Probably, although I'm even more shocked that now they're saying Russia also went to the CIA, who did nothing as well.
No, but they said he was put on the No Fly list, which the FBI watched for about a year. During that time, its possible that they knew or were alerted of when he went Russia, but the watch was off by the time he returned, so I assume that they had just decided to drop the case at that point.
Just to clarify on this a bit, its now being said that the brothers were planning to "party" in NYC. However, it's not clear whether this means they were literally going to have a party here, or if it was figurative and that they were going do more. But with the way that they were still packing explosives days later, I can't help but think that they were going to more attacks somewhere.
Yeah, that's why I say I'm curious to hear more because I heard earlier that there was one list that had thousands of names, some of which were just John Doe repeated several hundreds of times. I heard one debate about how there were just too many databases out there that weren't really linked the right way and how it is difficult to really sort things out. So if that's the case, then I think this definitely has to be an eye opener for improvements that can be made to. It obviously doesn't change what happened here, but at this point what's done is done and we can only focus on not allowing this to happen again.
It almost sounds like Russia didn't want to get involved in something that may have proved their suspicions wrong. Either that, or they didn't trust us with the information or reasons for interest in the brother.
Actually, that wound is likely where the tried to tube him. Reports said he came into the hospital barely alive, so my guess is they still tried to save him. I think that's what that is honestly.
