Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators his older brother Tamerlan was the driving force behind last week’s attack and that no international terrorist groups were behind them.
Investigators haven’t found any ricin in the house of Mississippi man accused of mailing poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge, according to testimony Monday from an FBI agent.
The immigration proposal pending in Congress would transform the nation’s political landscape for a generation or more.
Congressional advocates of comprehensive U.S. immigration legislation were diverted into a sometimes testy debate on Monday over whether the measure should be delayed because of questions arising from the Boston Marathon bombing allegedly carried out by two immigrant brothers.
Sequestration exemptions are shaping up to be Washington’s newest version of earmarks.
The FBI did not know that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older Boston Marathon bombing suspect, took a six-month trip to Russia because his name was misspelled, according to a key Republican senator on national-security issues.
Authorities are investigating whether the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died after a shootout with police had any connection to an unsolved triple homicide involving his friend in suburban Boston in 2011.
The militants killed in the boarding of the Marmara were armed with, “flares, night vision goggles, 150 bullet proof vests, 200 gas masks, several dozen slingshots, 200 knives, 20 axes, 50 wooden clubs, 100 assorted iron bars, etc,” and had violently attacked Israeli soldiers.
“Because it takes about two years to mount insider terrorist attacks [identifying people to recruit, recruiting them, training them, selecting and planning the target, etc.] the Boston Marathon bombings make sense as a reprisal for our cooperation with the Russians against the Caucasus Emirate,” Roberts told The Washington Examiner.
The bipartisan “Gang of Eight” released an immigration bill on Thursday that offers a minimum 13-year path to citizenship contingent on increased border security. The bill would also allow young illegal immigrants — those who came to the United States as children — to become citizens after five years.