Posted on 04/29/2013 11:00:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The timing certainly looks … intriguing. On Sunday morning, Russian forces raided the compound of an Islamist network once run by Abu Dujan in the Caucasus — a leader whose videos were in Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s YouTube page. The raid killed the brother of the current leader:
It could also be a coincidence. Nick Paton Walsh reports for CNN that the Russians have been conducting these raids for months in an effort to tamp down Islamist activities in the Caucasus. The Russians aren’t drawing a connection between the two cases, at least not publicly. However, Abu Dujan’s network operated in Dagestan at the same time that Tamerlan came to Russia for six months, and shortly thereafter Tamerlan began highlighting their videos.
In the meantime, the Sunday talk shows focused more on the investigations here at home, both before and after the Boston Marathon bombing. Lindsay Graham pointed the finger at the FBI during his interview on CBS’ Face the Nation, saying that pre-9/11 “stovepiping” had returned:
Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies failed to link critical pieces of information before the attack that might have stopped the suspects in their tracks, several legislators insisted on Sunday.
“I think information sharing failed,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation”, describing the lack of inter-agency communication that allowed bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev to slip through the cracks, warning, “We’re going back to the pre-9/11 stove-piping” and “we’re going to have to up our game.”
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Whoa.
Interesting!
Nothing surprises me any more.
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There are times when I really enjoy the Russian approach to Islamic terrorism.
Many years ago, several American hostages were taken in Beirut, Lebanon, and held for a great length of time while Washington dithered. Having what they thought of as success in this, the kidnappers decided to kidnap four Russians.
Bad idea. The Russians immediately dispatched several stone killers, and the first thing they did was to “counter-kidnap” the spiritual leader of the group responsible. And then send a few small pieces of him by courier to the kidnapper group, with promises of more pieces, later.
The kidnappers response was to not only release the Russian hostages, but to drive them to the gates of the Russian embassy, while begging them to please tell the other Russians to “stop cutting.”
Russians seem to have a good grasp of reality, untempered with foolish sentiment, at times.
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