Posted on 07/16/2013 12:01:37 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Reuters) - A Boston-area man accused of threatening to blow up an airplane allegedly had all the materials needed to build a pressure-cooker bomb before this kind of weapon was used in the Boston Marathon attack in April, according to comments made by the man's mother in a recently unsealed police affidavit.
While investigators working with the FBI are looking to see if there are any links between the two cases, they have drawn no conclusions, according to two law enforcement sources. Prosecutors and the FBI declined to comment.
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force said it is investigating 27-year-old Daniel Morley after police in the small town of Topsfield, Massachusetts found a cache of weapons and bomb-making materials in his home on June 9.
According to a police affidavit dated June 19, Morley told his mother that his best friend had bragged about knowing Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two Chechen brothers suspected of detonating pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15. Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police after the attack.
No one else has been charged in the Topsfield case, a spokeswoman for the Essex County District Attorney said.
The 25-page police affidavit details the allegations that served as the basis for the criminal charges against Morley. He is accused of assaulting his mother and her boyfriend and making a threat to hijack an airplane or ship.
Morley's defense attorney, Robert LeBlanc, did not return calls asking for comment. The person described by Morley's mother as his best friend was named in the affidavit. Reuters could not reach him for comment.
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They are seeing if there are any links between these lone wolves. Allegedly.
Aspirations or something...
Anyone wanting on or off this list...well, you know.
Next, they'll be banning tin foil hats!!! Stock up on foil asap.
All the dates indicate this was AFTER the Boston Bombing, not before. What's the deal?
From the article seems there isn't much connection....
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