I fucking fucking fucking hate loosing large text parses. I fucking do. Let's do this again:
Settle petal..
A non-answer. She's only saying she's 'unaware' of it. Simply, why not say: no, he's not being deported or he is, but for this instead of that. It's not hard.
Tell me something, if someone presents you with what you think is a stupid conspiracy theory question, would you sit there and keep answering for hours on end? Or would you just ignore it because it is such a stupid question in the first place?
I guess you need to question how much time should Government officials give to cranks?
I suspect he is being deported - or something - not that he has been yet.
:facepalm:
I am much less rational than that. But there has been
some argument that this al-Harbi is indeed being deported, or that he's leaving voluntarily, or that he's now
not being deported. Some of it comes from this Blaze organization - don't know them - and some from Fox reporters - do know them - but they seem to cite multiple sources that discuss his impending deportation. I didn't say, or I hope I didn't, that he
was deported, but it appears possible, unless both these organizations are making it up completely, which would be a
huge violation of journalistic ethics. So it seems possible or probable. Moreover, the Obama administration has had
two closed meetings with the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince al-Faisal, just after the Boston attack. Again: it might be entirely coincidental, but I'm considerably more pessimistic/suspicious than that (having seen the doings of that class of beings called
politicians) and so I remain skeptical. And I've been right so far. :shrugs:
Yes, Yahoo News and The Examiner reporting on crank sites like The Blaze and Atlas Shrugs..
Here is a way to tell that something is probably a conspiracy theory crank and not to be taken seriously. When
you see the words:
"Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs reports:
He is from a very powerful Saudi family with many terrorist ties. Abdul al-Harbi is a devout Muslim from Medina.
I said it takes longer than 15 hours to investigate all of Abdul al-Harbi's relatives, friends, acquaintances, and business and school friends.
Perhaps a quick look at the Arabic sources should raise the eyebrows of every American relative to the extent of the problem at hand. Many from Al-Harbi’s clan are steeped in terrorism and are members of Al-Qaeda. Out of a list of 85 terrorists listed by the Saudi government shows several of Al-Harbi clan to have been active fighters in Al-Qaeda:
When I heard he was from a very powerful Saudi family, I worried about this kind of thing happening.
Emphasis mine.. When you especially see
those bolded words..
Then it is a fair assumption that it is a crank conspiracy theory.
Yahoo gives even more hints in its reporting of such crank site's conspiracy theories. From your Yahoo link:
Key points:
* On Sean Hannity's Fox News program Wednesday night, terror expert Steve Emerson cited sources saying Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the Saudi national who was briefly named a "person of interest" in the Boston Marathon bombings, is being deported on Tuesday.
* Thursday morning, Glenn Beck revealed on radio that TheBlaze was informed by sources that the Saudi national's visa had been revoked and he was, in fact, going to be deported on "security and related grounds."
* Among other things, sources told TheBlaze that the Saudi national had ties to a well-connected Saudi family and that his deportation was set to be framed as a "voluntary" departure to be with his family.
* A file, called an "event," was started on him three days ago.
* While discussing the issue on radio, TheBlaze's Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood revealed that the government has had second thoughts on deporting Ali Alharbi.
* Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to answer questions on the subject when confronted by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) on Capitol Hill.
* An ICE official refuted TheBlaze's report, calling it "categorically false."
* A congressional source, however, says that the file on Alharbi was created, that he was "linked" in some way to the Boston bombings (although its unclear how), and that documents showing all this have been sent to Congress.
I bolded the parts that should be a giant red flag that it is a conspiracy theory.
Now, there are more than enough hints there to tell you that you should not take such claims seriously.
The biggest red flag and the funniest in the Yahoo link of yours:
TheBlaze has commissioned a translation of a well-known Saudi newspaper where Alharbi apparently gave an interview describing the situation.
The Blaze is owned with Glenn Beck. I will bet you everything I own that they just used Google Translate.
And you take it seriously?
How can anyone take anything from Pamela Geller and Glenn Beck seriously?
Eeep! Raised eyebrows?! Ohhh noooes!
Yes.
I haven't had Botox, so I can raise my eyebrows freely.
Errr - which means he could not have been involved? How's that follow? Bottom line: I don't know if he was or wasn't. But it's a strange coincidence and I'm a suspicious kind of person. It sounds like they were thinking about booting him at the least. What I want to know is why. Maybe they weren't, but my feeling is that something's a little strange about this. And before you tell me that's illegitimate, should we delve into all the varieties of "Bush knew something about 9/11 before it happened" that cruise the inter-tubes? Some of them seem legitimate too, and it would hardly surprise me.
This stuff is coming from Geller and her ilk and Glenn Beck.
How can you possibly give it any credence?
Actually, if it was just him, I'd be much more skeptical. But there's more than a few sites reporting this. Maybe it deserves further investigation. How do I know it doesn't?
Pamela Geller.. Atlas Shrugs.. Glenn Beck.. The Blaze..
Enough said..
The kid is in hospital after a bomb exploded near him when he was watching the race. The perpetrators of that bombing were two Chechnyan born brothers who have lived in the US for quite a few years.
Give it a couple of days and Beck will probably blame George Soros in some way, shape or form.