Father Of Slain Tsarnaev Associate Asks Obama To Keep FBI Out Of Investigatio
Source: TPM
CATHERINE THOMPSON DECEMBER 30, 2013, 1:12 PM EST
The father of a man who was killed during questioning about his suspected ties to an alleged Boston Marathon bomber has written an open letter to President Barack Obama asking him to keep the FBI from interfering with an independent investigation.
Abdul-Baki Todashev, father of Ibragim Todashev, alleges in the letter that the FBI deliberately killed his son, Boston Magazine reported Monday. He also released several graphic photos of his son's body and apartment with the letter.
The younger Todashev was shot to death by authorities in May while being questioned about his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, officials said, after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife. Conflicting reports that he may have been unarmed during the confrontation later emerged.
From Todashev's letter, as quoted by Boston Magazine:
Did my son know that he had the right to remain silent or did he have rights at all, including the right to live? Being a citizen of another country he might not be aware of the laws as he was only 27 years old and wanted to live so much. No, they left no chances for him inflicting 13 gunshot wounds and multiple hematomas on his body. After what FBI agents have done to him whatever excuses they come up with nobody would believe them because my son is dead and cannot talk for himself. They did it deliberately so that he can never speak and never take part in court hearings. They put pressure on my sons friends to prevent them from coming to the court and speaking the truth.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/todashev_father_open_letter_obama
Logical
(22,457 posts)Has been ruled justified. Never a bad one.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Probaby because they discovered he knew the brothers were set up and the older one was working WITH the government.
truth2power
(8,219 posts)including the multitude of questions about the Boston Marathon bombing.
No sirree...there are no conspiracies. Move on, please.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Is that your contention?
MADem
(135,425 posts)Or maybe just, well, absurd.
No credible source would make that contention.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)I'm saying the older brother was a government informant and they know that this could have been prevented. Wow...people are so eager to dispel conspiracy theories that they will go out of their way to excuse bad actors. I remember when a US Marshal got caught running the biggest asian sex slave ring in Vegas and when government agents were exposed bringing the majority of cheap cocaine to the US. Are those conspiracy theories too? Does that mean the entire government was involved? No...just a bunch of self-serving, rogue agents working for a few powerful bad people with nefarious agendas.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)What about the video of them with backpacks at the scene of the bombing and then fleeing?
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)similar clothing but different.
http://nypost.com/2013/04/18/authorities-circulate-photos-of-two-men-spotted-carrying-bags-near-site-of-boston-bombings/
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)soundsgreat
(125 posts)The one with the younger brother dropping his white bag?
How do we know his bag was the bomb? Doesn't look likely. The FBI was looking out for black backpacks.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)...the outsourced, privatized heavily funded shadow government. By set up I mean shut up and I'm sorry but their are billions if not trillions of dollars at stake with the war on terror and certain contractors have to make sure there are terrorist incidents to keep the faucet flowing. A hundred or even a thousand lives mean nothing to killers who have partaken in atrocities every day.
happyslug
(14,779 posts)Now, the FBI disputes this account, saying only FBI agents were present, the Sheriff deputies were some place else. This makes no sense, while the FBI are known glory hounds, they know the local tend to know the local area better then they do, so tend to team up with a local (and then ignore whatever help the local gave them when it came time to talk to Reporters). Thus the State Report that the FBI and Sheriff deputy were together makes more sense then the FBI agents report (please note, the FBI denial was by another agent going by memory, no one was citing official reports of the time period).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Boy_Floyd
Just pointing out this is NOT new, going on for at least 80 years.
Logical
(22,457 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)And several beatings.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)nilesobek
(1,423 posts)That's what the flimsy knife story is. They executed him. FBI agents with guns freaking out over a knife? Even if that's true its overkill.
penultimate
(1,110 posts)A knife is deadly and can kill. If they were lunged at with a knife, were they supposed to run to the kitchen and get a knife of their own to make it fair? Were they supposed to go after him without a weapon and take the great risk of getting stabbed? You may expect that, but I do not. Of course that's assuming everything they said is true and there was a knife and he did attack them.
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)State Policemen and the FBI with batman belts filled with devices can't control this guy. Just the fact that there was not a coherent control strategy for arresting this guy stinks. If you are right its still a screw up because wasn't this guy vitally wanted for questioning?
treestar
(82,383 posts)He had the right not to lunge at an FBI agent with a knife?
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)That was the first fuck-up.