Well, here's the thing:
If you were going to do an "inside job" on the Boston Marathon bombing...if you were going to go to any trouble at all to assist in its outcome, wouldn't you want to pick perpetrators who would assist you in your policy objectives?
Why Chechens? Why a Saudi national? I mean, if you were GWB and you were looking to perpetuate the GWOT then I could see you picking foreign muslims or foreign born and influenced muslims as your scapegoats. But...I am not understanding how these particular criminals move the ball forward for O'Bongo and his minions.
Based on his willingness to kill an American via drone on foreign soil and his stated policy of killing Americans in the USA without due process I can see him and his admin having little regard for the lives of citizens. Yes, I can see that. So...if you are going to be involved in any way, shape or form in the execution of this bombing plot why wouldn't you see to it that there was a perpetrator, any perpetrator at all, who might help with your policy objectives?
Maybe I am just totally out of the loop on this one. Maybe there is someone here who can explain this whole "inside job" concept to me. I would be interested to hear it.
But based on my observations and what I think I know, this week's murder and mayhem sure seems to have been carried out by a couple of true believer jihadis and probably no one else.
I say no one else because of the sheer lack of adequate planning and support.
Let's say that you are going to carry out an IED attack in a major metropolitan area in the USA. Let's say you are going to do it. I know that if I was going to do it I would put just a little bit of thought into what happens after the attack. Did these two guys do that? There sure is a lack of evidence that they did.
If I was going to carry out an IED attack I would, at the very least, do the following:
1. I would discreetly purchase my materials with cash. I would buy the materials in small amounts in various locations.
2. I would rent a place (with cash) to assemble my IEDs. The place would be reasonably far away from where I live.
3. I would probably wear some kind of disguise that, at the very least, is a hindrance to facial recognition software.
4. I would secure a second dwelling somewhere far away from the attack area. I would rent it with cash.
5. I would have a way out of town. I would have a second and third way out of town as contingencies in case something went wrong. I would practice getting out of town.
6. I would probably devise a way to make law enforcement chase their own tails...perhaps multiple IEDs going off at different times in different places. Chaos and mayhem would aid in my escape.
7. As far as that goes, I would probably plan my attack far from where I actually live.
8. I would probably have a way out of the country planned, as well.
9. I would have a lot of money put aside for living on the run.
This is a bare minimum of what I would do. Just the things that come to mind as I write this. If I was really going to do something like that I would put a tremendous amount of planning and forethought into what it would take to carry out the plan and secure a reasonable getaway. But these clods didn't do any of that.
They did just about the opposite. There seemed to be no thought at all as to what they should do after their attack. The younger one went to school. They supposedly robbed a convenience store, they killed a law enforcement officer, they hijacked a car and kidnapped the owner, etc. Real low profile.
Other than building a successful pair of IEDs, planting them and setting them off, I don't see much of anything else that these guys did that qualified them as serious terrorists.
So this is what happens when a couple of murderous morons attack a soft target in the US with a couple of IEDs. If there is a conspiracy outside of these two idiots I don't see what it is. What I do see is what everyone else saw...that we are willing to shut down an entire city for a couple of evil idiots.
