Operation Misery: Month 2, Week 3, Day 5.

Today the suspected Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved from the Beth Israel hospital in Boston to the Fort Devens medical centre for convicts in Massachusetts. Although Tsarnaev is not technically a convict it is common practise for prisoners awaiting trial to be held in Federal prisons in the US.

As the Beth Israel hospital still contains many of the victims of the bombings and their families Tsarnaev's presence there must have felt like a form of torture to many. However Beth Israel is the closest hospital to where Tsarnaev was arrested so there was no option other then to keep him there until his condition stabilised enough so her could survive a move to another facility. As Tsarnaev's main medical problem struck me as blood loss I would say the reason he's been moved now is because he is stable enough to be moved.

What I found more interesting though was the claim yesterday that the Tsarnaev brothers had planned to attack New York City. It is possible that the younger Tsarnaev brother did express some knowledge of a possible discussion about attacking New York city either by nodding to confirm interrogators suggestions or writing it out with pen and paper. However what I suspect actually happened was that pumped up on adrenaline after hijacking the Mercedes SUV one Tsarnaev brother said; "Shall we go and attack New York?!" So I think it was more of an idea to attack New York City then a plan to attack New York City. The reason why the US authorities decided to go public with this sliver of not particularly useful information was to provide an opportunity to warn New York City that I was writing my post on the Bangladesh factory collapse.

The reason why New York City were very worried about my post coming out at that time was they were in the process of using the Bangladesh factory collapse to launch another attack on Rihanna. This involved claiming that Rihanna would be working with the high-street fashion retailer River Island on another clothing line. This is of course entirely untrue. Rihanna's handlers went through with it in an attempt to damage Rihanna's reputation by linking her to the Bangladesh factory collapse in the same way they've been trying to link her to the Boston bombings. River Island went through with it in a hope that by being seen to be working with the people who caused the Bangladesh factory collapse they could be able to drive down costs by offering the illusion of their factories being protected from future accidents. River Island even went to the extent of circulating photoshopped Instagram images that appear to show Rihanna working with one of their designers to make it appear believable. Hopefully those fraudulent images are now rapidly being removed.

All this is of course likely to have a detrimental effect on Rihanna's performance in Atlantic City tonight. After all she is probably trying to decide whether to sue River Island for defamation and if so how that will affect the existing licensing agreement. I will most likely be watching porn.

(Originally Posted) 17:10 on 26/4/13.