Thursday, May 23, 2013

Rip Tide

A man linked to the Boston Marathon bombers may have been about to confess to three brutal murders in Boston, according to ABC news, before the man was shot by FBI agenst during questioning.

To say this story is "odd" is to totally ignore the word "incompetent:"

The man shot dead by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida early today was "about to sign a statement" admitting to a role, along with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in an unsolved triple murder in Massachusetts in 2011, two people with direct knowledge of the case told ABC News.

Ibragim Todashev "just went crazy," and pulled a knife during his interview with the FBI, said state and federal law enforcement officials briefed on the latest strange twist in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing.

The good news is that the agent's wounds aren't fatal.

But in what world does the FBI interview a suspect in a brutal jihadi-style multiple murder case without searching the suspect for weapons? Or search the man so poorly that the knife remained? Seriously? The man had a knife on him?

I suppose we should just be grateful he didn't have an underwear bomb on him. What the heck. What difference, at this point, does it make? The tide of war is receding, right?