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2013-04-21 Home Front: WoT

Marathon Bomber: It Was Russia That Asked

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Most professional, biometrically advanced law enforcement agency and intelligence apparatus in the world solicits the assistance of the American people in identifying fotos of suspects [residing in proximity of blast], ....whom they have met repeatedly thanks to counter-terrorism tipper and dossier from the second most advanced counter-terrorism agency and intelligence apparatus in the world.

Ok, I think I've got it.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-21 03:15|| 2013-04-21 03:15|| Front Page Top

#2 I hear you, Besoeker, but there may have been other motives by the FBI for releasing the photos publicly that had nothing to do with simply identifying the brothers. I could speculate on what they were, but I won't since I'm sure you and everybody else could make guesses as good as mine.

Posted by Cheager Angoluque6848 2013-04-21 11:40|| 2013-04-21 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 If the pics were to goad them to break cover, electronically as well as physically, they didn't have eyes on them. The car alerts suggest maybe tags but the arrests elsewhere preceeding #2s arrest tell me it was to get people they reached out to for exfil or instructions/resupply.
Interesting how the lone wolf meme is gone when you face this much public awareness. The whole radicalization dynamic is on display. Coming to a Mosque near you perhaps. Those Mentors are everywhere thanks to the KSA and the seed money for new Mosques.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2013-04-21 11:59|| 2013-04-21 11:59|| Front Page Top

#4 The elder Tsarnaev was a non-US person who was tipped off to the US by a highly reliable foreign intelligence and law enforcement entity. There are well established, multi-agency protocols with the US Intelligence and Federal Law Enforcement community for meeting with foreign persons of interest or leads. Those protocols include but are not limited to the following:

a. Coordinated, time-phased authorizations for initial meets and contacts.
b. Detailed requests for long-term assessment or future exploitation.
c. Shared reporting and record keeping.
d. Coordinated methodologies for transfer or termination of contacts and assessments.

If the late Tamerlan Tsarnaev was met by US Law Enforcement, not once but multiple times, where are (a.) thru (d.) ?

If the Tamerlan Tsarnaev project or file was terminated, why was it terminated ?

If the Tamerlan Tsarnaev project or file was NOT terminated and remained active until last week, who was responsible project or investigating officer and what was being reporting or assessed ?

Lastly, was the late Tamerlan Tsarnaev an unwitting Law Enforcement or Intelligence source. A source and project that went terribly or "tragically" wrong. At a minimum, this was NOT an intelligence success story. Just how unsuccessful remains to be determined.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-21 12:07|| 2013-04-21 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 By the way, the same (a.) thru (d.) would have applied to US Citizen Nidal Hasan.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-21 12:17|| 2013-04-21 12:17|| Front Page Top

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