In my view, the most lucid commentary on yesterday’s mosque shooting in Christchurch comes from international security analyst Dr Paul G Buchanan, director of 36th Parallel Assessments. The latter is a non-partisan non-governmental geopolitical risk and strategic analysis consultancy located in Auckland, New Zealand.
Buchanan, an American expatriate, is a former intelligence and defense policy analyst and consultant to US government security agencies.
As quoted in a Radio New Zealand interview, Buchanan points out that automatic and semi-automatic weapons are extremely hard to come by in New Zealand without a license. “The weapon, from what I can tell, may have been modified. It takes some technical skills to modify a hunting weapon into something that’s semi-automatic. [The shooter] had high capacity magazines and may have used a bump stock which was used by the Las Vegas shooter.
Buchanana adds that the shooter’s skill set indicates he is either ex-military or has learned from someone else who might be ex-military.
His comments also suggest New Zealand intelligence dropped the ball in devoting the “bulk of” of intelligence gathering and prevention efforts at New Zealand’s Islamic community, rather than right-wing extremists.
“Let’s be very clear,” he continues, “Christchurch has a very active white supremacist (ie anti-Maori, anti Muslim, anti-immigrant) community. A community that has attacked refugees and people of color on multiple occasions over the last 20 years. This is the worst of them.”
Buchanan also mentions the shooter was on numerous global right-wing platforms, including the platform that was used by the synagogue shooter in Pittsburgh last year.
“Why wasn’t he flagged earlier and this whole episode prevented?” he asks.
After several close encounters with the overt anti-Maori racism pervasive in New Zealand’s law enforcement community, I feel compelled to ask the question more directly: Do NZ security services fail to monitor and clamp down on right wing white supremacists because they possibly share some of the same views?
For me the most distressing aspect of this atrocity is Brenton Tarrant (the alleged shooter), who livestreamed the shootings on social media, being cheered on by at least 100 white supremacists worldwide, including a number who live in New Zealand.
Tarrant was arraigned in court this morning on a charge of murder.
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Like most of the Terrorist mass killings also this smells from MKultra! The fact that the shooter wasn´t shot by the way hints directly to “Big Brother” and a “non-involvement” of New Zealand´s “intelligence”!
“Mkultra Alive? An Alarm Call”: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/mkultra-alive-an-alarm-call-mkultra-lebt-ein-alarmruf/
Weekend regards
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One more important observation. For 34 minutes the shooter or shooters had a free run and police did not respond in any way. When 2 police stations were within 2 km radius from the mosque. Strange.
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The other part of the timeline that doesn’t make sense, Danial, is this guy killed 40 people at the Hagley Park mosque and drove clear to the other side of Christchurch to kill another 10 people at the Linwood mosque. I’ve lived in Christchurch, and that’s at least a 15-20 minute drive if there’s no traffic.
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Interesting.
15-20 minutes you say. Well if we believe there was only one shooter, it takes up his freerun time to some 40-45 minutes. Even more alarming.
I remember on the first day there were reports of multiple shooters. Things are not adding up.
I don`t mean to cast a shadow on NZ authorities but here in Pakistan we have had so many of such incidents that we have learned a lot from. A terrorist cannot act alone, there is always a logistics chain. Christchurch attack was a well planned and well executed operation by the looks of it. The optics were carefully planned, the livestream, markings on the gun. That`s not an average crazy person`s job.
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Also now they’re saying he visited both Turkey and Pakistan in the last few years, as well as several Eastern European countries – that’s also a common pattern I’ve seen in deep state assassins:
https://www.samaa.tv/news/2019/03/new-zealand-mosque-shooter-visited-pakistan-in-2018-confirms-hotel-owner/
https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2019/03/18/turkey-claims-nz-mosque-shooter-previously-entered-country-for-assassination-attempt/
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Yes. I think this needs to be investigated properly. Turks are into it, I guess Pakistani agencies will also look into it. There is no point being defensive about it. He also visited Israel and I read somewhere that he made a fortune through bitcoin trade. Now Bitcoin…opens up more arenas to look into. Most of the illicit and illegal arms trade etc is done on dark web through bitcoins,
Daesh and other terror networks use dark web to communicate without being traced. If he had bitcoins, he may have used the dark web to communicate and plan the whole operation.
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They’re saying now that the police responded in 6 min and caught the shooter in 34 minutes. Very worrying the way the story keeps changing – about the weapons as well. That’s very typical of “false flag” operations in the US and Europe. This is one good thing about social media – it allows us to track the story as it evolves.
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