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newmember

(805 posts)
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 09:36 PM Apr 2013

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

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/boston-bombers-fbi-hunting-12-strong-1844844#.UXM54Yqm6hA.twitter



Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
21 Apr 2013 00:01



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


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Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhok (Original Post) newmember Apr 2013 OP
It's the Mirror...a UK rag...prob worst than the Daily Mail HipChick Apr 2013 #1
Actually the Onion is more credible than CNN malaise Apr 2013 #4
How can you possibly say that??? krispos42 Apr 2013 #21
You see malaise Apr 2013 #34
With all those suitcase nukes, no doubt Hugabear Apr 2013 #2
Hmm. I'll take that with a pinch of salt and wait for a more credible source. Quantess Apr 2013 #3
Anyone else reporting this? n/t Tx4obama Apr 2013 #5
That's the only source for now. nt MOTRDemocrat Apr 2013 #6
FOX had it on the 10:00 News RC Apr 2013 #19
So the FBI thought I'll call the Mirror and let them tell everybody in the whole fucking world warrior1 Apr 2013 #7
How do things get leaked ? newmember Apr 2013 #8
British spies. reformist2 Apr 2013 #22
I think they might to talking about the folks that were detained last night... Tx4obama Apr 2013 #9
maybe newmember Apr 2013 #12
Worst.Source.Ever. . . fleur-de-lisa Apr 2013 #10
You're adorable alcibiades_mystery Apr 2013 #11
You got a LEGITIMATE source for that?? kestrel91316 Apr 2013 #13
No that's it newmember Apr 2013 #15
At least it's not CNN. nadinbrzezinski Apr 2013 #14
Golly gee, i just saw this posted in freeper loony land bushisanidiot Apr 2013 #16
Debka had this four days ago FarCenter Apr 2013 #17
Debka, I swear, used to be a semi-reliable source. It's been a long time, though. I used to... Poll_Blind Apr 2013 #18
derp spanone Apr 2013 #20
Yah... Ellipsis Apr 2013 #23
They're wrong Politicalboi Apr 2013 #24
My brother from another mother.... Ellipsis Apr 2013 #25
Many UK sources just aren't credible Cali_Democrat Apr 2013 #26
You mean Bat Boy is a lie newmember Apr 2013 #27
No... just Rupert Murdoch Ellipsis Apr 2013 #28
Rupert Murdoch is Bat Boy pinboy3niner Apr 2013 #31
I beg to differ Ellipsis Apr 2013 #35
the perfume of bullshit wafts from this. cali Apr 2013 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Apr 2013 #30
The "breathless" reporting style gives it away CJCRANE Apr 2013 #32
A 'sleeper cell' with a 19 year old at its heart? muriel_volestrangler Apr 2013 #33

HipChick

(25,615 posts)
1. It's the Mirror...a UK rag...prob worst than the Daily Mail
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 09:37 PM
Apr 2013
might as well quote from The Onion or CNN

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
2. With all those suitcase nukes, no doubt
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 09:41 PM
Apr 2013

World Nut Daily said they were in the country several years ago

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
3. Hmm. I'll take that with a pinch of salt and wait for a more credible source.
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 09:45 PM
Apr 2013

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warrior1

(12,325 posts)
7. So the FBI thought I'll call the Mirror and let them tell everybody in the whole fucking world
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 09:58 PM
Apr 2013

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
9. I think they might to talking about the folks that were detained last night...
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 10:04 PM
Apr 2013

... they were releases, but then today ICE went and arrest two of them on immigration violations.

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newmember

(805 posts)
15. No that's it
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 10:22 PM
Apr 2013

If it's bull we will never hear about it again.
If it has some truth let's see if a couple of other media sources talk or report about it.

Sometimes tabloid papers have gotten things right way before some cough...trusted news sources

Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts)
18. Debka, I swear, used to be a semi-reliable source. It's been a long time, though. I used to...
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 11:38 PM
Apr 2013

....hit them regularly and then it started to look like they were making shit up. I don't know if you remember way back into the early days of the Iraq war but there was that Russian site which was passing out info like U.S. planes had been shot down and stuff like that- and people weren't able to tell if it was true or what... It was around that time that Debka started going down hill.

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Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
24. They're wrong
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 01:08 AM
Apr 2013

Bat boy won that car on The Price is Right on the day the show was preempted. Nobody saw it.

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CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
32. The "breathless" reporting style gives it away
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 04:31 AM
Apr 2013

as more likely to be fiction or speculation than fact.

It also mentions a CIA interrogation team which AFAIK would not be officially allowed or admitted (even if true).

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