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Boston Marathon Bombers Framed: FBI, DHS Prime Suspects
A final charge, for obstruction of Globe, which lets readers read five articles
justice, was handed out on May 30, per month before demanding money. How
2014 to Khairullozhon Matanov for did the Boston Globe know beforehand
clearing his Internet browsing history. what was going to happen if it was an
act of terror committed by the Tsarnaev
There Was a Drill? brothers?
After the explosions, the stretch D
near the finish line was enveloped in The day of the bombings, the FBI held its E
confusion. Boston PD immediately first press conference. It ended abruptly C
began responding to the scene but a after reporter Dan Bidondi inquired about E
the drill that witnesses described but was
few minutes later, the policemen were never reported by mainstream media. P
ordered [0:31] to stay off their radios, T
making what runners reported during Why would a terrorist, whose goal is by I
the Marathon even more mysterious. definition to inflict terror, choose to bomb, O
Unbeknown to most, speakers at of all places, a bomb squad drill? How N
probable is it that a drill run on Patriot’s
the event boomed that a “training Day featuring “right wing” terrorists
exercise” was taking place and asked
runners to not be alarmed. Before with backpack bombs would happen at
and during the race, rooftop snipers the same time and place as an authentic
and bomb sniffing dogs were rife, Muslim extremist attack featuring
backpack bombs?
even around the finish line, which is
unusual for any marathon. One of the 4Chan.org and Free Internet Showed
observers, Alastair Stevenson gave a What Really Happened First
full -length interview about the scene.
Corroborating his claims, the words The Boston Marathon bombings happened
“This is a drill, this is a drill” seem to in areas heavily surveilled by local
have been recorded [0:44] by a citizen
journalist just before the blasts. businesses. Much of the footage taken was
Before the explosions, the Boston uploaded to file sharing website 4chan.
Globe tweeted: “There will be a org. From there, images and videos of
what really happened went viral. Two
controlled explosion opposite the suspects seen possibly planting backpacks
library within one minute as part of
bomb squad activities.” There is thus no were soon written about by the New York
room for arguing against the fact that Post, which established that the men were
the blast was anticipated by the Boston already being investigated by Boston PD.
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