Two years ago, the FBI received a tip that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a radicalised Islamicist

[Nye Bevan]

The FBI's big miss: Boston bombing fugitive shot dead was on radar two years ago

Two years ago, the FBI received a tip from a foreign government that Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a radicalised Islamicist. The bureau investigated, and found no evidence to support the claim. Last Monday, it found out - too late - that it was all too lethally true.

Major questions about US security and intelligence services were raised last night after it was revealed that the elder of the two apparent Boston bombers had been investigated as a possible Islamist terrorist two years ago, but was not deemed worthy of further attention.

The FBI has said that in 2011, at the request of a foreign government it did not name, it interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed on Thursday night after he and his brother hijacked a car in an attempt to break out of the military and police cordon around parts of Boston. A bureau statement said the request "was based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country's region to join unspecified underground groups". It is believed that the request was made by Russia.

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Tamerlan had, according to several relatives, become a far more devout Muslim in recent years, praying five times a day and criticising the US from a religious point of view. The YouTube channel "Tamerlan Tsarnaev" has nearly 700 subscribers, and shows Islamist videos. One playlist is called "Terrorists" and contained two videos, now removed. The other, "Islam", features seven videos, including "The Emergence of Prophecy: The Black Flags From Khorasan", which has been linked to jihadist ideology.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-fbis-big-miss-boston-bombing-fugitive-shot-dead-was-on-radar-two-years-ago-8581570.html

[Heather MC]

1. How is this a Miss, According to the article?

aside from speaking to him. what could they have done to him?

At that point he had not committed a crime. And if hating the Government was crime, well we would need a lot more jails

[Warpy]

2. They probably combed through his phone records,

looked at his Twitter and Facebook accounts, and took a cursory look at his finances. There's not much else they can do besides surveillance, something that also would have come up empty since it seems he was very circumspect.

All the evidence pointed to the younger brother as a slacker who'd hang with high school acquaintances, smoke pot and talk sports and that was it.

[rustydog]

3. Guilty until proven innocent? We also paid 25-thousand bucks per person

for alleged terrorists in Afghanistan and then tortured civilians who were mainly just enemies of those who turned them in for the 25 grand...
Russia gave the tip I believe. How many American terrorists attacks has Russian intelligence thwarted? Just asking. There sure is a whole lot of speculation...All we have to do is wait for the remaining suspect to survive, be questioned LEGALLY and tried in a court of law.

Then we may know the truth. Everything else is clutter thrown up as news.