing.  If he was planning this, you would think he wouldn't bother applying for citizenship, or he would wait until he had citizenship to make a potential bigger attack easier, or to have the legal rights of a citizen if he were caught.

 

- Even though they are now filling the mainstream news with information that these brothers were 'radicalized' and anti-American, the day he was identified they had dozens of coaches, friends, and teachers on the media who all said these were normal, social kids that never expressed anti-American views.  Additionally, being Chechen, they would be prone to be pro-American since the U.S government was the primary advocate for Chechnya against the Russians in the United Nations.  Also, the father brought them to America to give them a better life, so they didn't come from an anti-American family.

- Dzokhar was such an Americanized kid, loving sports, hip hop, girls, twitter, and everything else American, that it is hard to paint him as a radical Islamic militant.  They are now saying that his brother brainwashed him and turned him evil.  Everyone seems to be very accepting of that theory, but how easy is it to 'brainwash' an intelligent adult, who is smart enough to go to the most elite high school in Boston?  I'm 26 years old, the same age as Tameron, my brother is 21 years old, almost the same age as Dzokhar, and we are also immigrants from Europe that were brought to America by our parents at a young age.  If I took a 6 month trip back to Europe, and then came back and tried to convince my brother that America is evil and we needed to kill Americans, he would probably call me crazy and report me to the police.  He wouldn't simply believe and give into everything I said and blindly follow me.  I think people are believing the phrase, 'he was brainwashed' and accept it without enough scrutiny.  Dzokhar was an extremely intelligent 19 year old adult, not a mentally disabled toddler.  I find it incredibly hard to believe that in 3 months his brother was able to transform him from an all-American kid to an Islamic radical. 

 

- Even though we have pictures of them at the marathon, I find it hard to believe that with all the police cameras and private cell phones, no one has a clip of them placing down the backpacks.  We have pictures of dozens of other individuals carrying bags at the time of the explosions.  The fact that 'they were there' is not enough evidence for me, and at this time, that is all we have.

 

- They had three days before their pictures were released where they could have done anything they wanted.  They could have left the country and gone back to Russia, they could have fled to another part of America, or they could have committed more acts of terror undetected.  Instead, they stayed at home, tweeting like normal, going to class, and going about their regular lives.  No one reported any changes in behavior or activity.  They must have known that it was only a matter of time before their pictures surfaced on video somewhere and chose to willingly stay in the city where 4,000 members of law enforcement would be searching for them.

 

- The day that their pictures were blasted all over every media outlet, they pick that moment to go back into public.  The official story says they were planning more attacks, but even with a vehicle full of bombs and guns, they decide to kill a lone MIT police officer.  If the media reports are true, they had three days to sit at home and plan something, and on a Thursday night they could have bombed or shot up any of hundreds of Boston night spots and killed hundreds or thousands.  Instead, they choose to kill a lone police officer, drawing crazy attention to themselves, at a time when every law enforcement official in New England is a mile away. 

 

-  Even though they both had access to vehicles, they then decided to carjack someone.  For some reason they reportedly tell the hijack victim that they are the bombers and tell them every detail about what they did.  Incredibly, they are so stupid that even though they just killed a cop in cold blood, they let him live and release him in front of a storefront to immediately call the police and report that they confessed to being the marathon bombers, and provide them with a full description of the suspects clothing, the description of the vehicle including license plate, and their exact current location.  Why on earth would they do this?  The carjack victim, described as a white male in his 20's or 30's, has still not been identified.

 

- When the car chase was going on, they had several explosives, including a pressure cooker bomb and multiple long guns (rifles, shotguns, ext)  If you follow the timeline, they were on foot when they killed the MIT officer and had to carjack the Mercedes SUV to escape.  How did all these things get into the stolen vehicle?  If they drove to MIT with their own vehicle full of this cache of weapons, there would have been no need for the carjacking.  If they didn't have a car, does that mean they were walking down the streets with two backpacks, a pressure cooker, 3 rifles, and handguns while they know their pictures are plastered everywhere?  Initial reports claimed that the MIT officer likely saw them acting suspicious and confronted them, at which time they panicked and opened fire in an unplanned attack.  However, the coroner's autopsy says that officer Sean Collier was murdered execution style, with one shot to the back of the head, and 6 shots to the chest while he was sitting in his vehicle. 

- Although there was no mention of multiple vehicles the night of the shootout, the next day, or the next day, the current version of the official report is that the Watertown officer who first pursued them noticed two vehicles, driving in tandem, one behind the other.  The first vehicle was the carjacked vehicle, and the second vehicle was a Honda.  Supposedly, one brother was driving each vehicle.  When they noticed they were being pursued, they stopped both cars and opened fire on the loan officer.  Again this would mean that even though they had access to another vehicle that was not being looked for, the Honda, they decided to continue driving in a stolen vehicle, when they knew that they just released the owner of the car, and police were aware of every detail of the car and location, as well as that the marathon bombers were inside.... WHAT? 

 

- Police were conveniently reviewing security of an UNRELATED armed robbery at the 7/11, where they just happened to see and identify Dzhokhar as an unrelated customer, and were then able to put out an updated picture with his clothing on that night and use that to piece together their timeline.  What are the odds that the police are looking at unrelated robbery footage, and just happen to identify the most wanted people in Boston?

 

- In the official police reports, and what I heard on the scanner, there were multiple officers struggling with Tamerlan and putting him in handcuffs after the Watertown shootout.  They even said, 'suspect in custody.'  According to the official story, Dzhokhar then comes out of nowhere in another vehicle (no explanation where this other vehicle came from), and in attempt to escape runs over his brother killing him.  The official report says that Tamerlan arrived at the hospital with 'too many gunshot wounds to identify.'  The only reason he hasn't been given a traditional Muslim burial, which is to be done the same day of the death, is because the coroner says that the body was so badly damaged with so many entry wounds that he hasn't yet determined a cause of death.  I find it hard to believe that a suspect with that many gun shots is able to struggle with officers and be taken into custody with no mention of his injuries. 

 

Also, there was were many media members on the scene that had been following the chase and watched the entire shootout.  They even reported that the suspect had been taken into custody because they saw him handcuffed and taken into the police car.  The first time you heard that the brother ran him over was 2 days later.  Someone would have seen that or reported it over the scanner.  I heard with my own ears the police say he was in custody, and 30 minutes later I saw on the news that he was dead, with nothing happening in-between to explain it.  Although the shoutout happened less than 60 seconds after the officer first called in the location of the suspects vehicle, FBI agents who would have had no reason to be in Watertown were among the first on the scene. 

 

- Supposedly, after hitting his brother with the , Dzhokhar is able to drive away from the scene of the shooting, only to ditch the car and then run off on foot.  As we all know, Dzhokhar is then discovered by the homeowner.  The boat was winterized and shrink wrapped and Dzhokhar would definitely have seen the homeowner as he had to open the tarp allowing sunlight to get in.  For some reason Dzohkhar, doesn't shoot or threaten the homeowner, and allows him to walk away and call 911 and report his location.  Then, out of nowhere Dzhokhar finally finds the energy and strength to get out of the boat and engage approaching police in a another shootout.  This would mean that the only two civilians that can actually identify him, were left alive by these 'blood hungry terrorists' to tell the story.  He is struck in the leg, but then manages to go back to the same boat he was just in and get surrounded.  He knew he was exposed, but instead of going down in a hail of gunfire as many suggested he would, he allows himself to be surrounded.  Additionally, it is worth noting that police fired as many as 30 shots at Dzokhar, before the nearby media and additional local police were on the scene, at which time police were ordered to hold their fire. 

- This is one of the most unexplainable aspects of the case.  The location where Dzhokhar abandoned the vehicle and was last seen on foot was less than 130 yards away from the boat where he eventually surrounded.  Amazingly, the location of the boat was NOT WITHIN THE SEARCH PERIMETER which is why he wasn't found.  Think about that.  Why would whoever set the search perimeter order that police search in a different area of Watertown, than where Dzhokhar was last seen, wounded and on foot.  The only explanation that I have is that they didn't want a random Watertown officer to find him before they did. 

 

- They are now saying that he may never be able to speak or communicate because he lost too much blood as a result of the self inflicted gun shot wound to the throat shortly before his apprehension.  I was listening to the scanner at this time too, and there was no reports on the scanner, or in the media who were 100 yards away, of an additional gunshot, or any gunshot, after the initial shootout that drove him back to the boat.  Additionally, they are saying that the shot went through his throat and left him alive.  According to their timeline, that means he shot himself in the throat, and used his remaining strength to exit the boat and surrender, rather than pulling the trigger a second time and finishing the job.  Also, if he was prepared to die, why would he stop shooting and retreat to the boat.  Also, there was no mention of the suicide attempt in the two days following the apprehension.  I expect this to play out in Dzhokhar's untimely death in the hospital, or in a report that he lost too much blood and is not able to function enough to interrogate due to the resulting brain damage.

 

-  His mother says that he has been in constant communication with the FBI since 2011, and mainstream people are saying that is nonsense and she must be crazy.  I find it more likely that they would stay in touch with them, rather than be so unaware of them, even after having them reported as a terror threat to the FBI, that they are able to obtain all these weapons, gunpowder and able to freely travel in and out of terror hotbeds.

 

- Dzhokhar went to an elite high school in Boston and was given a $2,500 scholarship without going through the official application process.  This could be seen as some form of payment from the FBI in exchange for information/employment.  Cambridge Latin and Rindge School, a high school that boasts many famous alumni, including childhood pals Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
- We were originally told that the brothers lived together in an apartment in Cambridge, where police supposedly found undetonated explosives, as well as bomb making materials and weapons.  How could the brothers have lived in a Cambridge apartment when Tamerlan lived with his wife and baby in a home in Rhode Island, and Dzhokhar was at school at UMASS Dartmouth?
- The initial 'person of interest' named the day of the actual bombing, Saudi National, Abdul Rahman Ali Al Harby, who on the day of the bombing was said to be acting suspicious and caused his hospital to be put on lockdown, was flown back to Saudi Arabia 2 days after the bombing immediately after he was released from the hospital.  On the actual day of the bombing, Saudi Arabia sent their  Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal directly to Washington, where he met with Obama on Wednesday, two days after the bombing.  Al Harbi was than immediately deported in the custody of the Prince, despite the fact that the official Saudi Terror Suspect list has over a dozen members of Al Harbi's immediate family on it, and that Al-Harbi was widely known to have ties to Al Qaeda of the Saudi peninsula.   

 

 

A lot of my reasoning is based on, 'that doesn't make any sense,' in terms of the alleged bombers' decisions, but some of the things can not be explained away and can be seen as fact.

 

1.  The FBI was aware of both brothers and had files on them.  They wouldn't have needed the publics help in identifying them.  The FBI has facial recognition software and both brothers were in the data base.  Had they run the pictures that were made public through their data base, they would have instantly identified both suspects and could have picked them up at their house. 

 

2.  Obama deported the original person of interest within 15 hours of meeting with the Saudi Minister.  A known person affiliated with Al Qaeda, who was known to be at the scene, and had burns consistent with making and detonating a bomb was allowed to leave the country with no interrogation or follow-up.

 

3. The inconsistencies between what was reported on the police scanner and by on-scene media and the official police statements released in the following days.

 

4.  How did the cache of weapons get to the scene of the shootout?

  

5.  How did Dzhokhar get into Latin and Rindge High School without going through the application process?

6.  Why did the search perimeter not include the 10 block radius where Dzhokhar was last seen?

 

I don't have a full theory that explains everything, but I do believe that the FBI was working with these two as informants.  That would have given them the ability to arrange that the brothers meet them at the Boston Marathon.  It would have also made it possible that when their pictures were plastered all over the news, which at the time they would have had no idea that they were suspects, they got in touch with their contact at the FBI who would have arranged a meeting, possibly at MIT.  If this was part of an elaborate plan, it would have given whoever was setting them up the ability to frame them for the MIT murder, and use that as a 'takedown' to either kill them or bring them into custody.  I think it was more likely to kill them, so that their story never gets told.  I think that the car-jack victim was quite possibly part of the setup.  That would explain why one car was closely following the second car.  I believe that whoever was setting them up was holding them against their will in one of the vehicles, more likely the car jacked, and a member of the setup team was driving the second car, the Honda, that was full of planted evidence.  I think that when the drivers noticed that Watertown officer following them, they are the ones that opened fire, not expecting backup to arrive that quickly.  When backup quickly arrived, and they feared having their cover blown, they lost control of Dzokhar and Tamerlan.  In the dark of night, under a barrage of gun fire, there is no way that the officers could accurately identify the shooters.  I think that at this point the brothers took the opportunity to escape on foot, as was originally reported over the scanner and on scene media.  Seeing that Tamerlan was being taken into custody alive, the driver of the Honda had no choice but to run him over, likely leaving him injured but alive.  I believe he was later shot multiple times.  The driver of the Honda then fled the scene for several blocks, and likely joined the other members of the set-up team and simply blended into the amazing amount of law enforcement that was on the scene.  The story about the two cars, the brother getting run over after being taken into custody, and Dzokhar driving the Honda away from the scene was a story only crafted two days after the incident.  Whatever organization the conspirators were working for than order the search area to be set in a part of town where they know Dzokhar wouldn't be hiding to give them time to locate him, or allow him to bleed out from his wounds.
 

As far as a motive for a set-up goes, I don't think it is overly specific.  I think it is the goal of every government to have a submissive and obedient population.  Forty years ago if a police officer walked up to you at a parade and told you to open your backpack and take off your shoes, you would have called him crazy and told him he had no right to ask.  If you don't think at every parade and marathon from now until the end of time, they will be having random bag checks you are out of your mind.  Inevitably, at some point in the future, there will be a bombing at some sort of sporting event (this isn't a threat or prediction, just that the odds dictate it will happen at some point), and we will have airport style security at every baseball, hockey, and football game.  I believe that the goal is a systematic training of the population that teaches us that we must comply with law enforcement and government at all costs to ensure the safety of the public.  This means giving up our civil liberties for the sake of the greater good.  I think this is a very dangerous, slippery slope that will eventually make the constitution worthless, and leave us at the mercy of an all too  powerful authoritarian government.  By the time that happens, it will be to late to defend ourselves.  For example, for the sake of 'safety' the entire Boston area, and surrounding suburban areas were put on 'lock down.'  They put a fancy word on it that made us feel warm and fuzzy, but essentially what they did was place northeastern Massachusetts under martial law.  There was no resistance from the public. 

Additionally, after Dzokhar was captured they refused to read him Miranda rights, invoking the 'public safety' clause traditionally only used against enemy combatants in a time of war.   Despite being a permanent US resident, who committed a crime on US soil, he was not given the rights of the constitution.  The reasoning is that he committed an act of 'war'.  What war was it?  The war on terror?  Don't we also have a war on drugs?  Aren't drug dealers then also committing acts of war? 

To sum up this last point, we now have a government that was able to declare martial law in one of the biggest cities of the country, and completely ignore the constitution and are now able to do anything with Dzokhar with no witnesses, lawyers, rules, or restraints.  Remember, as of right now he is just alleged.  He hasn't been convicted of anything, and their is no legal proof of anything.  Rather than getting pushback from the population, they are getting nothing but praise and support.  This is setting a very dangerous precedent going forward.  What happens when the next 'suspect' is a natural, U.S born citizen?  Will he also be denied any rights?  What happens if the next act of 'terror' is committed with a gun instead of a bomb?  Will he also be denied his rights?  Once this precedent is set, there is no going back.  The police will use the 'public safety clause' and 'martial law' orders with more and more frequency, using this situation as the precedent to show that it is ok.  It is a strong move to create an environment where the very rules that keep us a Constitutional Republic as apposed to an authoritarian tyranny are rendered irrelevant.  Believe me, I am from New England and I love Boston.  I know that every instinct in our hearts says, 'these guys attacked us, so screw them.  Lets do everything we can to make sure we take them down.  They don't deserve the protections of the law because of the horrible things they did.'  I just warn you to look at the bigger picture and realize that by doing that you are giving away the very things that make us free.  Ben Franklin famously said, "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."  This is exactly the situation he was warning us about, and I urge you all to pay attention.

The real definition of Boston Strong needs to be standing up for what it means to live in America, and to question things that we don't think are right, even when it's not easy.

 

 

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

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 Update:  After public backlash, the White House announced today that Dzokhar would NOT be tried as an enemy combatant.  He will have legal representation and have his day in court and a chance to tell his side of the story.  Assuming he lives long enough to tell it, I can't wait to hear what he has to say.