Did Tsarnaevs get asylum through Deep State nepotism and string-pulling?
April 27, 2013
One of the funnier angles of the last week has been how so many
Establishment figures are so deep into an Emma Lazarus-induced
psychosis over the evils of non-open borders that they’ve chosen to
double-down on defending the Tsarnaevs’ 2002 asylum in the U.S.
against mere questioning by a few Republican politicians.
As I noted recently, the editor of the NYT Editorial Page wrote,
“And when did the United States start excluding immigrants from
dangerous places? Seems to me that [the Tsarnaevs] fall into the
categories of `huddled masses yearning to breathe free,’ not to
mention `wretched refuse’ of teeming shores and the `homeless,
tempest-tossed.””
But, the tiny number of Chechens in the U.S. is illustrative of the
fact that the Obama Administration and previous Administrations have
had an aversion to letting in Chechens, who, as we have seen, have a
long track record of tending to be aggrieved, volatile, and
formidable.
Moreover the elder Tsarnaevs’ recent return to Russian Dagestan
suggests that their asylum in the U.S. was fraudulent.
So, out of all the Chechens in the world, how did the Tsarnaevs get
asylum in the U.S..?
Well, why is their Uncle Ruslan in the United States? Why does Ruslan
Tsarni, the brother of Anzor Tsarnaev, live in a nice house outside
Washington D.C.?
Mad Cow Morning News has been following the Ruslan Tsarni story and
it’s pretty interesting. The site claims Uncle Ruslan used to be
married to Samantha Ankara Fuller, who, it asserts, is the daughter of
Graham E. Fuller. Mr. Fuller gave a talk on Turkey at Boston U. in
2006 and his bio read:
He received his BA and MA at Harvard University in Russian and Middle
Eastern studies. He served 20 years in the Foreign Service, mostly the
Muslim World, working in Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, North
Yemen, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong. In 1982 he was appointed the
National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia at CIA, and
in 1986 Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at CIA,
with overall responsibility for all national level strategic
forecasting.
In 1988 Mr. Fuller left government and joined the RAND Corporation
where he was a Senior Political Scientist for 12 years. His research
focused primarily on the Middle East, Central Asia, South and
Southeast Asia, and problems of ethnicity and religion In politics.
His studies for RAND include a provocative 1991 study on the
geopolitical implications of the Palestinian `Intifada’; a series of
studies on Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey, Sudan, Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Algeria; the survivability of Iraq; the `New Geopolitics
of Central Asia’ after the fall of the USSR; and problems of
democratization and Islam.
Now, there are a lot of people named Samantha Fuller, but … Samantha
Ankara Fuller sounds like she could be the daughter of an American
expert on Turkey, since Ankara is the capital of Turkey. (By the way,
Sibel Edmonds made an insinuation against Mr. Fuller in her
allegations of a Turkey-related corruption ring in the American
government, but that’s a wilderness of mirrors if there ever was one.)
Keep in mind that a lot of people have connections to the CIA. Barack
Obama, for example, grew up with a lot of one-degree-of-separation
connections to the CIA, but then so did I.
Uncle Ruslan is the source for the claim that a red-headed Armenian
convert to Islam named Misha exercised a malign Rasputin-like
influence over Tamerlan. Armenians in Boston, however, say a
red-headed Armenian convert to Islam would, uh, stand out, and they
can’t recall any such individual.
Mad Cow points out that Uncle Ruslan is in the Central Asian energy
business. A 2005 press release when he joined Big Sky Energy
Corporation said:
Mr. Ruslan Tsarni, a U.S. citizen, has over 10 years of professional
experience in oil and gas legislation and corporate law. Previously,
Mr. Tsarni served as Corporate Counsel of Nelson Resources Limited
Group of companies, as well as Managing Director of several of its
operating subsidiaries, responsible for all matters relating to
corporate governance and placements and filing requirements under the
securities regulations of Toronto Stock Exchange and AIM. He worked
with financial institutions and banks on raising funds for acquisition
and development of the assets operated by Nelson’s subsidiaries, as
well as managed legal and administrative matters for all such
subsidiaries. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Tsarni worked as Head of Legal
Affairs of Golden Eagle Partners LLC where he developed downstream and
upstream oil and gas businesses in Kazakhstan and served as Managing
Director of its wholly owned subsidiary Tobe LLP. From 1998 to 1999
Mr.Tsarni worked as Senior Associate with Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn
providing legal advise to major multinational companies on different
aspects of Kazakhstan legal issues on development of mineral
resources, corporations, taxation, currency, customs, employment,
banking, bankruptcy and trade marks. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Tsarni
served as a consultant for Financial Markets International LLC and
Arthur Andersen LLP contracted by USAID for projects aimed to develop
securities markets in Central Asia, where he trained corporate
governance and corporate finance principals to state and private
companies.
Golden Eagle Partners, where Uncle Ruslan was head of legal affairs
from 1999-2001, was a contractor of Dick Cheney’s Halliburton. That’s
interesting, but shouldn’t be overblown: Halliburton does business
with a lot of companies.
But, the broader point is that Uncle Ruslan is connected. Maybe I’m
being cynical, but my impression is that in the Central Asian oil and
gas legal affairs business, it’s less what you know than who you know.
And Uncle Ruslan seems to know a lot of people, both in Central Asia
and in America.
It’s likely that some people who pick up on this will develop a
Ch-Ch-Ch-Cheney-Chechen conspiracy theory about how the Boston
bombings really were, in some extremely complicated fashion, all about
an oil pipeline or something like that.
But I think the Uncle Ruslan story is most relevant to getting a
better grip on how the Tsarnaevs got asylum in the U.S.: I bet Uncle
Ruslan got one or more of his American Deep State connections to pull
some strings for his brother’s family.
In general, that’s symptomatic of how our immigration system works.
The American Establishment has decided that there’s nothing more evil
than the American people having an opinion on which would-be
immigrants to let in and which to keep out (to the New York Times
editorial board, that’s more or less eugenics which is more or less
the Holocaust). But, somebody has to decide who gets in and who
doesn’t, so since Americans aren’t supposed to do it, the decision
often winds up in the hands of immigrants themselves, often nepotistic
recent immigrants such as Uncle Ruslan.
UPDATE: Ex-CIA honcho Graham E. Fuller has confirmed that his daughter
was married to Uncle Ruslan in the later 1990s, but says he,
personally, only met Ruslan’s brother, the Demolition Dad, once, and
that his daughter was the Bomb Brothers’ aunt-in-law only while they
were young.
By Steve Sailer on 4/27/2013
21 comments:
Anonymous said…
“Former CIA officer: `Absurd’ to link uncle of Boston suspects, Agency”
“Retired CIA officer Graham Fuller confirmed to Al-Monitor Saturday
that his daughter was previously married to an uncle of the suspects
in the Boston Marathon attacks, but called rumors of any links between
the uncle and the Agency `absurd.’
Graham Fuller’s daughter, Samantha A. Fuller, was married to Ruslan
Tsarnaev (now Tsarni) in the mid-1990s, and divorced in 1999,
according to North Carolina public records. The elder Fuller had
retired from the agency almost a decade before the brief marriage.
`Samantha was married to Ruslan Tsarnaev (Tsarni) for 3-4 years, and
they lived in Bishkek for one year where Samantha was working for
Price Waterhouse on privatization projects,’ Graham Fulller told
Al-Monitor by email Saturday. `They also lived in our house in
[Maryland] for a year or so and they were divorced in 1999, I
believe.’
`I, of course, retired from CIA in 1987 and had moved on to working as
a senior political scientist for RAND,’ Fuller continued.
Fuller said his former son in law was interesting but homesick, and
moved back to Central Asia after the divorce.
`Like all Chechens, Ruslan was very concerned about his native land,
but I saw no particular involvement in politics, [although] he did try
to contact other Chechens around,’ Fuller continued. `He also felt
homesick and eventually went back to Central Asia after the divorce.
His English was shaky. (We always spoke Russian together).’
A story on the Internet implying `possible connections between Ruslan
and the Agency through me are absurd,’ Fuller said.
`I doubt he even had much to say of intelligence value other than
talking about his own family’s sad tale of deportation from Chechnya
by Stalin to Central Asia,’ Fuller said. `Every Chechen family has
such stories.’
The elder Fuller said he had made several visits to Central Asia to do
research on post-Soviet political developments, and visited Samantha
and Ruslan there. `Our visit is briefly mentioned in my recent memoir,
Three Truths and a Lie, as well as their marriage celebration in
[Maryland],’ he wrote.
A former Russian history and literature major at Harvard, Fuller said
he was always interested in Soviet minorities and found Ruslan
interesting. Fuller also pointed to a March 2000 article (.pdf) he and
a colleague wrote in Foreign Affairs, `Russia’s Ruinous Chechen War.’
Ruslan Tsarni has said in media interviews that there was a strong
rift between his family and that of his brother Aznor, over what
Ruslan described as the growing religious fanaticism of Aznor’s wife,
Zubeidat, and that the families had not spoken for several years.
Aznor and Zubeidat’s sons Tamerlan, 26, and Dzhokhar, 19, are
suspected of carrying out the April 15th Boston Marathon bombings.
Fuller said he thinks he met Aznor Tsarnaev once, fleetingly, in
Kazakhstan. His daughter, he said, knew the family better, but when
Tamerlan was just a toddler, and Dzhokhar not yet born.”
4/27/13, 12:59 PM
Steve Sailer said…
Thanks, I’llpost.
4/27/13, 1:09 PM
Anonymous said…
When I first learned of Graham Fuller’s existence after reading his
“How to Learn a Foreign Language,” I got the impression that he was a
wonkier, suit and tie wearing version of Rick Steves. Later on, I
discovered him as an old fashioned WASPy arabist and apologist for
Islam. Now I learn his daughter married into a family of Islamic
terrorists and shady ex-Soviet power brokers? Wow.
-The Judean People’s Front
4/27/13, 1:14 PM
Dennis Dale said…
But I think the Uncle Ruslan story is most relevant to explaining how
the Tsarnaevs got asylum in the U.S.: Uncle Ruslan got one or more of
his Deep State connections to pull some strings for his brother’s
family.
Might explain somewhat Uncle Ruslan’s public rage–maybe he’s thinking
“I used my influence to bring them here and this is how they repay me?”
http://isteve.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/was-tsarnaevs-asylum-deep-state-nepotism.html
http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2013/04/5090/former-cia-officer-absurd-to-link-uncle-of-boston-suspects-agency-over-daughters-brief-marriage/