Boston Marathon hit by explosions

[Natalka]

Hoping suspect 2 can be captured without incident...

Sad that MIT police officer was killed...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/201...9zK/story.html

[Patty Smyth]

300 million guns in the U.S. if I were him I would give up before some redneck hero takes it into their own hands .

[Lynn49]

Dead suspect 2 time Golden Gloves winner, younger brother accomplished wrestler, friend of them said younger brother "a walking angel", behaved like any average US guy...here 6-7years. One brother posted that he "doesn't understand US people" , that he had no friends there....But the question is: what happened? What snapped?

Uncle said his nephew " deserved to die".

Younger brother ran over older brother with get-away CRV that they hijacked...

No indication that police know where he is...evacuated area now extended...

Dzokhar's teacher is saying he would never be suspected of doing anything like this. Said he was so grateful to be here, "a lovely kid" who's "not capable of this" .... I think he was under his older brother's influence...

[Lynn49]

I think he may not be as committed to die like his brother obviously was......

[Patty Smyth]

If they were planning this then they would try to lead as normal a life as possible so as not to raise any red s. If they were known wingnuts all along they would not have gotten away with it.

Sleeper cell, as they say.

[Darth Penguin]

I know people on other boards who live in Boston...

[Darth Penguin]

If they were planning this then they would try to lead as normal a life as possible so as not to raise any red s. If they were known wingnuts all along they would not have gotten away with it.

Sleeper cell, as they say.

ITA..You don't wan tpeople to suspect you before you do something horrendous like this.

[Darth Penguin]

Bauman iconic Boston victim helped identify suspects

Minutes before the bombs blew up in Boston, Jeff Bauman looked into the eyes of the man who tried to kill him.
Just before 3 p.m. on April 15, Bauman was waiting among the crowd for his girlfriend to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon. A man wearing a cap, sunglasses and a black jacket over a hooded sweatshirt looked at Jeff, 27, and dropped a bag at his feet, his brother, Chris Bauman, said in an interview.

Two and a half minutes later, the bag exploded, tearing Jeff’s legs apart. A picture of him in a wheelchair, bloodied and ashen, was broadcast around the as he was rushed to Boston Medical Center. He lost both legs below the knee.

“He woke up under so much drugs, asked for a paper and pen and wrote, ‘bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,’” Chris Bauman said yesterday in an interview.
Those words may have helped crack the mystery of who perpetrated one of the highest-profile acts of terror in the U.S. since the 2001 assault on New York City and the Washington area, one that killed three people and wounded scores.

[Darth Penguin]

300 million guns in the U.S. if I were him I would give up before some redneck hero takes it into their own hands .

especially as Massachuetts has no death penalty.

[gryphon]

He has a female hostage

[Darth Penguin]

Supreme leader Khamenei condemns Boston bombings

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that Iran is against the killing of innocent people, no matter it happens in the city of Boston in the United States or any other part of the .
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with a number of Basiji volunteer forces and family members of armed forces, which was held in Tehran on Wednesday on the occasion of National Armed Forces Day.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran, inspired by the logic of Islam, is against and condemns any form of bombing and killing of innocent people, whether it be in Boston of the United States or in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria.”

[TaraF]

Today is a bad day to be driving around with a Massachusetts license plate.

Niagara Falls NY police detained 2 men in a vehicle with a Massachusetts plate today. After 5 hrs of of detainment they finally let them go.

An Aunt of the 2 suspects actually lives in Etobicoke, ON and wants proof her nephews did this. She apparently believes they've been set up and that the FBI have the wrong suspects.

[Lynn49]

Their dad thinks they're innocent, and that the US just somehow decided that his sons were guilty of a crime and killed an innocent kid. Wow. I can see where they get their political bent. Esp the older brother who lived there, unlike the younger who only got to the US when he was 8. I can believe he was assimilated into the US culture and was a "normal" kid....but I think the older brother and their father influenced him to commit this crime. I think the father should be considered part of this, esp if any suspicions email correspondence between the older brother and him look suspicious. I wonder if the father has a computer.....?

Does anyone know if they have the computers/laptops that belong to those two murderers?

Also two students at Dzokhar's college saw him there after the bombing....I wonder if he's set a bomb there, also...although I hadn't heard if the college has been evacuated. He did, apparently have a locker at the gym....

[toban]

Very sad and tragic event. Sending positive well wishes and sympathy to the victims and families of victims.

[Darth Penguin]

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Does anyone know if they have the computers/laptops that belong to those two murderers?

Dzhokar apparently had a twitter account which is being investigated but there's a lot of "normal teenage boy" stuff on his tweets.

They also had FB accounts and isome people are setting up fake FB acccounts in those 2 names.