“These relatively sophisticated devices would have been difficult for the Tsarnaevs to fabricate successfully without training or assistance from others.” What’s more, they were likely assembling the material for these bombs after the Russians notified the FBI that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a jihad terrorist. Yet it didn’t seem to occur to anyone in the clueless and politically correct FBI, which around that time was forbidden to study the motives and goals of jihad terrorists, as that was offensive to Muslim groups with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, to track the Tsarnaevs’ purchases to see if they were indeed assembling such material.
“FBI Feared Boston Bombers ‘Received Training’ and Aid from Terrorist Group, Docs Say,” 630WPRO.com, May 22, 2014:
(BOSTON) — Prosecutors seeking a death penalty conviction of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday said the FBI at the time of his arrest last year believed he and his brother Tamerlan had been trained by a terrorist group because of the sophistication of their weapons and tradecraft.
The Chechen immigrants are alleged to have built the two pressure cooker improvised explosive devices that detonated Monday, April 15, 2013 near the race’s finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 260 other marathon spectators.
“These relatively sophisticated devices would have been difficult for the Tsarnaevs to fabricate successfully without training or assistance from others,” the U.S. Justice Department said in a filing that opposed defense lawyers’ efforts to have Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s hospital bed confessions tossed out of the case.
Counterterrorism sources have said that investigators have been unable to find any hard evidence of any training or assistance.
But ABC News reported last month that many senior current and former counterterrorism officials — including former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, and former Joint IED Defeat Organization director Army Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero — remain skeptical that the Tsarnaevs built their bombs solely from instructions they found posted online.
A side-by-side comparison last year of the pressure cooker IED design found in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s 2010 debut issue of Inspire magazine with evidence collected in Boston showed significant differences in the design and construction, according to analysis by the FBI’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center, ABC News reported last month.
On Friday, April 19, the brothers allegedly murdered an MIT cop and then engaged in a street gunfight with Watertown police officers that left Tamerlan dead. Hours later, the badly wounded Dzhokar was captured hiding inside a boat in a driveway.
Searches afterward of their residences, vehicles and other places they had frequented found no trace of the fine black powder siphoned from fireworks that were used in their IEDs, “again strongly suggesting that others had built, or at least helped the Tsarnaevs build, the bombs,” the government filing stated.
Beyond the extraordinary skill required to build the pressure cooker bombs and three other types of rudimentary IEDs law enforcement sources say the Tsarnaevs threw at cops, the FBI saw the coordinated bombings, the recovery of only one of two remote-controlled switch-triggers used, and the rhetoric of Dzhokar’s statements scrawled inside the boat, all as hallmarks of al Qaeda, prosecutors recounted.
The brothers’ use of “burner” cell phones with interchangeable SIM cards was viewed as further evidence that suggested they possibly “had received training and direction from a terrorist group,” the court papers said.
The government did not say what investigators believe today.
The FBI has briefed officials on their conclusion that the brothers likely used only the Internet to research bombcraft, multiple officials have told ABC News. Many skeptical senior officials in counterterrorism, however, note that the FBI was hampered by the Russian FSB security service in probing Tamerlan’s 2012 trip to militant Islamist hotspots Chechnya and Dagestan, and that no one else has built the Inspire pressure cooker IED inside the U.S. homeland in the four years since the magazine’s “How to build a bomb in the kitchen of your mom” recipe was made public.
Law enforcement sources say the Tsarnaevs also distinguished themselves by building four separate IED designs — and used three types successfully, including pipe bombs and CO2 “cricket” grenades.
The FBI’s fear of a follow-on attack last year by unknown accomplices led agents to press the surviving Tsarnaev brother for information without reading him his Miranda rights under a national security exception and while he was lightly sedated, prosecutors explained to the court in Wednesday’s filing. Defense lawyers want his statements excluded from the case.
Interrogators questioned Tsarnaev 14 times over two days, taking breaks for rest, sleep and treatment periods, such as when they backed off questioning him for one 10 1/2-hour stretch. He admitted his involvement in the attacks to the FBI and denied there was a terror cell, the filing alleged….
Jay Boo says
“SELF RADICALIZED” — sound-bite
STEP 1
The Obama admin fed the news media their talking points.
The news media did a Blitz- Krieg with it.
NPR implied it must be some weird osmosis of radicalism.
STEP 2
Image of Islam repair
Muslims called for a peaceful “Vigil”
but where is their outrage against religious bigotry?
Have they forgotten the words “HATE CRIME?”
mortimer says
Obama is clueless. He thinks the Muslim Brotherhood is his friend. They have completely taken him in.
Rather than asking Islamic terror experts do the job, Obama has asked the terrorist-disguisers to create policy for the law-enforcement and intelligence communities. MADNESS. WILFUL BLINDNESS AND MADNESS.
The ‘Strategic Memorandum of the Group for North America’ (Muslim Brotherhood) should be memorized by EVERY security officer as a BASIS for understanding the jihadists infiltrating our societies. There is NO EXCUSE for not understanding jihad when there are well-researched people like Robert Spencer, Walid Shoebat, Ryan Mauro, Stephen Coughlin, Raymond Ibrahim and Bill Warner.
There is NO EXCUSE for the Obama government or the Dave Cameron government not understanding jihad.
pongidae rex says
The idea that you can effectively fight a war against a fanatical and violent ideology in the courts, giving their footsoldiers full constitutional protections, including release and cash awards in the event of aquittal, is not only absurd. It is obscene.
Jay Boo says
Your point is being proven now in Nigeria.
When the Nigerian government executed terrorists they were condemned by the same willfully ignorant appeasers of Islam.
Now the hostages are being used as pawns to free captured terrorists who should have been eliminated in the first place.
Even Dhimmi Britain completed a trial of the murderers of Lee Rigby in less ime while the US drags this on simply to attempt to AVOID THE POSSIBILITY of the DEATH PENALTY verdict (in my opinion)
Jay Boo says
Your point is being proven now in Nigeria.
When the Nigerian government executed terrorists they were condemned by the same willfully ignorant appeasers of Islam.
Now the hostages are being used as pawns to free captured terrorists who should have been eliminated in the first place.
Even Dhimmi Britain completed a trial of the murderers of Lee Rigby in less time while the US drags this on simply to attempt to AVOID THE POSSIBILITY of the DEATH PENALTY verdict (in my opinion)