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Napolitano will be screaming to build her wall and thicken the border again :facepalm:
15 April 2013 - 2 Explosions at Finish line of Boston Marathon
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tomahawk6 said:
One can only hope ;D
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Didn't see this coming............[still breaking]
CTVNews.ca
Published Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:22AM EDT
Last Updated Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:41AM EDT
More suspects connected to the Boston Marathon bombings have been taken into custody, according to police.
"Three additional suspects taken into custody in Marathon bombing case. Details to follow," said the tweet posted on the Boston Police Twitter account late Wednesday morning.
When contacted by CTV News, police confirmed the tweet, and clarified that the suspects have been arrested, but did not offer any details about the individuals.
Authorities currently have one suspect connected to the April 15 bombings, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in custody at a federal medical detention centre outside of Boston.
Tsarnaev and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were named as suspects by the FBI three days after the deadly bombings that killed three people and injured hundreds of others.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died during a gunfight with authorities and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive, but badly injured, following a massive manhunt.
More to come…
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Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/boston-police-tweet-three-more-marathon-bombing-suspects-in-custody-1.1261840#ixzz2S3asME7J
CTVNews.ca
Published Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:22AM EDT
Last Updated Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:41AM EDT
More suspects connected to the Boston Marathon bombings have been taken into custody, according to police.
"Three additional suspects taken into custody in Marathon bombing case. Details to follow," said the tweet posted on the Boston Police Twitter account late Wednesday morning.
When contacted by CTV News, police confirmed the tweet, and clarified that the suspects have been arrested, but did not offer any details about the individuals.
Authorities currently have one suspect connected to the April 15 bombings, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in custody at a federal medical detention centre outside of Boston.
Tsarnaev and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were named as suspects by the FBI three days after the deadly bombings that killed three people and injured hundreds of others.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died during a gunfight with authorities and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive, but badly injured, following a massive manhunt.
More to come…
.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/boston-police-tweet-three-more-marathon-bombing-suspects-in-custody-1.1261840#ixzz2S3asME7J
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tomahawk6 said:
Not so fast! Flip flop underway in Saudi Arabia. Fertile ground developing for even more conspiracy theories.
"The Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C. today denied its government warned the U.S. about accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2317493/Saudi-Arabian-ambassador-Washington-DENIES-nation-warned-United-States-Tamerlan-Tsarnaev-2012.html
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Apparently the three arrests today are not related to the bombing itself, but related to actions taken by two of them to get rid of evidence (a napsack with the remaining materials from the fireworks used to make bombs, and a laptop) and the third who lied to investigators.
Sounds like a case of well meaning cohorts sticking up for a friend who they assumed could never do such a thing.
Oh well, Off to Guantanamo with them!
Sounds like a case of well meaning cohorts sticking up for a friend who they assumed could never do such a thing.
Oh well, Off to Guantanamo with them!
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June 17, 2013
Boston Magazine
"Slain MIT Officer’s Brother Starts Petition for National First Responders Day
The request would recognize police, fire and EMT workers with a designated holiday.":
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/06/17/mit-officer-sean-collier-petition/
Boston Magazine
"Slain MIT Officer’s Brother Starts Petition for National First Responders Day
The request would recognize police, fire and EMT workers with a designated holiday.":
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/06/17/mit-officer-sean-collier-petition/
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Good on you Sgt Murphy. 
Photos at story link below.
Photos at story link below.
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Paul Theroux: The Day Boston Felt the World’s Pain
by Paul Theroux May 16, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/16/paul-theroux-the-day-boston-felt-the-world-s-pain.html
When the travel writer returned to his hometown after the Marathon bombing, he found the mood of the city transformed, unified by a trauma, which he has seen elsewhere in the world.
For several decades, starting in the early 1970s, I traveled regularly from London, where I lived as a resident alien, to Boston, where I grew up, and each time it was like a tumble through the Looking Glass. Boston was so mild, so confident, still the joyous and even innocent city of my youth. The noteworthy Boston tragedies, vividly recalled by my father—the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (21 killed), the Cocoanut Grove nightclub inferno of 1942 (492 killed)—were over, and such infernalities seemed unrepeatable.
Arriving in Boston was like landing upon the bosom of serenity from the derangement of a war zone. Britain at that time was in the grip of a bombing campaign by well-funded and feuding nationalists in Ulster, who were driven by spite, folklorism, and religious bigotry and were tribalistic in their antique grudges, absurd in their speechifying.
London was weary and anxious, and by the mid-1970s there had been a number of bomb outrages: the Old Bailey bomb of 1973 (1 death, 200 injured, shattered buildings), the Guildford bombing of 1974 (5 killed, 65 wounded), the pub bombings in Birmingham (21 killed, 182 injured), the Regent’s Park nail bomb of 1982 (the deaths of 7 musicians playing selections from Oliver! and many injuries), the Chelsea Barracks cluster bomb on the same day (11 deaths, many dismemberments, seven dead horses), the bombing at Harrods department store at Christmas 1983 (six people killed); and 5 people dead and many injured in an attempt on Margaret Thatcher in Brighton in 1984.
The astonishing fact is that these unspeakable events in England were not as hideous as the everyday horrors in Ulster. Belfast was full of no-go areas and bomb craters throughout the 1970s and ’80s, and the mildest country town was not spared. In August 1979, Lord Mountbatten and two youths were blown up on his yacht—and the IRA took credit and crowed over it. I traveled to Ulster in the ’80s and found it a province of roadblocks and abject fear. A few years after I passed through the lovely town of Enniskillen, where as wreaths were being laid on the town’s cenotaph on Remembrance Day in 1987, a 40-pound bomb was detonated in the market square, killing 11 people and maiming and injuring 63. As late as 1998, a wicked bombing in Omagh caused 29 deaths, with 220 injured. Militant protestant paramilitary groups planted bombs and schemed in murders, but the explosions I mention were admitted to be the work of, or attributed to, the IRA, the Provos, or splinter groups, like the one in Omagh, which called itself the Real IRA.
Boston seemed innocent of the terror, or else conniving in it, making a conscious political statement, to the extent that one of the notable features on Boston roads were the bumper stickers supporting the IRA. It is well documented that a portion of the money collected in the U.S. by Noraid (the Irish Northern Aid Committee) was used to support the IRA bombing campaigns, and in another grotesque irony, some of the money used to buy weapons from the U.S. came from Libyan bagmen sent by Muammar Gaddafi, as one of the colonel’s many hobbies was the propagation of mayhem.
Except for such efforts as the Boston College oral-history project documenting the Irish Troubles, this history of violence has been little discussed in recent years or else strenuously justified as legitimate by, among many others, the longtime IRA supporter and unapologetic congressman Peter King, a Republican from New York.
After the two bombs on the day of the Boston Marathon, it seemed from the howls of pain, the cries for vengeance, the massing of troops and police, with tanks and helicopters, and the city’s paralysis, that Boston had lost its innocence. Such a bomb outrage had never happened in the city. But with severed limbs and three corpses outside the Boston Public Library and pools of blood on one of its oldest and happiest streets, the mood of the city was transformed—besieged, panicked, and ultimately unified—suffering in its trauma, in a way I have seen elsewhere in the world, yet painful to see in a city I love.
Boston did not deserve this—no city does—and it is lamentable that Boston has come to resemble the wider world of wreckage and bereavement.
The Looking Glass effect is routine for many travelers returning from a distant place. Not long ago I came back to Boston from Angola, which is still plagued by land mines that were scattered all over the country in its 27 years of civil war. It is estimated that 20 million land mines were planted in Angola by all sides in the long conflict.
Over a recent 10-year period, 2,000 land mines were found on the route of the Benguela railway and removed by a British charity called the HALO Trust (in all, 68,000 mines in Angola have been cleared by this gallant organization). One effect of the decades of the Angolan civil war, which ended only in 1992, was that the animals that had not been eaten by starving people were blown up by land mines. Cows in pastures are still shredded by the explosions now and then of forgotten land mines, and so are children playing and people taking shortcuts through fields.
These were mainly Chinese and Israeli landmines planted by Cubans and South Africans, and similar kinds of land mines are made by any one of a number of American companies, such as Raytheon Corp., based just outside of Boston.
And then there are cluster bombs. In my travels, people from the Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mozambique, and Uganda have told me horror stories of the effects of these diabolical bombs, and on my return from these places what do I find on the other side of the looking glass? The shameful fact that Textron Defense Systems in the town of Wilmington, on the outskirts of Boston, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cluster bombs. The danse macabre of so many unlucky countries is a billion-dollar business, part of the Massachusetts economic miracle.
When the surviving suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing was charged with using “a weapon of mass destruction,” I mentally compared the two pressure cookers in the assault to an advanced cluster bomb, the so-called Sensor Fuzed Weapon made by Textron Defense Systems. As The Boston Globe reported, this little marvel is designed “to spray 40 individual projectiles of molten copper, destroying enemy tanks across a 30-acre swath of battlefield.” And not only enemy tanks, but humans, too.
After the bombing in Boston, a banner was lifted by rebels in Syria: BOSTON BOMBINGS REPRESENT A SORROWFUL SCENE OF WHAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY IN SYRIA. DO ACCEPT OUR CONDOLENCES. That banner which reminded me of life in the Belfast of recent memory, could be also raised in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Congo, South Sudan, in the Red Corridor of India bedeviled by the Naxalites, or in Assam under assault by the bombers of separatist movements, where almost every day is another day of heartbreak, of lives destroyed, bodies maimed, families torn apart. Boston did not deserve this—no city does—and it is lamentable that Boston has come to resemble the wider world of wreckage and bereavement.
The Looking Glass exists for everyone who travels back from violent places of the earth. And it contains another paradox. Just before you pass through the Looking Glass, you are looking at your own reflection. I was struck by the recognition of the Israeli spymasters, sadder but wiser, in the recent documentary The Gatekeepers, when at the end of that powerful film they reached the conclusion that in observing the Palestinians, they were looking in the mirror. “We have won already,” they’d been told by their enemy. “Victory for us is to see you suffer.”
by Paul Theroux May 16, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/16/paul-theroux-the-day-boston-felt-the-world-s-pain.html
When the travel writer returned to his hometown after the Marathon bombing, he found the mood of the city transformed, unified by a trauma, which he has seen elsewhere in the world.
For several decades, starting in the early 1970s, I traveled regularly from London, where I lived as a resident alien, to Boston, where I grew up, and each time it was like a tumble through the Looking Glass. Boston was so mild, so confident, still the joyous and even innocent city of my youth. The noteworthy Boston tragedies, vividly recalled by my father—the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (21 killed), the Cocoanut Grove nightclub inferno of 1942 (492 killed)—were over, and such infernalities seemed unrepeatable.
Arriving in Boston was like landing upon the bosom of serenity from the derangement of a war zone. Britain at that time was in the grip of a bombing campaign by well-funded and feuding nationalists in Ulster, who were driven by spite, folklorism, and religious bigotry and were tribalistic in their antique grudges, absurd in their speechifying.
London was weary and anxious, and by the mid-1970s there had been a number of bomb outrages: the Old Bailey bomb of 1973 (1 death, 200 injured, shattered buildings), the Guildford bombing of 1974 (5 killed, 65 wounded), the pub bombings in Birmingham (21 killed, 182 injured), the Regent’s Park nail bomb of 1982 (the deaths of 7 musicians playing selections from Oliver! and many injuries), the Chelsea Barracks cluster bomb on the same day (11 deaths, many dismemberments, seven dead horses), the bombing at Harrods department store at Christmas 1983 (six people killed); and 5 people dead and many injured in an attempt on Margaret Thatcher in Brighton in 1984.
The astonishing fact is that these unspeakable events in England were not as hideous as the everyday horrors in Ulster. Belfast was full of no-go areas and bomb craters throughout the 1970s and ’80s, and the mildest country town was not spared. In August 1979, Lord Mountbatten and two youths were blown up on his yacht—and the IRA took credit and crowed over it. I traveled to Ulster in the ’80s and found it a province of roadblocks and abject fear. A few years after I passed through the lovely town of Enniskillen, where as wreaths were being laid on the town’s cenotaph on Remembrance Day in 1987, a 40-pound bomb was detonated in the market square, killing 11 people and maiming and injuring 63. As late as 1998, a wicked bombing in Omagh caused 29 deaths, with 220 injured. Militant protestant paramilitary groups planted bombs and schemed in murders, but the explosions I mention were admitted to be the work of, or attributed to, the IRA, the Provos, or splinter groups, like the one in Omagh, which called itself the Real IRA.
Boston seemed innocent of the terror, or else conniving in it, making a conscious political statement, to the extent that one of the notable features on Boston roads were the bumper stickers supporting the IRA. It is well documented that a portion of the money collected in the U.S. by Noraid (the Irish Northern Aid Committee) was used to support the IRA bombing campaigns, and in another grotesque irony, some of the money used to buy weapons from the U.S. came from Libyan bagmen sent by Muammar Gaddafi, as one of the colonel’s many hobbies was the propagation of mayhem.
Except for such efforts as the Boston College oral-history project documenting the Irish Troubles, this history of violence has been little discussed in recent years or else strenuously justified as legitimate by, among many others, the longtime IRA supporter and unapologetic congressman Peter King, a Republican from New York.
After the two bombs on the day of the Boston Marathon, it seemed from the howls of pain, the cries for vengeance, the massing of troops and police, with tanks and helicopters, and the city’s paralysis, that Boston had lost its innocence. Such a bomb outrage had never happened in the city. But with severed limbs and three corpses outside the Boston Public Library and pools of blood on one of its oldest and happiest streets, the mood of the city was transformed—besieged, panicked, and ultimately unified—suffering in its trauma, in a way I have seen elsewhere in the world, yet painful to see in a city I love.
Boston did not deserve this—no city does—and it is lamentable that Boston has come to resemble the wider world of wreckage and bereavement.
The Looking Glass effect is routine for many travelers returning from a distant place. Not long ago I came back to Boston from Angola, which is still plagued by land mines that were scattered all over the country in its 27 years of civil war. It is estimated that 20 million land mines were planted in Angola by all sides in the long conflict.
Over a recent 10-year period, 2,000 land mines were found on the route of the Benguela railway and removed by a British charity called the HALO Trust (in all, 68,000 mines in Angola have been cleared by this gallant organization). One effect of the decades of the Angolan civil war, which ended only in 1992, was that the animals that had not been eaten by starving people were blown up by land mines. Cows in pastures are still shredded by the explosions now and then of forgotten land mines, and so are children playing and people taking shortcuts through fields.
These were mainly Chinese and Israeli landmines planted by Cubans and South Africans, and similar kinds of land mines are made by any one of a number of American companies, such as Raytheon Corp., based just outside of Boston.
And then there are cluster bombs. In my travels, people from the Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mozambique, and Uganda have told me horror stories of the effects of these diabolical bombs, and on my return from these places what do I find on the other side of the looking glass? The shameful fact that Textron Defense Systems in the town of Wilmington, on the outskirts of Boston, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of cluster bombs. The danse macabre of so many unlucky countries is a billion-dollar business, part of the Massachusetts economic miracle.
When the surviving suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing was charged with using “a weapon of mass destruction,” I mentally compared the two pressure cookers in the assault to an advanced cluster bomb, the so-called Sensor Fuzed Weapon made by Textron Defense Systems. As The Boston Globe reported, this little marvel is designed “to spray 40 individual projectiles of molten copper, destroying enemy tanks across a 30-acre swath of battlefield.” And not only enemy tanks, but humans, too.
After the bombing in Boston, a banner was lifted by rebels in Syria: BOSTON BOMBINGS REPRESENT A SORROWFUL SCENE OF WHAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY IN SYRIA. DO ACCEPT OUR CONDOLENCES. That banner which reminded me of life in the Belfast of recent memory, could be also raised in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Congo, South Sudan, in the Red Corridor of India bedeviled by the Naxalites, or in Assam under assault by the bombers of separatist movements, where almost every day is another day of heartbreak, of lives destroyed, bodies maimed, families torn apart. Boston did not deserve this—no city does—and it is lamentable that Boston has come to resemble the wider world of wreckage and bereavement.
The Looking Glass exists for everyone who travels back from violent places of the earth. And it contains another paradox. Just before you pass through the Looking Glass, you are looking at your own reflection. I was struck by the recognition of the Israeli spymasters, sadder but wiser, in the recent documentary The Gatekeepers, when at the end of that powerful film they reached the conclusion that in observing the Palestinians, they were looking in the mirror. “We have won already,” they’d been told by their enemy. “Victory for us is to see you suffer.”
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Both the BBC and Wall Street Journal have investigative reports which suggest that Tamerlan Tsarnaev may not have been quite the Islamic Radical as it first appeared.
It seems that he subscribed to various conspiracy theory and white supremacist websites, publications and chat groups. According to the WSJ story he was asked by his mother to assist her with one of her home care clients who had been shot in the face during a robbery 40 years before. The patient had physically recovered, but described by family as mentally changed. The man had gradually developed an affinity for conspiracy theories, and the white supremacy movement. According to the article, Tsarnaev had many in depth discussions with the man, and both apparently shared similar views and beliefs.
I'm attaching links to both the BBC and WSJ sites, but unfortunately the WSJ article is behind a pay wall.
WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323420604578649830782219440.html?KEYWORDS=boston+bombing#articleTabs%3Darticle
BBC:
Why did Boston bomber hate the US?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23571419
One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings subscribed to radical right wing American literature about guns, government conspiracy theories and white supremacy.
The BBC's Panorama programme has learnt that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was reading right wing material before the attack.
It could challenge the perception of the brothers as straightforward radical jihadists.
Hilary Andersson reports. (VIDEO AT LINK)
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had right-wing extremist literature
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23541341
It seems that he subscribed to various conspiracy theory and white supremacist websites, publications and chat groups. According to the WSJ story he was asked by his mother to assist her with one of her home care clients who had been shot in the face during a robbery 40 years before. The patient had physically recovered, but described by family as mentally changed. The man had gradually developed an affinity for conspiracy theories, and the white supremacy movement. According to the article, Tsarnaev had many in depth discussions with the man, and both apparently shared similar views and beliefs.
I'm attaching links to both the BBC and WSJ sites, but unfortunately the WSJ article is behind a pay wall.
WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323420604578649830782219440.html?KEYWORDS=boston+bombing#articleTabs%3Darticle
BBC:
Why did Boston bomber hate the US?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23571419
One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings subscribed to radical right wing American literature about guns, government conspiracy theories and white supremacy.
The BBC's Panorama programme has learnt that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was reading right wing material before the attack.
It could challenge the perception of the brothers as straightforward radical jihadists.
Hilary Andersson reports. (VIDEO AT LINK)
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had right-wing extremist literature
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23541341
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Additional links to articles referencing the WSJ and BBC reports.
Meet the Man Who Supplied Tamerlan Tsarnaev with Right Wing Literature
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/meet-man-who-gave-tamerlan-tsarnaev-his-right-wing-literature/68020/
Meet the Man Who Supplied Tamerlan Tsarnaev with Right Wing Literature
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/meet-man-who-gave-tamerlan-tsarnaev-his-right-wing-literature/68020/
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Good news.
Updated
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty in Boston Marathon bombing
Former student convicted on all charges, jury to weigh possible death sentence
The Associated Press Posted: Apr 08, 2015 1:29 PM ET| Last Updated: Apr 08, 2015 4:20 PM ET
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a federal jury that now must decide whether the 21-year-old former college student should be executed.
Tsarnaev folded his arms, fidgeted and looked down at the defence table as he listened to one guilty verdict after another on all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy and deadly use of a weapon of mass destruction. Seventeen of those counts are punishable by death.
The jury took a day and a half to reach its verdict, which was practically a foregone conclusion, given his lawyer's startling admission during opening statements that Tsarnaev carried out the attack with his now dead older brother, Tamerlan.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-found-guilty-in-boston-marathon-bombing-1.3025083
Updated
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty in Boston Marathon bombing
Former student convicted on all charges, jury to weigh possible death sentence
The Associated Press Posted: Apr 08, 2015 1:29 PM ET| Last Updated: Apr 08, 2015 4:20 PM ET
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a federal jury that now must decide whether the 21-year-old former college student should be executed.
Tsarnaev folded his arms, fidgeted and looked down at the defence table as he listened to one guilty verdict after another on all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy and deadly use of a weapon of mass destruction. Seventeen of those counts are punishable by death.
The jury took a day and a half to reach its verdict, which was practically a foregone conclusion, given his lawyer's startling admission during opening statements that Tsarnaev carried out the attack with his now dead older brother, Tamerlan.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-found-guilty-in-boston-marathon-bombing-1.3025083
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I'm keeping my fingers crossed he'll be meeting up with his brother sooner rather than later.
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jollyjacktar said:
If he's sentenced to death, it's a good bet he'll soend 10-15 years on Death Row, while the left wing apologist lawyers, human rights advocates, and other various sheep will exhaust every appeal.
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