Posted on 04/21/2013 1:13:58 PM PDT by Steelfish
FBI Was Warned 2 Years Ago of Alleged Bombers Radical Shift
By Mark Arsenault, Bryan Bender, Milton J. Valencia and Maria Cramer
Russian authorities warned the FBI in early 2011 that suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have been a follower of radical Islam, a revelation that raised new questions in Congress on Saturday about whether the Boston Marathon attacks that killed three and wounded more than 170 could have been prevented.
A senior congressional aide privy to the Boston Marathon terror investigation confirmed Saturday that the FBI received the warning after Tsarnaevs apparently suspicious activities caught the attention of Russian authorities keeping close surveillance on militant Islamist groups in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union.
The FBI acknowledged Friday that it had investigated Tsarnaev in 2011, even interviewing him and his family, but did not find any terrorism activity, either domestic or foreign.
The FBI had this guy on the radar and somehow he fell off, said the congressional aide, who said oversight committees on Capitol Hill are seeking answers from counterterrorism officials. We heard for several days leading up to this there was no intelligence. Now we know there could have been intelligence.
Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in a firefight with police in Watertown early Friday morning, had traveled from Boston to Russia several times in recent years, including an extended stay in 2012, according to multiple US officials who have reviewed his passport file.
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Gleefully jamming a rock in the switch lever mechanism to assure this train wreck would happen.
And not in slow motion, either.
Not saying this was a "Reichstag fire" incident, but the regime was in an awful hurry to throw suspicion on "angry white guys".
Kind of what they got with the "Caucasian" Brothers Tsarnaev.
And yet nominally Republican Senators like Marco Rubio and Rand Paul continue to urge us to surrender out country to non-citizens about whom we know nothing, just because they slipped in over the border or overstayed their visas. Disgusting.
By “regime” I presume you’re including the Ministry of Truth.
No way would Bush have let this happen.
Speaking of Hellary notice we haven’t heard a peep out of her about this terrorist attack. Benghazi keeping her lips sealed? You betchya!
Hasan the muzzie got away with it. This Muzzie got away with it.
Russia is laughing their a** off.
Obama is an embarrassment and WE THE PEOPLE paid the price.
Obama refuses to participate with the daily security briefings because they are in most all about Islamic terrorism.
Fed Govt epic fail! Yet, Bostonians stood and applauded them. I just don’t understand some people.
I’m looking at white cap...and the bald guy right in front of him in the direction of travel. Just something about him. I’m going to look for him in the picture where white cap turns the corner.
I can hear the shredder from here.
Something's wrong.
It smells of a sting gone bad.
Remember that the FBI is tone deaf to radical Islam by edict of Dear Leader. As Marx taught, everything, absolutely everything is political to the left. The only absolute truth is Marxism and everything thought and activity must support it or be destroyed.
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The FBI must have been busy tracking Christians and veterans.
Just remember what 0bama told Medvyevdev: “Tell Vladimir that I’ll have more flexibility after I’m re-elected”.
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