Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line

[General Patton]

Have they disarmed the deadmans switch yet?

[elfismiles]

UPDATE: Police, FBI now searching for two suspects in Boston
Posted: Apr 19, 2013 3:52 AM CDT
Updated: Apr 19, 2013 10:06 AM CDT


Police in tactical gear arrive on an armored police vehicle as they surround an apartment building while looking for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, MA.

FBI photos of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, brothers from the Chechen Republic. The man on the left is dead. The man on the right, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is still at large.UPDATE: NBC News reports that police are now searching for two suspects, according to authorities in Boston. The second suspect may be an accomplice or associate.


By Pete Williams, Richard Esposito, Michael Isikoff and Tracy Connor, NBC News

(NBC) -- Boston and its surburbs, universities and transit system were on total lockdown Friday as police hunted for marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- on the loose after his accomplice brother was killed in a stunning chain of events that left one cop dead and another injured, officials said.

Authorities were confronting a double-edged nightmare: a ruthless killer at large in a densely populated area and a four-mile stretch of road possibly littered with explosive devices tossed from the suspects' getaway vehicle during a wild chase and firefights.

A possible associate of the brothers was also being sought.

Two unidentified people were taken into custody at the Cambridge, Mass., home where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan grew up, but they were not being described as additional suspects. Three dozen FBI agents were surrounding the house.

Across the area, as police cars screamed down streets and helicopters hovered overhead, authorities urged the public to stay inside, their doors locked to anyone but law-enforcement officers.

"There is a massive manhunt under way," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said. "We are asking people to shelter in place."

The lockdown initially affected more than 300,000 people in Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, Brighton, Allston and Belmont, but by 8 a.m., the entire city of Boston was paralyzed, officials said.

Watertown, where the second suspect was last seen, was the epicenter of the search. Frightened residents were trapped in their homes as convoys of heavily armed officers and troops arrived by the hour.

Harvard University, Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emerson University were all closed and students were told to stay inside. Boston public schools were shuttered for the day.

The overnight violence began near MIT about five hours after the FBI released surveillance photos of the two men suspected of planting two bombs near the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding 176.

Tips about the identity of the suspects were still pouring in when the Tsarnaev brothers robbed a 7-Eleven then fatally shot an MIT police officer in his vehicle at 10:20 p.m., law enforcement officials said.
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he brothers -- of Chechen origin, but legal permanent residents of the U.S. who moved here a decade ago -- then carjacked a Mercedes SUV, briefly holding the driver captive before letting him go and taking off, sources said.
During a chase between Cambridge and Watertown, the suspects threw explosives out the window, sources said.

"There was a long exchange of gunfire," Andrew Kitzenberg of Watertown told NBC News in an interview.
"They were also utilizing bombs, which sounded and looked like grenades, while engaging in the gunfight," he said. "They also had what looked like a pressure-cooker bomb.

"I saw them light this bomb. They threw it towards the officers," he said. "There was smoke that covered our entire street."

A transit officer, identified as Richard H. Donahue, 33, was injured in the gunfight. Authorities said he was in surgery at Mount Auburn Hospital.
Kitzenberg said he saw the firefight end when Tamerlan Tsarnaev ran toward the officers and ultimately fell to the ground.

Tamerlan— the man in the black hat from FBI photos released six hours earlier — had an improvised explosive device strapped to his chest, law enforcement officials said.

Dzhokhar -- who was wearing a white hat in the surveillance photos from the marathon -- drove the SUV through a line of police officers at the end of the street, he said.

Police said he has a Massachusetts driver's license and lived in Cambridge. He was described as light-skinned and with brown, curly hair, and wearing a gray hoodie. The FBI was releasing more photos of him.

"We believe this man to be a terrorist," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people."

Armored humvees and busloads of law-enforcement could be seen rolling into Watertown in the hours after the gunfight. A photo showed two officers in military gear lying on a backyard shed with their weapons trained on a home.

"We've got every asset we could possibly muster on the ground right now," Patrick said.
Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller headed to the White House to brief President Obama on the developments.


http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22021226/bo ... t-at-large

[elfismiles]

Have they disarmed the deadmans switch yet?

Four robots operating on him right now?

[semper occultus]

......the "script" - re 2nd Generation Chechen clean-skins is quite reminisicent of the climactic plot-strand in this thing :

Such realistic parallels result from executive producer Tracey Alexander's entrée into government circles, courtesy of retired Navy captain Larry Seaquist, a Grid technical adviser. "He had access to everybody," she says. "He took me into the National Security Council. I met a bunch of counterterrorists," along with State Department, CIA and Pentagon veterans.

< ---- >

"We war-gamed it," Alexander says. "We tried to put ourselves into the heads of where al Qaeda could be in a couple of years, how a new cell could spin up out of nothing, what that new cell would consist of."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-07-13-grid_x.htm

[Hunter]

Scanners are saying the dead man switch guy is a SIXTY YEAR OLD MAN and it is not Dzohkar, wtf is going on here my friends, an ENTIRE US CITY ON LOCK DOWN unprecedented!!!!

[General Patton]

Mass. State Police say current police activity in Watertown does NOT mean the bombing suspect has been located; the search continues

[Hunter]

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1 ... fficial_4/


EDIT 137 11:03: To further clarify, guy with the white hat has nothing to do with this (as far as we know). He is still on the loose. This suspect is an old man (60-70) with grey hair and appears to be holding a dead man switch.

[Twyla LaSarc]

“My son is a true angel. Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the US. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here.”

Having been able to observe 22 year olds in their habitat, I have to say that is probably a good age to cultivate fanaticism. All the other cults are en premise for just that reason.

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Reddit as of now:

"Site availability is being impacted by a malicious DDoS attack. Please stay tuned."

Unprecedented, indeed, alchemy.

[General Patton]

http://newyork.newsday.com/news/region- ... -1.5104498

NY bomb squad removes device from car stopped in Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS - A police bomb unit is removing items from a car with Massachusetts plates that was pulled over in the city of Niagara Falls, authorities said.

A state police bomb disposal team is using a robot to remove items from the car that was stopped earlier in the morning, Trooper Jeffrey Bebak said Friday. Bebak says two men are being questioned by police but he has no other details.

The robot was seen removing three packages from the car and depositing them next to the vehicle. The street has been blocked off.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Bo ... wt_NYBrand

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev flew in and out of John F. Kennedy Airport last year and was out of the country for six months, and investigators said they want to know if he received any terror training while he was overseas, NBC 4 New York has learned.

Travel records obtained by NBC 4 New York show Tsarnaev left New York on Jan. 12, 2012 for Sheremetyevo, Russia. He stayed overseas and returned to JFK on July 17.

The travel documents show a photo of a bearded Tsarnaev. The documents show the terror suspect was born on Oct. 21, 1986 and first entered the U.S. through JFK on July 19, 2003.

The documents show it was not until Friday that U.S. officials determined he was “a person or instrument that may pose a threat to the security of the United States.”

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[Twyla LaSarc]

Luther, I think that map says something too. Not only were there more mentions, but a large portion were military. Not being a member there, I'm not sure how that site acquires or breaks down data. But it was fucking interesting. I wonder what other searches would turn up?

[General Patton]

http://www.youtube.com/user/muazseyfull ... id&view=15

[MinM]

@RT_com: UPDATE:Boston suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became American Citizen on Sept. 11, 2012 - @CBSBoston reports

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/325283671517052930

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WHAT IN THE LIVING FUCK?!?!?!

Some police colonel just said later this afternoon there will be a "controlled explosion" in some house somewhere. Remain in your homes and do not open your doors to anyone but a police officer.

WHAT IN THE LIVING FUCK?!?!?!

OK. Could something be much larger out there than our imaginations or are "they" trying to get us to imagine something that does not exist?