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Damn You, #FreeKate Liars! UPDATE: Parents of 14-Year-Old Girl Speak Out

Posted on | May 23, 2013 | 52 Comments

Following up on Wednesday night’s post, Thursday morning I wrote an article about the Kaitlyn Hunt case at The American Spectator:

It is a felony in Florida to have sex with 14-year-olds. Hunt was expelled from Sebastian High School — where she and the younger girl had sex in a restroom stall — and charged with two counts of “felony lewd and lascivious battery on a child.” The charges could put Hunt in prison for up to 15 years. Prosecutors have offered Hunt a plea bargain that would spare her jail time, but her supporters have organized an online crusade to have her let off scot-free — in effect, nullifying Florida’s law, which sets the age of consent at 16. . . .
The apparent public-relations strategy was described by Matthew Philbin of Newsbusters: “If you can play the gay card, you immediately trigger knee-jerk support from the liberal media and homosexual activists anxious to topple any and all rules regarding sex.”
None of Hunt’s supporters seem to care about the possible consequences of issuing what Philbin calls a “Get Out of Jail Free” card to their teenage lesbian hero-victim. Some have deliberately falsified the narrative of Hunt’s crime, claiming that the sexual relationship began when she was 17, when in fact Hunt turned 18 last August and the incidents at issue occurred between November and January. According to the arrest affidavit, the 14-year-old ran away from home on Jan. 4 and spent the night at Hunt’s home where, in the words of a Sheriff’s Department detective, the two teens “put their fingers inside of each other’s vaginas, put their mouths on each other’s vaginas, and both of them used a vibrator on each other to insert it in each other’s vaginas.”
This is “behavior that is both fairly innocuous and extremely common,” the American Civil Liberties Union declared Tuesday in a statement condemning the prosecution of Hunt.

You can read the whole thing, but I’m trembling with rage at this particular moment because a number of journalists — including a reporter for Miami’s NBC affiliate — have deliberately repeated the lies propagated by the #FreeKate mob:

When she was 17 years old, Kaitlyn Hunt started a consensual sexual relationship with a fellow Sebastian River High School student, who was 14 at the time.
When Hunt turned 18, an adult, police arrested her on child abuse charges.

This is false. It is an outright lie. WTVJ-TV reporter Steve Litz deliberately repeated this lie, even though the truth is easily determined by reference to the arrest affidavit that states:

  1. Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt’s date of birth is Aug. 14, 1994, meaning that her 18th birthday was in August, before the beginning of her senior year at Sebastian High School.
  2. Hunt’s sexual involvement with a 14-year-old freshman did not begin until last November.

The #FreeKate liars, led by Kaitlyn Hunt’s dishonest mother, have purposefully created the “she was only 17” myth in an effort to deceive supporters into believing that some kind of trick was played, namely, that the parents of the 14-year-old waited until Kaitlyn turned 18 to press charges. This is part of an orchestrated campaign to smear the younger girl’s parents. It is wrong, and any reporter — such as WTVJ-TV reporter Steve Litz — who willfully assists the Hunt family in this dishonest smear ought to be fired for it.

I’ll be back to add some updates, as soon as I calm down. That lying son of a bitch Steve Litz should be shamed out of the industry.

UPDATE: Damned liars make me angry:

Now I am grateful to Heather Russo for informing me that there is at least one decent honest reporter left in Florida. Jana Eschbach of West Palm Beach CBS affiliate WPEC-TV interviewed Jim and Laurie Smith, parents of the 14-year-old girl:

“We are not the type of people to go in front of the media,” said Laurie Smith.
First, let’s set the facts straight. Kate was not 17, their daughter not 15.
“Our daughter was 14, and this girl was 18,” said Jim Smith.
The Smiths are portrayed by the Hunt Family as going to the law first.
“It’s not the way it was. It was quite different. We had actually told Miss Hunt that this was wrong,” Laurie told CBS12’s Jana Eschbach.
But, according to the Smiths Kate was warned, not once, but twice to stop.
“Another adult, a mother, came to me and said ‘Ms. Smith you need to know this…we told Miss Hunt to leave your daughter alone. But they are in a relationship, and she’s 18.’ 18? My daughter is only 14,” Laure said.
Their 14-year-old began to act out, and one weekend morning they opened her door and she was gone.
“It’s the worst thing that I’ve ever experienced,” Jim said. “Somebody took her is what we thought. Because her running away is the furthest thing from my mind. You hear kids getting abducted out of your home. That was heart-wrenching.”
Reported missing, and found safe, the Smiths found out she was with Kate, who picked her up even though she had been told to stay away.
“Didn’t stop, then we didn’t have an alternative but to turn to the law, use it as a last resort,” said Jim.
“This whole story about you blaming Kate for making you daughter gay…where did that come from?” asked CBS12’s Jana Eschbach.
“I don’t know. It didn’t come from us. That’s not how we feel,” Jim said.
Bloggers shred Laurie online as a gay-basher, abusive to her daughter.
“They made me seem as if I’m a monster,” Laurie said.
But says they will stand strong.
“I will be her advocate for what she needs,” Laurie said.
Under an intense amount of national media attention their daughter still goes to high school every day. Hearing now that her parents hate gay people, and their worse fear is that their own daughter will begin to believe these lies.
“That’s why I’m talking to you…The stories that people are saying…I love my daughter and I am willing to do whatever to protect her,” Laurie said.

You might want to click the image and watch the video:

Now, here’s the situation: The prosecutor offered Kaitlyn Hunt a plea deal, an offer that will expire today — Friday, May 24 — however, the Hunt family wanted to plead this felony charge down to a misdemeanor, a slap on the wrist for their Precious Darling Kaitlyn. When the prosecutor refused to play along, because of the aggravating circumstances that should be obvious enough, the Hunt family decided to (a) enlist the assistance of the gay-rights movement, and (b) start telling lies to make Kaitlyn look like a victim.

This attempt to make their daughter the Rosa Parks of Jailbait has backfired disastrously. Not only did the political pressure fail to sway the prosecutor but now, if Kaitlyn decides to go to trial, she will have to answer for the falsehoods and smears perpetrated against the Smith family by the Hunt family and her supporters. And if Kaitlyn decides to accept the plea bargain? Well, the decision of whether or not she’s compelled to register as a sex offender will be up to the judge at sentencing, and my guess is that judge is going to pissed at how the perpetrator has re-victimized the 14-year-old in this ridiculous, false and futile “civil rights” charade.

 

Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt, Media Bias, Sex

Fairfax Free Citizen Thought The VA GOP Convention A Blast

Posted on | May 23, 2013 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

The World’s Youngest Blogger, the new job, an online course in Data Science: I’ve been busy. Hence the fact it’s been mostly Twitter for me, of late. There was a deal with Mrs. Other Smitty that the blogging would be walked back after the election, as well.

Too, Stacy’s been jamming with the new band over at Viral Read, that plague-like hotbed of infectious conservative disease vectors. It’s all great. This year’s CPAC launch of VR, from my little perspective, was like coming in from a Navy deployment (all of the effort leading up to the election) when the highly-trained crew that has persevered together for stressful months scatters to the four winds. Difference here being that we’re sort of still operating together, albeit at a lower tempo. The Internet is kind of like that.

Amidst all of the other projects, the Northern Virginia Tea Party requested that I lend some blog-fu to the Fairfax Free Citizen, which is a shameless knock-off of the Fauquier Free Citizen, and hopes to get a word in edgewise against some of these Patch sites.

As I was actually a delegate to the VA GOP Convention, I put up a post in praise of this November’s “How Conservative Can We Get?” ticket:

The Virginia GOP Convention last weekend showed a party veering to the right in preparation for the off-year election this November.
There was no action in the Governor slot. Ken Cuccinelli was nominated by acclaim.
Some tension arose at the Attorney General level, where the first round vote was so close that the party opted for a hand recount, narrowly going to Mark Obenshain, who was most gracious in victory. Have we seen the last of Rob Bell? One thinks not.

Conventions over primaries? No preference, really.

Category: Virginia

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.23.13

Posted on | May 23, 2013 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Woolwich Machete Attack Leaves Soldier Dead

One of the perpetrators

One of the perpetrators

Soldier hacked to death by Somali immigrants, who were shot by police

Weiner The Wise
NY Post admits disgraced former Congressman may actually be the best candidate out there

Administration Admits Offing Four US Citizens In Drone Strikes
Information contained in AG Holder letter to Congress



POLITICS
Immigration Bill Gets Senate Boost; House Effort Faltering

Does he deserve federal healthcare?

Did he deserve federal healthcare while he was an illegal?

House unenthusiastic about healthcare for illegal aliens

Mass. Lt. Governor Resigns For Job With Chamber Of Commerce, Completely Unrelated To Investigation Into Illegal Contributions


Activists Rally Ahead Of Boy Scouts Vote On Gay Ban

Army Sergeant Accused Of Videotaping Female West Point Cadets In The Shower

Gun Groups Sue Connecticut Over New Weapons Restrictions

Long Island Village Treasurer Charged With Embezzling $60,000

GOP Cries Foul Over Pritzker’s Nomination

House Votes To Force Approval Of Keystone Pipeline



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Extends Losses As Stockpiles Rise: NYMEX $93.63, Brent $101.85
Fed’s Mixed Message Sends Stocks On A Wild Ride
Outlook For PRC Economy Just Keeps Getting Worse
Gold Falls After Fed Talk Boosts Dollar
Tesla Pays Off $451 Million Federal Loan
Sales Of Existing Homes Increase To Most Since November 2009
HP Forecast Tops Estimates As Cost Cuts Counter PC Slump
Target 1Q Profit Trails Estimates
Windows 8.1 Laptops With New AMD Chips To Support Wireless Display
How XBox One Plans To Fight Sony, Steam, And Everything Else
Prevent A Hack Attack With Twitter’s New Two-Factor Authentication
Google Search Gets Smarter
Jennifer Lopez Launches New Cellphone Venture
HP’s $399 Touchscreen Laptop Breaks Price Barrier
Google Drive Updates Android UI, Adds Document Scanning
Ericsson Makes Bus Windows Part Of A Wi-Fi Network



SPORTS
Penguins Dismantle Senators, Take 3-1 Lead

Pittsburgh Penguins' Jarome Iginla (centre) is congratulated by teammates Evgeni Malkin (left) and James Neal after scoring against the Ottawa Senators

Pittsburgh Penguins’ Jarome Iginla (centre) is congratulated by teammates Evgeni Malkin (left) and James Neal after scoring against the Ottawa Senators

Penguins Neal, Iginla score two goals apiece in 7-4 romp


James Saves Heat At The Buzzer In Game 1 Against The Pacers


Yankees Pitcher Kuroda Injured In 6-3 Loss To O’s

America’s Cup Unveils Recommendations For Sailors’ Safety

Astros Vendor Fired After Taking Sno-Cones Into Bathroom

Red Sox Beat White Sox 6-2, Buchholz Now 7-0

Gattis Grand Slam Leads Braves Past Twins 8-3

After Mattingly Criticism, Dodgers Spank Brewers 9-2

Verlander Comes Back After Rain Delay, Cabrera Hits Dinger, Tigers Beat Tribe 11-7

Astros Win 3-1, Take Series From Royals

Harper Does It All As Nationals Salvage Road Trip Finale



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Cash Money Records To Produce Paris Hilton’s “Long Awaited” Second Album

Someone talented, i.e. not Paris Hilton

Someone talented, i.e. not Paris Hilton

Supposedly an album of house music

Inside Amanda Bynes’ Drug-Fueled House Party

Jose Canseco Accused Of Rape

Unspeakable Armenian Shops For Baby In Paris

Demi Moore’s New BF Has A Pearl In His Family Jewels

Convicted “Girls Gone Wild” Mogul Breaks Silence: “Retarded” Jury “Should Be Shot”

Madonna: No Hanky Panky For Lourdes And Timothee

Rihanna To Chris Brown: How Could You Leave My Ass?

Nick And Joanna Swisher: It’s A Girl!

Sharon Osbourne To Rejoin “X Factor” As Judge



FOREIGNERS
Young Lebanese Fighters Leaving Syria For Battle Closer To Home
US Threatens To Increase Aid To Syrian Rebels Of Assad Won’t Talk Peace
Merkel Tops Forbes’ List Of Most Powerful Women Again
Chicom Media Discuss Nork Envoy’s Visit
US Report Warns On PRC IP Theft
Taiwan’s Justice Ministry Rejects Philippine Investigators
Imprisoned Pussy Riot Member Going On Hunger Strike
Stockholm Hit By Third Day Of Muslim Immigrant Riots
Chicom PM Invites Nawaz Sharif To PRC



BLOGS & STUFF
The Looking Spoon: This Is How You Can Make The IRS Scandal Into A Political Reality Show
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Andrew Cuomo, Statist Tool
Sarah Palin: Going Rogue In The Wrong Direction
Michelle Malkin: The Obama Crony In Charge Of Your Medical Records
NRO Corner: Lerner May Have Waived The Fifth, Possible She Could Be Recalled
AmSpecBlog: Issa’s Mistake
Power Line: Did Lois Lerner Waive Her Fifth Amendment Protection?
American Thinker: Lois Lerner Thrown Under The Bus
Weasel Zippers: Mooch Considering Extended Summer Vacation On Martha’s Vineyard
Ed Morrissey: Say, This Attack On Fox News Is Certainly Concerning, Says NYT
Stephen Kruiser: Maverick Is In His Element, Making Lefties Love Him Again
Conservatives4Palin: Frequent Palin Basher Says Ted Cruz “Doesn’t Get The Senate”
Nick Gillespie: Obama’s War On Journalism
Legal Insurrection: Are We Distracted By Scandal While The Democrats Walk Off With The Immigration Amnesty Prize?
Israel Watch: “Human Rights Watch” Official, AP And AFP Reporters Trash Israel In Private Facebook Group


Category: Live at Five

Liberals Now Arguing for a Lesbian’s Right to Have Sex With a 14-Year-Old Girl

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 81 Comments

But it’s consensual! And . . . equality!

Also, Kaitlyn Hunt — the lesbian charged with two counts of felony lewd and lascivious battery on a child — is a blonde who’s kinda cute, and who could object to cute blonde teenage lesbians? Here’s a local news video:

While some readers may be struggling to resist the temptation to Google “blonde + teen + lesbian,” let me remind you sick freaks that if you were to download photos or videos of what Kaitlyn Hunt is charged with doing to a 14-year-old girl, that would be a federal crime.

If the feds could send you disgusting perverts to prison for those photos, how do the enlightened minds at Think Progress manage to portray the perpetrator of these acts as a victim of bigotry?

Because it was “a consensual, same-sex relationship,” that’s why!

Also, Kaitlyn’s mom (who apparently can’t spell “zealot”) says that the parents of the 14-year-old who pressed charges are “out to destroy my daughter [because] they feel like my daughter ‘made’ their daughter gay,” and these “bigoted, religious” parents “see being gay as a sin and wrong, and they blame my daughter.”

See? You deviant weirdos thought Jailbait Lesbian School Girls was just a popular DVD title, but now it’s a civil right.

And the only people who disagree are bigoted religious zealots — including the authorities in Indian River County, Florida:

“If this was an 18-year-old male and that was a 14-year-old girl, it would have been prosecuted the same way,” Indian River County Sheriff Deryl Loar said during a Monday news conference. . . .
“The idea is to protect people in that vulnerable group from people who are older, 18 and above,” said Bruce Colton, state attorney for Florida’s 19th circuit, which includes Indian River County and other parts of the Treasure Coast. “…The statute specifically says that consent is not a defense.”
Colton said . . .  this case exemplifies the purpose of the current law and added he would not support any effort to make consensual relationships among peers legal.
“There’s a big maturity difference between them,” he said. “You’re talking the difference between a senior in high school and a freshman in high school. That’s what the law is designed to protect.”

But . . . consensual! equality!

These are the only arguments offered by the “Stop the Hate” crowd at Daily Kos, evidently willing to declare open season on Florida 14-year-olds in order to be consistent in their ideology. And if you disagree with them, you’re just a hater.

Left Defends Accused Sex Offender Because She’s Lesbian

Why so judgmental, Newsbusters? Don’t you understand the “emerging awareness” doctrine of the Lawrence v. Texas decision? And isn’t it only logical that this “emerging awareness” would eventually include the constitutional right to bang a ninth-grader?

So if the “Stop the Hate” petitioners get their way, Florida will be overrun by a stampede of perverts following around school-girls in hopes of getting some of that “consensual” action. And they’ll call it Progress.

UPDATE: The freaks have a hashtag (#FreeKate) with some of the usual suspects, including Chris Hayes of NAMBLA MSNBC:

“Lean Forward” — so your 14-year-old daughter can have her vagina penetrated with a vibrator, to cite the affidavit in the Kaitlyn Hunt case:

Kaitlyn Hunt Redacted Affidavit Redacted by Sergio Nahuel Candido

Chris Hayes and MSNBC want your ninth-grader to have that “right.”

 

 


Category: Crime, Gays, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

An Ode To Lois Lerner: “Blown Snow”

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

But Sometimes
Bureaucrats Soar
Beyond Simple
Background Stories,
Brokering Supercilious
Bromides Stashed
Below Silver
Busses Staggered
By Squashed
Bodies Sacrificed,
Bravely Supporting
Beliefs Seemingly
Broken, Soviet-style

—
Losing her 1st Amendment rights?

Category: Instapundit, Scandal, Taxes

‘We Must Fight Them as They Fight Us,’ Says Terrorist Who Beheaded Soldier

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 22 Comments

VIDEO: Bloody Terrorist Who Murdered Soldier
in London: ‘You People Will Never Be Safe!’

Remind me again how British soldiers run over people on city streets in broad daylight and then butcher them like cattle:

A British soldier was reportedly murdered near an Army barracks by two men who beheaded him while shouting “Allahu Akbar!”
Eyewitnesses told reporters they saw the victim — believed to be a soldier stationed at the Royal Artillery Barracks — being “hacked to bits” Wednesday on a street in the South London area of Woolwich by two men with large knives variously described as “meat cleavers” or “machetes.” One witness said the two attackers appeared to be attempting to record video of their butchery of the victim. . . .
The BBC confirms the British government is treating the incident as terrorism . . .
One witness, identified only as James, said two men had attacked another man, aged about 20, who was wearing a T-shirt of military charity Help for Heroes.
“These two guys were crazed. They were just animals. They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there,” he told LBC radio.
He said after the “horrendous” attack, the two men, who were also in their 20s, stood around, waving knives and a gun, and asked people to take pictures of them “as if they wanted to be on TV or something”.
“They were oblivious to anything, they were more worried about having their photo taken, running up and down the road,” he said.

Ace of Spades headline:

Persons of Unknown Ethnic Extraction
Launch “Frenzied” Machete Attack in
Suspected Terrorist Case in London

It’s so mysterious. Probably radical Lutherans . . .

 

Category: Great Britain, Terrorism

Doug Shulman: IRS Fall Guy?

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 15 Comments

Just a few thoughts while watching today’s House Oversight Committee hearings about the IRS scandal:

Schulman was caught in lie after lie after lie, saying he didn’t remember this or that, and then being reminded of his own previous testimony demonstrating either (a) he did know about what he denied remembering, or (b) his earlier denials were false.

And I think I wasn’t the only viewer whose head exploded when Shulman was asked why he made more than 100 visits to the White House in a single year and began his answer, “Easter Egg Rolls with my kids . . .”

This guy has refused to apologize for the IRS scandal. Exactly why the hell George W. Bush would appoint Shulman — a donor to the Democratic National Committee — to a five-year term as IRS Commissioner is one of the great mysteries of our age. Lois Lerner has pleaded the Fifth, and it’s basically impossible to fire anybody at the IRS, so if Democrats are looking for a scapegoat to throw under the bus, the “bipartisan” Shulman seems to be a likely fall guy.

On the other hand, Ezra Klein’s Juice Box Mafia seems prepared to throw Lois Lerner under the Obama bus, too.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Scandal, Taxes, Tea Party

Was Chechen Man Shot by FBI in Florida a Suspect in 2011 Waltham Triple Murder?

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 5 Comments

The news that Ibragim Todashev was shot to death by an FBI agent in Orlando last night has gotten widespread attention because of the connection between Todashev, a Chechen immigrant, and Boston marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev:

The FBI spent three hours Tuesday interviewing both Todashev and a friend, Khusen Taramov, who told Orlando’s WESH-TV that agents had taken Todashev to be interviewed separately. Taramov said: “They were talking to us, both of us, right? And they said they need him for a little more, for a couple more hours, and I left, and they told me they’re going to bring him back. They never brought him back. . . . I told him, ‘Everything is going to be fine, don’t worry about it.’ He said, ‘I have a really bad feeling.’”
The shooting occurred in an apartment complex off Peregrine Avenue in Orlando, according to Central Florida News 13, which also interviewed Taramov, who said FBI agents “started following us, watching us” after Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokar were identified as suspects in the April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and wounded more than 170 others.
Todashev had reportedly been planning Tuesday to fly back to Chechnya, Taramov said: “He cancelled the tickets because, the FBI had been like, I don’t know, they’ve been pushing him, you know what I’m saying. They’ve been pushing him they say ‘don’t leave, don’t leave’ so he decided to stay.”

You can read the rest at Viral Read, but what caught my eye was the report by NBC News that Todashev was being questioned by the FBI in connection with a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts, in which Tamerlan Tsarnaev was reportedly also a suspect.

What do we know about that crime? And how was the possible involvement of Tsarnaev and Todashev significant?

On Sept. 12, 2011, police found the bodies of three men — Brendan Mess, 25, Erik Weissman, 31, and Raphael Teken, 37 —  in a second-floor apartment on a dead-end street in Waltham.

All three men had been stabbed in the neck, and their bodies were reportedly “covered in marijuana.” Neighbors reported that one of the victims drove a Mercedes and there were frequent comings and goings from the apartment, which would lead to the obvious suspicion that the murders were drug-related. And police said from the start that they believed the victims knew their killer or killers. Two weeks ago, Michele McPhee of ABC News reported:

Massachusetts investigators have developed what they call “mounting evidence,” bolstered by “forensic hits,” that point to the possible involvement of both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar in a gruesome, unsolved triple homicide in 2011 . . .
In the wake of the Marathon bombings, Middlesex County began to probe a link between the elder Tsarnaev and Brendan Mess, one of the three men killed in the gruesome slaying on Sept. 11, 2011.  . . . Tamerlan and Mess were once roommates and did boxing and martial arts training together. . . .
Now law enforcement officials tell ABC News that some crime scene forensic evidence provided a match to the two Tsarnaev brothers. The officials also said records of cell phones used by the Tsarnaevs appears to put them in the area of the murders on that date. . . .
Roughly seven pounds of marijuana was dumped on the bodies and $5,000 in cash was left behind. Neighbors said they did not hear any signs of trouble – even with open windows – and there was no forced entry. In a 2011 interview, Leone said investigators theorized there had been more than one person at the scene of the murders based on “many factors,” but no suspects were identified.
From there the case went cold, until photos of the Boston Marathon suspects were released and family and friends of the Waltham victims recognized them and remembered Tamerlan’s strange behavior after the murders. He did not attend his friend’s funeral and vanished from the martial arts gyms where the men had sparred together.

If the killers left behind seven pounds of marijuana and $5,000, obviously the motive for the crime was not robbery.

So the question quite naturally arises, what inspired this triple murder on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks?

We have reports of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s “strange behavior” after the Waltham murders, we have his involvement in the Boston Marathon bombings, we have reports of forensic evidence connecting the Tsarnaev brothers to the murders, and now we have the report of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Chechen buddy who had bought a ticket on a flight out of the country and who was shot after attacking an FBI agent during an interrogation.

Yeah, the 2011 Waltham murder case now looks very significant.

“Keep an eye on this one,” says Michelle Malkin.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey catches something I missed:

The officials say Todashev had some connections with radical Chechen rebels, but they say it’s not clear whether he had any role in radicalizing Tsarnaev.

A month ago, Michael Rezendes of the Boston Globe reported:

Previously, investigators had said that Brendan Mess, 25, along with Erik Weissman, 25, and Raphael Teken, 37, were killed on Sept. 12, 2011 . . .
But the relative interviewed by the Globe said the murders took place the evening before, on Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The relative said he knew this because he was texting one of the victims about a Sunday night football game between the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys when communication with the victims suddenly stopped at about 8:15 that evening.
“The three of them were definitely killed on Sept. 11,” the relative said. “They all stopped using their cellphones at about eight o’clock that night.”

The puzzle pieces seem to be forming a pattern. But if phone records of the victims showed they were killed on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, why did investigators tell the public otherwise?

 

Category: Crime, Terrorism
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