Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack

Suspect identified. https://twitter.com/AP/status/325198361428893698
https://twitter.com/AP/status/325196873486962688

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• The Associated Press ‏@AP 7m
  BREAKING: AP: Surviving Boston bomb suspect identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass. -SS [/*:m:26qgwnmg]
• The Associated Press ‏@AP 13m
  
  BREAKING: AP sources: Boston bomb suspects from Russia region near Chechnya, lived in US at least 1 year. -SS [/*:m:26qgwnmg]

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#2 suspect was awarded a scholarship in 2011: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/...2011_city.html

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NBC News ‏@NBCNews 11m MORE: Boston suspects are brothers, aged 19 and 20, and legal permanent U.S. residents of Chechen origin, sources say

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/325200859560546304

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The cab hijack arresting earlier prorbably did not have anything to do with the bombing suspect.
Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, seems to be hiding in a house and there's talk of a pipebomb that went off.

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Originally Posted by N4D13

I'm not trying to criticize or anything - I'm just curious. What is the point of police applying a de facto martial law in Boston today and telling people not to leave their homes? Do you think this is a reasonable reaction? Of course, I hope they will apprehend those responsible, but you might argue that this is also helping to terrorize their own people.

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I think these are, if reports are accurate, rather exceptional circumstances.

according to the police radio the suspect is believed to be wearing a suicide west.

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Originally Posted by N4D13

I'm not trying to criticize or anything - I'm just curious. What is the point of police applying a de facto martial law in Boston today and telling people not to leave their homes? Do you think this is a reasonable reaction? Of course, I hope they will apprehend those responsible, but you might argue that this is also helping to terrorize their own people.

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Given how the bombing was carried out, given that a campus police officer responded to a disturbance call at MIT and was fatally shot multiple times before he could even get out of his car, the police car was stolen, & a convenience store was robbed a short time later, a SUV stolen, with its driver kidnapped, given the nature of the shoot-out that followed (see the videos), the throwing of what appearred to be some type of hand grenades during the shoot out, the charging of one suspect shooting at police while the other drives the SUV through the police barrier, given that the suspect number 1 had a crude bomb strapped to his chest that did not go off, .....and the other suspect is now running around on foot in a resdential area where he may have found an innocent family's house to hunker down in.....

"a reasonable reaction"??????

Sounds more than reasonable to me........ :dozey:



Anyway, the good news for me was a friend who ran in race, finally turned up. I had kidded him about the words of Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and fly the space shuttle when he was much older, about when asked about if he was running to stay in shape, responded by saying God only gave him so many heartbeats and no point in wasting any running around in a circle......

Turns out he had finished the race and was a couple of hundred yards past the finish line, when the bombs went off. His wife had been in the crowd in the general area of the bombs but after he ran past, she went away from the fence to go meet up with him. So while she was not in danger when it happenned, the cell phone towers were imediately turned off and it was some 45 minutes of fear before they found each other

Chechens... that puts an interesting twist on things. Either they're a 'cell', or it has something to do with situations between Chechnya and the Russians, especially where it has to do with Putin. Things have been pretty quiet from the US standpoint.

Interesting if they are Chechen. Why would American citizens be the target? Unless of course it's simply based on the religious war they believe is happening with America.

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Originally Posted by henners88

Interesting if they are Chechen. Why would American citizens be the target? Unless of course it's simply based on the religious war they believe is happening with America.

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I think the latter part of your post is the key. The age difference between the two is an interesting dynamic. Younger brother indoctrinated by the older brother.
I wonder how the press is going to view the youngest. Is he going to be American since he came here as a child irrespective of his actual citizenship?

A family members view, in part. Source is the link below the quote.

"The suspects' uncle told the local CBS News station that the pair had lived in the country since 2002. The uncle, when told that one of his nephews was killed, replied that he deserved it. “He deserved his. He absolutely deserved his,” Ruslan Tsarni said. “They do not deserve to live on this earth.”Tsarni said he learned his nephews were suspects by reading a Russian language news source. "Since these people do have association to me by blood, I say they're barbarians," he added.
In an emotional press conference later, Tsarni said his nephews had brought shame upon his family and called them "losers." He said they were not "able to settle themselves" and were "angry at everyone who was able to."
"Dzhokhar, If you're alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness from the victims, the injured and those who left," he said. "He put a shame on our family. He put a shame on the entire Chechnyan ethnicity. Turn yourself in."



Boston Marathon bomber manhunt: One suspect dead, second on the run

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Originally Posted by Koz

Noses are very prominent on both. Very likely Middle Eastern.

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turns out they were Caucasians (from the North Caucasus), living in the US since they were 8 and 15 :crazy:

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Originally Posted by N4D13

I'm not trying to criticize or anything - I'm just curious. What is the point of police applying a de facto martial law in Boston today and telling people not to leave their homes? Do you think this is a reasonable reaction? Of course, I hope they will apprehend those responsible, but you might argue that this is also helping to terrorize their own people.

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I don't understand this line of thought. All the authorities are trying to do is keep innocent people safe. They have shut down public transportation and told people to stay home early this morning to cut off chances of escape and so people are not in the street in case a shoot out occurs. It's also easier for the police, and safer for the general population, for the authorities to conduct their manhunt without people walking on the streets and in their cars on the street. The order came out at 4 am this morning. If they didn't do it then, they would have been dealing with children going to school and people using cars and public transportation to get to work a short time later. If people were allowed to leave their homes and the remaining suspect decided to commandeer a school bus full of kids or get on a subway full of commuters with explosives and blow it up, then the whole country would've been asking why the authorities didn't act to keep people off the street when they knew a dangerous, armed suspect was in the loose, one who had already killed police officers and was believed to have committed the Boston Marathon bombing. On the contrary, I wouldn't feel terrorized, I would feel better knowing the police are trying to do everything they can to keep us out of harms way.