Posted on 04/21/2013 7:50:56 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
The UK Daily Mirror is reporting that the FBI is hunting a 12-person sleeper cell connected to the Boston marathon terrorists:
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 tone of the coverage in America's press is quite different -- more soothing, shall we say. For example, a headline from today's Boston Globe reads: "Islam might have had a secondary role in Boston attacks."
So which is it? Obviously, it's almost inconceivable that America's press would miss a story of this dimension -- and the Mirror is a down-market tabloid. On the other hand, tabloids have beaten the "respectable" press to many big stories, including, for instance, the whole John Edwards scandal. And it's obvious the MSM has gone soft in the Age of Obama.
Linking this story, Hugh Hewitt's (@hughhewitt) had the most pungent assessment: "Either UK's Mirror makes stuff up or the MSM is in complete collapse." Once, the answer would have been clear. These days, it isn't.
Glen Beck lost practically all credibility with me long ago. I honestly believe he has mental problems, and have said numerous times he’s going to discredit the entire conservative alternate media with some highly visible meltdown at some point.
If he doesn’t have anything of import and ends up just farting dust like so many times in the past, this will be that point. I am not encouraged by the whole “Stay Tuned! Details at 11!!” ad revenue hype.
We’ll see soon enough, I guess.
I think that was just youthful naivete and arrogance. How many times do we hear about young people posting videos or photos online that end up getting them arrested? They live their lives publicly through facebook, etc., yet think they have total privacy. As to the sophistication of the bombs....I'm an electrical engineer, so I'm a little biased, but using an RC toy as a transmitter/receiver remote trigger is about as basic as it gets. In fact, I'm surprised that the bombs didn't false trigger with such a cheap setup, more evidence to me that the bomb builders really didn't have much of a clue as to what they were building.
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Lack of sophistication aside, is it possible an RC remote was chosen over the apparently more typical and stable disposable cell phone in order to avoid counterterrorism measures such as shutting down cell networks? That would explain closer physical presence, too.
Obviously, the author of the above doesn't understand how false and biased America's press has become.
“Democrats are Democrats first.....being an American is way down on their list.”
So very, very, very true.
Bugs Bunny in that exact pose you posted was painted on the side of my Dad’s B-24 bomber during WWII.
I would have a hard time picking off a point in the phone circuitry and using it to ignite the bomb. I don’t know if the phone battery would be enough juice to fire the igniter; that would depend on the igniter. IMO, it would take some experimentation to get the circuit right. Not impossible, but it would take some electronics skill to get it right. With an RC car, however, just take the two wires connected to the axle motor and connect them to the igniter. Done. BTW, I’m not an expert in building bombs or bomb electronics. I’m just a simple EE speculating on how easily it could be McGuyvered.
They say he can’t talk because he shot himself in the throat.
Mabe they can use sign language or he can write down answers.
They all work for the House of Saud.
Here is my guess at what happened. They were planning some type of false flag gun shooting terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. The Chechs were being recruited and funded by the Sauds, who were working with the Feds. They were going to run a sting operation where the Sauds turned on the Chechens after the Chechens opened fire on the crowds. These two white looking Chechens, would later be labeled as home grown white right wing terrorist. Who obviously hate runners and left wing Bostonians. If that had occurred, the gun legislation would have passed. Only needed 6 senators to turn at most.
The Chechens learn that the Sauds are setting them up. So they decide to run the Pressure Cooker bombing run right under the Sting Operations noses. They assumed that the Sauds would be fingered. And they may have even had accomplices helping push the Sauds are guilty story. Moral of the story, don't mess with Russians. Even terrorist Russians.
Not sure if your guess is right - only time will tell - but those last sentences are.
Was he a member of the Lucky Bastards Club?
Guess he musta been on account of you're here to post on FR!
;)
Yes, he was. 50 missions in the Pacific Theater against the Japanese including the Battle of the Bismark Sea and a Jap Zero clipping his plane after firing numerous rounds at my Dad’s B-24.
I read once that the average life span of a B-24 crewmember was eight missions. To make it into the LBC, I thought you needed 25.
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