Explosions at Boston Marathon

[spursncowboys]

Thanks Internet...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3135523.html

You can get that online? Yeah right. Next you'll tell me porn on the internet is free too!!

[Nbadan]

Tsarnaev was working out in the gym from 8 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday, listening to music on his iPod, when he struck up a conversation with fellow sop re Zach Bettencourt.

"It's crazy this is happening now," Bettencourt recalled Tsarnaev telling him when the bombings came up. "This (these bombings) is so easy to do. These tragedies happen all the time in Afghanistan and Iraq." . .

Students were stunned to learn that the teen they knew as a friendly, pot-smoking transfer student from the UMass Boston, who took easy courses and got middling grades, eluded an army of law enforcement officers to become the most hunted man in the country.

Just as disturbing, said Bettencourt, was the casual way Tsarnaev chatted about the bombings during his gym workout.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/...ollege.html?hp

[Nbadan]

The weapons used by the two suspects, according to police: a pressure-cooker bomb, seven IEDs, an M4 carbine, two handguns, and a BB gun.


Why a BB gun?

[boutons_deux]

Why Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Autopsy Should Include A Check For CTE

Could the amateur boxing career of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased suspect in last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, have had a role in the massacre? That’s a question leading brain researchers at Boston University’s School of Medicine hope medical examiners look into when they perform an autopsy of the 26-year-old who was killed during a firefight with law enforcement officials early Friday morning.
Tsarnaev was a champion boxer who qualified for the national Golden Gloves compe ion and had once had dreams of qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team. That abbreviated career has led Drs. Robert Cantu and Robert Stern to urge examiners to study his brain for signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative brain disease found in boxers since the 1920s that has received renewed attention because it was found in the brains of former football players. Though both doctors doubt that CTE caused the behavior that led to the bombings, researchers shouldn’t overlook the chance to study Tsarnaev’s brain, they told the Boston Globe:

“Is it possible that some changes might have gone on in his overall functioning due to his boxing and potentially related brain disease? Yes,’’ said Stern, a BU professor of neurology and neurosurgery. “Anything is possible. But to then jump to the disease leading to well-planned behavior like this, I couldn’t go there.’’ [...]

“We can’t think of their brains as being normal,’’ he said. “But there are too many people who do such bizarre and terrible acts that it’s unlikely it’s all due to one terrorist gene or disease.’’

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013...check-for-cte/

[Nbadan]

Here are the two brothers taking cover behind the black Mercedes SUV and shooting
towards Watertown Police officers. (Taken at 12:46:11AM)

[Nbadan]

The shooters were also driving the green sedan on the left. They had the back passenger
door open and were going back into the car where they had additional supplies (assumingly,
more ammunition and explosives). They also had backpacks at their feet where they also
had additional supplies.

[Nbadan]

Here it’s clear to see the brothers taking aim and firing on the officers. (Taken at 12:47:57AM)

[Nbadan]

This is a zoomed in view from the last image. The red circle highlights the pressure cooker
bomb that was used just moments after this photo was taken. The use of this explosive
created an enormous cloud of smoke that covered the entire street. While the street was
still cloudy with smoke one of the brothers started running down the street towards the
officers, while still engaging them in gunshots. As he got closer to the officers, within
10-15 yards of them he was taken down. From my vantage point I did not see whether he
was tackled to the ground or brought down by gunshots.

[Nbadan]

As the one brother was running toward the officers the second got back into the SUV, turned
it around in the street and proceeded to accelerate at the vehicle barricade. This image shows
the black SUV charging the officer vehicles. (Taken 12:50:57AM)

[Nbadan]

This is a zoom-in from the last image and the red circle highlights where one of the brothers
was taken down and still laying in the street. The black SUV proceeded to accelerate towards
the officers and drove in between the two cars at the top of the picture. The SUV side swiped
both cars taking out doors and windows and ultimately broke through the vehicle barricade and
continued driving west on Laurel St. This was the last I saw of the black SUV.


The full account and the rest of the photos are here: http://www.getonhand.com/blogs/news/...otout-pictures

[Nbadan]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was shot by police on Thursday night. He died shortly afterward.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz2RMLMNBH7

[Nbadan]

There has been a rumor floating around for some time that there was a third bomber in Boston....a female...

Federal authorities are closely scrutinizing the activities of the wife of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect in the days before and after the attack.
The authorities are looking at a range of possibilities, two senior law enforcement officials said, including that she could have — wittingly or unwittingly — destroyed evidence, helped the bombers evade capture or even played a role in planning the attacks. As part of the investigation, F.B.I. agents are trying to determine whether female DNA found on a piece of a pressure cooker used as an explosive device in the attacks was from Katherine Russell, the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the officials said.

One of the officials said that a fingerprint had also been found on a bomb fragment and that investigators had tried to collect DNA and fingerprint samples from several people whom the authorities are scrutinizing in addition to Ms. Russell.

Federal authorities took a sample of Ms. Russell’s DNA on Monday in Rhode Island, where she has been staying with her parents, the officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/us...ties.html?_r=0

[Wild Cobra]

There has been a rumor floating around for some time that there was a third bomber in Boston....a female...



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/us...ties.html?_r=0

Yes, isn't there a woman visible in the videos with a backpack as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they found a third unexploded devise, and wasn't there a fourth along the parade route? Those backpacks only hold one pressure cooker. There had to be at least three people, unless they made two trips.

[boutons_deux]

Keystone Kops, FBI division: "federal law prevented us from investigating the bomber"!

F.B.I. Said to Conclude It Could Not Have Averted Boston Attack

The F.B.I. has concluded that there was little its agents could have done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, according to law enforcement officials, rejecting criticism that it could have better monitored one of the suspects before the attack.

That conclusion is based on several internal reviews that examined how the bureau handled a request from a Russian intelligence agency in 2011 to investigate whether one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had been radicalized during his time in the United States.

Mr. Tsarnaev, who along with his brother, Dzhokhar, came to the United States about a decade ago from the Russian republic of Dagestan, was killed during a shootout with the police four days after he and his brother detonated two bombs at the finish line of the marathon, killing 3 people and injuring more than 200, the authorities say.

Members of Congress have contended that the F.B.I. should have done a more extensive investigation of Mr. Tsarnaev in response to the Russian request. And they have said the bureau should have followed up with Mr. Tsarnaev after he returned from a trip to Russia in 2012.

But F.B.I. officials have concluded that the agents who conducted the investigation and ultimately told the Russians that there was no evidence that Mr. Tsarnaev had become radicalized were constrained from conducting a more extensive investigation because of federal laws and Justice Department protocols. Agents cannot use surveillance tools like wiretapping for the type of investigation they were conducting.

The officials have also determined that had the agents known that Mr. Tsarnaev had traveled to Russia for months in 2012, they probably would not have investigated him again because there was no new evidence that he had become radicalized.

The most recent criticism of the F.B.I. from Congress came on Wednesday, when Representative William Keating, Democrat of Massachusetts, sent a letter to James B. Comey, the incoming F.B.I. director. In the letter, Mr. Keating demanded that the bureau respond to several unanswered questions about its actions in the years before the attack.

“What I am looking to do is identify our security shortcomings and change them,” Mr. Keating said in the letter. “Without forthright information from the F.B.I., we are prevented from taking the critical steps needed to protect the American public.”

Mr. Keating said there were many “open questions” about how the F.B.I. shared information, conducted its investigation and monitored the travel of Mr. Tsarnaev.

F.B.I. officials often review how the bureau has handled investigations after attacks, and they have sometimes acknowledged mistakes.

After the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, which left 13 people dead, the criticism of the F.B.I. was far more pointed. The F.B.I. appointed one of its former directors, William H. Webster, to conduct a formal review into how the bureau handled its investigation of the gunman before and after the attack.

That review, which found that the bureau had made mistakes in handling intelligence information, resulted in recommendations for changes that the F.B.I. could make to its information sharing and training.

In the Boston case, the F.B.I. has no plans to appoint an investigator to examine its procedures. But inspectors general from four federal agencies, including the Justice Department, said that they would be working together on their own investigation into how the government handled intelligence before the attack. The F.B.I. has been cooperating with the inspector generals by giving them investigative files and the opportunity to interview agents.

A spokesman for the F.B.I. declined to comment, citing the investigation by the inspectors general.

The F.B.I. first learned that Mr. Tsarnaev may have been radicalized in early 2011, when Russian intelligence officials sent a letter to F.B.I. agents stationed at the American Embassy in Moscow. The letter, according to the F.B.I., said that “he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel” to Russia to join a terrorist group.

The letter prompted the F.B.I. to open an investigation in Boston. As part of that inquiry, counterterrorism agents looked at Mr. Tsarnaev’s criminal, education and Internet histories and found little that made them su ious.

That April, F.B.I. agents interviewed Mr. Tsarnaev’s parents, and shortly thereafter they interviewed him and found nothing su ious. Two months later, the agents closed the investigation of Mr. Tsarnaev, determining that they could not find any information linking Mr. Tsarnaev to extremists or extremist beliefs.

The F.B.I. went back to the Russian intelligence service to request more information on Mr. Tsarnaev but was not sent anything, according to bureau officials. The F.B.I. made another request in 2011, but the Russians once again did not send any information.

Mr. Tsarnaev did not show up again on the F.B.I.'s radar until four days after the bombings, when his body was identified at a Boston-area hospital after the shootout. Several hours later, the F.B.I discovered in its files that it had investigated him in 2011.
It is unclear whether the F.B.I. was informed by the Department of Homeland Security in 2012 that Mr. Tsarnaev had returned from his trip to Russia.

Shortly after realizing that there was no formal way of notifying agents that someone they had investigated may have been traveling outside the United States, the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security changed their procedures so that agents are given written notification that someone they investigated had traveled abroad.


While these changes are likely to streamline information sharing in the future, one law enforcement official said that “it’s fair to say that had these adjustments been in existence before the attacks, the outcome would likely not have been any different.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/02...?from=homepage

... while NSA suspects every American as being a terrorist and worthy of vacuuming up everybody's communications.

[Nbadan]

Russia Warned U.S. About Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Tsarnaev: Report
Source: nyt/reuters

Russian authorities warned the FBI in 2011 about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two Chechen brothers accused of carrying out last year's Boston Marathon bombings, but U.S. authorities missed chances to detain him, NBC News reported on Tuesday.

Citing a congressional report it said could be released by the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee as soon as Thursday, NBC News said the Russian intelligence agency FSB cabled the FBI about its concerns in March 2011, warning that Tsarnaev was known to have associated with militant Islamists.

The network said the FBI opened an investigation of Tsarnaev that month conducted by a joint task force of federal, state and local authorities. Tsarnaev was interviewed in person, and a memo was sent to the Customs and Border Protection database called TECS that would trigger an alert whenever he left or re-entered the United States.

But the investigation was closed in June 2011 after finding Tsarnaev had no links to terrorism, NBC quoted the report as saying.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/...ngress.html?hp

the US Security Appartus will hold any AMERICAN who's name is similar to a name on the "Do Not Fly" list, yet misspelled a very foreign-sounding Russian name .........and he gets in and out of the country.....

[ChumpDumper]

At least you think he did it.

lolSA210 probably wants to post a YouTube about it so bad right now.

[Venti Quattro]

Tzarnaev gets the death penalty. Serves the cunt right

[CosmicCowboy]

Of Course, Massachusetts will never actually kill him.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Tzarnaev gets the death penalty. Serves the cunt right

It'd be nice if they'd strap his ass to pressure cooker bomb and make him sit there for an undisclosed amount of time. Maybe in 10 mins we blow you up, maybe tomorrow, maybe next week.....

[Silver&Black]

Tzarnaev gets the death penalty. Serves the cunt right

It'd be nice if they'd strap his ass to pressure cooker bomb and make him sit there for an undisclosed amount of time. Maybe in 10 mins we blow you up, maybe tomorrow, maybe next week.....

[DMX7]

Of Course, Massachusetts will never actually kill him.

What do you mean? Because it was federal court?

[boutons_deux]

http://www.legaleasesolutions.com/lawstoreblog/appeal-process-for-death-penalty-in-federal-cases/

http://www.capitalpunishmentincontext.org/resources/dpappealsprocess

Lawyers to delay Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev execution ‘by 18 years’

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...ution-18-years