Sunday, April 28, 2013

THAT SONIC BOOM YOU HEAR IN THE DISTANCE IS A MILLION CONSPIRATORIALISTS' HEADS EXPLODING

Dave Weigel is a really smart guy, but on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing he wrote what may be the most naive thing he'll ever publish -- a post titled "Why the Conspiracy Theorists Will Have a Tough Time With Boston." Conspiracy theorists these days don't seem to have a tough time with anything, but it just became much easier for them to engage in their little hobby with regard to Boston as a result of this Daily Mail story:
An uncle of the Boston bombers was previously married to a CIA officer's daughter for three years, it emerged today.

Ruslan Tsarni, who publicly denounced his two terrorist nephews' actions and called them 'Losers', even lived with his father-in-law agent Graham Fuller in his Maryland home for a year....

[Fuller] told Al-Monitor that his daughter, Samantha, was married to Ruslan, whose surname was then Tsarnaev, for three to four years in the 1990s.

The couple divorced in 1999 more than ten years after he left the agency in 1987....

'I, of course, retired from CIA in 1987 and had moved on to working as a senior political scientist for RAND.'...
Now, why this should prove anything isn't clear -- the marriage broke up the year Tamerlan Tsarnaev turned 13 and Dzhokhar turned 6, and the marriage involved a relative who was estranged from the accused bomb plotters for years.

But, of course, "they" want you to believe it's all a coincidence!

Fuller has written several books, including one titled (gasp!) The Future of Political Islam, which, based on its publisher's description, seems rather middle-of-the-road ("The outcome of the struggle between extremists and liberals will determine the future of political Islam").

But there are already some off-the shelf conspiracy theories about him, because he's been a focus of 9/11 truthers (who don't really think he left the CIA in 1987):
Graham Fuller is on FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' list of National Security State criminals who are known to be criminals by the FBI, but are being protected under the State Secrets Privilege.

During my three-week speaking tour of Turkey two years ago, I learned another interesting fact about Fuller: He led the CIA's 9/11 cover-up in Turkey.

By September 12th, 2001, most of the leading international-affairs journalists in Turkey knew or suspected that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon had been an inside job. But few wrote about their suspicions. Why not? Because Fuller had threatened them, and they feared for their lives.

That's right: Graham Fuller, then the CIA's top man in Turkey, spent September 2001 phoning and/or visiting Turkey's leading journalists, telling them that they had better not publicly question the official story of 9/11 OR ELSE. The journalists, knowing the CIA's penchant for assassinations and Fuller's reputation as a dirty dealer, feared for their lives. And the Turkish press was steered away – or should I say scared away – from questioning 9/11.

Fuller's obvious role as a 9/11 perp is one reason why one of Turkey's top parliamentarians told me that the CIA – not just Mossad – "had a hand in 9/11."
Yikes.

The one saving grace (of sorts) is that this is where purely right-wing conspiratorialists part company from the Alex Jones-style conspiratorialists (who distrust the government no matter which party is in charge). The truthers are much more likely to believe this than the birthers. So we're not likely to hear much about this from Fox pundits and Republican members of Congress. But the truthers will probably never believe the official story of Boston.

And someday I imagine right-wing crazies will find a way to appropriate 9/11 trutherism ... by blaming 9/11 not on Bush, but on Obama and Soros and Bill Ayers and Valerie Jarrett. I'm amazed I haven't run across that idea already.

7 comments:

Victor said...

Jeez, the "Truthers" are still out there?

I must live a blessed life, because I haven't seen anything in years.

Now, I fully believe that the Cheney-Bush mis-administration knew SOMETHING was up - it was hard not to, with everyone from the heads of the CIA and FBI, on down, sweating bullets, and trying to get Condi, and Dickie, and Georgie, to focus their attention on what was going on in this country.
I even could, actually, mostly do, believe that they ignored things on purpose, to help implement what they wanted all along - to allow the catastrophic event(s) that PNAC said was needed, before we went into Iraq,

But to think that they staged the WTC and Pentagon disasters, and that flight that crashed in PA, stretches the imagination beyond its breaking point.

They proved over the next 7 years, that they could screw-up a two-car funeral procession - so, how could they possibly have done all of that damage successfully, and kept it quiet?
ZERO!

Ten Bears said...

Occupational hazzard to watch out for, Steve, when rooting about that particular region of the bowels of the Internet is becoming immune, inerred, to just how crazy some of these nuts are.

I don't believe a word of any of the "official" simply because I have written enough unpublished (rejected) fiction to know what really bad fiction looks like.

All that about Jesus being an honest to goodness alien and barefooted rubes guzzling ambien, prozac, viagra and crotch-shots on Fox/CNN Kool-Aid and Stepford Clones is just me having a little fun.

No fear.

M. Bouffant said...

Dave Weigel just doesn't realize that "Who are you going to believe, me or the incontrovertible video evidence?" is not a joke to the loons.

Glennis said...

Clearly, Obama used his time machine to committ 9/11.

The New York Crank said...

It's all perfectly logical. A CIA agent's daughter briefly married a muslim named Misha (name of the secret brother of Mohammed?)while the president of the United States had a distant father who was a Muslim. Now I ask you, is that a connection or whut?

Betcha one of them went to Mecca and left a secret message for the other. I'm not saying they were there at the same time or anything. Maybe they left messages under a rock. Happens all the time.

Now, follow me on this one, the bomb in Boston was made out of a pressure cooker which had the same initials as Politically Correct. PC. Am I right or or am I right on that.

Furthermore, Ammonium Nitrat has the same initials as Aziz Muhammed. So what further proof do you need? They, are everywhere. No wonder they're buying up all the bullets.

The only hope we got is to elect Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman president.

Very crankily yours,
The New York Crank

Steve M. said...

You nailed it, Crank. 100% logical!

Ten Bears said...

If we can't laugh at ourselves we're just... well.. fucked.

No fear.