Anthony Thorne Wrote:Commentary from Rowan Berkely at his Niqnaq blog. (Nothing overly new at the link provided but it's the source of his commentary above a reprinted news story, which itself is of value).

I think that with typical FBI psychology they have wrongly focused on the young white guy with the back-to-front baseball cap from the Marathon photos, and gone off after two insignificant white petty criminals. Having gone that far, they might well plant some amateur bomb stuff in their homes and frame them for the bombings, which I think were carried out in an amateur-looking way by professionals RB

http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/i-think-all-these-two-unfortunate-culprits-did-was-stick-up-a-7-11/


Plus some useful (if brief) commentary and photos from the aangirfan blog -


http://aangirfan.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/boston-patsies.html

Peter Lemkin Wrote:These 'two' held up a convenience store - and told the man inside they were the bombers....that doesn't sound likely nor believable to me. I smell a false flag something. MSM are saying the two are Chechen brothers. That makes little sense....it might if they were attacking in Moscow...but in Boston?!...give me a break! Of course Chechens are mainly Muslim and wouldn't that just wonderfully play into the current fad of Islamophobia!

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Interview With Boston Marathon Eyewitness Confirms Bomb Squad Drill

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by Anthony Gucciardi
April 16th, 2013
Updated 04/16/2013 at 10:31 pm


Read more: http://www.storyleak.com/boston-marathon-eyewitness-confirms-drill/#ixzz2QuOjPXKU

In an exclusive interview, I just finished speaking with key Boston Marathon eyewitness and running participant Alastair Stevenson, who has confirmed to me that drills were taking place the morning of the Boston Marathon complete with bomb squads and rooftop snipers.


Alastair's initial statements towards the Alabama news publication regarding the Boston Marathon training exercises ignited a firestorm within the alternative media, despite being only around two sentences in length. Now, Alastair has been given a forum to voice the entirety of what he saw as a participant and coach during the Boston Marathon something that Alastair says he has never seen before despite participating in much larger races around the world.


As you can watch in the video above, Alastair detailed what went on before the race began:


"At the start at the event, at the Athlete's Village, there were people on the roof looking down onto the Village at the start. There were dogs with their handlers going around sniffing for explosives, and we were told on a loud announcement that we shouldn't be concerned and that it was just a drill. And maybe it was just a drill, but I've never seen anything like that not at any marathon that I've ever been to. You know, that just concerned me that that's the only race that I've seen in my life where they had dogs sniffing for explosions, and that's the only place where there had been explosions."


And Alastair is speaking from serious experience. As a veteran of marathons and a coach at the University of Mobile in Alabama, Alastair knows about how marathons traditionally go down.


The interview with Alastair clarifies his former statements regarding the presence of bomb squads and bomb sniffing dogs that went mega viral on the web, and also serves to better understand what the reality is behind this situation. As Alastair details, there was definitely a drill taking place the morning of the marathon, and it appears police were likely aware of a dangerous threat that required a large degree of action to counteract.

David Guyatt Wrote:I really think we need to revisit the topic of an exercise/drill involving private military contractors. From the way officials immediately shouted "it's a drill" when the first bomb exploded, it seems evident that this exercise involved a bomb, possibly a dirty bomb judged by the radiation detector shown in previous posts.

As we know, both 911 and London 7/7 had similar security exercises ongoing that the events actually replicated.

In the London 7/7 the exercise even had the same target tube stations etc. Photos of Met police officers from SO19 (at least one anyway) toting a Heckler & Kock non-fasctory standard assault rifle were discussed at one H & K forum I visited. The conclusion was that the police officer was almost certainly SAS dressed as SO19. Much later all those pictures had disappeared.

None of this can simply be put down to coincidence. It is something more than that. Were the exercises a cover for the real thing or did the perpetrators have inside knowledge and piggyback the exercises?

What is quite clear from the below report is that exercises of this type are very unusual at large marathon events.

I entirely understand Pete's concerns about this.

Peter Lemkin Wrote:These 'two' held up a convenience store - and told the man inside they were the bombers....that doesn't sound likely nor believable to me. I smell a false flag something. MSM are saying the two are Chechen brothers who have been living in the USA for about two years. That makes little sense....it might if they were attacking in Moscow or Russia...but in Boston?!...give me a break! Of course Chechens are mainly Muslim - and wouldn't that just wonderfully play into the current fad of Islamophobia!

Quote:BOSTON -- The city and parts of its suburbs were locked down Friday as the manhunt intensified for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, hours after the other suspect was killed in a dramatic firefight with police in nearby Watertown, authorities said.The fugitive is Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, the brother of the 20-year-old dead suspect who was not immediately identified, law enforcement authorities told USA TODAY. Both suspects have been in the U.S. for about a year, living as legal U.S. residents in Cambridge, and authorities are reviewing their possible ties to Chechnya -- an area of Russia plagued by Islamic insurgency, -- said the official who is not authorized to comment publicly.
The surviving suspect is believed to be the same suspect who dropped a backpack laden with explosives at the site of the second explosion.
Massachusetts shut down all mass transit, including buses and trains, in Boston and surrounding suburbs, Kurt Schwartz, director of Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said. Schools were closed and classes canceled at most universities.
Colonel Timothy Alben, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police said the first suspect from Monday's bombing was shot by police in a gunfight following a pursuit that began Thursday night in Cambridge and ended a short time later in Watertown. He said that suspect died at a hospital.
Schwartz asked all businesses in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Alston and Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to remain closed and al residents of those area to remain indoors until the bombing suspect is caught. Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau said his town would be closed to traffic.
"This situation is grave," Massachusetts State Police Superintendent Timothy Alben said. "We are here to protect public safety."

David Guyatt Wrote:I really think we need to revisit the topic of an exercise/drill involving private military contractors. From the way officials immediately shouted "it's a drill" when the first bomb exploded, it seems evident that this exercise involved a bomb, possibly a dirty bomb judged by the radiation detector shown in previous posts.

As we know, both 911 and London 7/7 had similar security exercises ongoing that the events actually replicated.

In the London 7/7 the exercise even had the same target tube stations etc. Photos of Met police officers from SO19 (at least one anyway) toting a Heckler & Kock non-fasctory standard assault rifle were discussed at one H & K forum I visited. The conclusion was that the police officer was almost certainly SAS dressed as SO19. Much later all those pictures had disappeared.

None of this can simply be put down to coincidence. It is something more than that. Were the exercises a cover for the real thing or did the perpetrators have inside knowledge and piggyback the exercises?

What is quite clear from the below report is that exercises of this type are very unusual at large marathon events.

I entirely understand Pete's concerns about this.

Quote:[URL="http://www.storyleak.com/boston-marathon-eyewitness-confirms-drill/"]

Interview With Boston Marathon Eyewitness Confirms Bomb Squad Drill

[/URL]

by Anthony Gucciardi
April 16th, 2013
Updated 04/16/2013 at 10:31 pm


Read more: http://www.storyleak.com/boston-marathon-eyewitness-confirms-drill/#ixzz2QuOjPXKU

In an exclusive interview, I just finished speaking with key Boston Marathon eyewitness and running participant Alastair Stevenson, who has confirmed to me that drills were taking place the morning of the Boston Marathon complete with bomb squads and rooftop snipers.


Alastair's initial statements towards the Alabama news publication regarding the Boston Marathon training exercises ignited a firestorm within the alternative media, despite being only around two sentences in length. Now, Alastair has been given a forum to voice the entirety of what he saw as a participant and coach during the Boston Marathon something that Alastair says he has never seen before despite participating in much larger races around the world.


As you can watch in the video above, Alastair detailed what went on before the race began:


"At the start at the event, at the Athlete's Village, there were people on the roof looking down onto the Village at the start. There were dogs with their handlers going around sniffing for explosives, and we were told on a loud announcement that we shouldn't be concerned and that it was just a drill. And maybe it was just a drill, but I've never seen anything like that not at any marathon that I've ever been to. You know, that just concerned me that that's the only race that I've seen in my life where they had dogs sniffing for explosions, and that's the only place where there had been explosions."


And Alastair is speaking from serious experience. As a veteran of marathons and a coach at the University of Mobile in Alabama, Alastair knows about how marathons traditionally go down.


The interview with Alastair clarifies his former statements regarding the presence of bomb squads and bomb sniffing dogs that went mega viral on the web, and also serves to better understand what the reality is behind this situation. As Alastair details, there was definitely a drill taking place the morning of the marathon, and it appears police were likely aware of a dangerous threat that required a large degree of action to counteract.