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Military Men Witnessed At Boston Bombing Identified As National Guard CST Teams
Finally, an explanation emerges for presence of men in black and tan uniformsSteve WatsonPrisonplanet.com
April 21, 2013
After days of speculation and calls for officials to provide an
explanation, it has emerged that the unidentified military style group pictured at the scene of the Boston bombing both
before and after the explosions could be National Guard Civil Support
Teams (CSTs) that were pre-scheduled to be at the event.
CSTs are The National Guard’s full-time response force for
emergencies or terrorist events involving weapons of mass destruction,
toxic chemicals, or natural disasters. CSTs are routinely pre-staged at
large public events to help mitigate risks and assist civilian
authorities.
A report published on silive
on Saturday, notes that Defense Secretary Hagel has decided to rescind
a decision to defund 24th National Guard Weapons of Mass
Destruction-Civil Support Team (WMD-CST). The team is described as “The
only U.S. military team assigned to New York City to support first
responders in case of a disaster.”
Within the report it is stated that “Members of the New York unit
were less than a block away from the deadly the April 15 explosions at
the Boston Marathon. They were part of a survey squad deployed at the
request of their counterpart unit in Massachusetts.”
The report notes that “Each U.S. state and territory has at least
one of the specially trained National Guard response teams,” and that
“WMD-CSTs are trained to provide rapid military support to civil
authorities in the event of a chemical, biological, radiological or
nuclear threat.”
This would explain why one of the military men was pictured holding a
radiation monitoring device in the immediate aftermath of the bombing.
In a separate April 16 report by Global Security Newswire,
it is noted that members of the New York CST team were dispatched to
Boston on the Friday before the event, and were scheduled to be in
place at the Marathon on the Monday:
<blockquote>The roughly 20-person New York unit — based at Fort
Hamilton in Brooklyn — dispatched five personnel to Boston after
receiving a request last Friday from the Massachusetts state
government, said Eric Durr, public information director for the New
York state Military and Naval Affairs Division.
“Anytime you’ve got a high-key event where there’s lots of people,
there’s usually a … unit from a civil support team in the area to
provide assistance to first responders,” Durr told Global Security
Newswire by telephone. He declined to discuss specifics of how the 24th
personnel provided assistance following the Monday attack.
</blockquote>
In a report published April 16,
one day after the Boston bombing, the Wisconsin Department of Military
Affairs featured the activities and exercises of their own state CST
team. Within the report, Wisconsin CST commander Lt. Col. David W. May
states “There are two CSTs that are engaged out there (in Boston) in the
response… In fact, one of the first images that I saw was the
Massachusetts CST was actually right there.”
Is May referring to the images of the military types that were pictured all over the scene? It seems highly likely.
A picture published by The London Guardian
that was not widely circulated shows more of the military type men at
the scene after the bombs went off. Although these men are dressed in
similar garb, they are more clearly identified as CST support members.
Pictures of CST members from 2011 and 2012 wearing khaki and black uniforms can be found widely on the internet:
http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=22521
http://www.idaho.ang.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123259663
http://dmva.alaska.gov/content/galleria/Alaska%20National%20…
http://www.dvidshub.net/image/391361/6th-civil-support-team-…
http://www.army.mil/media/235471
http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/archives/2010/09/090210-CS…
http://www.army.mil/article/78045/
http://www.dvidshub.net/image/391303/6th-civil-support-team-…
http://www.idaho.ang.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?id=123237536
As to why one of the military types at the scene appeared to be
wearing a Navy Seal or Craft International logo on his hat, it has been
suggested that it is fairly routine for police and military to receive
training from Craft, as well as other private military contractor
groups, and from former Navy Seals. It is also possible that this
person was an ex Seal or just purchased a Craft baseball cap, which are
available to buy online.
It is, of course, also possible that he was indeed working for Craft
International, in which case his presence remains a mystery. Either way,
the FBI needs to address this picture.
In another report
by Army Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy of The National Guard Bureau, it is
noted that CST teams have been providing support in both Massachusetts
following the bombings, and in Texas, following the explosion at a
fertilizer plant.
“The Massachusetts team was on duty during the April 15 running of
the Boston Marathon, augmented by similar Guard teams from New York and
Rhode Island.” the report states, corroborating the same information in
the other reports mentioned above.
The report also states that “In Boston, more than 850 National Guard
members were on duty to assist local authorities with logistics,
security and other operations. In addition to the civil support team
members, the team also included members of the Massachusetts Army
National Guard’s 387th Ordnance Company and the 267th Combat
Communications Squadron from the Massachusetts Air National Guard.”
Another report posted April 17th on Examiner.com
noted that “The Massachusetts Civil Support Team is providing
assistance to Boston and Massachusetts civil authorities. In addition,
personnel from the New York, New Hampshire and Rhode Island civil
support teams are providing additional support.”
The reported also stated that more than 400 Massachusetts National
Guardsmen had been on duty to help law enforcement agencies keep the
marathon’s route clear and had remained on duty in the aftermath to
continue to assist local authorities.
Several other reports also noted the presence of CST teams at the Boston Marathon.
The vehicles that were witnessed at the bombing scene also appear very similar to those used by other Army National Guard CSTs:
This image on dvidshub shows almost identical vehicles belonging to the New York CST team as the ones that were witnessed in Boston:
The vehicle in this photo, along with a black and khaki CST member, also appears very similar:
Similar CST vehicles can also be seen in these photos.
Similar vehicles can also be seen in this CST video.
Of course, this information does not conclusively prove that all of
the military type individuals pictured at the scene were part of a
National Guard CST team. Yet it does, at last, provide one possible
logical explanation for their presence. The fact that the individuals
were also pictured conversing with FBI personnel and police at the
scene also suggests that their presence was not covert, and was
pre-planned.
Of course, the FBI could have simply cleared this up by issuing a
statement identifying the military types as members of CST teams.
Instead, however, they chose to ignore the pictures altogether and order
members of the public not to even acknowledge the existence of the
pictures – causing much confusion, speculation and mistrust among those
who were following the events closely.
In addition, this information does not mean that the authorities did
not have prior knowledge of the bombing. If anything, the massive
security presence bolsters the notion that they very much could have had
prior knowledge, particularly in conjunction with the fact that the suspects were already well known to the FBI, and with the ever developing shady Saudi connections.
This information also does not alter the fact that the FBI and US intelligence have long been intimately involved in staged and provocateured terrorist attacks.
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com.
He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of
Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree
in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University. [color:7f95=#333]This article was posted: Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 9:30 am</font>