‘Major terrorist’ plot broken up by Canadian and U.S. authorities

H/T M

FOX:

Canadian authorities have broken up what is being described as a “major terrorist attack” that may have included targets there and in New York, Fox News has confirmed.

Arrests could be announced as early as Monday afternoon, and sources said charging documents could be filed in federal court in New York. The plot is unrelated to the Boston Marathon attack, sources said. An official says there is no current credible threat to New York City.

Earlier, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said Canadian police and intelligence agencies were to announce multiple arrests after an operation to thwart the attack. The operation was coordinated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, CBC said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in a statement the investigation was coordinated by a multi-agency team comprised of the RCMP, Canadian Security Intelligence Services, the Canada Border Service Agency and other law enforcement and national security partners in Montreal and Toronto, Canada’s two largest cities.

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Caught just in time: ‘Bombers were about to plant MORE devices but plot was spoiled by release of CCTV photos’

H/T Richard

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

By Snejana Farberov, Daily Mail Reporter and James Nye

PUBLISHED: 03:16 GMT, 21 April 2013 | UPDATED: 18:12 GMT, 21 April 2013

The Boston bombers were planning more attacks across the city and were already building the bombs to do this says the city’s police commissioner Ed Davis.

Davis says it’s his belief that 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan ‘were going to attack other individuals’ — and Davis says that’s based on the evidence at the scene and the cache of weapons the brothers had at their disposal.

However, Davis claims releasing photos of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects ‘forced them out of their hideout’ and spurred them into Thursday and Friday’s deadly night time car chaos and gun battle with law enforcement.

‘It forced them out of their hideout and they decided to commit further violent acts. But it’s my belief that they were already manufacturing explosive devices. Further violent acts were inevitable,’ Davis told The Boston Globe.

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Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

H/T EDL Buck

Mirror:

Police believe the pair were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack

Covered boat: Fugitive was found in back yard
Covered boat: Fugitive was found in back yard

AP
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.

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Dead Boston bomber recently became ‘devout Muslim,’ his aunt says

Times of Israel:

Maret Tsarnaeva rules out religion as a motive for bombings, but says brothers had a hard time fitting into American society

April 19, 2013, 10:34 pm
Thursday, April 18, 2013, shows two images taken from surveillance videos of who the FBI are calling suspect No. 2 (left, in white cap), and suspect No. 1 (right, in black cap), as they walk near each other through the crowd before the explosions at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/FBI)

TORONTO (AP) — An aunt of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects said Friday the older brother recently became a devout Muslim who prayed five times a day, and she doesn’t believe the brothers could have been involved in Monday’s attack.

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and more here at the Daily Mail:

 

Boston suspect’s profile venerates Islam

Everyone really should download this whole webpage before it vanishes. Of course CAIR and Obama spin control will find some other way to chelate this information but for the moment we can at least try and save it.

Reuters by way of

J-Post:

On profile on Russian social network Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspect in Boston bombing, calls for Chechen independence.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspect in Boston bombing.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspect in Boston bombing. Photo: VK profile

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on what appears to be his page on a Russian language social networking site.

Abusive comments in Russian and English were flooding onto Tsarnaev’s page on VK, a Russian-language social media site, on Friday after he was identified as a suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon.

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Boston Bombing Suspect Posted Video on Al Qaeda Prophecy on YouTube

I wonder if this person was named after this more famous Tamerlane here.

H/T Tundra T

Mother Jones:

By Adam Serwer on Fri. April 19, 2013 5:45 AM PDT

The deceased suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon, which killed three and injured more than 170, appears to have posted a video to his YouTube playlist extolling an extremist religious prophecy associated with Al Qaeda.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26 year-old brother of the second Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, seems to have had a YouTube page where he posted religious videos, including a video of Feiz Mohammad, a fundamentalist Australian Muslim preacher who rails against the evils of Harry Potter.

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