THE BOSTON BOMBERS
AGAIN THIS ISN'T A MARITIME STORY BUT OUR DAILY MONITORING OF INTERNATIONAL MEDIA OFTEN BRINGS THINGS TO OUR ATTENTION THAT SIMPLY DON'T SEEM TO BE DRAWING MUCH AIR TIME OR INK IN THE U.S. NATIONAL MEDIA.
UK NEWS SOURCES, QUOTING THE FBI CLAIM BOMBERS WERE PART OF A 12 MEMBER CELL OF TERRORIST
We first caught this story in the UK MIRROR:
"MIRROR (UK)
21 Apr 2013
Police believe the pair were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack
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.”
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 University of Massachusetts student was caught on Friday after hiding out in a boat parked in a garden in locked down Watertown the day after a gun battle with police left his 26-year-old brother and a rookie cop dead."......
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.”
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 University of Massachusetts student was caught on Friday after hiding out in a boat parked in a garden in locked down Watertown the day after a gun battle with police left his 26-year-old brother and a rookie cop dead."......
Link to Full story: http://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2013/04/uk-mirror-fbi-hunting-a-12-strong-terrorist-sleeper-cell-connected-to-boston-bombers-42113-2487280.html
We note that the MIRROR indicates that they are looking for further corroboration on this story and that we could not find much in the way of American coverage over the week end. We again note that we are not a news organization per se. We monitor international news sources because we monitor the maritime world and that is a global subject area.. We have noticed in the year and half that we have been doing this that American news sources often seem to all carry the same stories and that when the American news day is compared to the international news day it seems America lives in a vacuum if you based your opinion on typical American news coverage. So we are simply linking you to this interesting item about a news story that seems to be dominating the American news at the moment, because we happened upon it and we didn't see much notice in the American news sources.
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