The Mystery Deepens

In light of the furtive lobbying campaign of the oil companies, against the passage of the Armenian Genocide resolution in Congress, Mr. Tsarni’s Armenian reference cannot be construed as coincidental. It must be deliberate especially given his legal background.

Besides his business relations, his family ties are even muddier, and he cannot extricate himself from the family web that drags him further into the shady world of covert activities.

In a revelation published in Boiling Frogs by Sibel Edmonds (April 27, 2013), it turns out that Mr. Tsarni was married to the daughter of Graham Fuller. Who is Graham Fuller? The publication writes, “A major break in the Boston terror CIA connection took place last night when I came across a post outing CIA operative Graham Fuller as the father of a woman married to the Boston terror suspects’ infamous uncle, Ruslan Tsarni. Further confirmation of this bombshell was received via mainstream reporter, Laura Rozen.”

We further read in the Boiling Frogs exposé: “On a more ominous note, Graham Fuller was listed as one of the American Deep State rogues on Sibel Edmonds’ State Secrets Privilege Gallery. Edmonds explained it featured subjects of FBI investigations she became aware of during her time as an FBI translator.

“Criminal activities were being protected by claims of State Secrets, she asserted. After Attorney General John Ashcroft went all the way to the Supreme Court to muzzle her under a little-used doctrine of State Secrets, she put up 21 photos, with no names. One of them was Graham Fuller.”

A more revealing testimony by Edmonds brings Mr. Fuller’s activities and goals closer home to Caucasus and consequently to Armenia: “You may remember one of these foreign policy makers from my State Secrets Privilege Gallery and my under oath testimony in the Krikorian case. Here is a quote from Graham A. Fuller, former Deputy Director of the CIA’s National Council on Intelligence: ‘The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.’”

Mr. Fuller’s activities do not necessarily reflect on Mr. Ruslan Tsarni, but his place in the tangle of oil politics and covert operations shed light on his statements and his intent to drag the Armenian name into this mess.

Also special attention must be focused on Mr. Fuller’s “doctrinal” ideas; while the West and specially the US are fighting radical Islam, on the other hand, that same weapon is being used to “destabilize what remains of Russian power.” That certainly implicates Armenia, where one of the last power bases of Russia is located.

Therefore, it is no surprise that Russia recently expelled most of the foreign NGOs operating in its territory. But they are still active in Armenia. And in conjunction with the infiltration of religious sects they are intent on undermining the foundations of the country. None of the foreign organizations may entertain altogether altruistic goals. They are all self-serving at Armenia’s expense.

Returning to Misha, he seems to be the remotest person to be connected with anything Armenian. But Uncle Ruslan implicates him as the main culprit in misguiding his “innocent” nephews. Misha also seems to be a shady character. Interviewed in his Rhode Island home by New York Review of Books, Misha turns out to be Mikhail Allakhverdov, a person of mixed Armenian and Ukrainian parentage. Certainly he has inherited his red beard from his Ukrainian ancestry. Then why is his Armenian parentage thrust into the news media and not the Ukrainian? What is inconceivable with Misha is that his family was persecuted as Christians in Muslim Azerbaijan and he seems to be among the 400,000 Armenians who were either murdered or deported from Baku and Sumgait. And then, one needs a psychologist’s genius to understand that after arriving in a free country, he decided to convert to the Islamic religion of his persecutors. And as if that was not enough, he acquired the power to radicalize actual, practicing Muslims.

All these incredible factors are being used to cover his main purpose and activity. Indeed, Walter Katz in The Week suggests that Misha may have been “an FBI informant” who started grooming Tamerlan for a sting operation before giving up [prematurely].” As we can see, Misha is also a character in the shadowy underworld, pursuing a mischievous mission turned sour. We can speculate on any potential goal; perhaps Tamerlan was being groomed to be involved in one of the Mr. Fuller’s operations in the Caucasus, and like Osama Bin Laden before him, he turned against his handlers. That is one of the possibilities.

As bombing victims and their families suffer, no one has an interest in digging further to find where the network of conspiracy against Armenians leads.

As Armenians we may air our anger for being hurled into this tragedy, but our resources are limited for damage control. Therefore, beyond saving the Armenian name, must we also worry about Armenia itself caught in this complex crossfire?