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POLITICO Charles Krauthammer on words President Obama isn't saying
Krauthammer says the president is shying away from defining the enemy. | John Shinkle/POLITICO


By KEVIN CIRILLI | 4/24/13 7:28 AM EDT
Charles Krauthammer says it’s “comical and certainly embarrassing” that President Barack Obama will not use words such as jihadist and Islamist in reference to the Boston Marathon bombings.

“The lengths to which he will go to avoid telling us the truth about the enemy is becoming comical and certainly embarrassing,” Krauthammer said Tuesday on Fox News on “The O’Reilly Factor.” “For example, forget about use the word jihadist — he will never use that, but he refuses to use the word Islamist, which is used throughout the Muslim world. It’s used by journalists, by authors, on the street, in Parliament, in Egypt. It’s used in Lebanon. It’s used everywhere by Muslims.”

He continued: “And yet Obama won’t touch it because he refuses to use any words that might imply a connection between radical Islam and terrorism, which as anybody who is over the age of 9 knows is the single greatest cause of terror in the world today.”

Krauthammer said that other historic leaders didn’t shy away from clearly defining their enemies.

“It matters because if you want to mobilize the population, if you want to give them the courage to persist and to carry on a fight which should be a difficult fight, it could go on for a generation. You have to be clear with your own people about who the enemy is. Churchill did not speak about German extremists. He talked about the Nazi menace. He described it in detail. FDR didn’t speak about extremists in Tokyo. He talked about the Japanese imperialism and its threat to the whole region,” Krauthammer said.

He added: “You have to be able to be honest with the people if you are going to get any support. Otherwise, you get an event here, an event there and you say, ‘We can’t jump to any conclusions?’ Within three days everybody understands that these brothers were jihadists.”



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I find the name Chuck Krauthammer "comical and certainly embarassing".

But I don't care about politics, have at it folks

In a way I agree .... but in a way I disagree as well.

Words have power. Words matter. It's a totally different thing, for example, if you say someone took something, or that they stole something. Either way says something beyond the words as far as how you view the event. Someone who "took" something may have taken it by accident ..... on purpose ..... or temporarily. If someone "stole" it, then there is no room for doubt how the event in question is seen.

I greatly respect a person if they call things as they are, and if they don't try to sugarcoat one type of crime in the interests of religious tolerance. Certain people needs to be told, flat out, that their behavior is unacceptable, and will not be tolerated, and that their religion is not a valid reason for them to commit such acts.

Now I do have to add that I don't necessarily know if this attack was as largely impacted by religious zeal as others in the past have been. In the case that it wasn't, then it would be inappropriate to bring up religion. However, I truly cannot remember too many occasions where Obama has talked about terrorists. He will skirt the issue, and talk about terror in general terms, or how terrorism is a bad thing, but he really does seem resistant to using the word terrorist to any particular individual who commits an act of terrorism. It does seem like a weaker way of speaking, and presenting the country to the world.

Russians Say They Warned FBI About Alleged Boston Bomber "Multiple" Times


The FBI was quick to admit that they were warned about one of the men who allegedly bombed the Boston Marathon, announcing that Russian authorities had asked them to investigate suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev back in 2011. (Which they did, finding nothing.) But it gets worse: yesterday members of the Senate Intelligence Committee learned that Russia alerted the United States about Tsarnaev multiple times, not just once in 2011.

After emerging from the closed-door briefing, Republican Senator Susan Collins told reporters, "I’m very concerned that there still seem to be serious problems with the sharing of information, including critical investigative information. That is troubling to me, this many years after the attacks on our country in 2001, that we still seem to have stovepipes that prevent information from being shared effectively, not only among agencies but also with the same agency in one case."



(AP)After interviewing Tsarnaev—during the meeting he tried to convert an FBI agent to Islam—investigators found no indication that he had terrorist inclinations. But last year Tsarnaev spent six months in Makhachkala, Dagestan, which is known for Islamic fundamentalism and frequent terrorist bombings. The FBI says they were not aware of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's trip, but Homeland Security was!

US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano explained yesterday that his name was misspelled on an airliner passenger list (which is why the FBI missed it). But her department was aware of the trip, because "even with the misspelling under our current system, there are redundancies, and so the system did ping when he was leaving the United States." Lawmakers expressed concern about the poor coordination between FBI and Homeland Security, with Senator Charles "Captain Obvious" Grassley declaring, "It looks to me like there is a lack of communication.”

So far, investigators say they've found no link between the Tsarnaev brothers and any terrorist group or accomplice. (Yesterday, however, the AP reported that a mysterious Muslim convert had exerted enormous influence over Tamerlan in recent years.) "These are persons operating inside the United States without a nexus” to an overseas group, a U.S. intelligence official told the Washington Post.

Meanwhile, more details have emerged about the brothers' alleged murder of MIT security officer Sean Collier and the carjacking of the unidentified SUV driver. Officials tell the Washington Post that the brothers shot Collier possibly in an attempt to seize his firearm. (Tamerlan already had a gun, investigators say, but they were trying to get another.) However, they were unable to get the weapon because a mechanism kept it locked to Collier's holster.

And while we knew that the unidentified man who was briefly taken hostage in his Mercedes SUV said the brothers identified themselves as the Marathon bombers, now the Boston Globe is reporting detailed quotes. “We just killed a cop. We blew up the marathon. And now we’re going to New York. Don’t [expletive] with us.” Officials say the hostage, who was released without harm because the Tamerlan allegedly said they were only targeting Americans, will be a key witness for the prosecution.

http://gothamist.com/2013/04/24/russians_say_they_warned_fbi_about.php

Maybe we need to be a little less concerned with background check on people buying guns and more concerned with checking on people who foreign governments told us was a bad apple.


Who and what policy is accountable for that?


JMO

From what I heard that dead one was pretty much into every conspiracy possible.

Was a follower of "infowars".

Jc

I kind of feel like he is being told not to say those words. When the bombing happened, he did not say terrorist in his address to the nation, and he looked thoroughly irritated. Like he wanted to say it but was told not to.

Hard to tell who really is with all the PACs, hidden political contributors, and lobbyists running around in the government.

Maybe they're hoping to run the Banner consensus model in Washington

Correct me if I am wrong .. but when all hell was going on in Ireland , didn't our Govt. and news Media use words like Catholic , Protestant and terrorist in the same sentence ??

HMMMM I don't know

Let me go get my tin foil hat and sit and think about this for a minute

KING

... and Christian.

Just a question to the educated mass's on the board

j/c

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan

The elder brother and alleged mastermind of the Boston bombings read Infowars, according to a relative

In a bizarre twist befitting a Hollywood conspiracy theory movie, the AP reports today that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was influenced by conspiracy theories, including Alex Jones’ website Infowars, which has been pushing a narrative that the Tsarnaev brothers were patsies set up by a government cabal to take the fall for the bombing.

Tamerlan “took an interest in Infowars,” according to Elmirza Khozhugov, the ex-husband of Tamerlan’s sister. He was also apparently interested in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and was trying to find a copy of “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” one of the most notorious conspiracy tomes of history.

There’s no doubt that Jones will take this report as confirmation of everything he’s been preaching. The report, he will claim, was planted in the AP — the government controls the media, after all — and is a naked attempt to discredit him and definitive proof that the globalist cabal views him as a serious threat. He was getting too close to the truth in Boston, so they decided to try to take him out. It’ll be a big shot in the arm to Jones’ grand theory of the bombings, which has suffered from an embarrassing lack of evidence and logical consistently . He said the government first planned to blame the Tea Party, but then was found out and had to switch Plan B — blame Muslim extremists — so with the AP report, Jones will say, the government is trying to return to Plan A.

Meanwhile, in the real world, it underscores how dangerous and seductive conspiracy theories can be. The ideology of al-Qaida, which seems to be the primary influence on the Tsarnaev plot, can be seen as a conspiracy theory in itself, which places the United States at the center of all evil in the world. Even the extermination campaigns of the Third Reich were essentially built on a conspiracy theory.

UPDATE: Sure enough, within minutes of the AP story breaking, Jones told BuzzFeed’s Rosie Gray that it’s all a conspiracy against him:



“I’ve seen this before,” Jones said. “The federal government trying to connect me to tragedies. That’s the media and the government’s own conspiracy theories.” Jones compared the situation to when Richard Andrew Poplawski, a Pittsburgh man who killed three police officers in 2009, was shown to be a conspiracy theorist who frequently visited the Infowars website. “It’s standard for them to talk to people, go through computers, and any time someone’s done something bad they connect it to us,” Jones said.

Make your own assumptions.

Bombers’ Mother: ‘And I Will Say Allahu Akbar!’
From the UK’s Daily Mail:

Boston Marathon bombers’ mother will travel to U.S. TODAY with ex-husband to speak with investigators
By Lydia Warren | 25 April 2013

The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is set to travel to the U.S. today with her ex-husband, nearly a week after one of their reign of terror came to an end.

Maybe they will ask for asylum again.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, who now lives in Dagestan, Russia, said in an emotional telephone interview that she believes her sons, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, have been framed for the bombings. The suspects’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev, has already been interviewed by Russian and American authorities there – and will also travel to the U.S. to be interviewed by investigators.

Speaking out on Wednesday, Mrs Tsarnaeva launched into a bizarre rant in which she claims she does not care if she or her youngest son are killed by U.S. authorities…

‘If they are going to kill him, I don’t care,’ she told CNN of Dzhokhar. ‘My oldest one is killed, so I don’t care. I don’t care is my youngest one is going to be killed today. I want the world to hear this. And I don’t care if I am going to get killed too. And I will say Allahu akbar!’ …

What is so "bizarre" about what she said? She sounds like a typically devout Muslim mother to us.

By the way, the only print version of this story seems to be from the UK’s Daily Mail. CNN not yet published a print version of this interview, even though it is their scoop.

It’s almost as if they don’t want to make the family look like Muslim radicals.

While Dzhokhar was reportedly injured from a self-inflicted gun shot wound as he sought to hide from police in a boat parked in a backyard, his mother said she does not believe this account.

‘You know what I think? I think now they will try to make my Dzhokhar guilty because they took away his voice, his ability to talk to the world… They did not want the truth to come out,’ she said.

Of course, the police firing into the boat when Jokar was un-armed will only fuel such conspiracy theories. (And, in fact, there might be something to the idea that the Obama administration might not want their real motives for the bombings to get out.)

She added that the only reason her sons were targeted was because they were Muslim, adding that she saw footage of Tamerlan being killed ‘really cruelly.’

She needs to speak to Jokar about that. After all, he ran his brother over.

But if [Zubeidat Tsarnaeva] returns to the U.S. to see her son – as she reportedly intends to as early as Thursday – she could be arrested, thanks to an outstanding shoplifting charge. ABC News reported on Tuesday that Mrs Tsarnaeva failed to show up at a court hearing stemming from a July 2012 arrest. So if she returns to the U.S. to visit her hospitalized son or make burial arrangements for the other, she could be arrested on an outstanding warrant…

If she is arrested it will only be because she is a Muslim.

The images, taken by a resident of Watertown, Massachusetts and posted on his blog, appear to show the Tsarnaev brothers sheltering behind a vehicle and taking aim at police officers. They are reportedly seen running to a car for more supplies before hauling out a pressure cooker bomb they then detonated, filling the street with smoke.

The photographs, taken on the eyewitness’ phone from a third-floor bedroom overlooking the scene, are the first images giving insight into the fraught battle that left one brother dead.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev then jumped in the car and barreled towards the police barricade, making a narrow escape. Authorities said that he ran over his brother Tamerlan.

Funny, but we aren’t seeing these images splashed all over the US media, either.

Their mother told Channel 4 on Tuesday that her sons had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks. She said: ‘What happened is a terrible thing but I know my kids have nothing to do with this. I know it, I am mother.’ She added to CNN that she had spoken to Tamerlan after the bombings and he told her he missed her and loved her, and she said her ‘loving’ son even inquired about the cat…


http://sweetness-light.com/archive/bombers-mother-and-i-will-say-allahu-akbar

Lord knows there are plenty of things to rip on Obama for, this isn't one of them.