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| RU Intel: Tsarnaev met with Chechen militants several times - Hot Air |
| 2013-04-24 |
| Which means [to Russian Intelligence at least] Tsarnaev enjoyed high enough priority as a potential terrorist or criminal to track and monitor continuously [but curiously, not arrest or detain]. One might assume that US Intelligence and Law Enforcement would extended no less a priority, or even have requested the assistance and reporting of host nation intelligence. I am beginning to catch a whiff of a bi-lateral counter-terrorism operation. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Good points, jefe101. I don't know much about that part of the world, I'm afraid, and I'm not very good at following the kind of paranoid, byzantine thinking necessary to understand such people, let alone trying to anticipate, as you are. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-04-24 20:58 |
| #5 Thank you for your insight TW. My understanding is that in '11 FSB pegged him as someone to watch and asked the FBI to look into it. What happened with that we really don't know. But in '12 he returned to Russia, spent time in Doggystan and met a few times then with at least one FSB POI. If he pinged in '11, wouldn't his '12 activity have brought him higher up on the radar for Russia. If the FSB talked to us in '11, why wouldn't his elevated contact/activity level merit equal or greater FSB intervention, after all he is not an American, but actually still a Russian citizen. They can do whatever they want and often do in this part of Russia. |
| Posted by: jefe101 2013-04-24 20:53 |
| #4 jefe101, I read the article as speaking about one trip from the U.S. to Russia, and within it several trips back and forth between cities before returning to Moscow to fly home to Boston. According to the article also, our lad was not the Russian target, but someone with whom there target met. It was a kindness that they attempted to inform us -- perhaps if they'd talked to the CIA station chief in Moscow instead, they'd have gotten a better reception. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-04-24 20:13 |
| #3 The big question I have, and I hope someone on the Rant with more knowledge could comment on this, is: How is he re-entering Russia and going from Moscow to Makhachkala without the Russians somehow getting active. They already pinged him on a previous visit and told us. Then he re-enters and travels to a hot bed region and meets with people who are surely under surveillance. My theory is the Russians wanted this, they've wanted us in the N. Caucusus since 2003 and they want US access to the the Caucusus to flow through, and be regulated by, Moscow and not Tbilisi. Any insight anyone could offer I would appreciate. |
| Posted by: jefe101 2013-04-24 14:41 |
| #2 "You lost another intelligence target, Yuri?" No, but Eric Holder did. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2013-04-24 12:46 |
| #1 I am beginning to catch a whiff of a bi-lateral counter-terrorism operation. "You lost another intelligence target, Yuri?" |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-04-24 12:07 |