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| FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist "sleeper cell" linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev | |
| 2013-04-21 | |
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Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack. More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar's dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday. A source close to the investigation said: "We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people learn from Google. "They were too advanced. Someone gave the brothers the skills and it is now our job to find out just who they were. Agents think the sleeper cell has up to a dozen members and has been waiting several years for their day to come." A specialist team of CIA and FBI interrogators was yesterday flown to a Boston hospital to grill maimed Dzhokhar, 19, about the secret group. The University of Massachusetts student was caught on Friday after hiding out in a boat parked in a garden in locked down Watertown the day after a shootout with police left his 26-year-old brother and a rookie cop dead. Dzhokhar is said to have run his brother over as he escaped in a stolen car while Tamerlan lay handcuffed on the ground. They were carrying six bombs with them at the time, three of which Âwent kaboom!, as well as a handgun and rifle. The devices were thought to be pipe bombs. Last night Dzhokhar -- badly maimed but alive -- lay handcuffed to his hospital bed under armed guard. The other three arrested in the port of New Bedford are also believed to be of college age. Dzhokhar even went to a college party two days after the bombs wreaked havoc at the finish line. According to fellow students, he "looked relaxed" as he joined in a party at the campus on Wednesday night. Hours later he was involved in the shootout which saw his brother killed. Investigators have begun piecing together how the "well-mannered" brothers of Chechen origin were radicalised. Neighbours of the family said older brother Tamerlan had recently become obsessed with Islam. He mysteriously left the US in January last year to spend six months in Russia. Yesterday senior FBI counter-terrorism official Kevin Brock said: "It's a key thread for Sherlocks." It also emerged the Bureau interviewed Tamerlan two years ago, at the request of the Russian government, but could not establish that he had ties to terrorist radicals. This was despite his worrying Russian-language YouTube page featuring links to beturbanned goon Islamic sites and others since taken down by YouTube. One link showed an hour-long speech by an Islamic teacher called Shaykh Feiz Mohammed, while other videos are labled "Terrorists" and "Islam". The radical holy man, with links to beturbanned goon British Moslems, encouraged his followers to become deaders for Islam. He said: "Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid." Yesterday the brothers' mother Zubeidat, speaking from her home in Russia, added further intrigue to her sons' murky past when she claimed the boys had been framed by the FBI over the two bombs last Monday that left three dead and 178 injured. She claimed the FBI had been keeping watch on her eldest boy for up to five years. She said: "They knew what my son was doing. They knew what sites on the internet he was going to. "They were telling me that he was really an beturbanned goon leader and that they were afraid of him. They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these beturbanned goon sites. They were controlling him." | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 See DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > FEIZ MOHAMMAD: RADICAL MUSLIM PREACHER [Lebanese-Australian] WHOM INSPIRED BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER TAMERLAN TSARNAEV - IB TIMES UK. Tamerlan whom argued wid a friend that .. * SAME > BIBLE A "COPY" OF THE QURAN [+ used by the US to invade foreign = Muslim? countries], BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECT TAMERLAN TOLD NEIGHBORS - THE TIMES OF INDIA. VERSUS * SAME > BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECTS' AUNT SAYS SHE'S BEEN THREATENED, by unknown Personages for claiming that her two Nephews were "framed" for the Boston Marathon booms. * SAME > HACKERS HIJACK CBS ["60 Minutes" TV Show] TO CLAIM OBAMA INVOLVEMENT IN BOSTON BOMBINGS | [The News Informer] HACKTIVISTS [Syrian Electronic Army] EXPOSE MEDIAS REFUSAL TO REPORT ON PRIVATE MILITARY OPERATIVES [present] AT BOSTON BOMBINGS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-21 22:32 |
| #12 The 12 angry men are the reason I didn't much care for the "mission accomplished" press conference after Joker Tsarnaev's arrest. Still a lot more work to be done. |
| Posted by: American Delight 2013-04-21 20:53 |
| #11 IIUC, IOW the Boston Marathon terror bombings was only for starters??? I thought I read that one of the three persons arrersted + questioned was a young woman known to the Brothers Tsarnaev??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-21 20:02 |
| #10 Or put his gun in his mouth, pulled the trigger... and missed his brain Which rather reinforces the "no one gets taken alive" order. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-04-21 19:37 |
| #9 "there are high level administrators up the food chain that may not want the investigations to follow FTFY, AP. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-04-21 17:31 |
| #8 If the FBI investigators are allowed to do their work, we may get somewhere. However, there are high level administrators up the food chain that may not want the investigations to follow all leads. Just sayin' |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-04-21 15:17 |
| #7 "Only the Tsarnaev brothers took it farther than anyone else in the group thought about doing." Or had the guts/stupidity to do, Charles. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-04-21 15:08 |
| #6 Lord Garth: They are saying that those two men were part of the three questioned earlier in the week. Also that they're being deported on immigration charges. Though it's interesting to note a consular vehicles picked up two women from the same apartment complex. We may not be looking at a terrorist cell so much as "Cheerleading" cell. Only the Tsarnaev brothers took it farther than anyone else in the group thought about doing. |
| Posted by: Charles 2013-04-21 14:54 |
| #5 Apparently the younger one changed his mind about his own fate Or put his gun in his mouth, pulled the trigger... and missed his brain, which one article claims is the cause of his throat wound. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-04-21 14:15 |
| #4 reports are that two of the sleeper cell are now in custody |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-04-21 13:27 |
| #3 Dzhokhar is said to have run his brother over as he escaped in a stolen car while Tamerlan lay handcuffed on the ground Makes sense - No survivors, especially if the elder Tsarnaev left orders not to be taken alive. Apparently the younger one changed his mind about his own fate once the open air hit his wounds. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-04-21 12:58 |
| #2 Lets hope the FBI gets it right this time. If there are cells then they have gone to the winds and hunting them will be interesting... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2013-04-21 11:54 |
| #1 A specialist team of CIA and FBI interrogators I have something of an idea about how I would like to ask questions of this fellow, but I'm something of a Neanderthal. I understand there are more revealing techniques. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-04-21 10:36 |