Posted on 04/16/2013 2:22:56 PM PDT by Fred
FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers told reporters Tuesday, April 16, that the probe had no leads 18 hours after two explosions blew up at the annual Boston Marathon’s finishing line, killing three people and injuring 176 – 17 critically. debkafile’s counterterrorism sources can disclose however that the investigation has in fact homed in on a suspected terror cell of three Saudi nationals, very possibly tied to Al Qaeda. The flat they share in the Revere, Massachusetts, near Boston, was searched after the questioning of one of the suspects, a Saudi student, who was hospitalized with badly burned hands. One of his flatmates was taken into custody over “visa problems.” A third is on the run. All three hail from a prominent Saudi family belonging to a tribe from the Asir province bordering on Yemen.
The search for the wanted man led to the grounding of a plane at Logan International Airport Tuesday. The investigation has meanwhile broadened out to places in and outside Boston in a search for the cell’s accomplices.
The origins of the Saudi cell, if confirmed, strongly suggest that Al Qaeda of Arabia – AQAP –succeeded in planting a cell in the United States for the bombing attack in Boston – and possibly more than one in other parts of the US. Asir Province is known as a hotbed of resistance to the Saudi throne in Riyadh.
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Might explain American Airlines shut down of all domestic and international flights? They are trying to prevent the Saudi perps flight home.
Hmm, Debka or our own gov? I’ll go with Debka.
Where’s that old map of all the cells in the US? I’d imagine these days it’d be easier to mark the areas without cells.
They have NO interest in the American people knowing that islamists attacked us and have EVERY reason to want the news media spreading misinformation about right wing terrorism.
And they have no reason to fear a watchdog press.
Could not have said it better
Are you saying that none of his family knew what he was up to?
Other than that he was a radical Islamist who thought they were decadent westernized and deserving of death, no.
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