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Mini-Me: UPDATE Two Suspects Identified — Not the Original Craft PMC Boys
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Boston Bombing: FBI Seeking Two Individuals In New Photo
Officials investigating the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, that occurred on April 15, are looking into new photos of two men, carrying a duffel bag and a backpack, spotted chatting near the packed finish line. However, one of the individuals used his Facebook account to say, ‘I did not do anything.’
A new set of photos, provided by a bystander who witnessed the Boston Marathon and the subsequent explosion on April 15, may be helpful in leading investigators to the perpetrators of the attack. The photos show two men, wearing running gear and standing with suspicious bags, near the finish line before the fatal blasts.
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Phi Beta Iota: These are not the reservists listening to the exercise boss via marginal earpieces as depicted in an earlier report.
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Owl: False Flag Meme Goes Mainstream in Boston — Public Abandoning Main Media – New Photo Series (Man Able to Run Away from Precise Spot of One Bomb)
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MEDIA: Photos of one of the blasts, series shows man able to run away.
Probably for the first time ever or at least in recent history, it appears the mainstream media has openly considered the Boston bombings were false flag attacks, as specified in this story:
“Bin Laden's repeated statements that he deplored the 9/11 attacks, considered them un-Islamic, and suspected that American supporters of Israel were behind them failed to penetrate the corporate media bubble. When the FBI definitively stated that Bin Laden was “not wanted” for 9/11 because there was “no hard evidence” of his involvement, the media blacked out the story. But after the Boston bombings of April 16th, 2013, even the corporate monopoly media could no longer ignore the possibility of a false-flag attack. Yahoo News asked “Who's behind the Boston Marathon bombings?” and offered 4 theories: (1) Islamic jihadists, (2) Right-wing militia types, (3) the government, and (4) a criminally-insane lone wolf. Numbers (1), (2), and (4), of course, are the usual suspects. But including (3) “the government” on the suspects list is unprecedented for a mainstream news story reporting on a domestic terror incident.
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The false-flag meme's growing prominence was underlined at Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick's press conference after the bombings. The first question for Governor Patrick came from Infowars correspondent Dan Bidondi, who asked whether the bombings were “a false-flag staged event..to take away our civil liberties.” Patrick, of course, answered “no.” Even the Atlantic Monthly, a neocon-lite magazine associated with names like Goldberg and Hitchens, felt compelled to publish a story headlined: “What Is a ‘False Flag' Attack, and What Does Boston Have to Do with This?” Amazingly, the Atlantic article stated that yes, there is historical precedent for viewing the Boston bombing as a false-flag event. The author, Philip Bump, even admitted: “If the Boston attack had been a ‘false flag' attack, Gov. Patrick would have responded ‘no' anyway.”
Mini-Me: Pressure Bombs Generally Kill & Maim Very Few…Graphic & Slide Show of Bomb Parts, Photos of TSA Culprits?
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WEB EXTRA: A Look at Other Pressure Cooker Bombs
Associated Press, 17 April 2013
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Here's a look at some of the most recent container bombs:
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February 2013: A bomb hidden in a pressure cooker explodes inside a restaurant in northern Afghanistan, killing five people.
Mini-Me: Boston List of Suspects Updated 1.3
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Superceded by:
Original story (and updated table of suspects) below:
U.S. was warned of terror attacks
Source: Look for trail through Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
Reza Kahlili
WND, 16 April 2013
Although it is not known yet who is responsible for Monday’s heinous bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 100 people, a source within Iranian intelligence services told WND the Islamic regime was behind them and to look for trails through Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The source said the bombs were planted near the end of the race so that the horrific images of the blasts would be captured by all the media there and be replayed over and over throughout the world.
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Patrick Meier: Boston Bombing — Social Media Role
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Self-Organized Crisis Response to #BostonMarathon Attack
I’m going to keep this blog post technical because the emotions from yesterday’s events are still too difficult to deal with. Within an hour of the bombs going off, I received several emails asking me to comment on the use of social media in Boston and how it differed to the digital humanitarian response efforts I am typically engaged in. So here are just a few notes, nothing too polished, but some initial reactions.
Once again, we saw the outpouring of operational support from the “Crowd” with over two thousand people in the Boston area volunteering to take people in if they needed help, and this within 60 minutes of the attack. This was coordinated via a Google Spreadsheet & Google Form. This is not the first time that these web-based solutions were used for disaster response. For example, Google Spreadsheets was used to coordinate grassroots response efforts during the major Philippine floods in 2012.
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Berto Jongman: NDU Book Online on Illicit Networks – Forward by Admiral James “Open Source Security” Stavrides
05 Civil War, 06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational CrimeThe Center for Complex Operations (CCO) has produced this edited volume, Convergence: Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization, that delves deeply into everything mentioned above and more. In a time when the threat is growing, this is a timely effort. CCO has gathered an impressive cadre of authors to illuminate the important aspects of transnational crime and other illicit networks. They describe the clear and present danger and the magnitude of the challenge of converging and connecting illicit networks; the ways and means used by transnational criminal networks and how illicit networks actually operate and interact; how the proliferation, convergence, and horizontal diversification of illicit networks challenge state sovereignty; and how different national and international organizations are fighting back. A deeper understanding of the problem will allow us to then develop a more comprehensive, more effective, and more enduring solution.
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Contents
Chapters
- 1 Deviant Globalization
- 2 Lawlessness and Disorder: An Emerging Paradigm for the 21st Century
- 3 Can We Estimate the Global Scale and Impact of Illicit Trade?
- 4 The Illicit Supply Chain
- 5 Fixers, Super Fixers, and Shadow Facilitators: How Networks Connect
- 6 The Geography of Badness: Mapping the Hubs of the Illicit Global Economy
- 7 Threat Finance: A Critical Enabler for Illicit Networks
- 8 Money Laundering into Real Estate
- 9 The Criminal State
- 10 How Illicit Networks Impact Sovereignty
- 11 Counterinsurgency, Counternarcotics, and Illicit Economies in Afghanistan: Lessons for State-Building
- 12 Fighting Networks with Networks
- 13 The Department of Defense’s Role in Combating Transnational Organized Crime
- 14 Collaborating to Combat Illicit Networks Through Interagency and International Efforts