Father says FBI 'executed unarmed son'

[DeSwiss]

AlJazeeraEnglish·Published on May 30, 2013

The father of a Chechen immigrant to the US, who died while being interrogated by the FBI about ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect, has said that agents killed his son "execution style".

At a news conference on Thursday in Moscow, Abdulbaki Todashev showed journalists 16 photographs he said were of his son, Ibragim, in a Florida morgue.

Todashev said his son, who was shot last week, had six gunshot wounds to his torso and one to the back of his head, and said the pictures were taken by his son's friend, Khusen Taramov.

Al Jazeera's Andy Gallacher reports.

- So what of the FBI guy's ''stab wounds?'' Huh? Whatever happened to them? This shit stinks to high heaven. If anyone thinks that we can ''fix'' this shit with the corrupted government we now have, then you're a bigger fool than me for staying here this long.......

[CoffeeCat]

1. But doesn't the FBI do good things and solve crimes?

I don't want to appear naive here, but I thought that the FBI was the good guys. Is is possible that this was a bad, rogue FBI agent?

I heard that the murdered Ibragim never had a knife. This allegation was originally asserted by the FBI agent, but one of the other agents stepped forward to refute that point.

So...is the FBI bad now too?

[DeSwiss]

8. Here's my advice:

[jberryhill]

2. Good to get his eyewitness report

[zeemike]

3. Yep it stinks.

But soon someone will call you a Truth-er or something and this will all blow over, and we will all go back to watching the tube.

Anybody want a Soma?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

4. His story will go nowhere in the United States. But in the Arab world, it might have helped if

there had not been all those Abu Ghraib photos.

And it might have helped if Obama would have closed Guantanamo and prosecuted the openly-admitted war criminals.

But now, when a father says that his son's body has a bullet wound to the back of his head, the Arab world is not going to dismiss this with skepticism.

[retired rooster]

5. Nobody asked why at least four cops (maybe more)

interviewed him at midnight in his own home. That smacks of intimidation and he pulled a knife (what kind or size?) and all those gunshot wounds, couldn't he have been subdued without deadly force by all those trained policemen? The whole thing does have a bad smell about it.

[GoneFishin]

6. Is it SOP for State Police to fly to other states for interviews?

Does anyone have concrete factual information regarding this?

I am intrigued by the presence of multiple Boston-based officials at the time of the shooting and I wonder whose guns were involved in the shooting.

... when Todashev sat down with two Massachusetts State Police detectives and a Boston-based FBI agent ...

Father: 'Unarmed' son 'not crazy' enough to attack FBI agent who killed him
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/30/us/florida-fbi-shooting-boston/index.html

[truth2power]

7. It all stinks! As do some of the so-called "facts" surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing, but

you'll never have a reasonable discussion of any of it here on DU. As another poster on this thread has said, you'll be called a "truther" whatever that's supposed to mean, but ridicule serves its purpose.

Carry on, DeSwiss.

[DeSwiss]

9. ....

"I don't mind being accused of being an 'escapist.' On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break." ~Robert Anton Wilson