Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line

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they were brothers 20.....one on the run is 19.... Mass. drivers license MSNBC


name... .Dghoker Tsarnaez

Ah. So, not Sunil? Can we citizens inspect those licenses? Will #2 live to face trial, speak?

It was interesting that the Today Show just had an interview with a high school classmate of the younger brother. She said it looked like him but discounted it since she had heard that it was the guy from Brown.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.[Note 1][1] People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. For example, in reading about current political issues, people usually prefer sources that affirm their existing attitudes. They also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).

H/T and apologies to General Patton.

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they were brothers 20.....one on the run is 19.... Mass. drivers license MSNBC


name... .Dghoker Tsarnaez

Ah. So, not Sunil? Can we citizens inspect those licenses? Will #2 live to face trial, speak?

It was interesting that the Today Show just had an interview with a high school classmate of the younger brother. She said it looked like him but discounted it since she had heard that it was the guy from Brown.

He was 6'2" and, like 120 - 130 pounds. It's possible that the video footage is misleading, but fwiw, the guy at the marathon doesn't look that tall or thin to me.

[seemslikeadream]

MSNBC

father /family came here political asylum 10 years ago? now back in Russia/phone interview with him from there

older brother was 26 years old


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is the other brother surrounded at this time?

are others being questioned?

[Luther Blissett]

All of a sudden being a bag dropper equals being a mastermind.

The reports coming out of the coroners' office were saying that they noted healed burn marks and bullet wounds on the body of the dead suspect, indicating mercenary-style work and training. I think that was via NPR. One more biscuit crumb for Gladio, in my book.

[dqueue]

NPR "radicalization expert" just reported that one of the suspects supposedly was quoted in a msm source I think she said months ago. Apparently he's been in country 5 yrs and "doesn't have any friends and doesn't understand Americans"

My NPR affiliate cut over to WBUR for a short while. There, a correspondent had her nephew on the phone. The nephew graduated with the younger brother from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. The correspondent had hosted him at a graduation party; she confidently asserted she had photos of him in his tuxedo. The nephew described both brothers as very social, well-liked, with a good group of friends.
The media have found an uncle in the DC region. He said they have been in the US for about ten years.

[IanEye]

=There, a correspondent had her nephew on the phone. The nephew graduated with the younger brother from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. The correspondent had hosted him at a graduation party; she confidently asserted she had photos of him in his tuxedo.

The correspondent is Robin Young.

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=There, a correspondent had her nephew on the phone. The nephew graduated with the younger brother from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. The correspondent had hosted him at a graduation party; she confidently asserted she had photos of him in his tuxedo.

The correspondent is Robin Young.

@hereandnowrobin: My beloved nephew on right, djohar tsarnaev on left, happy cambridge Rindge and Latin grads.heartbreaking pic.twitter.com/wCuNo8aApQ

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/forme ... ers-crimes

[nashvillebrook]

from my Twitter feed:

@BostonGlobe
BREAKING NEWS: Police fear suspect in terror bombings is wearing an explosive vest, source tells Globe.

[Luther Blissett]

I just heard a correspondent on CBS This Morning mention Beslan.

[geogeo]

Seems like Fahrenheit 451. This very public manhunt is absolutely terrifying. All the more so because of the enormous confusion about WHOM we are supposed to be profiling and ratting out. Sunil? Random Moroccan student? Saudi Arabian? THEM. Hard to imagine that the supsect-of-the-hour is going to make it out aloud.

If you see something, say something

[General Patton]

Some scanners blocked at police request, current working ones:
http://scanner.wickedlocal.com/metro/watertown.php
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ma-rt-9-window-cam

[elfismiles]

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ma-rt-9-window-cam

... something about a bomb-bot searching a suspect ...

[nashvillebrook]

interesting tidbit from Salon:

The family lived modestly in the top floor of a multifamily house on a side street in Cambridge, the friend said, helped partly by Section 8 housing funds and the largesse of their landlord, an elderly woman who also tutored and helped the family place the children in good local schools. The family got some financial help from Mr. Tsarnayev's brother, who was employed by a western oil company in Kazakhstan, said the family friend.

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/reports ... e_picture/

[elfismiles]

So, wasn't the guy last seen driving away? Having a hard time imagining how they lost him?

EDIT:

Live: Boston bombers’ uncle says Dzhokar has shamed Chechnya
http://www.firstpost.com/world/live-bos ... 11798.html

8.45 pm One of the uncle’s Ruslan Tsarni of the suspects is giving a live conference. He says no connection to Islam, Religion is a fraud. However he admits somebody could have radicalised them. The only explanation for this is that they were losers. ‘My brother (the boys’ father) has spent his life trying to help his children.”

He says his own family has nothing to with his brother’s family. “My family has been away from them.”

He insists that ‘being losers’ could be a reason for why they chose violence. The family had received asylum in the United States.

He says that Dzhokar has shamed Chechnya, and its people. He should turn himself in and ask for forgiveness for his crimes.

The uncle seems to be clarifying the ‘losers’ remark and says that the people who radicalised them were losers.

8.43 pm Police are expected to give a media briefing soon on the ongoing manhunt for the the suspects in the Boston bombings.

Meanwhile the father of the boys has spoken to Associated Press and said that, “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.” You can view the full report here. 8.10 pm: It seems that the Police have found the vehicle in connection with the bombing. However the car was empty reports the Boston Globe.