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Boston Suburb, Transit Under Lockdown Following Shootout With One Bombing Suspect, Manhunt For Another, Both From Chechnya
In a series of bizarre if morbid events, things in Boston have gone from bad to surreal. According to Reuters, police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing during a shootout and were engaged in a house-to-house search for the other on Friday in the Boston suburb of Watertown. The suspects, incidentally, as AP reports, are reportedly brothers and originally from the separatist Russian region of Chechnya, who lived in the US for at least 1 year and were Cambridge residents at the time of the incident.
The night started off in a just as dramatic fashion, with the violence beginning around 10:30 p.m., with the robbery of a 7-11 in nearby Cambridge, authorities said. The two men then fatally shot an MIT campus police officer and carjacked a Mercedes sport-utility vehicle at gunpoint, keeping the vehicle's owner hostage for about a half-hour, police said. The owner was released at a gas station in Cambridge, authorities said. He wasn't injured.
Police pursued that car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the car at police and gunfire was exchanged, the statement said.
"During the exchange of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately taken into custody. A second suspect was able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point in time," Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, told a news conference.
The WSJ adds that a Boston Marathon bombing suspect was killed in a confrontation with police and a manhunt was on for the second suspect—both of whom were believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of an MIT campus police officer during a chaotic series of events Thursday night.
Authorities said the bombing suspect who had been shown wearing a black baseball cap in photographs released Thursday was killed when confronted by police in Watertown, Mass. The second suspect, a light-skinned man with long curly hair and wearing a hoodie who police said was the bombing suspect identified wearing a white hat, was still at large Friday morning. Neither man was identified. Police warned residents that the at-large suspect was armed and dangerous.
An interactive map of the events from the WSJ:
Fast forward to this morning, when authorities warned people in Watertown not to leave their homes and not to answer the door after a night in which a university police officer was killed, a transit police officer was wounded, and the suspects carjacked a vehicle, leading police on a chase.
Police were searching for the man known as Suspect 2 who was photographed wearing a white hat just before the explosions that killed three people and wounded 176. The blasts triggered security scares across the United States and evoked memories of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
The AP reports that the name of the surviving suspect is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass.
The bombing suspects attacked police with explosives and gunfire before the man known as Suspect 1 was shot, apprehended, and taken to a hospital, where he died, officials said.
Officials shut down area transit systems while the manhunt was under way.
"We believe this to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis of the bombing suspect still at large. "We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."
The two unidentified men were wanted for Monday's twin bombings at the Boston Marathon, when two blasts ripped through the crowd near the finish line.
The massive police operation was under way in Watertown after the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday released pictures and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.
The FBI had enlisted the public's help in identifying two men wearing backpacks and baseball caps in the crowd minutes before bombs exploded near the finish line.
A photo of the surviving suspect Tsarnaev:
For those confused by the plotline here is the WSJ's summary:
We have just gotten news that both Harvard and MIT have canceled classes for Friday, and that all Boston transit has been suspended in the manhunt:
Boston police said on Friday that all transit service by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority "has been suspended until further notice" as a manhunt for a suspect in the bombing of the Boston Marathon was ongoing in a city suburb.
Vehicle traffic was also suspended in and out of Watertown, Boston police said.
Live streaming news from WCVB TB Boston:
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Except Saudis, no need to be afraid of them -- they are our friends. We like Pakistanis too, got that Comrades?
And people think that allowing Muslims to build mosques in the U.S. isn't a problem?
Bet there is some wild-eyed Imam(s) that got into their heads, maybe in Maryland where they apparently were for the past 10 years.
Or FBI counter-terrorist
Or FBI counter-terrorist
Who Farted?
Some so-called expert just mentioned the Al Qaeda name.
Great. I was wondering how long it would take for the CIA to get involved.
MSM currently in furious meetings everywhere across the country. Topics include:
1) Datamining any speech by Sarah Palin to link this the attacks to her.
2) Circling the wagons around the Obama presidency.
3) Saving the Amnesty bill.
4) Figuring out how to twist this into some way to remove guns from the average citizen.
5) Looking for any link to TEA Party activity.
6) Focusing on something else - a possible reunion of the Friends TV show - to take the attention away from the obvious.
7) Making DAMNED sure we don't paint Muslims, illegals, or any Leftwing causes with a broad brush. After all, Christians are terrible.
Lemme see if I have this straight: We go around the world and make people hate us for wrecking their homes, and then we let them walk right into our nation so we can live in terror and the government has an excuse to bring on a police state. Do I have this correct? WTF is a "Homeland Security" department for? Sure as hell isn't OUR security, obviously.
If we ever hear "and the Feds are receiving tactical advice from the LAPD" watch out!
Two guys, traveling home from the pressure cooker store.... Hey it could happen to anyone.... Those things are tough to operate...
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Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.
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Isn't Obama a Muslim?
Is Michael Moore a fat pig?
He was a practicing muslim in Indonesia which makes you a muslim for life. otherwise you are subject to stoning, or bombing, or whatever the religion of peace dictates. maybe just beheading, nothing too serious.
which may explain the whole 'cholm gang' phase of his life. Maybe he got the whole thing wrong. "You mean, all I have to do to leave the muslim faith is to get stoned all the time...cool...spark that!"
CNBC has this covered on their site:
2 People in Custody in Boston Bombing HuntOut dear leader can`t wait to get in front of the cameras and tell us "not to jump to conclusions about their religion". Just like Ft. Hood,the shoe bomber and Bengazi.WTF! The 800 lb gorilla is back!
Obomber is the biggest terrorist in the country.
He's gonna have it his way or he's gonna throw baby fits and executive orders to take away guns.
When will we deport him?
How did the dude get shot ? On CNN he looked fine...Naked but definitely not shot crittically...
I'm tracking with someone who is also watching this via MSM only. That exact question was asked by them. Total cognitive dissonance; they expected the internet to have the answer.
MSM can't even edit itself properly these days.
(Answer: the naked guy was a random who got pulled into it all, and CNN jumped the shark over it. Naked guy has been discounted a long time ago - check the Reddit commentary)
These two are the dead patsies. If you can't see it then you have no imagination.
Warning, Rogue Robots
They robbed the 7-11 because they spent all tehir money on the two pressure cookes. Those things are 160 dollars each.
I can't get rid of the image of Borat being chased by the cops and throwing pressure cooker bombs out the window of the Mercedes.
wait wait wait. They took someone hostage and then they told them that they were the marathon bomber? And they let him go without killing him just like that?
cnn
" I allegedly just smelled smoke."
and..
" I just heard a dog barking, i'm not sure if it
was a canine?"
journalism, cnnlamstyle.
Really? Hilarious!
seriously, and the lady probably makes more in a year than
I do in a decade. it is a sad and beautiful world my friend.
Even money that before this is over, droves will be utilized.
TV News: "Boston, surrounding communities in lockdown." How do you constitutionally lock down a town the size of Boston?
Ha. Gov Patrick just said on TV it is a "request" to stay indoors, therefore not a lockdown. Go about your business. Don't let the terrorists win.