FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist "sleeper cell" linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar

Daily Mirror (UK) ^ | 21 April 2013 | Staff

[rjbemsha]

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 agents 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.”

[milford421]

At least a 12 strong terrorist sleeper cell imo. These officials, “we have no idea why this happened”

If one more news caster or politician calls these savages fellows or kids....how clueless can you be?

[milford421]

Thanks Lucy

[kabar]

I'm not so sure about that. Look how stupid these two were. The younger kid went back to college and was just hanging out. Looks like what freaked them out was when their pictures started being plastered all over the news and Internet. You would think that as soon as they planted the bombs they would have had a flight booked a week previous and have been on it flying out of the country before the dust had a chance to settle. Hard to believe that they wouldn't have been aware of cameras in the area that would probably have recorded the event. Not to mention people's personal cameras and cell phones. If they were that stupid, how smart are the people that trained them?

Yeah that's the ticket. These were just stupid, ill-trained amateurs trained by idiots. Tell that to the relatives of the the four who were killed, the 171 injured and maimed, and the one police officer still fighting for his life.

And just think of the hundreds of millions in costs expended by the taxpayers and in lost business as the city of Boston was shut down for a day.

This nonsense you are spouting seems similar to the disdain we had for the 9/11 terrorists--19 men with box cutters who have effectively changed our way of life and cost us hundreds of billions of dollars.

These guys were mere pawns, expendable just like a suicide bomber. It's results that count and they achieved their objective.

[headsonpikes]

Occasionally I feel that I have to prime the pump, as it were.

[azkathy]

This article actually gives names of people interviewed, etc. Our MSM are disgusting-no wonder people call them the lame stream media.

[unsycophant]

As usual.

[353FMG]

From a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” they will arrive at 144 sleeper cells and then who knows hom many more.

Islam, just as cancer, has metastasized in our country.

[DuncanWaring]

Strangers in a Strange Land?

[thegrump]

I think we’d be surprise who has, and does, smoke some weed now and then. Oh believe me, I would not be surprised (and my last post was sarcasm but I for got to mark it as such.)

[Vendome]

Give me the coordinates.

Game over

[MagnoliaB]

Quite the little know-it-all aren’t you? I see every time you comment to someone it’s always with insults and belittling of their intelligence and opinions. People like you have low self esteem and have to insult others to make yourself feel superior. If you are trying to impress others with your comments, you are defeating your purpose because you come across as an A1 jerk.

[PGalt]

That’s a very good link (#176), palmer. Some things in there I did not know. Thanks for posting.

[PGalt]

One question: what kind of a terror cell would have these two numbskulls in it? They carried out a bombing on national TV, and decided to not leave the city, or disguise themselves? I think this might be a case of the Feds thinking they are so smart, and only brilliant terror masterminds could outfox them.

Worth noting. Thanks, PghBaldy.

[PGalt]

Thanks for those links, Marvin and Fitzy_888 BUMP! $

[PGalt]

Politicians who have been sending out those pablum filled 'we are strengthened' BS messages today will be yielding to groups such as CAIR next week. Everyone will move on except the jihadists. They're here for however long it takes. Like Pelosi's progressives gnawing on the Constitution.

BTTT! and thanks for the links, MM

[MHGinTN]

I would like to know what happened to the guy in the pic at #250, toward the bottom of the crowd and left of center, wearing a red T-shirt with blue jacket over and holding a grey backpack on his right arm. No, I don’t think he was a wouldbe bomber, and I’m sure he didn’t think so either, but the fbi had somoeone they were about to parade before cameras at the courthouse then didn’t when pix of the actual bombers surfaced.

[PGalt]

Yeah, good question. I remember seeing him in several pics.

[Eleutheria5]

Since they have a number, it is reasonable to conjecture that the surviving brother has talked. If he dies now, does he have to make do with 72 technical virgins with knife scars who contracted herpes?

[Sacajaweau]

Since they have a number, it is reasonable conjecture that this was a sting operation gone bad.

[Eleutheria5]

That might also explain it. How does that possibility bode Tamerlan’s hopes for a decent lay in the hereafter?