Is it reasonable to believe that two brothers, a 26 year old and a 19 year old, conceived and carried out a plot to blow up two bombs during the Boston Marathon with no other help? The older brother, Tamerlan, was a married father of a little girl. The younger brother, Dzhokar, was the captain of his high school wrestling team. He is described by one of his teachers as outgoing, generous, compassionate and thoughtful. But these are the two young men who are suspected of having carried out what is becoming one of the most heinous crimes since the 9/11 World Trade Center tragedy. Now Mirror Online is saying that the FBI is investigating whether the brothers were part of a twelve member terrorist sleeper cell.
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. The University of Massachusetts student was
caught on Friday after hiding out in a boat parked in a garden in locked
down Watertown the day after a gun battle with police left his
26-year-old brother and a rookie cop dead.
