Boston
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UPDATED: Friday, April 19, 2013 22:26
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Shit...apparently at least one more has died:Quote:
A young college police officer has been identified by authorities as the latest casualty of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
The suspects robbed a convenience store, then shot Collier on the MIT campus following an altercation, according to authorities. They then allegedly carjacked a Mercedes SUV, holding the driver hostage for a half hour before freeing him at a gas station in Cambridge, according to sources.
On their way to the neighboring town of Watertown, they tossed explosive devices outside the SUV’s window, officials said. In a long exchange of gunfire between the suspects and authorities, a transit officer, Richard Donahue, was seriously injured. The older brother, Tamerlan, died after the gun battle, and a large manhunt is underway for the second suspect. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/
My heart goes out to his family and friends. Please may there be no more; or at most, only one, who deserves it.
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We're starting to get a picture:Quote:
The suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing case are brothers who appear to have roots in Chechnya, a region of Russia long roiled by Islamic insurgency. But they have lived in the United States for years, and law enforcement officials remain uncertain why they might have set explosives near the finish line of Boston’s iconic footrace and whether they have ties to any international terrorist organization.
Law enforcement sources identified the suspect killed overnight in a shootout with police as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was born in Russia. His younger brother Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, born in Kyrgyzstan, fled the scene and on Friday was the subject of a massive manhunt in the Boston suburbs.
According to NBC News, the Tsarnaev brothers entered the US with family in 2002 or 2003. Tamerlan Tsarnaev became a permanent resident in 2007.
Other reports indicated that the Tsarnaev family had stayed for a time in Kazakhstan prior to their immigration to America.
The elder brother was studying or has studied at Bunker Hill Community College and hoped to be an engineer. He was an avid boxer who hoped to earn US citizenship by participating in the Olympics for the United States.
An album of images of Tamerlan Tsarnaev shot by photographer Johannes Hirn made this point with its title: “Will Box for Passport.”
“Unless his native Chechnya becomes independent, Tamerlan says he would rather compete for the United States than for Russia,” Mr. Hirn wrote in one caption.
Other captions depict the elder Tsarnaev as a Muslim who abstains from alcohol and is bewildered by the immorality of the surrounding American culture.
As Foreign Policy Magazine blogger David Kenner notes, at the time the photos were taken Tamerlan’s life seemed pretty good. He was enrolled in school and boxing and had a pretty half-Italian half-Portuguese girlfriend who had converted to Islam for him, according to a caption in the Hirn photo album.
“At some point, though, it all went wrong. In 2009, Tamerlan was arrested for domestic assault and battery after assaulting his girlfriend. The reasons for his descent into terrorism after that will no doubt be clear soon,” writes Mr. Kenner.
As for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, he was a student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, at least for a time. Classmates speak of him as athletic and popular but quiet. He is a wrestler. He is currently enrolled at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
According to a contemporaneous account on Boston.com, the city of Cambridge awarded Dzhokhar a $2,500 scholarship in 2011. Recipients of the scholarships, which are funded by local businesses, were honored in a May ceremony at Cambridge City Hall.
The Tsarnaev brothers lived in Cambridge with family members. Live news reports on Friday morning indicated that police searched the residence and exited with at least one female who appeared to be cooperating with their efforts.
Boston CBS affiliate WBZ-TV spoke with the suspects’ uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, who lives in Maryland, who said Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev immigrated to the United States around 2000 or 2001, and have lived at the same Cambridge address since that time. He says he hasn’t been in touch with the brothers for about five years. He described Tamerlan as a “loser” but seemed proud of Dzhokhar and more surprised that the younger brother would be involved.
Mr. Tsarni said he didn’t recognize his nephews in the images of the suspects that had circulated. When he heard about Tamerlan dying in the shootout, he said to WBZ, “He deserved his. He absolutely deserved his. They do not deserve to live on this earth.”
The CBS station interviewed a second uncle later Friday morning. Alvi Tsarni, also in Maryland, said he hadn’t spoken to the two men for a couple of years because of some family issues. He said Tamerlan called him Thursday to apologize for that. “Yesterday he called me and said, ‘forgive me,’ ” Alvi Tsarni said. Alvi Tsar
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Seems that he was not alone in the premature ejaculatory response; Rupert Murdoch's brilliant rag, the NY Post, placed a picture of 2 high school students on the front page naming them as suspects in the bombing.
Talk about irresponsible journalism, they were runners who tried to join the Marathon at the last minute and didn't quite make it to participate.
Way to go Murdoch!!!
That could have ended badly, luckily cooler heads prevailed.
The news media, on both sides of the fence, in their eagerness to out-scoop one another nearly screwed the pooch on this one. Like I said, cooler heads prevailed.
SGG
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
What did Mr. Thrill Down His Leg say?
Heard he blamed the conservatives, soon after it happened.
Utterly reckless on his part.
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Here's what Mr Thrill up my leg said..Quote:
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about domestic terrorism as a category. Normally, domestic terrorists, people tend to be on the far right, well that’s not a good category, just extremists, let’s call them that. Do they advertise after they do something like this? Do they try to get credit as a group or do they just hate America so much or its politics or its government that they just want to do the damage, they don't care if they get public credit, if you will?
Was Obama's pal, Bill Ayers, part of the " far right " ?
And I'm glad Kwickie can begin to make jokes about this. Never too soon for some, I suppose.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Seems that he was not alone in the premature ejaculatory response; Rupert Murdoch's brilliant rag, the NY Post, placed a picture of 2 high school students on the front page naming them as suspects in the bombing.
So, just help me out here. You're going to single out Murdoch by name, for something some editor did at ONE of the papers he owns, and try to equate that to something Chris Matthews said himself, in assigning blame to an entire group of people who had ( as best we can tell to date ) absolutely nothing to do w/ the bombing?
Really?
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Talk about irresponsible journalism, they were runners who tried to join the Marathon at the last minute and didn't quite make it to participate.
Way to go Murdoch!!!
Again, it's HIS fault, entirely, because of some bad info someone gave a reporter ? And an editor decided to run w/ it ?
Where's the same level of admonishment for the head of CNN, whose network claimed the SUSPECT ( singular ) was already in custody ?
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That could have ended badly, luckily cooler heads prevailed.
The news media, on both sides of the fence, in their eagerness to out-scoop one another nearly screwed the pooch on this one. Like I said, cooler heads prevailed.
SGG
Yeah. Journalism has become less of an discipline and more of a profession for the side walk barker. Of course, I've known this for years.
ETA - And I vow to never subscribe to the NY Post again, or take anything they say seriously. Of course, I'd have to start doing either, and then stop, to make my vow mean anything.
Oh well.
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