Boston Bomber - was Tamerlan Tsarnaev executed or just 'finished off' ?

Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev executed or,  to use the euphemism, just 'finished off' in the heat of combat? 

Now of course law enforcement types will not accept the right for this question to even exist. They will bristle and take immediate offence.  Well, my best reply is - You started it.  Or  to be more exact, the Watertown Chief of Police Ed Deveau started it, in a rambling interview he gave to Wolf Blitzer on CNN.    Read edited portions of Chief Ed's long conversation, quoted in a CNN article   HERE.

Watch -  "Watertown police chief gives play-by-play account of Friday manhunt" on SALON  HERE   He said the two  Tsarnaev brothers engaged six of his officers with handguns (although they had a rifle of some sort in one of the escape vehicles).  The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, he says, ran out of bullets and was heroically tackled by Watertown officers, who proceeded to cuff him.

At some point, either before or after Tamerlan ran out of ammo, he heaved one of the pressure-cooker bombs at Watertown officers. Chief Deveau said the blast left a chunk of metal lodged in a nearby car. Several photos exist of the street pavement scarred by the bomb blast.  Somehow, in the melee, the younger brother escaped, and remained at large for the remainder of the day.

While the brother was on the run in Greater-Boston, someone leaked a photo of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's corpse to Internet news sites.  TMZ posted a 'heads up" at 10:32 AM Thursday. TMZ also confirmed the authenticity. Here is a photo-scrape from the TMZ website:

The photo, (top of page) as you will note, is grisly. I don't like looking at it, but you will notice it shows the body after processing by a hospital team. There are scalpel strokes on the chest and a large section of tissue has been removed for examination. You will also note that he is riddled with bullet holes. The media rushed to the hospital AFTER the photo appeared online and demanded answers. The hospital insists that no staff member took the photo, implying that someone in law enforcement took the photo and leaked it.  I don't really care who leaked it, but I took notice of what the examining physician had to say. There were so many  bullet entrance wound that he didn't bother to count them.

What? But Chief Ed Deveau told CNN that his boys tackled Tamerlan and put him in custody. How did he end up so very, very dead?  Did they tackle a corpse?

I wouldn't have cared enough to comment until the bullshit got deeper.  Last night the media started peddling  Law Enforcement disinformation that Tamerlan's own brother had killed him !  The story was  that he ran over him with a car, in making good his escape.  Does that mean that some trophy hunter cut the tire tread mark off Tamerlan's chest?  Of course not.  But it does indicate that Chief Ed Deveau's six heroes have collaborated on a story to explain how the younger brother got away alive.  Here is a sample of the kind of story such police disinformation generates.

Here's another example, a story from Agence France Presse, A.F.P.

And yet another example:

I hasten to insist, that I am not advocating for these two criminals.  But I do want to know the truth of what happened. Even a cursory inspection of the photograph of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body shows bullet holes which suggest he was shot from all points of the compass.  Sorry folk's, but if this guy was tackled and cuffed by Watertown cops, the leaked photo indicates he was finished off where he lay.  Perhaps that's gun shot residue - powder burns hacked off the side of his chest, close to where his heart once beat.

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That Marathon Massacre - Hey kids! Can you say "Bomb in black backpack in Boston"

Another "massacre" in Boston.   There's a hubbub in the street outside, I hear the bells tolling... I dash into the TV room and turn on the box... adjust the rabbit ears just a bit to the right.   Ah yes,  there it is.  That's nasty! 

DAILY NEWS - "MASSACRE". Tabloid photo montage.
Much gorier than the broadsheet published by Paul Revere.

Modern journalism.  Ah, yes. It's all about feeding the fetishes, telling the masses how to feel and think, and maintaining "Freedom" and the political status quo - that poisonous but perfected two-party system they call "De-moc-ra-cy".

And so to parody the reportage of that other "Boston massacre"...  you know, the one in 1770 that played out five years before those same propagandists kick-started the American Revolution:  

"The unhappy Sufferers were Martin Richard, Krystie Campbell and Lingzi  Lu Killed.  173   were wounded.  Some  of them mortally."  Engrav'd Printed and Sold by Paul Revere, BOSTON

                                         

A "PRESSURE COOKER"  bomb?  Damn, this terrorist understands metaphor. He's a maniac with a wit.   A pressure cooker. That defines the state of American politics at the moment.  Half of the country is gloating and the other half seething.  Hatreds generated by political partisanship are   driving Americans crazy.   They didn't wait to learn if the latest heinous crime is of foreign or domestic manufacture.  Fists came out of pockets and fingers pointed in all directions.  I think they're going to pop.

Don't believe me?  Look at this little travesty David Sirota posted on SALON this morning:

SOFT TARGET?                                          

I almost choked on my morning toast yesterday, when I heard the Boston Police Commissioner describe the Marathon as a "Soft Target".  What a sick joke!   Watch the blast video for yourself and see how many  armed policemen were patrolling the corridor where the two bombs were planted and detonated near the finish line.  There were even techies on scene wearing "HAZMAT" vests.   They pop into frame within minutes. In fact Boston, like all American cities post - 9/11, is heavily militarized and the halcyon days of concertina wire, baton charges and handcuffs are over.  The supercops of today and tomorrow will not be taking many prisoners.  Here, Blog space being limited,  are just a few samples of what the photo-journalists saw in Boston yesterday:

Boston Fire Department "Medics"

Two Boston Police SWAT armoured vehicles

This one's a pip.  FBI infantry.  

INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUE?

We know that the FBI profilers will get their "man".  You can't scratch your balls in Boston without some 7/11  CCTV lens recording your indiscretion. But this morning's news tells us that the Yanks learned some of their best moves from the...Gulp!.... Canadians:

Sure.  Rat us out as collaborators in the great Orwellian Project known as "HOPE"  and "CHANGE".

Call me a sentimental fool but I preferred America when  Sheriff Andy Mayberry was still on the television set and when the FBI agents wore tasteful suits with nice shoes. Now they don't attend a crime scene, they deploy to suppress and neutralize.  It's getting really crazy down there in those dis-United States!   Some corner druggist needs to tell the American President that strychnine is no antidote to arsenic.
THE PRESIDENT IS AUTHORIZED...

UPDATE April 18-   "SOFT TARGET" in Boston?  Bull.

Here is a bulletin on Pressure Cookers as a bomb component, making the rounds today on the Internet. The document indicates that pressure cookers were put on the watch lists at least two years ago, and which means that all models, foreign and domestic are taggant indexed.  Of course the bad guys probably picked up used items at their neighborhood Good Will store.

The F.B.I. just released photos of their pick of two faces they like for the Boston bombing. Not a lone "nut" after all. Two nuts, yes, but not very damning photos.  You can't tell yet if these guys are Caucasian, Light skinned Blacks, Latinos,  Arabic, or just sun tanned.  And finally a teensy crumb of truth... a ranking police official, in interview on a CNN panel, admitted that police presence at the Boston Marathon was so heavy on the day of the bombing that the bombers were probably prevented from placing the devices where they preferred.   So much for the Boston Commissioners burble about a "SOFT TARGET".