UPDATED: 08:02 EST, 1 May 2013
...Saudi Arabia sent a ‘written warning’ naming Tamerlan specifically, advising the federal government, (at the highest level)....they then sent the top guy (?) to meet personally with the president.
...The Intelligence was ‘very specific’ that ‘something was going to happen in a major U.S. city”.......Saudi officials believed American authorities should be inspecting packages that came to Tsarnaev in the mail in order to search for bomb-making components.
...Yemen-based sources said militants referred to Tamerlan dismissively as ‘The Volunteer.’......”He was a gung-ho, self motivated jihadi who wasn't tasked by a larger group”.
...The Pres. dismissed the idea that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was likely trained by al Qaeda while he was outside the United States last year.
...The written warning also allegedly named three Pakistanis who may be of interest to ‘British authorities’.... the two governments (Saudi/Britain)received the same information.
...Warning was based on human intelligence from Yemen, separate from the multiple red flags raised by Russian intelligence (in 2011)...
...Social networking ties brought Tsarnaev to the attention of Russian security services for the first time (in late 2010)
...Russian agents placed the Tsarnaev under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year (2012),.. then scrambled to find him when he suddenly disappeared (3 DAYS LATER) after police killed a Canadian jihadist.
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...Saudi government also denied Tamerlan an entry visa (Dec. 2011) to make a pilgrimage to Mecca....rejected application came (one month) before he traveled to Russia, where U.S. intelligence sources believe he acquired training enabling him to construct and detonate the bombs.
...A DHS official denied that the agency received any such warning from Saudi intelligence about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.......The White House took a similar view..... ‘We and other relevant U.S. government agencies have no record of such a letter being received,’... said Caitlin Hayden, a spokesperson for the president’s National Security Council.
...A Homeland Security ‘official confirmed’ the 2012 letter exists... saying he had heard of the Saudi communication .