True, but the LEOs seemed to take extraordinary care to capture the second terrorist alive. Had he been some right wing American they would have killed him in short order once they had him surrounded in a plastic boat exchanging fire with them. Does anybody really think that the SWAT and long rifle teams present couldn't have hit him from their positions less than fifty feet away? The terrorist had no cover in the boat.
Also, we heard the aunt on TV saying she had spoken to the FBI, and the FBI monitored and communicated with her son. Also, the father's statements were very interesting - suggesting that his son tell everything, and that if he was killed "all hell would break loose." Maybe that threat was more about politics and information disclosure than a threat of violence by other Chechen terrorists.
And pretty clearly the FBI knew the identity of the terrorists before they released the video tapes to the public. I can't imagine that they didn't run the images past their own counter terrorism guys, one or more of whom had interviewed terrorist #1, and no doubt had his picture in their files.
Obviously all speculation, but there have been other cases where intelligence assets go bad. Like that guy who used to work for the CIA that we had to bury at sea.
Listening to the police radio feed during the capture last night the LEOS were standing down to the FBI orders all night!They were always asking for permission to do this and that but had to be cleared by the FBI first.
Have you guys checked out the house #1 lived in? 26 year old dropout? Driving mercedes and porches?
Please, people work all their lives don’t have homes like that.
Maybe when they finally released the pictures, they were hoping that some Irish Boston cops would take care of their mess like they did with the older brother.