Deadly explosions hit US city of Boston

[Vito]

This article raises some interesting questions regarding the possibility of Craft International (Blackwater-style) personnel on site. This article is either mis-information or a slippage of truth that got through the mainstream approved media. If it was really Craft International personnel at the finish line, then why were they so dumb as to wear clothing that would obviously identify them as such?

Not sure if this was talked about here but, in addition to what you typed, I remember they interviewed a runner shortly after the bombing and they talked about how they saw snipers on top of the buildings near the finish line all before the bombing took place. I guess this sort of supports what you've just posted.

 

[glo]

I came across this open letter today. I don;t know how it will be received, but I will share it here anyway.

Dear Dzhokhar,

You don’t know me, but you tried to kill my family.

You couldn’t have known, but my brother ran bandit in the marathon and trained for months. My sister in law was an amazing and supportive wife as she always is and was ready to run the last 5 miles with him.. Your bomb was at the finish line that they were trying to cross.

My Mother, Father, and Sister, were waiting for them at the finish line. You didn’t know it, but my mother thinks that she saw you down there. My sister is only three years younger than you, and you set off a bomb in front of her.

You don’t know me, but you tried to kill some friends of mine.

One of my best and closest friends was working in the store in front of which you or your brother laid down a bomb. That bomb exploded, and gave her the worst day of her ilfe.

I was a high school teacher, your bomb wounded one of my most promising students with shrapnel.

Dear Dzhokhar, you tried to destroy a community that I left behind for Rome, but from which I draw so much of my strength and identity.

You killed a child who was a part of the community who made me the man I am today. Martin may have grown up to be a BC High boy... and his family is well loved in the community which surrounds that school.

You tried to drive a city which gave me courage in the face of cancer into complete and utter fear. But you tried to do this to a city which knew how to make a 10 year old me unafraid.

Dear Dzhokhar, you may have crossed the threshold of the building in which I lived to compete in an athletic event, but we have never met, and you tried to Kill my family, a friend, my students, and destroy my community.

Dear Dzhokhar, you failed. Did you ever think that you would make it out? The US captured Bin Laden, and Saddam.. there was no chance you would escape. This is not the measure of your success, though.

Dear Dzhokhar, you failed because Boston was not bowed or afraid. You set off a bomb, and the city gave blood for victims. You escaped initial capture and the city opened its doors to strangers. You were at large and making more bombs, and we gathered in prayer at Garvey park and the Cathedral. You went on a rampage, and people stayed home in an orderly fashion and opened their homes to the police during the search. Dear Dzhokhar, you failed, because light cast out the darkness, and the man who knew that his boat just didn’t look right wasn’t afraid to call it in.

Dear Dzhokhar, for all of this, I can’t hate you..

Today I thought about the fact that you are only 19... you are just a kid. You must have been so afraid today. You were a victim like so many are victims, you were bought something you shouldn’t have been brought into because you likely didn’t and couldn’t know any better.

I am glad that you are going to prison, and I hope that you will have many long years there in supermax in Colorado. I hope that no one I love will ever be threatened by you again, but I can’t hate you.

I can’t hate you because whatever you brought into Boston was enough hate for a good long while, I won’t and can’t hate anymore.

I can’t hate you because I remember being 19, I thought many things were a good idea which weren’t. I never would have went where you were, but I was certainly not an adult at 19.

I can’t hate you because, even though you did unspeakable things... somehow you are still my brother and your death can never be my gain.

I can’t hate you, and not just because I am a Catholic, and a Christian, and because in a couple of months I will be a priest, I am a human and I simply can’t hate you.

Dear Dzhokhar, I still have hope for you.

The rest of your life will be in prison. I have seen men change their lives there. I hope that you won’t be executed, because I know that we can hold you, safely, for the rest of your life.

I can’t say what your story might be there... but I know that I, as a Christian, and you, as a Muslim, believe God to be merciful... so I can’t help but have hope for you...

Dear Dzhokhar, you’re a kid. I can’t hate you, or fear you. I am glad you are in custody, I am glad you can’t hurt anyone else or yourself anymore, but I can’t hate you.. and I WON’T fear you.

Dear Dzhokhar, I will pray for you. Next year, when my friend and my brother cross that finish line on Boylston, your brother’s cause will have lost for good. I will pray that you will know, somehow, the same kind of love that my brother, sister-in-law, mother, father, sister, friends, and students all have given me.

Dear Dzhokhar, I will pray for you. When the first pitch is thrown on Patriot's day at Fenway, I will pray that somehow you will know joy... the joy that makes us fully human and offers the possiblity of real repentance... the joy that Red Sox baseball fills me with every year.

Dear Dzhokhar, I will pray for you next year when the first shot is fired in the annual reenactment of the battle of Lexington in Concord, that you will come to know that PEACE and LOVE are the only ways in which world will ever be changed.

Dear Dzhokhar, I don’t and can’t hate you. I am glad you are in custody, but you are just a kid, and you lost. I will love and pray for you, because somehow your sin was turned for good, and my community and the people I love will only be stronger in the end.

Dear Dzhokhar, Godspeed.

 

[MustafaMc]

I guess this sort of supports what you've just posted.

Assalamu alaikum, what I posted was intended to raise the possibility for an alternative explanation to what is provided by the mainstream media. The one thing that is clear to me is that at least one of these stories and maybe both are intentional misinformation. Double alternatively, it could have been that there was actual intelligence that indicated a bomb threat and the Craft International personnel were there to catch the bad guys and prevent the bombing under cover of a supposed drill per the guy from Alabama. It is hard to know what and who to believe these days.

 

[IAmZamzam]

I'm not seeing what I think I'm seeing, am I? Are there people out there proposing...

It's all right, I actually knew it was coming beforehand. Because this always happens. It seems like pretty much every time there's a disaster which has a major emotional effect on the nation there's always some conspiracy theory about the government either being behind it or deliberately letting it take place. It happened with Pearl Harbor. It happened with JFK. It happened with 9/11. It happened with the recent school shooting. And now I guess it's happening with this. And it will happen again. And again. And again. And again. I'm willing to bet there was a small movement somewhere way back in 1865 insisting that Johnson secretly had Lincoln murdered and angrily denouncing all the stupid sheep who believed otherwise. It's so relieving to have a scapegoat--especially a scapegoat who deserves it anyway. Even when you're just angrily firing off rounds to let off some steam it's still so much more nerve-racking when you don't have a visible target in front of you.

 

[Mustafa2012]

I came across this open letter today. I don;t know how it will be received, but I will share it here anyway.

Dear Dzhokhar,

You don’t know me, but you tried to kill my family.

You couldn’t have known, but my brother ran bandit in the marathon and trained for months. My sister in law was an amazing and supportive wife as she always is and was ready to run the last 5 miles with him.. Your bomb was at the finish line that they were trying to cross.

My Mother, Father, and Sister, were waiting for them at the finish line. You didn’t know it, but my mother thinks that she saw you down there. My sister is only three years younger than you, and you set off a bomb in front of her.

You don’t know me, but you tried to kill some friends of mine.

One of my best and closest friends was working in the store in front of which you or your brother laid down a bomb. That bomb exploded, and gave her the worst day of her ilfe.

I was a high school teacher, your bomb wounded one of my most promising students with shrapnel.

Dear Dzhokhar, you tried to destroy a community that I left behind for Rome, but from which I draw so much of my strength and identity.

You killed a child who was a part of the community who made me the man I am today. Martin may have grown up to be a BC High boy... and his family is well loved in the community which surrounds that school.

You tried to drive a city which gave me courage in the face of cancer into complete and utter fear. But you tried to do this to a city which knew how to make a 10 year old me unafraid.

Dear Dzhokhar, you may have crossed the threshold of the building in which I lived to compete in an athletic event, but we have never met, and you tried to Kill my family, a friend, my students, and destroy my community.

Dear Dzhokhar, you failed. Did you ever think that you would make it out? The US captured Bin Laden, and Saddam.. there was no chance you would escape. This is not the measure of your success, though.

Dear Dzhokhar, you failed because Boston was not bowed or afraid. You set off a bomb, and the city gave blood for victims. You escaped initial capture and the city opened its doors to strangers. You were at large and making more bombs, and we gathered in prayer at Garvey park and the Cathedral. You went on a rampage, and people stayed home in an orderly fashion and opened their homes to the police during the search. Dear Dzhokhar, you failed, because light cast out the darkness, and the man who knew that his boat just didn’t look right wasn’t afraid to call it in.

Dear Dzhokhar, for all of this, I can’t hate you..

Today I thought about the fact that you are only 19... you are just a kid. You must have been so afraid today. You were a victim like so many are victims, you were bought something you shouldn’t have been brought into because you likely didn’t and couldn’t know any better.

I am glad that you are going to prison, and I hope that you will have many long years there in supermax in Colorado. I hope that no one I love will ever be threatened by you again, but I can’t hate you.

I can’t hate you because whatever you brought into Boston was enough hate for a good long while, I won’t and can’t hate anymore.

I can’t hate you because I remember being 19, I thought many things were a good idea which weren’t. I never would have went where you were, but I was certainly not an adult at 19.

I can’t hate you because, even though you did unspeakable things... somehow you are still my brother and your death can never be my gain.

I can’t hate you, and not just because I am a Catholic, and a Christian, and because in a couple of months I will be a priest, I am a human and I simply can’t hate you.

Dear Dzhokhar, I still have hope for you.

The rest of your life will be in prison. I have seen men change their lives there. I hope that you won’t be executed, because I know that we can hold you, safely, for the rest of your life.

I can’t say what your story might be there... but I know that I, as a Christian, and you, as a Muslim, believe God to be merciful... so I can’t help but have hope for you...

Dear Dzhokhar, you’re a kid. I can’t hate you, or fear you. I am glad you are in custody, I am glad you can’t hurt anyone else or yourself anymore, but I can’t hate you.. and I WON’T fear you.

Dear Dzhokhar, I will pray for you. Next year, when my friend and my brother cross that finish line on Boylston, your brother’s cause will have lost for good. I will pray that you will know, somehow, the same kind of love that my brother, sister-in-law, mother, father, sister, friends, and students all have given me.

Dear Dzhokhar, I will pray for you. When the first pitch is thrown on Patriot's day at Fenway, I will pray that somehow you will know joy... the joy that makes us fully human and offers the possiblity of real repentance... the joy that Red Sox baseball fills me with every year.

Dear Dzhokhar, I will pray for you next year when the first shot is fired in the annual reenactment of the battle of Lexington in Concord, that you will come to know that PEACE and LOVE are the only ways in which world will ever be changed.

Dear Dzhokhar, I don’t and can’t hate you. I am glad you are in custody, but you are just a kid, and you lost. I will love and pray for you, because somehow your sin was turned for good, and my community and the people I love will only be stronger in the end.

Dear Dzhokhar, Godspeed.

As a human being I feel great sympathy for the victims of the recent attack.

However just like this letter, there are a 1000 other letters that go un-noticed. 1000's of people just as deserving of media coverage if not more, like the case of innocent children who are not guilty of any crime, bombed because of the faith their parents practice.

If there's one thing the Western media are good at, it is that they are good at dramatising things when it comes to their own people but when non westerners are affected, the quality of coverage and attention is shifted to the opposite end of the scale.

I'll let you work out who those 1000's of people who go un-noticed are.

 

[جوري]

The letter is just crap frankly.. meant to do exactly the opposite of what it alleges.. but everything goes in said situations I guess!

 

[Mustafa2012]

Salam alaykum

I wonder what even means a muslim blood. Is it something different than for example a Christian blood, Jew blood or Hindu blood?

^o)

It's a figure of speech. Not literal.

It means Muslim lives seem to be less valued far less than the lives of followers of any other faith.

This is clearly evident by the amount of media coverage Muslim victims get in attacks similar to or much worse than the Boston attack.

 

[Mustafa2012]

The letter is just crap frankly.. meant to do exactly the opposite of what it alleges.. but everything goes in said situations I guess!

I wouldn't say it's crap.

The family if the victims have every right to voice their sadness and anger at their loss.

All I'd like to see is some more balance in the amount of media coverage that is given to victims of similar or worse attacks against people of other countries, especially those that the West and their Zionist partners have deliberately gone out of their way to carry out.

The War Against Terror is actually The War of Terror in that their claim of wanting to stop terrorism is actually a disguise to get international support to carry out terror.

 

[Independent]

This article raises some interesting questions regarding the possibility of Craft International (Blackwater-style) personnel on site

I don't think this is true, simply because Craft International do not seem to provide security staff for hire at all. It's not their job. Instead, they provide training for anyone who wants it. The service is popular with the US military and police amongst others. They get a free hat with the course and many continue to wear it afterwards.

Actually you don't even have to do the course to get the hat. You can order your own personal one right now off the Craft website:

http://co-store.com/craftgear

 

[Mustafa2012]

This article raises some interesting questions regarding the possibility of Craft International (Blackwater-style) personnel on site. This article is either mis-information or a slippage of truth that got through the mainstream approved media. If it was really Craft International personnel at the finish line, then why were they so dumb as to wear clothing that would obviously identify them as such?

"On April 17, Anthony Gucciardi headlined “Craft International Private Military Forces at Boston Marathon?”

Images showed two men “with earpieces and military-esque gear….(T)hey may likely be employees of the Blackwater-style private military/security firm Craft International.”

Their attire was later “revealed to be standard issue Craft International clothing.” The skull logo on one man’s cap identifies Craft.

Why were both men and others with them in Boston? Images show around 10 wearing similar attire. Nearly all had on black backpacks. They resembled those alleged to contain pressure cooker bombs.

Investigators said they contained explosives, nails and ball bearings. They detonated moments apart.

Four or more Craft operatives wore tan combat boots, tan BDUs (battle dress uniforms), black jackets, and had tactical communications gear. At least one had an “inspector radiation alert.” It’s used to detect dirty bomb or nuclear attack emissions.

Why were they near the marathon’s finish line? Perhaps their mission was a black ops. They’re experts in these type operations.

Why did FBI operatives join them? Images show them talking. An FBI truck was visible. Why were FBI agents searching for one bombing suspect before the incident took place?

These and related questions demand answers. Coverup and denial reflect official policy. Vital facts are suppressed. What’s most important isn’t reported.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/boston-black-ops-manufacturing-terror/5332223

It's good you posted this because people need to know what is really going on.

As far as conspiracy theories go, all options should be always be open until it is proven without a doubt that the criminals are actually responsible for the crimes attributed to them.

The Zionist Media are capable of creating highly convincing Hollywood style special effects in order to make the world believe what they want them to believe.

Westerners are made to believe that Muslims are the enemy but if they stopped watching and believing everything that's fed to them by the Zionist media and if they started reading books, they'd discover that we're nothing compared to what is going on in their own back yard.

It's your own governments that you need to be worried about.

If you really wanted to find out what's going, start reading books written by independent experts in every field of study and you'll discover that we're not the ones you should be worried about.

Here's something to get you started:

By Way of Deception - Ostrovsky

The Other Side of Deception- Ostrovsky

 

[جوري]

I wouldn't say it's crap.

To me it is a sensationalistic and generic piece of crap I doubt very much is written by someone who even lives in Boston let alone part of the race.. It would be interesting to see what China has to say, they did lose a Chinese national in this debacle. Meanwhile, America takes advantage to frame a few more Muslims domestically and drone a few internationally... who is gonna question them, they're so bereaved after all!

 

[Mustafa2012]

To me it is a sensationalistic and generic piece of crap I doubt very much is written by someone who even lives in Boston let alone part of the race.. It would be interesting to see what China has to say, they did lose a Chinese national in this debacle. Meanwhile, America takes advantage to frame a few more Muslims domestically and drone a few internationally... who is gonna question them, they're so bereaved after all!

One thing I've come to realise since 9/11 is how much control the media have over people's views, beliefs and actions.

For e.g. re: 9/11 most people took news they saw on TV as the truth as if it was reality.

However analysis of the event by independent experts in various fields showed that witness account from people on the ground who were actually in the building when it happened, told a different story.

They reported explosions that were happening in the basement of the building where no planes hit, well before the building collapsed etc.

There were contradictions in the times that building no. 11 (the one where everything was being controlled from) collapsed with one reported reporting it well before it actually collapsed.

Now think about this.

How do we know that what the media is releasing is actually the truth?

We don't!

Almost anything and everything could be fabricated.

It's the truth because they say it is.

The only way to really confirm what they are saying is to speak to the actual people involved. And since that is very difficult to do, most people will just believe what is fed to them.

It's much easier to do that than to think for ourselves.

 

[Independent]

One thing I've come to realise since 9/11 is how much control the media have over people's views, beliefs and actions.

Oh dear. We're about to fall into the bottomless pit which is 9/11. Mods, please save us!

 

[Mustafa2012]

Oh dear. We're about to fall into the bottomless pit which is 9/11. Mods, please save us!

It's ok. I was expecting you to show up on this thread at some stage.

Don't worry my posts are not intended specifically for you.

They are intended for free thinkers.

 

[Pygoscelis]

I agree that the media is incredibly powerful in shaping the views of the populace, especially in the US with outlets like Fox News.

Some people simply accept what they are told by the media and that is that.

Others will try to do a little looking around. I was one following 9/11 and that is how I found this forum, to dispell some of those myths created by the media. And I have come to make friends here and see a wide variety of Muslim viewpoints, both incredibly peaceful and cooperative on the one hand, and incredibly rude and hostile on the other, making it impossible for me to accept anything anybody says as if it applies to Muslims as a whole.

I agree. Don't trust the media. Do your own looking around.

 

[Independent]

They are intended for free thinkers.

Uh-oh...I can feel one of those nano-thermite conversations coming on...

 

[Mustafa2012]

Uh-oh...I can feel one of those nano-thermite conversations coming on...

I also had a feeling you'd say that so just for your information, I had no intention of turning this into a detailed discussion on 9/11. My previous post was just intended to highlight the power that the media has in shaping people's views.

Now you can stop worrying.

 

[Independent]

Now you can stop worrying

Ok. I'll relax, thanks

 

[MustafaMc]

I agree that the media is incredibly powerful in shaping the views of the populace, especially in the US with outlets like Fox News.
Some people simply accept what they are told by the media and that is that.

The media is now judge and jury with the accusation know being equated with guilt. The only thing lacking is a Navy Seal team, drone or police dragnet to carry out the execution.

 

[LauraS]

Free thinking or just following any conspiracy theory that tells a story that's more palatable than the official story?

Don't you ever sometimes wonder if things just are what they look like? Sometimes people do terrible things, they go into schools and shoot children- it's happened more than once- people make their own bombs and set them off because of their own personal issues with society. Not everything has the government behind it. And before you accuse me of "blindly following western media blah blah blah" I'm just point out that people do bad things and whether you like it or not conspiracies are sometimes just nonsense. Are these two innocent? Who knows, but there's a clear bias from some people on this board- they must be innocent! But why? You don't know them. An article was posted saying their mother thought they were innocent and another was talking about comments they had previously made about becoming dissatisfied with American society. They were seen placing the bags down where the bombs went off. Also how exactly are they meant to have been set up? Did the American government plant bombs and just hope a person with foreign origins would appear nearby so they could blame them?

Also once again, can't people allow this thread be for the Boston bombings and post a thread for bombings in the Middle East? I read complaints that no one is discussing recent attacks, well why not start a thread yourself?

P.S. If I had a pound for every time I read the word Zionist on this forum....