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Did the CIA commandeer the Boston bombing investigation?

It’s been more than 300 years ago since demonic possession figured as heavily in a criminal probe as it has in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing.

Not since the Salem Witch Trials has the search for accomplices to a major crime centered so heavily on finding a suspect who believed he could talk to demons.

"He took (and ate?) his brains"

Since the remaining of the two brothers accused of planting the bombs was found cowering under a tarpaulin in a boat in a backyard in Watertown Massachusetts two weeks ago, coverage of the bombing by the most respected organs of the American mainstream media has been full of breathless updatesdelivered with a straight faceabout the progress of an FBI manhunt for a red-haired Muslim who talked to demons, dabbled in exorcism, and walked around carrying other people’s brains.

The drumbeat was started by Ruslan Tsarni, who became famous as “Uncle Ruslan” for his forthright condemnation of the attack in a now-famous news conference on his front lawn just four days after the Boston Marathon Bombing.

“There is someone who brainwashed him, some new convert to Islam,’’ Tsarni said.  I would like to stress (the acquaintance was) of Armenian descent.’’

Since then he has been using the media to press investigators to find Misha, a man who appeared to combine the worst features of villains from two different horror movies.

The Exorcist” meets “The Walking Dead.”

"This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely," Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told CNN from his home in Maryland, describing the friend as an Armenian convert to Islam.

“The bombers' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, depicts Misha as a Rasputin-like figure who "took [Tamerlan’s] brain" and said that his presence soon became a source of tension within the family,” reported USA Today.

Also citing the boys' uncle, London’s Daily Mail reported that “Misha used to  give one-on-one sermons to Tamerlan over the kitchen table,  during which he claimed he could talk to demons.”

Tsarni, Tsarnaev's uncle, told CNN he was so concerned about someone brainwashing his nephew that he called a family friend in the Cambridge area to investigate.

"I said, 'Listen, do you know what is going on with that family? With my brother's family?' Then he says … there is a person, some new convert into Islam of Armenian descent," Tsarni told CNN's Shannon Travis.

Tsarni said, "Armenians, I have no intention to say anything about Armenians.”

Then he proceeded to do just that. “It's a neighboring region with North Caucasus," the same area where the Tsarnaev family also hails from.”

A red-haried Armenian exorcist…with a big mouth…in Cambridge

Tsarni described Misha as being "chubby, a big guy, big mouth presenting himself with some kind of abilities as exorcist . . . having some part-time job in one of the stores, not married. All of the qualifications of a loser, just another big mouth.”

According to Uncle Ruslan, Misha, over a considerable period of time, had radicalized Tamerlan.

“But there are signs that Tamerlan had become radicalized — apparently from a friend in the United States named “Mischa” — described as a Russian of Armenian descent who was a relatively recent convert to Islam and who lived in Cambridge, according by Tsarnaev’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni,” NBC reported.

Tsarni told NBC News that Mischa presented himself as an “exorcist” who specialized in “removing demons from people’s bodies.”

Not a day went by without references in the press to the search for Misha. There were literally hundred of news reports about him. Very soon, it began to appear there was nothing new to be said.

But that didn’t stop anyone. Reported New York magazine:

“According to reports, family members point the finger at a man identified only as Misha, a friend whom Tamerlan knew through a local mosque. Misha is described as a bald, red-bearded, 30-year-old Armenian convert to Islam who "claimed to be an exorcist who is fighting with demons." 

OMG…you mean he's even scarier than…Alex Jones?

There was also a half-hearted attempt to draw Alex Jones into the controversy. Reported the Atlantic Magazine online:

“The major development in the sleuthing of the Tsarnaev brothers, specifically sinister Tamerlan, involves a red-bearded exorcist named Misha.”

“Tamerlan listened to Alex Jones's popular and usually looney radio show Infowars. BuzzFeed's Rosie Grey reached out to Jones to see how he felt about having a suspected terrorist as a listener.”

It’s hard to imagine anyone asking Alex Jones, “How does that make you feel.”  But the effort to smear him was no doubt duly noted. But the problem with doing any serious damage to Alex Jones was simple:  When you’re lookng for an Armenian exorcist who talks with demons, slandering a poor radio host in the bargain loses its lustre.

The fever over finding Misha finally broke when somebodsy actually found him. Christian Caryl of the New York Times Review of Books scored the first media interview with Misha. In her interview with the alleged Boston Bomber’s ‘Svengali,’ he told her he hadn’t seen or spoken to anyone in the Tsarnaev family for more than three years.

Ooops! Uncle Ruslan’s response spoke volumes about him. Was he abashed? Far from it. He changed his story without batting an eye, and turned his attention to a secondary target, a woman who, if you're trying to create a distraction, is right out of Central Casting.

“Check out Bomb Mom”

Ruslan dismissed Zubeidat, who was arrested last year for stealing $1,600 of lingerie from a department store, as a ‘bad character’.

 “Ruslan Tsarni, told the AP from his home in Maryland that he believed his former sister-in-law had a "big-time influence" on her older son's growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit boxing and school.”

“ Ruslan Tsarni claimed that Zubeidat allowed a firebrand cleric into their house to give one-on-one sermons to Tamerlan over the kitchen table during which he claimed he could talk to demons and perform exorcisms.”

He told London Daily MailOnline : ‘The change of the older boy, one of the biggest causes is her. ‘First she started playing into this religious crap, they say is a devotion to Islam.”

 "I work. Why do you want to know?"

Tsarni was cagey with reporters about what he did for a living. 

“Tsarni was careful not to give out too much information, reported the Washington Post. “When asked about his profession, he responded, “I work, I work.’”

And with good reason, because for the past twenty years he has almost certainly been a CIA asset operating in a number of former Soviet Republics.

Tsarni’s bio, in an official SEC filing, stated he worked for the US Agency for International Development, USAID, during the early 1990’s. Bloomberg Business Review revealed last week that since 2008, he’s again been working for USAID.

Famously, USAID workers build schools, as well as provide cover for CIA assets overseas. Recently they were thrown out of Russia. Just last week, they were asked to leave Bolivia.

In between his stints with the obviously-conflicted US Agency, Ruslan Tsarni worked  for several Halliburton-controlled oil companies, as well as a Kazakh man charged with a major banking scandal in Kazakhstan whose repercussions earlier this year stretched all the way to London.

Maybe Ruslan Tsarni’s commute car doesn't bear a “smoking gun” parking sticker from CIA headquarters in Langley. But neither his bio nor his demeanor since the bombings qualify him for a  “Humanitarian of the Year” award, either.

Of demons, exorcists, and shoddy shoddy journalism

The search for foreign involvement in the Boston Marathon Bombings has been a sad joke.

The fact that no one has stood up and called "shenanigans" on the mainstream purveyors of what is supposed to be responsible journalism in this country is a national disgrace.

When you look at how this happened, its hard not to suspect that a “higher power” than the FBI was steering the investigation.

This raises the strong possibility that the FBI’s investigation into the bombing has been manipulated, or steered, by the CIA.

In the post-mortems to come on the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, the crucial question will be: Who was behind this effort, and why?

A big question is what Uncle Ruslan stood to gain by making accusations about Misha.

If you’re on a CIA’s crisis management team, and your job is to play for time and try to run the clock out on the American people’s attention span, the result might look something very much like the last two weeks in America.

And if your goal was to forestall pointed questions about Ruslan Tsarni and top CIA official Graham Fuller’s roles in the Tsarnaevs family’s frequent trips to Dagestan, you couldn’t have played it better.

 

Daniel Hopsicker
Daniel Hopsickerhttp://www.madcowprod.com
Daniel Hopsicker is an investigative journalist and the author of two books on transnational crime, Welcome to Terrorland and Barry & the Boys.
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  1. Hopsicker just keeps on hopping like the Playboy Bunny he is – SOB is good and right on the money – only trouble we ever had between us was a woman we both wanted. Keep it up DAN – I live past my brain surgery Tuesday I’LL BE BACK IN FULL FORCE.

  2. John Burt Caylor · Investigatie Journalist – Publisher “Insider-Magazine.com” at CEO/Insider-Magazine.com.
    Hopsicker just keeps on hopping like the Playboy Bunny he is – SOB is good and right on the money – only trouble we ever had between us was a woman we both wanted. Keep it up DAN – I live past my brain surgery Tuesday I’LL BE BACK IN FULL FORCE.
    Reply · Like · Follow Post · 3 seconds ago.

  3. Some of Alex Jones’ work is outstanding, such as what he has written about 9/11 and the infamous Bilderberg group. On the other hand, he has dabbled in issues where he sets himself up for ridicule even from “progressives.”

    Your investigation of these issues is outstanding, as always. Thank you for providing us with the real back story behind this malignant soap opera.

  4. Zubeidat…Zounds like Zubaydah and Ruslan has just gotta be Rudy D, but Misha. Is that ‘curveball’ by another’s name? Given behaviour toward ‘suspects’ upon capture:eyewitness police running over then shooting elder brother, the unharmed and unarmed younger suspect moments later having a field tracheostomy, one can only surmise Ruslan and Fuller et al are of the land of the true vampire.

  5. damn . Its not MM posting this, but remo-oeo . cannot alter the name-up now.
    great article anyway and put alongside Sibel E’s work, the picture looks plenty glum for media and whatever ‘democracy’ now means in USA.

  6. The CIA is the capo di tutti in the chain of command: if they tell another Federal, State, or Local authority to take a hike, said authorities take a hike…if not, an event happens where someone afilliated with those who ‘don’t take a hike’ are discovered ‘suicided’…capiece?

  7. Thanks for the Rulsa reporting. Did you know that Tamerlan’s wife is the granddaughter of a Skull and Bones man (class of ’51) who was a energy “entrepreneur” with a “life long interest in the Middle East? (She may even be related to Skull & Bones co-founder, but I haven’t confirmed that.) So BOTH members of this “quick convert to a wacko brand of Islam” have spooks in the family.

  8. Here’s some grist for your prodigious mill: Officer Sean Collier. Notice that no charges have been filed in his murder. What? They have security cam footage of everything that ever happened in this case, but no footage of a guy sitting in a car in a parking lot, in front a of a bank (credit union really), and one of the main entry points to a university. (There should have been cameras all over and the footage has been referred to, but never shown.) Also, shouldn’t there have been shells left at the shooting? It should not be hard to at least make a preliminary connection to the brothers “arsenal” (oops, one gun and a target pistol) and the shooting. Did you know that Collier was a big boxing fan? He would have HAD to recognize the twice Golden Gloves heavyweight champion (’09 and ’10) of New England. And when Collier died, he was active at a boxing gym that Tamerlan had been affiliated with.

  9. This might explain why the brothers were treated like Rasputin in Watertown. Rasputin escaped in “Watertown”, full of holes. Another thing about Kyrgystan is Afg heroin to Russia. A documentary I just watched says 20% of Russians are addicted to heroin. First, though, here’s Rasputin the abominable Pamir snowman, and note how the Shooting of Officer Tippit(Sean Collier) depends on Rasputiin robbing the convenience store, in fact the 911 calls came one minute after the other, but Tsarnaevs did not rob any convenience store, hence, ergo, wtf? Rasputin–he can also start fires in wires at libraries for miles and miles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Ed5chLGqM.

  10. Ruslan, from the outset, seemed as the Bard said “Protested too much” and like a suspect who’s story evolves with the emerging facts, peddled like a mad biker. The dead one is the one we needed alive. Was he schizo, or fucked up from too many blows to the head? Was Jahar some kind of captive partner, “Stockholmed” by the elder and completely detached from the activities?

    1. They seemed unaware there is something called surveillance cameras and facial recognition.

    2. They had no plan for escape, remaining in the Boston area until their mugs started peppering the tv screen.

    3. Had no working vehicle (in the shop FFS?) so jacked a car.

    4. Had no money, and forced the car owner to pull cash from ATM, but apparently didn’t know there was a daily limit on cash from machine?

    5. Ambushed the MIT cop and killed him for his gun, since they had but one.

    All these facts go to either a) they were caught off guard (?) or the mental state was completely divorced from reality, due to a variety of possible factors.

  11. Alex Jones is a stupid front man an intellectual bodyguard hired to keep the sheep chasing rabbit holes. Meanwhile the top secret weapon that was used to turn the Twin Towers to dust is ignored and supplanted by trivial polemics. Dr Wood’s book clearly shows what were dealing with here. It has to do with free energy, top secret weaponry, and control of the masses through the hording of scientific breakthroughs. And remember the people at the top do worship G.O.D. Guns, Oil, and Drugs…

  12. “Kill first. Find a reason later.” Not a very respectable modus operandi even for satanic alley rats like Killery and Christine Marcey and the Obummer. Machievelli would be proud. William Blake would find inspiration. The American people are going to earn their day in hell, no matter what the cost. This CFRtv business has gone to their heads. “Oh, what a monster the government is. Toppling the government would be an impossibility. Would it not be more simple to abolish ‘the people’, it’s creator?
    The back back left by one of the Chechnyan brothers can be seen still leaning against the mailbox, intact, long after the blasts. And no one notices. The younger Chechnyan is seen leaving the area still carrying his pack. No one notices. One of the Craft mercenaries has a large bulky black back pack before the bombs detonate but ditched his at the scene just before its detonation.An identical back pack is shown in shreds at the scene.
    The CFRtv be damned to hell. Our government is ‘out of order’ to say the least.

  13. I believe the MIT cop was shot by friendly fire. Also, who was the ‘Naked Man’, why was there a picture of Tamerlan alive on the ground, obviously subdued by pi – err… police.

  14. Mass Transit cop in WT confirmed KIAFF, but Collier (MIT) a little foggier. Eyewitness account says brothers apparently attempting surrender ‘chill out’ ‘we didn’t do it’. Sounds Oswaldian. I remember the brothers were reportedly trying to get Collier’s weapon but were foiled by ‘biometric’ holster, or something that had combo lock. The frenzy of cop violence certainly rings true ala Chris Dorner.
    Should cops have guns?

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