FBI now hunting 12 strong sleeper Islamic terrorist cell

Confirmed. 12 strong terrorist Islamic sleeper cell.

<B>Boston Marathon Bombings: FBI Hunts Terror 'Sleeper Cell' Linked to Tsarnaev Brothers</B>
By TIMUR MOON: | April 21, 2013 11:16 AM GMT

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 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. It also emerged the Bureau interviewed Tamerlan two years ago, at the request of the Russian government, but could not establish that he had ties to terrorist radicals.

This was despite his worrying Russian-language YouTube page featuring links to extremist Islamic sites and others since taken down by YouTube.

One link showed an hour-long speech by an Islamic teacher called Shaykh Feiz Mohammed, while other videos are labled “Terrorists” and “Islam”. The radical cleric, with links to extremist British Muslims, encouraged his followers to become martyrs for Islam. He said: “Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid.”

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I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

Givne all the extraordinary powers at the disposal of the FBI and DHS, wouldn't it have been a good idea to monitor these brothers' communications? Maybe conduct a couple of unannounced searches when they were away?

I mean, it wasn't like they were just two goofy guys on FB or Youtube that some dragnet monitoring progran turned up. If the Russian went to the trouble to give us a headsup, seems like that would at least indicate there was something to it, even if the FBI interrogation came up empty.

Of course, this was the same FBI that didn't see anything unusual about a bunch of Saudis learning to fly jetliners.

 

And this blame can be laid on the deck at Slick Willy's feet!!! I served under him, and if you knew what I know...