Explosion at the Boston Marathon

[Senator Clay Davis]

I really hope they catch him alive though I'm doubtful. Both of them being dead will give the conspiracy theorists exactly what they want, two dead "patsies".

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

Yeah it sounds like they have found a lot of devices over the course of the morning.

There seemed to be a pipe bomb, but the others were "suspicious packages." They're playing it safe, any box, bag or funny looking object is going to be called in.

[Minnie]

He's posting online - "I will kill all of you as you killed my brother."

Lovely.

[Nehkara]

"The subject is posting online that he will kill everyone because they killed his brother."

[stang]

What's his twitter?

[Nehkara]

From National Post:

[M*A*S*H 4077]

Woke up early to study for an exam. Holy crap. That's nuts. Praying for thr people of Boston

[Minnie]

Every so often, what I'm hearing on the scanner matche up to the sirens I'm hearing on CNN. Eerie.

[taco.vidal]

Islam is the predominant religion in Chechnya. Many will not be surprised unfortunately.

[Minnie]

Press conference with uncle of boys.

[Minnie]

This may or may not be his twitter - https://twitter.com/Dzhokhar_A

Bing translates first tweet as..

kill all of you, as you killed my brother Tamerlane Carnaev # Watertown one killed, one wounded, I think,,,, go to hell

[Drury18]

Unbelievable. I stopped following about 4am figuring as soon as day broke they would have this guy.

Never expected to wake up to Boston being on lockdown and this suspect still on the loose. And so much changing on the indentifiable of the suspect. Craziness.

Hopefully they catch him soon. Sounds like he was prepared for this sort of thing.

[Minnie]

Hang on, twitter account may be fake. Shocking.

[Senator Clay Davis]

There's already about two dozen Twitter accounts under this guys name, so obviously take anything with a grain of salt.

[gargamel]

Originally Posted by taco.vidal

Islam is the predominant religion in Chechnya. Many will not be surprised unfortunately.

CNN reported that these guys are Muslim, but who knows whether that has anything to do with their motivation.

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by gargamel

CNN reported that these guys are Muslim, but who knows whether that has anything to do with their motivation.

Given CNN's utterly horrible coverage of this event, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the suspects are in fact vampires rather than muslims.

[Flabbibulin]

Alex Jones is scrambling right now Im sure- how can he twist this one. The involvement of two Chechens was sort of unexpected, no?

[Senator Clay Davis]

More info on the two

Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed during a violent night in Cambridge, had been living together on Norfolk Street in Cambridge. An uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told The Associated Press that the men lived together near Boston and have been in the United States for about a decade. They came from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's page on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte says he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduating in 2011, the year he won the scholarship, which was celebrated with a reception at City Hall, according to a news release issued at the time. Before moving to the United States, he attended School No. 1 in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's North Caucasus that has become an epicenter of the Islamic insurgency that spilled over from Chechnya. On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as "Islam" and he says his personal goal is "career and money."

Tsarnaev appeared in the video released by authorities on Thursday, identified as Suspect Number 2, striding down a sidewalk, unnoticed by spectators who were absorbed in the race. He followed Tamerlan by about 10 feet. He wore what appeared to be a gray hoodie under a dark jacket and pants, and a white baseball cap facing backward and pulled down haphazardly.

Tamerlan was stockier, in khaki pants, a light T-shirt, and a dark jacket. The brim of his baseball cap faced forward, and he may have been wearing sunglasses.

According to the website spotcrime.com, Tamerlan was arrested for domestic violence in July 2009, after assaulting his girlfriend.

He was an amateur boxer, listed as a competitor in a National Golden Gloves competition in 2009.

http://news.yahoo.com/stories-2-brot...124623274.html

[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by gargamel

CNN reported that these guys are Muslim, but who knows whether that has anything to do with their motivation.

I thought this was interesting news this morning . . . .

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Police were in Watertown in same area in 2011 for raids that netted suspects in attempted Times Square bombing.


Cowperson

[gargamel]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's page on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte says he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduating in 2011...

I can confirm this. One of my buddies was his teacher there a few years ago.