by John P.Kuchta Jr.
VNS Columnist

Boston Bombing - Alharbi

Let’s go over some of the key points in the tragedy of the Boston bombings:

1. This man was tackled by a spectator at the Boston Marathon shortly after he was seen running from the bomb scene, having sustained burns to parts of his body.  The spectator turned Alharbi over to Boston Police explaining that he “may something, he may be nothing.”  Alharbi was hospitalized under heavy guard.  I’m talking SWAT Teams surrounding the hospital.

   by John P. Kuchta Jr. VNS Columnist   Boston Bombing – FBI and CIA Failures Is it embarrassing for the anti-terror folks within the federal government to have a man flying in and out of this country to terror hotbeds like Dagestan and Chechnya and not so much as have a parking ticket placed under his windshield wiper? That’s what we’re learning about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s personal history during the last three years and the events that lead him to be a willing operative in a conspiracy to take American lives. The CIA added Tamerlan Tsarnaev to a “Terrorist Database” eighteen months ago, after being contacted by Russian intelligence types and long before Tsarnaev traveled to Dagestan in January 2012 for a six month stay.

2. Alharbi’s apartment was searched for 9 hours by the FBI and his apartment mates were interviewed by the FBI for five hours. On Tuesday, Alharbi was being referred to as a “Suspect.”
3. As a result of the FBI search and interviews, an “Event” file was opened on Alharbi which designated him under the Patriot Act provisions as a “212 3b,”  essentially a terrorist or soon-to-be terrorist.  

Several interesting things were immediately discovered.  One was that Alharbi was on a “No Fly List,” but was allowed to enter the country anyway on a special “VIP” exemption, usually reserved for heads of state.   And, a previous “Event” file existed on this man.  Curiously, nobody could find that file.

4.  On Wednesday, after Secretary of State John Kerry met with the Saudi Foreign Minister and Obama met with both the Saudi Foreign Minister and the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, “someone” altered the Alharbi file to remove the “212 3b” designation.

Editor:

Virginia Beach is so full of corruption it is asolutely discusting. A Mayor who is a Banker. No conflict there? A Sherriff who has a brother sponsor a House Bill and get it passed so he, Sheriff Stolle can use profits from the inmates canteen accounts to appropriate as HE sees fit. Please.

Those funds are supposed to go back into the operation of the jail. Those inmates can be there 3 years and never, I say never see the light of day, they have no place to recreate, and get two meals only on weekends.

I know they are supposed to be criminals but they are humans as well. The former Sheriff of Va Beach is currently an employee of the company that holds a multi million dollar contract with the jail to provide medical services to the City of Va Beach jail. WOW.

Sessoms is a complete money driven idiot. He has done more back room deals with more developers than you can shake a stick at.

The Commonwealth Attorney, thank goodness he is retiring, he holds judges at hostage, or so they claimed several years ago when they filed charges of unethical behavior against him with the State Bar.

The case eventually cleared Bryant.

Innocent people go to Prison to protect the son of a cop. Witnesses are intimidated by said officers and nothing is done. You can bet I know much much more. The atrocities that have occurred in this city will one day be revealed.

I promise that. When we come to get you all we are not coming alone. You all know who you are. I certainly do not live there any longer or in VA for that matter.

Wake up city residents. What the hell is wrong with the citizens of our local communities, which in turn make up the country as a whole. You are loosing your liberies, your rights and your country.....

Gail Crockett

by John P. Kuchta Jr.
VNS Columnist

I am really trying to get my arms around the fact that the FBI interviewed the older Chechen brother in early 2011 after the Russians point him out to the FBI.  Obviously, the Russians were snooping into Chechen emails.  The FBI interviews him and pronounces him a solid citizen.

In less than one year, he flies to Chechnya and spends six months on the ground before flying back to the US.

He's back in the US for 11 months before blowing up / shooting those folks.

Are you telling me that his name wouldn't be added to some sort of "Watch List" in the bowels of the FBI, DHS and/or TSA so that his name would have been one of the first names to pop-up when the bombing took place?  Did the FBI share their intel with MA State Police and the Boston Police Counter Terror Unit?  It sounds like the likelihood is that they did not.

Too many law enforcement types congratulating themselves when the case was really broken by the bomb victim who came-to to describe the younger bomber to police, allowing them to narrow the focus of their video search. And, let's not forget that the younger bomber was found by another citizen on a cigarette break.

The law had the two brothers on the run in the suburbs of Boston.  The car the brothers hijacked was shot to hell and back, the older brother is mortally wounded and the younger brother simply drives off?  Glenn Beck says that the younger brother actually just drove through a police barricade.  How did that happen?  Beck called it luck.  Really?  One 19 year old evades the cops for 20 hours?  Really?  Nobody followed the car? No helicopter coverage?  Doesn't that stretch credulity?

I hope that some of the fog gets lifted Monday when Beck reveals the information that some government insiders have supplied to him.  The information centers on the deal that Obama supposedly cut with the Saudis to release at least one Saudi citizen whose last name just happens to be the same as a number of the GITMO detainees.  Oh, yeah, at least one 9/11 hijacker had the same last name.

Probably no big deal, huh?