Exclusive: The Awlaki/Tsarnaev Connection

The Daily Beast ^ | Apr 26, 2013 5:30 PM EDT | Daniel Klaidman

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators that he and his brother were influenced by the Internet sermons of the notorious preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, Daniel Klaidman reports. Plus: the feds now know who “Misha” is.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

H/T to Hot Air

[tsowellfan]

One reason the FBI may not have probed more aggressively, according to a U.S. official who has been briefed on the case, is that the Russians never revealed the basis for their suspicions.

I thought that was the FBI's job

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Seems so to me.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping.

[cumbo78]

Sorry.....bulls..t article. Its the “look how Obama killed the guy who influenced them” cover that you will continue to see from a complicit media. The bottom line is, if Russia tips you off to a guy, you clear him, he goes BACK to Russia, returns, they call again, and now say that they had lost track of him? Please.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

He left behind a puzzle: Why did these two young men seemingly turn on the country that had granted them asylum?

"Seemingly"?? A "puzzle"??

I found the answer: The Boston Marathon bombing -- The FBI investigates

[Houghton M.]

So, who is Misha? Curious minds wish to know. Don’t keep me in suspense.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Hmmm. He knew 15 hours ago (or more). JΞSTΞR™ ‏@th3j35t3r 15h The person known as 'Misha' - who may have radicalized the Tsarnaev brothers has now been identified.

[Amberdawn]

There does happen to be a small Armenian contingent living in Chechnya. I wonder if this “Misha” as*hole isn’t a convert from there...

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping

[Doogle]

..remember now, we were told, NO OVERSEAS CONNECTION

[TigersEye]

I thought that was the FBI's job

Yes, it was. I guess they thought it was the FSB's job to hand everything to them on a silver platter. How tough would it have been to look at Tamerlan's Amazon wish list page?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yeah, no kidding! And those picks on his list were from 2006-2007.

[penelopesire]

Boston Bombing Ping!

Thanks Jet!

[TigersEye]

Yep, the info has been sitting there on Amazon’s public server for years. The picture it paints doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to understand.

[txhurl]

So who is Misha, again? Is it in the article?

[AllAmericanGirl44]

“Less than a year later, he masterminded the package bomb plot, in which AQAP managed to place improvised bombs on cargo planes headed to the United States. (They were intercepted as a result of a tip by Saudi intelligence.)”

Is this part of the on going war between the Saudi’s and al qaeda?

I agree with what you guys are asking, if the Russians didn’t share the WHY of their concerns, why did our FBI drop it?

I get the sense that Anwar al-Awlaki was great at getting people angry enough to try something, but maybe not so great at execution - scratch that, he did succeed with Hasan, but then they backpedal saying he didn’t know about Hasan’s intentions. What??

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Hasn’t been revealed yet.

[Lady Jag]

Are they only spying on keeping track of us who were born here?

[KC_Lion]

Pay no Attention to Saudi Money Connections to that Damn Boston Mosque, which in-turn has Muslim Brotherhood board of trustee's, who are of course, a largely secular group backed by the Ubama Regime.

Cause you know, Glenn Beck said that and he is Cwazy!!!!!