Watch this documentary. Jahar is innocent.

Thanks to Pro for the redirects in round2. Her arguments permit a more narrow focus and so a more productive evaluation. PRELUDEBecause the question at hand is whether the Boston Marathon Bombing was a false flag operation with a secondary consideration regarding the guilt of the brothers Tsarnaev, I hope Pro and readers will forgive that this argument will forbear any excursions into incidents that are largely unrelated except, of course, for the obvious connections of notoriety, violence, and speculation about conspiracy. We can leave consideration of the events at Sandy Hook, Isla Vista, and Oklahoma City for another debate.Also, I think my refutation will make more sense if I begin with Pro's last remarks and work back to her first.CRAZY? NO.I'll begin by answering Pro's final questions, which might be summarized as "Why is it crazy to ask why some descriptions regarding the Boston Marathon Bombing are inconsistent with the official reports by investigators?"I would respond that it is never crazy to ask why and it is always important to evaluate official reports with a skeptical eye. We should however remember to be equally skeptical regarding the reports of inconsistencies. We do well to remember that the agents of official reports: govt. representatives, news reporters, corporate execs, etc are well motivated to try to get the details right. These are typically ordinary men and women with a lot at stake regarding the quality of investigation: their jobs, community respect, the well-being of bereaved families, and personal reputation. In many cases, the folks who tend to cry conspiracy, the Alex Joneses and Lew Rockwells of the world, have little or nothing at stake and suffer few consequences when they repeatedly get facts wrong. Human empathy compels us to provide the official investigators with some benefit of the doubt. No investigation is flawless but most are well intentioned. But yes, we also won't forget that some investigations are deeply flawed and some deliberately disguise the truth. I would argue that the official reports regarding the Boston Marathon Bombing are more the former than the latter.It is never crazy to ask questions but it would be unwise to disregard reasonable explanations from people who are motivated to tell the truth. It is never crazy to ask, but it might be unjust to prefer elaborate or unverifiable explanations for details without sufficient evidence. It is never crazy to ask but it might be crazy to presume without evidence a hierarchy of evil agencies when the smaller evils of a few misbegotten men might explain events with satisfaction.The VIDEONo matter who made the video or why it must be remembered that credible sources were used.We've already discussed the unjournalistic motivations for producing the video (flattery for prizes). Still, I don't dispute the authenticity of the heavily edited news clips that make up 1/3rd of the video. Nor do I have a problem with the long clips from C-SPAN that merely demonstrate that some callers believe Alex Jones and are willing to call talk shows to repeat Jones' talking points. However, if Pro is asking that we accept Alex Jones' long string of unsupportable speculations as factual or most information found on Infowars.com as credible news I will refuse. Alex Jones has been so spectacularly wrong about so many subjects so many times that his credibility as a newsman ranks no higher than that of Charles Manson or Milli Vanilli. I don't have the space to detail the magnitude of Jones' paranoid delusions, so I'll instead link here to one of many video compilations of Jones' manic claims.http://www.youtube.com...TSARNAEV PHOTOSHOPPEDA very famous picture of Jahar walking away from the bomb sites was photoshopped... It appears that he walked away from the bombing sites with the backpack but it was photoshopped out.So, here's that famous picture: The man in the white baseball cap at the 9 o'clock position is Tsarnaev. The allegation is that Dzokhar's arm was manipulated to disguise a white backpack carried after the bombing. Please not that there are no photos that show Dzokhar leaving with a backpack, conspiracists only suppose that there must be a backpack based exclusively on the angle of Dzokhar's arm in this picture. That's pretty much the same thing as saying that if a rock is shaped like a monkey, there must be a monkey behind that rock. Using precisely the same degree of evidence as conspiracists, I will allege that in Dzokhar's right hand he is holding a bright yellow sign that says "I AM A TERRORIST." Both theories are provable to the same degree.This picture was taken by marathon runner David Green using his iPhone. He didn't realize he had a picture of Dzokhar until after Dzokhar's arrest on Friday night. He contacted the Associated Press who checked Green's background and thoroughly inspected the photo for tampering before buying the photo. The AP and Green have verified that this in the unaltered original image. Here's Green with iPhone- Conspiracists are mute regarding the question of why a marathon runner and the AP would act in concert to disguise a backpack on Tsarnaev. Certainly, if the world's largest new agency had their hands on a photo that contradicted the FBI's version of events, one would expect that they would publish that photo unaltered as a Pulitzer worthy scoop. We can choose to believe that the AP is colluding with the govt. to conceal malfeasance on a colossal scale or we can agree that this is just a picture of Tsarnaev in motion and that the angle of his elbow really doesn't look particularly unusual. BOMB-SNIFFING DOGSAccording to people who were at the marathon, there were many bomb sniffing dogs.... Why didn't they sniff the bomb? Any pictures of the marathon that day will show this.At least since 9/11 there's nothing unusual about the presence of bomb sniffing dogs at most large public events. Consider that more than 15 police department share responsibility for securing the race and each department is likely to have at least some police dogs. A report of an overabundance of police dogs seems entirely plausible since an overabundance of police at the Marathon is the norm. Considering that they probably receive holiday pay on top of overtime and that policing the event was probably fun and easy most years, we should not be surprised if Marathon security is a popular assignment. Boston police report that they conducted two bomb sweeps in the area around the finish line, the second about an hour before the explosion. Since witnesses and video confirm that Dzokhar placed the backpack containing his pressure-cooker bomb a mere 2 1/2 minutes before setting of the bomb, there is no reason to expect that a bomb-sniffing dog might have discovered it beforehand. Obviously, deploying police dogs on the race track itself would have been inappropriate while runners were arriving. Since the event was well-videotaped there are many, many pictures of the site in the seconds just before and after the bombing. Not one shows any dogs at the finish line. Every report of bomb sniffing dogs at the finish line cites the same single source: University of Mobile running coach Alistair Stevenson. His interview quickly went viral on April 16 because of his description of race security. Stevenson is also the one and source stating that police shouted "This is just a drill" just after the first explosion. Although there's no reason to suppose Stevenson is dissembling there's also no reason to take his perspective at face value. Out of the 23,000 other runners who also raced that day why is there no corroborative report from any other racer? Why do conspiracists insist that only Stevenson's report is to be believed? Are the other 23,000 runners part of the conspiracy?Why would we believe one man's testimony in contradiction to hundreds of photographs?Out of space, so I'll continue in Round 3.