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Home Front: WoT
Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap
2013-04-29
[APNEWS.MYWAY] Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.

In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials said.

The conversations are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev family.

As it was, Russian authorities told the FBI only that they had concerns that Tamerlan and his mother were religious myrmidons. With no additional information, the FBI conducted a limited inquiry and closed the case in June 2011.

Two years later, authorities say Tamerlan and his brother, Dzhohkar, detonated two homemade bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 260. Tamerlan was killed in a police shootout and Dzhohkar is under arrest.

In the past week, Russian authorities turned over to the United States information it had on Tamerlan and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva. The Tsarnaevs are ethnic Chechens who emigrated from southern Russia to the Boston area over the past 11 years.

Even had the FBI received the information from the Russian wiretaps earlier, it's not clear that the government could have prevented the attack.
Or perhaps "would have" prevented the attack.
Posted by:Fred

#5  OOOPPPSIES, forgot LUCIANNE > ABC: "BUDGET CUTS" COULD DELAY BOSTON BOMBER TRIAL.

Sequester-ridden US surrendering to Tsarnaev Mullahs "Misha" + Feiz???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-04-29 23:27  

#4  I agree, Besoeker, but that bit of MSM-Net News is still in process.

* FYI MSN > [NBC News] COULD BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECT [Dzhokhar] AVOID THE DEATH PENALTY? TALKS HAVE BEEN STARTED?, for possible deal.

And so it begins.

* RUSSIA TODAY > SLAIN BOSTON SUSPECT TSARNAEV MAY HAD ATTENDED TERRORISM SEMINARS IN GEORGIA - REPORTS.

As sponsored by the KAVASKY FUND which sought to recruit North Caucasusians to covertly work in the interests of the US + Georgia [agz RUSSIA]???

WHICH MAY EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING ...

* TOPIX > WAS BOSTON BOMBERS' "UNCLE RUSLAN" WID THE US CIA?

* RELATED SAME > BOSTON BOMBERS' "UNCLE RUSLAN" WAS A HALLIBURTON CONTRACTOR.

* SAME > BOSTON BOMBERS' "UNCLE RUSLAN" MARRIED DAUGHTER OF TOP CIA OFFICIAL.

IIUC the above Artics are basically broadly alleging that the Brothers Tsarnaev + Bombing Event were part of a complex, violent, murderous US = CIA-controlled "false flag" operation agz a US City in order to falsely link to Radical's Islam + Islam's historical BFF Russia.

US MISINFORMATION + DISINFORMATION CONSPIRACY, CAMPAIGN AGZ ITS OWN PEOPLE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-04-29 23:01  

#3  As you are aware Joe, it was a highly contaminated blast site. I'm not certain the DNA will be that relevant. I'd rather learn more about the blasting cap [electrical, mechanical, whatever] or method of ignition and the financing.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-29 20:25  

#2  FOX NEWS this AM is repor that "FEMALE DNA" has been been found by Fed investigators on one of pressure cookers used by the Brothers Tsarnaev for their booms, + are now working to identify whose DNA it is.

At last check, the Fed desire to talk wid the Widow Tamerlan per the above - prolly safe to say the Sisters Tsarnaev will also be interviewed, as likely will Mommie Dearest/Jihadi by the Russians.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-04-29 20:17  

#1  That's it, we'll construct an Aypee short story that casts aspersions on Russian intelligence tips and leads. Following that we'll make sure the CIA provides "no comment" and that should just about wrap it up.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-29 00:30  

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