Robert Baer Boston Suspects Didnt Act Alone

BOB BAER CNN CONTRIBUTOR My opinion is it's the circuitry of the bomb. There's a certain signature they are going to find on this.

And I have seen multiple reports Wall Street Journal ABC News CNN and on that there that police are looking at this as a sophisticated device which does not precisely follow the Internet plans that are in Inspire magazine. If that's the case there's a master bomber out there. If there is a master bomber is he in Dagestan or is he in the United States Because if he's in the United States there's a chance he could strike again.

And I'm waiting for an FBI agent to step forward either in trial or before to tell me just how sophisticated this thing was.

TAPPER So last week I interviewed a cabdriver. He picked up the Tsarnaev brothers he says and Department Homeland Security Officials have interviewed him and are reportedly taking his story seriously. He picked them up the day before the attacks in nearby Malden Massachusetts.

And according to his story they had two knapsacks one of which he held at one point and said it was heavier than he thought it would be and he drove them to close to their home in Cambridge. I suspect that the FBI and other officials law enforcement community are following up that clue but that might suggest that the bombs were fashioned in Malden or nearby Malden. What would you make of that

BAER I think they were either out there practicing with the firing devices or they picked them up from somebody. I mean if they made them off the Internet in their kitchens they wouldn't be carrying them to rural Massachusetts outside of town. It just doesn't make sense.

But Jake it comes back to the fact that I have played with these things a long time 35 years now and it's very difficult to make them go off. And in an attack like this the last thing you want is a bomb to be a dud because the plot is uncovered everybody goes to jail nothing happens it doesn't serve their purposes their ideological purposes.

So you want these things to be foolproof. And in order to have them foolproof you need a bomb maker to do it or someone with a lot of practice. Otherwise these things just don't go after with that consistency that they managed to make happen.

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