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Roubini: 'Sleeper cell' behind Boston attack
Politico ^

Posted on 04/21/2013 4:43:36 PM PDT by bryan999

Edited on 04/21/2013 6:45:23 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Nouriel Roubini, the rock-star economist who is credited with predicting the collapse of the U.S. housing market, believes he knows who is responsible for Monday's attack at the Boston Marathon.

"So it looks like 1 of the sleeper cells on the Eastern Seaboard woke up. & since the NYC Marathon was cancelled they went for the Boston one," he tweeted on Monday night, more than seven hours after the explosions. When asked by a follower how he knew, Roubini cited "informed sources."


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KEYWORDS: islamofascism; islamofascists; massachusetts; waronterror
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Was the Boston Marathon bombing Plan B ????
1 posted on 04/21/2013 4:43:36 PM PDT by bryan999
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To: bryan999

How about Location B?


2 posted on 04/21/2013 4:49:13 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: bryan999

Ask the Feds, they know all about them..

They were already on watch lists...Foreign governments already warned the Feds about these people....The mother has been arrested for crimes...#2 should have been deported for other crimes.

Total failure.


3 posted on 04/21/2013 4:49:20 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: bryan999

I keep thinking they really bungled this. If you look at the damage-—yes, a few deaths, many horrible manglings. But this isn’t the “bang for the buck” that the terrorists want. They want thousands dead at a time. So it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this was a hastily drawn-up plan b.


4 posted on 04/21/2013 4:51:07 PM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: bryan999

He’s an attention whore. Nouriel Roubini knows nothing about anything. Even worse is if he got this from his little friends at Kissinger who know even less.


5 posted on 04/21/2013 4:52:13 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: bigheadfred

so the two Chechnyan kids from Boston were going to bomb NYC?

no


6 posted on 04/21/2013 4:53:03 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: LS

It could also be step 1 in a multistep plan.

They learned a lot about how the authorities respond. I could have been much worse.


7 posted on 04/21/2013 4:53:17 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do ithat when I have a fire.)
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To: babble-on

Someone post a Captain Obvious pic, quick.


8 posted on 04/21/2013 4:53:57 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: bryan999

Obama gun agenda failure in congress behind Boston attack.


9 posted on 04/21/2013 4:54:03 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: bryan999

>> “Was the Boston Marathon bombing Plan B ????” <<

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Only if Sandy Hook was Plan A.


10 posted on 04/21/2013 4:56:31 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: dragnet2
Total failure.

Just imagine if they ran your healthcare.... Oh, wait...

11 posted on 04/21/2013 4:57:11 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: dragnet2
The leftist, commies and arrogant from academia are doing back flips since they found out Muslims foreigners bombed a running festival, after suspect #1 gets thrown out of a freaking Boston Mosque for bad mouthing MLK....

President Obama speaks with supporters and the media in the Rose Garden, some of whom were suggesting NRA material be planted in the bombers homes.

12 posted on 04/21/2013 4:58:06 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: bryan999

If anyone thinks there is not a sleeper cells in Boston, they simply are not paying attention...

Are these two brothers part of one... Time will tell...

My gut tells me no....but what do I know...

Their get away plan was pretty amateur at best...if they were trained by AQ they should ask for a refund....


13 posted on 04/21/2013 5:04:02 PM PDT by JZoback
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To: babble-on

No... obviously the cell in NY/NJ would bomb the NYC Marathon...

NYC Marathon was cancelled so they went into backup plan mode and waited until Patriot’s Day to do it in Boston... Plenty of time to have these mugs do several dry runs and tests... Just swap 5th Avenue out for Boylston St...


14 posted on 04/21/2013 5:04:37 PM PDT by bryan999
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To: JZoback

Seems like Roubini gets the captain obvious award.

I think they used bombs, too.


15 posted on 04/21/2013 5:19:03 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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Then there is this:

http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/usa-terror-cells.htm


16 posted on 04/21/2013 5:20:54 PM PDT by NY Attitude (Make love not war but be prepared for either.)
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Their get away plan was pretty amateur at best.

Wadddia mean?

They had a billion dollars worth of Law enforcement in the immediate area, National Guard, FBI, CIA, animal control, NSA, code enforcement, transit police, cops were bussed in on school buses from 30 surrounding cities, helicopters, dogs, swat teams and no doubt military drones circling over head.....

And the skinny 19 year old after robbing some Muslim cashier at a greedymart actually gets away after being pursued?

This was like a Blues Brothers movie...

17 posted on 04/21/2013 5:22:36 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: NY Attitude

Oh man, they missed Paterson, NJ just to begin with. Passaic, etc. NJ has’em everywhere like gnats.

Looks like a movie set a lot of places here.

Google some of those towns and use the streetview thing.

Just make sure you have a bullet proof monitor - you’ll feel safer.


18 posted on 04/21/2013 5:28:10 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: LS

The object is chaos and terror. They kept an iconic American city on virtual lockdown for five straight days. All for the price of some kitchenware and a couple of expendable dupes.


19 posted on 04/21/2013 5:33:24 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: bryan999
I'm not even sure that these brothers were part of a cell. Perhaps they thought so. But note that they were recruited, trained and sent into action entirely here. (One brother went to Chechnya once.) I suspect that they were recruited by the cell; but the cell itself was not directly involved.

If so, the cell in Boston is alive and well - and if the remaining terrorist doesn't tell who was his handler then we may not know who they are. I noticed that a bunch of their friends are taken in; so this is a concern, and the FBI is sifting through the net of their acquaintances. They had to make the bomb somewhere, at very least. If they are not geniuses, they should have tested it once. Unless they didn't make the bombs themselves, that is. An experienced bomb maker doesn't need to test, he already knows what works.

Why would that make sense? Because it is not so easy to put together and deploy a complete sleeper cell. Members of the cell must be trained at least in basics of hiding from authorities, in secret communication, and in explosives. Cells, once they are deployed, are a pretty valuable asset. Their owners do not want them to blow up so fast.

I think the cell recruited those Chechen brothers; they also gave them the target, and they put together the bombs for them. (They had two bombs; both exploded exactly as planned. You cannot expect two young men to come up with the design all on their own. It's possible, but that's not what I would take as the main hypothesis.)

This way the cell prepared the terrorist act, and executed it by means of a disposable pair of soldiers. The cell itself was probably not known to either brother; the younger one is almost certain to not know anyone. If the brothers wanted, they could have used disguise and disappeared from the area. Nobody really knew who they are when they killed the police officer. It may well be that their orders were to kill as many police as they can, and die in the battle - taking the secret of their handlers with them.

20 posted on 04/21/2013 6:02:35 PM PDT by Greysard
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