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Posted on 04/20/2013 7:21:35 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Federal law enforcement officials are actively investigating the possibility that the Boston bombers were known to the government’s terror-trackers, MailOnline understands.
Any inquiry into the marathon bombing will look into whether agents could have taken action – but didn’t – to prevent the Tsarnaev brothers from obtaining the explosives that killed 3 and wounded 173 others.
CBS News reported Friday evening that two years ago, the FBI interviewed the elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in Thursday night's dramatic shootout. The feds reportedly spoke to him at the request of an unspecified foreign government, but couldn't establish that he had ties to terrorist radicals.
Tamerlan left the United States in January 2012 for Russia and returned in mid-July, according to records uncovered by NBC in New York.
But an official inside the Department of Homeland Security with knowledge of federal law enforcement activities in Massachusetts has claimed to MailOnline that Tamerlan was on the radar screen of agents in Boston between his return to the U.S. and the end of the fall.
A second source, formerly assigned to a U.S. JTTF, confirmed to MailOnline that ‘there is some very quiet discussion in the Boston JTTF about this.’
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The Homeland Security source told MailOnline that the FBI in Boston now believes Tamerlan was receiving assistance from an 'organized radical element' in Massachusetts. And agents are now reviewing at least one report from inside a mosque to see if they can identify Tamerlan’s associates in Boston's Muslim community.
Law enforcement at the federal level has 'practically nothing' on Dzhokhar, Tamerlan's younger brother,that source claimed.
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They can’t keep track of terrorists and blame conservatives of being terrorists and order billions of bullets? Which side is the government on.
These two were expendable delivery boys for a larger islamoterrorist group.
That should read 'radical Muslim element'.
Ha....Obambi punked by islamics ....(again)
The federal government orders ammunition, not bullets. Bullets are those little things that are launched by a firearm and fly through the air until they impact a target or ultimately fall to the ground.
Ammunition is a multitude of cartridges. Cartridges are composed of a shellcase, primer, bullet and propellant powder.
Bullets are to cartridges as flour is to bread as cement is to concrete, etc. When will you and the media ever learn?
If this guy was on their radar screen ever since he came back from Russia, why didn’t it dawn on them, when they got the video tape footage, that he suspect? He’s from the boston area! He fits the age range. Looks muslim. Why did they ask for public’s help in identifying this guy? They couldn’t they figure it out themselves?
Gross incompetance.
They outsmarted us. They knew our routine setups because there is no such thing as "Top Secret" in this country.
Massive Homeland Security Failure.
Obama and Napolitano spent their time and our tax money demonizing the Tea Party instead of protecting Americans from muslim terrorism.
further it should read: 'radical Muslim element from Menino's Mosque'.
I'm wondering why the authorities never got any credible leads from the Saudi imams at the Menino Mosque???
What -- they didn't recognize one of their most zealous members???
Surely the imams recognized Tamerlan after his picture was posted. Why didn't they call the police???
The feds must have suspected something was up. Otherwise, why the security sweeps beforehand at the beginning and finish line of the race?
They had to talk to Obama and tell him they were Muslims and Putin had notified them, too.
And so we heard the same damn statement as the Hasan farce..."Let's not come to any conclusions".
And now...Mr. Flipoff has declared the chapter closed.
He's nuts!!
the whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Otherwise, why the security sweeps beforehand at the beginning and finish line of the race?....SOP. And did the Feds do this or the local cops. Usually the local cops do the grunt work, so the Feds can point fingers and say”See? They F’ed up.”
A second source, formerly assigned to a U.S. JTTF, confirmed to MailOnline that ‘there is some very quiet discussion in the Boston JTTF about this.’
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Something along the lines of “Geez, what if they find out that we knew all about these guys but Obama told us not to ...”
Sure does....I’m waiting for Putin to speak in public and clean Obama’s clock....especially with the cr** we just pulled about certain people entering....which may be a big coverup, too.
The Feds are jealous that someone else got to supply the explosives. But seriously, what explosives are not tracked by the BATFE?
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