Operation Misery: Month 2, Week 3, Day 1.

Today is one week since the bomb attacks at the Boston marathon and will be marked by a moments silence at the moment - 14:50 (local) - the first of the bombs exploded. Today also marks the first of the funerals of the bombing victims with Krystle Campbell being buried. Later today Rihanna is scheduled to perform her concert in Atlanta, Georgia. Therefore this is probably the worst time for me to be saying any of this. However I cannot overstate how much I'd rather be taking the day off.

Sadly that isn't an option because being the first full working day since the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev international reaction to the bombing has started to pour in. It was the US who got the ball rolling with the shooting of five people in the Federal Way district of Seattle, Washington. Apart from bringing in all the elements of Rihanna's recent Seattle concert along with the fact that voters in Washington State actually rejected a ballot initiative to legalise marijuana use at the 2012 Presidential election this a way of conceding that the Federal plan for Boston has largely failed. We are now trying to find out exactly who killed whom and why.

This was quickly matched by the fatal shooting of six people at a hunting/shooting store in the Russian city of Belgorod. The hunt for the suspect or suspects continues. This is clearly a Russian attempt to open up a dialogue with the US over all the issues raised during the Boston attacks. As the Tsarnaev brothers are technically Russian, Russia will be hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics and the general level of offence the US has caused over Syria I strongly suggest they take the Russians up on this offer.

Then there is the very peculiar case of the threat of a Columbine style attack on a High School in the Netherlands. Swiss authorities discovered a threat on the Internet forum 4Chan that someone was today going to attack a school in the Netherlands with a 9mm Colt Defender (a very specific detail) and kill their teacher along with as many pupils as possible. The Swiss authorities passed this threat onto the Dutch authorities who took the exceptional step of closing all High Schools across the municipality of Leiden in Holland. They have since arrested an unidentified suspect who is understood to be an expelled pupil from the British School in the neighbouring municipality of Voorschoten. Although the British schools has pupils from a range of nations it is obviously linked to the UK. Therefore this is the old Europe allies of the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland getting together to discuss the failure of the Boston operation. They are obviously blaming that failure on me. The use of 4Chan is a reference to the recent Lonestar College, Texas stabbings. I don't fully get the reference to a 9mm Colt Defender but as it's a pretty standard handgun I guessing it's a reference to that debate about whether I should be allowed to keep and use firearms for my safety and protection. After this last week I'm inclined to say; "Yes" although I'd prefer something bigger then a Defender which strikes me more as a back-up gun.

Finally there has been 16 arrest in Spain (8) and France (8) over a plot in which north-African wealthy businessmen predominately from Morocco were lured to France and Luxembourg by high class prostitutes. Once there they were forced to wear suicide vests and threatened into handing over large sums of money. The suspected leader of the group is an Algerian. This obviously provides a way from France and Spain to discuss the problem of Islamic extremism in the north-Africa region including things like the In Amenas hostage taking and the general situations in Morocco, Algeria, Libya and the knock-on effects in Mali. However the footage released included lots of Rihanna and Chris Brown style pictures of luxury goods such as expensive watches. Also it is claimed that the ring-leader claimed to be working as a security adviser for an unspecified Gulf-nation Sheik. Therefore this seems to be France and Spain discussing the Chris Brown/Rihanna operation which they are blaming on the Gulf Monarchies. The fact that arrests have been made seems to be an indication that they will strike out hard against Chris Brown should he attempt to enter their respective countries. Hopefully this will be the final warning the CIA handlers will simply misinterpret it as a sign of panic and therefore weakness because that's what they want to believe.

The main theme running through all these responses is that the US' Boston operation failed to achieve it's objectives. This should come as no surprise because as soon as the identities of the Tsarnaev brothers was identified Russia were quick to point out that they'd already requested that the FBI mount and investigation into the elder Tsarnaev brother and that investigation was carried out. This is something that investigators should look very hard at - specifically why the case was closed and if it was actually closed or if it was simply passed on to a different agency.

As for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev he is still in a critical but stable condition in hospital. He is on a ventilator and is being heavily sedated. However as is standard practise the medical team are apparently reducing his sedation every 2-3 hours in order to assess his progress and well keeping someone under that level of sedation is not without its risks. During these so-called sedation holidays doctors are allowing Tsarnaev to be questioned by investigators under their tight supervision. This strikes me as something of a futile exercise because if for no other reasons then he's got a breathing tube down his throat Tsarnaev can only answer by nodding or shaking his head. Plus the stress of these brief interviews could actually risk killing him

Hopefully though all involved will tread extremely lightly and Tsarnaev will soon be fit enough to be interviewed properly. Amongst other things I would like to know his views on the Australian soap-opera "Neighbours." On Tuesday (16/4/13) - the day following the marathon bombings - a special, much-hyped episode of Neighbours was broadcast in the UK. This episode featured a wedding attended by all the main characters. At the reception a cooking gas canister exploded causing a Boston like blast that killed and injured many of the main characters. The groom at the wedding was played by Ryan Maloney who you may remember featured in the most recent series of UK Channel 5's (C5) "Celebrity Big Brother." During that series he said something along the lines of the Rihanna backed Spencer and Heidi (Speidi) deserving everything they get because they " just keep saying yes to money." I can't help but feel that Tsarnaev or his co-conspirators were hoping that people would make the connection between the Boston explosions and the Neighbours episode and this would damage Rihanna's reputation by making people think she has no respect for anything other then money.

With still no word on the cancellation of her Boston concert there is actually very little I can say in Rihanna's defence here. That's because when she is with Chris Brown Rihanna turns into a nasty, selfish b*tch basically. Her greed is only outstripped by her incompetence at it. In fact her money management is so poor I'm inclined to say she is going to have to take up every endorsement deal on offer - such as her deal to promote the NBA play-offs - in order to minimise the financial hit she's going to take from this tour going ahead as planned.

16:50 on 22/4/13.