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‘Uncle Ruslan’ aided terrorists from CIA official’s home

The uncle of the accused Boston Marathon bombers incorporated, in 1995, a company called the "Congress of Chechen International Organizations."

Even as the company was sending aid to Islamic terrorists in Chechnya, its listed address was in the home of former top CIA official Graham Fuller.

Ruslan Tsarni was listed as the company's resident agent. The company's address was 11114 Whisperwood Ln in Rockville MD., the home of Graham Fuller, the one-time Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA under President Reagan.

Over this past weekend, Fuller reluctantly confirmed the report published here last Thursday, "Boston bombers’ uncle married daughter of top CIA official."

He admitted that Ruslan Tsarni had once been married to his daughter.

But then, with the same breath, he derided what he called "rumors” of links between Tsarni and the Agency as “absurd.”

But documents surfaced over the weekend that cast a long shadow of doubt on Graham Fuller's assertion, which amounts to a beat cop waving his baton, and saying, "There's nothing to see here folks. Move along."

"Financiers of terrorism"

The documents include a letter written by the President of the Congress of Chechen Organizations International that, at least on the surface, could not have seemed more ordinary.

It was all about shoes.

In the letter, Congress of Chechen Organizations International President Mohammed Shoshani is interceding with the Board of Directors of Benevolence International, a “charity” that would later he designated “financiers of terrorism” by the Treasury Department, and shut down by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald after the 9/11 attack.

Shoshani was interceding with Benevolence on behalf of a new military commander in Chechnya named Sheikh Fathi, who had just arrived from spending 10 years fighting in Afghanistan.

Sheikh Fathi was a “military commander in the violent jihadist movement in Chechnya," noted U.S.. Atty Patrick Fitzgerald in a later indictment,(pdf.) ”as well as an influential “preacher of violent jihad.”

In the Benevolent International indictment, Fitzgerald said "Sheikh Fathi was a major conduit for providing material support  to the Chechen rebels."

The uncle of the alleged Boston bombers was part of that conduit.

Just how connected are these people?

Fathi would gain a measure of infamy several years later when he introduced the top Al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan, Al Khattab, into the Chechen conflict. The move had disastrous results, turning what had been a civil war into a jihad.

Shoes for industry, shoes for the dead

Later Al-Khattab became the so-called 20th hijacker Zaccarias Moussaoui’s commander in Chechnya, according to French intelligence, and had close links with  Osama bin Laden, according to former New York Times journalist Phil Shenon’s book  “The Commission.”

But back to the letter. And the shoes.

On behalf of Sheikh Fathi, Mohammed Shoshani is thanking Benevolence International for the receipt of 2000 pairs of what Fitzgerald—in an indictment charging the leaders of Benevolence International, called  “Anti-Mine Boots for the Chechen Mujahideen.”

The  Saudi-based charity operated for years in Russia and Chechnya, pumping $50 million into mujahideen coffers,  estimated Russian intelligence.

Sheikh Fathi’s eagerness to procure 5000 more pairs of American protective shoes, US Attorney Fitzgerald explained, had been to minimize the damage caused by small Russian-made camouflage mines, called Frog mines, which were wreaking havoc in the ranks of his Chechen fighters.

Were the Boston bombings  "blow-back" from US Caucasus ops?

What does this have to do with the Boston Marathon bombing?

One clue: The President of “Uncle Ruslan’s" Congress of Chechen Organizations International, an expatriate Penn State engineering professor Mohammed Sishani, conducted almost all of his business through another organization he led, called the Chechen-Ingush Society of America.

All of his aboveboard business, that is. Ruslan’s outfit surfaced for the dirty bits, the covert side of the Chechen’s cause.

Was Ruslan Tsarni's organization acting as a free agent? Or was it a "cut-out" for the CIA, a convenient way to establish plausible deniability while executing decisions made by U.S. intelligence agencies, who were apparently interceding on the side of people we were calling "rebels" instead of "terrorists" for no reason other than it suited American objectives for Russian forces to get bogged down in a series of bitter civil wars?

Were such actions US policy at the time?  Some say the answer is "yes." Wikileaks cables seem to agree.

America's fostering of a jihadist mercenary force in Afghanistan led directly to the blowback that became the 9/11 attack.

The creation of a "second Afghanistan" in the Caucasus may also have led to blowback: the unintended consequences of a covert operation. The result was in bombs going off in Boston.

Were two young jihadis from the North Caucasus region of Russia recruited to become Islamist terrorists and attack the United States at the Boston Marathon?

Questions remain. No, questions don’t “remain.” They “abound.”

The elder Fuller had retired from the agency almost a decade before the brief marriage," wrote the reporter he selected to give him a sympathetic hearing.

If he'd retired, and taken up horticulture, or origami, or golfing in Florida wearing lime-green sweater-slack combinations, rumors that his ex-son-in-law had connections with the CIA might indeed be absurd.

Was that how Mr. Fuller was spending his well-deserved retirement? Nope… He was working for RAND Corporation.

It was a busman's holiday. But there was also something else... Uncle Ruslan Tsarni's company, back in 1996, was actively aiding Islamic terrorists in Chechnya.

And there's no telling what he's up to now, because a story last week revealed that he was working for the US Government, again. And again, it was USAID. This time, since 2008. 

Using the home address of a top CIA official under President Ronald Reagan, who had also, and perhaps not coincidentally, been the author of a famous memo that eventually led Oliver North to step off a plane in Iran with TOW missiles in one hand and a cake for the Ayatollah in the other, Ruslan Tsarni's Congress of Chechens put into practice the CIA's unacknowledged policy in the former Soviet Republics.

He's been stirring up shit on Russia’s southern border.

Daniel Hopsicker
Daniel Hopsickerhttp://www.madcowprod.com
Daniel Hopsicker is an investigative journalist and the author of two books on transnational crime, Welcome to Terrorland and Barry & the Boys.
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  1. Turns out that these guys were National Guard from Mass. They were there as part of CST. http://theminorityreport.forummotion.com/t1335-identity-of-the-khaki-wearing-boston-bombing-operatives-revealed

    http://www.infowars.com/military-men-witnessed-at-boston-bombing-identified-as-national-guard-cst-teams/

    According to this article from the Air National Guard site: http://www.ang.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123344967
    “The Massachusetts team was on duty during the running of the Boston marathon, augmented by similar civil support teams from the New York and Rhode Island National Guards.”

    But one large question still remains: why does the backpack worn by Suspect #3 and those in his team seem to match up so closely to on of the supposed bomb bags? More importantly, why do the two bags carried by Suspects #1 and #2 appear NOT to match one of the supposed bomb bags? Also, why were we told there were no bomb drills going on along the route of the Boston Marathon, including at the finish line? Why were we told that there was no bomb threat, despite reports of drills at the start line? Were there threats or intelligence of a weapon of mass destruction? What was their specific function that day? It seems plausible that they were conducting drills and/or were responding to an actual threat. Also, they are wearing Craft International hats and shirts, which begs another question: were they trained by Craft and/or were also employed by Craft outside of the National Guard? In other words, just because we know that they were part of the National Guard, something smells.

  2. “How about a little protection prior to the bombs going off?” GREAT QUESTION. Strange how the media has ignored the biggest story about this bombing (if you take the official story at face value): the fact that it constitutes the most massive and unexplained security failure since 9/11. The Boston Marathon was crawling with FBI and DHS agents, as well as police officers from local, state and federal agencies. Not to mention all the Craft International contractors with the backpacks. They were even conducting a live bomb drill that morning at the site of the bombing! How could they ALL be so INCOMPETENT? If amateur terrorists could carry out this bombing under the noses of an army of specially equipped and heavily armed officers (with bomb sniffing canines, no less) then some heads need to roll! Whether or not the Tsarnev brothers knowingly planted the bombs that exploded, it is clear this was a black op with deep cover involvement of federal agencies (remember the 1993 WTC bombing?).

  3. i don’t think he was a double agent. it’s more likely he was doing what he was told and the US government double crossed him because they’re dicks like that.

  4. There can be all kinds of scenario’s going on. There can be individual motivations, various agencies motives, government motive, corruption motives – all kinds

  5. The only loose end is CRAFT INTERNATIONAL, and the cover up concerning the “training exercises” at the marathon bombing itself.

    Check this…

    Tamerlan is a double agent, as DebkaFile posits. He goes to Russia, meets his Islamic brothers, goes covertly to Jamestown Foundation for CIA training, briefing. He thinks he’s going to play his uncle and CIA and give away their operations to his Jihadi beothers.

    Unfortunately Tamerlan is under covert surveillance and every move he makes is known immediately. CIA determines he’s bad news, false loyalties — what to do about him?

    Back in US, he continues playing along, showing up for whatever the handlers want him to do, like training exercises.

    Only this time, after he drops off his dummy backpack, suddenly real bombs go off nearby, placed by WHOM?

    Tamerlan and brother know they were clean. Go back to dorm rooms, continue life. TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY, no message, no statement, nothing.

    Soon enough the FBI says they’re the bombers. Shows no proof to the nation, just photos of their presence at the event.

    Efforts to find out what Craft International mercenaries were doing there are blocked. Not a single question is answered, or will ever be answered.

    The War on Terror (TM) gets a new police state rollout, to protect the universe of course. How about a little protection prior to the bombs going off?

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