Ibragim Todashev had the
misfortune of knowing Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber. He also
had the misfortune of being Chechen and Muslim. Three strikes against him right
there. The official FBI story of how he was killed in his Orlando apartment by
one of their agents is so confusing and contradictory that it’s hard not to
believe his father’s accusation that his son was purposely executed to shut him
up although that too seems far-fetched. The official story changes from day to
day: there was a violent confrontation during questioning, Todashev threw a
table at the agent then lunged at him with a knife, a blade, a samurai sword, a
metal pipe, a broomstick…or nothing. The agent fell to the floor, drew his gun and
shot Todashev twice in the chest but he kept coming and the agent shot him several
more times. There were 7 bullet holes in Todashev’s body, two (maybe 4) other detectives
(and/or FBI agents) in the room and none of them fired their weapons, nor do
any of the accounts have any of them trying to intervene. Why not? What were
they doing, running for cover? It was one of the morgue pictures of Todashev’s
body, however, that stopped me cold: how did the agent, on the floor, manage to
shoot Todashev—upright and charging at him—in the top and back of the head? And
then there’s the accusation that Todashev confessed during his 8 hour “interview”
to taking part in a triple slaying in Waltham, Mass. on September 11, 2011, and
that Tsarnaev was an accomplice, that Todashev was writing out (or signing) a
confession when he threw (or overturned) the table and lunged (or ran) at the
agent. An American-Muslim civil rights group claims they have evidence—sales receipts—showing
that he was in Atlanta with his wife at the time of the slaying. Maybe everything
happened like the FBI claims but it sounds more like frontier justice than law
and order. Sort of like the military’s denials that U.S. forces were involved in
the torture and murder of those 17 Afghans in the Nerkh district of Wardak
province even though there were eyewitness accounts of raids by an American
Special Forces A team, the victims were last seen at the Special Forces base, a
video of the torture and execution of some of the men, and the bodies were buried
around the perimeter of the base and in the trash pit outside the wall. The erosion
of justice and the rule of law is nearly complete. Frontier justice now rules
at home and abroad. Welcome to the Wild Wild West.
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