Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Something Went Wrong

I’ll say.

During an interview???

A man from Chechnya with links to one of the Boston bombing suspects was killed early Wednesday in a FBI-involved shooting at an Orlando apartment complex.

The FBI said Ibragim Todashev was shot and killed just after midnight at 6022 Peregrine Avenue in the Windhover Apartments near Universal Orlando.

“The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased,” FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier told Local 6.

John Miller, the former FBI assistant director who now works for CBS News, said the FBI was trying to re-question Todashev at his apartment when “something went wrong.” Miller said the FBI agent fired shots, but details of the incident have not yet been released and it’s not known if Todashev had a gun.

The FBI has not confirmed the link to the Boston bombing, but Khusen Taramov, a friend of Todashev, told Local 6 that Todashev knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police near Boston days after the marathon bombing.

“Back when (Todashev) used to live in Boston, they used to hang out—not hang out—he knew him.  They met a few times because (Todashev) was a MMA fighter and (Tsarnaev) was a boxer.  They just knew each other.  That’s it,” said Taramov, who added that Todashev last spoke with Tsarnaev via phone more than a month ago.

Taramov adamantly stated that Todashev, who was arrested in Orlando earlier this month on charges of aggravated battery with great bodily harm, was not connected to the bombing.

ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) - An FBI agent in Orlando shot dead a man whom the agency says turned violent as he was being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation late Tuesday.

The suspect was identified by the FBI as Ibragim Todashev, 27, of Orlando.

FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said the agent involved in the shooting on Peregrine Avenue near Kirkman and Vineland roads, near Universal Orlando, acted on an imminent threat and shot Todashev during an interview. The FBI agent was “conducting official duties” when Todashev was shot, agent Dave Couvertier said in a statement.

A source told FOX 25 News in Boston that Todashev was being questioned by an FBI agent from Boston about an unsolved triple murder in Waltham, Mass. The source said Todashev became violent during the interview and was shot by the agent.

Even before his encounter with the FBI, Todashev, a mixed martial arts fighter, had a recent run-in with law enforcement.

He was arrested earlier this month on a charge of aggravated battery after getting into a fight over a parking spot with a 54-year-old man and his 35-year-old son over a parking spot at an Orlando shopping mall. The 35-year-old man was hospitalized with a split upper lip and several teeth knocked out, according to a report from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

“Also by his own admission Todashev was recently a former mixed martial arts fighter,” the arresting deputy said in his report. “This skill puts his fighting ability way above that of a normal person.”
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Taramov said the FBI had questioned him earlier Tuesday, but he was allowed to leave. When Taramov returned, he said he found out Todashev had been shot dead, he said.

“The FBI knows what happened,” Taramov said.

The FBI agent involved was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The FBI has sent a team from Washington, D.C., to review the incident. The team should arrive in Orlando within 24 hours, it said.

Loose ends? Ok, this Todashev guy was a semi-professional fighter, but I gather this was not the first time that the FBI had questioned him. Not even the second. And do you really believe that just one agent was there at his apartment to “conduct official business”? Especially when they know the person is prone to violence and well trained in delivering it? Given all the crap that’s shaking loose the past week or so about out of control government agencies, and all the lies, obfuscations, denials, fake recusals, and dirty shenanigans we’ve seen from Eric Holder’s DOJ ... the tinfoil hat brigade is going to run wild on this one.

CNN says that the agent killed the guy in self defense, and adds that the FBI had been investigating him/following him for “about a month”. The Boston Marathon bombings were on April 15. It was a few days until the Tsarnaev brothers were identified as the suspects, and a couple more until they were captured/killed. Today is May 22. Which sort of implies that the FBI has known about every associate the brothers had over here and digging furiously since the get-go. Phone records I’d assume. And now one of those associates is inconveniently dead.

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