Posted on 04/21/2013 5:52:39 PM PDT by drewh
The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.
Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.
More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday.
A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people learn from Google.
“They were too advanced. Someone gave the brothers the skills and it is now our job to find out just who they were. Agents think the sleeper cell has up to a dozen members and has been waiting several years for their day to come.”
A specialist team of CIA and FBI interrogators was yesterday flown to a Boston hospital to grill wounded Dzhokhar, 19, about the secret group. The University of Massachusetts student was caught on Friday after hiding out in a boat parked in a garden in locked down Watertown the day after a gun battle with police left his 26-year-old brother and a rookie cop dead.
Dzhokhar is said to have run his brother over as he escaped in a stolen car while Tamerlan lay handcuffed on the ground. They were carrying six bombs with them at the time, three of which exploded, as well as a handgun and rifle.
Last night Dzhokhar – badly wounded but alive – lay handcuffed to his hospital bed under armed guard. The other three arrested in the port of New Bedford are also believed to be of college age.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
You know how dogs have different temperaments, depending on the breed? It wouldn't surprise me if Chechens were born with the temperaments of stone killers.
Good point. I look at these bombers as determined amateurs. They were good enough to do what it took to pull off the attack and that's where it stops.
Amateur terror cells, incited by generalized rhetoric from jihadist websites, in poor communication with any central structure.
That's what we have in our country right now after over a decade of taking it to AQ overseas, but doing nothing about it here.
So what's your point?
Same as it was before, that this was probably a Muslim version of James Holmes, with a partial Islamist motivation. Partial because they did not go around whacking any civilian they could lay their hands on, the way thoroughly indoctrinated Islamist pros have done in pretty much every attack they've mounted.
Which brings up another question: Why was the father able to go back to Russia for extended visits?
The family came here seeking political asylum - yet they were able to return to Russia repeatedly? Looks like they lied.
Same as it was before, that this was probably a Muslim version of James Holmes, with a partial Islamist motivation. Partial because they did not go around whacking any civilian they could lay their hands on, the way thoroughly indoctrinated Islamist pros have done in pretty much every attack they've mounted.
We have seen the links on their web pages. They were apparently buying into radical Islam. I don't see any other motivation for what they did other than a radical Islam. If you can identify another motivation, have at it.
And saying that they didn't whack every citizen that they could get their hands on doesn't make your point about their motivation.
Again what we have in this country now our numerous "amateur" jihadists, incited by generalized words on radical websites. They make their make their own "amateur" plans and they carry them out.
It's the new AQ paradigm, for now.
Kahlua at the bar!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.