Whoever Built the Boston Marathon Bombs is Still on the Loose, Able to Kill Again

[mountaineer]

I did a search and didn't see where this had been posted at TBR when first published in 2018.

Whoever Built the Boston Marathon Bombs is Still on the Loose, Able to Kill Again
Michele McPhee
Newsweek
Jan. 11, 2018

...   The authorities are sure they captured the two men who carried out that deadly attack—Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother, Dzhokhar—but they don't know who made the bombs they used that day or the explosives they had with them a few days later, when they were cornered by various law enforcement officers and agents. They are certain the Tsarnaev brothers didn't make those bombs. So who did?  ...

When Morley was coaxed out of his mother's home and hauled away in an ambulance that morning in Topsfield, Hayward and his men made an astonishing discovery: His room was a well-stocked bomb-making facility, and it had several components identical to those in the explosive devices used at the Boston Marathon, down to a box top for a 6-quart Fagor pressure cooker. The cooker was the exact size and brand the brothers left near the finish line, filled with BBs and shrapnel, powered by Christmas lights and detonated remotely with an initiator constructed from toy car parts.

As Topsfield cops and state police continued their search of Morley's bedroom and a shed in the backyard, the FBI suddenly showed up, leading one trooper to say, "Who called the feebs?"

The FBI has said repeatedly that they don't know who armed the Tsarnaev brothers for their bloody attack, but cops in the Boston area think that there's a suspect in plain sight and that the bureau and the U.S. attorney are protecting him for some reason. "It is incredibly troubling to look at the facts surrounding this guy Daniel Morley, and have no understanding whatsoever about why the FBI got involved [in his case]…why the charges were dismissed and how the circumstances about his connection to the marathon bombers were kept quiet," says Jerry Flynn, executive director of the New England Police Benevolent Association, one of Massachusetts's largest police unions. "We are talking about bombs that killed a little boy, two women. We have a dead cop. This kind of secrecy shouldn't be tolerated." ...

The FBI showed up at Topsfield police headquarters and seized much of the evidence taken from Morley's home after Hayward executed a search warrant. Morley was never formally arraigned in connection with the charges that Hayward swore out in a criminal complaint, and those charges were abruptly dropped without explanation by the Essex County district attorney. When asked why, his spokeswoman referred questions to the FBI. The FBI wasn't talking, not even when it wordlessly returned the evidence to Topsfield police months after Morley's arrest, blowing off local law enforcement with a dismissive "We didn't find anything," a Topsfield police commander told Newsweek. ...

Full story at Newsweek


Daniel Morley, who had ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev and bombmaking supplies in his bedroom.

[Smokin Joe]

So, was this guy an FBI insider type, like the Fed who showed Rahman's bunch how to build a bomb for the '93 WTC bombing? How deep do the stings go?

...and who gets blamed when they go too far?

(American Gun owners, even though bombs were used)

[truth_seeker]

How many times recently have we heard the FBI had people "on their radar?"

Were they practicing entrapment, framing, etc?

[mountaineer]

Of course, this was during the Obama presidency, for what it's worth.

[dfwgator]

And the wife was involved too.

[Smokin Joe]

Britannica says the bomb maker was inspired by Inspire, an Al-Queda linked website.

They don't say what the explosive was that was used in the bombs. However the article (OP) says that "bomb making materials" had been recovered, including acetone.

Acetone is used in making TATP, a popular, but tricky explosive that is favored by jihadis, and known among them as "The Mother of Satan", for its characteristics. It is also chemically unstable and perishable, that is, it degrades in efficacy with time and exposure to air. It is a primary explosive, sensitive to shock and friction, especially if dry.

(Yes, I read a lot of "comic books').

So, while the presence of acetone would fit the profile of a jihadi bomber, there are other uses for most anything that can be adapted to use in an IED, or even to make the explosive I suspect was used. If anyone has any actual knowledge ora source citing the explosive, that might determine if the presence of acetone was relevant, or possibly incidental.