Boston bombers `Uncle Ruslan’ was Halliburton contractor
MadCow Morning News
April 24, 2013
by Daniel Hopsicker
Out on the ragged bleeding edge of the former Soviet Union, Ruslan
Tsarni had a decade-long business relationship with Halliburton, the
multinational juggernaut run by Dick Cheney before he became Vice
President of the United States.
Delving into the business connections of `Uncle Ruslan’ Tsarni, as he
became known after his well-received condemnation of the atrocities
allegedly committed by his nephews Dzhokhar and Tamerlan at the Boston
Marathon has led to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone of the Boston
Marathon bombing.
Like the elaborately carved stone unearthed almost 200 years ago which
led to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, digging through
Ruslan Tsarni’s curiculum vitae has yielded clues to unlocking the
puzzling riddles left behind after last week’s attack.
Two oil fields with a side of natural gas, please
Reported first here two days ago, there has already been a big
surprise in Ruslan Tsarni’s background: Tsarni did a two-year stint,
beginning in 1992, as a `consultant’ for the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID), in the former Soviet Republic of
Kazakhstan.
At a time when vast natural resources and enormous fortunes were `in
play’ during the economic free-for-all after the collapse of the
Soviet Union, the 24-year old Tsarni was already a `player.’
Its long been an open secret that USAID is often used overseas to
house CIA and other US intelligence operatives.
Oddly enough, just six months ago the country competing with the US
for influence in the region, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, unceremoniously
kicked USAID out of Russia for, Putin spokesmen alleged, encouraging
his political opposition.
However Ruslan’s involvement with USAID, while suggestive, might still
be irrelevant, were it not for the discovery of his decade-long
involvement with companies in the orbit of the Sun God, Halliburton,
which stands accused in numerous and increasingly-credible accounts as
“lead dog” in an invading force of `non-state actors.’
All of this, mind, was in support of a noble cause. We were fighting
communism. No, wait? We weren’t anymore.
Still, we must have been fighting something. Wait. It’ll come to
me…Maybe it was a push to weaken Russia’s grip over former Soviet
Republics. That sounds like an admirable goal. Alas, the means chosen
to achieve it involved providing covert U.S. support, in Chechnya, to
Islamic terrorists.
Haven’t we all already see that movie? No one with a functioning heart
could be anxious to see it again. But, wait! Does Dick have a
functioning heart?
Friends Dick never got around to shooting
All was in readiness for the launch of a deniable covert op (the best
kind). In April 2005, Ruslan Tsarni was named an officer in an oil
company in Kazakhstan, being run at the time by a man named S.A. (Al)
Sehsuvaroglu.
Sehsuvaroglu had somewhat inexplicably left behind a 25-year career as
a top executive at Dick Cheney’s Halliburton-his last job was as
Senior Account Manager, Caspian Region; and Country Director,
Kazakhstan-and had, just three months before ‘Uncle Ruslan’ was hired,
taken over a penny stock oil play called Big Sky Energy Corp
(OTCBB:BSKO.OB).
Big Al and Uncle Ruslan already knew each other. Both men did time at
Nelsen Resources, yet-another Halliburton-connected oilfield company
active in Kazakhstan.
Even before that, Tsarni had landed, between 1999 and 2001, at Golden
Eagle Partners LLC in Kazakhstan. Golden Eagle worked so closely with
Halliburton, reported London’s Financial Times, that both firms were
convicted of collusion to breach confidentiality agreements.
For Uncle Ruslan, who was Golden Eagle’s Head of Legal Affairs, it
would have been, very much, a case of “my bad.”
In a story headlined `Halliburton ethics called into question,’ on Jun
22, 2004, London’s Financial Times reported that both companies had
been convicted in Federal Court and fined a total of $70 million.
`At a time when Halliburton is being charged with immoral and even
illegal business practices in countries ranging from Iraq to Nigeria,’
the paper reported, `a close reading of the court documents provides a
disturbing backdrop.’
Moreover the questionable business practices for which Halliburton was
convicted took place under Dick Cheney, who court documents revealed
had been very aware of what his minions like Ruslan Tsarni at Golden
Eagle had been doing on his behalf.
These were not, to put it kindly, self-made men
Still, while militant Chechen groups have been blamed for terror
attacks in the past, their targets have usually been Russia, their
bitter foe in the aucasus wars.
So why is this line of inquiry crucially relevent to the Boston
Marathon bombings?
Consider: In the last several months, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had posted
videos to YouTube indicating his interest in radical Muslim
ideologies.
Moreover the Tsarnaev brothers are of Chechen heritage, born into the
cauldron of the Caucasus; into a war which quickly boiled over until
it had engulfed Chechen separatists, Russian security forces, Islamic
extremists, and organized crime.
Last Friday, U.S. authorities said they had no proof that anybody
beyond the two Tsarnaev brothers was involved in the marathon
attacks. But they were not done looking.
Then yesterday two law enforcement officials stated that they believe
there is a `Chechen connection’ to the bombings.
Ruslan Tsarni’s personal and business background are in the same
troubled region-Chechnya and the former Soviet Republics collectively
known as the Stans-that is crucial to piecing together the narrative
of his two nephews in the Boston Marathon bombing.
And as an officer with decades of experience working with companies
doing business in a highly-volatile region, it is fair to question how
much of Ruslan Tsarni’s impassioned rant against his nephews owed to
shame for his family’s disgrace, and how much to rage at having his
past revealed-as he had to have known it would be-in an unflattering
light.
A bleeding edge that really is…a bleeding edge
You can look for clues out on the ragged bleeding edge of the Russian
Federation in troubled Dagestan, and prowl the back alleys of
Makhachkala on the Caspian Sea.
Or you can look in Almaty, out on the wind-swept steppes of
Kazakhstan.
Or poke around tiny Bishkek, capital of the little `Stan’ that could,
the one no one’s ever heard of, Kyrgyzstan.
Or trek to Tokmok, home to a large ethnic Chechen community, where you
can seek out the former home of Anzor Tsarnaev, sitting right next
door to that country’s top Mob Boss, a man named Aziz Batukaev, who to
the surprise of no one locally, just secured his early release from
prison.
And you can marvel that it truly is a small world after all, when a
train of events set in motion 6200 miles east of Boston came to shut
down a major American city and transfix an entire nation for an week.
But if you’re the type that prefers to get your travel fix watching
Michael Palin trekking across a wall-mounted 60′ TV screen, you can
turn your eyes to a man standing at the top of the driveway of a
smart-looking $600,000 Federalist-style home in an upper-middle class
planned community outside of Washington D.C.
Wearing blue jeans, flip-flops and a blue polo shirt, `Uncle Ruslan’
Tsarni’s vehement denunciation of his nephews won him thumbs up from
everyone from Keith Olbermann on the left, who called him the
“definition of a great American,” to John Podhoretz on the right, who
said `Ruslan Tsarni was the only good news of the week.’
It seemed too good to be true. And it was.
Daniel Hopsicker is an investigative journalist dubious about the
self-serving assertion of U.S. officials that there are no American
Drug Lords.