Yes, whatever happened to that investigation? Why is it taking so long to find the person on camera dropping pipe bombs off at two different locations near the US Capitol on January 5th.
Here is what a blogger called Techno Fog is saying (hat tip: Cathy):
The DC Pipe Bomb Suspect
What is the FBI hiding from the public?
It has been over five months and the FBI still has not apprehended the hooded suspect who placed pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. on the evening of January 5, 2021.
The FBI’s latest wanted poster provides photographs and few identifying characteristics of the suspect:
There are, however, some curious omissions in the FBI’s description. By now, we assume the FBI (if it has done a thorough investigation) has the suspect’s height, approximate weight, and shoe size.
Why not disclose that information to the public?
Continue readingand see the informative photos where Techno Fog describes how to get more information on the suspect. Then this:
Why keep the suspect’s identifying information under wraps?
A couple possibilities. First, the FBI’s investigation is probably further along than any of us know. They’re collecting data on purchases of the suspect’s Nike Air Max Speed Turf and the timers, etc. used to make the pipe bombs. From that data they cross-reference travel, locations on 1/5/2021, height, shoe size, etc.
Second, maybe there’s something else to this story. The FBI has always been sensitive to its public perception and controls information to serve that purpose. For example, the FBI has never been forthcoming about its agents’ involvement with terror suspects.
Or, consider whether the pipe bomb investigation would cut against the politics of January 6. I take no pleasure in skepticism of the FBI, but this is a reputation the FBI has earned.
Either way, this outside observer can’t help but notice that one group of targets – those who entered the Capitol Building on January 6 – are pursued in the public sphere more aggressively than the person who set out pipe bombs the night before.
It could take YEARS to find the perp!
Oh great, a former FBI bomb specialist told NPR back in April, the most recent report I’m seeing, that it could take 10, 15, 20 years to get an indictment in a bombing case.
NPR reports that the FBI is doing “gait analysis.”
Check out the video here. What do you think? Does it look like a woman to you?
What We Know About The Suspect Who Planted Bombs Before The Capitol Riot
More than three months after the U.S. Capitol riot, a bomb-maker remains on the loose.
A majority of the public’s attention has been focused on the hundreds of people who have been charged for their role on Jan. 6. But the night before, someone committed a different crime: The person placed two explosive devices near the Capitol in Washington, D.C., and that person is still at large.
The FBI released a substantial amount of information [not enough for Techno Fog—ed] in an attempt to drum up leads from the public, and the reward for information about the suspect is now $100,000.
Here’s what is known: The suspect was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, a COVID-19 mask and expensive sneakers — Nike Air Max Speed Turf with a distinctive yellow logo. Sometime between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., the suspect placed one pipe bomb on a park bench near the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and another behind the Republican National Committee headquarters.
Doug Kouns spent 22 years in the FBI and focused on counterterrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks, and he said that the suspect made a concerted effort to hide their identity. “You can see the person’s wearing gloves. They seem to be familiar with the area. They probably know there’s cameras here and there and have really just covered their tracks,” Kouns said.
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While the suspect’s motive is unknown, former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testified before Congress that he believes that the devices were planted as a possible diversion ahead of the events the following day. “We were dealing with two pipe bombs that were specifically set right off the edge of our perimeter to, what I suspect, draw resources away,” he said in a congressional hearing. “I think there was a significant coordination with this attack.”
Despite all the resources that federal law enforcement has at its disposal, it has not yet been able to make an arrest in this case. “I would say it just takes time,” Black told NPR. “You know we’ve had investigations, bombing investigations … where it would be 10, 15, 20 years before someone was indicted.”
I’m in the camp with Techno Fog. Why is this taking so long?
Finding the potential bomber would go a long way to show that it was either a diversionary tactic that was coordinated with events that unfolded the next day, or that the bombs were the work of an isolated nut (anarchist!) who wanted to create more chaos and further taint Trump patriots.
Just more evidence that the FBI isn’t doing its job, or worse, its investigation into the events surrounding January 6th is politically driven.
I’ve been checking every day or so to see if there is news, any news, on the Navy medic, Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, who attempted to kill two fellow Navy men in Frederick, Maryland a week ago.
I figured by today the military would be ready to report a motive for the attempted murder of a white Corpsman and a Hispanic Corpsman, but nothing.
Speculation is that since the shooter’s name is common in Ethiopia that he is an immigrant from Africa either directly or as first generation. But, we will likely never hear any further information because the shooting does not fit the media narrative.
We don’t know much more than what was reported in the day or so after the attack. Was new American Woldesenbet on a mission, or was he (just) a nutcase?
And, it took a day for a photo of the shooter to be released—released by Frederick Police—not directly by the Navy. Perhaps they were forced to release it because people were sending photos of other black men around on social media claiming they were Corpsman Woldesenbet.
Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet Photo: Frederick Police Release First Picture of Shooting Suspect
Frederick Police released the first photo of shooting suspect Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet this afternoon, the day after they say he shot two Navy sailors and was fatally gunned down at Fort Detrick.
Woldesenbet, a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman, allegedly wounded two people at a military installation about 10 minutes from Fort Detrick, a U.S. Army base where he worked Tuesday, April 6, 2021. He was shot and killed at the base when officials said he fled a stop at a checkpoint and brandished a gun at about 8:45 a.m. He was 38 and lived in Frederick. The two injured victims survived.
More here, but there isn’t much. Seems the story is being dropped down the memory hole.
And, maybe that is because the military is busy, busy, busy attempting to root- out the white supremacists Biden and Harris are sure are hiding within the ranks.
Meanwhile, only days after the Maryland shooting, the Pentagon’s new chief says the hunt is on for the extremists, an undertaking clearly inspired by the January 6th demonstration at the Capitol. The Biden cabal believes they are insurrectionists.
I would like to know someday if Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet is an extremist of some stripe, but we will likely never know.
Defense Secretary Memo Addresses Extremism in US Military
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III signed a memo on Friday in which he calls for “immediate actions” to weed out “extremist behavior” in the military.
Defense Secretary Austin’s mission: “…combat this scourge.”
The new orders come after Austin spoke with advisers and reviewed the results of the Defense Department-wide stand down issued in early February.
The memo said, “The vast majority of those who serve in uniform and their civilian colleagues do so with great honor and integrity, but any extremist behavior in the force can have an outsized impact.”
A study begins today!
Austin has commissioned a study “on extremist behavior within our Total Force, to include gaining greater fidelity on the scope of the problem.” And this group will meet around April 14 and be given 90 days to submit their “recommendations for medium-range and long-range plans to combat this scourge” to Austin.
It was earlier this month when we saw that the destruction of a Black Lives Matter sign at a church in Missouri turned out to have been the work of— wait for it—a black man.
Sorry move along, nothing to see! No White supremacists lurking there.
Let’s see what happens with this latest gasp! shocker. In the increasingly diverse Howard County, Maryland someone had the audacity to paint over the world BLACK on a Black Lives Matter sign at a Middle School.
***Update*** A reader found a photo of the defaced sign!
The “disturbing crime” left only the words LIVES MATTER, a racist phrase if there ever was one!
Of course my first question is why is there a BLM sign at any public school?
And, that brings me back to my post of a couple of days ago when I wondered out loud why anyone is sending their kids back into public school when parents have just been given the opportunity to make the break!
Here is CAIR’s press release as the hunt intensifies for those wily White supremacists!
CAIR Condemns Racist Graffiti at Md. School, Welcomes Hate Crime Probe
(BALTIMORE, MD, 3/16/21) – The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed a hate crime investigation into racist graffiti reportedly discovered at Glenwood Middle School in Howard County, Md.The incident took place Saturday when the word “Black” in a Black Lives Matter marquee was spray-painted over.
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CAIR’s Director in Maryland Zainab Chaudry.
Howard County Public Schools’ Superintendent Michael Martirano issued a statement condemning the incident and confirming that the graffiti was quickly removed. He added that the incident was being investigated by police as a hate crime. It read in part: “We believe the lives of our black and brown students and staff should not be diminished and devalued in this way. We reiterate our support for the fact that Black lives matter.”
“As schools resume in-person instruction after a long and difficult year, students deserve to know that they will be returning to a safe, inclusive learning environment in which hate won’t be tolerated,” said CAIR’s Director in Maryland Zainab Chaudry. “We look forward to learning the outcome of the investigation, and appropriate consequences for the perpetrators of this disturbing crime.”
Taking a trip down Memory Lane…
Back in 2013, several Maryland conservative Tea Party activists, me included, put on a conference in Annapolis and our featured speaker was the legendary Pamela Geller.
Of course CAIR busied itself trying to kill our gathering and our FREE Speech by intimidating the hotel where we had a contract. Fortunately the hotel stood firm and our conference went on.
They also attempted to intimidate other speakers planning to speak at the event.
I wrote about it here at my blog Potomac Tea Party Report, which I am delighted to see is still there! Chaudry had just appeared on the scene at that time.
CAIR-MD intimidating speakers at MD CAN (again!); boosts registrations!
Many of you have sent me the newsthat the Conservative Treehouse (aka The Last Refuge) has been notified by WordPress.com that they are being given the heave-ho and now must find a new host for their popular site.
When I saw the news of course I felt bad for them because I have been there.
Longtime readers here and at my blog, Refugee Resettlement Watch, which was birthed and began being hosted by WordPress in 2007 (and into early 2019), know that the same thing happened to me.
But, at least the Treehouse was given notice and time to remove their material. I was shut down without notice and had to hire a professional webmaster to help me get my material, but even with that, all of my photos/graphs/charts and all of my thousands of subscribers did not make it to the new RRW.
Search engines (Google at least) still directs people to the old closed site.
(In the meantime, I had started Frauds & Crooksand got it removed from WordPress before they could do a job on it too. I am at a hopefully safe host for now!)
By the way, I was not alone. Creeping Shariaand Bare Naked Islamgot the WordPress ax before I did. I should have known it was coming.
I discuss all of that here in a panel discussionon Censorship at the Social Contract gathering in the fall of 2019.
So when I saw the news about the Conservative Treehouse, my first thought was why hadn’t the blogger(s) there made the move sooner.
You can read all about my communication with WordPress.com over their censorship by going here. They said I had violated their “terms of service” after I contacted them to ask where was my site?
Upon review of your WordPress.com site we have determined that your content does not align with our Terms of Service or User Guidelines.
Signed by the Aline, the Community Guardian (that is not a joke!)
So, on July 2nd (this is all happening in 2019) I went back to the “community guardian” and asked these questions:
Can you tell me exactly what caused your concern about Refugee Resettlement Watch. This month marks the 12th anniversary of the launch of that blog with you. And, in recent months there has been little new activity there. So just wondering why it is now, after all this time, [it’s] not aligned with your terms of service.
Is there a particular post(s) that concerned you and if so could you direct me to them?
Have you had recent complaints about the blog even as it hasn’t been active for many months?
Were references to certain organizations a concern?
Would really love to know as I find another host for the nearly 9,000 posts archived at RRW.
Greatly appreciate any feedback you can give me!
Thank you!
Ann Corcoran
The Community Guardian responded. She says flat-out they don’t have to give me any reasons!
Here is what I received in response on July 3rd. We can call it the ‘go pound sand’ brush-off e-mail:
Upon review of your WordPress.com site we have determined that your content does not align with our Terms of Service or User Guidelines. As stated in our Terms, we may choose to stop providing service to an account at any time, for any reason, or none at all. We aren’t able to offer any further specifics.
We’ve canceled your WordPress.com subscription and refunded the purchase….
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To download your content and take it elsewhere, the export tool below will be available for the next two weeks…
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If you would like to continue using WordPress software for your site, you can import this file into a self-hosted WordPress installation with a different host.
Notice the threat!
Please keep in mind that other hosts may have similarly restrictive policies regarding this type of content.
[Signed] Community Guardian
But, they never admit what exactly is the “type of content” they are censoring!
All of that was to preface my comments on this story at The Lid:
Go read it. But, The Lid beware! This form of censorship is NOT NEW! You are nuts to stay on WordPress.com. They will find you as soon as you become a threat to some group or individuals on the Commie Left.
If Biden and his comrades have their way we will be communicating by quietly traveling around the country and meeting in peoples’ basements!
Endnote: Story for another day! Someone should investigate WordPress.com and the company that owns it Automatic!
I know all of you are completely immersed in the election news and the latest revelations about Joe Biden’s son Hunter and his apparent pay for play scheme with Ukrainian oligarchs, but there are a few other things happening.
I’ve missed a lot of criminal news in recent weeks because I too am consumed by concern over the direction the country might take in only a few short weeks.
The ultimate nightmare: Knowing that the last face your beloved mother saw on this earth was the face of Kenyan Billy Chemirmir.
However, there is one story that should not be forgotten in the flood of other news and that is the horrific case of alleged killer of senior women, the case of Billy Chemirmir who is suspected of murdering upwards of 20 plus women and one man, senior citizens all, who were allegedly killed so that Chemirmir, who should have been removed from the country years earlier, could sell their jewelry and other valuables.
There is only one paper in the country on top of the story and that is the Dallas Morning News and its reporter Charles Scudder.
Scudder has a new storypublished two days ago. Unfortunately it is behind a pay wall, so I can give you only a few snips. The Morning Newswould do itself a service (and these murdered women and their families) if the breaking Chemirmir stories were not so removed from national public view and discussion.
Police didn’t tell her they believed Billy Chemirmir killed her mom in 2017. She learned on Facebook
Cheryl Bixler Pangburn thought a heart attack or stroke killed her mother.
It wasn’t until a high school classmate sent her a Facebook message two and a half years later that she learned the name Billy Chemirmir.
“My mother was a victim of Billy Chemirmir,” wrote Karen Harris, whose mother died at a Plano senior living community in 2018. “I was given a list of other possible victims. I noticed the name of what I believe is your mom. … I thought since you might have gone through the same thing I did, you might find comfort in talking.”
Until then, Pangburn had no idea who Chemirmir was, much less that he’d been accused of stealing from and killing multiple elderly women at Dallas-area senior living communities.
Before her death, Bixler appeared in a brochure touting the wonderful environment at the Parkview. “The management is so willing to just bend over backwards to make it pleasant to live here,” she said. The promotional material featuring Bixler is now no longer available.
Her mother, Marilyn Bixler, was found dead Sept. 17, 2017, at Parkview in Frisco, a luxury senior living community. Several weeks later, a woman survived an attack at the complex and later helped lead police to Chemirmir.
Somewhere, Bixler’s name was on a list of potential victims. A Frisco police lieutenant had signed a sworn affidavit saying her death was linked to the other crimes. The medical examiner had even changed her cause of death from a heart attack to “undetermined.”
Yet no one ever called Pangburn. No one told her how her mother really died.
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Pangburn’s family is one of dozens in North Texas that have been caught in a limbo caused by numerous investigative delays in a complicated case that stretches over multiple jurisdictions.
Chemirmir has been indicted in 14 deaths, and has been publicly linked through civil suits to at least 10 others. Even more families have said their loved ones’ causes of death have been amended by medical examiners in Collin and Dallas counties to “homicidal violence” or “undetermined” in connection with the investigation.
The rest of the story is behind a paywallhere. I sure hope reporter Scudder is working on a book!
Visit the websitecreated by the grieving daughters of the murdered women.
Back in 2013, several Maryland conservative Tea Party activists, me included, put on a conference in Annapolis and our featured speaker was the legendary Pamela Geller.
