American Citizens in Tsarnaev family eligible to collect welfare benfits???

[Dante]

American Citizens in Tsarnaev family eligible to collect welfare benfits???

What is wrong with this country when a foreigner who is here legally, can marry a native born US Citizen and have a native born/natural born child with that US Citizen? Is America stupid? Don't we know that future terrorists can have American children and collect welfare? IS America that stupid to allow this?

It's an outrage and I blame...

 

[Dante]

Damn welfare programs are responsible for terrorism


and guns are not

 

[waltky]

Blast probe finds female DNA on bomb fragment, sources say...

FBI did its job in Tsarnaev probe, Obama says
Tue April 30, 2013 - Prosecutors, defense in preliminary talks, source says; President Obama calls review of Boston intel "standard procedure"; He defends FBI investigation of bombing suspect; Woman's DNA on bomb fragment does not prove conspirator, source says

Federal intelligence officials are looking at whether more could have been done to prevent the Boston Marathon attacks, President Barack Obama said Tuesday. "Based on what I can see so far, the FBI performed its duties. The Department of Homeland Security did what it was supposed to be doing," Obama said. "But this is hard stuff." The president called the review by the Director of National Intelligence's office "standard procedure," but it comes amid withering criticism from some lawmakers of how well law enforcement, intelligence analysts and the administration handled a 2011 request by Russian officials to investigate one of the two bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

That year, Russian authorities alerted the United States to concerns that Tsarnaev was becoming increasingly radical. The Russians also raised questions about Tsarnaev's mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, according to several sources. But the FBI found no evidence of extremist activity and closed the case. The names of both Tsarnaev and his mother were placed in a terror database, however. Still, Tsarnaev was allowed to travel the next year to a restive Russian region rife with Islamist terror groups, and he returned to the United States after six mysterious months abroad. Investigators have said they are looking at possible links between Tsarnaev and those groups during his time in the region.

Information sharing

In the days following the attacks, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina led criticism of the administration's handling of the Russian reports -- questioning whether intelligence and law enforcement agencies had properly shared information that could have prevented the April 15 bombings. Three people died in the attack and more than 260 were wounded. Authorities say Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, also killed a police officer. Twenty people remained hospitalized Tuesday, according to a CNN tally. "I just find it really unnerving that we could have had him in FBI custody in 2011 and did a whole profile of him, and after the attack that his name did not surface, that we didn't check the database or the database had him missing," Graham said at the time of the older Tsarnaev.

Obama rejected Graham's criticisms Tuesday, saying "it's not as if the FBI did nothing." "They not only investigated the older brother, they interviewed the older brother," the president said. "They concluded that there were no signs that he was engaging in extremist activity." Obama said the intelligence review, while not prompted by the criticisms, would "leave no stone unturned." "We want to see, is there in fact additional protocols and procedures that could be put in place that would further improve and enhance our ability to detect a potential attack," he said. Graham responded sharply to Obama after the news conference, saying the Boston bombing joins the earlier attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, as evidence of administration failures. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, died in the Libya attack.

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Russia had elder Boston suspect under surveillance
Apr 30,`13 -- Russian agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to find him when he suddenly disappeared after police killed a Canadian jihadist, a security official told The Associated Press.

U.S. law enforcement officials have been trying to determine whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev was indoctrinated or trained by militants during his visit to Dagestan, a Caspian Sea province that has become the center of a simmering Islamic insurgency. The security official with the Anti-Extremism Center, a federal agency under Russia's Interior Ministry, confirmed the Russians shared their concerns. He told the AP that Russian agents were watching Tsarnaev, and that they searched for him when he disappeared two days after the July 2012 death of the Canadian man, who had joined the Islamic insurgency in the region. The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.

Security officials suspected ties between Tsarnaev and the Canadian - an ethnic Russian named William Plotnikov - according to the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which is known for its independence and investigative reporting and cited an unnamed official with the Anti-Extremism Center, which tracks militants. The newspaper said the men had social networking ties that brought Tsarnaev to the attention of Russian security services for the first time in late 2010. It certainly wouldn't be surprising if the men had met. Both were amateur boxers of roughly the same age whose families had moved from Russia to North America when they were teenagers. In recent years, both had turned to Islam and expressed radical beliefs. And both had traveled to Dagestan, a republic of some 3 million people.

The AP could not independently confirm whether the two men had communicated on social networks or crossed paths either in Dagestan or in Toronto, where Plotnikov had lived with his parents and where Tsarnaev had an aunt. After Plotnikov was killed, Tsarnaev left suddenly for the U.S., not waiting to pick up his new Russian passport - ostensibly one of his main reasons for coming to Russia. The official said his sudden departure was considered suspicious.

Plotnikov's father told the Canadian network CBCNews on Monday that his son had broken off contact when he returned to Russia in 2010 and he had no way of knowing whether his son knew Tsarnaev. In an August interview with the Canadian newspaper National Post, Vitaly Plotnikov said his son, who was 23 when he died, had converted to Islam in 2009 and quickly became radicalized. But he said he fully understood what his son was up to in Russia only when he received photographs and videos after his death.

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[Dante]

Blast probe finds female DNA on bomb fragment, sources say...
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which means what?


what an idiot!