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Guest Post: Boston Marathon Attacks, Chechnya And Oil - The Hidden U.S. Connection
Submitted by John Daly of OilPrice.com,
As Boston and U.S. security agencies congratulate themselves over the apparent neutralization of a pair of Chechens that bombed the Boston Marathon, troubling questions are beginning to arise.
First and foremost is, why a pair of Chechens, born in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, apparently committed the attack?
For possible answers, one must looks beyond the present and delve into Russia’s and the USSR’s past policies towards Chechnya, and since 1991, U.S. policy in the Caucasus, which since the 1991 implosion of the USSR had a single focus – the exploitation of the Caspian’s massive energy reserves.
It is a history that makes for deeply uncomfortable reading, but one that may eventually provide some answers to seemingly intractable questions.
After Iran transferred Chechnya to the Russian empire under the Treaty of Gulistan following the 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War, Russian troops entered the region to assert control, resulting in a long-drawn out and bitter campaign marked by numerous atrocities until Imam Shamil surrendered to the Russians in 1859, causing many Chechen Muslims to emigrate to the Ottoman Empire. Following the 1917 Russian revolution, Chechnya suffered the travails of the rest of the Soviet population until 23 February 1944, when Stalin ordered Chechnya’s population deported en masse to Soviet Central Asia on suspicions of them being traitors and working with Nazi forces. In eight days, the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), predecessor to the Committee for State Security (KGB), forcefully deported 350,000 to 400,000 Chechens and 91,250 Ingush from the Caucasus, mainly to Central Asia, primarily Kazakhstan, but others as far as Kyrgyzstan and Eastern Siberia.
Soviet officials assessed that during 1944 to 1948, between 14.6% and 23.7% of the exiled population perished.
And many Chechens were swallowed up by the NVKD’s Gulag archipelago, but even there, their toughness and militancy set them apart. As Russian Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn noted his is three-volume study, The GuLAG Archipelago, "There was one nation which would not give in, would not acquire the mental habits of submission - and not just individual rebels among them, but the whole nation to a man. These were the Chechens... They had been treacherously snatched from their home, and from that day they believed in nothing... The years went by - and they owned just as little as they had to begin with. The Chechens never sought to please, to ingratiate themselves with the bosses; their attitude was always haughty and indeed openly hostile.”
Fast forward to the 1991 dissolution of the breakup of the USSR.
Chechens subsequently fought two wars against Russian forces, the first from 1994 to 1996, and the second from October 1999 until early 2009, with both conflicts marked by violence and atrocities committed on both sides.
In 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Ramzan Kadyrov Chechnya’s new president. Two years later the American organization Freedom House included Chechnya in the "Worst of the Worst" list of most repressive societies in the world, together with Burma, North Korea and China's Tibet.
But the question remains why, when the USSR was fragmenting, was Moscow so determined to retain Chechnya?
In a word – oil, for both its indigenous reserves and as the sole transit point for Azerbaijan’s rising exports, which Western companies were eagerly seeking to export to Western markets rather than via Russia.
Few today remember that Putin’s first job when appointed Prime Minister on 9 August 1999 by Russian President Boris Yeltsin was to build an oil pipeline bypassing Chechyna, as Transneft, Russia’s pipeline monopoly, controlled the Baku-Novorossiisk line, the sole export route for Azerbaijani “early” oil exports, which crossed 95 miles of Chechen territory, a region which had been at war with the Kremlin since 1994. Following Putin’s appointment Yeltsin held a council of war over Dagestan and Putin made a rash promise that he could end a crisis caused by the incursion of 2,000 rebels from Chechnya into Dagestan in “a week and a half or two weeks.”
Work began on the bypass line on 26 October 1999. The conflict combined with other issues reduced Azeri exports via Baku-Novorossiisk in early 2000 to an average of only 10,000 barrels per day (bpd.) In April 2000 construction finished on the $140 million, 204-mile Baku-Novorossiisk bypass via Dagestan to Tikhoretsk. The bypass had a potential capacity of 120,000 bpd, but by then Azerbaijan already had other plans, having worked with neighboring Georgia to develop an alternative pipeline route to Georgia’s Black Sea port of Supsa, completely outside of Russian control. When Yeltsin resigned on 31 December 1999 Putin became acting President and has continued to lead the Russian state ever since, eiher as Prime Minister or President.
For Putin, quite aside from issues of pride, An independent Chechnya could not only lead to a loss of revenue from the republic’s modest oil production (of such quality that Chechen oil was used to light lamps in the Vatican) and ruin plans to extract transit fees for Azeri “early oil,” but lead to a significant potential loss of Caspian reserves once the sea’s waters and seabed were divided, if Chechnya aligned itself with neighboring Dagestan.
U.S. penetration of Azerbaijan’s and Kazakhstan’s energy sectors continued apace during the conflict. As reported by EC-TACIS, for the period 1994-1999 the main sources of foreign direct investment in Azerbaijan were the United States with 28 percent, followed by Britain with 15 percent. FDI in Azerbaijan exploded from only $30 million in 1994 to $827 million in 1999, about 17 percent of Azerbaijan's GDP, with approximately 90 percent of FDI concentrated in the country's hydrocarbons sector, while Kazakhstan FDI accounted for $1.6 billion in the same period, but which now exceeds $160 billion of foreign FDI. Russia was clearly losing the battle to develop Caspian energy, and an independent Chechen-Dagestani state would make Moscow's position untenable and hence had to be stopped at any cost. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney observed the year before Putin’s appointment, “I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.”
In 2005 the western consortium attempting to cut Russia out of the Caspian energy loop achieved its goal. The $3.6 billion, one million barrel per day, 1,092-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which ships Azeri Caspian oil to Turkey’s Mediterranean Ceyhan port, began operations in May 2005, transiting high-quality crude from Azerbaijan's offshore Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli fields to Turkey's deep-water Mediterranean terminus at Ceyhan.
Accordingly, the Chechen conflict dovetailed perfectly not only into Washington’s plans, to bog down the Russian military in a long, drawn-out conflict in the Caucasus, but provide Western energy companies with an alternative route as Chechnya was slowly ground down by the Russian military.
Oil that would have otherwise moved northwards to Russia, providing lucrative transit fees.
Chechnya proved ground zero for both Western political and business interests.
All of the above history, virtually unknown in the U.S., is deeply known to every Chechen. The shadow war between Moscow and Washington for the Caspian’s energy riches saw Chechnya squarely caught in the middle, leaving the Chechen homeland virtually destroyed, something to remember when reading the increasingly contradictory news reports coming out of Washington about the blood shed in Boston by the Tsarnaev brothers, as the U.S. is hardly blameless about the carnage visited on their ancestral homeland.
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"Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the Revolution"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books "
"History of the Ckeka, OGPU, NKVD, MGB, KGB [putin], and FSB [putin]"
http://www.systemaspetsnaz.com/history-of-the-cheka-ogpu-nkvd-mgb-kgb-fsb
http://www.rightshelf.com/the_solzhenitsyn_reader [alex in cavendish ,vt.]
Ps. i personally met alex in vermont. the cia lived down the road from my mountain in vermont not far from cavendish, vt.
Ps2. alex wrote this book in 2003/04 at 84 yrs old in cavendish, vt.,-- he died in russia... august/2008 at 89 yrs young, before the harsh winter he so fondly missed?!
Ps3. his final book is hard to find if not impossible because of the 'blowback' from the jewish holocaust historical society propaganda machine. -- he was blacklisted,... period!!!
note: i met and spoke with him on occasion-- those eyes were so angelic and soft with hope
What you have just written is completely misguided.
Because?
check Paul Craig Roberts article above.
When the hunt for ONE bombing suspect results in the effective declaration of martial law in one of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, and the shutting down of virtually all economic activity and freedom of movement within that urban area for most of two days, I must conclude that the terrorists have won, and did not just win, but have had their victory handed to them on a golden platter by their ostensible victims.
But just think how closing down Waterford/ville/town/whatever will dampen economic activity early in the 2nd quarter only to rebound sharply with all the broken windows.
Krugman'll have a 4 hour Purple Throbber
Agreed.
I hear people arguing about whether to give him Miranda rights and try him as a citizen or as an enemy combatant.
Well, if we didn't let anyone and everyone bleed across our borders for any reason imaginable, the killing would not have happened and we would not have to decide.
These boys would have been Putin's problem, rather than murdering a little boy and other innocents.
We are so fucking dumb, and backwards, and stupid.
The fact is the motivation behind this is all speculation at this point. Only the agenda driven have it all figured out.
The article's conclusion makes no sense. Why should the Chechens resent foreign investment that helped them develop their resources and freed them from Russian domination?
wayne madsen reported this yesterday.... if your not familiar check him out.
THE WORLD IS FULL OF WRONGDOERS AND VICTIMS. Battlefields are one thing but actions of violence amongst innocent, unarmed, unaware people is cowardly and the mark of fanatics rather than soldiers.
So when our government treats this as an act of war by an enemy combatant...it becomes honorable? Careful what you wish for. The battlefield has been redefined. You are on it. The only way off the battlefield would involve things like economic opportunity, justice, human rights and civil liberties....and that's not the way things are going.
The redefinition of the battlefield by either side is dangerous, self serving and empty of any ideal. Your solutions however are fine and would do away with the need for war in the first place if applied from the beginning.
War ends when government ends.
US soldiers are the most numerous terrorists in the world.
Blame the Finns.
"I have decided to become the leader of a war of liberation of my own people. I understand all too well that not only in Checheno-Ingushetia, but in all nations of the Caucasus it will be difficult to win freedom from the heavy yoke of Red imperialism. But our fervent belief in justice and our faith in the support of the freedom-loving peoples of the Caucasus and of the entire world inspire me toward this deed, in your eyes impertinent and pointless, but in my conviction, the sole correct historical step. The valiant Finns are now proving that the Great Enslaver Empire is powerless against a small but freedom-loving people. In the Caucasus you will find your second Finland, and after us will follow other oppressed peoples."
--Khasan Israilov, Chechen rebel leader in WWII and national hero
I would bet that anyone seeking freedom from a Chechen government wouldn't receive anything like freedom.
Probably a bullet. So much for pretty words for the dupes.
I just like teasing Finns.
Also check out these baddies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountainous_Republic_of_the_Northern_Caucasus
From the 1917-1920 period. I hope the US is not fighting a Land War in Asia with their descendents in 2017-2020.
Not to mention Operation Lentil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lentil_(Caucasus)
Forced deportation of the entire population. Nice one Stalin!
I think the author missed the actual reason for the bombings even though he presents it himself early in the article;
Iran transferred Chechnya to the Russian empire under the Treaty of Gulistan following the 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War ..
It's evident isn't it, it's the Persians at play again, they want their land back
War for oil in Chechnya is doable if the troops are given R&R across the Caspian, in Uzbekistan
http://www.beautiful-women-pedia.com/uzbek-girls.html
America Teams up with Al Qaeda
The United States government has been at war for eleven years. The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check by the secular Saddam Hussein government. On any given day in “liberated” Iraq, the death toll is as high as during the height of the US attempted occupation.
In Afghanistan eleven years of US attempted occupation has had no more success than a decade of Soviet occupation. The Afghans are still not worn down despite more than two decades of war with the two superpowers. Like the Soviets, the Americans have managed to kill many women, children, and village elders, but precious few warriors. In place of the Soviet puppet government there is Washington’s puppet government. That is the only change, and Washington’s puppet is no more secure than the Soviet one was.
In Libya, Washington used its corrupt NATO puppets and CIA-recruited bandits to overthrow another stable government, that of Muammar Gaddafi, leaving Libya mired in sectarian violence. A stable prosperous country has simply been destroyed by western governments that profess human rights values and condemn China and Russia for not having any.
Washington has also been killing civilians with drones and air strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, two countries with which Washington is not at war but has purchased the governments, paying the Pakistani and Yemeni governments for the right to murder their citizens and destabilizing both countries in the process.
And now in Syria Washington is at work destroying another stable secular government headed by a British trained eye doctor.
Washington’s eleven years of illegal aggression against Muslim countries–war crimes according to the Nuremberg trials of Nazis–have resulted in civilian deaths far in excess of military casualties and in a domestic American police state that has destroyed the rule of law and the constitutional protections of US citizens. Washington and its presstitutes have emphasized that these costs are necessary to save Americans from al-Qaeda terrorists, none of whom have ever been apprehended in the United States.
Having listened to the propaganda line pumped out by Washington and its Ministry of Propaganda for eleven years, imagine my astonishment when I saw two juxtaposed headlines: “Al-Nusra pledges allegiance to al-Qaeda” (BBC) and “Move to Widen Help for Syrian Rebels Gains Speed in West” (NY Times). Al-Nusra is the main military component of the “Syrian rebels,” and it has allied itself with our mortal enemy–Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.
Wait a minute! Our government told us for eleven years that we blew trillions of dollars on wars to protect Americans from al-Qaeda, endangering Social Security, Medicare, the social safety net, the dollar’s exchange value, the credit rating of the US Treasury, and our civil liberties in order to save America from al-Qaeda terrorists. So why is Washington now supporting al-Qaeda’s overthrow of the secular, non-Islamist government in Syria which has never ever done anything whatsoever to Americans!?
The New York Times presstitutes, Michael R. Gordon and Mark Landler, elevated the terrorist al-Qaeda organization to the status of “the Syrian opposition.” At a lunch meeting hosted by Washington’s puppet, British Foreign Secretary William Hague, and US Secretary of State John Kerry, “the Syrian opposition,” aka al-Qaeda, requested antiaircraft and antitank weapons. A senior Washington official said: “Our assistance has been on an upward trajectory, and the president (Obama) has directed his national security team to identify additional measures so that we can increase assistance.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry announced a $123 million “defense aid package” to “the Syrian opposition” that now includes al-Qaeda. Washington had already sent $117 million in “food and medical supplies” to “the Syrian opposition,” and ordered its Middle Eastern puppets to send arms. Note the Orwellian language: support for an outside terrorist force seeking to destroy a government and a people is called a “defense aid package.”
On April 11 the establishment French newspaper, Le Monde, reported that the al-Nosra organization affiliated with al-Qaeda is the dominant force in “the Syrian opposition,” not democratic revolutionaries. Despite this fact, Washington’s puppets, France and Britain, are pushing the European Union to send arms to the al-Qaeda affiliated “Syrian opposition.” And Senator John McCain wants US airstrikes on Syrian government forces with whom the US is not at war, in order to provide air cover for al-Qaeda’s takeover of Syria.
Meanwhile, the Islamist Shiites, whom the Americans left in control of Iraq, have announced that they have joined the battle against the American-supported al-Qaeda forces seeking to radicalize Syria.
So far at last count, the UN reports that the military attack on Syria organized by Washington’s proxies has killed 70,000 people. But americans are preoccupied with the Boson Marathon bombing, which killed 3.
Once again “the indispensable people” are bringing death and destruction to an entire country in order to bring to the dead “freedom and democracy.” No Syrian asked for this “liberation” from his life.
Be a Proud American. We are doing our duty to our rightful hegemony over the world and to Israel, which has purchased our government. It is our right to be the hegemonic power on the planet earth, and that includes the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore it is Washington’s right to overthrow Syria in order to get rid of the Russian naval base there. The Romans would never have put up with a foreign power having a naval base in the Mediterranean, and we can do no less, unless we are some kind of pansy state afraid of our own shadow. The Mediterranean was mare nostrum–our sea–for the Romans. Now it is our sea, and by god we are going to claim it by overthrowing Syria.
Israel, of course, was given the rights to “Greater Israel” by God himself–who am I to question the Christian Zionist preachers who are growing fat on Israeli money–and part of “Greater Israel” is the river in southern Lebanon that supplies precious water.
Hizbollah, provisioned by Syria and Iran has prevented Israel from confiscating southern Lebanon in order to acquire the water rights that God gave them. Therefore, to fulfill our obligations as Israel’s puppet, we are required to destroy both Syria and Iran so that Hizbollah is isolated and out of the way and “Greater Israel” can be created.
The Christian Zionist churches in the US repeat this message every Sunday. If you don’t believe it, you are some kind of anti-american anti-semite and should be exterminated. Or you could be a despicable Muslim terrorist to be waterboarded into confession. Homeland Security will make short work of you just like they did to those Russian Muslim terrorists in Boston who tried to blow up the Marathon race.
I mean, really, how can we indispensable people bring freedom and democracy to the world if the Russians have a naval base in our sea? How can we project strength if we project such weakness by permitting a foreign power’s presence in our exclusive sphere of influence many thousands of miles away from our borders. Don’t forget, America’s borders are the world’s borders. It says so in our song–”From sea to shining sea.” Don’t forget it.
Of course, we don’t want to go head-to-head with another well armed nuclear military power, but the way around that is to demonize the Syrian government and Russia for supporting an eye doctor who is “a brutal dictator” who is resisting an Islamist al-Qaeda takeover of Syria financed by Washington. Our masters in Washington can use the UN and all our well-paid puppet states to pressure the Russians to shut up and get out of our way. I mean, really, does Putin want all those Russian NGOs that we finance to bring their operatives out onto the streets in Moscow and bring down his government? I mean, really, who does Putin think he is standing up to our god-given hegemony over the world, much less Israel’s god-given hegemony over the Middle East? I mean, Putin is in for it, and so are those goddamn Chinese. I mean, really, who do they think they are? Americans? Don’t those Chinks know about our control of the Pacific? I mean, really, are they out to lunch?
And, I mean, really, how can all us get to heaven if we don’t do God’s will and deliver the Middle East to Israel as Israel says the scriptures require. I mean, really, do you want to oppose God and burn in hell? Instead of all those virgins Muslims promise you, you will be devoured by fire. You better get on the right side before you die.
I mean, really, who wants this fate. We had better get rid of Syria sooner than ordered.
If we don’t do what Israel tells us God requires, we are finished. That’s for sure.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/04/21/if-you-want-to-go-to-heaven-y...
Most of us in the western world can name how many of the Jewish people perished in WW 2 , but have no idea of the number of our own countries war dead. Such is the power of the media.
Hey Pauly-boy ...a British trained eye doctor? What are you, the 12th man on the deal team? The last to know?
He's a HEAD OF STATE. You seem proud of the letter you received from one once, so perhaps you know what they actually do for a living.
I know publicity seeking people like to pad their resumes, but what exactly was your role in the US effort against the USSR? Your writing suggests you were nothing more than a coffee-bitch for one the boys, and perhaps some Jew teabgged you for coming up with a naive non-solution around a conference table once...
You seriously discredit an argument which is easily supported by facts and reason when you litter it with bigotry and lunacy, or is it your intention to discredit the proud American Legion of the Tinfoil Hat Brigade?
Russian deal with chechnya is not about oil, but geopolitics. It was about stemming the tide of breakaway territories. That's why the wars were fought.
The brutality in the conflict is characteristic of long tension between the two groups. Most chechen never assimilated into USSR, some did and some did quite sucessfully, yet there was always an element that wanted to break off. All of them have strong familial connections, or I should say blood connections. And revenge in their culture is institutionalised. So act of vengeance is a duty that trumps legal code.
Anyway, that element was used and inflamed to create the free chechnya after a bloody war under Yeltsin. But their freedom was a bunch of guys riding around in trucks with AK's making sure the women are covered. So after the first war, Russia on its border had a failed state which periodically would organize raids to plunder the neighbors like Genghis Khan. Sometimes for food, or slaves.
Their other source of income was money from Saudis who were concerned about their muslim brothers.
It was becoming apparent that these guys will destabilize entire region, so second chechen war started.
So no, it was not about the oil.
just a bit curious how america's civil war could cast a shadow of doubt on causality... afterall, wasn't it lincoln that crushed the south for wanting there freedom
could he not be seen as a stalin or mao, rather than a liberator?
Nah, it was an 'american' war. Two sides fought to for the control of the State.
Up to before the civil war, the South had a monopoly on it. The North wanted that to change.
It takes an 'american' to see in a war where both sides makes to be either pro slavery or to maintain a status quo a war for freedom.
But hey, 'americans' are what they are.
You should be punished somehow for spending so much time in this short life to smear Americans. It's a hobby.
It isn't for you to say what a country should or should not do, or judge them. Should you, America is, comparatively speaking, the less of the evils nations have bestowed onto their people. It's money that moves this world and the people with the money make the decisions. The people carve out a lift for themselves and hope their paid elected officials are not lying to them during campaign speeches.
America will fall. The useless will die from the stress of having to get up off the couch. The fat will hari kari themselves by a self-induced bowel obstruction while swallowing the jar along with the pickles. The internet will allow identificatoin of "malcontents" and names are being assembled. Door to doors after the backpacks go off in every city will thin the herd as well. Workers and nonworkers. it's going to be a hell like no one can imagine. No internet, MSM blackout, marshall law....in 50 years no one will even remember it but the survivors.
Then, every middle class citizen world wide will meet the same fate. Those left to work will see a life style reduced to poverty level. Vacations and retirement no longer exist in this new world, except for the guards, the management and the boss. Worldwide. Countries who do not comply will no longer exist. The distractions have made this possible. It's been a half century of distractions while national wealth has been collateralized behind predatory loans and financial investment instruments designed to fail.
Americans...I can't say I hold many dear to my heart. They can be mean, 2-faced, self righteous even in the background of a failing govt and a country collapsing under its debt, fighting wars no one wanted to fight.
And still i cannot bear to hear you single out Americans because you appear to have been hired to do so. This only confirms what I think is coming. You are trying to sway popular opinion in mob-like mentality, like the woman on the roof of a building, and the crowd yelling: Do It. Do It. Do It
America has been very good to me and my family. I've been half way around the world and so far, America was as good as it gets (pre 9-11, of course). When you are in trouble, someone shows up to help in this country. They are quick to forgive and give another chance. Last decade aside, Americans can be counted on to do the right thing. They are okay by me and I do not want to see this happen to them. I will cry when I have to leave this country. I tried my best to spread the word alarming events were unfolding but it was futile. Let the record show...I tried my darndest to stop this train.
And you? Sitting on the computer beating on the keyboard about America is Evil...the bankers did this and we know where they originated from. Losers sometimes appear to be winning. It's a matter of who is doing the interpreting.
Bunny, he is just a bitter and hate-filled troll, obsessed for whatever reasons over his perceived unfailingly and eternally evil Americans, who are all the same and are all perfectly evil, while his equally disfunctional (and signficantly less free) society of Communist China NEVER comes under any slightest criticism from him --- naturally, because he would be dragged out and shot if he were to do so.
The hypocrisy and insanity of AnAnonymous are legendary here, and instead of letting it raise your ire, simply bow to the absurdity of it and join us in mocking it, and him.
Okay akak :) I'll not waste my time any longer.
ZEROHEDGE READERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrNMhQ4Rx08
Raw from Fox News
Fast forward to 1:00 to 1:09
Americas Finest: texting, standing around, and watching while young first responders run by to help the injured.
this was not a real atack people.
Proftrek 12 minutes ago
It's too late. My only job is to? document the implementation, the controlled opposition, and the political invertebrates. Future archeologists sifting through silicons chips will stumble upon people bearing witness. Good thing is that the entire world won't get sucked into this nightmare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Wpu6_kArb9U#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5sBSgQo30 (Andrew CarlBosworth)
This war is over and America has lost according to this man, whoever he is.
NO REAL ATTACK. Or better: an attack to the american people, to democracy, to the rule of law, to the Tsarnaev brothers.
Mass deception.
Now the Tsarnaev brothers are being positioned as 'double' agents:
http://www.debka.com/article/22914/The-Tsarnaev-brothers-were-double-agents-who-decoyed-US-into-terror-trap
But, unlike the FBI or Israel's DEBKAfile, I don't think that they "turned". They were "played". Played as Useful Fools. They were supposed to have success -- limited success -- to further a specific national security agenda and Chechen agenda. That's why those security guys were around... to make sure they limited their detonation success.
The Russians were smart to have washed their hands of it, by having flagged them to the FBI, who 'investigated' and found them to be 'harmless'. And 'harmless' enough to be Naturalized as a USC -- when this should have been very, very difficult under the circumstances.
They should be called the Schlemiel or the Schlemazel Brothers.
If the FBI was monitoring these two creeps for 2 years then the FBI is as guilty at least as much as the nut cases are.
No one has tried to bomb me yet and things have been pretty good so it is hard to complain. I'm thankful so far for what the US has provided but I do think they over taxed me during the years I used to work.
"thankful so far for what the US has provided"
I hope you are NOT referring to the US government.
I thought most of the oil from that neck of the woods ends up in Europe.
Oh well, can't let the poorly camouflaged progressive ZeroHedgocrats pass up a chance to blame it all on the CIA.
I take the same position towards the US gov as the US gov takes towards the people: guilty until proven innocent.
If you are a mineral rich country and don't have the means to protected them or yourself then you are screwed. Be careful when you wish for mineral wealth.
That is why America is so great. That's because we have such great police forces. Those Chechen bastards did not last long. Seen how US citizens cheered up for the excellence of the forces?In America, we love the Police, we love the State, because we are respectful of the rule of law, the basis of civilization.
Sipping on my German beer, I was beaming when I watched all those fine, solid, hard working middle class Americans congratulating loudly on the streets their forces. Makes me so proud...
Signed:an American.
What a desecration of good german beer, to be drunk by you, while you're taking a roadside dump outside the Shanghai-Inn ....
While I trust ZH about the facts in this article, I just cannot connect them to killing U.S. civilians a decade later, most of whom have never heard of Chechnya. And if that were the reason, where is the proclamation to claim that this bombing is for all the wrongs we have caused Chechnya? Without denying that perhaps the Chechnyans hate us too, if the connection were real I would expect some sort of proclamations. Where is the message? I wonder if these guys were just mercenaries for some other force, mercenaries who just happened to be Chechnyans.
Dont forget to send a memo to 'americans' if in the past, they wronged you.
Being wronged by 'americans' is not considered a reason to act against them, as 'americans' act to make humanity progress.
Send a memo to put things clearly. Else, they will question the motives...
Nothing personal, bro. Just plain oild 'american' business...
So, none of your business!
Fuck you asswipe. 9 year old children and students didn't do shit to those Chechens. If you have outside businesses and governments fucking with you, fuck with them in retaliation but leave the children alone.
http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-whats-a-chechen/
By the way, the main reason why Russian - Chehen war is in hybernation (maybe for long, maybe not) is JWB glorious invasion of Iran. Yep,, overnight majority of financial aid to Chechen fundemantalist fighters evaporated. When it happened, different clans came to power and made somewhat lucrative agreement with the dude (Putin), they can do whatever in their little kindom (which often means handling and silencing competing clans) as long as they are playing along with Russian foregn policy and pretending to be part of Russia.
And yeah, the best way to think of them as the modern Spartans. When they make their minds, consequences to themselves or surroundings do not matter anymore. They are not arrogant, they do not openly exibit their pride, but it is always there and messing with a few of them is like asking for a fight with a crew of the US Navy Seals.
That looks like no connection whatsoever.
Try drugs and mafia. And not the Russian mafia. They're called Obshina. And if it's really them and the lines have been blurred between organized crime and terrorism then there's a serious fucking problem. Not least of which is that everything that's been purchased and created since 9/11 to fight "terrorism" has been a complete waste.
I think that the Putin government was warning the FBI about these kids is the dead give away.
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/report-russian-officials-warned-fbi-boston-mara...
You look them up and find no links to terrorism, but that might be because the FBI can't add 2 and 2 together.
Hmmm, Chechnya, the Caucasus and...
quote from:
GOG, MAGOG AND THE KINGDOM OF THE KHAZARS
Coincidentally...or maybe synchronistically:
New Genetic Study Reportedly Proves Khazar Ancestry For Ashkenazi Jews
s/ No that can't have anything to do with anything, you're right it's only about the oil.../s
summary: yids from US vs. yids from RU
well... yids vs. yids
goy inside the sandwich...
So, why all the bold and underlines? Are teenagers with ADD reading this?
The US isn't interested in Oil by itself.
The US wants to ensure that Oil is traded in US Dollars.
Boston Bombing: Staged Terror Attack?
4Chan posted dozens of photos showing Navy Seal or Private Security personnel carrying the same black back packs which are the same style backpacks showed in FBI photos.
http://homment.com/boston-terror
I'm still waiting for someone to make the important connections between the Tamil Tigers, the Vatican and the incipient Inuit uprising ties to the Marathon bombings.
The importance of seal blubber to Washington often flies under the analysts radar.
Wow! John, I wish we were as smart as you think we are. What dribble.
Maybe they were bored? Maybe they already beat every version of Grand Theft Auto on the market? I'm pretty sure they were not concerned with oil (or even an oppression they've never witnessed). This act would've done nothing to affect that issue, but boredom on the other hand...
Freudian slip? The truth?
Boston Commissioner Calls Tamerlan and Dzhokhar "ACTORS"
during a live interview with Fox News
http://homment.com/Tamerlan-act