Two members of the FBI\u2019s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement.The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the helicopter encountered unspecified difficulties and the agents fell a \u201csignificant distance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month, the team was involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. And in February, it rescued a 5-year-old boy held hostage for six days in an underground bunker in Alabama.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever things go really wrong, the FBI calls in the Hostage Rescue Team. It\u2019s the government\u2019s 911,\u201d Coulson said.<\/p>\n
Irvin Wells, a former FBI special agent who retired in 1990 after leading the Norfolk field office for three years, stressed that the Hostage Rescue Team is different from the FBI\u2019s regular SWAT teams.<\/p>\n
He noted that agents assigned to a field office\u2019s SWAT team also must perform other jobs inside the bureau, while agents assigned to the Hostage Rescue Team have no other duties.<\/p>\n
See article at PilotOnline.com<\/p>\n
FBI: Agents died in fall from helicopter off Virginia Coast<\/strong><\/p>\n http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2013\/05\/fbi-agents-died-fall-helicop\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n As well as the obituary<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/timesdispatch\/obituary.aspx\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n In related news:<\/p>\n Man Linked to Boston Bombing Suspect Confesses to Murder, Gets Shot by FBI<\/small><\/span><\/strong> <\/big> <\/big><\/big> <\/big><\/p>\n Infowars.com The man supposedly linked to deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev allegedly confessed to being involved in the murder of three people just before he was shot to death today by the FBI, sources told NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSources say that what began as a drug ripoff ended in a triple homicide when Tsarnaev and friend Ibragim Todashev realized their victims would later be able to identify them,\u201d reports NBC.<\/p>\n According to law enforcement, after confessing to the three unsolved 2011 murders, Todashev used a knife to attack an FBI agent in an apartment complex in Orlando, Florida, prompting the agent to shoot and kill him. He reportedly \u201cbecame violent as he was about to sign a written statement based on his confession.\u201d<\/p>\n Coincidentally, Todashev had told his friend, prior to being interrogated, he had a feeling he would be shot by the FBI.<\/p>\n \u201cHe felt inside he was going to get shot,\u201d Todashev\u2019s friend, Khusn Taramiv<\/a>, said. \u201cI told him, \u2018Everything is going to be fine, don\u2019t worry about it.\u2019 He said, \u2018I have a really bad feeling.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Last Thursday, it was reported Tamerlan\u2019s brother Dzhokhar had also penned a confession<\/a> to the Boston Marathon bombing on the interior of the boat he hid in.<\/p>\n
The Virginian-Pilot
\u00a9 May 20, 2013<\/header>\n
May 22, 2013<\/p>\n