Boston Marathon Bombs

[Windmill knight]

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http://rt.com/news/chechnya-suspect-boston-bombing-110/

AP sources identify the surviving Boston bomber as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. The man is said to be from Russia’s south, not far from the Chechen Republic.

The man reportedly lived in Turkey before arriving legally in the US about a year ago.

The name is listed among the recipients of Cambridge scholarships in 2011.

The second suspect is said to be his brother.

An NBC report claims the two immigrated at least two years ago. One of the brothers is said to have a Massachusetts drivers’ license.

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 Cambridge school mentions Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as its athlete of the month for February 2011, saying that he is an athlete.

The VKontakte 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 RT. He Dzhokhar studied there for just one year and produced no particular impression, good or bad, on the teachers.

Dzhokhar has several Chechen-related interests stated in his profile. He states that he speaks Russian, English and Chechen and holds career and money as his personal priorities. He claims he is a believer in Islam.

The page has but a handful of posts, most of them jokes. The owner’s 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.

 

[Navigator]

Re: Report of 2 Explosions At The Boston Marathon Finishline


_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/boston-marathon-bombing_n_3114693.html

A violent crime spree across Greater Boston that took the lives of a campus police officer and one of the suspects in the Marathon bombings morphed into a desperate door-to-door search for a man believed to be the second bomber in Monday’s dual blasts.

After a string of explosions and volleys of gunfire that seriously injured a transit officer, police cordoned off much of Watertown, Mass. Residents were ordered to “shelter in place” and not trust anyone they might see other than uniformed officers.

A Massachusetts State Police public information officer told HuffPost reporter Michael McLaughlin, "We believe this to be a terrorist, we believe he came here to kill people."

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At daybreak, law enforcement planned to launch a house-to house search through much of Watertown as they sought one half of the duo believed to have killed three and wounded more than 170 at the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday.

A chaotic Thursday night across Cambridge and Watertown started at 10:30 p.m. with a convenience store holdup that led to the shooting of an MIT campus officer who died later from multiple gunshot wounds.

Police sped away from the campus crime scene amid reports of an armed carjacking of a Mercedes SUV nearby.

The breakneck pursuit of the stolen car led to Watertown, where suspects detonated explosives in the direction of officers before exchanging gunfire.

“I heard three loud bangs,” a witness told HuffPost. “It sounded like a car being dropped on the ground.”

The threat to anyone in the area was so serious that the police planned robocalls to warn residents, CNN reported.

Hundreds of officers drawn from many departments spent hours looking for additional explosives, criminal evidence and, perhaps most importantly, a man deemed to be armed and dangerous.

One suspect died in the exchange of gunfire with police in Watertown. Neither suspects' identity was released.

The long night followed a day in which the FBI released video footage and photos of the baseball cap-wearing pair seen carrying suspicious backpacks which they dropped at the Boylston Street finish line.

They try to stole a car? meaning that they were still in the surrounding areas? I mean, it seems like these two guys were improvising as they went, it doesn't make sense not to have a plan to flee.

 

[KristinLynne]

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_http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57580380/1boston-bombing-suspect-dead-massive-manhunt-for-2nd-the-white-hat-suspect/

They don't waste time when it comes to silencing the suspects!

 

[MK Scarlett]

Re: Report of 2 Explosions At The Boston Marathon Finishline

I'm wondering... Boston is a big town isn't it? But as I live in Europe I do not know the American towns very well. So, while I was figuring out to understand a possible link about locations of JFK Library, MIT Campus and Homeland Security Buiding, I found this by looking at Google Map to see where were all those "buildings", and the Homeland Security one is not so far from explosion areas, which give them an easy access before, during and after "dramatic events"...

Department of Homeland Security 408 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA, United States

The MIT Campus is on the other side of the Charles River Basin, the JKF Library - near the Boston University - is on the South of Homeland and Boylston Street, and the adress for explosions is around 660 Boylston Street, Boston, MA, United States.
Possibly 666?

And I found this article on Sott from November 2012:
Night-time gunfire, explosions 'just part of routine Urban Shield exercise organised by Dept of Homeland Security,' says Boston mayor

Participants in the exercise include local police and fire departments, Boston's Office of Emergency Management, the Coast Guard, the MBTA, area hospitals, and regional SWAT and HazMat teams, according to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino's office. The groups are working together to respond to simulated emergency scenarios at various locations, including Boston Harbor, the Bowdoin T station, and the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, along with others in Brookline and Cambridge. Urban Shield is funded by the federal Department of Homeland Security.

Hallinan said one of the most valuable aspects of the training was learning about each department's capabilities, so first responders can call officers in other towns or cities who may have specialized skills or equipment appropriate to the emergency.

"It makes sense: Why not be prepared?" said Jo Oltman, 31, who walked by the Bowdoin exercise. "If something major happens, you want to know that they can all get together and do their jobs."

Really?

And maybe this:
Federal audit questioned Boston homeland security spending

Just weeks before the attack in Boston, federal investigators accused Massachusetts state officials of misusing homeland security money.

I do not know if all this is relevant...

 

[Soluna]

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They try to stole a car? meaning that they were still in the surrounding areas? I mean, it seems like these two guys were improvising as they went, it doesn't make sense not to have a plan to flee.

I wonder, if these events were perpetrated as a false flag events - whether the publicly denounced 'suspects' are perhaps witnesses that are trying to flee, because they saw what really happened? There are so many plausible possibilities as to 'who did what' that I doubt we could see through the smoke screen, despite knowing of it's existence.

 

[Bim]

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I just find this whole situation so bizarre . I just dont get it. Something feels wrong. Big duh lol, but i dont trust a single thing that they're reporting. All of this feels like bullcrap.

 

[Alana]

Re: Report of 2 Explosions At The Boston Marathon Finishline

_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/boston-marathon-bombing_n_3114693.html

A violent crime spree across Greater Boston that took the lives of a campus police officer and one of the suspects in the Marathon bombings morphed into a desperate door-to-door search for a man believed to be the second bomber in Monday’s dual blasts.

After a string of explosions and volleys of gunfire that seriously injured a transit officer, police cordoned off much of Watertown, Mass. Residents were ordered to “shelter in place” and not trust anyone they might see other than uniformed officers.

And from CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/boston-area-violence/index.html

Police sealed off densely populated portions of the Boston metro area early Friday after a violent night of chasing the Boston Marathon terror suspects left one of the men and a police officer dead.
The manhunt effectively shut down a large portion of the nation's fifth-largest metro area.

Developments moved quickly:

-- Police swarmed over a Watertown, Massachusetts, neighborhood looking for the surviving suspect, identified by Boston police as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, age 19.

-- The slain suspect was wearing explosives and a triggering device when he died, a source briefed on the investigation told CNN's Deborah Feyerick. Several sources identified him as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26. He was the fugitive suspect's older brother.

-- A Maryland man who said he was the suspects' uncle told CNN affiliate WBZ that Tamerlan Tsarnaev "got what he deserved." "What can I say for people who have been murdered? Sympathy," Ruslan Tsarni, referring to those who died in the bombings at the Boston Marathon.

-- According to a source briefed on the investigation, the brothers came from the Russian Caucasus and had moved to Kazakhstan at a young age before coming to the United States several years ago. A statement from the office of Chechnya's president echoed that: "According to preliminary information, coming from the relevant agencies, the Tsarnaev family moved many years ago out of Chechnya to another Russian region," press secretary Alvi Kamirov told Russia's semi-official Interfax news agency. "After that they lived for some time in Kazakhstan, and from there went to the U.S. where the family members received a residence permit. Therefore the individuals concerned did not live as adults in Chechnya."

-- Police ordered businesses in the suburb of Watertown and nearby communities to stay closed and told residents to stay inside and answer the door for no one but authorities. Boston authorities advised the same. The city's subway, bus and Amtrak train systems have been shut down. Taxi service across the city was suspended. Every Boston area school is closed.

--The search followed a violent night in which authorities say the men allegedly hurled explosives at pursuers after killing a university police officer, robbing a convenience store and hijacking a car.

"It's jarring," said CNN Belief blog writer Danielle Tumminio, who lives in Watertown.

Oluwaseun Odewale, who lives in Arlington, described his neighborhood as "deathly quiet."

"All my doors are double-locked. It's silent all around, there are no usual sounds of cars, nothing," he said.

Boston's public transit authority sent city buses to Watertown to evacuate residents while bomb experts combed the surroundings for possible explosives.

Police warned Watertown residents to lock their homes and stay away from their windows and doors.

Police officers in full body armor, carrying automatic weapons, flooded the area, traveling the streets in convoys and going door-to-door to track the suspect down.

Massachusetts State Police spokesman Col. Timothy Alben asked residents for patience.

"We need more time," he said. "We're making significant progress up there. But it may take hours to do this."

"This situation is grave." Alben said earlier. "This is a very serious situation that we are dealing with."

The violence began late Thursday with the robbery of a 7/11 convenience store, according to Alben.

Soon after, in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was fatally shot while he sat in his car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in statement. Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting.

The two suspects, according to authorities, then hijacked a car at gunpoint in Cambridge. They released the driver a half-hour later at a gas station.

As police picked up the chase, the car's occupants threw explosives out the windows and shot at officers, according to the district attorney's office.

Officers fired back, wounding one of the men, possibly the person identified by the FBI as suspect No. 1, who is seen in the images released Thursday in a dark cap, sunglasses and wearing a black backpack.

The man died at Beth Israel Hospital. He had bullet wounds and injuries from an explosion, according to officials. The second man apparently escaped on foot.

Richard H. Donohue Jr., 33, a three-year veteran of the transit system police force, was shot and wounded in the incident and taken to a hospital, a transit police spokesman said Friday. The officer's condition was not immediately known.

CNN photographer Gabe Ramirez arrived in Watertown as the chase ended.

"Police were in a standoff with the vehicle just down the hill," Ramirez said. They ordered one suspect out and commanded him to strip down completely naked before putting him in a patrol car, which did not leave the scene.

The man was later released and is not a suspect in the case.

But while the man was being held, FBI agents approached the squad car, and police ordered the man back out of the car. FBI agents questioned him -- still fully undressed -- on the sidewalk.

In an early phase of the lockdown, a man could be seen lying face down on the street with his hands outstretched in front of him and his legs crossed. It is unclear whether this was the man who was arrested and ordered to undress.

Details about the suspects

Police believe the brothers are the same men pictured in images released Thursday by the FBI as suspects in the marathon bombing that killed three people Monday.

The men are shown in the images walking together near the marathon finish line.

The first suspect -- apparently Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to authorities -- appears in the images wearing a dark hat, sunglasses and a backpack. The second suspect, wearing a white cap, is the one who remains at large, police said.

The men moved to the United States at least a few years ago, according to sources.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother, had studied at Bunker Hill Community College and wanted to become an engineer, the source said. He then took a year off to train as a boxer.

The source said that a posting on a social media site in his name included the comments: "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them."

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended Cambridge Rindge & Latin, a public high school, said Eric Machado, who graduated a year behind the suspect. Machado said Tsarnaev had worked at Harvard University as a lifeguard.

"We hung out; we partied; we were good high school friends," Machado told CNN.

"We're all, like, in shock. We don't really understand. There were no telltale signs of any kind of malicious behavior from Dzhokhar. It's all coming as a shock, really."

Machado said he lived a block away from the suspect and did not know his older brother.

So, to recap: we have an entire city held hostage while the police has full rights to do whatever they want to whoever they might consider a "suspect" for whatever reason, meanwhile terrorizing the entire captive population, locked in their houses in waiting! Police state couldn't have been more overt than this.

All other "news" are just embellishments from where I stand.

 

[mcb]

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I just find this whole situation so bizarre . I just dont get it. Something feels wrong. Big duh lol, but i dont trust a single thing that they're reporting. All of this feels like bullcrap.

What? It's playing out just like some kind of TV drama, and it's just as believable. What's to think about? Everybody enjoy the show and sleep on.

 

[JGeropoulas]

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So, to recap: we have an entire city held hostage while the police has full rights to do whatever they want to whoever they might consider a "suspect" for whatever reason, meanwhile terrorizing the entire captive population, locked in their houses in waiting! Police state couldn't have been more overt than this.

All other "news" are just embellishments from where I stand.

I just watched a brief ABC-TV News Bulletin with Diane Sawyer and in those 5 minutes they skillfully inserted all the programming intended. In addition to those cited by Alana, they also managed to include these:

Domestic terrorists in the U.S. don't fit the standard terrorist profile (i.e. they fit the average citizen profile)
Normal, nice guys who are honor students can be radicalized almost overnight according to numerous government studies
They can be radicalized without any international connections (i.e. domestic terrorists)
They can be radicalized via the internet
They can learn to make bombs on the internet
They can become skilled at using weapons on the internet (!)
Don't trust anyone except the authorities who are diligently trying to protect you
Submit to the police who are willing to give their lives to protect you

They concluded the report with a news correspondent noting that when that sniper was terrorizing Washington, D.C. a few years ago, everyone was told to just continue life as normal. But in contrast, this total lock-down of Boston was a completely different and--unprecedented--response (i.e. the end of continuing "life as normal").

 

[Mike]

Re: MIT officer killed in late night shooting

From the CNN link in the below post:

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,31075.msg410913.html#msg410913

Soon after, in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was fatally shot while he sat in his car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in statement. Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting.

A different take on what happened from the article above - you would think that if the officer was responding to something that he wouldn't just be sitting in his car.

According to the District Attorney's office, the MIT campus police officer was responding to a report of a disturbance in the area of Vassar and Main streets was reportedly shot.

edit added:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/18/mit-shooting-cop-massachusetts/2095733/

The manhunt for the marathon bombing suspects turned to hot pursuit at 10:30 p.m., when the two men robbed a 7-11 convenience store on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Alben said. A few minutes later, police found an MiT campus police officer shot multiple times in his car, Alben said. The police officer died of his injuries at Massachusetts General Hospital.

 

[mcb]

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I wonder if there is an ongoing effort, of which the recent events are part, to bridge the US public's TV-driven dissociative stupor over to "real world" events, so that actual events are experienced in a manner similar to fictional, televised ones.

After all, the actual events (whatever they may be behind all the BS in the news coverage) are being presented as televised drama. Is this a matter of more deeply confusing the fabricated, false, reality in which people are already living with the actual one?

 

[loreta]

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How can they kill "suspects"?

Meanwhile on Spanish radio: they interview some Spaniards that live in Boston focusing on the fear that the population is living now. A BIG focus on this subject, fear. And in RFI they focused on the fact that these "terrorists" are Muslims, maybe a part of a Islamic Connection, naming also Alquaeda. How this is not a surprise to me. And also I am not surprised to felt a big nausea. So I shut the radio.

 

[Bim]

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What? It's playing out just like some kind of TV drama, and it's just as believable. What's to think about? Everybody enjoy the show and sleep on.

That's the sad part, many are doing just that :/

JGeropoulas: interesting. Maybe soon we'll see another attempt at controlling the internet. Since "the internet is teaching people evil things, it needs to be regulated!"

 

[JGeropoulas]

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I wonder if there is an ongoing effort, of which the recent events are part, to bridge the US public's TV-driven dissociative stupor over to "real world" events, so that actual events are experienced in a manner similar to fictional, televised ones.

After all, the actual events (whatever they may be behind all the BS in the news coverage) are being presented as televised drama. Is this a matter of more deeply confusing the fabricated, false, reality in which people are already living with the actual one?

Just another twist in the ever-tightening knot of all that's not real: movies, virtual reality games, flight simulators, joy-sticked drone targets, fictional history, scripted news and "reality" TV

Ironically, even the Bible tells the truth about the nature of our reality:

"...the whole world lies in the power of the evil one...the father of lies" (I John 5:19, John 8:44)

 

[anart]

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I find it interesting that the vast majority of the people in the lockdown areas in Boston (which are huge) are complying without the slightest hesitation. Talk about programming being complete. They're just staying indoors when the threat at this point is miniscule. It's a great test run to see how compliant the sheep really are when told to sit still for no good reason. Traumatize them, then test to see how well the programming "took" - a major success. It's a major inconvenience to not be able to get out and about in modern society and no one is pushing against that or even challenging it? They have them right where they want them - and all by design.