There has been much speculation about what really happened at the Boston Marathon attack in mid-April. The photo evidence clearly contradicts much of what has been reported by the media, as shown by the articles below. Why is that? Check the facts, then draw your own conclusions.

"The mainstream media story of the Boston Marathon bombing is of Chechen terrorists who unleashed weapons of mass destruction, killing four and wounding 264 in an unthinkable scene of "bodies flying into the street", "so many people without legs" and "blood everywhere." A massive police response followed, with 9,000 federal, state, FBI and Department of Homeland Security troops conducting door-to-door searches...

[However,] based on the video and photo record, it seems clear that the lead actor in this production -- the most grievously wounded as well as the man who fingered Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the bomber -- was faking his injuries... Based on real time video evidence, this picture (view photo) was taken more than six and a half minutes after his calves [and feet] were blown off. He is not bleeding, he is sitting up with eyes open, and he is still a long way from getting medical attention...

Immediately after the bombing...far from being splayed out on the concrete in a pool of blood, clothes tattered and/or singed from the heat, struggling to comprehend what has just happened, and with multiple smaller injuries in addition to those that took off his legs, we see an odd scene. Miracle Man is on his back...[but] we see no blood, injuries or torn clothing on him or anyone else in the photo. Miracle Man's thighs, hands and elbows are in the air and a hooded man is [over him]...

A few minutes later, we see this odd scene (view photo). Miracle Man isn't visible, although we know he hasn't left the area yet, because Carlos, his [soon-to-be] rescuer, is still there, leaning against the fence holding his cowboy hat and flag, as if waiting his cue. The hooded man is now reclining, propped up on one arm, looking very relaxed..."

-- Sheila Casey article, with photos

If the explosion had been strong enough to tear this man's legs off, then how come no one else around him was seriously injured? Why are the others in the photo just standing around or strolling normally instead of running for their lives? How do they know there isn't another bomb nearby ready to go off? For comparison, here is a recent report by the Royal Society regarding injuries from a "pressure cooker" style bomb, including this gruesome photo of what a "typical IED blast lower limb injury with high above-knee amputations" really looks like (viewer caution advised).

Dr. Stan Monteith, an orthopedic surgeon with over 30 years of experience, observed that "something was wrong" with the story when he saw the man sitting up in a wheelchair:

"I know that they're lying to us because of a picture that I saw on that very first day. It was a devastating picture [of] a fellow that had both legs blown off. A young man sitting in a wheelchair, being wheeled by a gentleman who had a cowboy hat on... But why would they take somebody who had just had both legs blown off and put him into a wheelchair? He would have been in profound shock. And why weren't the tourniquets on both legs, clamping off the blood supply? And when I saw that, I knew something was wrong... I was a trauma surgeon for many years, I was an orthopedic surgeon. And basically, I looked at that below knee amputation on the left side, and it [appeared to be] a well-healed below knee amputation stump...there was no tear in the skin, no blood, no nothing at all -- just a bloody tibia sticking out of the end -- and it looked like it had been attached to this stump...

And then, 19 days after losing both legs, he was [already] out of the rehab hospital. How could that happen? It takes a long time after you've lost both legs, you know, to get prostheses fitted, to get strong enough, and get the strength in your arms. But 19 days after the attack there in Boston, why this young man, Jeff Bauman, went to the Boston Bruins hockey game...and you can see pictures of him -- he's waving a flag, and he has two above knee amputations. Above knee amputations? Now wait a minute, the Jeff Bauman we saw initially had a below knee amputation and this is an above knee amputation... I've tried to call the Spaulding Rehab Center on three occasions...and we never get a call back... The last thing they want is for the media to know that this whole picture, this picture that was implanted in our minds...about Jeff Bauman who lost both legs there, this is all fraudulent. And if that is fraudulent, then what else is fraudulent?"

-- Radio Liberty transcript

Bauman has since made several public appearances, including a Bruins hockey game, a Red Sox baseball game (with cowboy Carlos), and a recent visit with his former co-workers at Costco. If the official story is a fabrication -- as the bomb scene photos suggest -- then how, when and why were his legs amputated?

For an in-depth analysis of the Boston event based on the available photo evidence of the scene, author Dave McGowan has published a multi-part series showing the inconsistencies with the published news reports:

"We can clearly see that the hooded guy, mere moments after the blast, is primarily concerned with donning his sunglasses... He will remain in the hoody and shades for as long as he is on the set, even while receiving medical attention. We can also see more clearly here that Redcoat, Nicole, and hoody guy are all within inches of Jeff, with his freshly amputated limbs pointed directly at them... All three accomplices, nevertheless, will emerge from their ordeal without so much as a drop of Johnny's [sic] blood on them. Also, none of the three appear to have received any significant injuries despite having been right alongside a guy who supposedly got both his legs blown off...

Below is a close-up of hoody guy, cropped from the same high-resolution image. Hoody is clearly knocking on death's door here and we can bear witness to his exposed femurs, shredded and badly bleeding legs, and partially 'degloved' right hand [as reported]... Actually we can't see any of that because none of it really happened. What we actually see is a guy comfortably reclining with a fully intact right hand and two perfectly fine legs." (part 1)

"Everyone who has had a microphone stuck in their face has, virtually without exception, lied about what they saw, what they experienced and what they did. And these have not been random lies, but rather lies specifically crafted to describe a scene far more horrifying that what actually existed - bodies piled up in bloody heaps, disembodied legs littering the scene, the stench of burning flesh, bodies being pulled out from beneath the rubble of buildings, gushing wounds spurting blood everywhere, etc. Not one of these people can point to a single photograph that actually depicts what they claim to have witnessed." (part 6)

"What we appear to be seeing here is a campaign aimed at erasing the line between reality and fantasy - between what is objectively real and what is make-believe. For many years now we have seen a blurring of the line between news and entertainment, as well as, through 'reality' television, a blurring of the line between what is 'real' and what is scripted. We are now entering an age when there will be no dividing line at all between news, scripted entertainment and 'reality' TV. It will all be one and the same. In the new 'reality' we will be living in, nothing will be real and everything will be true." (part 7)

-- Dave McGowan series, with photos

Here's another interesting angle on this increasingly preposterous event. It seems that the uncle of the alleged "terrorists", who was interviewed on TV soon after Bauman fingered Tsarnaev as the perpetrator, was the son-in-law of a top CIA official. Imagine that.

"The uncle of the two suspected Boston bombers...Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller. The discovery that Uncle Ruslan Tsarni had spy connections that go far deeper than had been previously known is ironic, especially since the mainstrean media's focus yesterday was on a feverish search to find who might have recruited the Tsarnaev brothers..."

"[Ruslan Tsarni had] incorporated, in 1995, a company called the Congress of Chechen International Organizations [and was] listed as the company's resident agent... Even as the company was sending aid to Islamic terrorists in Chechnya, its listed address was in the home of former top CIA official Graham Fuller...the one-time Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA under President Reagan... [Fuller] admitted that Ruslan Tsarni had once been married to his daughter."

-- Daniel Hopsicker articles