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		<title>By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do Boston</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Keith Johnson WAS SLAIN Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamarlin Tsarnaev (pictured) coerced, blackmailed or manipulated by Mossad agents posing as FBI agents? Mark Glenn and the crew over at The Ugly Truth have produced a series of radio broadcasts making a compelling argument that he was: TUT Broadcast April 20, 2013 The Victory Hour April 22, 2013 TUT Broadcast <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/by-way-of-deception-thou-shalt-do-boston/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<p>WAS SLAIN Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamarlin Tsarnaev (pictured) coerced, blackmailed or manipulated by Mossad agents posing as FBI agents?</p>
<p>Mark Glenn and the crew over at <a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Ugly Truth </a>have produced a series of radio broadcasts making a compelling argument that he was:</p>
<p><a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/tut-broadcast-april-20-2013/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TUT Broadcast April 20, 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/the-victory-hour-april-22-2013/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Victory Hour April 22, 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/tut-broadcast-april-23-2013/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TUT Broadcast April 23, 2013 </a></p>
<p>As with any likely false-flag scenario, one must ask Cui Bono? ~ who benefits?</p>
<p>The American people certainly did not benefit, nor did the Muslim world of which Tsarnaev identified. Attacking a sporting event attended by innocent men, women and children from around the world makes no strategic sense unless the perpetrators intended to entice retaliation. It stands to reason then, that those perpetrators would have to pose as their enemy to bring about a charged response against that enemy.</p>
<p>So who stands to benefit from such an operation?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/diplomania/boston-bombing-will-boost-u-s-support-for-israel-says-netanyahu-aide.premium-1.516721" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">From Haaretz</a>:</p>
<p><i>Ron Dermer, a diplomatic advisor consultant to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and candidate for the post of Israeli ambassador to Washington, told a closed meeting of U.S. Jewish leaders in New York last week that the Boston marathon bombings would increase American support for Israel — just as that support increased following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.</i></p>
<p><i>Dermer made his remarks last Wednesday, two days after explosions rocked the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding nearly 200 more. Dermer, considered one of Netanyahu&#8217;s closest associates, is currently on vacation, after having finished his stint as a senior adviser at the Prime Minister&#8217;s Bureau.</i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;The bulk of the American people stand firmly with Israel and identify with Israel,&#8221; Dermer said, in a video filmed by blogger Jacob Kornbluh. &#8220;If you can look, historically, there was a big change after 9/11, and I am sure that after the tragic bombing in Boston, people will identify more with Israel and its struggle against terrorism and we can maintain that support.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Commenting on the aforementioned article, The Ugly Truth&#8217;s Mark Glenn writes:</p>
<p><em>Sound familiar? It should. Netanyahu said virtually the EXACT same thing in the aftermath of the Israeli engineered act of war against America on 9/11, saying the attacks were `good&#8217; as they would generate `immediate sympathy for Israel.&#8217;</em></p>
<p>Now that we have established Cui Bono, where do we go from here in establishing links between the benefactors and the perpetrators? Indulge me.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a long and arduous journey to the truth. Let&#8217;s begin…</p>
<p>The FBI now admits that they made contact with Tamarlin Tsarnaev in 2011 but failed to find any incriminating information about him.</p>
<p><a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/20/cbs-news-fbi-interviewed-tamerlan-tsarnaev-2-years-ago/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to CBS</a>:</p>
<p><i>As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr, the FBI interviewed Tsarnaev, the elder brother of at-large bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, at the request of a foreign government to see if he had any extremist ties, but failed to find any linkage. </i></p>
<p><i>Both Tsarnaev brothers were legal permanent residents of the U.S. There is no evidence so far that either brother received any tactical training.</i></p>
<p><i>CBS News correspondent John Miller reports it is likely Russia asked to have the elder Tsarnaev vetted because of suspected ties to Chechen extremists.</i></p>
<p><i>The FBI is likely to have run a background check, running his name through all the relevant databases, including those of other agencies, checking on his communications and all of his overseas travel. Miller reports that culminated in a sit-down interview where they probably asked him a lot of questions about his life, his contacts, his surroundings. All of this was then written in a report and sent it to the requesting government.</i></p>
<p>So the FBI responded to a tip from Russia in 2011, right? However, <a href="http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22034735/charges-likely-sunday-for-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">NBC News reports</a> that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) provided FBI with information on Tsarnaev as recently as Novemebr 2012:</p>
<p><i>A police official source in Makhachkala, Dagestan, told NBC News on Sunday that the Russian internal security service reached out to the FBI last November with some questions about Tamerlan, and handed over a copy of case file on him.</i></p>
<p><i>Tsarnaev had first popped up on the local police radar in Dagestan last summer, the source said. During routine surveillance of an individual known to be involved in the militant Islamic underground movement, the police witnessed Tamerlan meet the latter at a Salafi mosque in Makhachkala, the police official said.</i></p>
<p><i>It was one of six times in total that surveillance officials witnessed Tsarnaev meeting this militant at the same mosque, according to the police official. The militant contact later disappeared, the police official said, but so did Tsarnaev before investigators had a chance to speak with him. The FBI never responded, according to the Dagestani police official.</i></p>
<p>So why didn&#8217;t the FBI follow up? <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/04/23/the-russians-warned-us-why-didnt-we-listen/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to Justin Raimondo</a> of Antiwar.com:</p>
<p><i>The problem is that the Chechen &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; are <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/colleen-rowley/2013/04/21/chechen-terrorists-and-the-neocons/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">US allies</a>, along with their ideological compatriots in Libya and Syria…</i> <i>Although support for the Chechen independence movement is bipartisan, that troublesome little sect known as the neoconservatives has actively backed the Chechen cause from the get-go: an impressive list of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/08/usa.russia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">prominent neocons</a>, including Bill Kristol, sits on the board of the Chechens&#8217; principal US propaganda outfit, the <a href="http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus</a> (formerly the <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/American_Committee_for_Peace_in_Chechnya" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">American Committee for Peace in Chechnya</a>). According to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38200-2005Mar15_2.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Glen Howard</a>, head of the Jamestown Foundation, a neocon outfit focused on Central Asia, the Chechens aren&#8217;t Islamist terrorists, they&#8217;re just cuddly &#8220;nationalists&#8221; rebelling against a Russia that has gone &#8220;fascist.&#8221; &#8220;The Russians are trying to treat Chechen separatism through the prism of 9/11 and terror rather than as a nationalist movement that has been defying Kremlin rule for 200 years,&#8221; says Howard.</i></p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/22/why-the-fbi-didn-t-make-much-of-russia-s-request-to-probe-boston-bomber.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this explanation</a> from neocon mouthpiece Eli Lake of The Daily Beast:</p>
<p><i>There were good reasons that the tip didn&#8217;t trigger a more aggressive American investigation, current and former intelligence and law-enforcement officials tell The Daily Beast.</i></p>
<p><i>Those officials pointed to the FSB&#8217;s habit of treating much behavior by Chechens as suspicious, and nearly all such behavior as terror-related. The Tsarnaev request, they speculated, was likely triggered by the FSB&#8217;s concern that he would participate in or provide support to Chechen insurrectionists in Russia, rather that by any sense of a threat to American interests.</i></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s another theory: Did the FBI ignore Russia&#8217;s warning because Tsarnaev was working as an intelligence asset for the U.S. government? There&#8217;s no evidence to reach that conclusion, but all things should be taken into consideration.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s yet another theory to consider: Did Tsarnaev THINK he was working as an intelligence asset for the U.S. government? Was Tsarnaev lured, coerced or blackmailed into carrying out intelligence operations by foreign operatives posing as U.S. intelligence or law enforcement agents?</p>
<p>So far, the FBI admits to coming in contact with Tsarnaev on ONLY ONE occasion. However, Tsarnaev&#8217;s mother <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10011456/Marathon-bomber-Tamerlan-Tsarnaevs-mother-I-want-to-bury-him-in-Boston.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">told</a> The Daily Telegraph that her son <i>&#8220;first aroused suspicions in the United States in 2008, and <b>FBI agents met him on `at least five&#8217; occasions afterwards</b>, the last time a year and a half ago. </i></p>
<p><i>She said: `They came and asked him, what are you doing, what are you up to? </i></p>
<p><i>`They said Tamerlan was an influential lad, he had the personality of a leader. And they asked me, `Don&#8217;t you have any thoughts that he could organise some kind of group of a terrorist persuasion?&#8217; </i></p>
<p><i>`They said they&#8217;d seen what kind of videos he&#8217;d been looking at, and they told me that they keep young leaders among Muslims under control so there aren&#8217;t any bombings, so that they don&#8217;t fall under someone&#8217;s influence.&#8217;</i></p>
<p><i>Mrs Tsarnaeva said FBI agents contacted her son by telephone a final time three days after the marathon bombing, one day before he died. </i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;They said he was suspected of involvement and told him he needed to come in for questioning,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He told them to come and find him and hung up. He was fed up with talking to them.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>I should stress that the mother said her son had been contacted &#8220;at least five&#8221; times by the FBI in addition to the single occasion that the FBI admits to. The last time was three days after the Boston Marathon bombing, something that the FBI denies. <a href="http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/fbi_denies_report_elder_tsarnaev_was_contacted_last_week" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to the Boston Herald</a>:</p>
<p><i>The FBI is strongly refuting a report by Britain&#8217;s Channel 4 News that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was contacted by federal agents last week, days after the Marathon bombings and days before he allegedly murdered an MIT police officer and before he was killed in a gunfight with cops and his fugitive brother held Greater Boston hostage for an entire day.</i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;Story is false,&#8221; a spokeswoman for the agency said in an email response to a Herald inquiry.</i></p>
<p>In a separate <a href="http://rt.com/usa/tsarnaev-brothers-parents-innocent-124/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">interview with Russia Today</a> (RT), Tsarnaev&#8217;s mother said the FBI &#8220;<i>used to come [to our] home, they used to talk to me…they were telling me that he [the older, 26-y/o Tamerlan] was really an extremist leader and that they were afraid of him. They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these extremist sites… they were controlling him, they were controlling his every step…and now they say that this is a terrorist act!</i> <i>Never ever is this true, my sons are innocent!&#8221;</i></p>
<p>So is the FBI lying or intentionally withholding information about multiple contacts with Tsarnaev? Maybe not. That&#8217;s not to say that Tsarnaev&#8217;s mother is lying either. But if the FBI didn&#8217;t control Tsarnaev&#8217;s &#8220;every step,&#8221; as his mother claims, then who did?</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve now come full circle. We know that Israel is the one entity that stands to benefit from the attacks in Boston. But is it in their character to pose as U.S. intelligence of law enforcement assets in order to manipulate patsies into performing actions that serve their interests? Oh yeah! After all, the motto of their intelligence service is &#8220;By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War.</p>
<p>In a January 2012 article for Foreign Policy, entitled <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">False Flag</a>, Mark Perry writes:</p>
<p><i>Buried deep in the archives of America&#8217;s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush&#8217;s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush with American dollars and toting U.S. passports, posed as CIA officers in recruiting Jundallah operatives – what is commonly referred to as a &#8220;false flag&#8221; operation. </i></p>
<p><i>The memos, as described by the sources, one of whom has read them and another who is intimately familiar with the case, investigated and debunked reports from 2007 and 2008 accusing the CIA, at the direction of the White House, of covertly supporting Jundallah – a Pakistan-based Sunni extremist organization. Jundallah, according to <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/11/150332.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong>the U.S. government</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/Jundallah_Profile_Of_A_Sunni_Extremist_Group/1856699.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong>published reports</strong></a>, is responsible for assassinating Iranian government officials and killing Iranian women and children. </i></p>
<p><i>But while the memos show that the United States had barred even the most incidental contact with Jundallah, according to both intelligence officers, the same was not true for Israel&#8217;s Mossad. The memos<b> </b>also detail CIA field reports saying that Israel&#8217;s recruiting activities occurred under the nose of U.S. intelligence officers, most notably in London, the capital of one of Israel&#8217;s ostensible allies, where Mossad officers posing as CIA operatives met with Jundallah officials.</i></p>
<p><i>The officials did not know whether the Israeli program to recruit and use Jundallah is ongoing. Nevertheless, they were stunned by the brazenness of the Mossad&#8217;s efforts. </i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,&#8221; the intelligence officer said. &#8220;Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently didn&#8217;t give a damn what we thought.&#8221; </i></p>
<p>So if Mossad agents would be so bold as to pose as CIA agents abroad, who&#8217;s to say they aren&#8217;t posing as FBI agents or CIA agents on American soil? Some may say that they would never dare do something like that right under our noses. Really? In an August 2010 article for the American Conservative, entitled <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/mossad-in-america/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mossad in America</a>, former CIA station chief Phillip Giraldi writes:</p>
<p><i>Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel&#8217;s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department. It also dominates two commercial sectors that enable it to extend its reach inside America&#8217;s domestic infrastructure: airline and telecommunications security. Israel is believed to have the ability to monitor nearly all phone records originating in the United States, while numerous Israeli air-travel security companies are known to act as the local Mossad stations.</i></p>
<p><i>As tensions with Iran increase, sources in the counterintelligence community report that Israeli agents have become more aggressive in targeting Muslims living in the United States as well as in operating against critics. There have been a number of cases reported to the FBI about Mossad officers who have approached leaders in Arab-American communities and have falsely represented themselves as &#8220;U.S. intelligence.&#8221; Because few Muslims would assist an Israeli, this is done to increase the likelihood that the target will cooperate. It&#8217;s referred to as a &#8220;false flag&#8221; operation.</i></p>
<p><i>Mossad officers sought to recruit Arab-Americans as sources willing to inform on their associates and neighbors. The approaches, which took place in New York and New Jersey, were reportedly handled clumsily, making the targets of the operation suspicious. These Arab-Americans turned down the requests for cooperation, and some of the contacts were eventually reported to the FBI, which has determined that at least two of the Mossad officers are, ironically, Israeli Arabs operating out of Israel&#8217;s mission to the United Nations in New York under cover as consular assistants.</i></p>
<p><i>In another bizarre case, U.S.S. Liberty survivor Phil Tourney was recently accosted in Southern California by a foreigner who eventually identified himself as an Israeli government representative. Tourney was taunted, and the Israeli threatened both him and journalist Mark Glenn, who has been reporting on the Liberty story. Tourney was approached in a hotel lounge, and it is not completely clear how the Israeli was able to identify him. But he knew exactly who Tourney was, as the official referred to the Liberty, saying that the people who had been killed on board had gotten what they deserved. There were a number of witnesses to the incident, including Tourney&#8217;s wife. The threat has been reported to the FBI, which is investigating, but Tourney and Glenn believe that the incident is not being taken seriously by the bureau.</i></p>
<p><i>FBI sources indicate that the increase in Mossad activity is a major problem, particularly when Israelis are posing as U.S. government officials, but they also note that there is little they can do to stop it as the Justice Department refuses to initiate any punitive action or prosecutions of the Mossad officers who have been identified as involved in the illegal activity.</i></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t want to take Giraldi&#8217;s word for it, then perhaps you&#8217;d be more inclined to believe The Washington Post. In a September 2010 post of his &#8220;Spy Talk&#8221; column, <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/israeli_spies_pitching_us_musl.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jeff Stein quoted</a> a second former CIA official who supported Giraldi&#8217;s account:</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Oh, sure, they do that,&#8221; </i>Stein quoted the unnamed official as saying<i>, &#8220;They&#8217;re all over the place.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The Israelis are masters of deception and have a long history of wearing multiple disguises. Here&#8217;s just one random example from 1988:</p>
<p><i><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-07/entertainment/ca-8301_1_abc-news" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Arledge Alleges That Israelis Posed as ABC News Crew</a></i></p>
<p><i>NEW YORK</i><b><i>—</i></b><i>ABC News President Roone Arledge has sharply protested to Israeli officials what he said were Israel security forces who posed as an ABC News crew to lure a Palestinian youth to his arrest, the network said Wednesday.</i></p>
<p><i>ABC News President Roone Arledge has sharply protested to Israeli officials what he said were Israel security forces who posed as an ABC News crew to lure a Palestinian youth to his arrest, the network said Wednesday.</i></p>
<p><i>Yediot Ahrnot, a Hebrew-language newspaper in Jerusalem, reported the incident and said it occurred in a village 20 miles north of Jerusalem. The newspaper said villagers claimed that Israeli security forces posing as an ABC News crew lured the Palestinian youth into their car on the pretext of seeking an interview then arrested him for throwing firebombs.</i></p>
<p>What role the Tsarnaev brothers played in the Boston Marathon bombing is still unclear, but there is ample evidence to suggest that they were manipulated by shadow elements to perform actions that would ultimately implicate them.</p>
<p><a href="http://rt.com/usa/tsarnaev-brothers-parents-innocent-124/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to RT</a>:</p>
<p><i>Russian `Alpha&#8217; Special Forces team-veteran and vice-president of its International Association, Aleksey Filatov, believes there is more to the case than meets the eye. He emphasizes, firstly, that the origin and religious beliefs of the suspect, along with the specifics of the bombing, have all been carefully pre-meditated and planned by someone within the United States in order to distract the public from the true identity and long-term aims of the actual planners.</i></p>
<p><strong><em>&#8220;Putting a young Chechen in those shoes was top-notch professionalism in distracting everyone from the true identity and motives of the planner.&#8221;</em></strong></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Philip Devlin DURING THE PAST DECADE of American involvement in the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, an improvised explosive device, often referred to as an IED, has become a common part of our recent vocabulary. IEDs have accounted for over 50 percent of the nearly 5,900 American deaths so far in those engagements. IEDs can take many forms; <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2011/01/american-revolutionary-patriots-invented-ieds/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<p>by Philip Devlin</p>
<p>DURING THE PAST DECADE of American  involvement in the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, an improvised  explosive device, often referred to as an IED, has become a common part  of our recent vocabulary. IEDs have accounted for over 50 percent of  the nearly 5,900 American deaths so far in those engagements. IEDs can  take many forms; basically, they can be thought of as the use of any  explosive device in a non-conventional delivery system. For example, an  artillery shell, which is normally delivered to its target from the  barrel of a gun, can be hidden in a wrecked car or strapped to an animal  and then exploded remotely using cellphone technology. Understood in  this way, IEDs have a long history that predates their use in Iraq and  in Afghanistan. In fact, one can make a compelling case that the first  IED used in warfare originated right here in Connecticut as a  consequence of Saybrook resident David Bushnell&#8217;s invention of the first  submarine, the <em>Turtle</em>. I refer more specifically to Bushnell&#8217;s  attack on the British fleet in Philadelphia on January 6, 1777 – 234 years  ago this week.</p>
<p>The Yale-educated Bushnell (pictured above) had made an important discovery in 1775: gunpowder could be exploded underwater. Henry Howe&#8217;s book <em>Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics</em> (1852) described Bushnell&#8217;s experiments with exploding gunpowder in this way:</p>
<p><em>ï»¿The first experiment was made with about two ounces of  gunpowder, to prove to some influential men that powder would burn under  water. In the second trial there were two pounds of gunpowder enclosed  in a wooden bottle, and fixed under a hogshead, with a two inch oak  plank between the hogshead and the powder. The hogshead was loaded with  stones as deep as it could swim; a wooden pipe primed with powder  descended through the lower head of the hogshead, and thence through the  plank into the powder contained in the bottle. A match put to the  priming exploded- the powder with a tremendous effect, casting a great  body of water with the stones and ruins many feet into the air.*</em></p>
<p>Furthermore, Bushnell was able to devise a timing device for his underwater explosive device. His plan for the <em>Turtle</em> was to have its operator paddle underwater to an enemy ship, pierce the  hull of the ship with a drilling device, and deposit a powder keg with a  timing device in it that would blow up the ship after the operator of  the sub had safely paddled away.</p>
<p>Well, it didn&#8217;t work out quite as planned. The first attack on a  British ship occurred in New York harbor in September of 1776. The  target was a 64-gun frigate known as the <em>Eagle</em> – Admiral Howe&#8217;s  flagship. The pilot, Sgt. Ezra Lee of Old Lyme, CT, could not pierce the  metal sheathing on the underside of the hull with his drill. With a  limited air supply, Lee had to make his escape. While doing so, he  released his &#8220;torpedo&#8221; to lessen the drag on the sub and to hasten his  retreat. His IED floated to the surface and drifted in NY harbor. With  the timing device engaged by its release, the keg of powder soon  exploded in the East River near Governor&#8217;s Island &#8220;with a report like  thunder.&#8221;** General Israel Putnam of Connecticut was among those who  witnessed the explosion. Though their ships were not harmed, the British  were sufficiently frightened to move their fleet.</p>
<p>Though the attack on Howe&#8217;s flagship had largely failed, the  successful explosion gave rise to another guerrilla tactic. Nearly a  year later, in August of 1777, Bushnell attempted to attack the British  in a new way. This time the target was the <em>Cerberus,</em> anchored in  Niantic Bay next to a schooner it had seized. The intrepid Lee paddled  in close to the two ships and released his IED with a tether. Curious  British sailors pulled it in and brought it aboard the schooner. In  short order, the device exploded, killing several British sailors,  causing a fire, and sinking the schooner.  The captain of the <em>Cerberus</em>,  J. Simmons, disturbed at such unconventional tactics, wrote to British  Admiral Parker about &#8220;the mode these villains… have taken…as the  ingenuity of these people is singular in their secret modes of  mischief.&#8221;***</p>
<p>Bushnell&#8217;s next attack occurred on January 6, 1778. He rigged a  number of IEDs and floated them down the Delaware River, hoping that  they would contact ships of the British fleet anchored there. However,  the ships had been anchored in such a way as to avoid floating ice, so  the attack was largely unsuccessful. One floating IED did contact a  British barge and exploded it, killing 4 Brits and wounding several  others. So unnerved were the British, that their officers ordered  infantrymen to shoot their muskets at anything that floated down the  river. This command resulted in Francis Hopkinson penning the very  sarcastic ballad, &#8220;Battle of the Kegs,&#8221; which pokes fun at the &#8220;courage&#8221;  of the British for shooting floating pieces of wood in the Delaware  River. Though the attack was largely unsuccessful, it did boost morale  and marked a propaganda victory for the rebels, as Hopkinson&#8217;s popular  ditty was read widely throughout the colonies. Following are several  stanzas from Hopkinson&#8217;s ballad. They just drip with sarcasm:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;The motley crew, in vessels new,<br />
With Satan for their guide, sir,<br />
Packed up in bags, or wooden kegs,<br />
Come driving down the tide, sir.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Therefore prepare for bloody war;<br />
These kegs must all be routed,<br />
Or surely we despised shall be,<br />
And British courage doubted.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>….</em></p>
<p><em>The kegs, &#8217;tis said, though strongly made,<br />
Of rebel staves and hoops, sir,<br />
Could not oppose their powerful foes,<br />
The conquering British troops, sir.</em></p>
<p><em>From morn to night these men of might<br />
Displayed amazing courage;<br />
And when the sun was fairly down,<br />
Retired to sup their porridge.</em></p>
<p><em>A hundred men with each a pen,<br />
Or more upon my word, sir,<br />
It is most true would be too few,<br />
Their valor to record, sir.</em></p>
<p><em>Such feats did they perform that day,<br />
Against these wicked kegs, sir,<br />
That years to come: if they get home,<br />
They&#8217;ll make their boasts and brags, sir.</em></p>
<p>Impressed with the possibilities of such attacks, several months  later General George Washington created a corps of &#8220;sappers and miners&#8221;  for the Continental Army and made David Bushnell of Connecticut its  captain. Sappers, essentially combat engineers who often use explosives  in demolition work, have remained an important part of the armed forces  ever since. Of course, eventually the submarine evolved over time and  became an important part of modern warfare, too. Long after the war, in a  letter to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington said of David Bushnell&#8217;s  submarine: &#8220;I then thought and still do that it was an effort of  genius.&#8221;**** The long-term consequences of Bushnell&#8217;s invention – some of  them unintended &#8212; have proven the truth of Washington&#8217;s words.</p>
<p><strong>Notes and Sources</strong></p>
<p>1.      A detailed description of Bushnell&#8217;s submarine can be found  in &#8220;The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society&#8221; and in  Benjamin Silliman&#8217;s 1820 edition of the &#8220;American Journal of Science.&#8221;</p>
<p>2.    *  &#8220;Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives  of Distinguished European Mechanics : Together with a Collection of  Anecdotes &#8230; Relating to the Mechanic Arts : Illustrated by Fifty  Engravings&#8221; By Henry Howe, New York Museum of Science and Industry  Library Published by Harper &amp; Brothers, 1852, pgs. 136-146. (Text  available at googlebooks.com).</p>
<p>3.      ** and *** and ****ï»¿ &#8220;The First Submarine&#8221; by Stewart H. Holbrook in <em>The American Mercury</em> August 25,1944. (My grandmother cut this out of the paper, and it  eventually found its way to me.) Holbrook&#8217;s article relied heavily on  Henry Howe&#8217;s 1852 book above.</p>
<p>4.      &#8220;Sapper&#8221; probably has its origins in the French word &#8220;sappe,&#8221;  which means a &#8220;trench&#8221; in English. The original sappers dug trenches in  approaching fortifications such as castles in order to bring forward  devices, weapons, and personnel necessary to breach ancient  fortifications. Though no longer a common approach in modern warfare,  the name has stuck.</p>
<p>5. &#8220;Saybrook,&#8221; supposed birthplace of David Bushnell, is to be  distinguished from &#8220;Old Saybrook.&#8221; Until 1948 the current town named  &#8220;Deep River&#8221; was known as &#8220;Saybrook.&#8221; Therefore, Bushnell may actually  have been from Deep River, even though Old Saybrook seems to have  claimed him as their own.</p>
<p><a href="http://durham.patch.com/articles/improvised-explosive-devices-ieds-and-the-american-revolution">Read the full article at the <em>Durham Patch</em></a></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[The existence of such totally illegal atrocities as a &#8220;CIA Kill List&#8221; only fuels and emboldens such terrorists. &#8212; Ed. by Erik Jensen AN AL-QAEDA recruiter, described as the No. 1 terrorist threat to America, was engaged by a Sydney youth group to address hundreds of young people &#8212; a decision that has caused deep divisions at one of Australia&#8217;s <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2010/04/al-qaeda-leader-speaks-at-australian-mosque/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<p>by Erik Jensen</p>
<p>AN AL-QAEDA recruiter, described as the No. 1 terrorist threat to America, was engaged by a Sydney youth group to address hundreds of young people &#8212; a decision that has caused deep divisions at one of Australia&#8217;s largest mosques.</p>
<p>At the same time as Anwar al-Awlaki was advising the extremist later charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas, he was in talks with a group, Sydney Muslim Youth, about delivering a sermon to young Australians. He was already well known to security agencies as the spiritual guide to three of the hijackers on September 11, 2001.</p>
<p>&#8221;Anwar al-Awlaki is like a virus produced by the body wanting to fight a microbe,&#8221; said Taj el-Din al-Hilaly, condemning the sermon, which was delivered at his mosque by phone link from Yemen.</p>
<p>According to US authorities, about the time of the sermon Mr Awlaki was transforming himself from radical cleric to trainer and recruiter for al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>Last week, Mr Awlaki became the first US citizen added to the CIA kill list. He is considered a military enemy of the US and faces assassination by special forces.</p>
<p>&#8220;The danger Awlaki poses to this country is no longer confined to words,&#8221; a US official told <em>The New York Times</em>. &#8220;He&#8217;s gotten involved in plots.&#8221;</p>
<p>The chairwoman of the US house subcommittee on homeland security, Jane Harman, called Mr Awlaki &#8220;terrorist No. 1 in terms of threat against us&#8221;.</p>
<p>The bomber who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day last year reportedly described Mr Awlaki as his trainer and recruiter.</p>
<p>The <em>Herald</em> attended the sermon at the Lakemba mosque in February last year but was ejected by organisers. Yesterday, no one involved with the mosque would take responsibility for securing Mr Awlaki as a speaker.</p>
<p>According to a director of the mosque, Ziad Ghamraoui, Shady Alsuleiman was in charge of organising evening youth events at the time of the sermon. Sheikh Shady refused to comment. He would not say whether Mr Awlaki was paid and would not comment on the subject of his speech.</p>
<p>Since Mr Awlaki&#8217;s lecture, all speakers must now be approved by the mosque. Mr Ghamraoui said: &#8221;We need to make sure that it&#8217;s only moderate scholars that are coming.&#8221;</p>
<p>The senior imam at the mosque, Sheikh Hilaly, condemned provocative clerics who radicalised young people. &#8221;They are like fast food who give no substance and no spiritual nutrition,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8221;Our young people these days like loud voices. They seem to like Rambo and Schwarzenegger and the imam who raises his voice and appears tough.&#8221; IslamicMedia.com.au, an initiative of the Shady-affiliated United Muslims of Australia, streamed but did not record the speech and has 15 other audio sermons from the imam&#8230;</p>
<p>ejensen@smh.com.au</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/alqaeda-at-city-mosque-20100414-se8g.html">Read the full story at the Sydney Morning Herald</a></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editorial by James Sanchez, European-American Issues Forum Who are the previously off-the-radar &#8220;militia members&#8221; accused in an FBI bomb plot? What is real and what is &#8220;black ops&#8221; and propaganda? I HAD NEVER heard of the Hutaree. Seemingly, the Hutaree were a vast conspiracy that wanted to kill police officers as part of a plot to start a race war <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2010/04/the-mysterious-hutaree-militia/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Editorial by James Sanchez, European-American Issues Forum</p>
<p><em>Who are the previously off-the-radar &#8220;militia members&#8221; accused in an FBI bomb plot? What is real and what is &#8220;black ops&#8221; and propaganda?</em></p>
<p>I HAD NEVER heard of the Hutaree. Seemingly, the Hutaree were a vast conspiracy that wanted to kill police officers as part of a plot to start a race war or something. The FBI supposedly became aware of it when a member of a national news organization passed a tip to Council on American-Islamic Relations which in turn contacted the FBI.</p>
<p>Then raids were staged in several states. Everywhere the Hutaree surrendered peacefully and without incident. One group tried to escape and ran to their contact in the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia, a Muslim ( ! ), but he refused to help them. Before their Web site and computers were seized (by the FBI) and flooded with homosexual pornography: &#8220;a member of the Hutaree posted a message online pleading for help and claiming that officials &#8216;broke into homes and took children and used the tasers on wives &#8230; AND my son who is 12.'&#8221; (Torturing wives and children is an old Israeli technique and it has been commonly used in the War ion Terrorism: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed&#8217;s 8- and 10-year old sons were captured before he was and the US boasted in Pakistan that they were being tortured. So TASERing children to extract information from their watching parents has, apparently, just become routine.) (Netter, Sarah; Harris, Dan: <em>Christian Militia Raid: Family of Four Allegedly Behind Plot to Ambush Police; Nine Members of the Hutaree Charged With Trying to Blow Up Cops, Court Docs Say; Hutaree: Militia Group Planning to Defend Against Satan</em>. ABC News, March 29, 2010.)</p>
<p>What? One of the Michigan Militia leaders is <em>Muslim</em>? Moreover someone in close contact with the Hutaree, trusted by the Hutaree who believed him trustworthy enough to hide them from the police, and who lived very close to the Hutaree&#8230; Indeed, and the Muslim turns out to be an informant for the FBI: &#8220;One of the Hutaree members called a Michigan militia leader for assistance Saturday after federal agents had already began their raid, Lackomar [Mike Lackomar, of Michiganmilitia.com] said, but the militia member &#8212; who is of Islamic decent and had heard about the threats &#8212; declined to offer help. That Michigan militia leader is now working with federal officials to provide information on the Hutaree member for the investigation, Lackomar said Sunday.&#8221; (&#8220;Chambers, Jennifer; Shepardson, David; Brand-Williams, Oralandar. <em>Seven Arrested In FBI Raids Linked To Christian Militia Group</em>. Detroit <em>News</em>. March 28, 2010.)</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the African-American-Muslim MAS Freedom Foundation, fresh from its DC conference on the rights of Black cop-killers, lauds the FBI for its arrests of the Hutaree and applauds the important [if imaginary] role of the SPLC in fighting the Christian terrorism of the Hutaree. (MAS Freedom Foundation. Press Release: <em>MAS Freedom Expressed Grave Concerns Over Extremist &#8216;Christian Militia&#8217; Arrests</em>. District of Columbia: MAS Freedom Foundation, March 29, 2010.)</p>
<p>(FBI-Detroit. Press Release: <em>Nine Members of a Militia Group Charged with Seditious Conspiracy and Related Offenses</em>. Detroit: FBI, March 29, 2010.)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">___________</p>
<p>I had never heard of the Hutaree. I went to their rather sad little Web site and found little of interest. Their three document Web pages were very primitive: Hutaree. (1) About Us. N.D., (2) Doctrine of the Hutaree. N.D., and (3) Hutaree Rank System. N.D. The Hutaree documents were not extreme. They were banal and did not advocate attacks on the police. After the mass arrests by the FBI, the Web site would soon be flooded with homosexual pornography: The simplest explanation is that the homosexual pornography was posted by the FBI, emulating a trick they learned when they were trained in Israel.</p>
<p>Every day the Hutaree plot is refined to be marketed for broader audiences. The Oligarchic media, the left, and the Muslims love it. But is is just another canned terrorist incident, like the mildly retarded Black members of the Seas of David in Florida or the Black dopers of the Synagogue Bombers plot in New York, targeting a group of social and political isolates with fantastic, heinous charges that will preclude anyone from seeing them as political victims of a government conspiracy. [Fox News. <em>Ninth Arrest in Alleged Militia Plot to Kill Cops; Seven Men And One Woman Believed To Be Part Of The Michigan-Based Hutaree Militia Were Arrested Over The Weekend In Raids In Michigan, Indiana And Ohio. The Ninth Suspect Was Arrested Monday Night</em>: Mar. 29: <em>Suspects Tied To Hutaree, A Militia That Was Preparing For The Antichrist, Were Charged With Conspiring To Kill Police Officers</em>. Updated March 30, 2010. Fox News, March 30, 2010. [Note: The original Fox News story stated the reason for the arrests was the sale of pipe bombs to FBI undercover agents in a sting and this language could still be found in Google search results that did not reflect the rewriting of the story.]
<p>But there is a new element that is worth noting. In this plot against a dimwitted Christian militia, the FBI used Muslims to target Christians: Muslims to infiltrate the Hutaree (the Muslim militiaman they sought from whom they sought refuge, unsucessfully), Muslims to &#8220;sound the alarm&#8221; (the Council on American-Islamic Relations, MAS Freedom Foundation, etc.), Muslims to provide intelligence (that same Muslim militiaman cited above has become a major source for the FBI against the Hutaree), and Muslims to applaud the valuable work of the SPLC (MAS Freedom Foundation).</p>
<p>It is not unreasonable to wonder why the Hutaree fugitives thought they could turn to that [crypto?] Muslim militiaman: Did he, for example, provide them with supplies for making pipe bombs and provide them with a contact who wanted to buy pipe bombs? One wonders.</p>
<p>It seems that we have seen the first use of a new government tactic: The use of Muslim militias (the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia is now effectively a Muslim militia, or at least a Muslim-infiltrated militia, something the SPLC would never talk about) as auxiliaries of the FBI and SPLC to entrap and destroy Christian communities. And CBS News blandly states the violent, terrorist Christian militia&#8217;s motivation is that they oppose &#8220;reform&#8221; and &#8220;health care reforms,&#8221; and predicts that there will be an upsurge of militia violence when &#8220;immigration reform&#8221; is undertaken later this year, especially because there is an African-American president. (CBS Evening News, March 30, 2010)</p>
<p>Like the Seas of David, the Synagogue Bombing Plotters, and the Branch Davidians, the Hutaree are probably guilty of nothing but stupidity, and yes, they will go to prison for life after terrorism show trials.</p>
<p>This is what America has become.</p>
<p>James Joseph Sanchez, PhD</p>
<p>President, EAIF</p>
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