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It now appears that the authorities along with a complicit mainstream media might be shading the truth about the Boston Marathon Bombers …

The Daily Mail reported shortly after the identities of the Boston jihad bombings were revealed that dead jihadist Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s “only American friend” had his ‘throat slit’ in an unsolved murder in 2011.”  It struck me as odd, especially when the media said Tsarnaev was “changed” after the murders. I was stunned shortly afterward to learn that the boy who had his throat cut was Jewish. Worse still, there were two more victims with their throats slit.

This unsolved triple murder was of three young Jewish men (two devout). It was originally reported that the murders took place on Sept. 12, 2011, but that too was wrong. The bodies were found on the 12^th, but these Jewish boys were murdered on Sept. 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of jihadi attack on American soil that killed 3,000 people. When I first heard that the older jihad bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was one of the victims’ best friends, it sickened me. The media called one of these Jewish victims the “bomber’s only American friend.” Read more at Boston Bombers Linked To Triple Murder Of Jews : Freedom Outpost

Jihadists under the radar in America …

It now appears that America has a new worry … jihadists active in America. The way the story was originally spun was that the elder bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, might have been mad that his younger brother was smoking a lot of marijuana and that he may have killed to keep his brother off drugs. No mention of 9/11 or of any ritual killing.

Bottom line …

Whether or not Muslims are moderate or not does not seem to be the question. It is a matter of how their religion remains unreformed and how it is being taught. It is now time to outlaw the Whabbist religion as a dangerous deviant cult that seeks to subvert the United States from within – and stop the flow of funds to and from Whabbists. For those of you jumping up-and-down yelling about the Constitution and the freedom of religion, may I remind you that the Constitution is not a suicide pact – granting special powers to those who might commit evil acts. Nor, does one find succor in “innocent before proven guilty” as the first law of nature, survival, is a principle that stands above any man-made law. There should be no law saying that you should provide your enemy with the first attempt at your life, and then treat it as a criminal matter after you are dead.

– steve

I do not know how to process this article …

Boston Is Not 9/11 Redux for America’s Muslims — After 9/11, America directed its anger toward Muslims—and then tried to remake the greater Middle East. Eleven years later, let’s try not to make the same mistake, writes Peter Beinart.

At times last week, it felt like the days after 9/11: the endless TV coverage, the heroic first responders, the ghastly images, the interfaith prayer services. But something was missing. It took me a few days to realize it: this time, America isn’t going to remake the Muslim world.

The big debate post-Boston is whether the United States will treat its Muslim immigrants more like potential terrorists or more like potential Americans. After 9/11, many Americans vowed to help Muslims strengthen democracy in the greater Middle East. Now the key question is whether our treatment of Muslims will strengthen democracy in the United States.  Source: Boston Is Not 9/11 Redux for America’s Muslims – The Daily Beast

What’s the problem?

“The big debate post-Boston is whether the United States will treat its Muslim immigrants more like potential terrorists or more like potential Americans.” How politically correct! Let’s review, Muslims represent a clear and present danger to all modern and civilized nations – the one’s that do not have a theocracy or accept Sharia law. This is written in their holy book and is not an optional tenet of the faith. You are commanded as a Muslim to wage jihad … to spread Islam at the point of a sword, to kill or enslave all infidels (unbelievers).

There is a logic error at play – an error of perception and judgement that does not seem to be important to the liberal media. For these people, they are Muslim first, with obedience to their faith as evidenced in the participation in Mosque activities, and potential Americans second. And, there religion commands them to do certain things, prohibits other things, and leaves other things to individual interpretation. What is commanded and not open to interpretation is the commandment to serve Allah, spread his word, and kill or enslave the infidels. And, until the religion is reformed , there will be no change. The sad fact is that accepting Muslims into your life is to invite trouble. Check out the terrorist activities around the world – predominantly Muslims demanding their own lands, theocracies or Sharia law.

Murder is acceptable …

Quran 5:33 – “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.”

The Quran even distinguishes between the rewards available in paradise for those who sit idly by and those who wage jihad.

Quran 4:95 –“Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home).

The day before the Marathon Massacre, the New York Times had scored plaudits for running an op-ed by one of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguards complaining about his hard life in Guantanamo Bay.

On April 14th, the paper of broken record paid 150 bucks to an Al Qaeda member for the opportunity to complain about being force fed during his hunger strike. On April 15th the bombs went off.

The attacks of September 11 introduced a dividing line between awareness and disregard. There was the world of September 10 and the world of September 11. In one world the planes passing in the sky were a minor reminder of our technological prowess. In the other, we were at war.

There was no such clear dividing line when September 11 faded from memory and we returned to a September 10 world. Nor is there an exact date for when we will return to an April 14 world in which it is okay to pay a terrorist in exchange for his propaganda. But if the media has its way, that day can’t come soon enough.

A day after the bombings, the New York Times wrote that a decade without terror had come to an end. But the terror had never stopped or paused. The FBI and local law enforcement had gone on breaking up numerous terror plots to the skepticism and ridicule of the media which accused them of violating Muslim civil rights and manufacturing threats.

Some of those plots seemed laughable. A man setting up a car bomb near a Broadway theater where crowds waiting to see The Lion King musical, kids in tow, were lining up. A plot to detonate bombs in the Grand Central and the Times Square subway stations. Underwear bombers. Shoe bombers. It became fashionable to laugh at them. Silly crazies trying to kill people in ridiculous ways. Almost as silly as trying to hijack planes while armed only with box cutters and then ramming those planes into buildings.

Liberal urbanites stopped breathing sighs of relief every time a terror plot was broken up and turned on law enforcement. There were suspicions that these were just setups. Representatives of Muslim groups complained that law enforcement was taking confused kids and tricking them into terrorist plots that they never could have carried out on their own.

But there was only one way to find out.

Last year the Associated Press won a Pulitzer for its attack on the NYPD’s mosque surveillance program. But that was the April 14 mindset. Now after April 15, the police are once again heroes and any editorials from imprisoned terrorists complaining about the lack of new Harry Potter novels at Gitmo have temporarily been placed on hold. But the police know better than anyone that it will not take very long for them to go from the heroes to the villains. The period of consciousness after April 15 will be much shorter than after September 11.

The long spring in which Americans didn’t have to turn on the news and see bloody body parts everywhere was made possible by the dedicated work of the very people the media spent a decade undermining.

A top U.S. spy in a report on Monday claimed that the sequestration will eventually lead to the same conditions that existed during the Clinton Administration when, in order to balance the budget without touching politically-protected entitlements, U.S. military branches and intelligence agencies were significantly reduced.

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, warned reporters that federal budget cuts that are blamed on the sequestration will harm U.S. national security that won’t be noticed until an attack occurs.

Furloughs for intelligence personnel are being pondered, but so far appear to be an action to be taken as a last resort, say intelligence experts such as Mike Snopes.

“We’re cutting real capability and accepting greater risk,” Clapper told reporters in his office. “For intelligence, this is not quite like shorter hours for public parks or longer lines at the airports. For intelligence, it’s insidious. The capability we cut out today you won’t know about that, you won’t notice it,” he said. “The public won’t notice it. You’ll notice it only when we have a failure.”

Clapper said he could give no details on how America’s intelligence capabilities will be cut. “I’ve seen this movie before,” he said, referring to intelligence cuts in the 1990s when he ran the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Clapper admitted that the Clinton administration drastically cut human intelligence resources such as closing overseas Central Intelligence Agency bureaus and stations. The basically plan of action was to rely more on technology such as satellites, cyber surveillance and other advanced technology.

“We cut human intelligence, we let our overhead reconnaissance architecture atrophy. We neglected the basics like power space and cooling … and most painfully we allowed the workforce to be distorted,” said Clapper.

Then came the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and intelligence budgets grew. But now, “we’re in another cut cycle,” he said.

Clapper emphasized the importance of maintaining an intelligence workforce that is an important part of homeland security.

“It is a uniform conviction across the leadership of the intelligence community that the most important resource we have is our people,” Clapper said. “So I’m going to try to do all I can, all of us are, to protect our people. If we have to furlough, then minimize the damage and the impact of doing that. All that hasn’t been worked out.”

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World Trade Center 7 collapsed into its own footprint.

A British 9/11 truther is claiming victory following a court ruling that said he did not have to pay a fine over his refusal to pay his annual £130 TV license fee.

Tony Rooke claimed the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks when it reported that World Trade Center 7 collapsed “due to an office fire, which, even the NIST report says, fell at free-fall speed for eight floors in 2.5 seconds. That is absolutely impossible without a controlled demolition being involved.” The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the U.S. government agency charged with investigating collapses.

In an act of civil disobedience, Rooke refused to support the BBC and pay the license fee because he believed the BBC has covered up the events of that day. To pay the license fee, he said, would be tantamount to supporting the terrorists responsible for the controlled demolition. He also argued that supporting terrorists would violate the UK’s Terrorism Act, which states: “It is an offence for someone to invite another to provide money, intending that it should be used, or having reasonable cause to suspect that it may be used, for terrorism purposes.”

Rooke was charged with not paying the license fee. Prior to his hearing, Rooke provided the court with evidence that both WTC towers and WTC 7 were destroyed by controlled demolition rather than by the airliner impacts and subsequent fires. The judge gave Rooke an unconditional discharge, which in British legal parlance means he was convicted but he does not suffer the consequences of a conviction and the conviction will be erased if he is not brought before the court for six months. He was not required to pay the fee and non-payment fine but had to pay court costs of £200.

Peter Drew, an AE911Truth UK action group facilitator, told Digital Journal he is organizing a campaign against the BBC because its royal charter requires it to present evidence that is impartial and accurate. Drew claims the BBC ignored reports from investigators who in 2008 claimed WTC 7 did indeed fall at freefall speed.

“Today was an historic day for the 9/11 truth movement,” Drew told Digital Journal, “with over 100 members of the public attending, including numerous journalists from around the UK as well as from across other parts of Europe.”

The BBC first reported the collapse of WTC 7 about 20 minutes before it occurred. The “official line” from the U.S. government is the building fell due to fire damage. But it collapsed into its own footprint and was the first steel-reinforced high-rise to ever collapse due to an uncontrolled fire. Explosions were heard and reported prior to the collapse.

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The Department of Homeland Security has decided to give “trusted traveler” status to Saudi Arabian travelers. That’s right, the country that we’re told produced 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers can have its citizens coming to the United States pass fast-tracked through customs without hassle, while the Transportation Security Administration perverts and criminals fondle and/or irradiate U.S. travelers and their infants and children — even those who are wheelchair-bound — and wounded U.S. warriors.

It’s an announcement made “under the radar,” sort of like on 9/11 when four off-course hijacked airliners meandered in U.S. skies while North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) failed to take notice. And it exposes the DHS and the TSA as the frauds they are.

Folks, the 9/11 attack did not happen as you’re told. See here and here. The bombers — like the Christmas Day underwear bomber — were part of a conspiracy all right: one designed to expand the U.S. war and security state and clamp down on American liberties to the benefit of the elite.

Fifteeen Saudi “student” travelers supposedly evaded the world’s greatest and most expansive (and expensive) intelligence apparatus to pull off 9/11. Now, travelers from that same country are going to be given special status that U.S. travelers and travelers from friendly countries — outside of Canada, Mexico, South Korea and the Netherlands — don’t get?

The TSA has yet to locate and arrest an al-Qaida hijacker trying to sneak through airports. It can’t even locate and stop people trying to get caught smuggling something through TSA screening in tests.

In making the announcement about the program, DHS Secretary Janet “Big Sis” Napolitano, the totalitarian, said there was a special “bond between the United States and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” What she didn’t say is that bond was formed after the 1973 oil embargo. It’s a petrodollar bond.

As John Perkins writes in The Secret History of American Empire, establishing an ”oil standard” dollar to replace the  former gold standard and ensure that OPEC would funnel billions of U.S. dollars spend on oil back to U.S. companies required Saudi Arabia:

[B]ecause it possessed more oil than any other country, it controlled OPEC; the Saudi “royal” family was corrupt and highly vulnerable. Like other “kings” in the Middle East, the Sauds understood the politics of colonialism. Royalty had been bestowed on the House of Saud by the British… [One of the agreements made with the Saudis that went unreported] Saudi Arabia committed to trading oil exclusively in U.S. dollars. With the scratch of a pen, the dollar’s sovereignty was reestablished. Oil replaced gold as the measure of a currency’s value.

Dumb and Dangerous: America’s Fast Pass for Saudi Arabia
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2013

It’s business as usual in the post-9/11 world. Your federal government is back to pandering to wealthy travelers from Saudi Arabia. In the eyes of our massive homeland security apparatus, the comfort of Saudis is a higher priority than the safety of American citizens.

And thanks to reckless, feckless bureaucrats who fear being labeled “racists,” “xenophobes” and “Islamophobes,” political correctness remains the handmaiden of terror.

According to a new report released this week by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security plans to bestow “trusted traveler” status to travelers from Saudi Arabia. Yes, the home of 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers will soon enjoy the exclusive privilege of new entry shortcuts into the U.S.

Fox News points out: “Only an exclusive handful of countries enjoy inclusion in the Global Entry program: Canada, Mexico, South Korea and the Netherlands. According to the IPT, some officials are questioning why Saudi Arabia gets to reap the benefits of the program, when key U.S. allies like Germany and France are not enrolled.”

Saudi suck-up Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Security, hailed “the bond between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” and pledged to work with the government to facilitate “legitimate trade and travel.”

This foolish move is astonishing but not unprecedented. As I noted in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration had created its own fast-pass system for Saudi elites called “Visa Express.” Thanks to this GOP idiocy, three of the 9/11 hijackers skipped the usual consular interview process and bypassed long lines in the hot Saudi sun.

Throughout the jihadist-coddling Saudi kingdom, applicants could simply file their visa paperwork through travel agencies and courier companies for a small fee — without having to appear in person or submit to extensive background checks. The U.S. embassy in Riyadh bragged before 9/11: “Applicants will no longer have to take time off from work, no longer have to wait in long lines under the hot sun and in crowded waiting rooms, and no longer be limited by any time constraints.”

Investigative reporter Joel Mowbray obtained the shocking, shoddy applications filed by the hijackers — whose omissions about where, when and what they planned to do when they arrived in the U.S. should have raised blood-red flags. But after the Saudi-dominated 9/11 jihad crew murdered nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and children on our soil, Bush administration officials bent over backward to assure touchy Saudis that no changes would be made “in determining visa eligibility as a result of the (9/11) attacks.” Visa Express was expanded.

Moreover, State Department employees were banned from communicating with foreign governments about their citizens’ visa applications, making it virtually impossible to verify vital information. The Bush State Department official in charge of implementing the “Visa Express” program that helped enable 9/11 hijackers and their colleagues was not punished.

Yes, it’s really been two decades since the first World Trade Center bombing.

We always hear “Never forget.” But how many still remember anymore? And how many have really learned?

The jihadi truck bomb exploded at 12:18pm, Feb. 26, 1993:

Four of the six people killed in the attack worked for the World Trade Center’s owner, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Most of the victims were having lunch in their basement office, adjacent to the parking garage where terrorists parked their explosives-laden van.

Bob Kirkpatrick, 61, Steven Knapp, 47, and Bill Macko, 57, were mechanical supervisors for the transportation agency. Monica Rodriguez Smith was Macko’s secretary. All were killed in the bombing.

The fifth and sixth victims were Wilfred Mercado, 37, who worked for the Windows on the World restaurant atop the North Tower and was checking in food deliveries in the basement, and John DiGiovanni, 45, a dental salesman who was in the parking garage when the bomb exploded.

Another thousand people suffered injuries. It took 11 hours to evacuate some 50,000 people from the complex.

The blast from the homemade 1,500-pound urea-nitrate bomb blew a hole five stories deep and half-a-football field wide. The explosion badly damaged the tower’s inner support beams and caused $500 million in property damage. But the twin towers were repaired, cleaned, and reopened in less than a month.

Here is how the terrorist attack was remembered in NYC today:

The attack was the first dramatic demonstration that “terrorism is theater and New York is the biggest stage,” said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

The ceremony was being held at the 9/11 memorial that honors more than 2,700 people who died in the 2001 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center.

A moment of silence will be observed at 12:18 p.m., the time when a truck bomb was detonated below the north tower.

Six Islamic extremists were convicted of carrying out the bombing, including mastermind Ramzi Yousef.

At first, officials assumed the explosion on a chilly day was an accident.

The initial report to police that day called it an apparent transformer explosion at the trade center.

Kelly raced to the scene, where the bomb planted in a parked Ryder van had left a crater half the size of a football field in the trade center garage, causing more than a half-billion dollars in damage.
“I remember seeing this tremendous sea of first-responder vehicles … and smoke was coming out,” said Kelly, who was on his first stint as police commissioner. The trade center stood in the darkness that night for the first time since it opened in 1973.

It was only the next day, after a utility mishap was ruled out, that authorities “started to come to the conclusion it was bomb,” Kelly said.

Must-read from the New York Post on the 1993 WTC bombing victims’ families:

The blast, which happened Feb. 26, 1993, has been largely overshadowed by the 9/11 attack more than eight years later.

But the families who suffered in 1993 say they lost just as much, even if hardly anyone remembers.

“Names get read every year and the whole country watches,” said Denise Rossilli, whose father, Steve Knapp was killed that day along with John DiGiovanni, 45, Robert W.