◼ Amazing New Details from the Chase for the Boston Bombers - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard
The police chief, Edward Deveau, describes how cops nearly apprehended the older suspect, and were placing handcuffs on him in the middle of the street Thursday night, when the younger suspect came at officers in a carjacked SUV. The cops were able "to dive out of the way," and the younger suspect then continued to drive directly over his brother and dragging him through the street. That's how the older suspect died, according to the police chief.
◼ Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - Christopher Bucktin, Andy Lines/The Mirror
...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.....”
◼ Jake Tapper hearing ‘crickets’ from FBI over Tamerlan Tsarnaev inquiry; House committee to seek answers - Twitchy
Intel source tells me it's "rare" for Russians to reach out like that, to ask FBI to look into someone as they did with Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 21, 2013
We don’t know who Tapper’s source is, but we have no problem believing it would be rare for Russia to enlist the help of the FBI unless there were a clear security threat to either nation. In the meantime, CNN is reporting that the House Homeland Security Committee is going to press the Obama administration for answers.
◼ Caught just in time: 'Bombers were about to plant MORE devices but plot was spoiled by release of CCTV photos' - SNEJANA FARBEROV, DAILY MAIL REPORTER and JAMES NYE/Daily Mail
◼ The Boston bombers were reportedly planning more attacks across the city
◼ However, the released of the photographs of the suspects 'forced them out of their hideout'
◼ Footage released on Saturday shows Dzhokhar Tsranaev laying flat under a tarp in a boat. Police used a robot to pull the tarp off the boat
◼ Police tracked him with thermal imaging cameras and engaged him in a furious exchange of gun-fire that began shortly after 7pm
◼ Stand-off continued until 8:45pm when Tsarnaev surrendered
◼ Dzhokhar has been hospitalized at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is 'intubated and sedated' and cannot yet speak
◼ Tamerlan Tsarnaev had injuries from head to toe and all limbs intact when he arrived at the hospital. He died early on Friday
◼ The Mystery Of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Trip To Dagestan - Adam Taylor/Business Insider
◼ The ‘Co-exist’ Bombers - Mark Steyn/National Review
◼ The Blair-Glass ‘Sleeper Cell’ — British Tabloid Fabricates a Phony Scoop - The Other McCain
