by James Petras / April 30th, 2013
The relation between the suspected Boston Marathon bombers and
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Massachusetts State
Police (MSP) and the Boston Police (BP) is a point of contention and
controversy.
The FBI, at first, claimed no knowledge of the bombing
suspects but later was forced to admit having received at least two sets
of intelligence reports, one from Russian officials and another from
the CIA, identifying one of the suspected bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as
a potential security threat linked to a Chechen terrorist organization.
Testimony from Tsarnaev’s mother and father indicates that the FBI was
active in following, harassing and interrogating the suspect before the
bombing. Despite general directives from the US Departments of Justice
and Homeland Security mandating US security to aggressively pursue
‘Islamist terrorists’, the FBI claims to have made no effort to
follow-up on the Russian and CIA security alerts, especially after
Tamerlan Tsarnaev returned from Russian state of Dagestan last year
where he allegedly met six times with a known Chechen terrorist,
Gadzhimurad Dolgatov, in a fundamentalist Salafi mosque.
The official government and corporate media versions
claim the FBI may have ‘over-looked’ the security risk posed by
Tsarnaev. Congressional critics argue that the FBI was ‘negligent’ in
following up leads provided by the Russians and the CIA. A more likely
explanation is that the FBI was actively engaged with Tsarnaev and
deliberately encouraged the conspiracy for self-serving purposes.
The most benign hypothesis is that the FBI was using
Tsarnaev as a means of infiltrating and securing intelligence on other
possible ‘terrorists’. A more plausible hypothesis is that the Boston
office of the FBI had set the pair of brothers up for a sting operation
in order to enhance their anti-terrorist credentials – and that the
‘operation’ got out of hand – with Tamarlan having his own agenda. The
most likely hypothesis is that the FBI facilitated the bombing in order
to revive the flagging fortunes of the ‘war on terror’ foisted on a
war-weary and economically depressed American public.
The FBI in Boston has a long and notorious history of
working with and protecting certain leaders of organized crime in return
for information about targeted rivals: The most notorious example is
the FBI’s 20-year ‘partnership’ with one of Boston’s most feared
gangland killers, James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, where the mobster was provided
with protection and collaboration in return for his information about a
rival crime family and other competitors. In 2012, Bulger was finally
indicted for 19 murders mostly committed under FBI ‘protection’ –
although one of his closest mob-partners claims he murdered 40 people in
his lifetime.
The Boston Bombings served as a detonator to mobilize the
entire US security apparatus; it has led to the suspension of
constitutional guaranties. It has been accompanied by an intense mass
media campaign glorifying police state operations and the imposition of
virtual martial law in the Boston metropolitan area of over 4.5 million
inhabitants. The military police operation and media campaign aroused
fear and terror among the public. Instant psychodrama produced mass
worship of the ‘heroic’ police: they were portrayed as having saved the
public from unknown numbers of armed terrorists lurking in their
neighborhoods. The police, the FBI and the entire Security Apparatus –
were repeatedly ‘honored’ at public spectacles, sports and civic events,
lauded as ‘guardians’ and ‘saviors’. The sordid role of FBI in
organizing entrapment operations was never mentioned. The hundreds of
billions wasted in futile overseas ‘wars against terror’ went down the
memory hole. The opposition to Washington’s cuts in social programs was
diverted almost overnight to support new funding for US military
intervention in Syria and North Korea, a greater arms build-up in Israel
and domestic security.
The Boston Bombings coincided with the White House
dictating a new round of domestic police state measures and launching a
series of aggressive military moves in Asia, the Middle East and Latin
America. The Pentagon has organized its biggest and most threatening
air, sea and land military exercises right on the borders of North
Korea. The White House has encouraged and promoted Japan’s belligerent
military posture toward China regarding disputed islands in the South
China Sea. Secretary of State Kerry has increased military aid to the
Syrian terrorists by at least $130 million and dispatched hundreds of
Special Forces to Jordan to train the jihadi-mercenaries against the
Syrian government.
The White House concocted charges that Damascus
deployed chemical weapons against the rebels to justify direct US
military intervention in Syria. Closer to home, the White House has
given unconditional support to the violent Venezuelan opposition’s
post-election campaign designed to provoke a civil war– while refusing
to recognize the internationally certified election victory of President
Maduro.
It is very clear the Obama regime wants to turn the clock
back a decade to recreate the terrible political climate of 2001-02.
He seeks to fabricate a sense of an imminent terrorist threat based on
the ‘Boston Bombings’ in order to re-launch another global military
campaign. Instead of Iraq – the ‘threat’ is now Syria, Iran and
Lebanon. Today, the threat is North Korea – tomorrow it could be China.
Today, it is Venezuela – next it could be Argentina, Bolivia and
Ecuador, and the entire edifice of Latin American regional integration.
The civilian casualties and deaths resulting from the
Boston Bombings, linked to the US backing and sheltering of Chechen
terrorists, are a small price for Washington to pay if it results in
escalating global wars and greater impunity for the National Police
State.
Re-launching a new and more virulent version of
militarized global empire building is of the highest priority. The
targeted countries have global significance: Venezuela and Iran are oil
producing giants, the backbone of OPEC and adversaries of Israel.
China is the second biggest economy in the world and the principle
challenger to US economic dominance. Cowering and confusing millions of
downwardly mobile Americans
weakens the principle domestic obstacle to bigger and more comprehensive cuts in social programs in order to finance global wars.
Indeed, the Boston Bombings have larger political and
economic consequences; they set the stage for a new round of wars abroad
and regressive (and repressive) changes at home.
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