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`Uncle Ruslan' aided terrorists from CIA official's home
MadCow Morning News
April 29, 2013
by Daniel Hopsicker
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 =80=9Cabsurd.'
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 =80=9Cfinanciers 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 is an investigative journalist dubious about the
self-serving assertion of U.S. officials that there are no American
Drug Lords.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
MadCow Morning News
April 29, 2013
by Daniel Hopsicker
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 =80=9Cabsurd.'
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 =80=9Cfinanciers 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 is an investigative journalist dubious about the
self-serving assertion of U.S. officials that there are no American
Drug Lords.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress