Saudi terror cell, possibly al Qaeda, behind Boston Marathon bombings. Manhunt for escaped suspect DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis April 16, 2013, 7:45 PM
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Saudi terror cell, possibly al Qaeda, behind Boston Marathon bombings. Manhunt for escaped suspect
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis April 16, 2013, 7:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers told reporters Tuesday, April 16, that the probe had no leads 18 hours after two explosions blew up at the annual Boston Marathon’s finishing line, killing three people and injuring 176 – 17 critically. debkafile’s counterterrorism sources can disclose however that the investigation has in fact homed in on a suspected terror cell of three Saudi nationals, very possibly tied to Al Qaeda.
The flat they share in the Revere, Massachusetts, near Boston, was searched after the questioning of one of the suspects, a Saudi student, who was hospitalized with badly burned hands. One of his flatmates was taken into custody over “visa problems.” A third is on the run. All three hail from a prominent Saudi family belonging to a tribe from the Asir province bordering on Yemen.
The search for the wanted man led to the grounding of a plane at Logan International Airport Tuesday. The investigation has meanwhile broadened out to places in and outside Boston in a search for the cell’s accomplices.
The origins of the Saudi cell, if confirmed, strongly suggest that Al Qaeda of Arabia – AQAP –succeeded in planting a cell in the United States for the bombing attack in Boston – and possibly more than one in other parts of the US. Asir Province is known as a hotbed of resistance to the Saudi throne in Riyadh.
US law enforcement authorities in charge of the probe are refusing to confirm any suspects are in custody, or even leads to whoever carried out the bombings. President Barack Obama said in his second statement in 24 hours: “…we don’t know if who was behind the bombings were foreign, domestic or individual.” The President was forced to admit for the first time that the FBI was investigating “an act of terror.”
debkafile earlier Tuesday was alone in reporting that the FBI Boston Marathon probe pointed to Mid-East terrorists with domestic support.
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The lack of adequate security jumps to the eye after twin bombings struck the high-prestige Boston Marathon Monday, April 15, killing three people, including an 8-year old boy and injuring 140 – seventeen critically.
This was the world’s oldest annual marathon, with 28,000 runners representing athletes from every US state and more than 90 nations. Yet there was no sign of dogs along the route trained to sniff out explosives or a police helicopter overhead with sensors for detecting explosives or traces thereof on the person of anyone present around the finishing line after the blasts.
Tuesday morning, while interviewing witnesses and collecting photos taken by spectators, the Boston police and security officers announced they were seeking two wanted men: One was described as swarthy, speaking with a foreign accent, his face partially hidden by a hood, who was carrying a large backpack and kept on trying to enter a closed section near the finishing line. This was the first time an area was disclosed as having been closed to the public.
The second man was photographed by a spectator walking on a rooftop overlooking the finishing line after the second bomb exploded.
After the event, police searches turned up and defused another three explosive devices. Had that search taken place before the event, at least one of the lethal devices might have been discovered and the race aborted.
Tuesday, the FBI admitted “a potential terrorist inquiry” was underway, although President Barack Obama, when he pledged justice for “the perpetrators,” carefully skirted the term “terror.” This recalls his administration’s refusal to brand as an act of terror the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, and the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens, although it was clearly the work of an al Qaeda element.
Counterterrorism experts are equally certain of the Middle East terrorist hallmarks on the Boston Marathon bombings, although it is too soon to say whether it was the work of Al Qaeda or an allied radical jihadi group such as the Ansar al-Shariah, which was responsible for the Benghazi consulate in conjunction with a clandestine al Qaeda command center in Cairo.
Here, too, initial investigation discloses the hand of al Qaeda or an affiliate.
Ahead of the London marathon scheduled for next week and the state funeral of the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Wednesday, April 17, a determined official effort is being made in Washington and London to present the Boston bombings as the work of a lone wolf.
However, experts experienced in these matters maintain that an attack on this scale and of this type would have required four or five bombers on the ground and a support team of about 10 spotters and accomplices familiar with the terrain, further back. They would have needed more than one vehicle and communications gear, in addition to mobile phones which are easily tracked.
The two explosions, 400 meters apart, were obviously coordinated and designed to cause maximum casualties. The ball-bearings scattered across the crime scene and found in the pockets of some of the casualties were familiar to Israelis and others and telling evidence of Middle East terrorist authorship.
The explosive device which caused such havoc and agony was small yet deadly – another pointer to the “professionalism” of the attackers. A similar device was discovered in time three years ago in a bomb-rigged car parked in Times Square New York and left there by the Pakistani student Faisal Shahzad.
Unlike the president, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had no compunctions about putting into words the general suspicion. Straight after the event, she said, “My understanding is that it’s a terrorist incident” – although it is too soon to say whether it was carried out by a foreign or domestic element.
Suspicion of a foreign hand was strengthened when the US media reported that a Saudi national suffering from severe burns was being questioned in hospital. The Boston Police Department denied the report and the FBI, now in charge of the case, said that no one has so far been taken into custody. They did not deny questioning “persons of interest.”
The first response to the explosions in Boston from Middle East itself came from Mohammad al-Chalabi the head of an extremist Jordanian Muslim Salafi group, who said he’s “happy to see the horror in America…American blood isn’t more precious than Muslim blood,” he said. “Let the Americans feel the pain we endured by their armies occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and killing our people there.”
A Mideast counterterrorism official based in Jordan said the blasts “carry the hallmark of an organized terrorist group, like al-Qaeda.”
National Guard forces were streaming Tuesday into Boston in long convoys of armored Humvees.
Boston residents are in for upsets from the massive security measures that will continue throughout the week, as the area of the bombings is declared a crime scene and kept under lockdown; law enforcement officials patrol the streets and carry out random bag checks; and transport services are delayed.
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April 16th, 2013 @ 3:31 pm
Someone needs to investigate DHS!
Why?
Why fast track Saudis?
Why?
Why allow knives back on planes?
Why?
Why release 73,000 illegal felons instead of deporting them?
Why?
Is DHS allowing the public to be harmed?
Why?
Why were there dogs sniffing at the marathon?
Why?
Why tell folks it is only a drill and not cancel the marathon?
Why?
They wanted this to happen..
Why?
They know why???
Why are FBI, CIA, DHS, ICE, investigating this and putting resources to track down the bomber when the inept danger is present in the white house who did not want to call this a terrorist event with forged documents they can easily obtain in 5 minutes???
Any fool can see it is a terrorist event when you have bombs go off.
Just like the world trade center. When the second plane hit, any fool knows it is a terrorist event.
Even the “forth” graders know this. But alas..
Why?
Why allow muslim brotherhood to dictate military programs and DHS directives to call Catholics, Evangelicals terrorists??
Why??
They know why???
Unfortunately we can’t police the police state to show their negligience of complicity in these events..
April 16th, 2013 @ 3:31 pm
Someone needs to investigate DHS!
Why?
Why fast track Saudis?
Why?
Why allow knives back on planes?
Why?
Why release 73,000 illegal felons instead of deporting them?
Why?
Is DHS allowing the public to be harmed?
Why?
Why were there dogs sniffing at the marathon?
Why?
Why tell folks it is only a drill and not cancel the marathon?
Why?
They wanted this to happen..
Why?
They know why???
Why are FBI, CIA, DHS, ICE, investigating this and putting resources to track down the bomber when the inept danger is present in the white house who did not want to call this a terrorist event with forged documents they can easily obtain in 5 minutes???
Any fool can see it is a terrorist event when you have bombs go off.
Just like the world trade center. When the second plane hit, any fool knows it is a terrorist event.
Even the “forth” graders know this. But alas..
Why?
Why allow muslim brotherhood to dictate military programs and DHS directives to call Catholics, Evangelicals terrorists??
Why??
They know why???
Unfortunately we can’t police the police state to show their negligience of complicity in these events..
April 16th, 2013 @ 4:08 pm
Wasn’t reported just some weeks ago that Obama had once again given Saudi Nationals free entrance to the USA without security checks, because he said that they were safe and not a threat to the USA?
April 16th, 2013 @ 4:12 pm
there has always been a solution for this type of terrorists..
if we can find out where these idiots are, it means some country has declaired war on us..
so simply go and blow the hell out of the government and especially its leader.. then pick up our toys and come back home.. and leave a sign at the border LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE..
a couple of times like that i and i am sure things will go back to normal
will
April 16th, 2013 @ 4:53 pm
Why is Big Sis saying there is no “broader plot?”
April 16th, 2013 @ 5:09 pm
Pressure cooker bomb what a hoot. It had directional sophistication. Don’t be fooled, it was Al-cia-da and cointelpro has been hard at work trying to say it was a hoax bombing using fake movie blood with paid amputee actors. They’re trying to be clever with their misinformation’s routines to discredit the Sandy Hook massacre that was proven a hoax using paid crisis actors. The mind of a sociopath deep in the chess moves of land conquering. A communist usurper has infiltrated, raped and robbed America and his only task at hand is to circumvent the constitution and remove all guns, accessories, gunpowder, and primers. After the gun confiscations the American people won’t be able to defend against the 24/7/365 communist hardcore tyranny. If the land conquering infiltration is allowed to continue America will become the north American union part of the new world order ruled by one world u.n. communist government. The Pawns were taken by fear, the Bishops advanced for an arrest but got pressure-cooked, now it’s the knights move, in the end obama won’t be the standing king, watch, the American people are the boss of America, and obama is the servant that needs a spanking because he’s been a real bad boy along with his buddies “we don’t want the rich people mad at us” foreign banker billionaires.
April 16th, 2013 @ 5:46 pm
After the experience of 9/11, why does the State Department keeps giving student visas to Saudi nationals ?
Are we stupid ?
April 16th, 2013 @ 6:11 pm
Former PLO Member, Walid Shoebat ~> https://shoebat.com/2013/04/16/2012-al-qaeda-called-for-bombing-sporting-events/
Talking with Michael Savage at this time (10:00 PM EST, 4/16/13). Confident Saudi nationalist is responsible for Boston bombing. Says will be swept under rug just like Benghazi. Administration does NOT want to be associated with them.
April 16th, 2013 @ 7:06 pm
A Saudi paid at least part of Obama’s Harvard tuition. Why? Obama keeps letting in Muslims and intends to have many more come. Why?It is because Obama is himself a Muslim. The Muslims believe he is using the tactic of lying to non-Muslims which is why a fatwa was not issued on him for his”conversion” to Christianity.
April 16th, 2013 @ 7:36 pm
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April 16th, 2013 @ 9:29 pm
lame cherry said obomber and holder did this as a excuse to take away our gunpowder. a anti personnel bomb with shrapnel made by a real terrorist group wouldve killed 100 people at least
April 16th, 2013 @ 11:51 pm
This is interesting………
https://shoebat.com/2013/04/17/innocent-saudi-has-ties-to-several-al-qaeda-terrorists/
April 17th, 2013 @ 6:45 am
I am behooved as to why more security was not given to this big event. I believe the wake-up call for visa’s to stop till further improvement of security measures improve; the border tighten and freeze anymore entrances till security improves. Be it more money allocated, which my gosh with what we have been told about amount spend forNSA, improvements, etc., instead of focus of USA citizens, should of been an on going improvement with porous flow of questionable others mentioned! Bottom-line, forget the billionaires money in Banks, Saudi oil, or military arms deals Saudi fund with the Military Industrial Complex; I believe people will want creditable answers and not settle for domestic BS, or Saudi suspects flown back to yemen, where ever, but that the need for complete truth so the steps are taken to impede/stop this type of attacks comes to a halt!! I think we all have loved ones/ourselves as well, that go to sports games, large events, etc. and we now have to be concerned if these events are safe? If we, the people are diverted this time because of gov. cover-up, protecting idiots, or other, I think this one was straw breaks camels back; public will not accept anything but truth…does not matter where it leads back to!!This better not get swept under any rug!
April 17th, 2013 @ 6:46 am
I am behooved as to why more security was not given to this big event. I believe the wake-up call for visa’s to stop till further improvement of security measures improve; the border tighten and freeze anymore entrances till security improves. Be it more money allocated, which my gosh with what we have been told about amount spend forNSA, improvements, etc., instead of focus of USA citizens, should of been an on going improvement with porous flow of questionable others mentioned! Bottom-line, forget the billionaires money in Banks, Saudi oil, or military arms deals Saudi fund with the Military Industrial Complex; I believe people will want creditable answers and not settle for domestic BS, or Saudi suspects flown back to yemen, where ever, but that the need for complete truth so the steps are taken to impede/stop this type of attacks comes to a halt!! I think we all have loved ones/ourselves as well, that go to sports games, large events, etc. and we now have to be concerned if these events are safe? If we, the people are diverted this time because of gov. cover-up, protecting idiots, or other, I think this one was straw breaks camels back; public will not accept anything but truth…does not matter where it leads back to!!This better not get swept under any rug!
April 17th, 2013 @ 8:47 am
When bombs go off, we know it is a terrorist event..
Remember the LAX debacle..
Those who are sensitive to the spirit noted they had been feeling uneasy for a couple of weeks.
Unfortunately, the uneasy feeling is still there for something far more bigger is felt going to happen..
The bigger issue will be to cover up the US economic collapse so that the potential “big bang” can be used as a precipice to show the world the economy collapsed due to the volatility of domestic terrorism and not the banks stealing the american citizens monies.
Let’s imagine…Declare civil unrest…DHS takeover..
Military and local civilian police and gun posses and militias with NO BULLETS…
Better late than never…for Congress to stand up..
I never thought I would see this in my lifetime but …
OBADIAH CHAPTER ONE
2 The Lord says, “Look! I will make you a weak nation;
you will be greatly despised!
3 Your presumptuous heart has deceived you—
you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs,
whose home is high in the mountains.
You think to yourself,
‘No one can bring me down to the ground!’
4 Even if you were to soar high like an eagle,
even if you were to make your nest among the stars,
I can bring you down even from there!” says the Lord.
April 17th, 2013 @ 5:54 pm
Fire Janet Napolitano now!!! She is so very
incompetent. Such a disgrace to America.
Friend of terrorism and the Al-Harbi clan of
murderers. No hope for such a dope. IMO.
April 17th, 2013 @ 10:31 pm
Well…this is what we get for helping the Saudis take care of Saddam, when he was bombing them senseless! Now, we can see that we should’ve let Iraq “solve our problem!”
Well, isn’t that special???