Don’t you think strict detective organizations of the USA failed to trace the Boston Bomber? Well, you might be thinking, how? One of them had already died, another is under interrogation, how come they failed? The Sherlock Holmes, I mean FBI and CIA have clearly slipped up tracking those bombers before the massacre took place though he has been under the suspecting eye of both the agencies since two years. The warning came first from Russia!
The story starts from the year 2011. On 4th March, Russian international security service knocked FBI for the first time saying that, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a supporter and believer of radical Islam, but acute changes are taking place with him since 2010. The FBI started their investigation and put his name on TECS (Treasury Enforcement Communication System) where US officials keep an eye on borders to know who are immigrating and departing the country. The FBI investigated every option that can relate Tsarnaev with any kind of terror-related activities. They asked family and friends of him, searched out all internet but find out nothing. Case closed by June 2011.
Six months later when FBI closed the case, Tamerlan left for Russia on January 2012 for about six months. Three days before his flight, alert from the TECS created to the Borders and Custom Protection Officers. But it was unfruitful as FBI didn’t find anything against him! Unbelievable luck supported Mr. Tsarnaev at that time. Generally all the Airlines need to submit the names of every passenger to government so that, they can screen and stay informed about the criminal or suspect watch list. While the particular Airlines submitted information, they are mistaken the spelling of his name. This misspelling lead the Government to misdirection, they overlooked Tsarnaev.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev came back from Russia six months later, July 2012. Another alert rang on Border while he returned as before. Again the same thing, as the FBI closed the case on him one year before, his coming back to the USA wasn’t harmful to them.
Looking a bit back, on the September 2011, FSB also knocked CIA about the same topic of Tsarnaev. They also suggested CIA with a different name spelling including the Russian pattern of spelling, different possible birthdays. Then, the CIA told the National Counter Terrorism Center to put his name on the TIDE (Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment) database, but the spelling included in this database was different from the FBI spelled the name. IRONIC!
So, these things are nothing new. The same kind of incidents happened previously with other people. Another side of the coin is, a family has been stopped in departing the USA 3 times due to the resembles of their little kid’s name with a suspected terrorist in the TIDE database. It proves that, a huge number of names are enlisted in this database. The information says that, approximately 700000 people are enlisted in this suspect database. But what is the real connection in arresting or recognizing the terrorists with this huge list? It is obvious that a large amount people suspected in the list are neither a real terrorist nor has any connection with terrorism. Rather, this kind of practice may hamper the citizen liberty to some extent. Moreover, it is proved that terrorists already have slipped out from this radar!
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