MOGADISHU -- Early Thursday morning a man died after reportedly trying to plant an improvised explosive device (IED) in main intersection in Mogadishu, Garowe Online reports.
"Beelzebub! Send out the lesser virgin devils with another spiked iron stool and a trident. You'll have to find a space in the third row back, fourth row down, next to the lava fountain, but at least he'll only be crowded on five sides."
Authorities said that after dawn prayers a man's body was found in the middle of Turabunka and KM4 intersection in Mogadishu's Hodan district. The busy intersection was empty as authorities say he died when the IED he was planting detonated.
Hours later, authorities stated that they had arrested 7 co-conspirators and that the case was still pending.
The intersection is one of Mogadishu's busiest streets, frequented by students who attend schools in the area.
According to local sources, the impact of the blast could be heard throughout Mogadishu which according to witnesses severed the man's body.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Seven members of an alleged al-Qaeda cell have been tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! over plans to attack targets in the United Arab Emirates, officials tell state media.
The group was planning actions which compromised the Gulf nation's security, according to state news agency WAM.
An unidentified source told the agency the cell recruited people, promoted al-Qaeda and provided finances and logistical support to the organization.
All seven members are believed to be Arab nationals.
Last December, the UAE arrested members of what it called a terror cell which it said was planning to attack targets in the Emirates and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Another 94 people, said to be members of an Islamist organization, are on trial in the UAE charged with plotting to overthrow the government.
The detainees, all Emiratis, include prominent human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... lawyers as well as judges, teachers and student leaders.
An Emirati human rights activist who asked not to be named told the BBC that "it was highly unlikely" al-Qaeda was operating in the UAE.
"I don't put any credibility in what state security says. These kinds of arrests are a pretext for repression."
The UAE is a major oil exporter and key Western ally in the region, comprising seven sheikhdoms run by ruling families.
Up to 80% of its residents are expatriates, lured by work in construction or the lucrative financial sector.
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Leaders of BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance on Thursday asked its leaders and activists across the country to resist the armed cadres of the ruling party like they did in Fatikchari of Chittagong killing three people.
Attack and destroy the Awami League-Chhatra League cadres who try to resist our hartals like in Fatikchari, Sadeque Hossain Khoka, convenor of Dhaka city unit of BNP, said while addressing a protest rally at the capitals Nayapaltan.
Cheez, they sound almost as bloodthirsty as MS-NBC...
Three people were killed and about 120 others, including cops, injured in the clash involving the activists of AL and Jamaat-Shibir-Hefajat and villagers at Kazirhat in Fatikchhari upazila on April 11. Over 100 motorcycles, four mini trucks, three private cars, a vehicle of Fire Service and a microbus were also torched during the clash
The opposition alliance held the rally protesting the governments failure in finding out missing opposition leaders, including M Ilias Ali. Ilias Ali, a BNP organising secretary, was disappeared in April last year.
Anybody look in the banana grove? The secret lair? Drawer number 1423 at Dr. Quincy's?
The activists of Jamaat-e-Islami seemed outnumbered the main opposition BNP in the gathering, our correspondent covering the event reported.
How many undercover government secret agents?
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A cache containing arms and ammunition was discovered on Tuesday during a special operation in the village of Gimry, a press officer said at an Interior Ministry press service for Dagestan.
He said that village security seized an assault rifle, a pistol, an air gun, a grenade, machinegun magazines, large quantities of cartridges, 27 walkie-talkies of various models, several dozen car alarms, instructions for making home-made bombs, maps, and over 200,000 rubles in cash from the cache in the central mosque of the village.
Sources say the cache belonged to members of Gimry terrorist group.
WATERTOWN (CBS) A flurry of applause at the scene of a standoff between police and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev signaled his capture Friday night.
After a nearly two-hour standoff in a Watertown neighborhood, Tsarnaev was taken from the scene by ambulance to Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.
A Tweet by Boston police minutes later said it best:
CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.
Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 20, 2013
The standoff began just before 7 p.m., minutes after Massachusetts State Police announced that they had completed their door-to-door search in Watertown without locating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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A cocktail of sodium pentothal and waterboarding.
Just what the doctor ordered.
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he has two gunshot wounds. Paging Dirty Harry Callahan
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Said in other thread, Miranda rights were read. He is a U.S. Citizen since last fall. That being said, I'm glad he's alive and hope he stays that way. I want to know the info he has.
If he doesn't have ANY, that's a sure sign we're talking about a cell.
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The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over...
As the Wolf once said Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.
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He's in serious condition at hospital but alive.
As per FREEREPUBLIC, there seems to be an on-going Twitter debate [Twitter-gate] between NBC News + CBS News on whether he was read his Miranda Rights.
US CITIZENSHIP VERSUS "PIBLIC SAFETY EXCEPTION" > IMO read, DHS + CIA, etc. Feds wanna question Dzhokhar - maybe even to Gitmo him???
* BREAKING NEWS > NEW YORK TIMES = US is investigating whether older Bro Tamerlan met wid Extremists while on visit to Russia last year.
Tsarnaev family claims Tamerlan had been watched + followed by the FBI for past three years.
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FBI: Bombing suspect interviewed in 2011 Agents interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 at the request of a foreign government that suspected he might have ties to extremist groups, the FBI official said.
The official declined to name the foreign government, but said the FBI took a number of investigative steps to check on the request, including interviewing Tsarnaev, looking at his travel history, checking databases for derogatory information and searching for Web postings.
Ultimately, no derogatory information was found and the matter was concluded, the FBI official said. The foreign government was told nothing was found and didn't make any additional requests, the FBI official said.
The officials said the FBI has not connected the Tsarnaev brothers to any terror groups here or aboard.
WATERTOWN, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) A number of gun shots were fired near Franklin Street in Watertown Friday night and it was believed that suspect number 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings had been shot.
FOX 25's Bob Ward reported that as many 30 shots were fired in the neighborhood. Ward reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man known as suspect 2, was shot by police.
Ward, citing sources, said that Tsarnaev was still alive, was moving and was surrounded. FOX 25's Jarrod Holbrook reported that Tsarnaev was seen in a boat with a canvas cover. He was reportedly poking holes in the canvas.
Holbrook reported hearing the shots being fired in rapid succession, "like a roll of firecrackers" shortly after a "Shelter in Place" order had been lifted in Boston and its surrounding area.
A bomb squad robot had been deployed at the scene to check the boat for explosives.
SWAT teams, sharpshooters, FBI agents, and police took command of the tense and locked-down streets of Boston and its suburbs Friday in an all-out hunt for the 19-year-old Tsarnaev after his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died in a desperate getaway attempt overnight.
The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight Thursday that left Tamerlan dead and Dzhokhar on the run.
Officials said Dzhokhar fled the Watertown scene on foot.
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A point that's been bothering me, if they planned this why exactly did he become a US citizen? The only thing I can think of is this exact scenario, where he HAS to be read his rights as a Citizen on American soil, and thus the "message", whatever it is, gets out. The timing would work too if they planned to hit the NY marathon but instead got canceled out.
Also reports of 2men 1woman being arrested as well. Are we talking about...a cell?
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People in that neighborhood are cheering for their LEO's. Boston Police Dept tweet: "In our time of rejoicing, let us not forget the families of Martin Richard, Lingzi Lu, Krystle Campbell and Officer Sean Collier."
#5
The younger brother became a citizen as a child. The older brother became a citizen so that he could travel freely, as likely did their father, who apparently returned to Russia a year ago, leaving his wife and family here.
It happens. Not everyone can make the transition permanently.
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Dzhokar became a naturalized citizen on 9/11/12. A grateful nation rushs to embrace a new immigration "reform" without adequate discussion and debate and deliberation. The irony is lost on Dzhokar and America
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Exactly, in the fall. That's the one taken ALIVE. And I just read on Hot-Air, read his Miranda Rights. Which TECHNICALLY was the correct action under the law as it is currently written.
TW, he was given Asylum in Virgina in 2002. That's probably what you were thinking of for Tsarnaev. Though given our immigration system it might as well of been. I haven't read anything about the elders or fathers immigration status's.
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You're right, Charles. My mistake. It's been a long day.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev flew in and out of John F. Kennedy Airport last year and was out of the country for six months, and investigators said they want to know if he received any terror training while he was overseas, NBC 4 New York has learned.
Might have just gone home to see the family. But now we have to depend on Putin and the Russian secret police for information. That's not a comforting thought...
Travel records obtained by NBC 4 New York show Tsarnaev left New York on Jan. 12, 2012 for Sheremetyevo, Russia. He stayed overseas and returned to JFK on July 17. The travel documents show a photo of a bearded Tsarnaev. The documents show the terror suspect was born on Oct. 21, 1986 and first entered the U.S. through JFK on July 19, 2003.
Bearded? No beard at the Marathon. Was he more pious when he was traveling or was he trying to blend in on Marathon Day?
The documents show it was not until Friday that U.S. officials determined he was a person or instrument that may pose a threat to the security of the United States.
Tsarnaev was killed amid the shootout with police early Friday. The manhunt was continuing for his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born on July 22, 1993, the records show. They also said he flew to the U.S. on April 12, 2002 with his family, which applied for asylum. The family was granted legal permanent residence on March 2, 2007, and Tsarnaev became a citizen on Sept. 11, 2012. The documents show there is no record of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev leaving the United States.
Other news reports say that little brother idolized big brother (not surprising). Perhaps big brother got radicalized (before or after his trip to Russia) and then spread it to the little brother.
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But now we have to depend on Putin and the Russian secret police for information. That's not a comforting thought...
Putin and the Ruskie Federal Security Service (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, or FSB) may be able to assist.... as soon as they stop laughing.
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Just like any "normal American." Or as Wolf Blitzer calls them, fully "assimilated." Who among us doesn't have a teenage son who spends time on Islamist websites, travels overseas, and tinkers around with bombs?
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"as soon as they stop laughing."
Not in this case. Russia doesn't take Chechen terrorists lightly even if they "only" kill Americans.
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russia/putin doesn't like islamists nor bombing innocents, so I don't accept their's laughter BUT we are supporting islamists in syria at russia's disapproval, again no laughing matter.
Is it something in the Labrador Current this week?
Put under WoT because of the hate crime angle. The perp, as you'll read, just about made it all the way to an SJS situation...
The attempted arrest of an allegedly hate-mongering teen aboard a Brooklyn subway quickly turned into a wild showdown between cops and a roiled mob, according to sources and video obtained by the Daily News.
The melee began when suspect Stephan Stowe, 17, and a group of eight friends approached a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke aboard a Brooklyn-bound 3 train just before 3 p.m. Monday, police sources said Wednesday.
"Assalamu Alaikum," Stowe said to the man, using a common greeting among Muslims that means, "Peace be with you," court documents allege.
When the man ignored the greeting, Stowe allegedly became combative.
I think that translates into Stowe was looking for a fight and was going to have one, regardless of how hard he had to work to provoke a situation...
"You think you're better than me?" the teen allegedly said. "We are cousins."
"No we're not," The man shot back, and told Stowe to leave him alone.
Which to a normal person would have ended the situation then and there, but Mr. Stowe (the one looking for a fight, with his home boyz as backup) decided to escalate:
The suspect then started hurling ethnic slurs and called the man disrespectful, according to court papers.
As the tension aboard the train escalated, the man whipped out his cell phone and took a photo of Stowe, who then snatched the phone and deleted the photo, police sources said.
I can see wanting to get a picture, but that's going to be interpreted by the perp(s) in only one way...
"I'm going to kill you right now," Stowe said, according to cops and court records.
That's assault and incitement to murder right there.
He then swore at the man, according to cops and court records, and in an apparent reference to the Holocaust added, "They should have killed all of you."
And that makes it a 'hate crime', though of course progressives (with moist eyes and tender feelings) won't classify it as such...
The man managed to swipe his phone back from Stowe and ran to alert the conductor, police sources said. As the train pulled into the Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum stop, cops were waiting to collar Stowe, police sources said.
But that's when a mob rose up against the cops. A pair of police officers struggled to detain Stowe inside the empty train while the angry onlookers swarmed the station's platform snapping video and yelling at cops, video first published by Gothamist on Wednesday shows. Alarmed by the swelling crowd, the cops called for backup, police sources said.
Amid the chaos -- and while Stowe appeared to resist arrest -- a woman aboard the train, Sheniqua Joseph, 22, got involved, according to police and the video.
After four minutes of alleged badgering of the officers, cops tried to place Joseph under arrest, video shows, and eventually slammed her against a wall while she went ballistic. Joseph is accused of throwing a haymaker at one of the cops and kicking him in the stomach, court records allege.
Bad move Sheniqua. What we don't know is whether she was with Stowe's 'gang' in the first place or was just an on-looker who decided to hassle the cops.
She was arraigned on charges of obstructing governmental administration, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
How about for assault?
Stowe was arraigned on eight charges, including grand larceny, which was charged as a hate crime, resisting arrest and harassment.
Stowe and Joseph could not be reached for comment Wednesday night. The victim of the alleged hate crime declined to comment.
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Im guessing Stowes buddies used their cell phones to call their buddies to meet them at the platform when they realized the conductor had called the police.
Either that or the whole thing started because they knew they were gonna meet the mob and thus felt invincible.
BOSTON A second uncle of the two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings says the men have been in the U.S. for seven or eight years.
They apparently had refugee status because of the problems in Chechnya. If I run the FBI that whole 'refugee' list gets a major review ASAP, even if each and every person had been 'thoroughly' vetted prior to gaining entry to our country.
Alvi Tsarni told CBS News because of some issues in the family, he hadnt spoken to the two men for a couple of years.
Perhaps the boys were getting to be more pious than the uncle, a man from an older generation, was comfortable with?
However, he says Tamerlan called him yesterday to apologize for that.
Yesterday he called me and said forgive me, Alvi Tsarni said.
For not calling?
Alvi Tsarni expressed disbelief that his nephews could have committed such a horrific act. Im sorry too if he did this. Its crazy Its not possible I cannot believe he did this, he said.
Afraid so, Uncle. Just from the way you express your denial you know it's more than possible.
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If I run the FBI that whole 'refugee' list gets a major review ASAP, even if each and every person had been 'thoroughly' vetted prior to gaining entry to our country.
Have they found all the Somali "refugees" that disappeared from Minnesota?
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Thanks Rob for that comforting thought...
PS: good to see you here!
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Remember: early media reports are often incomplete or flat out wrong.
NIAGARA FALLS, NY - A high ranking source tells 2 On Your Side that the traffic stop in Niagara Falls this morning was routine, but police are searching items in the vehicle and residents are being asked to stay away from the area.
Police stopped the car at 19th and Elmwood in the Falls. The vehicle has Massachusetts license plates.
A source earlier this morning said the two occupants were Russian nationals, but police now say that is not true.
The FBI tells 2 On Your Side they are aware of the situation and that their joint-terrorism task force is assisting the NYSP.
As a precaution, authorities investigated the vehicle to determine whether it was safe. A remote controlled robot tested the vehicle. Belongings from the vehicle were all tested, and all items tested negative.
Mayor Paul Dyster says the people inside the vehicle are U.S. citizens.
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Barry Rubin, posting over at Yid with Lid, posts an interesting timeline of attacks, planned and foiled, for the New York area since 9/11. When people ask "why would Chechnyan youths come to America and plan terror attacks?", the answer is that of the scorpion to the frog: it's what they do.
Full credit to Barry for the list and a big thank you to the Yid. Barry, in case you're wondering, is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal.
Since September 11, 2001, there have been 18 known terrorist attacks planned in New York City and they all have something in common: the worldview of the perpetrators. In some cases, they were called off by al-Qaeda:
In 2002, Iyman Faris, a U.S.-based al-Qaeda operative, planned to cut the Brooklyn Bridge's support cables at the direction of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
In 2003, al-Qaeda had planned to release cyanide gas in New York City's subway system and attack other public places.
In 2006, Uzair Paracha, a Brooklyn resident, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after he was convicted of attempting to help al-Qaeda operative Majid Khan enter the United States to attack gas tanks. Paracha's father worked with al-Qaida to smuggle explosives - including possibly nuclear weapons - into the United States using the New York office of Paracha's import-export business.
Dhiren Barot (aka Issa al-Hindi) was sentenced to life in prison by a United Kingdom court in 2006 after pleading guilty to planning to attack several targets both in the UK and the U.S., including the New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, and the Prudential Building in Newark, NJ.
Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay plotted in 2004 to place explosive devices in the Herald Square subway station in Manhattan.
In July 2006, the FBI revealed it had uncovered a plot involving an attack on a PATH commuter train tunnel connecting New York and New Jersey by Islamists, the placement of suicide bombers on trains, and the destruction of the retaining wall separating the Hudson River from the World Trade Center site in the hopes of causing massive flooding in the city's Financial District.
Beginning in 2006, four Islamists plotted to detonate the jet-fuel storage tanks and supply lines for John F. Kennedy Airport in order to cause wide-scale destruction and economic disruption in an attack they intended to dwarf 9/11.
In a series of three trials spanning 2008 to 2010, eight Muslims were convicted in Britain of attempting to simultaneously detonate explosives in seven airliners traveling from London to several North American metropolises, including New York.
Bryant Neal Vinas, of Long Island, New York, traveled to Pakistan with an intent to die fighting against American forces in Afghanistan. In summer of 2008, Vinas spoke to al-Qaeda about targeting the Long Island Railroad using a suitcase bomb that would be left in a car and set to detonate.
In May 2009, four Islamists placed what they believed were functioning bombs outside of Jewish targets in the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale and additionally constructed plans to fire missiles at military transport planes at Stewart International Airport near Newburgh, NY.
In September 2009, the New York City subway system was targeted for attack by three individuals supporting al-Qaeda who planned to set off bombs in the subway during rush hour shortly after the eighth anniversary of 9/11.
Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American residing in Connecticut, attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square on May 1, 2010.
Ahmed Ferhani, an Queens resident born in Algeria, along with Mohammad Mamdouh, a Moroccan immigrant, were arrested in May 2011 in an NYPD operation in which Ferhani purchased a hand grenade, three semi-automatic pistols and ammunition from an undercover detective. NYPD's investigation into the pair revealed their desire to attack a synagogue in New York City.
Jose Pimentel, a native of the Dominican Republic and convert to Islam, was charged with plotting to detonate bombs in and around New York City in November 2011.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a 21-year-old native of Bangladesh residing in the U.S. on a student visa, was arrested in October 2012 as he attempted to remotely detonate what he believed was a bomb in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in lower Manhattan.
Raees Alam Qazi and Sheheryar Alam Qazi, Pakistan-born brothers, were arrested by federal authorities in Florida in November 2012 for charges relating to a plan to bomb popular New York City landmarks including Times Square, Wall Street and city theaters.
Jesse Morton, a New York City-based Muslim convert, was apprehended in Morocco and pleaded guilty in February 2012 to conspiring to solicit murder, making threatening communications, and using the Internet to place others in fear, most notably through his website Revolution Muslim.
Alessa and Carlos Almonte, both of New Jersey, pleaded guilty in March 2011 to conspiring to murder persons outside of the United States on behalf of al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based, al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group.
And even this list doesn't include the 2007 plot to attack nearby Fort Dix by a half-dozen Islamists since that was handled by the New Jersey authorities.
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With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice brother robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives in an extraordinary firefight with law enforcement.
The suspects are brothers of Chechen origin with the last name Tsarnaev
The second suspect -- the one in the white hat in photos released by the FBI -- was on the loose. Gov. Deval Patrick ordered the entire city of Boston and some suburbs to stay inside during what he called a "massive manhunt," and police began a house-to-house search. Boston shut down its buses and subway system.
The suspects are brothers of Chechen origin with the last name Tsarnaev, law enforcement officials told NBC News. The suspect at large, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is 19, was born in Kyrgyzstan and has a Massachusetts driver's license, they said. The dead suspect was identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, born in Russia.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was run over by a vehicle during the firefight, law enforcement officials told NBC News. Law enforcement officials also told NBC News that the brothers entered the United States with family in 2002 or 2003, and that Tamerlan Tsarnaev became a legal permanent resident in 2007.
The chaotic sequence of events started six hours after the FBI triggered a nationwide manhunt by releasing photos of the suspects, believed responsible for detonating two bombs at the marathon finish line Monday, killing three people and injuring 176.
The suspect at large was described by authorities as light-skinned and with brown, curly hair, and wearing a gray hoodie.
"There is a terrorist on the loose," a law enforcement officer said at a press conference before dawn.
Police shut a 4-mile stretch of streets between Cambridge, Mass., and Watertown because they could be littered with unexploded devices, and they began a door-to-door search in Watertown. A convoy of at least 20 vehicles, including military-style humvees and buses, was seen descending on the town.
More than 1 million people in Boston and the suburbs were ordered to stay inside and lock their doors.
"I just want to speak to the community of Watertown. We need your help now. We are asking everyone to shelter into your place," Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau said. "The Watertown community has always stood strong. We need them to do that today."
Harvard University, Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, other colleges and Boston public schools all closed. Emerson University closed and told students to stay where they were.
Andrew Kitzenberg, who lives in Watertown, said he saw the two men shooting at six police cars from 70 or 80 yards away.
"There was a long exchange of gunfire," told NBC News in an interview. He said that he saw the suspects use what looked like a pressure-cooker bomb.
"I saw them light this bomb. They threw it towards the officers," he said. "It created a significant decoy, and there was smoke that covered our entire street."
Law enforcement officials said the tumult began just before 11 p.m., when the suspects approached a police officer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shot him in the head. The two then stole the officer's cruiser, robbed a nearby 7-Eleven, carjacked a Mercedes SUV and briefly kidnapped the driver, the sources said.
The suspects threw explosives out the window during the chase that followed, they said. A Boston transit police officer was shot and wounded, authorities said.
The dead suspect -- the man in the black hat from the FBI photos -- had an improvised explosive device strapped to his chest, law enforcement officials said.
Kitzenberg said that the firefight ended when one of the shooters ran toward the Watertown officers and ultimately fell to the ground. Kitzenberg said he could not tell whether the man was tackled or had been shot. The other drove the SUV through a line of police offcers at the end of the street, he said.
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One TV report stated Tamerlan, after he went down, was run over by brother Dzhokar.
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I'm quite certain the FBI senior agents have a lot on their minds this morning, and I don't want to be a Monday morning quarterback. I do hope there is a team looking for the handlers.
My wife is watching CNN right now; that network is taking pains to assure us all that just because the brothers are from Chechnya we shouldn't assume they are terrorists. Of course not, non-terrorists plant bombs and gun down police officers all the time. As Fred says, you could look it up.
I think we know better. These two were part of a terrorist cell. Why activated now? For what purpose? Who else was in the cell? Who was the handler, the money-man and the delivery-man? How did two 'students' like an apparently comfortable life in Boston?
And the big question, of course: how many other cells like this one?
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IMO, these two are just, incredibly, stupid robbers.
A bloody Moslem warlord who wanted to be the Caliph but was not one of the Quryash (tribe of the prophet) so he had to settle for "big cheese" came out of Mongolia as a new Ghengis.
BUT, there are still people swearing that this was an Orthodox Christian and had nothing to do with Islam, nope, nothing to see here.
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The media is already going through their predictable Politically correct machinations. What could drive these two young men to commit such a heinous act? Chechnya? But they want independence from Russia why attack the US. And of course the obligatory how did they become radicalized?
More then a decade after 9/11 and they still can't say the blindingly obvious. Its Islam.
He couldn't be caliph (per AlanC's comment). He also couldn't be a khan because he wasn't descended from Ghengis Khan. He was a devoted muslim.
He and his hordes murdered over 10 million and caused the death via starvation or overwork of another 5 to 10 million. Among his victims were several million muslims.
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Or....... they could be on financial contract from a third country, and someone possibly their handler hit the activate button.
In all the data that is surfacing, I see no mention of employment.
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From various comments and social media, sounds like the older (now dead) one was becoming pious. No alcohol, no smoking, etc. He had a hot looking girlfriend who supposedly had converted to Islam.
Now he was also a boxer, and perhaps staying away from cigs and alcohol is a good idea if you're going to be a competitive pugilist. I'd like to see more of what he was writing. Particularly in non-English forums.
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Reference #12: Quite possible, similar to PLO and Pakistani Taliban.
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One of them ( the younger) was awarded a scholarship by Cambraidge.
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Yes, by the city of Cambridge, not the university located therein. Looks like one of the typical 'do-gooder' type small scholarships given to a number of young people, not just him.
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The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed "all hell will break loose."
Anzor Tsarnaev spoke to ABC News from his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala as Boston police carried out an intense dragnet for his son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, survived a running gun battle with police during the night that left an MIT security officer dead and a Boston cop badly wounded. His older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout.
The father said he spoke to his sons by phone earlier this week. "We talked about the bombing. I was worried about then," Anzor Tsarnaev said.
He said his sons reassured him, saying, "Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good."
The elder Tsarnaev insisted that his sons were innocent, but said he would appeal to his son to "surrender peacefully."
"Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia," the dad said.
The father warned, however, "If they killed him, then all hell would break loose."
"If they kill my second child, I will know that it is an inside job, a hit job. The police are to blame," the father told ABC News. "Someone, some organization is out to get them."
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Daddy sounds like a perfect fit as a CNN commentator.
#21
Tamerlan had a YouTube profile, where he created a playlist dedicated to terrorism and another for Islam.
That says plenty. FBI is visiting a Catholic guy who blogs pro-life, but gives a free pass to these, Its those Catholics and Pro-Life terrorists that pose the greatest threat apparently.
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Of course they aren't terrorists or muslim, it would not fit the MSM or POTUS narrative.
I think we are in it for the long haul. Now that Islamic fanatics know how easy it is to cause great harm to the western "devil" we are going to have hell to pay.
Napolitano and Holder and all of those politically correct Kumbiyah, if we could understand them and get them to like us they wouldn't do this crowd has to understand the nature of the struggle.
As long as we are NOT Moslem, we are infidels and as infidels we are targets of Jihad and conversion by any means fair or foul, violence, rape, murder, you name it.
Tamerlane, massacred the entire city of Baghdad, killing over 5 million, he told his troops that each of them had to bring him two heads. He built pyramids of human heads at the four corners of the city over 100 feet square each. He threw all of the books and scrolls in the University of Baghdad library into the river and the river turned black from the ink.
The Moslems for some peculiar reason recognize Tamerlane as a great "Defender of the Faith" possibly because he killed so many people. They seem to like historic figures that massacre innocents.
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"The river went red with blood, then black with ink." The account I read gave him a title to match slaughterer of the innocents and scurge of knowledge - savior of Christianity. IIRC, the western islamic empire was knocking on the gates of Constantinople with victory in their grasp when tamerlame's army attacked the islamists, and kicking their asses so badly that the Byzantines covertly aided the turks. It set back the eventual capture of Constantinople; had it fallen then, there was little in the way of islam sweeping across eastern europe and beyond.
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"Tamerlane, massacred the entire city of Baghdad, killing over 5 million, he told his troops that each of them had to bring him two heads. He built pyramids of human heads at the four corners of the city over 100 feet square each. He threw all of the books and scrolls in the University of Baghdad library into the river and the river turned black from the ink."
Actually this refers to Hülegü's conquest of Baghdad in 1258 where up to 800000 people are said to have been killed. Tamerlan is said to have killed up to 100000 (70000 most likely) when he reconquered rebellious Baghdad... certainly not 5 million. Baghdad never had that many inhabitants before the late 20th century,
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tamerlane's conquest of Baghdad was in 1401 or so
the renerally accepted civilan death toll is about 20000 in that event
tamerlane had many other conquests which ended with massacres far greater than that in Baghdad
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* LATEST * ... WOLF BLITZER + CNN this AM > are repor that Watertown, MA Police may finally have younger brother DZHOKHAR/DZHOKAR holed up or cornered in a neighborhood - Tear Gas is repor being fired to entice him to surrender.
This is occurring after after an AM Press Briefing where Authorities saud the public could back out from lockdown vee their domiciles as long as they understood the house-to-house search + manhunt is still on-going, + remain vigilant. DZHOKHAR was apparently cornered barely 15 minutes after the end of the Briefing.
#3
There is a lot going on that has not yet been picked up by the MSM. After the officer was shot (and later died) police apprehended a suspect and are after another in and around Watertown . Reports of a possible bomb in the roadway and concern that there could be others. I have been following this twitter link : @MichaelSkolnik It reads like a action movie plot.
#6
The bostonglobe.com has dropped its paywall & is open to anyone to peruse.
From its section on the incident:
WATERTOWN One suspect in Mondays Boston Marathon bombings has been captured, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation. Another remains on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police. Authorities have established a 20-block perimeter as they search for him.
A scene of chaos descended on Cambridge and Watertown late Thursday night and early Friday morning, as police confirmed an MIT police officer was shot and killed, and an apparent carjacking led police on a wild chase into Watertown.
Witnesses in Watertown said they heard explosions. Police officers were screaming about improvised explosive devices.
Authorities would not comment on whether the events were connected to Mondays Boston Marathon bombings. At least one of the suspects in Watertown appeared to be a man in his 20s.
FBI agents were on the scene in Watertown.
We are aware of the situation, we are being involved, and we are monitoring, said an FBI representative who requested anonymity because of not being authorized to speak publicly. The FBI source said early Friday it is too early to speculate on a relation to the Marathon bombing.
Dozens of police officers descended on Watertown Square after midnight.
This is still extremely dangerous, an FBI agent said. The Cambridge bomb squad arrived in Watertown shortly after 1:30 a.m.
A man in handcuffs was being questioned by the FBI in the back of an ambulance.
At Arsenal Court and Arsenal Street in Watertown, an officer bellowed: Ya gotta get outta here. Theres an active shooter here with an active explosive. Go!
Peter Jennings, 33, said he was sleeping just before 1 a.m. in his home on Prentiss Street in Watertown when he was awakened by a huge boom.
It sounded like a stick of dynamite went off, he said. I looked out the window, and it was like nothing Ive ever seen blue light after blue light after blue light.
He said more than three dozen emergency vehicles with sirens blaring were heading down Rt. 16 West. He went to the end of his street, where some neighbors were gathering. The air, he said, smelled like at the end of a fireworks show, like a wick smell.
I had a bad feeling because of what happened on Monday, he said.
John Antonuccis 79-year-old mother called him hysterical from her home in Laurel Street. She heard about five gun shots and didnt know what to do.
She was saying theyre running down the street shooting, Antonucci said standing outside if yellow police tape. She was crying so hard I couldnt understand what she was talking about.
If any concerns about someone at door, call 911 immediately. Repeat--Do not answer door, stay away from windows, keep doors locked.
MASS STATE POLICE @MassStatePolice 3m
Residents in and around Watertown should stay in their residences. Do NOT answer door unless it is an identified police officer.
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Most recent MSP tweet:
Police will be going door by door, street by street, in and around Watertown. Police will be clearly identified. It is a fluid situation.
#13
My money's on Saudi supposed students.
phil_b, I like to take the Sherlock Holmes approach to criminal situations; "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
This is either the real deal or a drug bust gone bad.
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Surveillance video from a 7-11 robbery in Cambridge just before the shootings & manhunt began in the area, showing suspect #2, the current focus of the manhunt:
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Reuters quoting the local district attorney at 0415 EDT:
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX DISTRICT ATTORNEY
15 COMMONWEALTH AVE WOBURN MA 01801
Middlesex
District Attorney
For Immediate
Release Contact: Stephanie Chelf Guyotte/MaryBeth Long
UPDATE: Two Suspects Involved In MIT Officer Shooting And
Armed Carjacking
One suspect killed, second suspect at large
CAMBRIDGE -- Police are investigating a fatal
shooting of MIT campus police officer by two men who then committed an armed
carjacking in Cambridge, Middlesex Acting District Attorney Michael Pelgro,
Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas, and MIT Police Chief John DiFava
announced this evening.
At approximately 10:20 p.m. April 18, police received
reports of shots fired on the MIT campus. At 10:30 p.m., an MIT campus
police officer was found shot in his vehicle in the area of Vassar and Main
streets. According to authorities, the officer was found evidencing
multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to Massachusetts General
Hospital and pronounced deceased.
Authorities launched an immediate investigation into the
circumstances of the shooting. The investigation determined that two males were
involved in this shooting.
A short time later, police received reports of an armed
carjacking by two males in the area of Third Street in Cambridge. The
victim was carjacked at gunpoint by two males and was kept in the car with the
suspects for approximately a half hour. The victim was released at a gas
station on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. He was not injured.
Police immediately began a search for the vehicle and were
in pursuit of the vehicle into Watertown. At that time, explosive devices
were reportedly thrown from car by the suspects. The suspects and police
also exchanged gunfire in the area of Dexter and Laurel streets. During
this pursuit, an MBTA Police officer was seriously injured and transported to
the hospital.
During the pursuit, one suspect was critically injured and
transported to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased. An
extensive manhunt is ongoing in the Watertown area for the second suspect, who
is believed to be armed and dangerous.
The case is being investigated by local, state and federal
authorities working in cooperation. The Massachusetts State Police Bomb
Squad is assessing and removing any potentially explosive devices that may have
been thrown on the street in Watertown by the suspects.
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Dr. Richard Wolfe, chief of emergency medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, just gave a news conference (about 0522) concerning the injured man treated last night, probably the dead suspect.
Dr. Wolfe stated patient arrived with CPR in progress by Boston EMS & police. Too many gunshot wounds to count, plus some kind of blast/burn injury to the trunk. No response to resuscitation & pt. pronounced dead about 0120 local time.
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WHDH is showing live video of a robot examining a car in Watertown, sitting on a residential street with its doors open. Area residents have been instructed to shelter in their basements or on the side of their residents furthest away from the car in question.
MBTA has canceled its operations in the area and MIT has canceled classes. There is talk that area residents will be evacuated en masse.
#22
I like the "too many gunshot wounds to count" bit. Good shooting guys (provided the rest of the area doesn't look like Fearless Fosdick had been there). And even then, maybe.
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Briefing 0545.
Entire MBTA has been shut down by Gov. Patrick. Those waiting at bus & train stops told to return home.
Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge, Allston-Brighton neighborhood residents: stay indoors. No vehicle traffic in or out of Watertown until further notice. Businesses here to remain closed.
MSP head stated he believes these suspects are the marathon bombers & killers of the MIT policeman.
#24
Sun is up in Watertown. Near the Watertown bomb suspect vehicle, a SWAT armored vehicle has been put in a blocking position & houses across the street are being emptied of their residents while SWAT teams are going in to verify the houses are empty.
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NBC News's timeline:
Law enforcement officials said the tumult began just before 11 p.m., when the suspects approached a police officer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shot him in the head.
The two then stole the officers cruiser, robbed a nearby 7-Eleven, carjacked a Mercedes SUV and briefly kidnapped the driver, the sources said. The suspects threw explosives out the window during the chase that followed, they said.
The dead suspect the man in the black hat from the FBI photos had an improvised explosive device strapped to his chest, law enforcement officials said.
Andrew Kitzenberg, who lives in Watertown, said he saw the two men shooting at six police cars from 70 or 80 yards away.
There was a long exchange of gunfire, told NBC News in an interview. They were also utilizing bombs, which sounded and looked like grenades, while engaging in the gunfight, he said. They also had what looked like a pressure-cooker bomb.
Kitzenberg said that the firefight ended when one of the shooters ran toward the Watertown officers and ultimately fell to the ground. Kitzenberg said he could not tell whether the man was tackled or had been shot.
The other drove the SUV through a line of police offcers at the end of the street, he said. A bullet from the gunbattle lodged in the wall of Kitzenbergs apartment, he said.
Kitzenberg said that while he had a clear view of the shooters, he could not see their faces. He described them as average size, average height.
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NBC now reports police sources saying Tripathi, who went missing from his university a few weeks ago, is NOT a suspect. Police radio had previously named Tripathi and Mike Mulugeta as the two suspects.
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AP / NBC give name of surviving suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev, age 19 or 20, originally from Chechyna, lived in Turkey before coming to USA, legal resident here for the past year, and not a student.
I found this interesting side on a foreign Facebook equivalent: http://vk.com/id160300242 Name matches (allowing for spelling uncertainty) & it looks like #2.
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If the dead guy had explosives on him, were they going for round 2 today? I get carrying a gun as a means of personal protection, a bomb, not so much..
There is a page at the Russian social network VKontakte (In Contact) with the name Dzhokhar Tsarnaev living in Boston and studying at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School.
The page mentions a school in Makhachkala, the capital of the Republic of Dagestan, as a place Tsarnaev studied between 1999 and 2001.
The Tsarnaev family moved to Dagestan from Kyrgyzstan in 2001, the school spokesman told the website RT. He Dzhokhar studied there for just one year and produced no particular impression, good or bad, on the teachers.
The page has but a handful of posts, most of them jokes. The owners last visit of the page was from a mobile phone shortly before the shooting in Boston started.
Some Russian-language comments on the page accuse Tsarnaev of being behind the bombing. They were posted after the news of a possible connection of a Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the bombing broke.
by Teresa Hanafin, Boston.com 7:33 AM
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BBC: The suspect at large, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is 19, was born in Kyrgyzstan and has a Massachusetts driver's license, officials told NBC News. The dead suspect was identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, born in Russia, NBC added.
#45
Deadspin has more about the dead brother, who is a boxer -- hoped to box in the Olympics for the U.S. I s'pose that's right out, now. The site links to his YouTube playlist, has pictures about his girlfriend, etc.
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Just a website security possible point of interest. A few minutes ago I want to #45 (Deadspin link) and the girl friend's picture was clearly visible. I went back 10 minutes later and it was blocked out.
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bummer MA State PD and Boston Police have requested via social media to not post search locations for the Boston bombing suspects - the Boston PD feed is temporarily offline due to this request.
#51
Chechen Terry's. fundy Muslims. Been killing Russians for years. Very savage bunch, posting snuff vids (beheadings mainly) to net for years. Wonder how the library media will spin this for Obama. Oh, and thanks for nothing DHS, go back to crotch checking grandmas at the airport.
#52
So apparently this terrorist was posting links about rebels fighting in Syria.
Looks like he's got a lot of sympathisers right here. Just like Bin Laden he's a good guy when he's killing ruskies, but bad when he turns and bites the hand that feeds.
No Yawn, killing 'ruskies' is not okay.
Killing innocents is NEVER okay. We at the Burg never advocate that.
Now then: we don't know you. From where did you come?
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Actually, we do know Yawn. In previos incarnations he was PlaneSPeeker and ChuffingChuffChuff.
#53
POTUS and entire regime headed to WH situation room per Fox.
If terrorist No. 2 gets away, he will be an inspiration to a lot of other bad guys. President Hussein will have a real domestic situation. Not Cheknya, not Afghanistan, but America full of his unabated immigrantion results.
"Stay inside. If someone approaches, DO NOT answer your door, .....move to an single access room, face the door from a corner and keep your weapon on safe."
#56
Now is the time to confront Totus and Congress on their idiotic immigration bill and attitudes. Their policies are getting people killed in this country and Mexico.
The administration and congress need to be held accountable for their lack of responsibility.
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"POTUS and entire regime headed to WH situation room per Fox."
And I'll bet Bambi's pissed, B.
He'll have to miss his tee time, and he can't even use this bombing to call for more gun control confiscation.
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No Barb, Bambi and Donilon are probably discussing how they can exploit this tragedy for their own political ends.
I applaud the work of LE, but the presence of military aircraft and National Guard personnel should be of concern to all of us. This is now one fok'n bad guy, not a Russian Parachute Regiment.
I hope there is no connection between para 1 and para 2 above.
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Just like Bin Laden he's a good guy when he's killing ruskies [sic], but bad when he turns and bites the hand that feeds.
If by "killing ruskies", you're referring to bin Ladin's time with the mujahideen in Afghanistan, I'll remind you there was a little thing called the Cold War going on then, where the objective was to keep the Soviet Union from expanding. The 'Russkies" were military personnel, not civilians. Old history to most, especially to the rampant vapid in the U.K., I know. But that's the way it was.
By most account (including one source here) Osama bin Ladin was more of a support/financier who tended not to be at the 'front', but that's rather beside the point. The point is, when your pet goes feral, you put it down. No apologies for that.
Actually, we do know Yawn. In previos incarnations he was PlaneSPeeker and ChuffingChuffChuff.
Oh. Then in that case I'll modify my remark to "deliberately and rampantly vapid in the U.K.".
#62
Everybody thought we'd won a great victory when the Ruskies had to leave Afghanistan but it kinda makes me think about this quote from the movie Charlie Wilson's War:
A boy is given a horse on his 14th birthday. Everyone in the village says, Oh how wonderful. But a Zen master who lives in the village says, We'll see. 'The boy falls off the horse and breaks his foot. Everyone in the village says, Oh how awful. The Zen master says, We'll see. The village is thrown into war and all the young men have to go to war. But, because of the broken foot, the boy stays behind. Everyone says, Oh, how wonderful. The Zen master says, We'll see.
[BOSTON] Hoping the public will provide crucial clues, the FBI today released video and photos of two men who are suspected in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon terror bombings.
"Somebody out there knows these individuals as friends, neighbors, co-workers, or family members," said Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the Boston FBI office. "Though it may be difficult, the nation is counting on those with information to come forward and provide it to us."
He said the two men -- shown strolling down a sidewalk behind marathon spectators and mingling in the crowd -- are considered "extremely armed and dangerous."
DesLauriers described the two men as Suspect No. 1 and Suspect No. 2. Suspect No. 1 was wearing a dark hat. Suspect No. 2 was wearing a white hat.
DesLauriers said Suspect No. 2 was observed planting a bomb, leaving it in place shortly before it went off.
"Within minutes," he said at a news conference at a Boston hotel.
Asked if he knew where the suspects went, he said Suspect No. 2 had gone west on Boylston Street after planting the bomb. It wasn't known where the other suspect went, he said.
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How curious about the young lad's background. That doesn't equal a crime, of course, and we don't have a scintilla of proof right now. But I am wondering a bit about the rush to get the youngster out of our country. He couldn't wait until Monday?
#3
Best guess, 11 million illegals here awaiting some fate... meanwhile Abdul Al-Harbi leaves/deported ASAP ? Napolitoono boxers in a bunch when asked about deportation during congressional testimony ?
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I wonder if this guy wasn't a conduit to the Chechen brothers from a Saudi or Yemeni source and we have turned him over to the Saudi intelligence services for interrogation. Meeting with the Saudis and processed for deportation within a couple of days sounds like the orders came down from very high - government doesn't work that fast usually.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal at the White House on Wednesday and discussed the conflict in Syria, a spokeswoman said.
The meeting was not on Obama's public schedule.
The spokeswoman, Caitlin Hayden, said the president joined a meeting between the Saudi official and Obama's national security adviser, Tom Donilon.
"The president and Prince Saud al-Faisal reaffirmed the strong partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia and discussed developments in the region, including the conflict in Syria," Hayden said in a statement.
[Dawn] Thirteen people were booked by the police on the charges of hurling threats and obstructing the polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination team members in Naseerabad on Thursday, police said.
Two of the accused, identified as Syed Saboor-ul-Hassan and Ahmed Jamal Sher in the FIR, were locked away You have the right to remain silent... by the police while a search operation to apprehend the rest has been launched.
Police said the incident happened when a polio team, led by Rameez Raja, was administrating the vaccine to children in Siham (Naseerabad) on Thursday. The team members comprised of two females and one male rang the door bell and requested the
inmates to get their children vaccinated.
"There was an exchange of hot words between the team and the residents of the area over a petty issue," the station house officer Raja Akhtar said.
He said two of the accused identified by the complainant had been arrested while police raids were underway to arrest the remaining.
A similar incident had happened in the R.A. Bazaar on Tuesday when a three member polio team was tortured by people who refused to administer the vaccination to their children. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the issue had been settled later on.--
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[Dawn] A man said to be an activist of a political party was rubbed out in Orangi Town on Wednesday, the police said.
They added that faceless myrmidons barged in the house of 30-year-old Kaleem aka Commando in Sector 8/B of Data Nagar in Orangi Town, opened fire on him and fled.
The victim was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in a critical condition where he died during treatment.
DSP Zahid Hussain said Kaleem was having a meal in his house when gunnies barged into the house and killed him. The victim was an employee of the water board and was father of two, he added.
"The victim had a criminal background and was wanted in 19 criminal cases and released from jail on parole," DSP Zahid Hussain said.
Man killed in Manghopir A young man was rubbed out in a Manghopir locality on Wednesday, the police said.
They added Abdul Qadeem Khan, 32, was standing near a private school in Sultanabad Sector 3, where faceless myrmidons targeted him and fled.
Manghopir SHO Aslam Joya said the victim belonged to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... . The victim did not have affiliation with any political or religious party, he added.
Policeman maimed
A policeman was shot at in F.B. Area, officials said.
They added that the incident took place in Incholi, where men riding a cycle of violence opened fire on Police Constable Nasir Hussain, who was sitting at a grocery store, and fled. The victim was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for treatment.
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[Dawn] Several beturbanned goons were killed when helicopter gunships pounded different areas of Darra Adamkhel near the border of Khyber Agency on Thursday, sources said.
They said that the beturbanned goons fled Khyber Agency and crossed into Darra Adamkhel after hideouts were targeted by security forces in the tribal region.
At least two helicopter gunships shelled Landikhel, Noor Badshah Kallay and Kharmatang area of Akhorwal in Darra Adamkhel for six hours when security forces felt movement of krazed killers, they added.
Sources said that ground forces also launched an operation in those areas to trace the krazed killers, who fled Akakhel area of Khyber Agency.
They said that the residents of Akakhel had burnt few houses of beturbanned goons and their harbourers few days ago. They said that the fleeing beturbanned goons were trying to enter Darra Adamkhel. Some arrests were made in the ground search operation, sources said.
In Khyber Agency, four houses and two hideouts were destroyed when jetfighters pounded positions of beturbanned goons in Bara tehsil on Thursday.
Sources said that the air sorties were conducted in Khawangi Zawa area of Akakhel early in the morning and later in the afternoon.
They said that four vacated houses were destroyed in the morning strikes while few krazed killer hideouts and a bunker were targeted in the afternoon. No casualty was reported in the air strikes as beturbanned goons had already vacated the area.
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[Dawn] Mardan police averted a sabotage bid on Thursday night as they defused about 15 kilograms bomb thrown by snuffies near the Mardan Press Club.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Khalid Naseem quoting eye witnesses said that two cut-throats riding a cycle of violence threw an iron pipe near the press club building and the bomb disposal squad was called in, who after a search revealed that it was pipe bomb.
He said the bomb might have been aimed at targeting the press club building or the nearby hotel on Shamsi Road.
"Police have cordoned off the roads and searching for the accused, who according to reports had fled towards Guli Bagh area," he remarked.
To a query, Khalid Naseem said that the bomb might have been placed to target the Press Club as there was no such other important target there. Office of Awami National Party (ANP) is also away from the spot from where the bomb was recovered, he added.
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[Dawn] Pakistain's military fighter jets bombed suspected gun-hung tough guys hideouts in Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... killing eight persons and destroying three bad boy hideouts.
Jet fighters of the Pak Air Force targeted different hideouts, in Bootakhel area of Orakzai Agencys Mamozai area, completely destroying them, according to local political admis sources.
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A bomb blast at a coffee shop and a billiard hall in west Baghdad late Thursday killed at least 25 people and wounded 50 others people, the state-run National Iraqi News Agency reported.
The agency, quoting police sources, said a suicide bomber blew himself up in the coffee shop in the mostly Muslim-Sunni Amriyah neighborhood, dpa reported. Three children were among the dead, the agency said. It added that heavy damage was inflicted in the area where the blast took place.
Baghdad experiences a marathon bombing nearly every day. Think about that one.
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Communist rebels have freed seven pro-government fighters they captured during various operations in the southern Philippines.
New People's Army leader Jorge Madlos said the NPA released Danny Sevillejo, Evangeline Cabodbod, and Leonardo Sevillejo - who were captured on April 14 in the village of Santa Juana in Surigao del Sur. Also Mario Lepanda, Toloy Lepanda, Rejoy Francisco and Janjan -- who were captured by the insurgents on April 15 at a checkpoint in the village of Don Alejandro in Agusan del Sur.
The release of the fighters -- who all underwent separate interrogations by the NPA - was attended by government officials and religious representatives and the media.
Madlos said the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, the political wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, ordered their release on humanitarian grounds. The release was based on the following grounds -- they have not committed any serious offense against the people and the revolution; and swore never again to commit their offenses, and to take steps to rectify their mistakes; and for having exhibited good behaviour during detention.
Madlos said, "The detention, investigation and release of these prisoners of war show the politico-military capability of the revolutionary forces in the different regions in Mindanao. These prove not only the capacity of the NPA, the Party and the NDFP to undertake such action, but more so the widespread and solid support of the masses toward the revolutionary movement in the island."
Yes, people still talk this way.
He said the NPA is still holding two policemen who were accused by insurgents of being behind extortion activities in Agusan del Sur. Madlos said, "The two are still under the process of preliminary investigation."
The Philippines military overran an Abu Sayyaf camp in a three-hour firefight, killing at least eight terrorists bandits.
Col. Carlito Galvez said Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon received a "slight wound" on the head during Monday's incident in Tipo-Tipo and is facing kidnapping and murder charges. Galvez denied claims by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that they were the target of the early morning attack.
He said, "No, the MILF was not the target. It's just that the location of the Abu Sayyaf's lair was only 300 meters from the MILF position. The target really was the bandits' lair. Perhaps, the bandits believed the MILF will help them if attacked but during the firefight the MILF did not help them. Our soldiers were able to overrun the ASG camp in an hour."
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So they captured Hapilon. This is good news. He helped to manage the Burnham kidnappings resulting in Martin and Edoberah Yap's death. He also was par of Genes Gerrerros death. Too bad he lived, he deserves to die a slow and painful death.
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A former terrorist militant suspect who survived three ambushes was gunned down at his home and another villager was critically wounded by a bomb in Pattani's Yaring district on Thursday.
Police say Yusoh Mateeyoh was killed in his vegetable garden this morning. Yusoh was formerly a wanted terrorist militant suspect. He turned himself in to authorities to demonstrate his innocence and his name was later taken off the wanted list. He survived three earlier ambushes, and told his wife he did not expect to survive the next one and she should prepare to receive his body for burial.
Also in Yaring district, another civilian was seriously injured by a bomb blast near a security checkpoint on Thursday afternoon. The explosion occurred about 1 p.m. and the victim was taken to the hospital. No other details were available.
[An Nahar] Syrian troops captured a strategic village in central Homs province on Wednesday with the help of Hizbullah, putting pressure on rebel forces in the area, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog said.
The army seized Abel, on the main route between the city of Homs and Qusayr, a rebel stronghold near the border with Leb, the Observatory said.
The village is also just four kilometers (2.5 miles) from the main route that runs between Homs, Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... and the northern province of Aleppo.
"This will hamper the movement of rebels between Qusayr and the city of Homs," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... rebels in the area captured the abandoned Dabaa military airport, seizing munitions left behind by the retreating regime forces, the group said.
"This airport should have allowed the rebels to ease the pressure on them in the area, but with the capture of Abel by the army, it has become more complicated," Abdel Rahman said.
In recent days, troops have concentrated their efforts on Qusayr and the surrounding villages, with the Observatory saying soldiers have been aided by fighters loyal to Hizbullah.
Homs province as a whole is considered a strategic prize because of its location, connecting Damascus to the coast.
Violence continued elsewhere in Syria on Thursday, killing at least 22 people, according to the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and doctors inside the country.
On Wednesday, 139 people were killed, the Observatory said -- 60 rebels, 43 civilians, including six children and 36 regime troops.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
MOGADISHU -- Early Thursday morning a man died after reportedly trying to plant an improvised explosive device (IED) in main intersection in Mogadishu, Garowe Online reports.
With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice brother robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives in an extraordinary firefight with law enforcement.
[Dawn] A man said to be an activist of a political party was 
Orakzai Agency
Communist rebels have freed seven pro-government fighters they captured during various operations in the southern Philippines.
[An Nahar] Syrian troops captured a strategic village in central Homs province on Wednesday with the help of Hizbullah, putting pressure on rebel forces in the area, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog said.
