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Why Did the FBI Kill an Unarmed Man and Clam Up?
The Atlantic ^ | MAY 30 2013 | CONOR FRIEDERSDORF

Posted on 05/30/2013 8:26:01 AM PDT by forty_years

What led an FBI agent, or some other law enforcement official, to shoot and kill an unarmed man in Orlando, Florida? The man, Ibragim Todashev, was being questioned about the Boston bombing, as well as an unsolved 2011 triple murder that he may or may not have confessed to committing. Does that sound sketchy? Don't blame me. Once he died, law enforcement started releasing anonymous, conflicting explanations so dubious that they warrant an inquiry all by themselves.

Did the dead man have a knife? A gun? A sword? None of those? Let's run through a timeline of what we've been told, and then assess all the information that the FBI hasn't released about the killing. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bbfloridafriend; bbfriend; bbtriplemurder; boston; bostonbombing; conspiracy; coverup; fbi; ibragimtodashev; todashev; triplemurder
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To: Donnafrflorida

Two of the agents were practicing roping onto a ship at sea. They were part of the FBI’s hostage rescue team. Apparently, they fell off the ropes and were killed when they landed on the ship.


41 posted on 05/30/2013 9:48:46 AM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: forty_years

Massachusetts law enforcement said he had originally been a suspect in the Boston murders. So why was he being interviewed in an apartment? There were two Mass. State Troopers along with the agent. Certainly they could have taken him to a local law enforcement facility or FBI office to conduct an interview. This was bad planning from the beginning. Probably too lazy to do the job right.


42 posted on 05/30/2013 9:59:51 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
"If he’s on top of an FBI agent pounding his face I’d put a couple of rounds in him."

I would have too, but poor George Zimmerman is going through hell because he did exactly that. I doubt we'll ever really know the truth about what happened in that apartment.

43 posted on 05/30/2013 10:02:24 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: forty_years
Even to the democRATs/liberals/marxists/progressives (sorry for being redundant), doesn't this 0bama regime scare even you? Shite, none of the federal agencies can keep their stories straight.

If you don't see there is a problem, or are cheering on the 0bama regime, there will be a time of reckoning...trust me.

5.56mm

44 posted on 05/30/2013 10:03:48 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: forty_years

Something really stinks in this case. First they say the deceased lunges at a feebie with a knife, then they say he was unarmed. They say at least six law enforcement people involved in interrogation which had gone on for several hours. Why wasn’t the suspect brought to a law enforcement facility? Why wasn’t he properly secured. If local cops shoot an unarmed suspect or the shooting is otherwise questionable the case goes to a grand jury this case cries out for a grand jury to learn the facts. We all know dead men tell no tales. Were they trying to scare him into confessing via a “Russian roulette” scenario? With the DOJ, FBI, State Dept et al out of control, and not trusted, the people need to know what happened.


45 posted on 05/30/2013 10:06:50 AM PDT by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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To: forty_years

Cuz the FBI mistook him for a ‘threatening’ dog??


46 posted on 05/30/2013 10:09:16 AM PDT by yadent
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To: yadent

Ahhhh, the “woof, woof” defense?


47 posted on 05/30/2013 10:32:37 AM PDT by biff (WAS)
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To: forty_years

Even tho’ I’m pretty sure this guy was a jihadi sympathizer, if not in fact a co-conspirator, I have to say this story kind of stinks.

If they just screwed up, why don’t they admit it?

LEOs interrogate dangerous people every day, I can’t remember another story where the questionee got killed.


48 posted on 05/30/2013 10:37:58 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

And a lawyer.


49 posted on 05/30/2013 10:39:23 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: Cicero

“Probably the same reason that they seem to have pushed two FBI agents involved in the case out of a helicopter to drown at sea.”

Please give us some more info on this!


50 posted on 05/30/2013 10:40:31 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Because dead men tell no tales...

Did they bury him at sea?

51 posted on 05/30/2013 10:47:15 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
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To: mass55th

The state of affairs is pretty sorry.


52 posted on 05/30/2013 10:47:47 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: forty_years
Why Did the FBI Kill Murder an Unarmed Man and Clam Up?

Fixed it.

53 posted on 05/30/2013 10:54:22 AM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: jocon307

Here’s one story:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-19/local/39376664_1_fbi-academy-virginia-beach-agents

Other reports said that they were involved in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Of course, it’s pure speculation that they were ordered killed. But it’s a curious coincidence, so close to the Boston bombing. And, FWIW, it bears a resemblance to the deaths of many of the Seal Team 6 members who were involved with the bin Ladin business.


54 posted on 05/30/2013 11:24:29 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: biff

Yeah, that’s fair enough.


55 posted on 05/30/2013 11:33:45 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: Cicero

I don’t know, people do die in these training exercises. I’m sorry, but I can’t say I’m persuaded regarding these two agents, may they rest in peace.

But there is something fishy about this whole marathon situation, like there is something extremely fishy about Benghazi.

While I do believe Obama was born in Hawaii, aside from that I’m ready to believe almost anything about this America-hating, terrorist-friendly, totally creepy man.

I’d just like to know what he was doing while our ambassador (his friend!) was being murdered; why they felt it was necessary to cook up that cockamamie video cover story; why no lib is outraged that the admittedly shady “filmmaker” was tossed back in the clink double-time; and why explosive sniffing dogs did not detect the explosives at the marathon.

Oh yeah, I’d also like to know why congress hasn’t questioned the classification of the Fort Hood attack as “workplace violence”.

Is it all really just incompetence and garden variety corruption, the lust for power, etc.? Or is there something worse going on here?

You see what I did, I rejected your conspiracy theory and substituted several of my own.

Eh, that was a little sneaky of me, I apologize!


56 posted on 05/30/2013 12:22:18 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: molson209
FBI Assassin Squads ? FBI Cleanup Squads ?

Highly doubtful what with there being so many people around and at least one friend waiting for him. Despite it being inside the apartment, it was still too public and too many people knew what was going on inside. He had a violent streak and had just knocked a guy's teeth out in a fight over a parking lot at the mall a few days before. He was a punk. I don't have a problem with the story changing from a knife to a sword as it could be the same. The guy was already in a state of mind going into the interview so that he was ready to strike. IMO, the msm is trying to spin this. I don't see the Chechyan community out protesting or roiting or tossing pressure cooker bombs at Disney tourists so they don't seem too upset over his demise.

57 posted on 05/30/2013 1:52:05 PM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: ZX12R
Why wouldn't law enforcement take him to a police facility for interviewing? Especially after someone claims he confessed about the triple murders.

It could be that they were getting ready to handcuff him and take him downtown when he decided he wasn't going to go.

He was interviewed for 8 hours?!? Have you not been reading any of these articles? Try in the neighborhood of 3 hours.

58 posted on 05/30/2013 2:01:43 PM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

THAT’S CORRECT..... KILL THE OLDER, MIRANDIZE AND LAWYER UP THE YOUNGER AND KILL THIS LAST ONE. When will we be told the TRUTH? Not by this corrupt, halfassed imept regime...


59 posted on 05/30/2013 2:47:09 PM PDT by zzwhale
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