Boston Marathon bombings
 Boylston Street, scene of one bombing | |
| Date | April 15, 2013, 2:49pm - April 19, 2013, 8:42pm |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Blamed on | Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev |
| Type |  bombing |
| Deaths | 6 |
| Injured (non-fatal) | 280 |
| Interest of | David McGowan, WhoWhatWhy |
| Subpage | •Boston Marathon bombings/Photos |
The Boston Marathon bombings killed 6 people in 2013. The official narrative has various inconsistencies, and the pair of "lone nut"s whom the official narrative terms as are responsible had significant links to the American national security apparatus, which officials have not been open about.[1][2]
Contents
Official narrative
Outside Marathon Sports at 671–673 Boylston Street at 2:49:43 pm EDT, a bomb exploded, followed about 12 seconds later by another bomb, one block farther (~200m) west at 755 Boylston Street, killing 3 people and injuring an estimated 264 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation took over the investigation, and on April 18, released photographs and a surveillance video of two suspects. The suspects were identified later that day as Chechen brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Shortly after the release of the images, the suspects killed a police officer and carjacked the car of a young Chinese man who was identified only as "Danny".[3]
Manhunt
As part of the manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an unprecedented "city lockdown" was ordered on April 19, with thousands of law enforcement officers searching a 20-block area of Watertown. Residents of Watertown and surrounding areas, including Boston, were told to stay indoors. The public transportation system and most businesses and public institutions were shut down, creating a deserted urban environment of historic size and duration. No legal justification was presented for this conduct.
Investigation
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) confirmed that 30 specially trained forensic scientists were working around the clock on the two blast sites, where no piece of evidence will be too small to ignore. They will have combed every square inch of Boylston Street, including up on top of the roofs, bagging any fragment of the bomb they can find for analysis at the FBI’s bomb laboratory in Quantico.
Tom Thurman, an explosives expert at Eastern Kentucky University, told The Independent that FBI investigators would employ similar techniques to those used by the Metropolitan Police to investigate the 7 July 2005 London bombings:
- “It’s a huge undertaking but they’ll do what you guys did following the subway bombings in London. You have to use everything you have to put it all together.”[4]
"War on witnesses"
In the six months since the Boston Marathon bombing, the FBI has been active in pursuing several people connected, sometimes only tangentially, with the alleged bombers. This has included intimidation, arrest, deportation, closing of bank accounts and one fatal shooting. This has led to allegations that it is a specific policy designed to hamper the defense team of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, with WhoWhatWhy terming it a "war on witnesses".[5][6][7][8]
Public opinion
A July 2014 poll conducted by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s legal defense team, part of an unsuccessful effort to force a change of venue for his trial, found that 58% of Bostonians believed the accused Marathon bomber is "definitely guilty" while 42% were "unsure".[9]
The Trial
Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case on Tuesday after calling only four witnesses during a 5 hour testimony. The sparse defense case followed a 15 day prosecution case involving 92 witnesses.[10] The jury returned a guilty verdict after 11 hours of deliberation.[11] Some significant doubts have been raised about the evidence given by the prosecution.[12]
Witnesses
| Witness |
|---|
| Aaron Tang |
| Ben Thorndike |
The Official Culprits
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Dzhokhar Tsarnaev | |
| Tamerlan Tsarnaev | Official perpetrator of the Boston Bombings, possibly an FBI double agent. Died after an encounter with US police custody. |
References
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/09/28/russrant-ben-carson-gets-boston-bombing-wrong/
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/06/06/missing-evidence-of-prior-fbi-relationship-with-boston-bomber-2/
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/03/11/9006/
- ↑ "Boston Marathon bombs: How forensics will help to piece together who built devices"
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/10/29/feds-accused-of-harassing-boston-bomber-friends-and-friends-of-friends/
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/08/07/boston-update-another-tsarnaev-friend-arrested-another-government-leak/
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/11/18/islamic-name-us-banks-may-not-want-your-business/
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/10/02/boston-update-fbi-war-on-marathon-bombing-witnesses-continues/
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/07/10/four-in-ten-in-bostonians-skeptical-of-official-marathon-bombing-account/
- ↑ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/04/02/bost-a02.html
- ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/boston-marathon-bombings-guilty-verdict-exposed-as-a-gross-travesty-of-justice/5442240
- ↑ http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/04/09/making-sense-of-boston/
