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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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