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		<title>Did the CIA commandeer the Boston bombing investigation?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel Hopsicker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/05/03/did-the-cia-commandeer-the-boston-bombing-investigation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">It&rsquo;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.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">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.</span></span>
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Salem-Witch-Trialsz.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4045" height="300" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Salem-Witch-Trialsz.jpg" title="Salem-Witch-Trialsz" width="700" /></a>
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	&quot;He took (and ate?) his brains&quot;<br />
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">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 updates</span></span>&mdash;<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">delivered with a straight face</span></span>&mdash;<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">about the progress of an FBI manhunt for a red-haired Muslim who talked to demons, dabbled in exorcism, and walked around carrying other people&rsquo;s brains.</span></span>
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tsarni-2_2541471c.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4061" height="190" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tsarni-2_2541471c-300x238.jpg" style="" title="Tsarni-2_2541471c" width="240" /></a>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The drumbeat was started by </span></span>R<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">uslan Tsarni, who became famous as &ldquo;Uncle Ruslan&rdquo; fo</span></span><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">r his forthright condemnation of the attack in a now-famous news conference on his front lawn ju</span></span><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">st four days after the Boston Marathon Bombing.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;There is someone who brainwashed him, some new convert to Islam,&rsquo;&rsquo; Tsarni said. &nbsp;I would like to stress (the acquaintance was) of Armenian descent.&rsquo;&rsquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">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.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;<strong>The Exorcist&rdquo; meets &ldquo;The Walking Dead.&rdquo;</strong></span></span><br />
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cnn.com-screen-capture-2013-5-2-11-33-48.png" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-4058 alignleft" height="263" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cnn.com-screen-capture-2013-5-2-11-33-48-300x292.png" style="" title="cnn.com screen capture 2013-5-2-11-33-48" width="270" /></a><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&quot;This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely,&quot; Tsarnaev&#39;s </span></span><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">unc</span></span><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">le, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/us/boston-brainwash/index.html" target="_blank">Ruslan Tsarni, told CNN </a>from his home in Maryland, describing the friend as an Armenian convert to Islam.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;The bombers&#39; uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, depicts Misha as a Rasputin-like figure who &quot;took [Tamerlan's] brain&quot; and said that his presence soon became a source of tension within the family,&rdquo; <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/25/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-misha/2111333" target="_blank">reported USA Today.</a></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Also citing the boys&#39; uncle, London&rsquo;s <em>Daily Mail </em>reported that &ldquo;Misha used to&nbsp; give one-on-one sermons to Tamerlan over the kitchen table, &nbsp;during which he claimed he could talk to demons.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tsarni, Tsarnaev&#39;s uncle<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/us/boston-brainwash/index.html" target="_blank">, told CNN </a>he was so concerned about someone brainwashing his nephew that he called a family friend in the Cambridge area to investigate.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&quot;I said, &#39;Listen, do you know what is going on with that family? With my brother&#39;s family?&#39; Then he says &#8230; there is a person, some new convert into Islam of Armenian descent,&quot; Tsarni told CNN&#39;s Shannon Travis.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tsarni said, &quot;Armenians, I have no intention to say anything about Armenians.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Then he proceeded to do just that. &ldquo;It&#39;s a neighboring region with North Caucasus,&quot; the same area where the Tsarnaev family also hails from.&rdquo;</span></span>
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<h3>
	A red-haried Armenian exorcist&#8230;with a big mouth&#8230;in Cambridge<br />
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<p>
	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/lookction.gif"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4070" height="209" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/lookction-300x209.gif" title="lookction)" width="300" /></a><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tsarni described Misha <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bomb-suspect-influenced-mysterious-radical" target="_blank">as being &quot;chubby</a>, a big guy, big&nbsp;mouth presenting himself with <strong><em>some kind of abilities as exorcist</em>&nbsp;. </strong>. . having some part-time job in one of the stores, not married. All of the qualifications of a loser, just another big mouth.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">According to Uncle Ruslan, Misha, over a considerable period of time, had radicalized Tamerlan.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;But there are signs that Tamerlan had become radicalized &mdash; apparently from a friend in the United States named &ldquo;Mischa&rdquo; &mdash; described as a Russian of Armenian descent who was a relatively recent convert to Islam and who lived in Cambridge, <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/22/17866117-fbi-agents-question-members-of-mosque-that-tsarnaevs-attended?lite" target="_blank">according by Tsarnaev&rsquo;s uncle,</a> Ruslan Tsarni,&rdquo; NBC reported.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tsarni told NBC News that&nbsp;Mischa presented himself as an &ldquo;exorcist&rdquo; who specialized in &ldquo;removing demons from people&rsquo;s bodies.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">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.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">But that didn&rsquo;t stop anyone. <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/misha-tamerlan-tsarnaev-camrbridge-mosque.html" target="_blank">Reported New York magazine:</a></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;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 &quot;claimed to be an exorcist who is fighting with demons.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span>
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	<strong><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">OMG&#8230;you mean he&#39;s even scarier than&#8230;Alex Jones?</span></span></strong><br />
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<p>
	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/about_alex11.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4091" height="207" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/about_alex11.jpg" title="about_alex1" width="310" /></a><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">There was also a half-hearted attempt to draw Alex Jones into the controversy. <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/apparently-tamerin-tsarnaev-influences-include-alex-jones-radical-exorcist/64509/" target="_blank">Reported the Atlantic Magazine online:</a></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;The major development in the sleuthing of the Tsarnaev brothers, specifically sinister Tamerlan, involves a red-bearded exorcist named Misha.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;Tamerlan listened to Alex Jones&#39;s popular and usually looney radio show Infowars. BuzzFeed&#39;s Rosie Grey reached out to Jones to see how he felt about having a suspected terrorist as a listener.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">It&rsquo;s hard to imagine anyone asking Alex Jones, &ldquo;How does that make you feel.&rdquo; &nbsp;But the effort to smear him was no doubt duly noted. But the problem with doing any serious damage to Alex Jones was simple: &nbsp;</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">When you&rsquo;re lookng for an Armenian exorcist who talks with</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> demons,&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 20.796875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">slandering a poor&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.6em; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">radio host in the bargain loses its lustre.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The fever over finding Misha&nbsp;finally broke when somebodsy actually found him. Christian Caryl of the<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/apr/28/tamerlan-tsarnaev-misha-speaks/" target="_blank"> New York Times Review of Books</a> scored the first media interview with Misha. In her interview with the alleged Boston Bomber&rsquo;s &lsquo;Svengali,&rsquo; he told her he hadn&rsquo;t seen or spoken to anyone in the Tsarnaev family for more than three years.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Ooops! Uncle Ruslan&rsquo;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&nbsp;you&#39;re trying to create&nbsp;a distraction, is&nbsp;right out of Central Casting.</span></span>
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<h3>
	<strong><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;Check out Bomb Mom&rdquo;</span></span></strong><br />
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<p>
	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mom-issues.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4094" height="242" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mom-issues.jpg" title="Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, Anzor Tsarnaev" width="332" /></a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Ruslan dismissed Zubeidat, who was arrested last year for stealing $1,600 of lingerie from a department store, as a &lsquo;bad character&rsquo;.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313076/Tamerlan-Dzhokhar-Tsarnaeva-Did-controlling-mother-Boston-bombers-lead-radicalization.html#ixzz2SFMtpz50" target="_blank">&nbsp;&ldquo;Ruslan Tsarni, told the A</a>P from his home in Maryland that he believed his former sister-in-law had a &quot;big-time influence&quot; on her older son&#39;s growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit boxing and school.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">&ldquo; 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.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">He told<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313076/Tamerlan-Dzhokhar-Tsarnaeva-Did-controlling-mother-Boston-bombers-lead-radicalization.html#ixzz2SFMtpz50" target="_blank"> London Daily MailOnline</a>&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.6em;">: &lsquo;The change of the older boy, one of the biggest causes is her. &lsquo;First she started playing into this religious crap, they say is a devotion to Islam.&rdquo;</span>
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	<strong>&nbsp;&quot;I work. Why do you want to know?&quot;</strong>
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/USAID-CIA.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4109" height="240" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/USAID-CIA.jpg" title="USAID-CIA" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tsarni was cagey with reporters about what he did for a living.&nbsp;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;Tsarni was careful not to give out too much information, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/04/19/ruslan-tsarni-media-maven/" target="_blank">reported the Washington Post</a>. &ldquo;When asked about his profession, he responded, &ldquo;I work, I work.&rsquo;&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">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.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tsarni&rsquo;s bio, <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/big-sky-energy-corporation-announces-management-additions/" target="_blank">in an official SEC filing</a>, stated he worked for the US Agency for International Development, USAID, during the early 1990&rsquo;s. Bloomberg Business Review revealed last week that since 2008, he&rsquo;s again been working for USAID.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">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.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">In between his stints with the obviously-conflicted US Agency, Ruslan Tsarni worked &nbsp;for several <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/big-sky-bosses-from-halliburton-enka-holdings/" target="_blank">Halliburton-controlled oil </a>companies,<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/princes-home-in-laundered-cash-inquiry/" target="_blank"> as well as a Kazakh man</a> charged with a major banking scandal in Kazakhstan whose repercussions earlier this year stretched<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/12/prince-charles-kyrgyzstan-valeri-belokon" target="_blank"> all the way to London.</a></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Maybe&nbsp;Ruslan Tsarni&rsquo;s commute car doesn&#39;t bear a&nbsp;&ldquo;smoking gun&rdquo; parking sticker from CIA headquarters in Langley. But neither&nbsp;his bio nor his&nbsp;demeanor since the bombings qualify him for a &nbsp;&ldquo;Humanitarian of the Year&rdquo; award, either.</span></span>
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	<strong>Of demons, exorcists, and shoddy shoddy journalism</strong><br />
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ku-medium.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4105" height="234" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ku-medium.jpg" title="ku-medium" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The search for foreign involvement in the Boston Marathon Bombings has been a sad joke.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The fact that no one has stood up and called &quot;shenanigans&quot; on the mainstream purveyors of what is supposed to be responsible journalism in this country is a national disgrace.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">When you look at how this happened, its hard not to suspect that a &ldquo;higher power&rdquo; than the FBI was steering the investigation.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">This raises the strong possibility that the FBI&rsquo;s investigation into the bombing has been manipulated, or steered, by the CIA.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">In the post-mortems to come on the Boston Marathon bombing investigation,&nbsp;the crucial&nbsp;question will be: Who was behind this effort, and why?</span></span>
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/tamcia.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4106" height="271" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/tamcia-300x271.jpg" title="tamcia" width="300" /></a><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">A big question is what Uncle Ruslan stood to gain by making accusations about Misha.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">If you&rsquo;re on a CIA&rsquo;s crisis management team, and your job is to play for time and try to run the clock out on the American people&rsquo;s attention span, the result might look something very much like the last two weeks in America.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">And if your goal was to<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=3831" target="_blank"> forestall pointed questions </a>about <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=3832" target="_blank">Ruslan Tsarni and top CIA official Graham Fuller&rsquo;</a>s roles in the Tsarnaevs family&rsquo;s frequent trips to Dagestan, you couldn&rsquo;t have played it better.</span></span>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel Hopsicker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The uncle of the accused Boston Marathon bombers incorporated, in 1995, a company called the &#34;Congress of Chechen International Organizations.&#34; Even as the company was sending aid to Islamic terrorists in Chechnya, its listed address was in the home of &#8230; <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/04/29/uncle-ruslan-aid-to-terrorists-from-cia-officials-home/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/www.madcowprod.com-screen-capture-2013-4-29-0-4-40.png" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3977" height="229" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/www.madcowprod.com-screen-capture-2013-4-29-0-4-40-300x254.png" style="" title="www.madcowprod.com screen capture 2013-4-29-0-4-40" width="270" /></a><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The uncle of the accused Boston Marathon bombers incorporated, in 1995, a company called the &quot;Congress of Chechen International Organizations.&quot; </span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Even as the company was sending aid to Islamic terrorists in Chechnya, its listed address was in the home of former top CIA official Graham Fuller.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Ruslan Tsarni was listed <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">as the company&#39;s resident agent. The </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">company&#39;s address was 11114 Whisperwood Ln in Rockville MD., the </span>home of Graham Fuller, the one-time Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA under President Reagan.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Over<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130427-162019.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3983" height="209" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130427-162019.jpg" style="" title="20130427-162019" width="171" /></a> this past weekend, Fuller reluctantly confirmed the report published here last Thursday, &quot;<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/04/26/boston-bombers-uncle-married-daughter-of-top-cia-official/" target="_blank"><strong>Boston bombers&rsquo; uncle married daughter of top CIA official.&quot;</strong></a></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">He admitted that Ruslan Tsarni had once been married to his daughter.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">But then, with the same breath, he derided what he called &quot;rumors&rdquo; of links between Tsarni and the Agency as &ldquo;<em><strong>absurd.&rdquo;</strong></em></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">But documents surfaced over the weekend that cast a long shadow of doubt on Graham Fuller&#39;s assertion, which amounts to a beat cop waving his baton, and saying, &quot;There&#39;s nothing to see here folks. Move along.&quot;</span></span>
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/congress3.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3935" height="617" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/congress3.jpg" title="congress" width="597" /></a><strong>&quot;Financiers of terrorism&quot;</strong>
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/m_shashani1.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-3950 alignleft" height="138" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/m_shashani1-300x191.jpg" style="" title="m_shashani1" width="" /></a><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The documents include a letter written by the President of the Congress of Chechen Organizations International that, at least on the surface, could not have seemed more ordinary.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">It was all about <strong><em>shoes.</em></strong></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">In the letter, Congress of Chechen Organizations International President Mohammed Shoshani is interceding with the Board of Directors of Benevolence International, a &ldquo;charity&rdquo; that would later he designated &ldquo;financiers of terrorism&rdquo; by the Treasury Department, an<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=4018" target="_blank">d shut down by US Attorney</a> Patrick Fitzgerald&nbsp;after the 9/11 attack.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Shoshani was interceding with Benevolence on behalf of a new military commander in Chechnya<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=4019" target="_blank"> named Sheikh Fathi, w</a>ho had just arrived from spending 10 years fighting in Afghanistan.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Sheikh Fathi was a &ldquo;military commander in the violent jihadist movement in Chechnya,&quot; noted U.S.. Atty Patrick Fitzgerald in <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/indictment.pdf" target="_blank">a later indictment,</a>(pdf.) &rdquo;as well as an influential &ldquo;preacher of violent jihad.&rdquo;<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3957" height="195" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2-300x244.jpg" style="" title="2" width="" /></a></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">In the Benevolent International indictment, Fitzgerald said <strong><em>&quot;Sheikh Fathi was a major conduit for providing material support&nbsp; to the Chechen rebels.&quot;</em></strong></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The uncle of the alleged Boston bombers <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=4023" target="_blank">was part of that conduit.</a></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Just how connected are these people?</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Fathi would gain a measure of infamy several years later when he introduced the top Al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan, Al Khattab, into the Chechen conflict. The move had disastrous results, turning<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=4023" target="_blank"> what had been a civil war into a jihad.</a></span></span>
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	<strong>Shoes for industry, shoes for the dead</strong><br />
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/040723_moussaoui_vsml.grid-4x2.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3965" height="240" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/040723_moussaoui_vsml.grid-4x2-238x300.jpg" style="" title="040723_moussaoui_vsml.grid-4x2" width="190" /></a>Later Al-Khattab became the so-called 20th hijacker Zaccarias Moussaoui&rsquo;s commander in Chechnya, according to French intelligence, and had close links with&nbsp; Osama bin Laden, according to former New York Times journalist Phil Shenon&rsquo;s book&nbsp; &ldquo;The Commission.&rdquo;
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">But back to the letter. And the shoes.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">On behalf of Sheikh Fathi, Mohammed Shoshani is thanking Benevolence International for the receipt of 2000 pairs of what Fitzgerald&mdash;in an indictment charging the leaders of Benevolence International, called&nbsp; &ldquo;Anti-Mine Boots for the Chechen Mujahideen.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The&nbsp; Saudi-based charity operated for years in Russia and Chechnya, pumping $50 million into mujahideen coffers,&nbsp; estimated Russian intelligence.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Sheikh Fathi&rsquo;s eagerness to procure 5000 more pairs of American protective shoes, US Attorney Fitzgerald explained, had been to minimize the damage caused by small Russian-made camouflage mines, called Frog mines, which were wreaking havoc in the ranks of his Chechen fighters.</span></span>
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	<strong>Were the Boston bombings&nbsp; &quot;blow-back&quot; from US Caucasus ops?</strong><br />
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ingush_7.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-3968 alignright" height="178" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ingush_7-300x178.jpg" style="" title="ingush_7" width="300" /></a><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">What does this have to do with the Boston Marathon bombing?</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">One clue: The President of &ldquo;Uncle Ruslan&rsquo;s&quot; Congress of Chechen Organizations International, an expatriate Penn State engineering <a href="http://www.waynakh.com/eng/2010/04/testimony-of-m-shashani-for-helsinki-comission-19" target="_blank">professor Mohammed Sishani</a>, conducted almost all of his business through another organization he led, called the Chechen-Ingush Society of America.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">All of his <strong><em>aboveboard</em></strong> business, that is. Ruslan&rsquo;s outfit surfaced for the dirty bits, the covert side of the Chechen&rsquo;s cause.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Was Ruslan Tsarni&#39;s organization<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=4019" target="_blank"> acting as a</a></span><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=4019" target="_blank"> free agent?</a> Or was it a <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">&quot;cut-out&quot; for the CIA, </span>a convenient way to establish plausible deniability while <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">executing decisions made by U.S. intelligence agencies, who were apparently interceding on the side of people we </span>were calling &quot;rebels&quot; instead of &quot;terrorists&quot; for no reason other than it suited American objectives for <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Russian forces to get bogged down in a series of bitter civil wars?</span></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/041913_Boston_Chechnyia_640.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3972" height="229" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/041913_Boston_Chechnyia_640-300x229.jpg" title="041913_Boston_Chechnyia_640" width="300" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Were such actions US policy at the time?&nbsp; Some say the answer is &quot;yes.&quot;<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=4021" target="_blank"> </a></span><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=4021" target="_blank">Wikileaks cables seem to agree.</a></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">America&#39;s fostering of a jihadist mercenary force in Afghanistan led directly to the blowback that became the 9/11 attack.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The creation of a &quot;second Afghanistan&quot; in the Caucasus may also have led to blowback: the unintended consequences of a covert operation. The result was in bombs going off in Boston.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Were two young jihadis from the North Caucasus region of Russia recruited to become Islamist terrorists and attack the United States at the Boston Marathon?</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Questions remain. No, questions don&rsquo;t &ldquo;remain.&rdquo; They &ldquo;abound.&rdquo;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The elder Fuller had retired from the agency almost a decade before the brief marriage,&quot;<a href="http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2013/04/5090/former-cia-officer-absurd-to-link-uncle-of-boston-suspects-agency-over-daughters-brief-marriage/" target="_blank"> wrote the reporter he selected</a> to give him a sympathetic hearing.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">If he&#39;d retired, and taken up horticulture, or origami, or golfing in Florida wearing lime-green sweater-slack combinations, rumors that his ex-son-in-law had connections with the CIA <strong><em>might indeed</em></strong> be absurd.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Was that how Mr. Fuller was spending his well-deserved retirement? Nope&#8230; He was working for RAND Corporation.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">It was a busman&#39;s holiday. But there was also something <strong><em>else.</em></strong>.. Uncle Ruslan Tsarni&#39;s company, back in 1996, was actively aiding Islamic terrorists in Chechnya.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">And there&#39;s no telling what he&#39;s up to now,<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-24/bomb-suspects-uncle-gets-love-mail-for-speaking-out.html" target="_blank"> because a story last week revealed th</a>at he was working for the US Government, again. And again, it was USAID. This time, since 2008.&nbsp;</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Using the home address of a top CIA official under President Ronald Reagan, who had also, and perhaps not coincidentally, been the author of a famous memo that eventually led Oliver North to step off a plane in Iran with TOW missiles in one hand and a cake for the Ayatollah in the other, Ruslan Tsarni&#39;s Congress of Chechens put into practice the CIA&#39;s unacknowledged policy in the former Soviet Republics.</span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">He&#39;s been stirring up shit on Russia&rsquo;s southern border.</span></span></p>
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	The uncle of the two suspected Boston bombers in last week&rsquo;s attack, Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of former top CIA&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Fuller" target="_blank">official Graham Fuller</a>
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	The discovery that Uncle Ruslan Tsarni had spy connections that go far deeper than had been previously known is ironic, especially since the mainstrean media&#39;s focus yesterday was on a feverish search to find who might have recruited the Tsarnaev brothers.
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	The chief suspect was a red-haired Armenian exorcist.&nbsp; They were fingering a suspect who may not, in fact, even exist.
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	It was like blaming one-armed hippies on acid for killing your wife.
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fuller-blush.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3756" height="336" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fuller-blush.gif" style="" title="fuller-blush" width="468" /></a>
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=3832" target="_blank">Ruslan Tsarni married the daughter</a> of former top CIA official Graham Fuller, who spent 20 years as operations officer in Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong. In 1982 Fuller was appointed the National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia at the CIA, and in 1986, under Ronald Reagan, he became the Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, with overall responsibility for national level strategic forecasting.
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	At the time of their marriage, Ruslan Tsarni <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=3835" target="_blank">was known as Ruslan Tsarnaev</a>, the same last name as his nephews Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged bombers.
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	It is unknown when he changed his last name to Tsarni. &nbsp;
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	What is known is that sometime in the early 1990&rsquo;s, while she was a graduate student in North Carolina, and he was in law school at Duke, Ruslan Tsarnaev met and married <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ankara.fuller/about" target="_blank">Samantha Ankara Fuller,</a> the daughter of Graham and Prudence Fuller of Rockville Maryland. Her middle name suggests a reference to one of her father&rsquo;s CIA postings.
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	The couple divorced sometime before 2004.
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	Today Ms. Fuller lives abroad, and is a director of several companies pursuing strategies to increase energy production from clean-burning and renewable resources.
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fuller2.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3822" height="241" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fuller2.jpg" title="fuller2" width="300" /></a>On a more ominous note, Graham Fuller was listed as one of the American Deep State rogues on <a href="http://www.justacitizen.org/images/Gallery%20Draft2%20for%20Web.htm" target="_blank">Sibel Edmonds&#39; State Secrets </a>Privilege Gallery,. Edmonds explained it featured subjects of FBI investigations she became aware of during her time<a href="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/" target="_blank"> as an FBI translator.</a>
</p>
<p>
	Criminal activities were being protected by claims of State Secrets, she asserted. After Attorney General John Ashcroft went all the way to the Supreme Court to muzzle her under a little-used doctrine of State Secrets, she put up twenty-one photos, with no names.&nbsp;
</p>
<p>
	One of them<a href="http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2008/01/sibel-names-names-in-pictures.html" target="_blank"> was Graham Fuller.</a>
</p>
<h3>
	&quot;Congress of Chechen International&quot; c/o Graham Fuller<br />
</h3>
<p>
	A story about a <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130421_dn_0mlinirp.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-3783 alignright" height="300" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130421_dn_0mlinirp-254x300.jpg" style="" title="20130421_dn_0mlinirp" width="254" /></a> Chechen oik exec/uncle pairing up with a top CIA official who once served as CIA Station Chief in Kabul sounds like a pitch for a bad movie.
</p>
<p>
	But the two men may <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=3831" target="_blank">have been in business together.</a>
</p>
<p>
	In 1995, Tsarnaev incorporated the<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=3838" target="_blank"> Congress of Chechen International Organization</a>s in Maryland, using as the address listed on incorporation documents <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=3839" target="_blank">11114 Whisperwood Ln,</a> in Rockville Maryland, the home address of his then-father-in-law.
</p>
<p>
	It is just eight miles up the Washington National Pike from the Montgomery Village home where &ldquo;Uncle Ruslan&rdquo; met&mdash;and apparently wowed, the press after the attack in Boston.
</p>
<p>
	The Washington Post yesterday<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/04/19/ruslan-tsarni-media-maven/" target="_blank"> called him a &quot;media maven</a>,&quot; while nationally syndicated Washington Post columnist Ester Cepeda , in a piece with the headline &ldquo;<a href="http://www.hillsdale.net/article/20130425/NEWS/130429726" target="_blank">The Wise Words of Uncle Ruslan&rdquo; </a>opined that he was her choice for &quot;an award for bravery in the face of adversity.&rdquo;
</p>
<h3>
	Success through indirection, mis-direction, redirection, and protection<br />
</h3>
<p>
	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/MDG-USAID-Procurement-006.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3827" height="180" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/MDG-USAID-Procurement-006-300x180.jpg" title="MDG : USAID Procurement" width="300" /></a> Uncle Ruslan&rsquo;s spy connections go far deeper than was already known, which was that he spent two years working in Kazakhstan for USAID.
</p>
<p>
	But the mainstream media was lookng the other way.
</p>
<p>
	Under the headline <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/25/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-misha/2111333/" target="_blank">&ldquo;</a><strong><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/25/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-misha/2111333/" target="_blank">Did &#39;Misha&#39; influence Tsarnaevs? </a>In Watertown, doubts,</strong>&rdquo; USA Today reported: <em><strong>&ldquo;Misha.</strong></em> A new name has emerged in the Boston Marathon bombing case&mdash;one familiar to the family of the two young men accused of the atrocity and apparently of interest to the Russian and American security services as well.&rdquo;
</p>
<p>
	Ruslan Tsarni was the first to bring up the supposed man&#39;s supposed name. Or rather, he brought up a <strong><em>first </em></strong>name:&nbsp; <em><strong>Misha.</strong></em> But it was enough. We were off to the races&#8230;
</p>
<h3>
	Attention all cars: Be on lookout for chubby Armenian exorcist<br />
</h3>
<p>
	<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/us/boston-brainwash/" target="_blank">Tsarni described Misha to CNN</a> as being &quot;chubby, a big guy, big&nbsp;<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/sigh3.gif"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3813 fjafktmvfhsfbqdkonmp gqjbgtlqeixhwpgadqwb dyzqhkauxsamojnbjymh" height="250" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/sigh3-300x250.gif" title="sigh" width="300" /></a>mouth presenting himself with <strong><em>some kind of abilities as exorcist</em></strong> . . . having some part-time job in one of the stores, not married. All of the qualifications of a loser, just another big mouth.&rdquo;
</p>
<p>
	According to Uncle Ruslan, Misha was the man who over a considerable period of time had radicalized Tamerlan.
</p>
<p>
	It seemed strange, then, that &nbsp;in contrast to his &ldquo;you are there&rdquo; verbal picture of the man, even with all his supposed concerns, and given his high level of education and abundant resources (Big Sky Energy was paying him in excess of $200,00 a year, according to documents filed with the SEC) Ruslan had somehow never found out just who the bad guy<em><strong> was.</strong></em>
</p>
<p>
	He never got a name, something that in spook-dom is considered something of a<em><strong> faux pas.</strong></em> Then again, no one else had either.
</p>
<p>
	Worse, Tsarni&#39;s&nbsp;vivid description seemed to be taken from personal observation, from, in other words&#8230;real life. But that isn&rsquo;t possible. Tsarni had stated he hadn&rsquo;t been physically in the presence of his Boston relatives since December 2005. And Misha, if he existed, didn&rsquo;t show up on the scene until 2008 at the earliest.
</p>
<p>
	Still,&nbsp; just a few days later, the entire family began chiming in. Misha anecdotes were flying fast &amp; furious, and the nation&rsquo;s scribblers were busy&nbsp;uncritically scribbling down their every word.
</p>
<h3>
	Maybe their Twitter account got hacked again?<br />
</h3>
<p>
	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/proxy.storify.com_.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-3804 alignleft" height="197" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/proxy.storify.com_-300x219.jpg" style="" title="proxy.storify.com" width="270" /></a>No performance was nearly as masterful, however, as that of the Associated Press.
</p>
<p>
	<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bomb-suspect-influenced-mysterious-radical" target="_blank"><strong>&ldquo;Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical,</strong>&rdquo;</a> reported the Associated Press.
</p>
<p>
	&quot;Tamerlan&#39;s relationship with Misha could be a clue in understanding the motives behind his religious transformation and, ultimately, the attack itself,&quot; reported the Associate Press. Only to take it all back in the very next line.
</p>
<p>
	&quot;Two U.S. officials say he had no tie to terrorist groups.&quot;
</p>
<p>
	The AP&rsquo;s &ldquo;story&rdquo; about the mysterious &ldquo;Misha&rdquo; was 1145 words, long enough for an editor to squeeze in a caveat.
</p>
<p>
	&ldquo;It was not immediately clear whether the FBI has spoken to Misha or was attempting to,&rdquo; the national wire service reported. &ldquo;Efforts over several days by The Associated Press to identify and interview Misha have been unsuccessful.&rdquo;
</p>
<h3>
	The big difference: when <em>you</em> do it, its conspiracy theory. When<em> we</em> do it, its informed speculation.<br />
</h3>
<p>
	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1915-armenian-genocide.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3788" height="277" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1915-armenian-genocide.jpg" style="" title="1915-armenian-genocide" width="276" /></a>In any other context, this might be seen as the rankest kind of &ldquo;conspiracy theory.&rdquo; But, apparently, when the Associated Press does it, its news.
</p>
<p>
	Then Uncle Ruslan made a clear mis-step.
</p>
<p>
	&nbsp;&ldquo;An uncle of the alleged bombers claims that Misha, an Armenian convert to Islam, had a huge influence on the elder brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.&nbsp; Describing him as an &quot;Armenia exorcist, Tsarni said, &ldquo;Somehow he just took his brain.&rdquo;
</p>
<p>
	Armenians are a deeply-rooted Christian community, which is proud of the fact that their country was the first in the world to adopt Christianity as state religion in 301 AD.
</p>
<p>
	Moreover this is the week every year when they remember the Armenian Holocaust, when as many as 1,000,000 Armenians were slaughtered by Turkish Muslims.
</p>
<p>
	In the large and close-knit Boston Armenian community, a red-bearded Armenian named Misha becoming a radicalized Muslim would stand out.
</p>
<p>
	&quot;I&#39;ve never heard of him, nor has anyone that I know,&quot; Hilda Avedissian, executive director at the Armenian Cultural &amp; Educational Centre.
</p>
<h3>
	So what if the guy was involved with biggest bank fraud in history?<br />
</h3>
<p>
	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/unicorn2-231x300.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3799" height="300" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/unicorn2-231x300.jpg" title="unicorn2-231x300" width="231" /></a>&quot;For an Armenian to convert to Islam is like finding a unicorn in a field,&quot; Nerses Zurabyan, 32, an information technology director<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/25/boston-marathon-bombing-tsarnaev-misha/2111333/" target="_blank"> who lives in nearby Cambridge told USA Today.</a>
</p>
<p>
	The report reveals that the bomber&rsquo;s Uncle, made famous for his outspoken condemnation of his nephew&rsquo;s which aired repeatedly on international news networks, is a well-connected oil executive who at one point worked for a Halliburton shell company used as a front to obtain oil contracts from the Kazakh State.
</p>
<p>
	Ruslon Tsarni was implicated in an investigation involving the laundering and theft of $6 billion. But everybody loves Uncle Ruslon. At least most of America&rsquo;s mainstream media does.
</p>
<p>
	There has, to date, been no speculation at all about whether an uncle of the men suspected of the bombing who had been involved in international intrigue at the hightest levels, and who married the daughter of a top CIA official, might warrant a closer look.
</p>
<p>
	It&rsquo;s enough, isn&rsquo;t it, to turn even reasonably rational adults into&mdash;gasp!&mdash;conspiracy theorists.
</p>
<p>
	&ldquo;News,&rdquo; someone once wrote, &ldquo;is selection. And selection is always &nbsp;based on an ideology and agenda, which is something to remember next time you watch, listen or read the &lsquo;news.&rsquo;&rdquo;
</p>
<p>
	Too true.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out on the ragged bleeding edge of the former Soviet Union, Ruslan Tsarni had a decade-long business relationship with Halliburton, the multinational juggernaut run by Dick Cheney before &#160;he became Vice President of the United States. Delving into the business &#8230; <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/04/24/boston-bombers-uncle-ruslan-was-halliburton-contractor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Out on the ragged bleeding edge of the former Soviet Union, Ruslan Tsarni had <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/big-sky-energy-corporation-announces-management-additions/" target="_blank">a decade-long business relationship </a>with Halliburton, the multinational juggernaut run by Dick Cheney before &nbsp;he became Vice President of the United States.</p>
<p>Delving into the business connections of &ldquo;Uncle Ruslan&rdquo; Tsarni, as he became known after <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/muslims-have-a-problem-uncle-ruslan-may-have-the-answer/2013/04/23/d8975c18-ab68-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html" target="_blank">his well-received condemnation</a> of the atrocities allegedly committed by his nephews Dzhokhar and Tamerlan at the Boston Marathon has led to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone of the Boston Marathon bombing.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Rosetta_Stone.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3693" height="522" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Rosetta_Stone.jpg" title="Stitched Panorama (10 images)" width="611" /></a></p>
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<p>Like the elaborately carved stone unearthed almost 200 years ago which led to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, digging through Ruslan Tsarni&rsquo;s curiculum vitae has yielded clues to unlocking the puzzling riddles left behind after last week&rsquo;s attack.</p>
<h3>Two oil fields with a side of natural gas, please</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/USAID-CIA.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3701" height="240" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/USAID-CIA.jpg" title="USAID-CIA" width="320" /></a>Reported first here two days ago, there has already been a big surprise in Ruslan Tsarni&rsquo;s background: Tsarni did a two-year stint, beginning in 1992, as a &ldquo;consultant&rdquo; for the<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/big-sky-energy-corporation-announces-management-additions/" target="_blank"> U.S. Agency for International Development</a> (USAID), in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan.</p>
<p>At a time when vast natural resources and enormous fortunes were &lsquo;in play&rsquo; &nbsp;during the economic free-for-all after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the 24-year old Tsarni was already a &lsquo;player.&rsquo;</p>
<p>Its long been an open secret that USAID is often used overseas to house CIA and other US intelligence operatives.</p>
<p>Oddly enough<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/18/usaid-moscow-putin-protest" target="_blank">, just six months ago</a> the country competing with the US for influence in the region, Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s Russia, unceremoniously kicked USAID out of Russia for, Putin spokesmen alleged, encouraging his political opposition.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Uncle-Ruslon.gif"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3704" height="190" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Uncle-Ruslon-300x190.gif" title="Uncle-Ruslon" width="300" /></a>However Ruslan&rsquo;s involvement with USAID, while suggestive, might still be irrelevant, were it not for the discovery of his decade-long involvement with companies in the orbit of the Sun God, Halliburton, which stands accused in numerous and increasingly-credible accounts as &quot;lead dog&quot; in an invading force of &ldquo;non-state actors.&rdquo;</p>
<p>All of this, mind, was in support of a noble cause. We were fighting communism. No, wait? We weren&#39;t anymore.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Still, we must have been fighting <em>something.</em> Wait. It&#39;ll come to me&#8230;Maybe it was a push to weaken Russia&rsquo;s grip over former Soviet Republics. That sounds like an admirable goal. Alas,&nbsp; the means chosen to achieve it involved providing covert U.S. support,<a href="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/04/19/usa-the-creator-sustainer-of-chechen-terrorism/" target="_blank"> in Chechnya, to Islamic terrorists.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2013/04/19/chechen-terrorists-and-the-neocons/" target="_blank">Haven&#39;t we all already see that movie?</a> No one with a functioning heart could be anxious to see it again. But, wait! Does Dick have a functioning heart?</p>
<h3>Friends Dick never got around to shooting</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Big-Al1.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-3710 alignright" height="300" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Big-Al1-251x300.gif" style="" title="Big-Al" width="251" /></a>All was in readiness for the launch of a deniable covert op (the best kind).&nbsp; In April 2005, Ruslan Tsarni was named an officer in an oil company in Kazakhstan, being run at the time by a man named<a href="http://www.yatedo.com/p/S.A.+%28Al%29+Sehsuvaroglu/normal/151fb21fe238bf59f9642ab6b80ce051" target="_blank"> S.A. (Al)&nbsp;Sehsuvaroglu.</a></p>
<p>Sehsuvaroglu had somewhat inexplicably left behind a 25-year career as a top executive a<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/big-sky-energy-corporation-announces-the-appointment-of-a-new-president/" target="_blank">t Dick Cheney&rsquo;s Halliburton</a>&mdash;his last job was as Senior Account Manager, Caspian Region; and Country Director, Kazakhstan&mdash;and had, just three months before &#39;Uncle Ruslan&#39; was hired, taken over a penny stock oil play called Big Sky Energy Corp&nbsp; (OTCBB:BSKO.OB).</p>
<p>Big Al and Uncle Ruslan already knew each other. Both men did time at Nelsen Resources, yet-another Halliburton-connected oilfield company active in Kazakhstan.</p>
<p>Even before that, <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/big-sky-energy-corporation-announces-management-additions/" target="_blank">Tsarni had landed, between 1999 and 2001, a</a>t Golden Eagle Partners LLC &nbsp;in Kazakhstan. Golden Eagle worked so closely with Halliburton, reported London&rsquo;s Financial Times, that both firms were convicted of collusion to breach confidentiality agreements.</p>
<p>For Uncle Ruslan, who was Golden Eagle&#39;s Head of Legal Affairs, it would have been, bery much, a case of &quot;my bad.&quot;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/lest-we1.gif"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3717" height="190" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/lest-we1-300x190.gif" title="lest-we" width="300" /></a>In a story headlined &ldquo;<a href="http://agonist.org/073/" target="_blank">Halliburton ethics called into question,&rdquo; o</a>n Jun 22, 2004, London&rsquo;s Financial Times reported that both companies had been convicted in Federal Court and fined a total of $70 million.</p>
<p>&ldquo;At a time when Halliburton is being charged with immoral and even illegal business practices in countries ranging from Iraq to Nigeria,&rdquo; the paper &nbsp;reported, &ldquo;a close reading of the court documents provides a disturbing backdrop.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Moreover the <a href="http://agonist.org/073/" target="_blank">questionable business practices </a>for which Halliburton was convicted took place under Dick Cheney, who court documents revealed had been very aware of what his minions like Ruslan Tsarni at Golden Eagle had been doing on his behalf.</p>
<h3>These were not, to put it kindly, self-made men</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/sunil.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3718" height="178" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/sunil.jpg" title="sunil" width="300" /></a>Still, while militant Chechen groups have been blamed for terror attacks in the past,&nbsp; their targets have usually been Russia, their bitter foe in the aucasus wars.</p>
<p>So why is this line of inquiry crucially relevent to the Boston Marathon bombings?</p>
<p>Consider: In the last several months, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had posted videos to YouTube indicating his interest in radical Muslim ideologies.</p>
<p>Moreover the Tsarnaev brothers are of Chechen heritage, born into the&nbsp; cauldron of the Caucasus; into a war which quickly boiled over until it had engulfed Chechen separatists, Russian security forces, Islamic extremists, &nbsp;and organized crime.</p>
<p>Last Friday, U.S. authorities said they had no proof that anybody beyond the two Tsarnaev brothers was involved in the marathon attacks. But they were not done looking.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ch3ech.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3726" height="243" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ch3ech-300x243.jpg" title="ch3ech" width="300" /></a>Then yesterday two law enforcement officials stated that they believe there is a &ldquo;Chechen connection&rdquo; to the bombings.</p>
<p>Ruslan Tsarni&rsquo;s personal and business background are in the same troubled region&mdash;Chechnya and the former Soviet Republics collectively known as the Stans&mdash;that is crucial to piecing together the narrative of his two nephews in the Boston Marathon bombing.</p>
<p>And as an officer with decades of experience working with companies doing business in a highly-volatile region, it is fair to question how much of Ruslan Tsarni&rsquo;s impassioned rant against his nephews owed to shame for his family&rsquo;s disgrace, and how much to rage at having his past revealed&mdash;as he had to have known it would be&mdash;in an unflattering light.</p>
<h3>A bleeding edge that really is&#8230;a bleeding edge</h3>
<p>You can look for clues out on the ragged bleeding edge of the Russian Federation in troubled Dagestan, and prowl the back alleys of Makhachkala on the Caspian Sea.</p>
<p>Or you can look in Almaty, out on the wind-swept steppes of Kazakhstan.</p>
<p>Or poke around tiny Bishkek, capital of the little &ldquo;Stan&rdquo; that could, the one no one&rsquo;s ever heard of, Kyrgyzstan.<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/map_of_russian_federation_1.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3729 alignright" height="263" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/map_of_russian_federation_1.gif" style="" title="map_of_russian_federation_1" width="350" /></a></p>
<p>Or trek to Tokmok, home to a large ethnic Chechen community, where you can seek out the former home of Anzor Tsarnaev, sitting right next door to that country&rsquo;s top Mob Boss, a man named Aziz Batukaev, who to the surprise of no one locally, just secured his early release from prison.</p>
<p>And you can marvel that it truly is a small world after all, when a train of events set in motion 6200 miles east of Boston came to shut down a major American city and transfix an entire nation for an week.</p>
<p>But if you&rsquo;re the type that prefers to get your travel fix watching Michael Palin trekking across a wall-mounted 60&rsquo; TV screen, you can turn your eyes to a man standing at the top of the driveway of a smart-looking $600,000 Federalist-style home in an upper-middle class planned community outside of Washington D.C.</p>
<p>Wearing blue jeans, flip-flops and a blue polo shirt, &ldquo;Uncle Ruslan&rdquo; Tsarni&rsquo;s vehement denunciation of his nephews won him thumbs up from everyone from Keith Olbermann on the left, who called him the &quot;definition of a great American,&quot; to John Podhoretz on the right, who said &ldquo;Ruslan Tsarni was the only good news of the week.&rdquo;</p>
<p>It seemed too good to be true. And it was.</p>
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		<title>Was Boston Bombers &#8216;Uncle Ruslan&#8217; with the CIA?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel Hopsicker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The uncle of the two men who set off bombs at the Boston Marathon, who struck the only grace note in an otherwise horrific week, worked as a &#8220;consultant&#8221; for the Agency for International Development (USAID) a U.S. Government Agency &#8230; <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/04/22/was-boston-bombers-uncle-ruslan-with-the-cia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The uncle of the two men who set off bombs at the Boston Marathon, who struck the only grace note in an otherwise horrific week, worked as a &ldquo;consultant&rdquo; for the Agency for International Development (USAID) a U.S. Government Agency often used for cover by agents of the CIA, in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan during the &ldquo;Wild West&rdquo; days of the early 1990&rsquo;s, when anything that wasn&rsquo;t nailed down in that country was up for grabs.</span></span></span>
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ruslan.gif"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3580" height="445" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ruslan.gif" title="Ruslan" width="650" /></a>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;Uncle Ruslan&rdquo; Tsarni of Montgomery Village Md., whose name was the top trending topic worldwide on Twitter last Friday for his plain-spoken condemnation of his two nephews, has had a checkered business career, that began well before he graduated (as Ruslan Z Tsarnaev) from Duke Law School in 1998.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tsarni, a well-connected oil executive,&nbsp; is currently involved in an international criminal investigation into a Kazakh billionaire banker-turned-fugitive alleged to have absconded with $6 billion from Kazakhstan&rsquo;s BTA Bank</span></span></span>.
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The story begins with <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/article621056.ece" target="_blank">The London Sunday Times on May 8, 2011,</a> which reported the sale of the personal home of England&rsquo;s Prince Andrew to billionaire Kazakh Oligarch Timur Kulibayev, who &ldquo;controls that country&rsquo;s oil industry and happens to be married to the daughter of its autocratic President Nursultan Nazarbayev.&rdquo;</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">What does that have to do with &quot;Uncle Ruslan?&quot; Let&#39;s take a look.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">&quot;Can&#39;t tell your Oligarchs without a scorecard&quot;</span><br />
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Gaga.gif"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3591" height="386" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Gaga.gif" title="Gaga" width="329" /></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Headlined <strong>&quot;Prince&#39;s home in &#39;laundered cash&#39; inquiry,&quot;</strong> the story raised several red flags. </span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">One was that the President-for-Life&rsquo;s son-in-law had paid $5 million over the asking price to purchase Prince Andrew&rsquo;s home, which raised eyebrows.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Red flags and eyebrows were raised still further, in these times of global near-depression, at the conspicuous oligarchic consumption (read: bad taste) exhibited when</span></span> <span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">the Kazakh President-for-Life&rsquo;s daughter-for-life Goga Ashkenazi celebrated her 30<sup>th</sup> birthday with a lavish party before the scandal hit.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Goga, who made her appearance in a Swarovski crystal-encrusted, backless lace dress, attended by</span></span> </span><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Prince-for-Life Andrew, was&nbsp; entertained by <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1255972/Goga-Ashkenazi-best-friends-Prince-Andrew-mistress-28m-mansion--badly-peasant-girl-Kazakhstan.html#ixzz2R8YGNY7v" target="_blank">fire-eaters, peacock-feathered stilt-walkers, and a girl swinging on a trapeze</a> pouring vodka into ice sculptures shaped like naked male and female torsos. </span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">There was even a woman suspended in a bird cage (true) who was there to direct guests to </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">strategically-placed </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">vomitoriums </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">(alas, not true) strewn</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> about the mansion grounds. </span></span></span>
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	Enter &quot;Uncle Ruslan&quot;<br />
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/uncle-ruslan2.gif"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3590" height="290" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/uncle-ruslan2.gif" title="uncle-ruslan2" width="333" /></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">But the biggest red flag, the one pertinent to murder in Boston, was Oligarch Kukibayev&#39;s use of money laundered through a network of offshore companies to attempt to hide his purchase of Prince Andrew&#39;s crib, which emerged during a legal battle between another billionaire Kazakh oligarch, Mukhtar Ablyazov, and BTA Bank, from which Kazakhstan claims Ablyazov embezzled a very cool $6 billion dollars.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">And this is where &ldquo;Uncle Ruslan&rdquo; Tsarni comes in</span></span></span>.
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">The purchase of the Prince&#39;s estate was put together</span></span></span>, <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">according to p</span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color:#000000;">rosecutors in Italy and Switzerland, by a group of oil executives who comprise &ldquo;a network of personal and business relationships&rdquo; allegedly used for &ldquo;international corruption,&quot; reported&nbsp; </span><a href="http://2012indyinfo.com/2012/05/27/money-laundering-probe-puts-spotlight-on-the-15-million-sale-of-the-duke-of-yorks-home-telegraph/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">The London Telegraph.</span></a></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tsarni, called <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&ldquo;a US lawyer who has had dealings in Kazakh business affairs,&rdquo; by the Sunday Times, clearly appears to be a member of that network.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The Sunday Times reported, &ldquo;A statement by Ruslan Zaindi Tsarni was given in the High Court in December, claiming that Kulibayev bought Sunninghill and properties in Mayfair with $96 million derived from a complex series of deals intended to disguise money laundering.&rdquo;</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;Tsarni alleged that the money came from the takeover of a western company, which had been used as a front to obtain oil contracts from the Kazakh state.&rdquo;</span></span></span>
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	A Big Big Sky&#39;s the Limit<br />
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Big-Al.gif"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3601" height="362" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Big-Al.gif" title="Big-Al" width="304" /></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The &ldquo;western company&rdquo; used to launder the money which the Sunday Times referred to is Big Sky Energy Corporation, where Ruslan Tsarni was a top executive.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Big Sky, which used to be known as China Energy Ventures Corp, is a now-bankrupt US oil company run by <a href="http://www.yatedo.com/p/S.A.+%28Al%29+Sehsuvaroglu/normal/151fb21fe238bf59f9642ab6b80ce051" target="_blank">S.A. (Al) Sehsuvaroglu</a>, a long-time executive of Halliburton, which had oil leases in Kakakhstan&rsquo;s Caspian Basin.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tsarni was Big Sky&rsquo;s Corporate Secretary and Vice President for Business Development. He joined Big Sky in 2005.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/big-sky-energy-corporation-announces-management-additions/" target="_blank">A press release announcing his appointment</a> stated:</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;Mr. Ruslan Tsarni, a U.S. citizen, has over 10 years of professional experience in oil and gas legislation and corporate law. Previously, Mr. Tsarni served as Corporate Counsel of Nelson Resources Limited Group as well as Managing Director of several of its operating subsidiaries.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Tsarni worked as Head of Legal Affairs of Golden Eagle Partners LLC.</span></span></span>
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	Big Sky was on <em>somebody&#39;s</em> watch list<br />
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Tsarni served as a consultant contracted by USAID for projects aimed to develop securities markets in Central Asia, where he trained corporate governance and corporate finance principals in state and private companies.&rdquo;</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">According to a source who worked for many years as a journalist at Platts Oilgram News, a respected oil industry trade publication, good corporate governance was not a Big Sky priority.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&ldquo;Nelson, Big Sky, Ablyazov, Kulibayev and the rest were all on my watch list for intelligence connections and pay-offs of various kinds at Platts,&rdquo; stated the source, who requested anonymity.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The news corroborates other reports</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> beginning to emerge about the family and its abundant connections.</span></span></span>
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	A &quot;connected&quot; family?<br />
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	<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Tokmok.gif"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3587" height="255" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Tokmok.gif" title="Tokmok" width="355" /></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Before the Tsarnaev family moved to the United States a decade ago, they lived in the northern Kyrgyz town of Tokmok, near the border with Kazakhstan, which is home of the country&#39;s largest ethnic Chechen community.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">The day after the massive manhunt in the Boston area that led to the death of Tamerlan and the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, </span><a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-childhood-family-kyrgyzstan-chechnya-daghestan/24963691.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">Radio Free Europe and Kyrgyz Service </span></a><span style="color:#000000;">correspondent Timur Toktonaliev traveled to Tokmok.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">From there, he reported that the extended Tsarnaev family is well-known there, even beyond their local community.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">&ldquo;It is not known if there was anything more than a personal connection,&rdquo; the story reported, &ldquo;but organized crime boss Aziz Batukaev, who is also an ethnic Chechen, lived next door to the Tsarnaevs. Batukaev grew up and lived in Tokmok, but is now in Chechnya.</span></span></span>
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	<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Halliburton executives, suspected CIA assets, Chechnyan crime bosses, oligarchs stealing billions from banks and laundering money with seeming impunity,&nbsp; fire-eaters, peacock-feathered stilt-walkers, and a girl swinging on a trapeze pouring vodka into ice sculptures shaped like naked male and female torsos&#8230;</span></span></span>
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	<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If there hadn&#39;t been two of them, the investigation would already be pointing to a single misfit, a lone nut bomber.</span></span></span></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">If you&rsquo;re the kind of man who occasionally relinquishes the remote and &ldquo;watches what she wants for a change,&rdquo; you may already understand that there are strange and valuable truths which conjoin very different worlds.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/HuffmanAlums1.gif"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3409" height="461" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/HuffmanAlums1.gif" title="HuffmanAlums" width="650" /></a></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">One day you&#39;re in&#8230;</span></h3>
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<p>The world of drug kingpins has something important in common with that of the fashion designers struggling to stay alive on cable TV&rsquo;s &ldquo;Project Runway.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;In Fashion,&rdquo; intones Supermodel host Heidi Klum, on every episode, &quot;One day you&rsquo;re In, and the next day&hellip;You&rsquo;re Out!&rdquo;</p>
<p>Huffman &lsquo;henchman&rsquo; Rudi Dekkers, in Houston, and former Turks &amp; Caicos Premier Michael Misick, in Brazil, were busted within hours of each other last December.</p>
<p>When two famous but seemingly-unrelated high fliers get sent to the &#39;penalty box&#39; at the same time, it&rsquo;s usually an indication that both were playing for the same team.</p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">The biggest historical example is, of course, the Medellin Cartel.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Minions of the Millenium</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/FRATER-BRASSINGTON.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3467 alignright" height="221" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/FRATER-BRASSINGTON.gif" style="" title="FRATER-BRASSINGTON" width="288" /></a>A little digging yields the conclusion that both Rudi Dekkers and Michael Misick have firm connections with what might once have been called the </span><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/07272009.htm" target="_blank">&lsquo;Huffman Aviation Crime Family&#39;, </a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">named for the drug trafficking organization which as a sideline ran a flight school training terrorists to fly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Their infamy is such that each man deserves a moment in the spotlight.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Michael Misick&rsquo;s Huffman Aviation Crime Family pedigree is through his partner, the currently-incarcerated <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/the-brassington-files/" target="_blank">Michael Francis Brassington,</a> a pilot who was a favorite of Huffman Aviation front man Wally Hilliard.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Brassington&#39;s introduction to Hilliard and the Huffman Crime Family came though another Hilliard employee, Kevin Frater, who spent several years on <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/frater.htm" target="_blank">the DEA&#39;s Top Ten List.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Brassington was flying<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/issue32.html" target="_blank"> </a></span><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/issue32.html" target="_blank">co-pilot on Hilliard&#39;s Lear jet</a> <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">one day when it was busted <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/orlando_sentinel.htm" target="_blank">carrying 43 lbs. of heroin onboard. </a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/N351WB.gif"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3502" height="169" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/N351WB-300x169.gif" title="N351WB" width="300" /></a>A few weeks after his Learjet was busted, Huffman Crime Family jefe Wally Hilliard <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/appendix2/trans1.html" target="_blank">applied in Federal court</a> to get his Learjet back, claiming to be an &quot;innocent owner.&quot;&nbsp; His request was vigorously opposed by (of all people) the DEA. In a hearing on November 3, 2000 Federal Magistrate Judge James Glazebrook denied Hilliard&#39;s motion.</p>
<p>Hilliard lost his Lear jet. &quot;Wally took a big hit on that one,&quot; stated an aviation executive who worked for Hilliard at the Naples Airport. &quot;The DEA was not going to let him have that plane back.&quot;</p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Essence-Magazine-Black-Hairstyles-Black-WomenCelebrity-1.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3475 alignright" height="149" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Essence-Magazine-Black-Hairstyles-Black-WomenCelebrity-1.gif" style="" title="Essence Magazine, Black Hairstyles, Black Women,Celebrity ~1" width="270" /></a>During much of the first decade of the 21st century, Michael Misick and Michael Brassington <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/02172009.html" target="_blank">ran amok across the Caribbean, </a>flying luxury Gulfstream jets funded <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/02202009.html" target="_blank">by silent partners in Miami,</a> and smuggling enough drugs into Florida for Misick to be able to brag to his Hollywood starlet girlfriend (who quickly thereafter became his wife) that he went from nothing to being worth more than <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michael-misick-turks-and-caicos-premier-who-left-office-with-180m-fortune-arrested-8393734.html" target="_blank">$180 million </a>in the virtual blink of an eye.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Misick will be remembered in history books as the man who was so corrupt that Great Britain was forced to resurrect the British Empire for a day, and <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/turksandcaicosislands/5543623/Britain-to-impose-direct-rule-on-Turks-and-Caicos.html" target="_blank">take back a former colony</a> that had already been granted independence, just to save it from his clutches.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">If anything, the truth about Rudi Dekkers is even more astonishing.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">A total dereliction of journalistic duty</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rudi-dekkers-171.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3423 alignleft" height="193" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rudi-dekkers-171.gif" style="" title="rudi-dekkers (17)" width="243" /></a>An important fact about the major media&#39;s lack of investigative zeal after the 9/11 attack that has never appeared anywhere before:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">The official explanation of the 9/11 attack, the most spectacular crime of the still-young 21st century, relied heavily on the eyewitness testimony of a man who had been convicted just a few years earlier of <a href="http://ppia.wikia.com/wiki/Guilty_by_Association_%28book%29" target="_blank">embezzling $30 million</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">That man&#39;s name is Rudi Dekkers. Dutch prosecutors called his 1993 conviction in the Netherlands for embezzlement &quot;the handiwork of organized crime.&quot;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Was this inconvenient knowledge something of a sticky wicket to mainstream journalists like Tom Brokow or New York Timesman Hedrick Smith?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Did his increasingly-elaborate stories about Mohamed Atta, who on the day after the 9/11 attack he claimed to have seen only once, arouse suspicion? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Were his obvious lies treated with even the tiniest pinch of salt?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">They </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rudi-dekkers-18.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3482 alignright" height="186" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rudi-dekkers-18.gif" style="" title="rudi-dekkers (18)" width="270" /></a></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">were not. Worse, during the literally thousands of interviews Dekkers did with network news anchors and newspaper reporters, his checkered past was never mentioned. Not even <em><strong>once.</strong></em></span></p>
<p>Can you imagine the American mainstream media treating anyone <strong><em>else </em></strong>with such kid gloves on a matter of such critical national importance?</p>
<p>So where did Rudi Dekkers get his juice?</p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">According to his own testimony, when Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi arrived at Huffman Aviation, it was Dekkers who was there to greet them and assign them bunks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">His eyewitness account immediately became the primary source for the official story for the time Mohamed Atta spent under the tutelage of the American aviation industry.&nbsp; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">It was given instant credibility in the mainstream press, which then turned around and began pooh-poohing anyone with contradictory information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">&quot;But what if he&#39;s lying&quot; was a question considered beyond the pale.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">&quot;Still Lying After All These Years&quot;</span></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Charlie.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3492 alignleft" height="311" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Charlie.gif" style="" title="Charlie" width="227" /></a>It&#39;s not as if Rudi Dekkers&#39; penchant for lying wasn&#39;t already well-known. Yet not one mainstream media journalist bothered to scrape the surface to reveal the hidden horrors &nbsp;underneath.</p>
<p>Huffman Aviation&#39;s bookeeper, Charlie Voss, who housed Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi for a week after they arrived, said bluntly about his former boss, &quot;If his lips are moving, he&rsquo;s lying.&quot;</p>
<p>Interviews with aviation executives at&nbsp; the Venice and Naples Airports in Southwest Florida revealed that those who worked with him were unanimous in stating that Dekkers is well-known for playing fast and loose with the truth.</p>
<p>&ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t have a lot of credibility,&rdquo;said Coy Jacob, who owned an aviation dealership next door to Huffman Aviation at the Venice Municipal Airport. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s common knowledge around the airport that you can&rsquo;t believe what he says.&rdquo;</p>
<p>His well-known difficulties in telling the truth were catalogued ( <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/09112011.htm" target="_blank">&ldquo;Why Rudi Dekkers Can&rsquo;t Stop Lying,&rdquo; </a>) in this space. What he did next in Houston&nbsp; is still shocking&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Bob-Casey-Federal-Courthouse-on-Rusk-with-US-Flags.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3508" height="225" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Bob-Casey-Federal-Courthouse-on-Rusk-with-US-Flags.jpg" title="Bob-Casey-Federal-Courthouse-on-Rusk-with-US-Flags" width="300" /></a>Dekkers has such obviously sociopathic tendencies that he even thought he could get away with lying in written responses he gave under penalty of perjury to a Federal Court Magistrate in a hearing to determine whether he qualified for bail.</p>
<p>Turns out, when 9/11 took place, Rudi Dekkers wasn&rsquo;t even in the US legally.</p>
<p>U.S. Magistrate George C. Hanks&rsquo; &nbsp;<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=3403" target="_blank">noted that Dekkers&rsquo; US residency</a> status was &ldquo;unclear&rdquo;&nbsp; and he was subject to deportation.</p>
<p>Moreover, the judge&rsquo;s order went on to state that Dekkers &ldquo;lacks any real financial assets and lacks gainful employment.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>In applying for bail, Dekkers asserted he was living with his wife and son. The judge didn&rsquo;t think so. &ldquo;Although he told the court he lives with his wife and their 4-year-old son in Florida,&rdquo; Magistrate Hanks noted, &ldquo;evidence indicated that his&nbsp; wife was actually living in Cuba.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But, in fact, it now appears certain that when he applied for bail, Dekkers and Katia, his Cuban-born wife, had <strong><em>already divorced.</em></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Robert+Allen+Stanford+Allen+Stanford+Attends+hs7a6V13riZx.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3510" height="240" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Robert+Allen+Stanford+Allen+Stanford+Attends+hs7a6V13riZx-259x300.jpg" style="" title="Robert+Allen+Stanford+Allen+Stanford+Attends+hs7a6V13riZx" width="207" /></a>For some time, her Facebook page has indicated<a href="https://www.facebook.com/katia.dekkers" target="_blank"> her status as &ldquo;divorced.&rdquo;</a> Moreover Rudi Dekkers&rsquo;<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/marred.png" target="_blank"> own Facebook page </a>indicates that he re-wed (to a person or persons unknown) last October, several months <strong><em>before </em></strong>he was busted.</p>
<p>At the Bob Casey Federal Courthouse in Houston, the same place where another crook named Allen Stanford had his &#39;get out of jail free&#39; card revoked several years ago, Dekkers was denied bond with a resounding &ldquo;no,&rdquo; from Magistrate Hanks. That was mid-December.</p>
<p>By the first of the year he was out on bail.</p>
<h3><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Where did Rudi Dekkers Get His &#39;Juice?&#39;</span></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/UncleWalter.gif"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3515" height="194" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/UncleWalter.gif" title="UncleWalter" width="250" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Rudi Dekkers is <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/delay1.pdf" target="_blank">scheduled to go on trial </a>in Houston next month for cocaine and heroin </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">trafficking, unless, that is, something happens between now and then. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Courthouse observers suggest the trial will never take place.&nbsp; They note that Dekkers&rsquo; defense lawyers continue to attempt to hammer out a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office before he goes on trial.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Will Dekkers&mdash;facing as long as 20 years in Federal prison&mdash;get a sweetheart deal? And if he does, will it be in exchange for his <em><strong>testimony</strong></em>&hellip;or his<strong><em> silence?</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Hanging in the balance is the answer to one of 9/11&rsquo;s biggest mystery: Where did Rudi Dekkers get his &quot;juic</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">e?&quot;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Who is responsible for this abject failure of the democratic ideal of an informed citizenry, of what Walter Cronkite called &ldquo;the public&rsquo;s right to know?&rdquo;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/f.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3516" height="250" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/f.gif" style="" title="f" width="274" /></a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">The answer is clearly illustrated in the unlikeliest of places: The New York Times, in an op-ed piece headlined &ldquo;Greece&rsquo;s Rotten Oligarchy&rdquo; about a journalist in a country whose oligarchy decides what is&mdash;and what is not&mdash;news.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Greece&rsquo;s rotten oligarchy, writes Kostas Vaxevanis, is a &ldquo;tiny elite of business people who live off the Greek state while passing themselves off as &ldquo;entrepreneurs.&rdquo; They bribe politicians to get fat government contracts, usually at inflated prices. They also own many of the country&rsquo;s media outlets, and thus manage to ensure that their actions are clothed in silence.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Several years ago, Christine Lagarde, then the French finance minister (and now the head of the International Monetary Fund), gave the Greek government a list of roughly 2,000 Greek citizens (called the Lagarde List) with Swiss bank accounts, to help uncover tax fraud.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">&ldquo;</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">&ldquo;Rich people were evading taxes while their desperate fellow citizens were searching the trash for food. But w</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">hen Hot Doc, <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=el&amp;u=http://www.hotdoc.gr/&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhot%2Bdoc%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D910&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=W7pUUZ6FBIvu9ASiuYD4Dw&amp;ved=0CDQQ7gEwAA" target="_blank">the monthly magazine I edit</a> and publish, made the list public in October, I was arrested and charged with violating personal privacy, but was acquitted,&rdquo; Vaxvenis wrote.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Protests-over-Wall-Street-spread-nationwide-F8EKDE7-x-large.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3525" height="220" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Protests-over-Wall-Street-spread-nationwide-F8EKDE7-x-large.jpg" title="Protests-over-Wall-Street-spread-nationwide-F8EKDE7-x-large" width="300" /></a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">&ldquo;The result didn&rsquo;t please those in power. So I am being brought back for a second trial. Throughout the entire process &mdash; the publication of the list, my arrest, my acquittal &mdash; the Greek media were absent.&quot;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">&quot;The case was a top story in the international press, but not in the country where it took place.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">In Greece, a courageous real journalist went up against the oligarchy. The result was not very&nbsp; pretty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Alas, it is a country that is not altogether different from my own.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venezuela is a country in mourning over their late president, Hugo Chavez. &#34;The fight goes on! Chavez lives!&#34; shouted the mourners in unison, many through eyes red from crying late into the night. But even as&#160; his flag-draped coffin floats &#8230; <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/03/08/who-killed-hugo-chavez/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Venezuela is a country in mourning over their late president, Hugo Chavez. &quot;The fight goes on! Chavez lives!&quot; shouted the mourners in unison, many through eyes red from crying late into the night. But even as&nbsp; his flag-draped coffin floats over a sea of supporters on its way to the cemetery today, &ldquo;conspiracy theories&rdquo; continue to&nbsp; spread about a CIA role in his passing.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-03-06T164759Z_1084258638_GM1E937021G01_RTRMADP_3_VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ-COFFIN-980x600.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3338" height="398" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-03-06T164759Z_1084258638_GM1E937021G01_RTRMADP_3_VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ-COFFIN-980x600.jpg" title="2013-03-06T164759Z_1084258638_GM1E937021G01_RTRMADP_3_VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ-COFFIN-980x600" width="650" /></a></p>
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<p>If the tone of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/in-the-end-chavez-was-an-awful-manager.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">a piece in the New York Times </a>on the day of Chavez&rsquo;s death offers any indication, official Washington very much wanted him dead.&nbsp; &ldquo;In Caracas, Venezuela, you could tell a summit meeting mattered to Hugo Chavez when government workers touched up the city&rsquo;s rubble,&rdquo; the story began. <em><strong>Ouch!</strong></em> Whatever happened to speaking only good about the dead?</p>
<p>&nbsp;So, <strong><em>did</em></strong> the CIA &lsquo;give&rsquo; Hugo Chavez cancer? No one knows.</p>
<p>On the other hand, something<em><strong> is </strong></em>known on a more interesting question: <em><strong>&ldquo;Could</strong></em> the CIA have given Chavez cancer?</p>
<p>There is good evidence, from at least three separate sources, which indicates the Agency has been taking the question of whether they could develop ways to induce cancer very seriously&hellip; for the past 50 years.</p>
<p>But first, a brief recap on the current situation, and the questions being asked.</p>
<h3>&quot;A riddle wrapped in an enigma&quot;</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/6a00e55005baf388340120a8b8900c970b-320wi.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3341" height="220" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/6a00e55005baf388340120a8b8900c970b-320wi.jpg" title="6a00e55005baf388340120a8b8900c970b-320wi" width="320" /></a>Trying to make sense of what&rsquo;s happening in Venezuela today is as difficult as Kremlinologists during the Cold War cobbling together who&rsquo;s up and who&rsquo;s down in the Kremlin based on nothing more than the top brass&rsquo; arrangement on the viewing platform during the annual May Day parade.</p>
<p>Today in Venezuela, conditions seem akin to those in America in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack. Until the day he died, there was a very real news blackout on Hugo Chavez&rsquo; true condition. And only the Chavista rank and file are said to believe the official story.</p>
<p>The time, cause, and location of Chavez&#39;s death is disputed. Where he died is a particular issue.</p>
<p>Chavez was faulted for seeking treatment in Cuba until the bitter end, even though Brazil&rsquo;s Lula offered him the best cancer treatment center in Brazil (Sao Paulo&#39;s Syrian-Lebanese hospital).</p>
<p>Guillermo Cochez, a Panamanian diplomat, gave interviews to&nbsp; Spanish newspapers a week ago saying that Chavez was dead. His life support had been switched off four days previously, Cochez said, at the request of his daughters.</p>
<h3>The Cuban (and Vatican?) Connection</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hugo_chavez_che-guevara1.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3345" height="260" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hugo_chavez_che-guevara1.jpg" style="" title="hugo_chavez_che-guevara" width="240" /></a>Chavez died in Cuba on New Years&rsquo; Eve, say others, pointedly noting, in all seriousness, that the Vatican&#39;s chief embalmer was in Cuba the first week of January.</p>
<p>Then, on the day before Chavez died, two U.S. military attaches were expelled for allegedly trying to destabilize the nation. U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell denied charges that Washington was trying to destabilize Venezuela.</p>
<p>The suggestion that the United States had a hand in Chavez&#39;s illness, he said, was &quot;absurd.&quot;</p>
<p>What&rsquo;s not absurd, say local observers, is that, all of a sudden, a lot of money is at stake.</p>
<p>Chavez had been tight with the Castro&rsquo;s&mdash;Fidel and Raul&mdash;for the past ten years. He entrusted them with everything from his personal security detail to running the political police, most of the country&#39;s strategic assets, and providing Cuba with an estimated yearly subsidy of $10 billion.</p>
<p>It is a subsidy, opposition observers suggest darkly, the Cubans will not part with willingly.</p>
<p>Thus setting the stage for the fierce debate currently in progress&#8230;</p>
<h3>Amigo, there&#39;s a lot of cancer going around</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1209_World_OCHAVEZ_full_600.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3347" height="233" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1209_World_OCHAVEZ_full_600.jpg" title="1209_World_OCHAVEZ_full_600" width="350" /></a>Chavez&rsquo;s handpicked successor, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/hugo-chavez-successor-nicolas-maduro_n_2817965.html" target="_blank">Nicolas Maduro,</a> said the president had been &quot;attacked&quot; by the country&#39;s &quot;historical enemies&quot; and called for a scientific investigation. Maduro went so far as to call Chavez&rsquo;s death an assassination, according to The Washington Post.</p>
<p>Chavez himself <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079680/Hugo-Chavez-says-US-giving-South-American-leaders-cancer.html" target="_blank">had earlier suggested </a>several times that the U.S. might have &ldquo;invented technology to spread cancer.&rdquo; And he warned his allies, left-wing heads of state Evo Morales of Bolivia and Ecuador&#39;s Rafael Correa, that they could be targeted next.</p>
<p>He pointed out that five major leaders in South America, including himself,&nbsp; all got cancer around the same time.&nbsp; The popular former leader, of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was diagnosed with throat cancer, and Brazil&#39;s current president Dilma Rousseff has also been struck by the disease.</p>
<p>Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has thyroid cancer. Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, 60, was diagnosed with lymphoma in August 2010.</p>
<p>And now&hellip;it was Chavez&rsquo;s turn.</p>
<h3>No nonsense. No kidding.</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/foreignpolicy.com-screen-capture-2013-3-7-21-56-28.png"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3350" height="213" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/foreignpolicy.com-screen-capture-2013-3-7-21-56-28.png" title="foreignpolicy.com screen capture 2013-3-7-21-56-28" width="320" /></a>Nonsense, replied several American news organizations. The best evidence the CIA wasn&#39;t involved? Logic.</p>
<p>&quot;It&#39;s just not effective,&quot; Kel McClanahan, a D.C.-based national security lawyer who has studied CIA habits for years, <a href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/06/the_cia_didnt_give_chavez_cancer_but_crazier_things_have_happened" target="_blank">told Foreign Policy</a>. &quot;While some cancers can be intentionally induced, they take years to kill you. If an intelligence agency wants you dead, it wants you dead now.&rdquo;<br />
	&nbsp;<br />
	&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t &lsquo;give&rsquo; someone cancer&rdquo; declared the president of the American Cancer Society <a href="http://blogs.elcomercio.pe/cuidatusalud/2013/03/la-muerte-de-hugo-chavez.html" target="_blank">Elmer Huerta</a>, an oncologist and cancer researcher. &quot;That&#39;s impossible. To poison someone with a toxic chemical to develop cancer would require &quot;a very long exposure time&quot; with constant doses.&rdquo;</p>
<p>And South American newspapers are quoting Argentinean oncologist, Luis Romero Acu&ntilde;a, who concurs, calling the conspiracy theory &quot;madness.&quot;</p>
<h3>Not madness, doc. Madness takes its toll</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/51x0wfnOBxL._BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3351" height="274" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/51x0wfnOBxL._BO2204203200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-clickTopRight35-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" title="51x0wfnOBxL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_" width="250" /></a>No, doc. It&#39;s not &quot;madness.&quot; I know something first-hand about the topic of cancer and the CIA, as do two&nbsp; authors who have written much more extensively about it than I have.</p>
<p>In the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Me-Lee-Came-Harvey-Oswald/product-reviews/0979988675" target="_blank">&quot;Me and Lee&quot;</a> Judyth Vary Baker asserts she worked for a program in the early 60&rsquo;s to give Castro cancer.</p>
<p>A science prodigy, Judyth Vary Baker was only 19 when she was manipulated into joining an off-the-books CIA project&nbsp; where she met Lee Harvey Oswald, in New Orleans for the summer to pretend to be a pro-Castro activist in order to gain credibility with the Cuban government.</p>
<p>The project, she says, was being run by David Ferrie for Dr. Alton Ochsner, head of the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. By the end of the summer, they had developed a strain of &quot;galloping&quot; cancer and had tested it on monkeys as well as mice. All that remained was to test it on humans.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/112.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3352" height="273" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/112.jpg" style="" title="112" width="200" /></a>Ed Haslam, whose father worked under Oschner at Tulane University, concurs. He used the 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher to set the stage for a gripping expos&eacute; of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations in his book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0977795306/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk" target="_blank">&quot;Dr. Mary&rsquo;s Monkey&quot;.</a></p>
<p>The book offers evidence proving that JFK assassination prosecutor Jim Garrison was right when he alleged CIA agent David Ferrie was experimenting with cancer-causing viruses for the CIA. The point was to kill Fidel Castro with cancer.</p>
<p>My interest in David Ferrie was because he was, always, first and foremost a pilot, who had personally recruited the most famous pilot in CIA&nbsp; history, Barry Seal. Seal was the focus of my book<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/store.html" target="_blank">, &ldquo;Barry &amp; the boys.</a>&rdquo;</p>
<p>When he recruited Barry Seal, Ferrie was running a fleet of fivr DC&rsquo;s out of Lakefront Airport for the CIA.&nbsp; The Southern Air Wing, if you like.</p>
<p>Ferrie died&mdash;murdered, most believe today&mdash;in 1967.</p>
<h3>The New Orleans Station</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Copy_of_ferrie.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3357" height="278" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Copy_of_ferrie.jpg" style="" title="Copy_of_ferrie" width="194" /></a>While reading court documents from Seal&#39;s trial in 1972&nbsp; for running weapons and explosives, I came across a transcript where a Seal associate who&#39;d gone to work for the FBI was wearing a wire. In it, he boasted to an undercover US Customs agent in New York that the organization could deliver weapons anywhere in the world&#8230; <em>with their fleet of 5 DC3&#39;s.</em></p>
<p>After Ferrie&#39;s death, CIA pilot Barry Seal had been given control of the same fleet of five DC3&#39;s that David Ferrie had been in charge of during the &#39;60&#39;s.</p>
<p>From New Orleans natives, who knew Ferrie at the time, <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/store.html" target="_blank">I heard stories </a>consistent with Haslam and Baker&#39;s, that he was attempting to induce cancer in lab mice kept in cages in his clandestine laboratories.</p>
<p>But what made them believable was when I discovered that, of the many fringe controversies swirling around Dave Ferrie&#39;s life, the &quot;fringe-iest&quot; one&mdash;that Ferrie was a gifted hypnotist&mdash;was, beyond the shadow of a doubt,<strong><em> true.</em></strong></p>
<p>Ferrie associate Jack Martin&rsquo;s, in his first FBI interview, had been the first to suggest that Oswald had been several times hypnotized by Ferrie. Martin suggested he may have then somehow ordered Oswald to go to Dallas and kill the President.</p>
<p>After a long search I found and interviewed several of Ferrie&rsquo;s most prominent Civil Air Patrol acolytes. I wanted to know about flying. But one of them, Eddie Shearer, who knew and worked with Dave Ferrie, brought the subject of hypnotism up himself.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Copy_of_civilsairseal.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3358" height="222" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Copy_of_civilsairseal.jpg" style="" title="Copy_of_civilsairseal" width="180" /></a>&quot;More things in heaven and earth Horatio&quot;</h3>
<p>Shearer gave unsolicited first-hand testimony about Ferrie&#39;s preoccupation with hypnotism, and his ability to hypnotize people, that confirmed Martin&rsquo;s account.</p>
<p>&quot;The hypnotism thing with Dave Ferrie was the one thing about him that bothered me the most,&quot; Sheare stated. &quot;One time I remember, we were marching in formation&mdash;drilling&mdash;out at Lakefront Airport, getting ready to go to the CAP nationals drill competition. And this kid was twirling a &lsquo;guidon&rsquo;&mdash;a metal thing, a fleur de lis on the top of the pole with the units&#39; colors&mdash;and it got away from him and it cut his hand up pretty good. I mean a real deep gash.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;And the kid gets up, holding his hand, and there&#39;s blood running all down his arm past his elbow, and Dave walks over to him and puts his hand out in front of the kid&#39;s face, like he&#39;s giving him a stiff-arm, and says, &#39;Sleep. You will feel sensation but no pain,&#39;&quot; Shearer continued.</p>
<p>&quot;And then, while we&#39;re all waiting for an ambulance to take the kid to the hospital, the kid is bleeding all over, but he&#39;s not in pain anymore now, okay? And then Dave goes over to him again, and says to him, &#39;You will stop bleeding.&#39;&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;And he did.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;Now, later, when I was in the Air Force,&quot; Shearer continued, &quot;I learned that this is all possible, that it can be done. But it can&#39;t be done with a subject unless you&#39;ve been working, hypnotically, with that subject for a pretty long period of time. You can&#39;t just walk over to someone, in other words, and tell them to stop bleeding.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;So it became clear to me that Dave Ferrie had been working hypnosis with that kid for a long time&hellip;without anyone knowing it. At least I had never heard of it before, and I spent a lot of time out there, hanging around that airport.&quot;</p>
<h3>Biological precedent</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1362537753.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3363 alignright" height="234" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1362537753.jpg" style="" title="1362537753" width="350" /></a>Before returning to Chavez, it may be important to note that his death is not the first time a supposed natural death of a high-profile international politician has been the subject of controversy and speculation.</p>
<p>Last year the body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was exhumed amid claims his death in 2004 was caused by poisoning.</p>
<p>Following an assassination attempt in late 2004 during his election campaign, Ukrainian President Yushchenko suffered disfigurement when he was poisoned with the most powerful dioxin, from which he is still recovering.</p>
<p>Most observers fingered the KGB.</p>
<p>And just last week the British government tried to censor information to be disclosed at a planned inquest into the death of former KGB officer <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/world/europe/british-media-to-challenge-secrecy-bid-in-litvinenko-case.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Alexander Litvinenko</a>, who died of radiation poisoning in London six years ago, in a suspected KGB &#39;hit.&rsquo;</p>
<p>There was the poisoning by umbrella-tip of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, assassinated by the KGB in 1978 using an &ldquo;umbrella gun&rdquo; that shot a ricin pellet.&nbsp; Markov died three days later.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/40881065_jackruby_ap_238.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3368" height="178" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/40881065_jackruby_ap_238.jpg" title="_40881065_jackruby_ap_238" width="238" /></a>And, of course, there&#39;s Jack Ruby, who died of cancer in prison in 1967, and who told guards he had been injected with cancer-causing agents.</p>
<p>Even for his American admirers, Chavez was no saint. Although he lived in a country not know for them, he had a troubling record on protecting basic democratic freedoms.&nbsp; His rein also coincided with a boom in violent crime.</p>
<p>But Chavez did not become a U.S. bugaboo because of squeamishness in Washington about democratic norms. It was because his full-throated advocacy of socialism represented a fundamental critique of neoliberal economics.</p>
<p>Even worse, it also delivered <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracle" target="_blank">some indisputably positive results</a>.</p>
<p>So, is it &quot;madness&quot; to suspect something other than the hand of God in the demise of Hugo Chavez?</p>
<p>No one knows. But even if it&#39;s not, there&#39;s been a lot of it going around.</p>
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		<title>Source: Rudi Dekkers drug case &#8220;will never go to trial&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming trial in Houston of Rudi Dekkers for drug trafficking&#160; has been pushed back and may now never happen, according to a lawyer close to the case. &#8220;The case has been continued, and a plea agreement is in the &#8230; <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/03/06/source-rudi-dekkers-drug-case-will-never-go-to-trial/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>The upcoming trial in Houston of <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2012/12/14/finally-rudi-dekkers-behind-bars-for-drug-trafficking/" target="_blank">Rudi Dekkers for drug trafficking</a>&nbsp; has been pushed back and may now never happen, according to a lawyer close to the case.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The case<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/delay.pdf" target="_blank"> has been continued</a>, and a plea agreement is in the works,&rdquo; said the attorney, who asked for anonymity.&nbsp; &ldquo;The case will never go to trial. That&rsquo;s all I can say.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The Asst U.S. Attorney declined comment, as did a representative from Floyd Carlson Choate, the prominent Houston law firm <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mot.pdf" target="_blank">recently retained by Dekkers</a>. In a brief phone conversation in which he declined comment, partner Chistopher Choate confirmed he is from the old New England family whose name adorns prestigious Connecticut boarding school Choate.</p>
<p>In the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, it was Rudi Dekkers&#39; running account of the character and personality of Mohamed Atta and the other terrorists which transfixed a nation and the world. He was everywhere on television.</p>
<p>The controversial Dekkers&mdash;who managed the Venice Florida flight school which trained both terrorists who crashed airliners into the World Trade Center&mdash; was arrested in the parking lot of a flight school in Houston in early December carrying&nbsp; a suitcase stuffed with two pounds of heroin and more than 80 lbs of cocaine.</p>
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<h3>Dekkers &quot;a drug pilot for years.&quot;</h3>
<p>The trial<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rudi-dekkers-23.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3294" height="301" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rudi-dekkers-23.jpg" title="rudi-dekkers (23)" width="277" /></a> was set to begin February 23.&nbsp; But on January 18 Dekkers&rsquo; lawyers filed what the<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/?attachment_id=3327" target="_blank"> court docket calls a &ldquo;Sealed Event.</a>&rdquo;&nbsp; Then on February 7 the judge issued an &ldquo;Order on a Sealed Motion.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In this case &ldquo;sealed&rdquo; means that&mdash;even if you&rsquo;re a member of the general public affected by the events of September 11 2001 (as who among us was not?)&mdash;you&rsquo;re not allowed to know..</p>
<p>According to the affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, a drug kingpin named Arturo Astorquiza, described as &ldquo;the head of an international drug trafficking organization (DTO),&rdquo; introduced Rudi Dekkers to an associate of his<em>, </em>who he did not yet know was an undercover agent.&quot;</p>
<p>Dekkers told the agent, <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/dekkers.pdf" target="_blank">quoting the affidavit, </a>that he was &ldquo;involved in narcotics transportation using private aircraft and that he has flown narcotics and currency previously without any problem.&rdquo;</p>
<p>What Dekkers actually said was phrased in a less bureaucratic fashion. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been a drug pilot for years. Drugs. Money. No problem. What do you need?&rdquo;</p>
<h3>4th Hilliard &#39;associate&#39; convicted of drug&nbsp; trafficking</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rudi-dekkers-17.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3277 alignright" height="197" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rudi-dekkers-17.gif" style="" title="rudi-dekkers (17)" width="263" /></a></p>
<p>A week later, agents arrested &nbsp;&ldquo;drug kingpin&rdquo; Astorquiza in the parking lot of his Houston condo.</p>
<p>Dekkers was arrested six weeks later.</p>
<p>With a guilty plea, hopes that Dekkers&rsquo;&nbsp; trial for drug trafficking will become an opportunity to illuminate the criminality of some of shadowy financier Wally Hilliard&rsquo;s key lieutenants will be dashed.</p>
<p>While there has been little or no public recognition of the fact, three aviation executives present at Huffman Aviation while terrorists were there have since been implicated or convicted of drug trafficking.</p>
<p>A guilty plea from Dekkers will raise that count to<strong><em> four.</em></strong></p>
<h3>&quot;The biggest heroin bust in Central Florida history&quot;</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/kingpins.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3273 alignleft" height="251" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/kingpins.gif" style="" title="kingpins" width="360" /></a>Drug pilot #1 was Diego Texar Levine, a Venezuelan native and Hilliard&rsquo;s partner in a jet charter service, piloted a Hilliard-owned Lear jet that was surrounded by DEA&nbsp; Agents on a runway of Orlando Executive Airport in July 2000, less than three weeks after Mohamed Atta began attending his flight school.</p>
<p>Agents discovered <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/issue32.html">43 lbs. of heroin on the plane.&nbsp; </a>Five Venezuelan and Colombian nationals aboard the Learjet were arrested. All later pled guilty to felonies. The Orlando Sentinel called it &quot;t<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/record-setting-heroin-seizure-nets-30-pounds/" target="_blank">he largest-ever seizure of heroin in Central Florida.&quot;</a></p>
<p>But neither pilot Levine nor his co-pilot, Hilliard employee Michael Brassington, who would become infamous in the years after the 9/11 attack, were ever charged in the case.</p>
<p>However affidavits filed by DEA agents after the arrests make clear their belief that Levine should have been arrested and charged in the case. While machine-gun toting DEA agents were swarming the plane, the affidavit states:</p>
<p>&quot;The pilot of the aircraft, DIEGO LEVINE-TEXAR, frantically attempted to make a telephone call using a cellular phone. LEVINE-TEXAR ignored agents and police officers who repeatedly ordered him to drop the telephone.&quot;</p>
<h3>&quot;It was just blatant&quot;</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Hilliard-learjet.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3293" height="162" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Hilliard-learjet.jpg" title="Hilliard-learjet" width="268" /></a></p>
<p>&quot;Agents had to physically remove the telephone from LEVINE-TEXAR&rsquo;S hands,&quot; the affidavit goes on. &quot;Based on my experience I know that narcotics traffickers maintain frequent contact with one another while transporting narcotics and currency. I believe LEVINE-TEXAR attempted to contact other accomplices as to the presence of agents and other law enforcement officials.&quot;</p>
<p>The affidavit also confirmed information about the frequency of the plane&#39;s trips to South America that I had heard from Hilliard employees and other sources at the Naples, FL&nbsp; Airport.&nbsp; It stated pilot Levine-TEXAR &quot;stated he had known (Venezuelan) VALLES-DIAZ for approximately nine months. He has flown VALLES-DIAZ to New York and Fort Lauderdale approximately 30 times during that time.&quot;</p>
<p>The affidavit continues, &quot;LEVINE-TEXAR said that he and his company were paid a total of $600,000 for those trips, and that he was going to be paid $80,000 for the current trip after arriving in Orlando.&quot;</p>
<p>Numerous aviation observers indicated that thirty flights in nine months&mdash;a weekly &lsquo;milk run&rsquo; down and back to Venezuela&mdash;would ignite grave suspicions from any legitimate charter jet company.&nbsp; The discovery that Hilliard&rsquo;s operation was paid cash for each of the flights, in the unanimous opinion of aviation observers in Southwest Florida, removes any question about the legitimacy of the enterprise.</p>
<p>&quot;It was just blatant,&quot; said one. &quot;They weren&rsquo;t even bothering to hide what they were doing.&quot;</p>
<h3>Second Hilliard drug pilot: Michael Brassington</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/brass-misick1.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3304" height="242" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/brass-misick1.gif" style="" title="brass-misick" width="366" /></a><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/brassington-files.htm" target="_blank">Drug pilot #2: Michael Francis Brassington,</a> a native of Guyana, was the co-pilot on that flight.</p>
<p>Despite carrying what is known in the trade as heavy weight (which the Orlando Sentinel called the biggest heroin bust in Central Florida history) neither pilot was ever criminally charged.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Mike Brassington was co-pilot with Diego Levine on the heroin runs on the Lear Jet,&rdquo; said an aviation executive who worked for Hilliard at the Naples Airport.</p>
<p>Yet co-pilot Brassington was conspicuously unnamed in the DEA&rsquo;s affidavit filed in court documents in the case.</p>
<p>Perhaps this was due, a Naples Airport insider told me, to his second career&#8230; working for the DEA.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;He is DEA, assigned to Guyana,&rdquo; asserted this source.</p>
<h3>Running amok across the Caribbean&#8230; but for who?</h3>
<p>Brassington also figured prominently in a scandal that brought down the premier of the Turks &amp; Caicos Islands. According to a British Commission&rsquo;s report on Premier Michael Misick&rsquo;s corruption, as not only the personal pilot but Misick&rsquo;s partner-in-crime as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Trouble-in-paradise-calls-for-Britain-to-seize-control-of1.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3306 alignright" height="436" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Trouble-in-paradise-calls-for-Britain-to-seize-control-of1.gif" style="" title="Trouble in paradise- calls for Britain to seize control of~1" width="370" /></a>The report shows the two men conspired to steal several million dollars from the coffers of the now-bankrupt Turks &amp; Caicos government. Misick&#39;s crimes included a highly-publicized rape, <a href="http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-9786--37-37--.html">intimidation and beating of rivals, as well as his wife, </a>&nbsp;with whom he had several knockdown (literally) fights which required both to seek emergency hospital care.</p>
<p>In front of the British inquiry, Misick was portrayed <a href="http://wikileaks.org/w/images/TCI_transcript30_01_09.pdf">in vivid testimony by his former wife (pdf)</a>, American TV-actress Lisa-Raye Misick-McCoy, as being a dripping-in-gold-jewelry<strong><em> gangsta i</em></strong>n command a small fleet of Gulfstream luxury jets traveling all over the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/02202009.html">As first reported</a> here, a Gulfstream jet Misick and Brassington used while jetting around the world belonged to a former White House <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/02202009.html" target="_blank">Special Assistant to President Bill Clinto</a>n named Jeffrey Watson. Currently a Washington lobbyist, Watson&nbsp; was once called &ldquo;<strong><em><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/blog/labels/corruption.html" target="_blank">Florida&#39;s insider at the White House</a>&rdquo;</em></strong> by the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.</p>
<p>After being charged with 23 felony counts accusing him of putting the lives of passengers in danger, including in a near-fatal crash of one of his charter company&rsquo;s luxury jets at Teterboro Airport outside New York City in 2005, Brassington was convicted in a<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/brassindictment.pdf"> trial in Federal Court (pdf</a>) in Newark New Jersey and went to prison last year.</p>
<p>As if all that weren&#39;t enough, Brassington was a key figure <a href="http://propagandapress.org/tag/michael-brassington">fingered in a military procurement scandal</a> in his native Guyana.</p>
<h3>Hilliard drug pilot makes DEA&#39;s Top Ten list</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/fratertop10.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3312" height="230" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/fratertop10.jpg" style="" title="fratertop10" width="329" /></a>Drug Pilot#3:&nbsp; Kevin Frater, a Hilliard pilot-employee in 2000-2001,&nbsp; went on the lam when his business partner was arrested with more than a 100 lbs. of heroin.</p>
<p>Frater spent two years on the DEA&rsquo;s Ten Most Wanted List. In 2008, he was caught, extradited to the US, <a href="http://articles.kwch.com/2010-06-23/dea-agents_24081494" target="_blank">and sentenced to<span style="font-size: small;"> 10 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.</span>.</a></p>
<p>In his plea, he admitted the investigation began in December 2002 when a Gulfstream II flying from Van Nuys Airport in California, to Farmingdale, New York, landed at the airport in Salina, Kansas, to refuel.</p>
<p>Acting on a tip, Drug Enforcement Administration agents searched the plane and found 153.4 kilograms (more than 338 pounds) of cocaine.</p>
<p>After learning Frater had chartered the plane and a courier on the plane was working for him, DEA agents attempted to lure Frater to Salina to pick up the cocaine by making him think the plane had been grounded with mechanical problems.</p>
<p>Instead, Frater left the United States to avoid arrest. He did not return until he was extradited from England on August 27, 2009.</p>
<p>Frater spent time in Cuba, Jamaica, the United Arab Emirates and England. When he was arrested, he was detained at Heathrow Airport while returning from Jamaica to Dubai.</p>
<h3>The Nassau connection</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Bowe-Hilliard.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3313 alignright" height="289" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Bowe-Hilliard.gif" style="" title="Bowe-Hilliard" width="324" /></a></p>
<p>Heroin seems to be a leitmotif running in many of Hilliard&rsquo;s business connections. But these weren&rsquo;t dese-dem-and-dose kind of guys.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Nobody knows for sure who Wally works for,&rdquo; the source stated. &ldquo;He owns an FBO in Nassau called Executive Jet Support with a guy named Alfonso Bowe, whose sister is married to the Prime Minister of the Bahamas.</p>
<p>According to a former Customs Agent in Fort Lauderdale the executive flight manager at Hilliard&rsquo;s Nassau FBO, South African Alfonso Bowe, is flagged in US Customs computers, where he is called the kingpin of what Customs calls the &ldquo;Alfonso Bowe criminal organization.&quot;</p>
<p>&ldquo;When Alfonso Bowe heard that the terrorists had trained at Rudi Dekkers&rsquo; flight school, he said, &lsquo;It figures that out of all the flight schools in the nation the terrorists would go to Rudi.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>Nothing could be more clear. Wally Hilliard, the owner of the flight school which trained Mohamed Atta, was not who he pretended to be.</p>
<p>Coy Jacob owned the aviation business at the Venice Airport directly beside Huffman Aviation. &ldquo;I think common sense should prevail,&rdquo; said Jacob.&nbsp; &ldquo;And I think if you are a thinking person and you have common sense I think that you examine the person and see if there is any reason for falsehoods. It all looks pretty suspicious to me.&rdquo;</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Dad Kills Kids and Self:&#8221; The Philip Marshall Story</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel Hopsicker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are 27,386 books about the 9/11 attack currently being sold on&#160; Amazon. The authors of 27,385 of them are still alive, or dead from natural causes. &#160; That leaves Philip Marshall, author of a self-published book about 9/11 called &#8230; <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/02/26/dad-kills-kids-and-self-the-philip-marshall-story/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are 27,386 books about the 9/11 attack currently being sold on&nbsp; Amazon.</p>
<p>The authors of 27,385 of them are still alive, or dead from natural causes.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/5110372c44393.image_.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3170" height="433" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/5110372c44393.image_.jpg" title="5110372c44393.image" width="650" /></a></p>
<p>That leaves Philip Marshall, author of a self-published book about 9/11 called &ldquo;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1468094580/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=boingboing06-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1468094580&amp;adid=1W693QGHDGGZHYMB24N2" target="_blank"><em><strong>The Big Bamboozle.</strong></em></a>&rdquo; &nbsp;</p>
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<p>In a small town in Northern California earlier this month, Marshall, a 56-year old ex-airline pilot, murdered his two children, Alex and Macaila, in their sleep, and then took his own life.</p>
<p>&ldquo;A Murphy&rsquo;s man killed his two children with a Glock 9mm handgun before turning the weapon on himself at his home in Forest Meadows late last week,&rdquo; reported the local newspaper.</p>
<p>When deputies arrived, the paper reported, they found the children dead, lying on the couch with gunshot wounds, along with a dog that belonged to Marshall&rsquo;s estranged wife.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Former airline captain Philip Marshall, 54, killed his son Alex, 17, and daughter Macaila, 14, each with a single bullet to the head, as they slept nestled under blankets on the living room couch. He then pointed the gun at his head and committed suicide.&rdquo;</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s what happened&hellip;at least if you believe <strong><em>the police</em></strong>.</p>
<h3>Human tragedy&#8230;or sinister black op?</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/article-2275258-176A89F3000005DC-681_306x430.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3173" height="344" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/article-2275258-176A89F3000005DC-681_306x430.jpg" style="" title="article-2275258-176A89F3000005DC-681_306x430" width="245" /></a>But there are others today encouraging the notion that the Marshall family tragedy was, instead, a sinister government &lsquo;black op.&rsquo;</p>
<p>Marshall, these people say, was in possession of secret knowledge about the 9/11 attack, which he was about to reveal to a waiting world.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Big-Bamboozle/211695725591491" target="_blank">&ldquo;The Big Bamboozle&rdquo; </a>Marshall &#39;reveals&#39; that &ldquo;the sad truth is that all of the solid evidence points to a dark collaboration between members of the Bush Administration and a covert group of Saudi government officials.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Wow. Fasten your seatbelts.&nbsp; The only big shocker is that Philip Marshall appears to be the last person to discern Saudi influence behind the 9/11 attack.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s not even front page news. And its certainly nothing to kill him over.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If it were, there would be at least 15,000 authors, Madsen and myself among them,&nbsp; already dead.</p>
<p>But those selling the notion that Marshall was murdered ignore his book, so embarrassingly obscure that few knew of its existence before his death.</p>
<p>Instead they cite the brief relationship Marshall had over 30 years ago with Barry Seal, a life-long CIA pilot whose cocaine smuggling in military C123 military cargo planes funded the Contra&rsquo;s war in Nicaragua and fueled the cocaine epidemic of the 1980&rsquo;s.</p>
<p>Marshall himself used this brief association, in his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Big-Bamboozle-11-War-Terror/dp/1468094580/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1361837143&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank">author&rsquo;s bio on Amazon</a>, to spin a tale of nearly life-long derring-do.</p>
<p>But while this may be understandable hyperbole by an author hoping to hype his book, its embarrassingly thin gruel as support for an allegation of a government murder and cover-up.</p>
<h3>A bad attitude can <em>sometimes </em>be a good thing</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Multiple-Selection.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3177" height="392" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Multiple-Selection.gif" style="" title="(Multiple Selection)" width="240" /></a>And this is where I entered the picture, after receiving several dozen increasingly frantic emails from people who knew of <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/paypal.htm" target="_blank">my book about Barry Seal, </a>wondering what I knew, and what I was going to do, about this unspeakable government crime.</p>
<p>Asked one, &ldquo;Are you following the Phillip Marshall thing?&rdquo;</p>
<p>I replied, &ldquo;Nope. Looks like suicide to me.&rdquo;</p>
<p>At that, my correspondent got a little snarky with me, which is okay; I can&mdash;and sometimes do&mdash;get snarky with the best of them.&nbsp; &ldquo;Well I guess this guy from the NSA doesn&#39;t know what he&#39;s talking about,&rdquo; he sneered.</p>
<p>One the creepiest things about the community of people who find themselves dissatisfied with the lies they hear from the government is that these same people, who pride themselves on being the sort you can&rsquo;t pull the wool over, no matter what, are as reliant on authority figures as the &ldquo;sheeple&rdquo; they bemoan.</p>
<p>The only thing about Philip Marshall&rsquo;s death that is even potentially extraordinary is that he had a brief brush with the dark side of the force half-a-lifetime ago. Some apparently think this somehow gave him the keys to the hidden vault of secrets.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/W-Madsen.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3181" height="241" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/W-Madsen.gif" style="" title="W-Madsen" width="196" /></a></p>
<p>Similarly,<a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20130213" target="_blank"> reporter Wayne Madsen,</a> because of former employment at the NSA, must perforce be privy to secret knowledge mere mortals of the non-spook variety will never understand. Madsen himself, who I consider a friend, would be the first to deny this.</p>
<p>Even well-respected <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eleventh-Day-Full-Story-11/dp/0812978099/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1361837232&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Anthony+Summers" target="_blank">author Anthony Summers,</a> about whom I have not yet written (waiting for the bile to subside first) kept looking to his &quot;sources&quot; in the CIA and FBI to validate eyewitness testimony from creditable eyewitnesses on the ground in Venice Florida.</p>
<p>He was waiting for some authority figure to give him the shot.</p>
<p>The result was that when his tome on 9/11 was released,&nbsp; the only shocking new finding he could point to hadn&#39;t even made it into the book.</p>
<p>I was soon to learn that there is nothing but Marshall&rsquo;s long-ago association with Barry Seal on which to base allegations of government assassination. This is evidenced by the fact that the name of Barry Seal, a man dead for more than 30 years, recurs almost more often in stories of Marshall&rsquo;s death than does his own.</p>
<h3>The hall of (very smudged-up) mirrors</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/001.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3184 alignleft" height="367" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/001.jpg" style="" title="001" width="340" /></a>So: here is where we enter the funhouse. But before we do, let&rsquo;s consider what is at stake. &nbsp;</p>
<p>This is, after all, America, the country which is home to more REAL conspiracies than exist in all of the rest of the world combined.</p>
<p>So one must feel somewhat conflicted when forced to choose between these two views of the Marshall family tragedy: it was &ldquo;A black ops hit made to appear as a suicide,&rdquo; as a headline for one of Madsen&rsquo;s articles has it.</p>
<p>Or&hellip;well, let&rsquo;s let<a href="http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_71f9b8da-6e27-11e2-99e8-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank"> someone who was there, </a>Kevin Raggi, the Coroner in Calaveras County (made famous by Mark Twain&rsquo;s short story &ldquo;The Jumping Frogs of Calaveras County&rdquo;) describe the other way of viewing the crime.</p>
<p>Raggi&nbsp; told local reporters that it was one of the most heartbreaking scenes he&rsquo;d ever seen, adding &ldquo;Everyone was having a hard time.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;You walk in there and you lose your breath and want to walk out and start crying,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It was heartbreaking. It&rsquo;s incomprehensible.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Was it just another unspeakable human tragedy, in a time, and a country, where such things have become all too common? Or was it a fiendish government black op designed to keep &lsquo;we the people&rsquo; from ever learning the truth?</p>
<h3>&quot;Going back to school&quot;</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Kevin-Jarrett.gif"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3182" height="231" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Kevin-Jarrett.gif" title="Kevin-Jarrett" width="200" /></a>I was pointed to <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/02/20/100-certain-911-author-was-killed-in-black-ops-hit/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=100-certain-911-author-was-killed-in-black-ops-hit" target="_blank">a transcript of a radio interview</a> of Madsen conducted by Kevin Barrett,&nbsp; a self-styled &quot;American Jihadist.&quot;</p>
<p>Read a typical comment left on Jarret&rsquo;s website after Madsen&#39;s interview, &quot;Speaking of &ldquo;government&rdquo; (i.e. Bolshevik Jewish) treachery, I&rsquo;m sure most readers here have by now heard of (and/or seen) the so-called &ldquo;No More Hesitation&rdquo; targets being offered to &ldquo;law enforcement&rdquo; agencies by (and I&rsquo;m going to out on a limb here and speculate) some Jew-owned company,&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;He was a former associate of the CIA/DEA informant Barry Seal, the notorious CIA cocaine smuggler,&rdquo; opined Jarrett on the show. &ldquo;And if you think Phillip Marshall killed himself and his two children as the police are trying to claim; well, I don&rsquo;t know&hellip;you need to go back to school.&rdquo;</p>
<p>His guest, <a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20130213" target="_blank">Wayne Madsen</a>, is a (usually) more creditable source.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Well Phillip Marshall, I have to admit,&rdquo; Madsen tells Jarrett, &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t all that familiar with his work. But when I read his biography along with the&hellip;some really scurrilous news reports that, &lsquo;yknow, he was this, &lsquo;yknow, this repressed killer who snapped, and put a gun on the head of his 17 year old son and his 14 year old daughter, and his little pet Shih Tzu, Suki, y&rsquo;know, you start to wonder what in the world is going on here.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The implication that there is something unusual about a &ldquo;repressed killer who snapped and put a gun to the head of his 17-tear old son and 14-tear old daughter&quot; seems a little&#8230;unusual.</p>
<h3>&quot;Dad kills kids &amp; self&quot;</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Kills+Kids+Then+Self.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3191" height="197" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Kills+Kids+Then+Self.jpg" title="Kills+Kids+Then+Self" width="350" /></a>Here&rsquo;s a quick investigation that you can perform right at home: <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&amp;tab=ww#hl=en&amp;newwindow=1&amp;safe=off&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;q=+dad+kills+kids+self+&amp;oq=+dad+kills+kids+self+&amp;gs_l=hp.3..0i7i30.6763.8998.4.9728.4.4.0.0.0.1.225.508.2j1j1.4.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.4.psy-ab.OlluXBkAJvw&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&amp;bvm=bv.42768644,d.eWU&amp;fp=14e0e787545be73c&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=837" target="_blank">Google &quot;dad kills kids and self.&quot;&nbsp;</a></p>
<p>Then read (if you have the stomach for it)&nbsp; all 84 million hits. I sifted through a few:</p>
<p><strong>Husband of missing Utah mom kills sons, self;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Dad kills wife &amp; kids, then himself over Obama&#39;s re-election</strong></p>
<p><strong>Father killed his two children and then himself after family split </strong></p>
<p><strong>DA: Mass. dad shoots 2 kids, 1 fatally, kills self</strong></p>
<p><strong>Quebec Father Kills Children &amp; Self &mdash; Burns Garage</strong></p>
<p><strong>Herndon father shot wife, children before killing himself</strong></p>
<p><strong>Father kills his two children then himself on trip to Grand Canyon </strong></p>
<p>I stopped after reading a deeply disturbing story out of Boynton Beach Florida, where a father killed his two sons as their mother begged for their lives. Then, after telling her he&rsquo;d let her live so that she could suffer forever, he shot himself.</p>
<h3>A verifiable fact amidst a the heavy breathing</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Marshall-Seal.gif"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3195" height="278" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Marshall-Seal.gif" title="Marshall-Seal" width="400" /></a>By itself this isn&rsquo;t proof that Marshall wasn&rsquo;t killed by the government. But added to the fact&nbsp; that, of the 27,000 books on 9/11, all but Marshall are sleeping peacefully at night sets the bar pretty high for anyone seeking to prove he was murdered.</p>
<p>A bar the self-promoting nay-sayers apparently don&rsquo;t even know <em><strong>exists.</strong></em></p>
<p>Consider the one verifiable fact amidst all the heavy breathing abiut a government black op, Marshall&rsquo;s association with Barry Seal.</p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s what happened:&nbsp;</p>
<p>Seal&rsquo;s pilot&rsquo;s license had been suspended while he awaited trial in Miami. He engaged Marshall to fly him back and forth between there and his home in Baton Rouge.</p>
<p>The much-older Seal <em><strong>did</strong></em> have one prot&eacute;g&eacute; who was Marshall&rsquo;s age, a man I found and interviewed for Barry &amp; &#39;the boys.&#39; Of the dozens of close Seal associates I interviewed, not one ever mentioned Philip Marshall.</p>
<p>In fairness, the world of aviation in Louisiana, which I wrote about in a book about Barry Seal called <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/paypal.htm" target="_blank">&ldquo;Barry &amp; the boys,&rsquo;</a> can best be described as &ldquo;murky.&rdquo;</p>
<h3>At last, a real eyewitness</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/A-K.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3198" height="328" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/A-K.gif" style="" title="A-K" width="270" /></a>But someone who knew Marshall at this time, his ex-wife, Ann Kallauner, a nurse in Louisiana, offered some clarity. Kallauner was wed to Marshall in 1985 (exactly the time frame when Marshall knew Seal.)&nbsp;</p>
<p>She<a href="http://www.uniondemocrat.com/News/Local-News/Ex-wife-gives-insight-into-killers-mind" target="_blank"> told the local Union Democrat </a>that her ex-husband &ldquo;provided a kind of taxi service for Barry Seal, who the paper (inaccurately) reported&nbsp; &ldquo;was assassinated by a trio of Medellin Cartel henchmen from Colombia.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Kallauner said Marshall met Seal through &ldquo;a friend of a friend&rdquo; while teaching other pilots to fly from Lakefront Airport in New Orleans.</p>
<p>After Seal had his pilot&rsquo;s license revoked, he hired Marshall to fly with him between New Orleans and Miami or Fort Lauderdale.</p>
<p>Seal often flew while Marshall remained in the jump seat, but Marshall never went with him into Nicaragua, she said.</p>
<p>&ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t any Contra pilot,&rdquo; said Kallauner. &ldquo;That was all just a fantasy.&rdquo;</p>
<p>A close associate of Seal&rsquo;s, who asked to remain nameless, confirmed to me that her recollections were correct.</p>
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<p>Kallauner also recited a litany of characteristics, also<a href="http://www.uniondemocrat.com/News/Local-News/More-murder-suicide-details" target="_blank"> voiced to reporters</a> by those <a href="http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2013/02/father-in-murphys-murder-suicide-had-previous-arrest-for-battery.html" target="_blank">who knew him at the time of his death, </a>that have become well-known as markers in this all-too-common type of crime.</p>
<p>Marshall had problems with alcohol, was attention-seeking, egotistical, could be mean, and had a temper. He was nearly fired after yelling at a superior at Eastern Air Lines. He would throw clubs in the water while golfing.</p>
<p>&ldquo;He had a problem with authority figures in his life,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;One time he wanted me to roll down the (car) window to yell at a police officer.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>When she refused, she recalled, &ldquo;He kind of got mad and smacked me back against the seat.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Could someone have &ldquo;gotten&rdquo; to the ex-wife? Well, sure.</p>
<p>Could they also have gotten to the current friends of Marshall&rsquo;s, who&mdash;to avoid speaking poorly of the dead&mdash;have only delicately raised questions of&nbsp; Marshall&rsquo;s mental health at the time of his death?</p>
<p>Well, sure. But the only real question is: DID they? In the absence of compelling evidence to question their motives, the answer is simple. No, they did not. And here is where the disservice to the truth by attention-seekers and their&nbsp; deluded and credulous followers becomes most apparent.</p>
<p>People who see conspiracies where none exist render ridiculous-by-association people questioning the multitude of&nbsp; conspiracies that <em><strong>do.</strong></em></p>
<p>More importantly, this is not the way things work in the real world.</p>
<h3>How things work in the real world</h3>
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<p>America have not been kind to its real investigative journalists in recent years.</p>
<p>As a reporter for the Associated Press (but not for long), <strong>Robert Parry</strong> was the first to report on what came to be known as Iran Contra.</p>
<p><strong>Pete Brewton </strong>did ground-breaking reporting at the Houston Post on the S &amp; L scandal (The Mafia, CIA and George Bush&rdquo; (1992) that led to his being shown the door.</p>
<p>And <strong>Gary Webb,</strong> who broke the story of CIA drug trafficking into the open, was summarily ushered out of newspaper reporting forever.</p>
<p>Webb represented a far greater threat to the powers that be than Phil Marshall ever could, even in his wildest dreams. But Webb wasn&#39;t murdered.</p>
<p>Gary Webb committed suicide on the day he lost his home. He&#39;d already lost almost everything else: his family, his wife, his livelihood. An authentic American hero, Gary Webb was going to be moving home to live with his Mom.</p>
<p>He&#39;d already asked his ex-girlfriend if he could share her apartment. At first she had said yes, but then changed her mind at the last minute, not wanting to lead him on in the hope that they&#39;d rekindle a romance. Desperate, Webb asked his ex-wife if he could live with her until he regained his financial footing. She, too, refused.&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Into the buzzsaw</h3>
<p>On the night be<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/4435052393_d193a2e397.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3240" height="288" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/4435052393_d193a2e397.jpg" title="4435052393_d193a2e397" width="300" /></a>fore losing his house, Webb lost his last real possession. His motorcycle was stolen.&nbsp;</p>
<p>He committed suicide the next day. And despite the nattering of clueless conspiracy theorists, I never doubted that that was <strong><em>exactly </em></strong>what happened.&nbsp; And I have since had nothing but contempt for those who claim otherwise.</p>
<p>I&#39;d been there. I&#39;d spent a year living in motels after my first full-length documentary, &quot;The Secret Heartbeat of America,&quot; failed to sell to television. I persisted. When Barry &amp; the boys&#39; was published, a lawsuit by one of Barry Seal&#39;s closest long-time associates kept the book out of bookstores for <strong><em>almost five years.</em></strong></p>
<p>Again, I persisted. But I&#39;d never tell anyone it was anything but a soul-killing dispiriting experience. It&#39;s an experience better people than me have faced again and again.</p>
<p>Telling the truth in America often feels like walking<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Into-Buzzsaw-LEADING-JOURNALISTS-EXPOSE/dp/1591022304" target="_blank"> &quot;Into The Buzzsaw,&quot;</a> the title of a very good book about journalists exiled to the American gulag, a Siberia of the mind where nothing you do or report subsequently is ever treated seriously.</p>
<p>Expose anything this country&#39;s large institutions want kept under wraps&#8230; and the buzzsaw rips through you.</p>
<p>Because they don&#39;t have to kill you to render you ineffective.</p>
<p>For the oligarchy ruling this country today, that part is easy.<br />
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		<title>&#8220;Evil in Our Backyard:&#8221; The Rudi Dekkers Dossier</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Rudi Dekkers, the man who ran the flight school where terrorists who crashed airliners into the Twin Towers learned to fly was arrested for drug trafficking in Houston last week, one of the first congratulatory calls I received, after &#8230; <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2012/12/21/evil-in-our-backyard-the-rudi-dekkers-dossier/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Rudi Dekkers, the man who ran the flight school where terrorists who crashed airliners into the Twin Towers learned to fly was <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/2012/12/14/finally-rudi-dekkers-behind-bars-for-drug-trafficking/" target="_blank">arrested for drug trafficking</a> in Houston last week, one of the first congratulatory calls I received, after covering his continuing criminal activity for the past ten years, was from his son.</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s right&#8230;his<strong><em> son. </em></strong><em>(Read more on our conversation below.)</em></p>
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<p>By almost any measure, the 9/11 attack was the most spectacular event in&nbsp; recorded history, witnessed worldwide&mdash;live&mdash;by many hundreds of&nbsp; millions (some say billions) of people.&nbsp; For dramatic impact, nothing else comes even close.</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s why it was so strange that the American institution which played a crucial role in the story&mdash;Huffman Aviation in the tiny retirement community of Venice, on Florida&rsquo;s sleepy Gulf Coast&mdash;was completely ignored as a subject for investigative journalism by the mainstream media.</p>
<p>Brian Ross from ABC&rsquo;s investigative unit never showed up in Venice. NBC News&#39; Senior Investigative Correspondent Lisa Myers didn&rsquo;t either. There were no sightings of Seymour Hersh; and none of Michael Isikoff, either.</p>
<p>And when I&rsquo;d stop for a drink at the end of the day at the only decent watering hole in town, I didn&rsquo;t have to step over Bob Woodward to get to the bar.</p>
<p>More than a decade after the attack the story remains largely unknown. To remedy that fact (at least for future generations) I will now begin filing &ldquo;The Rudi Dekkers&rsquo; Dossier.&rdquo;</p>
<h3>More face time than Larry King</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/vlcsnap-2012-12-18-08h38m51s171.png"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3052" height="171" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/vlcsnap-2012-12-18-08h38m51s171-300x171.png" title="vlcsnap-2012-12-18-08h38m51s171" width="300" /></a>In the days and weeks after the 9/11 attack Rudi Dekkers was everywhere. He did more than 2000 interviews. It was Rudi Dekkers who told the world&nbsp; who the hijackers were, what they were doing, and what they were like.&nbsp; He did almost all of the heavy lifting providing the narrative about what the hijackers had been doing in the U.S.</p>
<p>Rudi Dekkers was on television more often than Larry King. Then, and for the next ten years, the mainstream media bought his patter hook line and sinker.</p>
<p>There were a few reporters who expressed skepticism. But they were local, with no national readership. One worked for an alternative weekly newspaper in Sarasota, and arrived on scene at Huffman Aviation on September 12, on the first day of the media frenzy.</p>
<p>In the Sept. 29, 2001 Sarasota Weekly Planet, reporter Rochelle Renford<a href="http://m.cltampa.com/tampa/not-so-media-savvy/Content?oid=2012681&amp;category=2010631&amp;section=2010534" target="_blank"> noted how often Dekkers&rsquo; story was changing.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/weeklyplanetcover.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3053" height="286" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/weeklyplanetcover.jpg" title="weeklyplanetcover" width="250" /></a>&ldquo;Wouldn&rsquo;t it be reasonable to expect Rudi Dekkers to give the same information to every news outlet?&rdquo; she asked. &ldquo;Perhaps. But that was not the case. When Dekkers first appeared before the press on the day after the attack, this is what he said:</p>
<p>&ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t know the suspects. He wasn&rsquo;t the one who took their money so he was unsure how they had paid for their training.</p>
<p>&ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t see their passports so he wasn&rsquo;t sure where they were from. He denied having had many interactions with them at all. &nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;On Wednesday (the day after the attack) he told some reporters, including me, that his interaction with the two suspects came from a couple of brief conversations when he passed them in the halls,&rdquo; Renford wrote. &ldquo;He said his employees had dealt with their enrollment.&rdquo;</p>
<h3>An about face once he&#39;d been briefed?</h3>
<p>&ldquo;But by Sunday&rsquo;s reports, Dekkers was serving up anecdotes about the two men, &ldquo; she continued. &ldquo;He told one reporter: &lsquo;He sat right there last year when he came to talk to me about taking lessons here.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>&quot;On the day after the attack a reporter from the New York Times asked Dekkers about reports that the two men (Atta and Al-Shehhi) were from Germany,&quot;&nbsp; Renford wrote. &ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t it strike you as odd that they were from Germany? They didn&rsquo;t look German, did they?&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t tell me what people tell you,&rdquo; Dekkers barked in response. &ldquo;I have never heard that they&rsquo;re from Germany. I have never heard that they speak German.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>&ldquo;But Dekkers gave a different answer on Larry King Live. Now he <strong><em>did</em></strong> know where they were from&hellip; Dekkers now recalled that Atta told him he had come from Germany, he said. But when Dekkers, a Dutch native, began speaking to Atta in German, the Middle Eastern man just got up and walked out of his office. Dekkers said he found it odd.&quot;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Whereas on Wednesday he&rsquo;d blasted a reporter for asking about a German connection,&rdquo; wrote Renford, &ldquo;on Thursday he told me an anecdote about one of the suspects saying he was German.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Dekkers wasn&rsquo;t&nbsp; just remembering new details,&rdquo; Renford concluded. &ldquo;He was learning how to tell a story.&rdquo;</p>
<h3>&quot;Horribly obnoxious to female employees&quot;</h3>
<p>During his book promo tour last year, Dekkers now says that Atta was trouble at Huffman Aviation.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/911-Flight-School-Owner-The-last-10-Years-Have-Been-Bad.html" target="_blank">He told NBC Miami that Atta</a> quickly earned a bad reputation with his employees.</p>
<p>&quot;He was horribly obnoxious to all of our women employees.&nbsp; Atta&rsquo;s behavior almost got him kicked out of the flight school. He was impolite, he was rude! He treated people bad, especially females.&quot;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Would-You-Buy-A-Book-from-this-Man2.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3060" height="300" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Would-You-Buy-A-Book-from-this-Man2-190x300.jpg" title="Would You Buy A Book from this Man" width="190" /></a>One incident in particular gave Dekkers, he said, a glimpse into Atta&rsquo;s demeanor.&nbsp; &quot;I was one time in my cafe in Venice and I heard a loud noise and I looked and I saw that Atta dropped a plate on the floor, apparently for something that he didn&#39;t like,&rdquo; Dekkers said.</p>
<p>&quot;And I asked the waitress, &#39;what&#39;s going on?&#39; [She said] &lsquo;Well he didn&#39;t like the food, and he was waiting too long and he just dropped his plate.&#39;&quot;</p>
<p>Dekkers confronted Atta immediately, he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>&quot;I was mad, I told him loud and clear, &lsquo;what the F are you doing?&rsquo; and he stood up and he left,&rdquo; Dekkers said. &quot;That was the only incident that I saw that was really rude, though other times I heard from females that he was very impolite.&rdquo;</p>
<p>A little digging illustrated that being horribly obnoxious to females is something Dekkers knows something about.</p>
<p>&quot;As long as I have worked at Huffman Aviation,&quot; said a lawsuit filed by former Dekkers&rsquo; employee Nicole Antini, &quot;I have been subjected to sexual harassment by Rudi Dekkers.&nbsp; I tolerated Rudi&#39;s advances because I needed to keep my job.&quot;</p>
<p>Just two weeks before the World Trade Center attack Antini filed suit to force him to enforce the settlement of her&nbsp; sexual harassment suit, which he had agreed to settle for $15,000. The records had been sealed. The settlement enjoined the girl to keep silent, which she did, until he stopped meeting the terms of the agreement.</p>
<p>Tellingly, Dekkers balked at paying.</p>
<p>After that court documents in the case began to become available, and the sealed complaint became public information for the first time.</p>
<h3>A walk on part in a war</h3>
<p>Nicole Antini had had a front row seat to the terrorists, and quite a bit of contact with terrorists Atta &amp; Al-Shehhi. According to her post-9/11 interview with the FBI, she had filled out their visa paperwork. She was also aware that they occasionally rented private aircraft for short trips.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/antini441.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3066" height="62" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/antini441.jpg" title="antini44" width="478" /></a>Also,<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/antini.htm" target="_blank"> she told the FB</a>I that Rudi Dekkers offered Atta and Al-Shehhi jobs as pilots with Florida Air, Dekkers&#39; and Wally Hilliard&#39;s start-up airline.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nicole Antini&#39;s contemporaneous notes from her sexual harassment suit against Dekkers paint a vivid picture of what life was like at Huffman Aviation while Atta and Marwan were there.</p>
<p>Employee Antini was eighteen when her employer, 45-five year old Rudi Dekkers, began getting a thrill from sticking a broom handle up the back of her dress.</p>
<p>&quot;He came at me like he was going to<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/stalker.htm" target="_blank"> hump me up against the counter,&quot; </a>reads one handwritten note. &quot;He said, &#39;I want some sweetener. Turn around you have something on your skirt.&#39;&quot;</p>
<p>This wasn&#39;t the terrorists&#39; fault. Nor the fault of&nbsp; &quot;sensationalistic reporting on the web.&quot;</p>
<p>An ove<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/venicenight21.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-3083 alignright" height="230" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/venicenight21.gif" style="" title="venicenight2" width="477" /></a>rweight middle-aged man was bullying an 18-year old girl.</p>
<p>One time, after pleading again for her to sleep with him, according to Antini&#39;s lawsuit, Dekkers asked, <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/the-office.htm" target="_blank">&quot;Did you see that Russian girl </a>I had in my office? I told her I had a job for her.&quot;</p>
<p>Antini answers,&quot; Where? In the pilot shop?&quot;</p>
<p>No, said Dekkers. Antini wrote that Dekkers &quot;told her she could give me a blow job.&quot;</p>
<h3>A clean sweep with the broom-handle</h3>
<p>Another time he rubbed his&nbsp; finger against her arm, murmuring, <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/see-through-blouse.htm" target="_blank">&quot;You know, you can see through that blouse </a>you&#39;re wearing.&quot;</p>
<p>Antine replied, &quot;That&#39;s why there&#39;s a shirt on underneath.&quot;</p>
<p>Stymied, Dekkers blundered forward. Dekkers said, &quot;Can I buy you?</p>
<p>&quot;Antini asked, &quot;Buy me what?&quot;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/aHUFFAM1.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3097" height="200" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/aHUFFAM1-300x200.jpg" title="!!aHUFFAM" width="300" /></a>&quot;No. Just buy you. It should be like the olden days. When I could buy you.&quot;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I personally witnessed him sneak up behind this kid that worked for him and stick something that looked like a broom handle up the back of her skirt,&rdquo; stated one eyewitness angrily.</p>
<p>&ldquo;And Dekkers is a fat slob of a middle-aged guy. It was sick. Even though he&rsquo;s married he was always after the young girls who worked for him to take little &lsquo;rides&rsquo; with him in his helicopter, always for a half an hour or so at a time.&rdquo;</p>
<h3>What about Yeslam bin Laden wasn&#39;t suspicious?</h3>
<p>By mid-2001, the vast majority of Huffman&rsquo;s flight students were from outside the U.S. Only a few were from the Sarasota area. Later it would be learned that <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&amp;forum=104&amp;topic_id=3389867&amp;mesg_id=3406052" target="_blank">Osama bin Laden&rsquo;s brother Yeslam bin Laden</a>, had arranged for students to attend the school.</p>
<p>According to the French newspaper Le Monde, Swiss police questioned Osama bin Laden&rsquo;s older brother, Yeslam, a key figure in the family&rsquo;s business empire, because one of his companies, Avon Air Charter, had offered flight training to clients at the Venice flight schools attended by some of the terrorists.</p>
<p>Yet few journalists bothered to scrape back the surface to reveal what was underneath.</p>
<p>Through the simple expedient of&nbsp; interviewing the owners and aviation executives of companies which shared the Venice and Naples Airports in Southwest Florida with Dekkers, I learned that those who worked with him were unanimous about warning me of his tendency to play fast and loose with the truth.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t have a lot of credibility,&rdquo;said Coy Jacob, who owned an aviation dealership next door to Huffman Aviation at the Venice Municipal Airport. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s common knowledge around the airport that you can&rsquo;t believe what he says.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Many of Dekker&#39;s former co-workers agreed to speak for the record, like Charlie Voss, who was Huffman Aviation&#39;s bookkeeper. Voss&nbsp; and wife Drusilla housed Atta and Al-Shehhi for almost a week when they arrived, until it got to be too much for Charlie&#39;s wife.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Voss said, emphatically, that he had never been &ldquo;even a short-time friend of Rudi&rsquo;s.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have too much to say about him. But if his lips are moving, he&rsquo;s lying,&quot; said Voss. &quot;And if he&rsquo;s n<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/tiller.gif"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3073" height="219" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/tiller.gif" title="tiller" width="175" /></a>ot lying, his lips ain&rsquo;t moving.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Robb Tiller is an aviation executive in South Florida. When he met Rudi Dekkers he was in business with Wally Hilliard on a start-up airline planning regular flights to Havana. And as a former Marine, he minces no words.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I was amazed the kid glove treatment that Dekkers received. Dekkers is a liar, a cheat, and a thief,&rdquo; says Tiller.</p>
<p>&quot;Because I had suspicious about Dekkers, I called the embassy of the Netherlands in Washington D.C. right after the attack. They told me that Rudi was a fugitive in his native country.&rdquo;</p>
<h3>The FAA: Like the SEC, but not as nice</h3>
<p>We heard from several credible sources that the FAA went out of its way to protect Rudi Dekkers.</p>
<p>An aviation mechanic who worked for Dekkers at the Naples Airport stated he had been forced, by law,&nbsp; to report criminal acts which he witnessed Dekkers commit.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/FAA.png" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3102" height="270" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/FAA-290x300.png" style="" title="FAA" width="261" /></a></p>
<p>&quot;Dekkers did an import of an airplane,&quot; the mechanic explained. &quot;We found dents on the front of a wing. And when we replaced&nbsp; sheet metal, we found ribs that were crushed, which renders an airplane un-airworthy.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Yet Dekkers still sold the plane. And when I turned him in to the FAA, they didn&rsquo;t do a damn thing.&quot;</p>
<p>Another aviation executive in Naples had a similar story, but this time with an ominous twist.</p>
<p>Dekkers had forged his signature on a repair order to indicate that required repair work on a helicopter had been completed, he explained. When he discovered his signature had been forged, he was legally compelled to report it to the FAA.</p>
<p>&quot;I called the FAA to report a violation. And they warned me to leave Dekkers alone.</p>
<p>&quot;I couldn&rsquo;t believe it,&rdquo; the executive said indignantly.&nbsp; &ldquo;An FAA guy came out and sat me down and said: &lsquo;I suggest you back out of this.&#39;&quot;</p>
<h3>Lost son forced to remain lost</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/254219_216819508352682_1142862_n.jpg" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3079" height="282" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/254219_216819508352682_1142862_n.jpg" style="" title="254219_216819508352682_1142862_n" width="212" /></a>Which brings me back to Rudi Dekkers&rsquo; son.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;Hello Daniel, my name is Patrick Schreur,&rdquo; he wrote.&nbsp; &ldquo;I was born Patrick Dekkers. I am the son of Rudi Dekkers. Until I read your article, &lsquo;<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/08202009.html" target="_blank">9/11 flight school figure a &quot;deadbeat dad</a>,&rsquo; I thought my story was known only in The Netherlands. Thank you for telling it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Patrick Dekkers&rsquo; story was aired on a Dutch TV show called Spoorloos, which reunites long-lost relatives with loved ones. His episode began:</p>
<p>HOST: Patrick Scheur from Deventer in the Netherlands looked on with astonishment at the drama that was unfolding live on television.</p>
<p>PATRICK: It was just like watching a disaster movie, the planes, the skyscrapers&hellip;</p>
<p>VOICE OVER: A few days after the 9/11 attack Patrick received a phone call from his mother, a remarkable call in which she made an unexpected announcement.<a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/young-rudi-dekkers1.gif" rel="" style="" target="" title=""><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3080" height="212" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/young-rudi-dekkers1.gif" style="" title="young rudi dekkers" width="272" /></a></p>
<p>PATRICK:&nbsp; She asked me to turn on the TV because my father was on. I got very emotional.</p>
<p>I had never seen my father&#8230; He was the Dutchman that trained the hijackers to fly.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Patrick&#39;s parents, the show related, got married in the late seventies. &ldquo;My mother was three months pregnant with me when Rudi told her he was seeing someone else and wanted to break up,&rdquo; he explained.</p>
<p>His father emigrated to the U.S., never to be heard from again.</p>
<p>During my investigation I discovered that, unknown to Patrick, Rudi Dekkers had been&nbsp; in trouble with the law. He was wanted for fraud.</p>
<h3>A matter of &quot;national security&quot;</h3>
<p>Yet when he appeared before a U.S. Congressional committee, Dekkers wasn&rsquo;t forced to face critical questioning. Instead, he was asked for his advice on preventing future terrorist attacks. Why was that? Clearly not because he&rsquo;s such a likable fellow.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cia.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3104" height="208" src="http://www.madcowprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cia.jpg" title="cia" width="297" /></a>How many people would place any credence at all to the testimony of a man who walked out on his wife when she was three months pregnant? And who&#8211;even twenty years later&mdash;refuses to acknowledge or meet his own son?</p>
<p>So why did the United States Congress?</p>
<p>One answer come to mind. &quot;It&#39;s a matter of national security&rdquo; is an excuse often used to ensure cadre members in a so-called&nbsp; &quot;black op&quot; never face criminal charges.</p>
<p>Could the reason we didn&#39;t long ago read about Rudi Dekkers&#39; criminal connections in the New York Times be because the organization Dekkers&#39; ultimately worked for at Huffman Aviation has a stranglehold on public discourse in this country?</p>
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