Set up or frame up?

DIE HARD III

Herman Tiu Laurel

4/22/2013

Daily Tribune

The arrest of the alleged second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing ushered in a celebratory bonanza for the US mainstream media (MSM). "We got him," they trumpeted; "Prayers and jubilation," one headline declared with pictures of crowds massing in apparent thanksgiving. Like the aftermath of the alleged killing of Osama bin Laden where motorcades that were launched to celebrate this were emblazoned in US media, the Philippine MSM apishly follows it with headlines such as "Terror is over," as if it was a terror event in the Philippines.

While the spotlights were super bright on the police chase and as stolen snapshots of the arrested 19-year-old second suspect appeared in front pages, shadows cast on the protagonists' backgrounds raise many questions.
The US alternative media have focused on many telltale signs of a possible "false flag" operation. The Web definition of false flag is "a terrorist act committed by one group for the express purpose of discrediting another group, which is framed for it."
The US MSM are already dragging along the uncritical and unquestioning among their media audiences to conclude that the Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were actually the culprits in last week's bombing.

But what the MSM and government spokesmen are not raising questions about — which is the focus of the alternative media — is that recorded closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage depicted the presence of private security contractors on the scene dressed similarly and carrying similar black backpacks as the Tsarnaevs.
One CCTV snapshot shows two of the private security contractors standing around 12 feet away from where the "pressure cooker" bomb exploded and were seen leaving just before the bomb went off (see more of the story and pictures at globalresearch.org). Yet, there is no CCTV video or screenshot of the Tsarnaev brothers close to the blast. Are US authorities still in the process of "producing" them?

Meanwhile, the private security (or mercenary) contractor identified by alternative media by the company logo on some of the operatives, which looked like the Phantom comic hero skull logo, is Craft International, owned by bemedalled American hero and top SEAL sniper (with a 160 kills), Chris Kyle, who was also killed by a former fellow Marine. Well, problem solved, as Craft's motto "Violence does solve problems" says.
The moment I saw pictures of the Tsarnaev brothers on TV as the bombing suspects, I immediately wondered why they would walk around without disguises if they were planning to plant a bomb in the areas well known to be covered by CCTV.

Later, TV audiences were told of an arrest and a picture was shown apparently of the older Tsarnaev face down, legs crossed, and hands up in the air as police are known to instruct suspects to do; but not long after, it was announced that the older Tsarnaev brother was dead. Gory pictures of the dead Tamerlan Tsarnaev are now on the Internet, with a huge gash on his side, which some accounts say is from being run over by a vehicle.
Then there was the killing of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police officer, the circumstances around which are still unclear up to this time — which is also the case with the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the boat.

The Boston operations of the police are now expectedly being lionized as "heroic," but the lockdown of 400,000 people for several days for the marathon manhunt of one suspect who ends up being arrested on the tip of a private citizen, and not the sledgehammer or shotgun approach, does not sound to me like an efficient, effective, and highly skilled police force.
The massive use of heavy mobile equipment, helicopters, and countless screaming and flashing police cars looked more like a movie production than a police operation.

Maybe the actual intent, as theorized by millions Tweeting on the Internet, is "mind conditioning" for all the legislation and budget sought for the various security, intelligence, and military "War on Terror" apparatuses of the US government, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) abetting terror plots to fuel this.
As James Corbett (of Corbett Reports' "How the FBI Fosters, Funds and Equips American Terrorists") said, "After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals … (Yet) the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and equipped by one organization: The FBI."

Of course, by now our studious readers should know — with the proper research — that the Tsarnaev brothers were already in the FBI's radar years ago, with the mother and an aunt saying that the brothers were "handled" by the FBI for years.

So, were they patsies, set up, framed, then murdered; or were they maimed physically and psychologically to do the bidding of those who would have many uses for "terror stories"? Just asking.

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