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May 1, 2013
London's former mayor blames America first for Boston bombings
Joining the UN's "special rapporteur on human rights" in the Arab occupied Israeli territories Richard Falk's off key chorus of blaming America first for the Boston Marathon bombings, is former London mayor, Ken Livingstone. (Labour Party)
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has the television clip of Livingstone on Iran's government Press TV spewing
Voice of Muhammad, a caller from the UK: How [come the Boston bombers] enjoyed all these pleasures there, and yet, they ended up blowing themselves up [sic] like that?
Ken Livingstone: Well, I think there is a problem... Very often people get incredibly angry about injustices that they see. They would have been reading about the torture at Guantanamo Bay, at Baghram airbase. They would have read stuff about how, I think it is 54 different countries secretly collaborated with America for this rendition - people being snatched off streets taken to be tortured, because the Bush regime believed that...(Read Full Post)