FBI investigating if Boston bombings suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had training for attack, lawmaker says
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/fbi-investigating-if-boston-bombings-suspects-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-tamerlan-tsarnaev-had-training-for-attack-lawmaker-says-1.5155980In recent years, two would-be U.S. attackers reported receiving bomb-making training from foreign groups but failed to set off the explosives.
A Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence for trying to blow up a packed jetliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb sewn into his underwear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had tried to set off the bomb minutes before the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight landed.
The device didn't work as planned, but it still produced smoke, flame and panic. He told authorities that he trained in Yemen under the eye of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric and one of the best-known al-Qaida figures.