Excerpts from Debka:

Obama phoned President Putin and thanked him for his “cooperation [unspecified] in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings.”

This conversation stemmed from the Russian intelligence request to the FBI in 2011 to look into the older Tsarnaev brother, Tamerlan’s ties with Muslim terrorist groups in the Caucasus, who at that time decided to pledge allegiance to al Qaeda. In the face of the US agency’s indifference to its alert, Russian intelligence placed the two brothers under close surveillance – certainly dogging Tamerlan’s footsteps during the six months he spent visiting Dagestan and Chechnya last year – and presumably also in America. Upon his return, he was not placed on the FBI watch list.

The Russian agency was therefore in exclusive possession of the very intelligence the FBI sought for identifying the terrorists who perpetrated the bombings in Boston and their associates, whether inside or outside America.

http://www.debka.com/article/22916/Boston-terror-focuses-Hagel-ME-trip-on-Syria-al-Qaeda---instead-of-Iran

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This is why i think the US's policy on Syria is completely misplaced.

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This is why i think the US's policy on Syria is completely misplaced.

100000% cosign!!

One thing i admire about the Russians though, is their consistency. The US at the moment, i believe is all about saving face on Syria. The administration has committed itself too deeply to step back at the moment. It's completely nutters to provide funding for terrorists on one hand and then spend another billion fighting them in another country. Now when they strike the US homeland, you scream blue murder! I just don't get it.

Russia has signified interest to work with the US on counter terrorism, that sounds like a complete Malarkey to me. For one both countries don't trust each other that much to exchange vital information. Russia may be more open, the US is always skeptical.