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Explosions reported near Boston Marathon finish line

Emergency crews responding to Boylston Street incident

UPDATED 3:16 PM EDT Apr 15, 2013

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BOSTON —Two explosions have been reported near the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street as thousands of people gathered for the race, and there are reports of injuries.
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The blasts happened at about 2:50 p.m. near the intersection of Boylston and Exeter streets. Store fronts have been blown out, and there have been reports of dozens of injuries.

Witnesses said several victims lost limbs, and the area was being evacuated.

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Explosions-reported-near-Boston-Marathon-finish-line/-/11971628/19757044/-/ktnc1wz/-/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Boston Marathon Explosion: Headquarters On Lockdown Following Blast Near Race Finish Line

Posted: 04/15/2013 3:09 pm EDT  |  Updated: 04/15/2013 3:18 pm EDT

The headquarters of the Boston Marathon is on lockdown following two explosions near the finish line, Reuters reports.

The blasts occurred just before 3:00 p.m., according to MyFoxBoston.

This is a breaking news story. Please check back for more updates.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-explosion_n_3086665.html
Edit to add link.  MB

So far there are reports of three people dead. 

Two huge blasts rock Boston Marathon finish line

Monday, April 15, 2013

Two huge explosions rocked the Boston Marathon finish line at Copley Square just before 3 p.m. today, apparently causing numerous casualties, some possible with traumatic injuries on streets crowded with runners, spectators and post-race partiers.

“I saw two explosions. The first one was beyond the finish line. I heard a loud bang and I saw smoke rising,” said Herald reporter Chris Cassidy, who was running in the marathon.“I kept running and I heard behind me a loud bang. It looked like it was in a trash can or something. That one was in front of Abe and Louie’s. There are people who have been hit with debris, people with bloody foreheads.”

“Somebody’s leg flew by my head, said a spectator who gave his name as John Ross. “I gave my belt to stop the blood.”

People were yelling, “I need my kids!”

“It was horrific!” said a man who gave his name as Brian Walker. “I saw some horrific wounds. You could literally feel the rush of wind.”

“There are at least a dozen that seem to be injured in some way,” Cassidy said.

Chris McIntosh, publisher of the Boston Business Journal who was at the Lenox Hotel near the scene, said, “It’s chaos down here. Two bombs just went off at the finish line within five seconds of each other. There must be casualties. Now I’m seeing fire trucks and ambulances racing down Boylston Street toward the scene.”

David O’Neil of Westboro said he saw glass blown out of a restaurant window on Boylston Street.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/two_huge_blasts_rock_boston_marathon_finish_line

Multiple casualties reported after two explosions at Boston Marathon
Published April 15, 2013
FoxNews.com

DEVELOPING: Multiple casualties are reported after at least two explosions rocked the area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Herald.

Witnesses reportedly heard booms that sounded like two claps of thunder near the finish line inside the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel.

The explosions occurred just before 3 p.m. Video of the scene showed a number of emergency crews in the area tending to victims and blood on the ground near the finish line.

"I saw two explosions. The first one was beyond the finish line. I heard a loud bang and I saw smoke rising," Boston Herald reporter Chris Cassidy, who was running in the marathon, told the newspaper. "I kept running and I heard behind me a loud bang. It looked like it was in a trash can or something...There are people who have been hit with debris, people with bloody foreheads.”

A photographer with Fox affiliate WFXT reported seeing a number of victims with lost limbs.

Competitors and race organizers were crying as they fled the chaos. Bloody spectators were being carried to the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners.

"There are a lot of people down," said one man, whose bib No. 17528 identified him as Frank Deruyter of North Carolina. He was not injured, but marathon workers were carrying one woman, who did not appear to be a runner, to the medical area as blood gushed from her leg. A Boston police officer was wheeled from the course with a leg injury that was bleeding.

About three hours after the winners crossed the line, there was a loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish line. Another thunderous explosion could be heard a few seconds later.

Runner Laura McLean of Toronto said she heard two explosions outside the medical tent.

"There are people who are really, really bloody," McLean said. "They were pulling them into the medical tent."

Cherie Falgoust was waiting for her husband, who was running the race.  "I was expecting my husband any minute," she said. "I don't know what this building is ... it just blew. Just a big bomb, a loud boom, and then glass everywhere. Something hit my head. I don't know what it was. I just ducked."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near-finish-line-boston-marathon-spokesman-says/#ixzz2QZ1Agatu

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Boston Police confirming explosion at marathon finish line with injuries. #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

It's being reported on Fox News that two more devices have been found and they are being dismantled.

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Police telling people on scene of Boston Marathon #explosions to not use cell phones because could set off other devices

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ER head: Among the 23 injured, six critically, at Boston Marathon are those with "traumatic amputations" to limbs: http://bit.ly/YLAPTr  (http://bit.ly/YLAPTr)

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News conference in 15 minutes Westin Hotel #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

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Boston  Police looking for video of the finish line #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

Breaking News

   Authorities ID a suspect in marathon bombings - he is being guarded in Boston hospital

12 dead, nearly 50 injured after 2 explosions rock Boston Marathon, suspect identified and being guarded in hospital

BOSTON — Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers in the 26.2-mile trek from Hopkinton were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts.

A federal law-enforcement source confirmed to The Post there are at least 12 dead and nearly 50 injured. Fox News reported that Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 10 people with amputated limbs and all operating rooms were on hold.

Authorities have a identified a suspect, who is currently being guarded in a Boston hospital with shrapnel wounds.

Law-enforcement sources said at least the first explosion occurred in the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/two_explosions_at_boston_marathon_iMR0LCkcwASg0RQfVsH1yI

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A third incident at JFK library. Not certain related- but BPD treating like they are #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

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250pm two explosions at Marathon finish line. Multiple casualties #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

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April 15, 2013 Tweets
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BPD asking people not to congregate in large crowds #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

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Published: April 15, 2013

Site of the Boston Marathon Explosion

Two explosions occurred near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on Monday about four hours after the start of the race. As of 4 p.m., the Boston police reported that at least two people were killed and 23 wounded.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/15/us/site-of-the-boston-marathon-explosion.html?ref=us

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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/map-key-locations-news-boston-marathon-bombing/64254/
Map: Key Locations in the News of the Boston Marathon Bombing
April 15, 2013

(see google map @ link)

*Race course and finish line. The race came in from Commonwealth Avenue, down Hereford Street, then turning left onto Boylston Street. The finish line was in front of the Boston Library.

*Blast locations. The two blasts occurred along that final stretch, the first closer to the finish line then the second near the intersection of Ring Road and Boylston.

*The Fairmont Copley Hotel staging area. The hotel, near the Plaza was cleared and used for treating the wounded.
JFK Library fire. After a police scanner reported an confirmed explosion, JFK Library officials tweeted that the fire there was not related to the bombing.

April 15, 2013 Tweets
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Police stabilizing situation -checking packages #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

If you are trying to locate someone in Boston, police have set up a hotline: 617-635-4500.

I've been posting update tweets and articles for those that may be at work and unable to see the news otherwise.  There is a lot of twitter traffic, lots of conflicting information, rumors and sometimes just hateful tweets.  ::MonkeyNoNo::  There are video clips of the scenes from the explosions etc. available, but I won't be posting them.  They can be viewed later if one chooses.  Sending prayers to the racers and all connected with this terrible crime.   ::MonkeyAngel::
 

http://stream.wsj.com/story/boston-marathon-explosions/SS-2-211979/?mod=e2tw

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https://www.facebook.com/TheBostonMarathon

April 15, 2013 Tweets
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People should expect to see high police  visibility at key locations #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

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Update JFK incident appears to be fire related #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

Fox News is reporting that the explosion at the JFK Library is related to a fire.

 ::snipping2::The simultaneous explosions, and reports of two other unexploded devices found near the scene raised suspicions that the blasts, just before 3 p.m., could be part of a terrorist attack. Authorities shut down cellular service in the area in order to prevent remote detonations.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near-finish-line-boston-marathon-spokesman-says/#ixzz2QZOXzkII

Jim Armstrong @JimArmstrongWBZ

From BMC: Boston Medical Center has received 20 patients, including two children. #wbz

Jackie Bruno@JackieBrunoNECN

No apparent injuries at JFK library

Jackie Bruno@JackieBrunoNECN

RT @BostonGlobe: MARATHON EXPLOSION: Toll rises to 2 dead, 64 wounded in Boston Marathon explosions.

videos at link,man the people didnt know what hit them,just horrific

At least two dead, 23 injured after explosions at Boston Marathon
By Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – 2 hrs 14 mins ago
 ::snipping2::
NBC News, citing anonymous law enforcement sources, reported Monday that a "small homemade bomb" is believed to be responsible for the explosion. The AP reported that at least two more explosive devices were found by authorities, who are dismantling them. The FAA has created a no fly zone around the area, and the Boston subway was shut down. Cell phone service has been shut down in the area, the AP reported, to prevent any remote detonations. Family and friends of marathon runners or spectators can call 617 635 4500 for information.
  ::snipping2::
Police are evacuating the area on Boylston street to continue sweeping for more devices. Runners who had not yet finished the race were stopped at mile 25 and directed to Boston Common. The Boston Police Department is calling in all off duty officers in the city.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/dozens-people-injured-explosion-boston-marathon-190955311.html

RT @laurahutch22: @WWLP22News At Mass General. Hearing that they're overwhelmed and will start taking blood donations at 7:30 tomorrow am

Phillies Nation
If you are in Boston, please be a decent human and unlock your WiFi! Cellular service has been suspended around the city. There are people who desperately need to use their various communication devices to contact family and friends.

Boston Globe now reporting 90 plus people injured.

http://live.boston.com/Event/Live_blog_Explosion_in_Copley_Square

Live blog: Explosions in Copley Square
by Zuri Berry on Apr 15, 2013 at 5:15 PM
BREAKING NEWS:
Two explosions occurred near the Boston Marathon finish line at 2:50 p.m. The race was diverted before being halted as police and fire crews swept the area. Another device was found, which was purposely detonated by Boston Police at Boylston Street. Another incident at JFK Library, which was thought to be a fourth-related incident, is now being considered as a fire-related issue by the Boston Police Department.  Two people are dead and at least 90 are injured. >>> This is a developing story.

-- Boston Police are looking for tips: 617-635-4500 or 1-800-494-TIPS.

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RT @moconnor815: @universalhub RT @moconnor815: BPD Chief: "No one in custody at this time." ..."those reports are not true"..."police at all hospitals.

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RT @fieldproducer: The White House says President Obama to address nation on #BostonMarathon explosions at 6:10PM EDT

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra said it canceled its Monday night concert “due to security concerns resulting from the unfortunate events that occurred at the Boston Marathon today.” Marcelo Lehninger had been scheduled to conduct an all-Beethoven program at 7 p.m. ET at Boston Symphony Hall, located at 301 Massachusetts Ave., about 1 mile southwest of the marathon’s finishing line.
 
– Mike Esterl
http://stream.wsj.com/story/boston-marathon-explosions/SS-2-211979/?mod=e2tw

http://live.boston.com/Event/Live_blog_Explosion_in_Copley_Square

Two people are dead and 107 are injured. >>> This is a developing story.

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RT @WSJwashington: Obama: We do not know who did this, or why. But make no mistake. We will get to the bottom of this. #bostonmarathon
http://stream.wsj.com/story/boston-marathon-explosions/SS-2-211979/?mod=e2tw

Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick
I, along with other members of the House, will observe a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings around 6:30PM.

Please join us and keep the the families, the first responders and all the people of Boston in your thoughts.

12 dead, at least more 50 injured after terror attack on Boston Marathon, suspect identified and being guarded in hospital


From POST STAFF REPORT
Last Updated: 6:35 PM, April 15, 2013
Posted: 3:04 PM, April 15, 2013

BOSTON — Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers in the 26.2-mile trek from Hopkinton were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts.

A federal law-enforcement source confirmed to The Post there are at least 12 dead and 50 injured. Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 10 people with amputated limbs and all operating rooms were on hold, sources said.

Authorities have a identified a suspect, a Saudi national, who is currently being guarded in a Boston hospital with shrapnel wounds.

The Boston Globe reported that there were up to 100 injuries stemming from the explosion.

Law-enforcement sources said at least the first explosion occurred in the lobby of a nearby hotel.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/two_explosions_at_boston_marathon_iMR0LCkcwASg0RQfVsH1yI

http://www.boston.com/news/

Boston bombings leave at least two dead, 115 injured at marathon

One of the 2 confirmed victims was 8 years old per @NBCNews #bostonmarathon

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/15/explosions-rock-boston-marathon-finish-line-dozens-injured/UyiedznUFjQRjOKwTXuSDL/story.html

The blast came on Patriots Day, Obama noted, which is a state holiday in Massachusetts that celebrates the beginning of the American Revolution.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/15/17766155-online-tools-help-people-reconnect-after-bomb-blasts

Online tools help people reconnect after bomb blasts

Following the confusion and panic caused by the Boston Marathon bomb blasts, websites have been set up for people to report that they're safe, or check in on a loved one.

The best mainstream resource is the Red Cross' Safe and Well site, where you do two things: register yourself as being "safe and well," or find out other people's status. Those people will have to register with the site first, of course.

Google has activated its Person Finder service to help people locate each other. The search giant has used this in the past, for both U.S. and international crises, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Japan's 2011 tsunami strike.

If you have loved ones who ran in the Boston Marathon, you can check on their last check-ins at the marathon's website here. (A marathon enthusiast set up an independent Facebook page where some are checking in, too.)

Families searching for loved ones can call this number at the Boston mayor's office for information: 1-617-635-4520. Anyone with information about the blasts that can lead to an arrest are encouraged to call 1-800-494-TIPS, or text the word TIP to CRIME (27463).

http://www.redcross.org/news/press-release/American-Red-Cross-Statement-on-Boston-Marathon-Explosions

American Red Cross Statement on Boston Marathon Explosions

The Red Cross has sent more than 100 additional blood products to several Boston area hospitals to help meet patient needs. Thanks to the generosity of volunteer blood donors, there is currently enough blood on the shelves to meet demand. People can call 1-800-RED CROSS or go to redcrossblood.org to schedule an appointment to give blood in the days and weeks ahead.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/15/17766270-cellphone-service-spotty-but-not-shut-down-in-boston-area?lite

Cellphone service spotty but not 'shut down' in Boston area

Cellphone congestion following the Boston Marathon bombings has led to many dropped calls, but according to wireless carriers, service has remained operational.

"There was no damage to the Verizon Wireless network, which is seeing elevated calling and data usage throughout the region since the explosions occurred," reads Verizon's statement, sent to NBC News. 

Sprint's Crystal Davis told NBC News that despite "above-normal call blockage," Boston's Sprint network is "still operating." AT&T's official Twitter account tweeted, "Boston customers may have issues w/wireless voice & data service due to spike in network activity," but reported no outage.

During emergency situations, many people reach for their cellphones to let loved ones know they are OK. Invariably, the phones are already ringing nonstop from people who are seeking them as well. In times like these, the best advice is to make fewer calls, and use other means of communication.

"Customers are advised to use text or email to free up voice capacity for public safety officials at the scene," said Verizon. AT&T gave similar advice, and has made its Wi-Fi network around the marathon finish line free to the public for the time being.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/15/17765837-boston-bombing-aftermath-how-you-can-help

Boston bombing aftermath: How you can help

House someone who is displaced
Boston.com has set up a Google Doc for those who need a place to stay or have a place to house runners who can't get back to their hotels or fly out of the city.

Do not rush to give blood in Boston
The Red Cross tweeted that there's is "enough blood on shelves to meet demand," following the tragedy in Boston. However, American Red Cross spokeswoman Anne Marie Borrego tells NBC News that she encourages those who want to help or give back in some way to schedule a time in the future to give blood. Most importantly, people — especially those in Boston — can help by visiting the Safe and Well website, and to "listen to local authorities."

April 15, 2013 Tweets
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UPDATE: Street Closures: Clarendon from Huntington 2 Newbury, Newbury from Clarendon 2 Hereford, Huntington from Belividere 2 Clarendon

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High volume of tips on crimestoppers.  Task force tip line 617-223-6610 -617-223-6612
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Commissioner Davis, “The preliminary investigation indicates JFK incident may not have been an explosion. It may have been a fire."

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Boston Police Confirm Explosions along the Marathon Route in the area of Boylston Street http://j.mp/17CcTEi  (http://j.mp/17CcTEi)

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Area around crime scene will be closed for the foreseeable future #tweetfromthebeat via @CherylFiandaca

http://www.boston.com/news/

Boston bombings leave at least two dead, 120 injured at Marathon

From Globe's Kay Lazar:

http://live.boston.com/Event/Live_blog_Explosion_in_Copley_Square

Boston Children’s Hospital received eight patients injured at the explosion at the Boston Marathon. Patients’ conditions ranged from good to serious. There were no patient deaths among the patients brought to Boston Children’s from the scene.

Our patients included:

• A 9-year-old girl with leg trauma who is in the operating room.
• A 42-year-old parent of a patient is being treated in the ED.
• A 7-year-old boy is being treated in the ED for a minor leg injury.
• A 12 year old with a femur fracture has been admitted.
• A 2 year-old-boy with a head injury has been admitted to the Medical/Surgical ICU.
• Three additional patients in good condition were treated in the ED
According to Boston EMS, we will not be receiving any more patients from the Boston Marathon scene

by Catherine Cloutier edited by Adrienne Lavidor-Berman 7:54 PM

http://live.boston.com/Event/Live_blog_Explosion_in_Copley_Square

Boston Police Dept. @Boston_Police
Community members wanting 2 assist this investigation anonymously can call the BPD’s Crime Stoppers Tip Line @ 1(800) 494-TIPS.

http://live.boston.com/Event/Live_blog_Explosion_in_Copley_Square

Update from Boston Medical Center:

Boston Medical Center received 23 patients from the Boston Marathon, most of whom sustained lower leg injuries. Of those 23, 7 are listed in fair condition and the remaining 16 are serious. All patients are being cared for at this time.
by Adrienne Lavidor-Berman 8:07 PM

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/15/explosions-rock-boston-marathon-finish-line-dozens-injured/yLhfDT1XC3HXSa8wPiVijL/story.html

2 killed, at least 120 injured in marathon blasts

 ::snipping2::

At least 125 people were brought in for treatment at seven area hospitals. Brigham and Women’s Hospital received the most, with 26 treated, including two in critical condition, hospital officials said

Asked if the explosions were a terrorist act, Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said, “We’re not being definitive on this right now, but you can reach your own conclusions based on what happened.”

“The situation remains fluid and it remains too early to establish the cause and motivation,” the Boston FBI office said in a statement.

No suspects have been arrested, Davis said. “We’re questioning many people, but there is no one in custody at this point,” he said.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it had implemented a no-fly zone around an area of Boston at the request of law enforcement officials and temporarily stopped planes on the ground at Logan International Airport to change the runway configuration.

Davis said the attacks had occurred without warning. “There was no specific intelligence” suggesting an attack would take place, he said.

::snipping2::

Davis said that many people who fled the scene on Boylston Street left bags and parcels strewn along the route, and each of those items was being “treated as a suspicious device” and might be detonated by authorities.

Davis said he could not confirm reports that the bombs were placed in trash cans.

Davis also gave out two emergency phone numbers for people to call. Relatives of victims and anyone missing can call the mayor’s hotline at 617-635-4500, and anyone with information about the explosions should call police at 800-494-TIPS, he said.

The FBI said it had set up 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324), prompt #3, for anyone who had information, visual images, and/or details regarding the explosions.

“No piece of information or detail is too small,” the FBI said.

copied the same sentence twice

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Community members wanting 2 assist this investigation anonymously can call the BPD’s Crime Stoppers Tip Line @ 1(800) 494-TIPS.

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Family members looking for info relative to individuals injured during the incident are encouraged to call (617) 635-4500.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/15/explosions-near-finish-of-boston-marathon/?on.cnn=1

07:57 PM ET
*2 killed, more than 130 hurt in Boston Marathon bombing
Two killed – including 8-year-old boy – in bomb blasts near finish line of Boston Marathon, officials say. Area hospitals say at least 132 are injured, including eight children.
*Two explosions happened at about 2:50 p.m., more than two hours after the first of the race's nearly 27,000 runners had crossed the finish line.
*Boston.com journalist reports "blood everywhere," people missing limbs.
*Race called off; Red Cross and Google set up websites to help people find loved ones in the area
*Anderson Cooper anchors coverage of the explosions at the Boston Marathon on AC360 tonight at 8 ET.
*Check back here for updates; full story here; also, see CNN affiliates WBZ; WCVB; WHDH
[Update, 7:57 p.m. ET] Doctors are "pulling ball bearings out of people in the emergency room," a terrorism expert briefed on the investigation told CNN's Deborah Feyerick.

The same source said the blasts resulted in at least 10 lost limbs.

[Update, 7:43 p.m. ET] An 8-year-old boy was among those killed, a state law enforcement source said, according to CNN's John King.

[Update, 7:38 p.m. ET] At least 132 people – including eight children – have been injured in the bombings, according to Boston-area hospitals. Boston police earlier said that two people were killed.

At least 17 of the injured are in critical condition, and at least 25 are in serious condition, area hospitals said.

[Update, 7:08 p.m. ET] A witness, Marilyn Miller, told CNN that she was about 30 feet away from the first bomb when it went off. The second bomb came about 12 seconds after and about 50 to 100 yards away from the first, according to authorities and an analysis of video from the site.

Miller was waiting for a runner who, it turns out, was probably about 10 minutes away from the finish line.

"We saw injuries all around us," Miller said. Someone was putting pressure on a woman's neck. "A little boy, his leg was torn up. A woman, (people) were (shouting), 'Critical, critical, get out of out way!'"

More...

http://www.businessinsider.com/cbs-saudi-man-in-custody-was-tackled-by-bystanders-at-boston-marathon-2013-4
CBS: Saudi Man In Custody Was Tackled By Bystanders At Boston Marathon
April 15, 2015

The Saudi Arabian man who is reportedly in police custody following the Boston Marathon bombing was chased and tackled by bystanders shortly after the blast, according to CBS.
Senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant director of the FBI, reported this:
There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go.
He is a Saudi national who was near the scene of the blast. When the blast happened he began to run. Now, in context, a lot of people began to run. A civilian who thought he was acting suspiciously chased him down and tackled him and then turned him over to Boston police, saying, I saw this guy hanging around over there acting suspiciously. And then he ran. That may mean a lot, it may mean nothing at all.
Miller added that the man was fully cooperative but was denying any involvement in the bombing.

This is just my opinion.

I think the reason there may be such conflicting reports about a suspect is because the police don't want anyone or a mob of people descending on the place he may or may not be being held.  I have seen the name of a hospital where the suspect is being held and then I have seen where the police are saying no one is in custody.  But this is jmo and not to be taken as gospel.

Also a suspect and a POI are two different things.


left something out

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/15/explosions-rock-boston-marathon-finish-line-dozens-injured/yLhfDT1XC3HXSa8wPiVijL/story.html

2 killed, at least 125 injured in marathon blasts  <-------------heading updated

Now added to the above article underneath this line:

No suspects have been arrested, Davis said. “We’re questioning many people, but there is no one in custody at this point,” he said.

But just before 8 p.m., a “person of interest” was being questioned at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in connection with the bombing according to an official briefed on the investigation. The individual was hurt in the explosion, the official said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/dozens-people-injured-explosion-boston-marathon-190955311.html

At least three dead, 130 injured after bombs explode at Boston Marathon

At least 130 people are injured and three dead after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon. The injuries include dismemberment, witnesses said, and local hospitals say they are treating shrapnel wounds, open fractures and limb injuries. An eight-year-old boy is one of the three known dead, multiple news outlets reported, and several of the injured are also children.

At a Monday night press conference, Gov. Deval Patrick urged Bostonians to be vigilant on their morning commute Tuesday, and to report any suspicious packages to the police. The FBI has officially taken over the investigation, and is treating it as a potential terrorist attack. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis stressed that the police had no suspect in custody yet. "I'm not prepared to say we are at ease at this time," Davis said, when asked if the area was safe. Authorities found and dismantled five more more explosive devices in the area, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"This cowardly act will not be taken in stride," Davis said. "We will turn over every rock to find out who is responsible.''

Davis said Boston police were not aware of any specific threat to the marathon before it began. Police said they had no one in custody and no suspects, but the Boston Globe reported that a "person of interest" who was injured in the blast was being questioned at Brigham and Woman's Hospital Monday night.

 ::snipping2::

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/15/explosions-rock-boston-marathon-finish-line-dozens-injured/yLhfDT1XC3HXSa8wPiVijL/story.html

3 killed, at least 125 injured in Boston Marathon blasts

At least three people were killed and at least 125 others were injured this afternoon as two powerful explosions detonated in quick succession near the Boston Marathon finish line in Boston’s Back Bay section, transforming a scene of athletic celebration into bloody chaos.

When the smoke cleared, dozens of victims lay in the street, some unconscious, some grievously injured, including some whose limbs had been torn off by the blast.

 ::snipping2::

No suspects have been arrested, Davis said, though police were questioning many people.

Just before 8 p.m., a “person of interest” was being questioned at Brigham and Women’s in connection with the bombing, according to an official briefed on the investigation. The individual was hurt in the explosion, the official said. But Davis said at the news conference that “there is no suspect at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as has been widely reported.”

 ::snipping2::

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Commissioner Davis: “The BPD is on high alert. All sworn personnel working around the clock. 12 hour shifts in effect. Days off cancelled.”

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Community members wanting 2 help this investigation can call 1(800) CALL-FBI or the BPD’s Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 1 (800) 494-TIPS.

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boston marathon cam
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/idg-news-live

LIVE Finish Line Camera
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013-boston-marathon-finish-line/

Two For Jeptoo
Kenyan Rita Jeptoo eared her second Boston Marathon title finishing the race with a time of 2:26.24. Jeptoo won her first Boston Marathon in 2006
http://universalsports.com/marathon/

04/15/2013 at 3:25pm ET
Two explosions at Boston marathon finish line
 ::snipping2::
BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 130 in a terrifying scene of shattered glass, bloodstained pavement and severed limbs at the world’s oldest and most prestigious marathon, authorities said.
 
A senior U.S. intelligence official said two other bombs were found near the end of the 26.2-mile (42-kilometer) course.
 
At the White House, President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will “feel the full weight of justice.”
  ::snipping2::
A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism.
 
Authorities shed no light on a motive or who may have carried out the bombings, and police said they had no suspects in custody. Authorities in Washington said there was no immediate claim of responsibility. The FBI took charge of the investigation.
more
http://universalsports.com/2013/04/15/two-explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line/

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Media Advisory from the FBI: A press conference is scheduled for Tuesday, April 16 @ 9:30am at The Westin Copley Plaza.

Mystery man on roof near Boston Marathon bombing sparks Twitter debate
 .By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – 1 hr 55 mins ago
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/boston-marathon-roof-man-mystery-012843805.html

twitt img
Fraank_OceaanFrank Ocean 6h
Who's that guy on the roof??
https://twitter.com/Fraank_Oceaan/status/323915519323426816/photo/1

i blew it up some in the view tab you can zoom
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0VtiYoM3gyYQ09aaEltSmdwTHc/edit?usp=sharing

I wish I understood why? What is accomplished other than to assert, once again, that cruelty can injure innocents and hatred can hurt those who don't live a hateful life. Don't they realize that the pain they cause is just a by product of love we feel for each other and threatening our brothers and sisters only strengthens our values?

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Update: Belvedere Street open tues to the Sheraton from Huntington. #tweetfromthebeat via @deputyDALEY

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Street updates. Newbury St. will be open to cars Tuesday. #tweetfromthebeat via @deputyDALEY

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Media Advisory from the FBI: A press conference is scheduled for Tuesday, April 16 @ 9:30am at The Westin Copley Plaza.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/live-updates-boston-marathon-bombing-day-2/?google_editors_picks=true
LIVE UPDATES: Boston Marathon Bombing, Day 2
April 16, 2013

11:31 a.m. ET: “This was a heinous and cowardly act,” says President Obama. “We will find whoever harmed our citizens and we will bring them to justice… The American people refuse to be terrorized.”
11:30 a.m ET: President Obama speaks live from the White House
11:10 a.m ET: President Obama is expected to speak from the White House at 11:30 a.m.
11:03 a.m. ET: The central terminal at La Guardia Airport in New York City has been evacuated due to a suspicious package and bomb disposal units are at the scene, authorities tell ABC News.  So far, no flights have been affected.
10:15 a.m. ET: Six to eight patients at Mass. General Hospital remain medically sedated and in intensive care.
10:14 a.m. ET:  Many [victims] have severe wounds, mostly in the lower part of their body,” says a doctor from Massachusetts General Hospital.  Victims have metallic fragments in their bodies including shrapnel and nails, which appear to have been part of the bombs’ construction.
0:06 a.m. ET:  FBI says investigation will be worldwide. “We will go to the ends of the earth to find subject or subjects responsible for this despicable crime,” says  FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers.
10:05 a.m. ET: Police say 176 casualties; 17 critical; 3 fatalities.
10:05 am ET: Police Commissioner says suspected bomber is not believed to be one of the three people killed.  He said the device was not located in a trash can and the race course had been swept twice earlier in the day for bombs.
10:00 a.m. ET: FBI won’t confirm names of individuals they are questioning.
 ::snipping2::

Photos at Link -

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/boston-marathon-things-we-know/?sr=google_news&google_editors_picks=true
What we know about the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath
April 16, 2013

(CNN) -- New developments:
-- In all, 44 patients were treated at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, said Dr. Ron Walls, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine.
-- Three patients had been struck with metal beads slightly larger than BBs, he said. And doctors removed more than a dozen small nails from one patient, he said.
-- Virtually the entire trauma surgical unit had been on duty at the time of the blast, he said.
Previously reported:
Three people died and scores were hurt in two bomb blasts, 12 seconds apart, that erupted near the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon, police said.
At least eight of the wounded are children.
Investigation:
-- "This was a heinous and cowardly act and, given what we now know about what took place, the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism," President Barack Obama said Tuesday at the White House after meeting with key advisers about the Boston Marathon bombing.
-- Obama said officials do not know whether the bombing was the work of a terrorist group or "a malevolent individual," nor do authorities have a sense of what may have been the motive.
-- "We will find whoever harmed our citizens and we will bring them to justice," he said.
-- No one is in custody, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told reporters Tuesday.
-- Authorities are processing "the most complex crime scene that we have dealt with in the history of our department," Davis said.
-- "Make no mistake: An act of cowardice and of this severity cannot be justified or explained," Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said. "It can only be answered."
-- Thirty forensic specialists and a number of dogs trained to detect explosive devices and their residue are at the scene of the blasts, according to Gene Marquez, special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
-- No unexploded devices have been found, Marquez said.
-- Authorities are asking those who may have video or pictures from the scene around the time of the blasts to call city or FBI hotlines.
-- The blast site will take several days to process, Marquez said.
-- FBI Agent Rick DesLauriers said law enforcement has received a "voluminous" number of tips.
-- Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller met with Obama at the White House.
-- A law enforcement official said there was no specific suspect in the bombings and no leading theory on a motive.
-- The official said investigators have found no surveillance video showing the bombs being put in place but were continuing to comb through video from nearby businesses and other places.
-- The intelligence community is poring over all threat reporting to see if there is anything that could be connected to the explosions in Boston, U.S. counterterrorism officials said.
-- The federal Emergency Response Team has cleared the crime scene near the finish line and is beginning to inventory the evidence, a federal law enforcement source said.
-- The device may have been placed in a trash can, from which shrapnel was created when it detonated.
-- Authorities searched an apartment late Monday in the town of Revere, northeast of Boston, and removed items, but would not say how the search might be linked to the investigation.
-- The official said the Revere search is connected to a young Saudi man on a student visa who has been questioned at a hospital.
-- The initial search found nothing related to the bombing, the official said.
-- The search took place with consent, so no search warrant was needed, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.
-- U.S. and Saudi officials said more than one Saudi has been interviewed. CNN knows of a male, whose apartment was searched, and a female. All those interviewed are cooperating, and none has been labeled a suspect, Saudi officials, said.
-- Investigators have urged police to be on the lookout for a "darker-skinned or black male" with a possible foreign accent in connection with Monday's bombings, according to a law enforcement advisory obtained by CNN. The man, seen with a black backpack and sweatshirt, was trying to enter a restricted area about five minutes before the first explosion, the notice says.
-- The FBI has taken over the investigation's lead role, said Richard DesLauriers, the special agent in charge of the bureau's Boston office.
-- "The situation remains fluid, and it remains too early to establish the cause and motivation," the FBI's Boston Division said in a statement asking people to call in with any information, images or details related to the explosions.
More...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/axelrod-obama-thinks-boston-bombings-could-be-related-tax-day_717924.html

Very interesting  ::MonkeyEek::

this guy has to have heard by now, that he is being looked for,so why hasnt he come forward

a better img of man on roof top
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57579886/second-fatality-identified-in-boston-marathon-bombings/
Second fatality identified in Boston Marathon bombings
April 16, 2013

Updated 5:56 p.m. Eastern Time

Krystle Campbell of Arlington, Mass., was among the three people killed in the Boston Marathon bombings, CBS News confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
ampbell, 29, was a restaurant manager who was at the race with her best friend, her father William Campbell told the Associated Press. He described his daughter as a "very caring, very loving person," adding that she "was daddy's little girl."

The chief of staff to Medford Mayor Michael J. McGlynn told CBS News that Campbell died instantly at the scene.

Through tears, Campbell's mother Patty Campbell called her daughter a "wonderful person" who was loved by everyone who knew her.

"She was always, smiling, friendly," said Patty Campbell. "I couldn't ask for a better daughter. And I can't believe this is happening."

Patty Campbell and her husband William were initially informed that their daughter was alive and in surgery. When they got to Mass General hospital they discovered that the young woman being operated on was not their daughter.   

Also killed in the attack was Martin Richard, an 8-year-old boy from a tight-knit community in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
 ::snipping2::
Martin Richard's mother, Denise, reportedly underwent emergency brain surgery Monday to save her life, while his younger sister Jane Richard suffered a severe injury to her leg. Older brother Henry was reportedly unharmed.
More...

The deadly device in the Boston Marathon terror attack

    From MyFoxAtlanta
    Last Updated: 7:30 PM, April 16, 2013
    Posted: 7:26 PM, April 16, 2013

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The bomb that exploded at the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon sent shock waves across the country. Crime scene photos obtained exclusively by FOX 5 Atlanta are the first look at what is left of the first deadly device.

The investigation into the explosion is already well underway, as agents sift through the remaining pieces of the bomb-- hoping to draw a clear picture of how it was built, where it was built, and ultimately, who built it.

The Associated Press has reported that the device was a pressure cooker bomb-- common cookware throughout the world. The crime scene pictures obtained by the FOX 5 I-Team show pieces of a stainless steel pressure cooker with an Underwriters Laboratory number. One picture shows the imprint: Gas and Electric.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_deadly_device_that_BnvTejMW5BCyduBwU1pR2O

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A clearer portrait emerged Wednesday morning of the victims of the horrific bombings at the Boston Marathon as reports surfaced that Boston University graduate student Lu Lingzi (center) is the third to have perished along with Krystle Campbell, 29, and eight-year-old Martin Richard (right).

Boston Marathon bombings: Third victim identified as Chinese graduate student Lu Lingzi

Lu, a Boston University student was being mourned by friends of her Facebook page.


A clearer portrait emerged early Wednesday morning of the victims of the horrific bombings at the Boston Marathon.

The third person killed is being identified as a Chinese graduate student at Boston University originally from China’s northeastern city of Shenyang, a state-run Chinese newspaper reported.

The Shenyang Evening News said on its official Twitter-like microblog account that the victim’s name is Lu Lingzi. An editor at the newspaper said that Lu’s father confirmed his daughter’s death when reporters visited the family home. The editor declined to give his name because he was not authorized to speak to foreign media.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/3rd-person-killed-boston-chinese-grad-student-article-1.1318839#ixzz2QiU00Ne6

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During a shift change, a BPD supervisor told officers, "When u get home tonite hug your kids once & then hug them again. That's an order."

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Celebrity's Facebook post about Boston attacks goes viral
Brandon Griggs, CNN

updated 4:28 PM EDT, Tue April 16, 2013 | Filed under: Social Media

CNN) -- Comedian-actor Patton Oswalt may not seem the most likely person to soothe the wounded national psyche after the deadly bombs that struck the Boston Marathon. Oswalt has no obvious ties to Boston, and he makes a living telling jokes, not comforting the afflicted.
 ::snipping2::

"I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong,' " wrote Oswalt, best known as the voice of Remy the rat from "Ratatouille" and for playing Spencer on TV's "The King of Queens."

"This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness," he wrote.
Celebrity Bostonians react to bombings

"But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

"So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.' "

 ::snipping2::

https://www.facebook.com/pattonoswalt?fref=ts (https://www.facebook.com/pattonoswalt?fref=ts)

As a resident of MA, I have found comfort in Patton's post and have been forwarding it along to others who I feel needed it. The part blued by me just sums it up.

Sorry I blued the whole thing I meant to blue this part:

"So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.' "

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/boston-blasts/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

First on CNN: Authorities believe they have identified a suspect, source says
From Tom Watkins, CNN
updated 1:11 PM EDT, Wed April 17, 2013

Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, a source who has been briefed on the investigation told CNN's John King exclusively.
The breakthrough came from analysis of video from a department store near the site of the second explosion. Video from a Boston television station also contributed to the progress, said the source, who declined to be more specific but called it a significant development.
 ::snipping2::

http://www.cnn.com/
CNN homepage:
Sources: Arrest made in Boston Marathon bombings.

Arrest made in Boston Marathon bombings, CNN reports

http://www.yahoo.com/

This seems to be the guy they are looking for.  I found another picture on MSNBC's site and it looks like the same guy.

(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1319289.1366219649!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/index_970/banner-america-suspect.jpg)

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I think you all will enjoy this page that has a lot of photos compared and certain individuals with backpacks noted in multiple photos.

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA/noscript

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Despite reports to the contrary there has not been an arrest in the Marathon attack.

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Daily briefing has been scheduled by the FBI today @5pm  @Westin Copley #boston_police #FBIpressoffice #bostonmaraton

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/17/boston-medical-center-reports-five-year-old-boy-critical-condition-victims-treated-from-boston-marathon-bombings/gkKXBTqL2jyNhsC2Kz5GyO/story.html
Conflicting reports emerge about whether suspect is in custody in Boston Marathon bombings case
April 17, 2013, 3:34 p.m.

Conflicting reports emerged this afternoon about whether a person had been taken into custody in the deadly terror bombings that struck at the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday.

While a source told the Globe that a person had been taken into custody and other news organizations reported the same, based on their own sources, the US attorney’s office, the FBI, and Boston police issued statements saying no one had been arrested.

“Contrary to widespread reporting, no arrest has been made in connection with the Boston Marathon attack,” the FBI said. The agency, which is leading the bombing probe, asked the media to “exercise caution” and check with official channels before reporting information.

“No arrest,” Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said as he walked into the FBI office in downtown Boston for what he called a regularly scheduled meeting.

Meanwhile, the city’s federal courthouse, where a large contingent of media had gathered in anticipation of an appearance by the suspect, has been evacuated this afternoon because of a bomb threat. Hundreds of people are outside. A caravan of large law enforcement vehicles just pulled up. People are being pushed a block back from the courthouse. US Coast Guard and Boston police boats are also stationed in the waters outside the courthouse.

A Globe source with knowledge of the case said earlier in the day that an image had been captured of a suspect carrying, and perhaps dropping, a black bag at the second bombing scene on Boylston Street, outside of the Forum restaurant.

That official said authorities may publicize their findings as early as this afternoon. A news conference was slated for 5 p.m.

The official also said a surveillance camera at Lord & Taylor, located directly across the street, has provided clear video of the area, though it was unclear whether the image of the suspect was taken from that camera.

“The camera from Lord & Taylor is the best source of video so far,” said Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. “All I know is that they are making progress.”

Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said shortly before noon after leaving FBI headquarters that investigators were “working hard and there’s a lot going on,” but he had no comment on whether progress had been made. No arrests were reported this morning.
 ::snipping2::

Thank you I forgot to come back and correct that they didnt make an arrest. I was glued to the tv and then dinner/life happened.

You're welcome Samantha.  I've found there are a number of things that have been reported that turned out to be false, including 12 dead instead of the 2 (and later 3) at the time.  It was reported there were additional devices that hadn't been detonated found, that turned out to be  false and etc.  I wish some media weren't in such a hurry to be the first to report, and would spend more time verifying.  JMHO  

I agree. Sorry to perpetuate it. When I saw/heard it I had tears I was so happy. I am still happy that they seem to have made progress.

There were a lot of "sources" being quoted today and I'm wondering who has the loose lips and if it is incorrect info or bad comprehension skills on these reporters.

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Expect crime scene area 2 remain impacted today. Investigation continues. Check back for public announcement from @Boston_Police and FBI.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/18/us-usa-explosions-boston-idUSBRE93F06T20130418
Obama to speak at memorial for Boston bombing victims
April 18, 2013

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday was set to speak at a memorial service for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing amid a manhunt for suspects seen on video taken before two blasts struck near the finish line on Monday.

His remarks at the interfaith service were set to come amid a manhunt for at least two men seen on video taken before two blasts struck near the finish line on Monday, killing three and wounding 176 in a crowd of tens of thousands.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirmed on Thursday that the FBI was searching for people seen on a video taken near the finish line.
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The service comes the day after the FBI arrested a Mississippi man in connection with letters believed to have contained the deadly poison ricin and sent to federal officials, including Obama. In a separate incident on Wednesday, an explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant killed as many as 15 people.

The FBI said there was no indication of a connection between the ricin letters and the Boston bomb attacks, but they reminded Americans of anthrax mail attacks in the wake of the September 11 suicide hijackings 12 years ago.

Hundreds of people crowded outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End, about a mile from the bombing site.
 ::snipping2::

Video at Link

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130418/us-boston-marathon-press-briefing/?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=green
FBI to hold news briefing on Boston Marathon probe
April 18, 2013

BOSTON — The FBI and other law enforcement officials are planning a news briefing Thursday afternoon on the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings.

The briefing will be held at 5 p.m. at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.

FBI agent Richard DesLauriers (deh'-LOHR'-ee-ay), U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and other law enforcement officials are expected to update the media on the investigation.
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FBI Presser at Sheraton Hotel at 39 Dalton St.

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FBI News conference --Commonwealth Conference Room- 3rd floor Sheraton

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More information regarding the 5PM Press Briefing. http://www.fbi.gov/boston/press-releases/2013/media-advisory-press-briefing

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FBI-scheduled a 5PM news conference at Sheraton Hotel
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BREAKING NEWS: FBI REVEALS VIDEO, IMAGES OF BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING SUSPECTS

http://www.foxnews.com/

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Community members wanting 2 help this investigation should call 1(800) CALL-FBI or EMAIL at boston@ic.fbi.gov

FBI imgs suspects

M time is noted on imgs
military time
2400=12am
1200=12noon

high res links
http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/image/suspect-2-with-hand-by-ear-circled-high-res

http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/image/suspect-1-semi-profile-view-high-res

http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/image/suspect-1-and-suspect-2-zoomed-in-high-res


http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/image/suspect-1-and-suspect-2-high-res

source, vid at source
http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston

Suspect in murder of MIT cop dead, 2nd suspect, tied to Boston bombing, at large, police say

Published April 19, 2013
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BREAKING NEWS: One of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing is dead after the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer and a shootout with police, and a massive manhunt is underway for the other, authorities said early Friday.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said on Twitter that one of the two suspects was killed. He said the at-large suspect, labeled by the FBI as "suspect two" in the marathon bombing, was "armed and dangerous."

"We believe this to be a terrorist," Davis said in a press conference. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."

The Middlesex district attorney said the two men are suspected of killing the MIT police officer on campus late Thursday, then stealing a car at gunpoint and later releasing its driver unharmed. Hours earlier, police had released photos of the marathon bombing suspects and asked for the public's help finding them.

The suspects threw explosives from the car as police followed it into Watertown, according to the district attorney's news release. The suspects and police exchanged gunfire, and one of the suspects was critically injured and later died while the other escaped.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/19/gunshots-reported-on-mit-campus/#ixzz2QtxwoSPu

One suspect in Boston Marathon terror attack DEAD, but another remains at large following night of chaos, explosions in Boston area

Mass transportation shut down. Watertown residents urged to stay in their homes; businesses to stay closed. An MIT campus officer was killed and another police official was seriously wounded during the night of mayhem.


By Mark Morales In Boston AND Daniel Beekman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 11:48 PM
Updated: Friday, April 19, 2013, 5:49 AM


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 One marathon bombing suspect has been shot dead near Boston and a massive manhunt is under way for the second monster in Watertown, Mass. following a night of terror that left one cop dead and another injured, authorities said.

The chaos started about 10:30 p.m. Thursday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, where a campus police officer was fatally shot, officials said.

It continued with a carjacking and a wild road chase during which the suspects threw explosives out the window, authorities said. And by early Friday it reached nearby Watertown.

That’s where bystanders said they witnessed a terrifying shootout, the detonation of a pressure cooker bomb like those used in the Boston Marathon bomb attack.

One male suspect, identified in reports as the marathon suspect caught on video Monday in a black cap, was shot during the chase and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The second, identified in reports as the bomber wearing a white cap Monday, was still on the loose

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/police-officer-shot-mit-campus-article-1.1321419#ixzz2Qu03YWhA

One Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed, another at large

By Wesley Lowery, Akilah Johnson, Eric Moskowitz and Lisa Wangsness |  Globe Staff 

April 19, 2013

WATERTOWN — Police this morning are searching a 20-block area here for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects after a violent night during which an MIT Police officer lost his life and a Transit Police officer was seriously wounded in a firefight. The other Boston Marathon bombing suspect, who was wearing a black hat in photos released Thursday evening, is dead after firing bullets and launching explosives at police.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said the man now known as Marathon bombing Suspect #2, the man with the white baseball cap who actually dropped the bombs at the race finish line, is the person being sought by a massive collection of federal, state, and municipal police.

“We believe this to be a terrorist,’’ Davis told reporters about 4:30 a.m. today. “We believe this to be a man here to kill people.”

Police are warning residents in East Watertown to stay in their homes, and not to answer the door unless they see a uniformed police officer outside. They said drivers should not stop in the area roughly bounded by Dexter, Laurel, and Arsenal streets.

According to State Police Colonel Timothy Alben, the night’s outbreak of violence began about 10:30 p.m. police received reports of a robbery of a convenience store in Kendall Square near MIT. A few minutes later, an MIT police officer, who has not been identified, was shot multiple times while in his cruiser at Main and Vassar streets, near Building 32, better known as the renowned the Stata Center on the MIT campus.

The officer was pronounced dead at Massachusetts General Hospital.

A short time later, two men carjacked a Mercedes SUV at gunpoint, and the owner of that car was able to flee at a gas station on Memorial Drive. The SUV proceeded out Memorial Drive toward Watertown followed by a long train of police vehicles in pursuit.

At one point during the pursuit, the two suspects opened fire on Watertown police and a Transit Police officer, who was shot and who is now in critical condition at a Boston-area hospital this morning.

During the gunfight, the man known as Marathon suspect #1 was wounded. He was taken into custody and later died at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Alben said.

Police have since been searching for the other bombing suspect.

The night’s chaos began about six hours after law enforcement released images of suspects in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings that left three people dead and 170 wounded. After responding to the shooting at MIT, police streamed to Watertown, sirens blaring.

There, the night was punctuated with gunfire and explosions.

Police warned that spectators were in danger. At Arsenal Court and Arsenal Street in Watertown, an officer bellowed: “Ya gotta get outta here. There’s an active shooter here with an active explosive. Go!”

Peter Jennings, 33, said he was sleeping just before 1 a.m. in his home on Prentiss Street when he was awakened by a huge boom.

“It sounded like a stick of dynamite went off,” he said. “I looked out the window, and it was like nothing I’ve ever seen – blue light after blue light after blue light.”

He said more than three dozen emergency vehicles were heading down Route 16 West. He went to the end of his street, where some neighbors were gathering. The air, he said, smelled like “at the end of a fireworks show, like a wick smell.”

“I had a bad feeling because of what happened on Monday,” he said.

John Antonucci’s 79-year-old mother called him hysterical from her home in Laurel Street. She heard about five gunshots and didn’t know what to do.

“She was saying they’re running down the street shooting,” Antonucci said, standing outside yellow police tape. “She was crying so hard I couldn’t understand what she was talking about.”

So he told her: Stay inside the house.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/18/mit-police-officer-hit-gunfire-cambridge-police-dispatcher-says/4UeCClOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/story.html

One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead

One of two suspects wanted in Monday’s deadly Boston marathon bombing was killed early Friday in a violent standoff with the police in a quiet residential neighborhood just west of Boston. The second suspect remained at large following what authorities described as a deadly crime spree that left one police officer dead and another seriously wounded.

 One suspect, seen in pictures released Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation wearing a black hat, had been shot , said Timothy P. Alben of the Masschusetts State Police in a press conference early Friday morning. Authorities later confirmed that he had died. The other suspect, pictured in a white hat, was at large, likely extremely dangerous and the subject of a sweeping manhunt in Watertown, a quiet residential community near Boston.

“We believe this to be a terrorist,” said Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis. “We believe this to be a man who’s come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody.”

 The marathon bombing killed three and wounded more than 170.

It seemed early on Friday as though it was the first in a series of violent crimes perpetrated by the two young men in the Boston area this week.

Police confirmed that, at around 10:30 p.m. there had been a robbery at a 7/11 store in Central Square, Cambridge, apparently by the white-hatted suspect.

Shortly afterward, a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was shot and killed while responding to a suspicious incident. Police chased the two suspects, apparently in a black Mercedes SUV, to Watertown, where two residents of Laurel Street said they heard what sounded like firecrackers going off shortly before midnight. When they looked out of their windows, they saw the two young men taking cover behind the black Mercedes, in a shootout with dozens of police about 70 yards away. A transit police officer was shot, said a police spokesman, Dave Procopio, and was in serious condition.

 A Watertown resident, Andrew Kitzenberg, 29, said he looked out his third-floor window to see two young men of slight build in jackets engaged in “constant gunfire” with police officers. A police SUV “drove towards the shooters,” he said, and was shot at until it was severely damaged. It rolled out of control, Mr. Kitzenberg said, and crashed into two cars in his driveway.

The two shooters, he said, had a large, unwieldy bomb that he said looked “like a pressure cooker.”

“They lit it, still in the middle of the gunfire, and threw it. But it went 20 yards at most.” It exploded, he said, and one of the two men ran toward the gathered police officers. He was tackled, but it was not clear if he was shot, Mr. Kitzenberg said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/us/boston-marathon-bombings.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

Mass. Transportation ‏@MassDOT 12m
ALL #MBTA modes of transportation currently suspended, including commuter rail, until further notice

MEMA ‏@MassEMA 18m
Residents in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Alston Brighton neighborhoods of Boston are advised to stay in doors.

#CommunityAlert: Search for armed suspect continues in Watertown. Residents reminded to remain indoors. All vehicle traffic suspended.

— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 19, 2013


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/live-updates-boston-bombing-suspect-dead-in-shootout/

6:35 a.m. ET: All Boston public schools are cancelled for the day.

6:30 a.m. ET: SWAT officers descend on Watertown, Mass., and surrounding areas. Boston-area universities,  are on lockdown and have cancelled classes.

6:06 a.m. ET: Harvard University is closed because of public safety concerns, according to its Twitter account.

Suspects name who is on the run:  Dzhorkhar Tsarnaev

The two suspects, one shot dead and the other on the run, are being reported as brothers

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#CommunityAlert: Door-to-door search 4 suspect in Watertown continues. Uniformed officers searching. Community consent critical.

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For residents in the area of Comm and Charlesgate, police will be conducting a controlled detonation.

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#CommunityAlert: Residents of Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge and Allston Brighton reminded to stay indoors.

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#CommunityAlert: Search for armed suspect continues in Watertown. Residents reminded to remain indoors. All vehicle traffic suspended.

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#MediaAdvisory: BPD instructing media outlets 2 remind Watertown residents 2 remain in their homes. Resonsible coverage essential.

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#CommunityAlert: Vehicle traffic in and out of Watertown suspended.

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All MBTA service has been suspended until further notice

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#CommunityAdvisory: Businesses in area of 480 Arsenal St in Watertown closed til furher notice. Employees instructed to remain home.

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#MediaAdvisory - So as not to interfere with police actions in Watertown, media should proceed to 550 Arsenal Street in Watertown at once.
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All taxi service in the City of Boston has been suspended pending further notice.

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Governor Patrick asks Boston residents to remain inside as search for suspect continues.

BREAKING NEWS: One Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Dead, The Other is On the Run (Update: Suspect Name,19 Year Old identify Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) VIDEO

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2013/04/19/breaking-news-one-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-dead-the-other-is-on-the-run-update-suspect-name-dzhokhar-tsarnaev/

::snipping2::

Video of gun battle at post.

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#WANTED: Suspect identified as 19 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of Cambridge. Suspect considered armed & dangerous. pic.twitter.com/jFdHLGsrGc (http://pic.twitter.com/jFdHLGsrGc)


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I would find it hard to believe that he will be taken alive.

Thank you for all the information Red. I hope this terrorist will be stopped before there's any further loss of life.

I agree Red.  His dead brother had an IED on him when his body was found, so maybe this guy won't let himself be taken alive.  My fear is that he'll try to take others with him.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

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#MediaAlert: WARNING: Do Not Compromise Officer Safety by Broadcasting Tactical Positions of Homes Being Searched.

My husband is working at a hospital near this area today I'm nervous ..

I hope he stays safe today Blonde. 

What Are Chechen Terrorists?
Why do they hate us?
 The brothers are of Chechen origin, according to NBC, a volatile part of Russia's North Caucasus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War_crimes_and_terrorism

He just called they wouldn't let him in the area, so they sent him somewhere else sighhhhhh

Hopefully things will get better before the day is out. 

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#WANTED: Police seeking MA Plate: 316-ES9, ’99 Honda CRV, Color - Gray. Possible suspect car. Do not approach. pic.twitter.com/11eRTJdtaZ (http://pic.twitter.com/11eRTJdtaZ)

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Community Advisory: Saturday’s Civil Service Exam has been postponed.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 1h
#WANTED: Updated photo of 19 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev released. Suspect considered armed & dangerous. pic.twitter.com/pzps8ovJTb (http://pic.twitter.com/pzps8ovJTb)

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Taxi service in the City of Boston has been restored.

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UPDATE: Vehicle (MA Plate: 316-ES9) found unoccupied. Car being processed for evidence by authorities. pic.twitter.com/c4cDHrgd4E (http://pic.twitter.com/c4cDHrgd4E)

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57580436-504083/boston-marathon-bombings-update-slain-mit-officer-identified-as-sean-collier/
Boston Marathon Bombings Update: Slain MIT officer identified as Sean Collier
April 19, 2013

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Sean Collier / CBS Boston

(CBS/WBZ) - An MIT police officer who was shot and killed Thursday night apparently in a confrontation with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has been identified as 26-year-old Sean Collier of Somerville, Massachusetts.
According to CBS Boston, Collier joined the MIT police force in January of 2012. MIT Police Chief John DiFava described Collier as a "dedicated officer who was extremely well liked by his colleagues."

Collier, who had been responding to a disturbance, was found shot multiple times in his vehicle near the State Center on campus around 10:30 p.m.

Authorities investigating the shooting determined two males were involved, according to a statement by the Middlesex District Attorney's office. Shortly after, police received reports of an armed carjacking by two males in the area of Third Street in Cambridge.

The suspects in both crimes were believed to be the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
 ::snipping2::

Why do they hate us?  Who did they hate previously?  Follow the oil pipeline and money...Russia

"Chechnya Oil Pipeline Politics True Underlying Cause for Moscow Metro Bombings" - 03/30/2010


Lots of suicide bombers in Russia.

Emphasis added.

read more here or google http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article18299.html (http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article18299.html)

What is the US doing to make enemies of these people? 

Follow the oil pipeline and money.

What You Need to Know About Chechnya

http://www.nationaljournal.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-chechnya-20130419?page=1 (http://www.nationaljournal.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-chechnya-20130419?page=1)

 Hopefully they get this kid alive so real answers can be had, are we dealing with sleeper cells? are they just lost souls ticked off at racism and acting out like terrorists? the Uncle seems very very upset, the family "appears" to be completely caught off guard and shocked
Except his Father he said  he was framed and the cops shot him down grzz

Kyrgyzstan Wants Military Role to End at U.S. Base
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — One of Kyrgyzstan’s top defense officials told Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Tuesday that a crucial United States air base here should have “no military mission” when its lease expires a little more than two years from now. The request creates a potential hurdle to American plans to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/world/asia/panetta-meets-with-military-officials-in-kyrgyzstan.html?ref=kyrgyzstan&_r=1&

a short tribute to two hero's
Mr. Bauman, i dont know if you will ever read this,or hear about it.....
thank you for your unselfish effort, when you had such a great need
to concentrate on yourself, what you did was truly a selfless act
in my book you are a true hero to your fellow man, thank  you
and thank you Carlos Arredondo,for being a hero and help saving
Mr. Bauman's life,without you two  the FBI would have,had a harder
time finding the bombers,thank you both again
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Boston Marathon victim Jeff Bauman helped identify bombers
Jeff Bauman, the man who became the bloodied face of the victims after the Boston bomb attacks, provided the key identification of the dead suspect.
By Damien McElroy
1:41PM BST 19 Apr 2013
 ::snipping2::
Mr Bauman was waiting to see his girlfriend finish the race when a man in a white cap and sweatshirt dropped a backpack at his feet. The 27-year-old lost both his legs in the explosion

Mr Bauman’s brother, Chris, said: “He woke up under so much drugs, asked for a paper and pen and wrote, 'bag, saw the guy, looked right at me’.”
 ::snipping2::
As Mr Bauman was treated in intensive care, he was interviewed by FBI agents and gave a description of the bomber.

His brother said the account was emphatic and convincing
The FBI was able to narrow its inquiries down to two suspects who were related from tens of thousands of people pictured in the area before the attacks.
 ::snipping2::
Carlos Arredondo, a bystander wearing a cowboy hat, was hailed for helping to save Mr Bauman’s life.

As the second bomb went off 100 yards away, Mr Arredondo intervened to rescue Mr Bauman. He held an exposed artery between his thumb and forefinger to stop the bleeding from his legs.

more
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10005932/Boston-Marathon-victim-Jeff-Bauman-helped-identify-bombers.html

im thinking along the same line as Blonde
what is concerning to me is that,the one brother has been associated with the
 black flags from khorasan,were they working with/for, or was this just not a well
thought out plan,or were more bombings planned
the brother,Tamerlan youtube, reports say he is IDed with the black flags from khorasan
http://www.youtube.com/user/muazseyfullah

This car has been found.  I hope they find the other terrorist soon!

April 19, 2013 Tweet
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Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 1h
#WANTED: Vehicle (MA Plate: 116-GC7) has been found. Police no longer looking for this car. pic.twitter.com/5DHQYKG0LJ (http://pic.twitter.com/5DHQYKG0LJ)

April 19, 2013 Tweets
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 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 9m
Help Us Find Him: Community members wanting 2 aid the search can call(800) CALL-FBI or EMAIL at boston@ic.fbi.gov. pic.twitter.com/eTC1P958hs (http://pic.twitter.com/eTC1P958hs)
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Say a prayer 4 all of our brother & sister officers as they work 2 bring this search to safe-n-successful conclusion. pic.twitter.com/sVcyu1XoAW
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#WANTED: Vehicle (MA Plate: 116-GC7) has been found. Police no longer looking for this car. pic.twitter.com/5DHQYKG0LJ (http://pic.twitter.com/5DHQYKG0LJ)
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 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 1h
#CommunityAlert: As search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continues, we thank you 4 your continued cooperation & support. pic.twitter.com/zZD1SzTO8u (http://pic.twitter.com/zZD1SzTO8u)
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#CommunityAlert: AMTRAK service between Boston and New York  suspended pending further notice.

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#WANTED: Search for 19 yr-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continues. Suspect armed & dangerous. Call 1(800) CALL-FBI. pic.twitter.com/kvsIxKIrSr (http://pic.twitter.com/kvsIxKIrSr)

Aunt of suspected bombers says they’re ‘angels’; airs conspiracy theories

An aunt of Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said she doesn't believe her nephews could be behind the attacks.
“I know them as angels,” Maret Tsarnaev told the National Post in Toronto. “I’m suspicious that this was staged.”
In a press conference later aired by CNN, she reiterated her suspicions and said she has doubts about the photos released by the FBI that show her nephews at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday. She also said she has doubts about the story behind the 9-11 attacks. The suspects' father told CNN Friday that he believed they were "framed." ::snipping2::

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspect-aunt-says-she-suspicious-investigation-190616201.html

I don't know what to say, other than maybe the monitors need updating.  The tweet I've quoted is a verified twitter account from the Boston Police Department and it says the car has been found. The tweet was an hour old at the time I posted which was 4:32.

April 19, 2013 Tweets
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 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 11m
Police operations in the Franklin Street Watertown area. Residents shelter in place.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 25m
#CommunityAlert: Gov Patrick says residents need 2 remain vigilant because a dangerous man is still at large but he will be found.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 42m
#CommunityAlert: Mayor Tom Menino, “Together we will get through this crisis.”

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 44m
#CommunityAlert: Watertown Police Chief says he can’t thank his community enuff 4 their exceptional cooperation & understanding.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 46m
#CommunityAlert: Col. Alben of State Police says the search continues & the suspect will be caught. If you see the suspect call 9-1-1.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 48m
#CommunityAlert: Col. Alben of State Police says the effort was there today unfortunately the result wasn’t.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 51m
#CommunityAlert: Gov Patrick says the ‘stay indoor’ request has been lifted and MBTA service has been restored.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 1h
The shelter-in-place advisory has been lifted. MBTA service will resume. Stay alert report any suspicious activity to FBI. Do not approach.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 2h
Help Us Find Him: Community members wanting 2 aid the search can call(800) CALL-FBI or EMAIL at boston@ic.fbi.gov. pic.twitter.com/eTC1P958hs (http://pic.twitter.com/eTC1P958hs)
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#WANTED: Vehicle (MA Plate: 116-GC7) has been found. Police no longer looking for this car. pic.twitter.com/5DHQYKG0LJ
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#CommunityAlert: As search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continues, we thank you 4 your continued cooperation & support. pic.twitter.com/zZD1SzTO8u (http://pic.twitter.com/zZD1SzTO8u)
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April 19, 2013 Tweets
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Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 3m
Heavy police presence in area of Franklin St in Watertown. Residents remain inside.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 15m
Police operations in the Franklin Street Watertown area. Residents shelter in place.

Looks like they have found the younger brother in a boat in someone's backyard in Watertown.

Hoping this will be over soon.

Listening to NBC and CNN simultaneously, they mentioned he might have been wounded last night when his brother was killed.

They are saying they are taking the time to "do this right."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/19/police-go-door-to-door-in-hunt-for-boston-bombing-suspect/
Suspect 'surrounded' in boat behind home near Boston, sources tell Fox News
April 19, 2013

BREAKING: The second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing is believed to be "surrounded" after gunfire broke out from a boat or shed behind a house in the Watertown section of Boston.

Sources told Fox News a suspect was "down," but later said he was alive and surrounded. A neighbor described the sound of as many as 30 shots as akin to "a roll of firecrackers shooting off," and said blood was found on the door of a shed, or on a trailered boat near it behind a home on Franklin Street.

"All hell broke loose," the neighbor told a MyFox Boston reporter.

Sources told Fox News the shed and the boat had been searched earlier, but a woman noticed a door to it had been opened, saw blood and called police. The gunfire broke out when police went to search it, but it was unclear if any police were injured.

A robot was being used to search the area, police were massing at the scene and an ambulance rushed to the area in a dramatic development came just after police said their hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had gone cold and urged people to "go about your business."
 ::snipping2::
Video at Link

I'm thankful the woman/neighbor to the boat noticed something askew, the ladder being up when it hadn't been up before.  I'm glad they are getting this guy/kid.  I'm sure he had plans to bomb more places. 

I looked up the address reported on NBC ... he is supposedly under the tarp in the boat in the picture below:

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 ::rhino::

I agree...know your surroundings.  So glad that they noticed.  That simple observation likely saved lives.  I hope they get him alive.  I highly doubt it though.

I have to admit, I never thought there would have ever been a chance of arresting this punk and bring him in alive.

They have not yet, but it looks like police might as suspect # 2 is wounded and pinned down in the boat in the back yard of 67 Franklin Street in Watertown, MA

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2013/04/19/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-marathon-suspect-2-reported-down-at-67-franklin-street-in-watertown-ma-now-reported-still-alive-hiding-in-a-boat/

The Boston Globe: Bomb suspect pinned down in boat in Watertown

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/18/mit-police-officer-hit-gunfire-cambridge-police-dispatcher-says/UAbtwLVGLwBE5VI7BUyQuL/story.html


 ::snipping2::

It's amazing the footprints we leave behind in our daily lives.

They knew who they were looking for right away, after seeing the surveillance video from a nearby store.

I hear the FBI had some info on one of the brothers (if not both) from previous times.

Was just a matter of time before they found them.

Too bad they were not found before they killed again.

Just today people were asking how could suspect #2 have slipped through the police net? I said well, if you watched the gun battle video it was pitch dark and there is a lot of territory to search. Thant and he could be hiding anywhere, like a garbage dumpster, etc. Low and behold, he is hiding in a boat.

What is amazing in this story from the bombing on Monday to last nights killing of suspect #1 to tonight's pinning down of suspect #2 ... they really did not get far from the original terrorism site.

You are correct and that is going to be a story that comes from this. How were they not dealt with in the past.

WOW - really surprised he's still alive. 

That woman had guts.  She went outside and saw the blood.  I would have never went outside.

Me too Klaas. However, I think that if it was this kid that died last night and the older, more extreme Jihadist as the one who was hiding in the boat. He definitely would have gown out in a blaze of glory.

This little SOB can look forward to a lethal injection.

I don't think he was willing to die for the cause.. He could have died by gunfire (like suicide by cop) last night or tonight or even killed himself (Didnt he have a gun.. Or even cut wrist or hanging). But he ran, protected himself and then gave himself up.

Which makes me hope he will share more information if he has it. (I wonder how much the brother really told him.. I have a feeling the brother may have had the connections and brought #2 along for the ride.)

IT IS OVER … Suspect Alive and in Custody, Authorities Arrest Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect #2 Dzhokar Tsarnaev … Residents Cheer Police over Arrest of Suspect

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2013/04/19/it-is-over-suspect-alive-and-in-custody-authorities-arrest-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-2-dzhokar-tsarnaev/

Video of crowds cheering the police over the arrest of Suspect #2 Dzhokar Tsarnaev.

::snipping2::

Police Chief said a man was in his house all day and he went outside in his yard and checked his boat. He lifted the top of the tarp and saw the man covered in blood in the boat.  He then ran in his house and called police.

Exclusive: Watertown man Dave Henneberry steps outside for cigarette, finds bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in his boat


Shocked boat owner went outside after Gov. Deval Patrick lifted curfew, noticed the tarp on his boat was loose and got a shock when he spied subject of city-wide manhunt holded up in his boat


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 He was in a boatload of trouble, and that’s where cops found him.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was discovered in the bottom of a rare, 1980s pleasure boat in the backyard of a Watertown, Mass., home just after 6 p.m. by the shocked owner David Henneberry, his family told the Daily News.

Henneberry, an avid boater who is a member of the Watertown Yacht Club, walked outside to have a cigarette just after Gov. Deval Patrick lifted the curfew on Boston residents at 6 p.m. Friday.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/watertown-man-finds-bomber-holed-boat-article-1.1322387#ixzz2QxuiR25w

May have already been posted:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Boston+Bombing+victim+says+suspect+dropped+feet/8264009/story.html (http://www.calgaryherald.com/Boston+Bombing+victim+says+suspect+dropped+feet/8264009/story.html)

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Boston Bombing victim says suspect dropped bag at his feet
 
 
By Asjylyn Loder and Esme E. Deprez, Bloomberg News April 18, 2013

BOSTON — Minutes before the bombs blew up in Boston, Jeff Bauman looked into the eyes of the man who tried to kill him.

Just before 3 p.m. on April 15, Bauman was waiting among the crowd for his girlfriend to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon. A man wearing a cap, sunglasses and a black jacket over a hooded sweatshirt looked at Jeff, 27, and dropped a bag at his feet, his brother, Chris Bauman, said in an interview.

Two and a half minutes later, the bag exploded, tearing Jeff's legs apart. A picture of him in a wheelchair, bloodied and ashen, was broadcast around the world as he was rushed to Boston Medical Center. He lost both legs below the knee.

"He woke up under so much drugs, asked for a paper and pen and wrote, 'bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,'" Chris Bauman said yesterday in an interview.

Those words may help crack the mystery of who perpetrated one of the highest-profile acts of terror in the U.S. since the 2001 assault on New York City and the Washington area, one that killed three people and wounded scores.

While still in intensive care, Jeff Bauman gave the FBI a description of the man he saw, his brother said. Bauman's information helped investigators narrow down whom to look for in hours of video of the attack, he said.
 ::snipping2::

 ::monkeyflag::


April 19, 2013 Tweets
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Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 19m
Mayor Tom Menino: "I am so proud of all our first repsonders. Thanks to them - the people of Boston will sleep well tonight."

Mr. Tsarnaev believes his sons were framed?!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324763404578433533790946270.html
Father of Boston Bombing Suspects Keeps Faith in His Sons
Anzor Tsarnaev Describes the Night That FBI Agents Interviewed His Older Son in 2011
April 19, 2013

MOSCOW—The father of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects said he was present at the family house in Cambridge, Mass., when the FBI interviewed his older son in 2011.

Anzor Tsarnaev, speaking with The Wall Street Journal via telephone from Makhachkala in Russia's Republic of Dagestan, said Federal Bureau of Investigation agents came to talk to his older son, Tamerlan, as a "person of interest."

"Yes, I was there. Of course I was there," Mr. Tsarnaev said. "It was in Cambridge. 410 Norfolk Street, Cambridge."

He said U.S. authorities visited the house for what he described as "prevention" activities that involved Tamerlan. "They said: We know what sites you are on, we know where you are calling, we know everything about you. Everything," Mr. Tsarnaev recalled. "They said we are checking and watching—that's what they said."

The father of the pair said he wasn't nervous that the FBI showed up at his home. "I knew what he was doing, where he was going. I raised my children right," he said of his sons.

He said he is sure Tamerlan and his brother Dzhokhar must have been framed for the Boston bombing. "This is all lies. These are my children. I know my children," Mr. Tsarnaev said. He said his own brother, Ruslan, called his sons "losers" in an American television interview Friday because of a family feud.

Mr. Tsarnaev said he was also on hand when Tamerlan visited Makhachkala for a few months last year. "He wasn't occupied with anything. He was just visiting relatives," he recounted. Asked if it was possible Tamerlan encountered Muslim fundamentalists while in Dagestan, he said there was no way. "There aren't even any of those here anymore," Mr. Tsarnaev said. He said his son, who married and had a child with an American named Katherine, had recently become more religious and started to pray.
 ::snipping2::
hough he is an ethnic Chechen, Mr. Tsarnaev grew up in Kyrgyzstan because his parents were sent there under a mass deportation of Chechens during the Stalin era. He said he moved to Chechnya with his family for a year in 1994 after the fall of the Soviet Union, but quickly returned to Kyrgyzstan after disliking the situation in his ethnic homeland.

Then the family left Kyrgyzstan in 1999 to move to Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, which borders Chechnya. Ms. Tsarnaeva's family—who are Avars, one of the largest ethnic groups in Dagestan—come from Makhachkala. The family left a few years later for the U.S.

Mr. Tsarnaev said he returned to Dagestan a year ago because he is very sick. "It's a bad prognosis," he said.

SEATTLE (AP) — The intensive manhunt for the bombers behind the deadly Boston Marathon attacks didn't take place only on the streets with professional police officers and SWAT teams. In an era of digital interactivity, it also unfolded around the country from laptops and desk chairs filled with regular folks.
Fueled by Twitter, online forums like Reddit and 4Chan, smartphones and relays of police scanners, thousands of people played armchair detective as police searched for men who turned out to be suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers who had immigrated from southern Russia years ago. ::MonkeyCool::
But as amateur online sleuths began identifying possible culprits, caught in the virtual manhunt were people who were wrongly accused or placed under suspicion by crowdsourcing. It showed the damage that digital investigators can cause and raised a relevant question: In the social-media generation, what does law enforcement unleash when, by implication, it deputizes the public for help?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/boston-manhunt-online-detectives-flourish-075757788.html

There's a good article here on what is known about the bombers:

http://gawker.com/5995042/everything-we-know-about-the-alleged-boston-bombers

Among the things I didn't know, or find interesting, are:

 ::snipping2::

~ According to Tamerlan's ( older bro) Amazon Wishlist, the 26-year-old was very interested in fraud, persuasion, the mafia, and his native Chechnya. Highlights include as How to Make Driver's Licenses and Other ID on Your Home Computer and Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influ​ence People

~ Tamerlan drove a Mercedes and said he dressed "European."

~ Tamerlan kept a YouTube channel with a since-deleted category labeled "Terrorists."

~ People called him (younger bro) Jahar "because Dzokhar was too difficult to pronounce.

~ This appears on Jahar's twitter acct on April 15 @ 8:04 PM: " Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people"

~ A woman believed to be the suspected bombers' mother was arrested for shoplifting last summer at Lord & Taylor.

~ According to the AP, Tamerlan went to Russia last year and spent six months there.

~  Tamerlan Tsaenaev has a two-year-old young daughter, according to his aunt, Toronto resident, Maret Tsarnaeva. She says he is also married "to a woman whom she described as a Christian, and that he's been staying at home taking care of his daughter while his wife worked," reports the CBC.

~ Tamerlan also was a devout Muslim, his aunt told reporters, who prayed five times a day.

~ An Andrew Sullivan reader who knew Jahar writes in: "My feeling is that the reason that Jahar was involved has entirely to do with his brother. I've maybe met his brother once, but his brother used to be a good friend of my friend's brother. I remember hearing recently that he had settled down, had a child, and had become fairly religious but didn't think anything of it. Given that his brother essentially raised him I think this is an awful case of evil being perpetuated because of the trust and love Jahar had for his brother."

~ Zaur Tsarnaev, a cousin, told the Boston Globe that Tamerlan was a bad influence on his little brother. "I used to warn Dzhokhar that Tamerlan was up to no good," he said. "[Tamerlan] was always getting into trouble. He was never happy, never cheering, never smiling. He used to strike his girlfriend. He hurt her a few times. He was not a nice man. I don't like to speak about him. He caused problems for my family."

 ::snipping2::

There are other things I find disturbing that aren't included in the article but that I've heard on TV news reports. The FBI was requested to look into the older brother's activities by no less that the Russian Government. The FBI has acknowledged they did speak with him. What happened after that and was his terrorist's contributions to Youtube being monitored?

Apparently, after the older brother returned from Russia, he became a seriously devout Muslim. I can't help but wonder if that alone shouldn't have been a point of interest for someone already under the eye of the FBI.

It has been reported that this family came to the US under political asylum, which would immediately entitle them to all financial aide benefits afforded to American citizens. My understanding is that the Mother took advantage of that. How on earth did the hatred develop for a country that extended those taxpayer's kindnesses to them?

So far, Miranda Rights have not been read to Jahar, who remains in serious/critical condition. If the President will declare him an enemy combatant, the opportunity to interrogate him without him being able to lawyer up still exists. That law has never been extended beyond 48 hours, so it's new ground and I'm sure the argument would be that it should extend from the point where he is capable of responding to questions. I hope the decision will be made on that point. I'm glad he's alive. The victims will want to know what his answers are. There is a need for grief to meet answers, even if the answers aren't satisfactory.

I'm at least grateful that this event is at least being referred to as terrorism. It isn't "workplace violence" as Fort Hood was labeled. It isn't a spontaneous response to a Hollywood video as Benghazi was pigeon holed. I suppose that's progress.

I wonder what impact, if any, the Boston Bombings will have on Immigration Reform.

Just random thoughts........ my heart aches for those who have lost loved ones and whose lives were forever altered that day. It's so needless, so evil.........

There are 200 photos of the bombing and aftermath in a slideshow at this link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/bag-photos-before-and-after-whdh_n_3099781.html#slide=2340520

It's down the page a little under the title, " Boston Marathon Explosion (Graphic Photos)"

Warning: They are Graphic and unaltered.

April 20, 2013 Tweets
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Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 1h
Correction:  Transit Police cleared South Station scene.  BPD assisted.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 1h
BPD Bomb Squad has cleared from South Station.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@Boston_Police 2h
BPD bomb squad responding to bomb threat at South Station.

Piece of Crap kid
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Now we have to save this kids life to get information on why he killed so many people
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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/20/17837080-lone-officer-confronted-marathon-bombing-suspects-in-firefight-chief-says?lite
Lone officer confronted marathon bombing suspects in firefight, chief says
April 20, 2013

A lone small-town police officer confronted the two Boston Marathon suspects on a dark street after they got out of their cars and started shooting at him, the Watertown, Mass., police chief said Saturday.
In the ensuing firefight, the suspects hurled a pressure-cooker bomb similar to the two that went off near the marathon finish line, said Chief Edward Deveau. They also tossed four homemade grenade-like devices, Deveau said, with two of them exploding.
The two men were in separate cars when they were confronted, he said — apparently one of their own and another that they had carjacked.
Deveau said police tracked one of the cars because the carjack victim’s phone was still inside. The lone officer, whom he identified as Joe Reynolds, was told not to engage the suspects, but the suspects fired on him from separate locations, Deveau said.
Under fire, the officer put his cruiser in reverse to back away while other officers arrived, he said. Six Watertown police officers were involved in the fight, plus a transit officer who was shot in the groin and bled heavily, he said.
The pressure-cooker bomb exploded, and the lid was found embedded in a nearby car, Deveau said. There were three explosions in the firefight, in addition to 200 rounds of gunfire, he said.
 ::snipping2::
One of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in the firefight. The surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, later hid in a boat behind a Watertown house and was cornered and captured alive by authorities.
On Saturday, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was under heavy guard and in serious condition at a Boston hospital — the same hospital where some victims of the marathon blasts are still recovering.
More...

Video at Link

Infrared cameras catch bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in boat, moments before capture

    From AP, POST STAFF
    Last Updated: 5:11 PM, April 20, 2013
    Posted: 4:49 PM, April 20, 2013

(http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2013/04/20/news/web_photos/519081640161941--525x350.jpg)
This infrared image released by the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing shows the boat and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev just before his capture yesterday.

He could run, but he couldn't hide.

Massachusetts state police today released infrared images they used to spot Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he hid under a boat cover during yesterday's massive manhunt in Watertown.

The cameras used by the Air Wing allowed cops to keep their eyes on Tsarnaev at all times as they closed in on the 19-year-old, accused in the deadly bomb attack in Boston that killed three and wounded more than 180 others just days earlier.

(http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2013/04/20/news/web_photos/BostonMarathonExplosions162142--525x350.jpg)
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lies in the boat before his arrest.

Tsarnaev, 19, was reported to be in no condition to be interrogated the morning after he was pulled, wounded and bloody, from a tarp-covered boat in a Watertown backyard. The capture came at the end of a tense day that began with his older brother, Tamerlan, dying in a desperate getaway attempt.

The all-day manhunt Friday brought the Boston area to a near standstill and put people on edge across the metropolitan area.

The break came around nightfall when a homeowner in Watertown saw blood on his boat, pulled back the tarp and saw a bloody Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding inside, police said. After an exchange of gunfire, he was seized and taken away in an ambulance.

The pair of bomb blasts near the marathon's finish line killed an 8-year-old boy, Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lu Lingzi, 23. More than 180 people were injured, including some who lost legs in the attack.

Tsarnaev allagedly carried out the bomb attacks with his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed by police during a desperate getaway attempt earlier that day.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has not yet been charged.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/infrared_cameras_catch_capture_suspect_XZaJX4SZTxGXi2j8Zv2SwM

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/live-updates-boston-bombing-suspect-in-custody-day-2/
LIVE UPDATES: Boston Bombing Suspect in Custody, Day 2
April 20, 2013

3:35 p.m. ET: From ABC News’ Anthony Castellano and Aaron Katersky: Investigators were unable to grill the surviving Boston Marathon bomb suspect today because he is so badly injured that he is unable to communicate.
Gov. Deval Patrick indicated the grave danger for suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when he said to reporters today that authorities “hope he survives, because we have a million questions.”
Tsarnaev, 19, is under heavy guard at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he is listed in serious but stable condition. Officials said the suspect is unable to communicate.
He is in the same hospital where his brother Tamerlan, 26, was brought early Friday after a shootout with police. Tamerlan died of his wounds.
More...
Video at Link

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/boston-marathon-bombings.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Inquiry Shifts to Suspect’s Russian Trip
April 20, 2013

 ::snipping2::
Federal investigators are hurrying to review a visit that one of the suspected bombers made to Chechnya and Dagestan, predominantly Muslim republics in the north Caucasus region of Russia. Both have active militant separatist movements. There are concerns in Congress about the F.B.I.’s handling of a request from Russia before the trip to examine the man’s possible links to extremist groups in the region.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died early Friday after a shootout with the police in Watertown, Mass., spent six months of last year in Dagestan.

Tamerlan’s father, Anzor, said his son had returned to renew his passport, but his stay was prolonged and, analysts said, may have marked a crucial step in his path toward the bombing of the Boston Marathon.

Kevin R. Brock, a former senior F.B.I. and counterterrorism official, said, “It’s a key thread for investigators and the intelligence community to pull on.”

The investigators began scrutinizing the events in the months and years before the fatal attack, as Boston began to feel like itself for the first time in nearly a week .
 ::snipping2::
The motivations of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, who was taken into custody Friday night and is still too wounded to speak, are as yet publicly unknown. Of Chechen heritage, they lived in the United States for years, according to friends and relatives, and no direct ties have been publicly established with known Chechen terrorist or separatist groups.

The significance of the trip was magnified late Friday when the F.B.I. disclosed in a statement that in 2011 “a foreign government” — now acknowledged by officials to be Russia — asked for information about Tamerlan, “based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country’s region to join unspecified underground groups.”

The senior law enforcement official said the Russians feared he could be a risk, and “they had something on him and were concerned about him, and him traveling to their region.”

But the F.B.I. never followed up on Tamerlan once he returned, a senior law enforcement acknowledged on Saturday, adding that the bureau had not kept tabs on him until he was identified on Friday as the first suspect in the marathon bombing case.
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Russia and the United States have since 1994 routinely exchanged requests for background information on residents traveling between those countries on visa, criminal or terrorism issues. It was unclear Saturday whether Russia makes requests of any American traveler of Chechen origin to Russia, or if the Russian government offered the F.B.I. specific evidence in the case of Mr. Tsarnaev.

The bureau responded to the request by checking “U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history,” the statement explained.

In January 2011, two agents from the bureau’s Boston field office interviewed Tamerlan and family members, a senior law enforcement official said on Saturday. According to the F.B.I.’s statement, “The F.B.I. did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign,” and conveyed those findings to “the foreign government” by the summer of 2011.

As the law enforcement official put it, “We didn’t find anything on him that was derogatory.”

The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti quoted the father of the Tsarnaev brothers recalling the F.B.I.’s close questioning of his elder son, “two or three times.”

He said they had told his son that the questioning “is prophylactic, so that no one sets off bombs on the streets of Boston, so that our children could peacefully go to school.”

In an interview in Russia, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the two men, recalled that the agents had told her that Tamerlan was “an excellent boy,” but “at the same time, they told me he is getting information from really extremist sites, and they are afraid of him.”

After the visit to Dagestan and Chechnya, signs of alienation emerged. One month after Tamerlan returned to the United States, a YouTube page that appeared to belong to him was created and featured multiple jihadist videos that he had endorsed in the past six months.

One video features the preaching of Abdul al-Hamid al-Juhani, an important ideologue in Chechnya; another focuses on Feiz Mohammad, an extremist Salafi Lebanese preacher based in Australia. He also created a playlist of songs by a Russian musical artist, Timur Mucuraev, one of which promotes jihad, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors statements by jihadists.

The aftermath of the arrests has thrust Washington and Moscow into a cooperative mode, a jarring shift coming amid weeks of rancor over American criticism of Russia’s human rights record. Presidents Obama and Vladimir V. Putin spoke by telephone late Friday night, in a conversation initiated by the Russian side, the Kremlin announced. The Kremlin’s statement said both leaders expressed a desire for “the building of close coordination between Russian and American intelligence services in the battle with global terrorism.”

Nevertheless, there were glaring questions about the case, among them how Tamerlan had escaped attention after 2011.

A Russian intelligence official told the Interfax news service on Saturday that Russia had not been able to provide the United States with “operatively significant” information about the Tsarnaev brothers, “because the Tsarnaev brothers had not been living in Russia.”

Andrei Soldatov, an investigative journalist who specializes in Russia’s security services, said he believes that Tamerlan may have attracted the attention of Russian intelligence because of the video clips he had posted under his own name starting in 2010, which were included on a list of banned materials by the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B.

At that point, the agency had just begun routinely scrutinizing materials posted on social networks, and would most likely have sent a request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said Mr. Soldatov, the author of “The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the K.G.B.”

On Saturday morning, federal prosecutors were drafting a criminal complaint against Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, who was wounded in the leg and neck and had lost a great deal of blood when he was captured Friday evening. The F.B.I. and local law enforcement agencies continued to gather evidence and investigate the bombings, the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Thursday night and the subsequent battle with the police that left another officer critically wounded.

An official said the criminal complaint would most likely include a constellation of charges stemming from both the bombings and the shooting, possibly including the use of weapons of mass destruction, an applicable charge for the detonation of a bomb. That charge, the official said, carries a maximum penalty of death. While Massachusetts has outlawed the death penalty, federal law allows it.
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Bradley Cooper Visits Boston Bombing Victim Jeffrey Bauman Jr. With NFL Star Julian Edelman
Access Hollywood – Fri, Apr 19, 2013

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Bradley Cooper took time out of his busy filming schedule to visit one of the victims of Monday's Boston Marathon bombing.
The "Silver Linings Playbook" star, along with New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, stopped by a Boston hospital to check in on Jeffrey Bauman, Jr., who lost both of his legs in the terrorist attack.
"Visited #survivor #stud #hero Jeffrey Bauman Jr. today," Julian Tweeted, along with a photo of Bradley and himself on either side of Jeffrey's hospital bed, as the wounded 27-year-old flashed a thumbs up. "He was looking great and is a true inspiration. #strong." ::snipping2::
http://news.yahoo.com/bradley-cooper-visits-boston-bombing-victim-jeffrey-bauman-184619576.html

This is terrible I cried so hard. The guy who lost both feet just killed me. Thank God we have some heroes that helped out  ::MonkeyAngel::

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wave-support-boat-man-found-bomber-suspect/story?id=19006080&google_editors_picks=true
Wave of Support to Replace Boat Ruined in Bomber's Standoff With Cops
April 21, 2013


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America wants to help David Henneberry get a new boat.

The Watertown, Mass., resident became a hero when he discovered suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in his backyard boat.

Henneberry quickly called the cops and in a final standoff, his boat was riddled with bullet holes.

"That boat's his baby. He takes care of it like you wouldn't believe. And they told him it's all shot up," Henneberry's friend and neighbor George Pizzuto told ABC News. "He's going to be heartbroken."
Today, people around the country want to make help mend that broken heart.

Deborah Newberry, 62, of Orlando, Fla., has already put a $25 check in the mail to Henneberry's home.

"Something told him to go and check things," Newberry told ABCNews.com. "I just want him to know that people care about him because I know he's probably the guy that would say, 'Well, that's okay.' But I just would like him to know that we're all thinking about him and appreciate his spirit."
 ::snipping2::
Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau has been inundated with messages of gratitude and praise as well as requests from people who want to know how they can get a Watertown Police T-shirt.

"I'm getting emails and things from all over the world," Deveau told ABC News. "I got an email this morning. Some person in Detroit, Michigan who wants to replace the boat for the Watertown resident that got shot up. I mean, it's just incredible."

People on Twitter are echoing the calls to help Henneberry, hailing him a hero.

"Bravo, David Henneberry! You are a true American hero. I say we all pitch in and buy you a new boat. #welldeserved," one person tweeted.

Another wrote, "Some boat company needs to hook David Henneberry up with a new boat. His has a few holes in it. Holey #boats don't float."

Henneberry's boat is reportedly a 22-foot Seahawk cruiser with a fiberglass hull, which retails for around $50,000.

He did not return ABC News' request for a comment.

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Dramatic helicopter video using thermal imaging locates Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in boat

A police chopper equipped with a thermal imager picked up on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's body heat through a tarp in a Watertown, Mass. resident's boat, helping in the arrest.

By Michael Walsh / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 1:30 PM
Updated: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 12:25 PM


There was no way out for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The Boston bombing suspect was crammed on the floor of a boat as law enforcement closed in during Friday's massive manhunt, according to newly released aerial video.

A helicopter, using thermal imaging, caught the action as the arm of an armored tank peeled back tarp that covered the 24-foot boat — which was parked behind a residential home in Watertown, Mass.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/thermal-imaging-aided-bomb-suspect-arrest-article-1.1322811#ixzz2R7lPOiY3

video of the sound and on the street view of the capture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=796UFHldHM4&NR=1

wondering now how us citizens, feel now about the detainment, of us citizens
that are terrorists, JMO i thought it was a good idea,because i always felt it
was just a matter of time b4 terror bombing would happen in our country

Saturday, 05 January 2013 12:30
Obama Signs 2013 NDAA: May Still Arrest, Detain Citizens Without Charge
Written by  Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, President Barack Obama did what constitutionalists and civil libertarians knew he would do: He signed into law the renewal of his power to apprehend and detain Americans indefinitely on no more authority than his own suspicion of their complicity with enemies in the “War on Terror.”
 
With more of a whimper than a bang, the president signed the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). As he did on New Year’s Eve 2011 when he signed last year’s version of the NDAA, President Obama appended a signing statement to the act. This time, however, there were no promises of protecting Americans from deprivations of due process. This time, the signing statement (I would agree with Benjamin Wittes of the Lawfare blog who suggests it is more of a “whining” statement) recounts all the reasons the president had for vetoing the bill. Somehow, however, he managed to hold his nose and sign this unconstitutional, no longer unprecedented, giant leap toward statism, absolutism, and outright unapologetic tyranny
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/14120-obama-signs-2013-ndaa-may-still-arrest-detain-citizens-without-charge

After hearing the shots in that video it's amazing how they didn't kill him.

whoops forgot this

Boston bombing suspect’s arrest presents intelligence opportunity, legal challenges

..By Jason Sickles, Yahoo! | The Lookout – Sat, Apr 20, 2013.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/boston-bombing-suspect-arrest-presents-intelligence-opportunity-legal-183858408.html

san i think what they used were these,or something like them,if not hit directly not lethal
Stun grenade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stun_grenade

informative interviews,from face the nation with the comm.and the gov of MA

April 21, 2013 10:32 AM
Mass. Gov.: Boston may never "be quite the same"

video and article
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57580626/mass-gov.-boston-may-never-be-quite-the-same/

Cornered Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have shot himself, investigators think: report
POST STAFF, AP
Last Updated: 5:45 PM, April 21, 2013
Posted: 5:28 PM, April 21, 2013
 ::snipping2::
CBS correspondent John Miller reported that one of the wounds Tsarnaev suffered was a bullet wound to the back of the neck, and that authorities think he may have tried to kill himself rather than be captured.

"But [investigators are] saying that wound to the back of the neck is very possibly a suicide attempt. They say it appears from the wound that he might have stuck a gun in his mouth, and fired and actually just went out the back of his neck without killing him," Miller reported.

Tasrnaev fired several shots from inside the boat, but investigators don't know in which direction he fired, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said today.
more
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/cornered_boston_bombing_suspect_Aulju68vlUH7wbZmRROjtJ

John Miller is a good crime reporter.  If in fact he did try and kill himself I'm glad he failed.

April 21, 2013 Tweets
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Commissioner Davis says:  The suspect is not yet able to be interrogated by police

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BPD Commissioner says suspect in critical but stable condition

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BPD will begin returning personal property tomorrow

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/mbta_cop_s_family_keeps_bedside_vigil
MBTA cop’s 
family keeps bedside vigil
April 21, 2013

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HEROES: Injured police officer Richard Donohue, Jr., above, graduated in the same police academy class as slain MIT officer Sean Collier.


The family of the MBTA transit police officer shot in a firefight with the marathon bombing suspects is keeping vigil at his bedside as he recovers from his wounds.

“My brother is my hero” said Edward Donohue, who also is a police officer in Winchester.

Richard Donohue Jr., 33, remained in critical but stable condition yesterday at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, according to a hospital spokesman.

Richard Donohue was shot early Friday morning in the hunt for the brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of killing three innocent bystanders and wounding more than 170 at Monday’s Boston Marathon. Donohue graduated in the same police academy class as Sean Collier, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who authorities say was killed by the two suspects.
 ::snipping2::
Donohue is married and the father of a 7-month-old child. He has been a member of the MBTA Transit Police Department for three years.
 ::snipping2::

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect, Reportedly Awake And Responding To Questions In Writing

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Reuters  |  Posted: 04/21/2013 9:02 pm EDT

April 21 (Reuters) - The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, who was seriously wounded and unable to speak, is awake and responding in writing to questions from authorities, according to a Tweets by ABC and NBC news networks.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is in the intensive care unit of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is responding sporadically, the ABC news network reported on its Twitter feed.

NBC's Pete Williams is also reporting Tsarnaev is writing answers to questions from law enforcement.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/21/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-awake_n_3129188.html

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Authorities: Boston Bombing Suspect Is Responding to Questions in Writing

By ALYSSA NEWCOMB (@alyssanewcomb)
April 21, 2013

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awake and responding sporadically in writing to questions, authorities said. Investigators are asking about other cell members and other unexploded bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

Previously officials said Tsarnaev was in no condition to be interrogated.

Tsarnaev, 19, is being treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he is listed in serious but stable condition, with wounds to the neck and throat area, according to sources.

The bombing killed three, including a young boy, and wounded about 170. An MIT officer was allegedly killed by Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan and a Boston transit cop was badly wounded in a subsequent shootout.

The FBI is still collecting evidence from the Monday's blast site, mainly from the sides of buildings and the bleachers.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/authorities-boston-bombing-suspect-responding-questions-writing/story?id=19009283#.UXShFkqePbg

Boston Marathon suspect regains consciousness; Tsarnaev brothers planned more attacks: cops

Multiple handguns, a rifle and at least six homemade bombs were recovered from the scene of the fierce Friday morning gun battle that killed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and left Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, wounded and on the run.

By Stephen Rex Brown AND Rich Schapiro / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 10:30 PM
Updated: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 10:53 PM

The wanted to shed more blood.

The Tsarnaev brothers were armed to the teeth while on the run and hoped to rack up the body count, authorities said Sunday.

The latest twist in the global investigation came as the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, regained consciousness Sunday night and began answering investigators’ questions in writing, ABC News and NBC News reported.

Investigators were eager to learn from the 19-year-old, who was seriously wounded in a shootout with cops Friday and unable to speak, if he and his brother had planted more bombs and if they were part of a larger terror cell.

 “We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene — the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had — that they were going to attack other individuals,” Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said earlier Sunday.

Multiple handguns, a rifle and at least six homemade bombs were recovered from the scene of the fierce Friday morning gun battle that led to the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, in Watertown, Mass.

Watertown Police Chief Ed Deveau revealed the younger Tsarnaev killed his own big brother when he mowed him down with a stolen SUV while trying to escape the gunfight.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boston-bombing-brothers-planned-attacks-article-1.1323763#ixzz2RBlLr7s4

Feds ask to interview wife of suspected bomber
By MICHELLE R. SMITH | Associated Press
 ::snipping2::
DeLuca also offered new details on Tamerlan Tsarnaev's movements in the days after the bombings, saying the last day he was alive that "he was home" when his wife left for work. When asked whether anything seemed amiss to his wife following the bombings, DeLuca responded, "Not as far as I know." He said she learned her husband was a suspect in the bombings by seeing it on TV. He would not elaborate.
DeLuca said his client did not suspect her husband of anything, and that there was no reason for her to have suspected him. He said she had been working 70 to 80 hours, seven days a week as a home health care aide. While she was at work, her husband cared for their toddler daughter, DeLuca said.
"When this allegedly was going on, she was working, and had been working all week to support her family," he told the AP. ::snipping2::

She was raised Christian, but at some point after meeting Tamerlan Tsarnaev, she converted to Islam, he said. When asked why she converted, he replied: "She believes in the tenets of Islam and of the Koran. She believes in God."

http://news.yahoo.com/feds-ask-interview-wife-suspected-bomber-043342213.html

Boston Marathon Criminal Charges
http://www.scribd.com/doc/137390669/Boston-Marathon-Criminal-Charges

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FBI: Bombing suspect,  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in serious condition.

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 ::MonkeyShocked::

Boston bombing suspect charged, will not be treated as enemy combatant
Published April 22, 2013
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/22/white-house-says-boston-bombing-suspect-will-not-be-treated-as-enemy-combatant/

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http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/crime/doctors-all-boston-bomb-patients-likely-to-live/nXSpq/
Doctors: All Boston bomb patients likely to live
April 22, 2013

BOSTON — In a rebuttal to the terrorists and a tribute to stellar medical care, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.
That includes several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, and a little girl riddled with nails. Even a transit system police officer whose heart had stopped and was close to bleeding to death after a shootout with the suspects now appears headed for recovery.
 ::snipping2::
Three people did die in the blasts, but at the scene, before hospitals even had a chance to try to save them. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who police say was fatally shot Thursday by the suspects was pronounced dead when he arrived at Massachusetts General.
The only person to reach a hospital alive and then die was one of the suspected bombers — 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
But the remarkable, universal survival one week later of all others injured in the blasts is a testimonial to fast care at the scene, on the way to hospitals, then in emergency and operating rooms. Everyone played a part, from doctors, nurses and paramedics to strangers who took off belts to use as tourniquets and staunched bleeding with their bare hands.
As of Monday, 51 people remained hospitalized, three of them in critical condition and five listed as serious. At least 14 people lost all or part of a limb; three of them lost more than one.
Two children with leg injuries remain hospitalized at Boston Children's Hospital. A 7-year-old girl is in critical condition and 11-year-old Aaron Hern is in fair condition.
The surviving bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is in serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a neck wound.

Boston Bomb Suspect Eyed in Connection to 2011 Triple Murder
By MICHELE MCPHEE | ABC News – 3 hrs ago

In the wake of the revelations about the violent nature of accused marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, investigators in the Boston suburbs tell ABC News they are probing whether he may have been involved in an unsolved grisly triple homicide of a former roommate and two others. The murders took place around the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. ::snipping2::

http://news.yahoo.com/boston-bomb-suspect-eyed-connection-2011-triple-murder-164354976--abc-news-topstories.html

Bombing suspect could face death penalty
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged with "using a weapon of mass destruction."
Biden to attend MIT officer's service Criminal complaint


What do they mean could he should gezzzz


http://news.yahoo.com/

The entire article needs to be read, imo. 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-court-session-20130422,0,1035696.story
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspected Boston bomber, given bedside hearing
April 22, 2013

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Bombing Suspect’s Wife Is ‘Very Distraught’ and ‘Cries a Lot’ in Wake of Terror Attack (Plus: New Info About Her Background)

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (TheBlaze/AP) -- New details about the alleged Boston bomber's wife continue to emerge. On Monday, TheBlaze provided a report with more about her background and, today, additional information is emerging. It seems Katherine Russell was a talented artist, a good student who grew up Christian -- and the daughter of a suburban doctor.
Then she went off to college in Boston.
A few years later, she had dropped out of school, converted to Islam and was Katherine Tsarnaeva, wife of a man who would become a suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings and a subject of one of the biggest manhunts in American history. ::snipping2::
http://news.yahoo.com/bombing-suspect-wife-very-distraught-cries-lot-wake-115037403.html

im not happy with this situation,now that DT is officially charged and Miranda
the tax payers are still paying the hospital care bill for DT,just dosent seem
right,i get it due process,but chit the bill pob runs about 5-8k a day
anyway 2 pdf links,same doc, just one maybe better for your screen than the other

Document
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev given bedside hearing
http://documents.latimes.com/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-bedside-hearing/
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/690461/137428604-transcript-bedside-court-hearing-for.pdf

I don't know what "the source" is, so I would take it with a grain of salt.  It's still early in the investigation and the information may or may not be true, and as always, there's probably a lot they aren't, can't or won't tell the public. 

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/23/17877288-search-of-tsarnaevs-phones-computers-finds-no-indication-of-accomplice-source-says?lite
Search of Tsarnaevs' phones, computers finds no indication of accomplice, source says
April 23, 2013

A preliminary examination of the cellphones and computers used by the Tsarnaev brothers has found no indication of an accomplice in the Boston Marathon bombing, according to a U.S. counter-terrorism source briefed on the FBI investigation.
The source stressed that the investigation is ongoing, but bureau officials at this point appear increasingly confident that “nobody else was involved,” said the source.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother acted alone, learned to build the pressure-cooker bombs over the Internet and were motivated by a desire to defend Islam because of "the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," said the source, who has received multiple briefings on the probe.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has also told investigators that he and his brother got instructions on building bombs from an online magazine published by al Qaeda, federal law enforcement officials told NBC News.

He told investigators that the brothers read the instructions in Inspire, an online, English-language magazine that terror monitoring groups say al Qaeda began publishing in 2010.
The magazine has twice included articles on building bombs with kitchen pressure cookers — the method investigators say Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, used in the Boston attack.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested Friday after a manhunt that shut down Boston and its suburbs. He was interrogated in a Boston hospital bed, where he is recovering from injuries sustained in shootouts during the hunt. His condition was upgraded Tuesday to fair from serious, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts said.
Federal authorities charged him Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction, which could carry the death penalty. State officials said they expected to charge him in the death of a campus patrol officer as part of the shootout that authorities say the brothers carried out early Friday, NBC affiliate WHDH reported.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that he and Tamerlan, who was killed after the shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown, were motivated by religious fervor but were not in touch with overseas terrorists or terror groups, officials said.
Several officials familiar with the interrogation of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev described his behavior as cooperative.

A fireworks store in Seabrook, N.H., confirmed Tuesday that the older brother bought two large pyrotechnic kits there Feb. 6.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev bought two “good-size” mortar kits, consisting of tubes and shells, and black powder, said William Weimer, vice president of the store, Phantom. He said Tsarnaev paid $199.99 under a buy-one-get-one-free deal.
Weimer said he had Tsarnaev’s driver’s license on file, and said the FBI was at the store Friday or Saturday.

From his hospital room, the younger brother, in what was officially his first court appearance, communicated mostly by shaking his head. He spoke once, when asked whether he could afford a lawyer. He said, “No.” He was assigned three federal public defenders.
The White House said Monday that Tsarnaev will be tried in civilian court. Some Republicans have called for him to be treated as an enemy combatant, and tried in a military commission.
Tsarnaev, 19, is a naturalized American citizen of Chechen origin. White House press secretary Jay Carney said that American citizens cannot under law be tried in military commissions. He also noted that “hundreds of terrorists” have been convicted and imprisoned since Sept. 11, 2001, under the civilian court system.
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Great pictures and explanations of gunfight in Watertown...when older brother killed (terrorist #1).

Posted April 23, 2013

http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/04/pictures-of-boston-bombers-shooting/

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57581186/thousands-attend-slain-mit-officers-memorial-service/
Thousands attend slain MIT officer's memorial service
April 24, 2013


CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Vice President Joe Biden has told the parents of slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier that he hopes they find some solace in their extreme grief through a large memorial service in their son's honor.
Biden told thousands of students, faculty and staff, law enforcement officials from across the nation who had gathered Wednesday to pay respects at Briggs Field on campus that no child should predecease their parents.

School President L. Rafael Reif told those gathered that Collier not only had a job at MIT, but also had a life at MIT.

As many as 10,000 people were expected on campus for the memorial. They had to make their way through tight security, including metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs ahead of the service.
 ::snipping2::
Investigators believe that Collier was killed because the two bombing suspects wanted to take his gun, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller reported.

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev only had one real gun and one pellet gun. Investigators believe because the officer's holster had a locking system, they apparently couldn't get the gun out.

Collier was shot in the head execution-style while sitting in his patrol car.

One of the first responders was officer Richard Donohue. A few hours later, he would be seriously wounded in a shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/officials-boston-suspect-had-no-firearm-when-barrage-of-bullets-hit-hiding-place/2013/04/24/376fc8a0-ad18-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_story.html
Officials: Boston suspect had no firearm when barrage of bullets hit hiding place
April 24, 2013

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Although police feared he was heavily armed, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings had no firearms when he came under a barrage of police gunfire that struck the boat where he was hiding, according to multiple federal law enforcement officials.

Authorities said they were desperate to capture Dzhokhar Tsarnaev so he could be questioned. The FBI, however, declined to discuss what triggered the gunfire.
Other law enforcement officials said the shooting may have been prompted by the chaos of the moment and some action that led the officers present to believe Tsarnaev had fired a weapon or was about to detonate explosives.

These new details emerged as investigators continued their examination of the movements and motives of Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother, Tamerlan, in last week’s coordinated bombing, which killed three people and wounded more than 250.
 ::snipping2::
Law enforcement officials described the 30 minutes before the arrest of Tsarnaev as chaotic. One characterized it as “the fog of war” and said that in a highly charged atmosphere, one accidental shot could have caused what police call “contagious fire.”
 ::snipping2::
The FBI declined to discuss the exact sequence of events that led officers to open fire on Tsarnaev’s hiding place and whether the dozens of bullets that struck the boat caused any of his gunshot wounds.

A spokesman for the FBI said law enforcement agents were tracking an extremely dangerous suspect who had used guns and explosives on a public street to avoid arrest.
 ::snipping2::
In the immediate aftermath of Tsarnaev’s capture, police officials said he had fired from the boat and he was reported to have been captured with several weapons. There were also reports that the gunshot wound he suffered to the throat might have been an attempt to kill himself as police moved in.

Tsarnaev continues to be treated in a Boston hospital, where his condition has been upgraded from critical to fair. He began communicating in writing and some speech with a special team of FBI interrogators Saturday night and was officially charged Monday.
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Neil Diamond donating sales of ‘Sweet Caroline’ to Boston victims after bombings
April 24, 2013

NEW YORK — Neil Diamond is donating some of this week’s sales from “Sweet Caroline” after the tune became a source of comfort following the explosions at the Boston Marathon.

Sales from Diamond’s song are up by 597 percent, Nielsen SoundScan said Wednesday. Diamond’s representative said the singer will donate the recent sales to marathon bombing victims.
 ::snipping2::

The crowd-pleasing song is a staple of Boston Red Sox games. It makes no specific mention of Boston or the Red Sox, but the team started playing it regularly at Fenway Park more than a decade ago and fans took to it.

The New York Yankees, Toronto Raptors and other professional sports teams also have played the song at games in the days after the deadly blasts April 15.
 ::snipping2::

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/showbiz/neil-diamond-donates-royalties/index.html
Neil Diamond to donate 'Sweet Caroline' royalties to One Fund Boston
April 25, 2013

(CNN) -- Neil Diamond will donate royalties from his song "Sweet Caroline," which has been played at every Boston Red Sox home game for more than a decade, to the One Fund Boston, the singer said on Twitter on Wednesday.
The song was downloaded more than 19,000 times this week, with sales up 597%, Nielsen SoundScan said.
Diamond told Rolling Stone earlier this week that he will write a song about the bombings and other tragedies.
 ::snipping2::
Diamond was at Fenway Park on Saturday to lead the crowd in what has become a stadium tradition of singing the tune during the break in the eighth inning before the Sox come to bat.
"What an honor it is for me to be here today. I bring love from the whole country," he told the Sox faithful.
 ::snipping2::
The fund has raised more than $23 million as of Wednesday. The fund was formed to "help the people most affected by the tragic events that occurred in Boston on April 15, 2013," the website says.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/us/boston-attack/?sr=google_news&google_editors_picks=true
Suspects' mother says bombing was staged with paint instead of blood
April 25, 2013

CNN) -- The mother of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing says she believes the tragedy that killed three people and injured dozens more was staged, that the bombing was fake.
"That's what I want to know, because everybody's talking about it -- that this is a show, that's what I want to know. That's what I want to understand," said Zubeidat Tsarnaev.
She has seen a video pushing the wild idea, she told CNN's Nick Paton Walsh, who interviewed her in Makhachkala, Dagestan. He asked if she has seen the news images of the actual bombings and the suffering they caused.
"I haven't," she answered. There was no blood, she said. It was paint. But her disbelief broke down when she spoke of the victims.
"I really feel sorry for all of them. Really feel sorry for all of them," she said, her voice cracking. But she is resolute about not believing that her sons, Dzhokhar, 19, and Tamerlan, 26 were involved.
The elder son was killed after the two allegedly violently resisted and fled police.
Tamerlan's body remains unclaimed. Dzhokhar is hospitalized with severe injuries, and faces terrorism and murder charges.
His mother said at a news conference Thursday that authorities "already told us they will not let us see Dzhokhar."
 ::snipping2::
Father traveling to U.S.
Her husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, is expected to step off a flight in the United States in the coming days after a long journey from Dagestan. He told reporters he may leave Thursday for the United States.
He has vowed to cooperate in the bombing investigation.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev is not coming with him.
She's wanted on 2012 felony charges of shoplifting and property damage in Massachusetts, according to court officials.
The family lived there before she jumped bail, and they moved the same year to Dagestan, a semiautonomous region of Russia, officials said.
Anzor Tsarnaev may be bringing along important information for the investigation into the April 15 marathon bombings.
He is to depart for the United States as soon as Friday, human rights activist Kheda Saratova told CNN. Saratova is serving as the parents' representative.
 What might have motivated bombing? The CIA, FBI and bombing suspect #1 FBI probes influence of Boston bombs Man knew suspect, worked with victim
The father has said he will cooperate in the investigations into the alleged crimes of his sons.
 ::snipping2::

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BREAKING NEWS: Terror bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were planning to drive to New York City after their deadly attack on the Boston Marathon to detonate explosive devices in crowded Times Square, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces.

http://www.foxnews.com/


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/25/boston-marathon-bombing-suspects-planned-bombs-in-new-york-times-square/
Edit to add link to article.  MB

Thanks, Muffy. This is so hard for me to watch. I just want to slap that Mother.......... I'm sure that's politically incorrect, but I do! My heart is with the victims and their loved ones.

Yes, and that information came only after being questioned for some time. At first, he said they were going to New York just to party. So much for any other information that may have come out had the FBI been allowed to continue to question him.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/22085668/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-out-of-hospital
Boston Marathon bombing suspect out of hospital
April 26, 2013

BOSTON (AP) - The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in central Massachusetts.

The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center overnight and was taken to the Federal Medical Center Devens about 40 miles west of Boston.

The facility, on the decommissioned Fort Devens U.S. Army base, treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialized long-term medical or mental health care.

The 19-year-old Tsarnaev is recovering from a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries suffered during his attempted getaway.
 ::snipping2::

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57581554/boston-bombings-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-taken-from-hospital-to-prison/
Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev taken from hospital to prison
April 26, 2013

BOSTON Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from a hospital to a federal prison medical center, while FBI agents searched for evidence Friday in a landfill near the college he was attending.

Tsarnaev, 19, was taken from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he was recovering from a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries suffered during a getaway attempt, and transferred to the Federal Medical Center Devens, about 40 miles from Boston, the U.S. Marshals Service said. The facility at a former Army base treats federal prisoners.
 ::snipping2::
The facility, on the decommissioned Fort Devens U.S. Army base, treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialized long-term medical or mental health care.
 ::snipping2::
On Thursday, New York officials said Tsarnaev and his older brother and fellow suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev planned to attack Times Square.

"The surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "He told the FBI, apparently, that he and his brother had intended to drive to New York and designate additional explosives in Times Square."

Also, FBI agents picked through a landfill near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where Tsarnaev was a sophomore. FBI spokesman Jim Martin would not say what investigators were looking for. An aerial photo in Friday's Boston Globe showed a line of more than 20 investigators, all dressed in white overalls and yellow boots, picking over the garbage with shovels or rakes.

"They're searching for a laptop," Miller said on "CBS This Morning" Friday, "but they're also searching for anything else that would have gone out in that same trash, and that could be bomb-making components and other things. The laptop, though, if they find it, would be what they're hoping to have as a treasure trove because it would show online places, email contacts and so on. Now, they can still get some of that off the servers from the providers.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/26/details-clarified-or-learned-this-week-in-investigation-boston-marathon-bombing/
Details clarified or learned this week in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing
April 26, 2013

As the Boston Marathon bombings investigation continues, more information from authorities has emerged that clarifies some earlier reports from officials or provides more details on the suspected bombers, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and their backgrounds:

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MIT OFFICER: Officer Sean Collier was shot inside in his patrol car late Thursday, April 18. Authorities initially said he was responding to a disturbance. Police now say there was no disturbance and he was in his parked car when he was shot by one of the bombing suspects.

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NO ROBBERY ATTEMPT: Officials at first said that the suspects were pursued after they robbed a convenience store, where the younger one was seen on a surveillance camera. Authorities later corrected their statement to say the suspects were tracked down after they needed to stop for gas and a driver they had carjacked fled and called police.

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GUN BATTLE: Federal officials say only one gun was recovered at the scene of a shootout with the suspects early April 20, when more than 250 rounds were fired, according to Police Commissioner Ed Davis. The elder suspect died after that exchange of gunfire, though his exact cause of death is still not known. A federal law enforcement official confirmed his brother ran over his body as he fled the scene in a car.

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FOUND IN BOAT: Federal authorities now say the suspect was found unarmed in a boat in a backyard in Watertown, raising the question of how or why authorities started shooting. Rounds of ammunition could be heard firing by the hundreds who gathered nearby.

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YOUNGER BROTHER: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty after being charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill people and destroy property. Federal authorities say he shared information with interrogators until being read his constitutional rights.

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OLDER BROTHER: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother, Zubeidat, were added to the U.S. database of suspected terrorists 18 months before the Boston explosions, two officials briefed on the situation told The Associated Press.

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NEXT TARGET: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly say the brothers had five pipe bombs and another pressure cooker and were heading to New York City when the man they had carjacked escaped and called police to give chase.

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Brother Of Injured Officer Richard Donohue Calls Toucher & Rich: ‘He’s Doing Absolutely Awesome’
April 26, 2013

BOSTON (CBS) – The brother of Richard Donohue called in to 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Toucher & Rich on Friday morning, saying the MBTA officer is recovering well after he was nearly killed in a violent shootout with the suspected Boston Marathon bombers last week.
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Ed said his brother is talking and mentally alert, but has a long road to recovery. While he is suffering from some short-term memory loss, his brother says Donahue’s sense of humor has come back and he is in good spirits.

“He’s so happy to be awake, have family (by his side),” said Ed. “He got to see the Watertown guys that were on scene and the EMTs; you can see a little tear come to his eyes when he gets to see those guys because they definitely saved his life Friday morning.”
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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/24/emts-recount-saving-mbta-officer-during-watertown-gunfight/
Firefighters Recount Saving MBTA Officer During Watertown Gunfight
April 24, 2013

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Boston bombing suspects' mom in terror database
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and JULIE PACE | Associated Press – 17 hrs ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press. She called it "lies and hypocrisy" and said she has never been linked to crimes or terrorism.
The CIA asked for the Boston terror suspect and his mother to be added to a terrorist database in the fall of 2011, after the Russian government contacted the agency with concerns that both had become religious militants, according to officials briefed on the investigation. About six months earlier, the FBI investigated Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, also at Russia's request, one of the officials said. The FBI found no ties to terrorism.
The revelation that the FBI had also investigated Tsarnaeva and the CIA arranged for her to be added to the terrorism database deepened the mystery around the family. The Tsarnaevs are ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who immigrated to the Boston area in the past 11 years. Tsarnaeva, a naturalized U.S. citizen who has appeared on television interviews since the attacks and reversed her decision to return to the U.S. after the bombings, has said her sons could never have been behind the deadly attacks and believes they were framed. ::snipping2::

Tsarnaeva said it would not surprise her if she was listed in a U.S. terror database.
"It's all lies and hypocrisy," she told the AP from Dagestan. "I'm sick and tired of all this nonsense that they make up about me and my children. People know me as a regular person, and I've never been mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism."

http://news.yahoo.com/boston-bombing-suspects-mom-terror-database-171946561.html

‘I’m pissed . . . . but he’s dead and I’m still here’

Legless vic tells of fingering bomber

    By DAN MANGAN
    Last Updated: 10:21 AM, April 27, 2013
    Posted: 1:20 AM, April 27, 2013

“He’s dead, and I’m still here.”

A Boston Marathon victim whose legs were blown off in the attack spoke yesterday for the first time about his horrific injuries — and is more focused on his own recovery than the fate of the bombers.

“I’m pissed, obviously,” Jeff Bauman, 27, told the Boston radio show “Dennis & Callahan” on WEEI.

“But . . . it’s in the past, you know. You only look forward,” Bauman said from a rehab center.

“I had a lot to live for before, and I’ve got a lot to live for now.”

The Costco worker was at the marathon finish line on April 15 waiting for runner girlfriend Erin Hurley when he first spotted Tamerlan Tsarnaev skulking around the viewing area.


PROFILE IN COURAGE: Jeff Bauman, who had his legs blown off in the marathon terror attack, wheels around the hospital this week lifting the spirits of other victims.

“I was with my girlfriend’s roommates, and we were having a great time,” Bauman said.

“And just that one guy, he didn’t look like he was having a good time. He was right next to me at that point, and he had a bag, and he had his [sun]glasses. He had kind of like a leather-like sweat-shirt deal, and it was warm out. He was just an odd guy.”

Tsarnaev — who quietly left behind the homemade pressure-cooker bomb filled with metal projectiles — “just didn’t seem right,” Bauman said.

“You know how you size somebody up? I just looked at him. I was, like, ‘What’s this guy’s problem?’ ” he told WEEI.

“Next thing you know, I hear fireworks, and I’m on the ground,” Bauman said. “It was quick — he was there, and then he was gone, and then, ‘Boom!’ ”

Bauman thought he was going to die as he bled profusely on Boylston Street — until cowboy-hat-wearing peace activist Carlos Arredondo came to his rescue.

“I saw him. He was running around helping everybody” injured in the blast.

“And then . . . he helped me,” Bauman said of Arredondo, who was photographed pushing him to safety in a wheelchair. “He was going nuts helping everybody. His adrenaline was definitely, definitely kicking.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/pissed_but_he_dead_and_still_here_4eohIvLssoxHUYNIbnha5H

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/26/acd.01.html
ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES
New Details About Boston Bombing Investigation; Law Enforcement Source: Suspect No. 2 May Have Had Help Getting Rid of Evidence
Aired April 26, 2013 - 20:00   ET

APNewsBreak: Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZO | Associated Press – 16 hrs ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call.
In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials said.
The conversations are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev family.
As it was, Russian authorities told the FBI only that they had concerns that Tamerlan and his mother were religious extremists. With no additional information, the FBI conducted a limited inquiry and closed the case in June 2011.
Two years later, authorities say Tamerlan and his brother, Dzhohkar, detonated two homemade bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 260. Tamerlan was killed in a police shootout and Dzhohkar is under arrest.
In the past week, Russian authorities turned over to the United States information it had on Tamerlan and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva. The Tsarnaevs are ethnic Chechens who emigrated from southern Russia to the Boston area over the past 11 years.
Even had the FBI received the information from the Russian wiretaps earlier, it's not clear that the government could have prevented the attack.
In early 2011, the Russian FSB internal security service intercepted a conversation between Tamerlan and his mother vaguely discussing jihad, according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation with reporters.
The two discussed the possibility of Tamerlan going to Palestine, but he told his mother he didn't speak the language there, according to the officials, who reviewed the information Russia shared with the U.S.
In a second call, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva spoke with a man in the Caucasus region of Russia who was under FBI investigation. Jacqueline Maguire, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington Field Office, where that investigation was based, declined to comment.
There was no information in the conversation that suggested a plot inside the United States, officials said. ::snipping2::
http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-russia-caught-bomb-suspect-wiretap-211814701.html

Judge Jeanine Pirro Slams Jihad Mom: Lady, You Shouldn't Be Allowed Her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkzNL69L_h0

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Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, speaks at a news conference as her sister-in-law, Maryam, listens in Makhachkala, in the southern Russian province of Dagestan,

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/27/acd.01.html
ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES
Boston Terror: Behind the Bombings
Aired April 27, 2013 - 20:00   ET

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/28/acd.01.html
ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES
Boston Terror: Behind the Bombings
Aired April 28, 2013 - 22:00   ET

Boston bombing: Mysterious 'Misha' turns up in Rhode Island
For days since the Boston Marathon bombings, people have been searching for the mysterious “Misha,” the friend with the thin red beard who supposedly tutored bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the ways of more pious Islam.

Also hot on his trail was the FBI, which wondered whether “Misha,” described by Tsarnaev family members as an Armenian who converted to Islam, could have known something about Tsarnaev and his brother’s alleged plans to plant homemade bombs at the marathon finish line on April 15.

It appears the mystery is over — solved by no less a heavyweight news organization than the New York Review of Books.

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Full text of charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Acting on a tip from someone who knows the Tsarnaevs, writer Christian Caryl traveled to Rhode Island to interview the man: Mikhail Allakhverdov, 39, who is of Armenian-Ukrainian descent.

The FBI had beaten him to to it, having reportedly already interviewed  the man described in news accounts all over the world.

“I wasn’t his teacher. If I had been his teacher, I would have made sure he never did anything like this,” Allakhverdov told Caryl, who wrote a blog post for the book review. ::snipping2::
http://www.courant.com/news/breaking/sns-la-na-nn-boston-tsarnaev-misha-20130428,0,3046850.story

Female DNA found on bomb components in Boston Marathon probe, source says
Published April 29, 2013
FoxNews.com
Female DNA was found on bomb components used in the attack this month on the Boston Marathon, a source familiar with the investigation confirmed to Fox News, though the source cautioned that it is too early to draw hard conclusions from that evidence.
"No one should expect that the investigation is over," the source told Fox News in confirming the development first reported by the Wall Street Journal, adding that it is just one piece of evidence that investigators are looking at.
The revelation about female DNA came on the same day that the FBI went inside the Rhode Island home of bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow's parents, and the nearby family of a man identified as his mysterious mentor hired a family spokesman to keep the media at bay. ::snipping2::

Russell has not been named as a suspect in the April 15 bombing. A home health aide, she reportedly worked up to 80 hours per week and did not know her radical Muslim husband's plans to carry out a terror plot. The widow has kept a low profile since the attack, and is believed to have been living with her parents in West Kingston, R.I., since her husband was exposed as a terrorist and then killed in a police shootou ::snipping2::

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/29/marathon-bombing-probe-female-dna/#ixzz2RwuRPZF9

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/05/01/three-additional-people-taken-into-custody-boston-marathon-bombings/dhLzU1e5vfbuhxyjWlBOSP/story.html

Three additional people arrested in Boston Marathon bombings
05/01/2013 11:42 AM
By John R. Ellement and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff

Three college students have been arrested by federal authorities in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, a law enforcement official familar with the case said this morning.

The Boston police Web page said that three additional “suspects” had been taken into custody. It emphasized that there was no threat to public safety.

The three people were connected to Dzokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving bomb suspect, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where Tsarnaev was a student. They allegedly helped him after the bombing, a different source told the Globe.

“Additional details will be provided when they become available,” police said in a statement. No news conference was scheduled.

 ::snipping2::

Breaking: 3 more suspects in Boston Marathon bombings case taken into custody
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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/breaking-boston-police-three-boston-marathon-bombing-suspects-151027478.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/funeral-home-director-bury-body-tamerlan-tsarnaev/story?id=19108559&google_editors_picks=true
Funeral Home Director: No One Will Bury Body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev
May 4, 2013

Cemeteries across the Northeast are refusing to bury the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as his official cause of the death was released.

Authorities determined Tsarnaev died of gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to the head and torso after he was run over by his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarvaev, following a firefight with police.

Peter Stefan, a funeral home director in Worcester, Mass., told "Good Morning America" that he has already looked for plots in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts to bury Tsarnaev, but has had no luck.

"Is he a terrorist? Sure he is a terrorist, but I can't control what he did. But the person is dead, and burying a dead body, that's all it is," Stefan said.
 ::snipping3::
While ABC News has learned that the female DNA found on one of the bombs did not match Russell's the FBI is looking into what her husband may have said to her in a phone call just days after the bombings.
 ::snipping3::
In addition, the father of Azamat Ismagulov, one Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's friends arrested and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice for taking his laptop and allegedly trying to dump a backpack full of fireworks, told ABC News he could not believe his son was implicated in the crimes.
 ::snipping3::

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http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Motion-Release-man-accused-of-lying-after-blasts-4490831.php
Motion: Release man accused of lying after blasts
May 6, 2013

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The defense and the government have filed a joint court motion that asks a judge to release one of the friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) from federal custody while awaiting trial.

Robel Phillipos is scheduled to have a probable cause and detention hearing Monday after his arrest last week on charges of lying to investigators looking into the Boston Marathon bombings.
 ::snipping3::
Authorities say he lied to investigators about visiting Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the bombings.

The parties say in the court motion that they agree to home confinement and monitoring with an electronic bracelet, along with a $100,000 bond.

A magistrate judge is expected to consider the request during the afternoon hearing.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/05/09/body-tamerlan-tsarnaev-has-been-buried-undisclosed-location-worcester-police-say/iDpJpGifYzFQwBM71I7PXP/story.html
Body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Marathon bombing suspect, is laid to rest outside Massachusetts
May 9, 2013

WORCESTER — The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been laid to rest somewhere outside Massachusetts, according to a funeral home official briefed on the situation. Worcester police said the remains of the 26-year-old have been “entombed.’’

Tsarnaev’s remains were removed sometime before midnight Wednesday from the Graham Putnam & ­Mahoney Funeral Parlors where his body has been since last Friday, the official said.

The burial location was approved by Ruslan Tsarni, Tsarnaev’s uncle, who has represented the family as he and funeral home director Peter Stefan tried to find a cemetery willing to accept the remains, the official said.

Worcester police confirmed in a statement that Tsarnaev had been entombed, but did not disclose the location.
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Stefan’s funeral home has been surrounded by media, protesters, and Worcester police, whose chief, Gary J. Gemme, on Wednesday publicly appealed for someone to step forward and end the controversy that had cost his department some $30,000 in extra expenses.

‘‘We are not barbarians; we bury the dead,” Gemme said Thursday.

Stefan, the funeral home director, has conducted dozens of interviews over the past several days. But today, he declared he was not talking to anyone, prompting reporters to cluster together on the front steps of the building in hopes of hearing from him in some fashion.

After publicly announcing that the terror suspect’s body had been moved from the city, police removed the barricades they had installed around the funeral home on Main Street today.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s widow, Katherine Russell, waived her right to decide where the father of her child should be buried, handing off that responsibility to Tsarni, a Maryland resident who completed the Muslim burial rites on his nephew and then worked with Stefan to find the burial location.

The body was first released by the state medical examiner last Thursday and first was taken to a funeral home in North Attleborough before being taken to Worcester Friday.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/09/boston-bombing-martin-richard-sister-surgery/2148929/
Sister of Boston boy killed in bombing has 11th surgery
May 9, 2013

Jane Richard lost part of left leg in blast that killed her 8-year-old brother, Martin.

Jane Richard, the wounded 7-year-old sister of the boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombings, had a crucial 11th surgery Wednesday night but faces more operations to prepare her for an artificial leg, the family said Thursday.

Doctors at Boston Children's Hospital finally closed the wound where one bomb tore off her left leg below the knee April 15, the Richard family wrote on its Tumblr page. She will eventually be fitted with a prosthesis.

Jane, her mother and her father were among the more than 260 people wounded in the attack, which killed 8-year-old Martin Richard and two others as they all watched near the finish line in Copley Square.

"After not being able to communicate with Jane for the first two weeks, she woke up with difficult questions that needed to be answered," the statement said. "There are not words to describe how hard sharing this heartbreaking news was on all of us."

In addition to the surgeries, Jane has also fought off infections and other complications.

"One of the things we have learned through all of this is to not get too high or too low. We take today's development as positive news and look ahead with guarded optimism.

"If things go well, Jane could be ready to transition to the rehabilitation stage of her recovery in the next few weeks," the family said.
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'Mounting Evidence' Boston Bombers Involved in 2011 Triple Murder
May 10, 2013

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Massachusetts investigators have developed what they call "mounting evidence," bolstered by "forensic hits," that point to the possible involvement of both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar in a gruesome, unsolved triple homicide in 2011, law enforcement officials told ABC News.

The officials cautioned that until more definitive DNA testing is complete, it is still too early to consider bringing an indictment against the younger of the two brothers, who officials said has admitted his role in the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured 260 more on April 15. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police days after the Marathon bombing attack, but Dhzokhar survived and was captured.
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In the wake of the Marathon bombings, Middlesex County began to probe a link between the elder Tsarnaev and Brendan Mess, one of the three men killed in the gruesome slaying on Sept. 11, 2011. Officials said Mess and two men were found in a Waltham residence with their throats slit and their bodies covered with marijuana. Tamerlan and Mess were once roommates and did boxing and martial arts training together.

Now law enforcement officials tell ABC News that some crime scene forensic evidence provided a match to the two Tsarnaev brothers. The officials also said records of cell phones used by the Tsarnaevs appears to put them in the area of the murders on that date. Several officials confirmed the new findings but declined to be identified because they are not authorized to comment on the ongoing investigation.
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The savage 2011 murders unfolded on a quiet dead-end street on a balmy night.

Mess and his friends, Erik Weissman, 31, and Raphael Teken, 37, had ordered dinner from Gerry's Italian Kitchen at 8:54 p.m., but when a delivery woman arrived twenty minutes later there was no answer at the door and no one answered a call to Weissman's cell phone, from which the order was placed.

The bodies were discovered the next day. Former Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said at the time that the murders were "graphic." Other investigators called it perplexing.

Roughly seven pounds of marijuana was dumped on the bodies and $5,000 in cash was left behind. Neighbors said they did not hear any signs of trouble – even with open windows – and there was no forced entry. In a 2011 interview, Leone said investigators theorized there had been more than one person at the scene of the murders based on "many factors," but no suspects were identified.

From there the case went cold, until photos of the Boston Marathon suspects were released and family and friends of the Waltham victims recognized them and remembered Tamerlan's strange behavior after the murders. He did not attend his friend's funeral and vanished from the martial arts gyms where the men had sparred together.

Then, Gerry's Italian Kitchen became a focal point again on April 24, nine days after the Marathon bombing, after investigators removed two Planet Aid charity donation bins from a parking lot it shares with a neighboring grocer. A driver had discovered discarded fireworks inside and law enforcement sources told ABC News the gunpowder had been removed from the cartridges.

It is unclear how the Tsarnaev brothers were associated with Gerry's Italian Kitchen, if at all, but looking back, multiple residents of Waltham and Watertown remember Tamerlan Tsarnaev delivering food to their homes and Tsarnaev family members have told reporters the brothers worked as pizza deliverymen. The eatery's management, however, steadfastly denied that either Tsarnaev brother worked there.

Scott Wood, a jiu jitsui trainer who befriended and trained Mess at a martial arts studio in Vermont, said he always believed whoever the killer or killers were, they got in Mess' home "under the guise of being a friend."

"Brendan was a tough, tough kid, a strong kid. It wouldn't have been easy to take him out like that," Wood told ABC News.
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As detectives probe the Waltham connections, Middlesex County prosecutors are also busy building a case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in connection with the cold-blooded killing of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier after the Marathon bombings.

Collier was shot five times, allegedly by the Tsarnaev brothers, as he sat in his cruiser, just days before he would have become a Somerville Police Officer. Collier's murder will be prosecuted by state prosecutors while the Marathon bombing will be tried in federal court.

Collier's murder was followed by a carjacking that spawned a wild, high-speed chase that ended with bombs exploding and bullets flying on a street corner in Watertown. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Hospital later that night. His brother escaped but was found badly wounded in a Watertown man's boat blocks from the gun battle the following evening.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being held in the infirmary at Fort Devens federal prison.

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/22239930/2013/05/13/umass-to-award-boston-marathon-bombing-victim-posthumous-degree
UMass to award Boston Marathon bombing victim posthumous degree
May 13, 2013

MyFoxBoston.com) – Boston Marathon bombing victim Krystle Campbell will be awarded a posthumous degree from UMass on May 31 in an ongoing effort to honor those injured and killed during the April 15 attacks, the university announced Monday.

Campbell, a former sociology student at UMass Boston, will be awarded the posthumous bachelor of art degree at UMass Boston's undergraduate commencement.

"Our community experienced a tremendous loss during the Boston Marathon attack," said J. Keith Motley, chancellor at UMass Boston. "Krystle was a wonderful part of our campus community and we wanted to recognize her contributions and impact through the awarding of this posthumous degree. She was a great student and friend to many, and she will be greatly missed."

UMass is holding a moment of silence during commencement on each of its five campuses in memory of the four victims killed and in an expression of support for all those who were injured and impacted that day.
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Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left note in boat he hid in, sources say
May 16, 2013

(CBS News) Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller.

Sources tell Miller that Tsarnaev wrote the note in the boat he was hiding in as police pursued him, and as he bled from gunshot wounds sustained in an earlier shootout between police and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The note, scrawled with a pen on the interior wall of the cabin, said the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims collateral damage in the same way Muslims have been in the American-led wars. "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," the note added.

Dzhokar said he didn't mourn older brother Tamerlan, the other suspect in the bombings, writing that by that point, Tamerlan was a martyr in paradise -- and that he expected to join him there.

According to Miller, the note will be a significant piece of evidence in any Dzhokar trial -- it is "certainly admissible," and paints a clear picture of the brothers' motive, "consistent with what he told investigators while he was in custody," Miller said Thursday on "CBS This Morning."

Miller explained that while Dzhokar admitted many of the same details to authorities, those admissions came "during the time he was interrogated but before he was given his Miranda warning." The note gives prosecutors supporting, clearly admissible evidence even if there is an fight over whether things he said before he was given his Miranda rights are admissible as evidence.
It took days to learn the identity of the bombers, and there was no official claim of responsibility, which is unusual in these cases. As investigators move forward with the investigation, "the last big question remaining is going to be who else knew anything? Is it going to be the wife? Is it someone overseas?" Miller said.

The suspects didn't plan to stop after the Boston bombings, authorities say. They intended to go to New York City and set off a device or devices in Times Square.
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Boston bombing suspect found hiding in boat  (10 images)

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Leaflets supporting Tsarnaev brothers posted in Kazakhstan
May 15, 2013

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/19/judy-clarke-attorney-lawyer-representing-boston-marathon-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-well-versed-death-penalty-cases/Trp5pqdUvkK6CpPF4yIRxL/story.html
Seasoned defender for Marathon bombing suspect
Clarke a veteran of capital cases
May 20, 2013

The lawyer heading the defense for the alleged Boston Marathon bomber in federal court in Boston is well-versed in capital cases and the long, emotionally charged process that would come if federal prosecutors seek the death penalty, according to legal observers and her own colleagues.

Judy Clarke, a former public defender now working as a private lawyer in San Diego, has been tapped to represent Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old from Cambridge charged in the bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260. Three other public defenders from Boston have also been assigned to the case, including one who speaks Tsarnaev’s native Russian.

Cases involving the death penalty allow for the appointment of an outside lawyer “learned in the law applicable to capital cases,” according to court records, and Clarke has been at the center of some of the most high-profile cases that the country has seen in recent times — cases that often include emotionally charged public calls for the death penalty.
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Already, the defense team won a request to have photos of Tsarnaev taken to show his state of health after his violent escape and then capture by police, and they could be used as evidence to argue against the death penalty.

Denvir said Clarke is known not only for her experience completing the research and tedious paperwork required of such complex cases, but also for her legal wit. Clarke, very low-key, does not engage the news media. Instead, she is calculating in her cases.

Above all, Denvir and others said, she has the passion of a public defender — to represent clients who are otherwise seen by the public to be monsters: She opposes the death penalty, not only as a lawyer but in her political beliefs.

Clarke most recently defended Jared Loughner, the man behind the Tucson shooting rampage in 2011 that killed six people and injured a dozen others, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, his target.

She defended Theodore John “Ted” Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, for the nationwide bombing campaign that killed three people. She also represented Atlanta Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph and Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who murdered her three children.

In each of those cases, the defendants were found guilty, but Clarke helped them escape the death penalty, and it will undoubtedly be her priority as she embarks on the Tsarnaev case, according to legal observers who described an in-depth, complex, and drawn-out process in capital cases.
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FBI agent in fatal shooting of suspect in Orlando
May 22, 2013

Updated at 7:46 a.m. ET

(CBS News) The FBI says it was involved in a fatal shooting near Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., early Wednesday.

CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, a former FBI assistant director, reported on "CBS This Morning" that the victim was a friend of the older brother suspected in last month's deadly terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon.

Miller reported that FBI agents went to the apartment of the man, Ibrahim Todashev, after midnight Wednesday morning to question him.

"He had been interviewed along with a number of other people in the apartment complex, but the interest in him was higher because of a couple of factors: He was in contact with Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He had been to Boston to visit him, and he was planning a trip to Chechnya," Miller said.

In a statement Wednesday, the FBI said, "We are currently responding to a shooting incident involving an FBI special agent. The incident occurred in Orlando Florida. The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased. We do not have any further details at this time. We expect to have more information later this morning."
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It must have been self defense right  ::MonkeyEek::

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Orlando man fatally shot by FBI was suspect in 2011 triple slaying in Waltham, along with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev
05/22/2013 1:00 PM

A Chechen man with ties to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando while he was being questioned about an unsolved triple homicide in Waltham, according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation.

The FBI announced that the person shot and killed early today was Ibragim Todashev, 27.

Two Massachusetts State Police troopers were also participating in questioning “in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation” at the time of the fatal shooting, the FBI said. State Police spokesman David Procopio had no comment.

Todashev was a suspect in the 2011 triple slaying in Waltham, a crime that authorities now suspect may have also been committed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the two law enforcement officials said.

The Waltham victims’ throats were slashed and marijuana was sprinkled over their bodies when they were slain on Sept. 11, 2011. The officials said authorities had questioned Todashev about the killings during a series of interviews in recent days. “Both Tsarnaev and Todashev were suspects in the murders,’’ one of the officials said.

Todashev attacked the officers in Florida today with a knife, according to another source with knowledge of the investigation.

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/justice/florida-fbi-shooting-boston/index.html
Source: Man killed by FBI agent 'directly involved' in murders, knew Tsarnaevs
May 22, 2013
(CNN) -- Ibragim Todashev, shot dead early Wednesday by the FBI in Florida, was "directly involved" in a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts, a law enforcement official told CNN Wednesday.
Todashev was fatally shot by an FBI agent during questioning about those homicides and whether he played a role in last month's Boston Marathon bombings.
"During questioning, it became clear that he was involved in the murders," said the official on condition of anonymity.
There was a confrontation between him and police during the questioning, according to a second law enforcement official, which led to the shooting and Todashev's death.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/us-usa-explosion-chechnya-idUSBRE94M11320130523
Father of Chechen shot by FBI suspects son was tortured
May 23, 2013

(Reuters) - The father of a Chechen immigrant killed during questioning over his links with one of the Boston Marathon bombings suspects said on Thursday he plans to travel to the United States where he suspects his son was tortured and killed.

Ibragim Todashev, 27, was killed by a federal agent in his apartment complex when he became violent during questioning over his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of two brothers suspected of planting two bombs at the marathon on April 15.

"I suspect that they tortured my son and that he suffered a painful death," said Abdulbaki Todashev, wiping away tears at the home he shares with one of his wives in the mostly Muslim region of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus.

"I will try to go to (the United States) and get to the truth," he said as he received neighbors and acquaintances paying their respects to the dead man, the oldest of 12 children between his father's two wives.
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Thousands walk, run Boston Marathon’s final mile to honor bombing victims, reclaim experience
May 25, 2013

http://www.kvue.com/news/Boston-bombing-suspect-is-walking-mother-says-209551861.html
Boston bombing suspect is walking, mother says
May 30, 2013

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) -- The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, their mother told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, walked without a wheelchair to speak to his mother last week for the first and only phone conversation they have had since he has been in custody, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told the AP.
In a rare glimpse at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's state of mind, he told her he was getting better and that he had a very good doctor, but was struggling to understand what happened, she said.
"He didn't hold back his emotions either, as if he were screaming to the whole world: What is this? What's happening?," she said.
The April 15 bombings killed three people and wounded more than 260. Elder brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police, and Dzhokhar remains in a prison hospital after being badly wounded.
"I could just feel that he was being driven crazy by the unfairness that happened to us, that they killed our innocent Tamerlan," their mother said, standing by the family's insistent belief that their children are innocent.
The Tsarnaevs met the AP in their new apartment in a 14-story building in a well-to-do area of Makhachkala, the capital of the restive Caucasus province of Dagestan. The apartment had no furniture apart from a TV, a few rugs, and wallpaper materials lying on the floor.
Anzor Tsarnaev, the suspects' father, said they had bought it for Tamerlan, his wife, and their young daughter in the expectation that they would move to Makhachkala later this year. He added that they planned to turn their old home in a dingy district on the outskirts of town into a dentist's office, so that Dzhokhar, a dental hygiene student, could work out of it after completing his studies.
"All I can do is pray to God and hope that one day fairness will win out, our children will be cleared, and we will at least get Dzhokhar back, crippled, but at least alive," Tsarnaev said.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-victim-funds-20130602,0,6152459.story?track=lat-pick
Charity funds for tragedy victims getting trickier
After the Boston Marathon bombing, organizers committed all donations to victims, to avoid controversy. Conflicts over other funds have prompted new approaches.
June 2, 2013

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http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Boston-fire-chief-resigns-citing-bomb-criticism-4572033.php
Boston fire chief resigns, citing bomb criticism
June 3, 2013

BOSTON (AP) — Boston's fire chief announced his resignation Monday, saying public criticism from his deputies for the way he responded to the marathon bombings has made it impossible for him to do his job.

Chief Steve Abraira said in a letter that his resignation is effective Friday.

Thirteen deputies complained to Mayor Tom Menino in a letter in April that Abraira's failure to take command of the bombing scene was indefensible and part of a pattern of shirking leadership.

"You can unequivocally consider this letter a vote of no confidence in Chief Abraira," said the letter, which was first reported by The Boston Globe.

Abraira has said his command staff had the bombing scene under control and he acted according to national standards, which dictate the chief takes charge only if something's going wrong.

In his resignation letter, he wrote, "The baseless attacks by the Deputy Chiefs, especially their actions of making this a matter of public debate by leaking their letter of April 26th to the press, has made it impossible for me to continue to do my job."

He said he never had support from "a number" of department members because he was hired from outside the department in 2011.

Abraira, the city's first Hispanic chief, was also the first hired from outside the department's own union. He previously led the Dallas department and was an assistant chief in Miami.
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Last Boston bombing victim leaves hospital
June 3, 2013

(CBS News) BOSTON - Seven weeks after the Boston marathon bombings, all of the wounded are now out of the hospital.

Erika Brannock, a 29-year-old pre-school teacher from Towson, Md., was released Monday. Both she and her sister were hurt in the attack.
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Libel suit filed against NY Post for marathon bombing story
Published: June 6, 2013

A Massachusetts man and a teenager have filed a lawsuit against the New York Post for running photos and articles that falsely alleged them to be suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Three days after the attacks, the Post printed the front-page headline “BAG MEN: Feds seek this duo pictured at Boston Marathon” along with a photo of 16-year-old Salaheddin Barhoum and 24-year-old Yassine Zaimi.

The Post said it had obtained an email that read, “The attached photos are being circulated in an attempt to identify the individuals highlighted therein. Feel free to pass this around to any of your fellow agents elsewhere.”

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The Department of Justice had already sent out a statement saying, “Any images not released via FBI official channels should not be considered credible.”

Despite that, Post editor Col Allan refused to apologize.

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http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/06/06/libel-suit-filed-against-ny-post-for-marathon-bombing-story/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/11/usa-fbi-deslauriers-idUSL2N0EN1R920130611
Boston's top FBI official, who led marathon bombing probe, to retire
June 11, 2013

(Reuters) - The head of the FBI's Boston office, who has supervised high-profile investigations including the probe into April's Boston Marathon bombings, will retire next month after more than 26 years with the agency, the bureau said on Tuesday.

Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers, originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, has helmed investigations such as the 2010 operation code-named Ghost Stories, in which 10 people were rounded up as suspected Russian spies.

He became best known across the United States following the April 15 marathon bombing as the agent who stepped forward to ask the public for help identifying the two men suspected of placing the twin pressure-cooker bombs at the marathon finish line.

"Somebody out there knows these individuals," DesLauriers said at a press conference hours before the suspects were identified as ethnic Chechen brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Tamerlan died that night in a gun battle with police and Dzhokhar was apprehended a day later after a massive manhunt.
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Suspect in Boston Marathon bombing indicted
June 27, 2013

BOSTON — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaida magazine, gathered online material on Islamic jihad and martyrdom, and later scribbled anti-American messages inside the boat where he lay wounded, a federal indictment charged Thursday.
The 30-count indictment includes many of the same weapon-of-mass-destruction charges, punishable by the death penalty, that were brought against the 19-year-old Tsarnaev in April.
But prosecutors added charges covering the slaying of an MIT police officer and the carjacking of a motorist during the getaway attempt that left Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan, dead.
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The Tsarnaev brothers had roots in the turbulent Russian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, which have become recruiting grounds for Islamic extremists. They had been living in the U.S. about a decade.
But the indictment made no mention of any larger conspiracy beyond the brothers, and no mention of any direct overseas contacts with extremists. Instead, the indictment suggests the Internet played a central role in the suspects' radicalization.
The papers detail how, after using the Internet to study jihad propaganda and bomb-making instructions, the brothers placed knapsacks containing shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the 26.2-mile race.
The court papers also confirm that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev inadvertently contributed to his brother's death by running him over during a shootout with police.
The charges also cover the slaying of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, who authorities say was shot in his cruiser by the Tsarnaevs during their getaway attempt. The brothers tried to take his gun, prosecutors said.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/29/us/massachusetts-boston-victims-fund/?sr=google_news&google_editors_picks=true
One Fund Boston to distribute nearly $61 million to marathon victims
June 29, 2013
(CNN) -- The One Fund Boston, a nonprofit created to benefit the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, has begun distributing nearly $61 million to 232 eligible claimants, the fund said in a news release Saturday.
Payments will be issued beginning June 30 and represent 100% of all the money that was collected by the fund through June 26, the release said
At least 264 people were wounded and 3 were killed in the double bombings, which took place near the Boston marathon finish line on April 15.
To be considered for payment, those injured had to file claims. While it was not specified in the release, failure to do so could explain why about 30 of those injured are not included among the claimants.
Payments will be made to claimants in each of the four classifications of claims (categories A through D), according to the release.
Six people in Category A will each receive $2,195,000. This category includes loss of life and those who sustained double amputations of limbs or permanent brain damage.
Fourteen people in Category B will each receive $1,195,000. This category includes those who sustained a single amputation of a limb.
Sixty-nine people in Category C will each receive between $125,000 and $948,300. This category includes those who were physically injured and hospitalized for one or more nights and they will receive their payments determined by length of hospital stay.
The final category, D, will give 143 people $8,000 each. This category includes those who were physically injured but released without an overnight hospital stay.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-boston-bombing-20130711,0,5182074.story?track=lat-pick
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleads not guilty in Boston Marathon bombings
July 10, 2013



WASHINGTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev leaned over a microphone and in a Russian accent repeated "not guilty" again and again to potential capital murder charges Wednesday in a courtroom packed with victims getting their first look at the man accused in the Boston Marathon bombings.

His left arm in a cast, his jaw apparently bruised, his eye swollen, Tsarnaev flashed a wry smile at his two sisters in Islamic dress, then blew them a kiss as he was led away after the arraignment, according to media reports. One of the sisters was holding a baby. The other was crying.

The 19-year-old Chechen immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen faces 30 federal charges — 17 of which could bring a death sentence or life in prison — including detonating a weapon of mass destruction resulting in deaths. Other charges include bombing a public place and malicious destruction of property stemming from the April 15 bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260.

Authorities stepped up security for Tsarnaev's first public court appearance. He was driven to and from the courthouse in a white van escorted by a three-vehicle motorcade with heavily armed police. Outside, a small group of Tsarnaev supporters chanted "Justice for Dzhokhar" and jockeyed on the sidewalk with victims and others still visibly angry over the bombings.
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http://www.necn.com/07/17/13/Rolling-Stone-stirs-up-controversy-with-/landing.html?blockID=846697&feedID=11106
Rolling Stone stirs up controversy with cover story of bombing suspect
July 17, 2013

(NECN: Justin Michaels) – The latest cover of “Rolling Stone” magazine will feature Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The explanation of the article simply says "How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster."

Contributing Editor Janet Reitman wrote this article.

The magazine says the writer spent two months interviewing thousands of people to get a comprehensive story. ::snipping3::

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Dramatic images of Tsarnaev's last stand
July 18, 2013

A Massachusetts state police photographer angered by Rolling Stone magazine's latest cover of Boston boming suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev has released never-before-seen photos of Tsarnaev just before he was taken into custody.

Pictures taken by Sgt. Sean Murphy, and first published by Boston Magazine, show a bruised and bloody Tsarneav emerging from the backyard boat he hid in after a confrontation with authorities that left his brother and alleged bombing accomplice dead.
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Photos at link.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino wrote a letter to Rolling Stone's publisher.   Katlyn Townsend, a friend of Jeffrey Bauman who lost 2 legs in the bombing posted an open letter on Facebook.  Ty Burr of The Boston Globe commented.   Richard Donahue, the MBTA officer shot in a standoff with the Tsarnaev brothers gave NBC his opinion.  Read their letters, posts, comments "compelling arguments" below.


http://ideas.time.com/2013/07/18/four-reasons-why-rolling-stone-s-cover-is-upsetting/?iid=op-main-lead?iid=tsmodule
Four Reasons Why Rolling Stone’s Cover Is Upsetting
July 18, 2013

Objections to Rolling Stone‘s article about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have ranged from the fact that the coverage humanizes Tsarnaev to the choice of photo to the fact that Rolling Stone usually, though not always, puts a celebrity on its cover. Here, four compelling arguments from those who have voiced disapproval:
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http://www.kvue.com/news/NY-Woman-Accused-of-Posing-as-Marathon-Victim-216201261.html
Woman accused of posing as Boston Marathon victim
July 19, 2013

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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says 26-year-old Audrea Gause of Troy, N.Y., was arrested there Friday on a Massachusetts fugitive warrant charging her with larceny.
Coakley says Gause submitted a claim to the fund, including false medical records indicating she was treated at hospitals in Boston and in New York for a traumatic brain injury suffered in the bombings. She received a $480,000 check from the fund.
Coakley says authorities got a tip last week that Gause may not have been in Boston on the day of the marathon, and the hospitals later said they didn't treat her.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/23/boston-bombing-massachusetts-state-police-photos-leaked-dzhokhar-tsarnaev/2579127/
Cop gets 'desk duty' for leaking bomb suspect photos
July 23, 2013

He has said he was angry over a glam cover photo of the bombing suspect on "Rolling Stone" magazine.

The Massachusetts State Police photographer who leaked arrest photos of the Boston bombing suspect in the wake of a glam cover shot by Rolling Stone has been placed on restricted or "desk duty" pending a full investigation of the case, according to Boston media.

The action came during a closed hearing before a three-person panel for Sgt. Sean Murphy, a veteran state police officer.

Murphy had provided Boston magazine photos of a wounded and unkempt bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev moments before he was arrested in the backyard of a Watertown, Mass., residence on April 19.
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Murphy had said in a statement to Boston magazine that the cover shot on Rolling Stone, reminiscent of its treatment of Jim Morrison, was an insult to police, military members and the families of anyone killed in the line of duty.

Murphy wasn't authorized to release the photos, and he's already served a one-day, unpaid suspension.

"This guy is evil," Murphy said. "This is the real Boston bomber. Not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine."

The Tsarnaev brothers were suspects in the April 15 twin bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon that left three people dead and injured more than 200.

Tsarnaev, who is being held at a prison medical center, is also accused of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer while on the run three days later.

The U.S. attorney's office called the release of the photos "completely unacceptable," and some attorneys said the images and Murphy's comments could be used to argue government bias against Tsarnaev.

Murphy was not allowed to talk to reporters after the hearing, but his 19-year-old son, Connor Murphy, said he supported him "100 percent."
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Murphy will keep his job for now, but will be assigned to a desk duty pending a final ruling in the case.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/us/fbi-said-to-conclude-it-could-not-have-averted-boston-attack.html?_r=0
F.B.I. Said to Conclude It Could Not Have Averted Boston Attack
August 1, 2013

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. has concluded that there was little its agents could have done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, according to law enforcement officials, rejecting criticism that it could have better monitored one of the suspects before the attack.
That conclusion is based on several internal reviews that examined how the bureau handled a request from a Russian intelligence agency in 2011 to investigate whether one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had been radicalized during his time in the United States.
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http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/08/08/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-college-friends-indicted-for-allegedly-impeding-boston-marathon-bombing-investigation/J446c2uTaN4XeT7rJCkA6I/story.html
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s college friends indicted for allegedly impeding Boston Marathon bombing investigation
August 8, 2013

Two former UMass-Dartmouth students with ties to Boston Marathon terror bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were indicted today on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly trying to impede the Boston Marathon terror bombing investigation.

Kazakhstan nationals Dias Kadyrbayev, 19, and Azamat Tazhayakov, 19, are accused of helping to get rid of incriminating evidence that Tsarnaev left behind in his college dorm room on April 18, three days after the terror bombing killed three and wounded 260 in downtown Boston.

The two face charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice.

According to US Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office, the two acted at the behest of Tsarnaev, who sent them a text message urging them to head to his dorm “room and take what’s there.’’ The two students allegedly collected Tsarnaev’s laptop, fireworks, and a backpack and took them to their apartment in New Bedford.

Later that night Kadyrbayev, with what prosecutors called Tazhayakov’s “knowledge and agreement,’’ put the items in a garbage bag and put them in a dumpster at the apartment. They were later recovered by law enforcement after several days of searching a New Bedford dump.

The two were already in custody, facing a May 1 criminal complaint charging them only with conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Supporters have described what they did as the innocent act of devoted friends.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/boston-bomb-suspect-s-friends-plead-not-guilty-in-case.html
Boston Bomb Suspect’s Friends Plead Not Guilty in Case
Aughust 13, 2013

Two friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to charges that they tried to obstruct a federal investigation into the case by destroying evidence.
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both 19, entered pleas at an arraignment in federal court in Boston today on three counts of obstructing justice and aiding and abetting. They were arrested April 20 and are being held without bail.
Both men appeared in court wearing prison-issued orange jumpsuits and waived a reading of the indictment. Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann told U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler that she expects the trial to last two weeks and the government will call 15 to 20 witnesses. Bowler scheduled a status hearing for Sept. 26.
On April 15, two explosions occurred in Boston near the finish line of the annual marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 200. Three days later, the FBI published images of the principal suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, citizens of Kazakhstan who attended the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth with Dzhokhar, saw the images online and recognized their friend, prosecutors said. They went to Tsarnaev’s dormitory, removed his laptop computer and a backpack containing fireworks and a jar of Vaseline and brought the items to their apartment in New Bedford, Massachusetts, according to the indictment.
Trash Bin
The backpack was placed in a garbage bag and put in a trash bin, according to the prosecutors. The Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered it from a landfill about a week later.
One of the suspects told the other that Tsarnaev had used the Vaseline to make bombs, according to the indictment. Also, the suspects saw that the fireworks had been opened and emptied of powder, according to court records.
Also arrested was Robel Phillipos, 19, another friend of Tsarnaev’s who the FBI said accompanied the other two to the dorm room and removed the items. He was charged with making false statements to federal investigators. According to a court filing, he’s in plea negotiations with the government.
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Sarcasm alert!!!  Sure.  Veteran cops with 25 years experience are given the graveyard shift after they've worked at department headquarters.  And it's absolutely not punishment after coming back after a suspension. 

Really?!  What's the story then?


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/08/15/mass-cop-suspended-for-tsarnaev-leak-back-on-job/2660911/
Mass. cop suspended for Tsarnaev leak back on job
August 15, 2013

The Massachusetts cop suspended after leaking arrest photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — following the publication of a sympathetic photo of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect on the cover of Rolling Stone — is back at work.

Sgt. Sean Murphy, a 25-year veteran of the state police, is now working the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m graveyard shift at Athol. Murphy had been at the department's Framingham headquarters.

Murphy took the crime-scene pictures as Tsarnaev, 20, was arrested.

State police spokesman David Procopio says Murphy's assignment, which began last week, is not punishment for the unauthorized release of dozens of photos, including some showing the bloodied former college student with the red laser dot of a police sniper's scope on his forehead.

The photos had been leaked after what some considered an inappropriately glamorous shot of Tsarnaev on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

Murphy said in a statement to Boston magazine that the Rolling Stone photo was insulting.

"As a professional law-enforcement officer of 25 years, I believe that the image that was portrayed by Rolling Stone magazine was an insult to any person who has ever worn a uniform of any color or any police organization or military branch, and the family members who have ever lost a loved one serving in the line of duty," Murphy told Boston magazine. "The truth is that glamorizing the face of terror is not just insulting to the family members of those killed in the line of duty, it also could be an incentive to those who may be unstable to do something to get their face on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine."
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/boston-bomb-survivor-prosthetic-leg-19975320
Boston Bomb Survivor, 7, Using New Prosthetic Leg
August 16, 2013

 7-year-old girl who lost part of her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombings is learning to use a prosthetic leg as her family still mourns the death of her older brother in the April attack.

The family of Jane Richard and the late 8-year-old Martin Richard said Thursday she already is dancing on her prosthetic leg and "struts around on it with great pride."

"While we have made progress with our physical injuries, the emotional pain seems every bit as new as it was four months ago," the Richard family said in a statement Thursday.

Parents Bill and Denise Richard also were hurt in the attack April 15, when two shrapnel-loaded pressure cookers exploded near the marathon's finish line, killing three people and injuring about 260 others. Denise Richard lost sight in one eye, and Bill Richard suffered hearing loss. Their 11-year-old son, Henry Richard, was uninjured.
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http://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/08/29/phillipos/L4Z45nkikfBYbGWIYEA73J/story.html
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev college buddy is indicted; Robel Phillipos is third to face charges
August 29, 2013

A federal grand jury today indicted Robel Phillipos, a friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, on charges of lying to investigators during a terrorism probe, despite attempts by Phillipos’s defense lawyers to resolve the case.

Phillipos, a 19-year-old Cambridge native, is accused of lying to investigators about removing items from Tsarnaev’s dorm room with two other friends the night of April 18, three days after the bombings killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
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The grand jury charged Phillipos with two counts of making false statements on two different occasions during a terrorism investigation. He was initially arrested in May on the same charges and later released on bond. The indictment is the next step in the criminal process.

A court date for his arraignment has not been set but his lawyers have said he had nothing to do with the bombings and that he was a frightened young man who struggled amid intense interrogation by federal investigators.

If convicted, Phillipos faces up to eight years in federal prison on each of the two counts.

Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were indicted earlier this month on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice and obstructing justice with the intent to impede a terrorism investigation. They have pleaded not guilty.

If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison for obstruction of justice and five years for the conspiracy charge. They are in federal custody pending trial.

All face up to three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine for each charge. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov are also facing deportation to Kazakhstan once the criminal case is completed.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/13/us-usa-explosions-boston-idUSBRE98C0B920130913
Two friends of Boston bomber plead not guilty to cover-up charges
September 13, 2103

(Reuters) - Two college friends of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that they helped cover his tracks when the FBI was trying to find the people responsible for the April 15 attack.

The appearance in federal court in Boston of a third man charged in the same case was postponed until later on Friday. All three are charged with going to Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the bombing, where they removed a laptop and a backpack containing empty fireworks shells after receiving a text message from him telling them to "go to my room and take what's there," according to court papers.

Dias Kadyrbayev, of Kazakhstan, pleaded not guilty to the charge of obstruction of justice and could face 25 years in prison or deportation. His lawyer, Robert Stahl, said after the hearing that Kadyrbayev did not understand what Tsarnaev had done.

"There was no criminal intent from him to help Dzhokhar, no obstruction of justice in any way," Stahl told reporters.

Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to investigators and could face up to 16 years in prison. Lawyers and supporters of Phillipos ushered him out of the courthouse and into a waiting black sports utility vehicle.

His lawyers said in a statement that Phillipos "had nothing to do whatsoever with the Boston Marathon bombing or destroying any evidence afterwards ... in the end, it will be clear that this prosecution should never have been brought in the first place."

The third man, Azamat Tazhayakov, also of Kazakhstan, was not present in court due to a train delay that affected his lawyer. He has previously pleaded not guilty to obstruction charges and also could face 25 years in prison or deportation.

None of the men is charged with involvement in the bombing.
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Prosecutors said they planned to present about 20 witnesses in a trial they estimated would take two weeks.

Federal prosecutors said that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, now 20, and his older brother, Tamerlan, killed three people and injured 264 others with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the crowded finish line of the marathon on April 15.

Three days later, after the FBI released pictures of the duo, then known only as suspects 1 and 2, standing near the finish line and asked the public for help in identifying them.

On the night of April 18, after communicating with the younger Tsarnaev via text message, the three college friends entered Tsarnaev's room and removed evidence, prosecutors said. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov later threw out the backpack, while Phillipos lied about his involvement, prosecutors said.

Later that night, the Tsarnaev brothers went on to shoot and kill a university police officer, prosecutors charge, before engaging in a gun battle with police in Watertown, Massachusetts, that ended when Dzhokhar fled, running over his 26-year-old brother in the proces
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It's really sad some of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombs will struggle for the rest of their lives.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/for-some-boston-marathon-bombing-victims-charity-checks-bring-frustration/2013/09/15/759bd786-1983-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html
For some Boston Marathon bombing victims, charity checks bring frustration
September 15, 2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/bella-tsarnaeva-in-court_n_3940851.html
Bella Tsarnaeva, Sister Of Boston Bombings Suspects, Appears In New Jersey Court
September 17, 2013

HACKENSACK, N.J. — A sister of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has appeared in a New Jersey courtroom on marijuana possession and distribution charges.

Bella Tsarnaeva's (tsahr-NEYE'-eh-vuhz) criminal record likely will be cleared.

The Record newspaper reports that Bergen County prosecutors have said they'll admit her into a pretrial intervention program. But the case was adjourned Monday while lawyers continue to work out a plea deal for her boyfriend.

Police responding to a domestic violence call in December searched the couple's Fairview home after officers said they smelled marijuana.

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The sister has never been implicated in the Boston attacks.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/23/boston-bombing-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-penalty/2854293/
Tsarnaev lawyers ask for more time
September 23, 2013

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have asked a judge to order federal prosecutors to give them more time to make their case against the death penalty.

In court Monday, Tsarnaev's lawyers said they have not received key evidence from prosecutors yet and have not had enough time to submit a proposal arguing that Tsarnaev does not deserve the death penalty.

A prosecutor argued it's been almost six months since the marathon bombing, a "reasonable" amount of time for the defense to make its case. He said prosecutors plan to make their recommendation to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder by Oct. 31. Holder will have the ultimate say on whether to seek the death penalty.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/07/massachusetts-prosecutors-seek-arrest-warrant-for-dzhokhar-tsarnaev/
Arrest warrant issued for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Massachusetts
October 7, 2013

WOBURN, MASS. –  A Massachusetts court has issued an arrest warrant for state charges against the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in custody after pleading not guilty to federal charges stemming from the April 15 explosions at the finish line that killed three people.

Massachusetts prosecutors say they sought the new warrant to preserve their right to pursue murder and other state charges.

Tsarnaev was indicted in June on state charges including murder in the death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer.

He was supposed to be arraigned Monday, but a prosecutor says U.S. marshals are unable to bring Tsarnaev to state court until his federal case concludes.
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http://www.lakewyliepilot.com/2013/10/02/2098826/marathon-suspect-wants-prison.html
Marathon suspect wants prison restrictions lifted
Published: Wednesday, Oct. 02, 2013 / Updated: Thursday, Oct. 03, 2013 01:14 AM

BOSTON --
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked a judge Wednesday to lift restrictions placed on him in prison, arguing that the conditions are overly harsh, have left him nearly totally isolated and are impairing their ability to defend him.

Tsarnaev's lawyers said in a motion filed in court that he has been confined to his cell except for visits from them and has "very limited access" to a small outdoor enclosure.

Tsarnaev, 20, is accused of building and planting bombs near the finish line of the April 15 marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260. Authorities say he and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, ethnic Chechens from Russia who emigrated to the United States as children, planned and carried out the attack to retaliate against the U.S. for its involvement in Muslim countries.
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In their motion, Tsarnaev's lawyers said "Special Administrative Measures" were imposed on their client beginning in August, at the request of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and the approval of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

"SAMs," as they are known, are used in terrorism cases and other high-profile cases when authorities allege there is "substantial risk" that a defendant's communications or contacts with people "could result in death or serious bodily injury" to others. The special restrictions were placed on shoe bomb suspect Richard Reid, "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh and other terror suspects.

The measures restrict access to the mail, the media, the telephone and visitors.

Tsarnaev's lawyers say prosecutors have presented no evidence that the special restrictions are needed in Tsarnaev's case.

"The government has not alleged that Mr. Tsarnaev has done or said anything since his arrest to commit violence, incite violence, or engage in communications that pose a security threat," his lawyers argued in the filing.

They also said the special measures limit Tsarnaev's interaction with people who are helping the defense and restrict the communications and other activities of the defense team.

A spokeswoman for Ortiz did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

In a memo outlining the factual basis for the restrictions, prosecutors said Tsarnaev "reaffirmed his commitment to jihad and expressed hope that his actions would inspire others to engage in violent jihad" while he was being interviewed by the FBI after he was captured.

"There is no indication that Tsarnaev's intentions have changed since then," prosecutors said in the memo, which was included in the defense motion.

The government also notes that Tsarnaev has gained "widespread notoriety" since his arrest and has received nearly 1,000 pieces of unsolicited mail.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/us-usa-explosions-boston-idUSBRE99F0DJ20131016
'I'm not crazy,' says man who found accused Boston bomber: report
October 16, 2013

(Reuters) - The owner of the boat where the accused Boston Marathon bomber was found hiding told the Boston Globe that he is "not crazy" and never would have searched had he thought the accused bomber was hiding there.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused bomber, took cover in a boat parked in David Henneberry's backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts, after an overnight gun battle with police that followed the killing of a university police officer and left Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan, dead. He was found at the end of a day-long lockdown of most of the Boston area four days after the blasts.

Like most area residents, 66-year-old Henneberry and his wife, Beth, had spent April 19 hiding out in their home as heavily armed police conducted a door-to-door search for the surviving suspect. Only after a shelter-in-place order was lifted did Henneberry walk out into his backyard to investigate what had moved some of the plastic covering his boat.

"If I had seen blood out there, I wouldn't have investigated it," he told the Globe in an interview published on Wednesday. "I'm not crazy."
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http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/23706488/2013/10/16/tsarnaevs-sister-to-appear-in-south-boston-district-court
Tsarnaev's sister to appear in Boston court in counterfeit bill case
October 16, 2013

BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- The older sister of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to appear in South Boston District Court Wednesday in a counterfeit bill investigation.

A spokesperson for the Suffolk County District Attorney's office tells FOX 25 Ailina Tsarnaeva, 23, is expected to remove a default she incurred by failing to show up to court in 2011 on a charge of misleading an investigator who was probing a counterfeit bill case.
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We've read all about the two murdering Tsarnaev brothers.  One is dead and the other facing trial.  Their sister is expected to appear in court in regard to misleading investigators in a counterfeit bill investigation, after failing to show up at court the first time.  Then, I remember mother dear wasn't exactly a model citizen after she immigrated to the U.S. either.  Anyone remember her?   ::MonkeyNoNo:: 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/us/boston-attack/?sr=google_news&google_editors_picks=true
Suspects' mother says bombing was staged with paint instead of blood
April 25, 2013

CNN) -- The mother of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing says she believes the tragedy that killed three people and injured dozens more was staged, that the bombing was fake.
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Her husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, is expected to step off a flight in the United States in the coming days after a long journey from Dagestan. He told reporters he may leave Thursday for the United States.
He has vowed to cooperate in the bombing investigation.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev is not coming with him.
She's wanted on 2012 felony charges of shoplifting and property damage in Massachusetts, according to court officials.
The family lived there before she jumped bail, and they moved the same year to Dagestan, a semiautonomous region of Russia, officials said.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/23/boston-marathon-suspect-may-pin-blame-on-brother/
Boston Marathon bombing suspect may pin blame on brother
October 23, 2013

BOSTON –  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers may try to save him from the death penalty in the Boston Marathon bombing by arguing he fell under the murderous influence of his older brother, legal experts say.

The outlines of a possible defense came into focus this week when it was learned that Tsarnaev's attorneys are trying to get access to investigative records implicating the now-dead brother in a grisly triple slaying committed in 2011.

In court papers Monday, federal prosecutors acknowledged publicly for the first time that a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev told investigators that Tamerlan participated in the unsolved killings of three men who were found in a Waltham apartment with their throats slit, marijuana sprinkled over their bodies.

The younger Tsarnaev's lawyers argued in court papers that any evidence of Tamerlan's involvement is "mitigating information" that is critical as they prepare Dzhokhar's defense. They asked a judge to force prosecutors to turn over the records.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, faces 30 federal charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction, in the twin bombings April 15 that killed three people and injured more than 260. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a gunbattle with police days later.

The government is still deciding whether to pursue the death penalty for the attack, which investigators say was retaliation for the U.S. wars in Muslim lands
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Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said the defense may be trying to show that the older brother was the guiding force.

"If I was a defense attorney and was seeking perhaps to draw attention to the influence the older brother had in planning the bombing, I would use his involvement in other crimes to show that he was likely the main perpetrator in the Boston bombing," Dieter said.

"I would take the position that my client, the younger brother, was strongly influenced by his older brother, and even if he is culpable, the death penalty is too extreme in this case."

Similarly, Aitan D. Goelman, who was part of the legal team that prosecuted Oklahoma City bombing figures Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, said the defense may be looking to minimize the younger brother's role in the bombing.

"I think the mostly likely reason is that if they are arguing some kind of mitigation theory that the older brother was a monster and the younger brother was under his sway or intimidated or dominated by him," he said.

Investigators have given no motive for the 2011 slayings. One victim was a boxer and friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's.

Federal prosecutors said in court papers that Ibragim Todashev, another friend of Tamerlan's, told authorities that Tamerlan took part in the killings. Todashev was shot to death in Florida in May by authorities while being questioned.

Prosecutors argued that turning over the records would damage the investigation into the killings.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/23/us-usa-bombing-marathon-idUSBRE99M04320131023
Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect linked to triple killings
October 22, 2013

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October 23, 2013

(Reuters) - Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev took part in a 2011 triple homicide in a nearby town, according to a Chechen immigrant who was himself killed when approached by investigators for questioning, federal prosecutors said on Monday in newly filed court papers.

Ibragim Todashev, 27, who has been identified as an acquaintance of Tsarnaev from their days as mixed martial-arts fighters in Boston, told investigators Tsarnaev participated in the murders of three men found stabbed to death in September 2011 in an apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts, according to the filing.

U.S. media had previously reported that one of the victims was a close friend of Tsarnaev and authorities believe the killings were drug related.

The FBI has said Todashev was shot and killed by a federal agent about a month after the marathon bombings when he suddenly turned violent while being questioned about possible links to Tsarnaev.

The latest disclosure about Tsarnaev came in a 23-page brief arguing against a motion by lawyers for his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is in custody on federal charges related to the marathon bombing that carry the death penalty.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers are seeking to force the government to share with defense attorneys investigative materials pertaining to his deceased older brother, Tamerlan.

The two siblings, both ethnic Chechens, are suspected of planting two pressure-cooker bombs that detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three people and injuring 264 others.

After allegedly shooting a police officer to death in an ambush three days later, the pair went on to engage in a late-night gun battle with police in nearby Watertown that ended with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, dead, and 20-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, escaping.

Police later captured the younger Tsarnaev after a daylong manhunt in which most of the Boston area was placed on a security lockdown.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/12/us-usa-explosions-boston-idUSBRE9AB0JS20131112
Recommendation on death penalty for accused Boston bomber near
November 12, 2013

(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts will decide within a week whether to recommend the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if he is convicted in the Boston Marathon bombing.

The prosecutors in the office of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz told a court hearing on Tuesday that the sentencing recommendation would go to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who will have until January 31 to make the final say on the government's recommended punishment for the 20-year-old ethnic Chechen.

Tsarnaev is accused of detonating twin pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the world-renowned foot race on April 15, killing three people and injuring 264, many of them losing limbs. It was the worst attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001.

In the hearing before U.S. District Court Judge George O'Toole Jr., attorneys for Tsarnaev accused the government of throwing up unfair obstacles to hinder preparation of their client's defense.

They said an initial proposal by prosecutors to hold the trial in the fall of 2014 was "completely unworkable," given the complexity of the case and complained that the government was not sharing important evidence.

They also argued that restrictive terms on Tsarnaev's confinement - including limits on who can speak to him or relay information to and from him during his incarceration - posed a threat to its ability to prepare a defense case.

"This is not a level playing field," defense attorney Miriam Conrad told the court. "It appears the government is trying to retain every possible advantage in this case for itself."

Judge O'Toole said it was too early to set a trial date, deferred a decision on evidence sharing and agreed to let the prosecution and defense negotiate on Tsarnaev's prison restrictions, possibly drawing up a list of people allowed to interact with him on the defense's behalf.

The restrictions were put in place by the U.S. Justice Department over concerns that Tsarnaev could communicate messages that might trigger another attack.

Tsarnaev is being kept separate from other prisoners at the facility west of Boston where he is being held awaiting trial. His lawyers have been ordered not to share messages from Tsarnaev with the outside world.
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http://abcnews.go.com/News/boston-bomb-suspect-prison-restrictions-violate-civil-rights/story?id=20866284
Boston Bomb Suspect Says Prison Restrictions Violate His Civil Rights
November 12, 2013

Lawyers for accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said prison restrictions on the suspect were so tight they violate his civil rights and the judge conceded they may interfere with Tsarnaev's ability to defend himself in court.

But prosecutors argued that the tough restrictions on Tsarnaev were necessary because Tsarnaev's communication with people other than his lawyers "could result in death or serious bodily harm."

"Tsarnaev's desire to inspire others to commit acts of terrorism is evident in the message he wrote in pen on the inside of the boat,'' the government wrote in its opposition to lift prison restrictions. "This was a clarion call to radical militants."
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/01/boston-marathon-bomber-tsarnaev/3760253/
Death penalty for Boston bomber a complicated question
December 1, 2013

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-usa-explosionsboston-20140129,0,6547933.story
Death penalty decision looms for Boston bomb suspect
January 29, 2014

BOSTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department will
decide this week whether to seek the death penalty for suspected
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of setting off
two pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the
world-renowned race.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary
Committee on Wednesday that he would announce his decision
before a Friday deadline set by a U.S. District Court Judge in
Boston.

Tsarnaev, a 20-year-old ethnic Chechen, is accused of
detonating the home-made bombs along with his older brother,
Tamerlan, who was killed during a shootout with police several
days after the April 15 attack.

Three people, including an 8-year-old boy, were killed in
the blasts, which marked the worst attack on U.S. soil since
Sept. 11, 2001. Another 264 people were injured by shrapnel,
many of them losing limbs.
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http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/U_S__prosecutors_to_seek_death_penalty_for_Marathon_bombing_suspect.html

Yesterday at 10:52 PM

U.S. to seek death penalty for marathon bombing suspect

Seventeen of 30 charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carry the possibility of death, including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill.

BOSTON — Federal prosecutors Thursday announced they will seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing, accusing him of betraying his adopted country by ruthlessly carrying out a terrorist attack calculated to cause maximum carnage.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to press for Tsarnaev’s execution was widely expected. The twin blasts last April killed three people and wounded more than 260, and over half the 30 federal charges against Tsarnaev — including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill — carry a possible death sentence.
 
“The nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm compel this decision,” Holder said in a statement of just two terse and dispassionate sentences that instantly raised the stakes in one of the most wrenching criminal cases Boston has ever seen.
MORE @ link

I think LWOP would be a better than the DP in this case.  If Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is given the DP, he will become a martyr.  Think about the history and culture of Chechnya and think about his background.  Don't make him a hero.  I've thought about this since the DP came up. It brings to mind Nidal Hasan and the Ft. Hood Massacre.  At first I really, really wanted him to face the DP, but then I came to my senses and realized we would be giving him what he wanted, and that would be martyrdom, and it could possibly encourage others to commit crimes against Americans.  Same thing in this case. I've found that with the DP, there's huge amounts of money spent, time spent and etc.  I believe LWOP would be more efficient for the courts, our money.  It can take years and years of appeals for someone to be executed.  I don't believe it means we would be soft on crime if he had to face the rest of his life in prison.    Here are some articles I've seen if folks want to read:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-penalty_n_4694745.html
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Will Face Death Penalty For Boston Marathon Bombing
January 30, 2014
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Tsarnaev's case has attracted a high-profile defense team, including Judy Clarke, a San Diego attorney who has negotiated plea agreements with prosecutors to spare her clients the death penalty, among them Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph.

The Tsarnaev brothers had roots in the turbulent Russian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, areas that have become recruiting grounds for Islamic extremists. The indictment alleges the brothers downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaida magazine and gathered material online about Islamic jihad and martyrdom.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/10608913/US-to-pursue-death-penalty-against-Boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev.html
US to pursue death penalty against Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
January 31, 2014
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Massachusetts does not have the death penalty at state level and federal prosecutors there have only sought the death penalty twice in recent decades.
Injured survivors and relatives of the dead were split about whether Tsarnaev should face the death penalty or life in prison, very probably several decades in solitary confinement in a maximum-security jail.
Massachusetts is one of the most liberal states in America and public opinion is strongly against the death penalty in opinion polls.
In the wake of Mr Holder's announcement, Deval Patrick, the governor, said: "One way or another, based on the evidence, Tsarnaev will die in prison. In each milestone of this case – today's announcement, the trial and every other significant step in the justice process – the people hurt by the marathon bombings and the rest of us so shocked by it will relive that tragedy.
"The best we can do is remind each other that we are stronger ... than ever and that nothing can break that spirit."
Some critics of the death penalty argued that executing Tsarnaev would make him a martyr in the eyes of some. There is already a "Free Jahar" movement, its name taken from his nickname and mainly made up of young women who believe the good-looking young man was a victim of a set-up.
Speaking to CNN in her native Dagestan shortly before Mr Holder's decision was announced, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, the suspect's mother, declined to comment on the specifics of the case.
"The only thing I want to say is, I want the whole world to hear that I love my son, my precious Dzhokhar," said Mrs Tsarnaev, who has consistently insisted that her sons were innocent and were framed.
Even if Tsarnaev is sentenced to die, he could face years or decades on death row while appeals are pursued. The next scheduled court hearing is a status conference with lawyers on Feb 12 but no trial date has been set.

http://www.worldbulletin.net/todays-news/128754/lawyers-for-accused-boston-marathon-bomber-due-in-court
Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber due in court
February 12, 2014

Attorneys for the accused Boston Marathon bomber on Wednesday will ask a federal judge to give them until at least September 2015 to prepare for his trial on charges related to the largest mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 20-year-old native of Russia's restive Chechnya region who moved to the United States a decade ago, faces the possibility of execution if he is convicted of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs in the April 15, 2013 attack as well as shooting dead a university police officer three days later.
Defense attorneys have said they need time to review massive amounts of evidence collected by the government's investigation into the bombing. They also may seek to challenge before U.S. District Judge George O'Toole the death penalty threat.
Last month, prosecutors said they would seek to have Tsarnaev put to death if he is convicted of charges including use of a weapon of mass destruction.
Tsarnaev, who is being held in a prison west of Boston, has pleaded not guilty to all charges. His attorneys have not yet said if they will seek to have his trial moved from U.S. District Court in Boston, just 2 miles (3.2 km) from the spot where the bombs ripped through a crowd of spectators at the race's crowded finish line.
The trial, which will draw intense international attention, will pit prosecutors from the office of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, who last year convicted gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, against a defense team including top Boston public defender Miriam Conrad and Judy Clarke, a death penalty defense specialist from California.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/02/12/judge-sets-november-trial-date-for-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev/nWNY83zjOWPXHvE0PbOvSL/story.html
Marathon bomber, slated to face trial in November
February 12, 2014


A federal judge in Boston today set a November trial date for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the young man charged in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings that shook the nation last year, raising again the specter of terrorism on American soil.

US District Court Judge George A. O’Toole slated the trial for Nov. 3, much sooner than the earliest date suggested by defense attorneys in the high-profile death penalty case.

Judge O’Toole said the government’s request for a trial this fall was more reasonable than the defense’s. The defense had asked for a trial in September 2015, at the earliest.

After the hearing was over, bombing survivor Marc Fucarile, said, “I think it should be sooner. Why not? Everybody should be on the same page. It’s pretty cut and dry with the evidence. Don’t waste anybody’s time.”

O’Toole set another hearing in the case for June 18. The two sides are expected to discuss that day whether the defense wants a change of venue.
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Video at Link

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/fbi-overhears-boston-marathon-suspect-detrimental-statement-article-1.1706971
Boston bomber suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, makes detrimental statement: FBI
Federal prosecutors say an FBI agent overheard Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, make a 'statement to his detriment' when his sister visited him in prison.
February 28, 2014

Now he’s shooting off his mouth.

An FBI agent overheard Boston marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev make a “statement to his detriment” when his sister visited him in prison, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Prosecutors did not reveal what Tsarnaev said, but they objected to what they called an attempt by Tsarnaev’s lawyers to suppress the statement.
Tsarnaev made the remark when an investigator working for his lawyers accompanied his sister on a visit, a meeting that an FBI agent monitored, prosecutors said.

The investigator started to explain to Tsarnaev’s sister the rationale behind special restrictions placed on her brother in prison, prosecutors said. They say Tsarnaev, “despite the presence of an FBI agent and an employee of the Federal Public Defender, was unable to temper his remarks and made a statement to his detriment which was overheard by the agent.”

The government described the conversation in a memo outlining its opposition to a request from Tsarnaev’s lawyers to lift the prison restrictions.

Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty in a terror attack at last year’s marathon. Two pressure cooker bombs were placed near the finish line, killing three people, one an 8-year-old boy, and injuring more than 260. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty against Tsarnaev.

Authorities argued the FBI agent’s presence was allowed by the restrictions because Tsarnaev is forbidden from providing information to people outside the prison.

But Tsarnaev’s lawyers say the measures limit his interactions with people helping his defense team and have asked the judge to lift them. The attorneys say the presence of the FBI agent during prison visits by Tsarnaev’s two sisters “has thwarted the defense ability to develop important mitigation information.”

They note courts have recognized the kind of information the defense wants to develop as admissible mitigation evidence, including documenting “family dysfunction, mental illness and the impact of family chaos on the defendant as he grew up.”

Prosecutors call the restrictions necessary in Tsarnaev’s case because of his “commitment to jihad” and his “widespread notoriety.”

“There was no expectation of privacy on the part of Tsarnaev, his visitors or the investigator,” they said.

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http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/boston-bombing-suspect-seeks-to-have-some-charges-dismissed-1.1709368
Boston bombing suspect seeks to have some charges dismissed
February 28, 2014

http://www.kvue.com/news/national/250638981.html
Feds: Limit marathon suspect's view of gory photos
March 17, 2014

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to limit Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehvz) access to gruesome autopsy photos of the three people killed in the attack.
In court documents filed Monday, prosecutors say Tsarnaev should not be allowed to see autopsy photos that will not be used at his trial. They say allowing the man accused of killing them to see photos of their mutilated bodies "would violate the victims' rights to dignity and privacy and subject them to needless harm and suffering."
Prosecutors say they don't want to restrict Tsarnaev's lawyers from seeing any photo. But they do want Tsarnaev to be allowed to see only the autopsy photos that will be used at trial.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officials-fbi-agent-cleared-florida-shooting-23011450
Officials: FBI Agent Cleared in Florida Shooting
March 21, 2014

A Florida prosecutor has cleared an FBI agent of any criminal wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a Chechen man as he was being questioned about a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation said Friday.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity Friday because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the case, said State Attorney Jeff Ashton won't bring charges against the agent who shot Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter.

The circumstances surrounding Todashev's death have remained mysterious: Officials initially said the man had lunged at an agent with a knife while FBI agents and Massachusetts state troopers were questioning him about his friendship with suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Later, they said it was no longer clear what happened.

Todashev's father, Abdul-Baki Todashev, insisted during a May news conference that his son was unarmed and has maintained his son's innocence. He presented photographs, which The Associated Press could not authenticate, showing his son was shot six times in the torso and once in the back of the head.

The Washington Post first reported the prosecutor's decision. Ashton's office said in an emailed statement that he has not made a final decision regarding the investigation into Todashev's death and denied sharing any such decision with federal officials.

The Justice Department also has been investigating but has not yet released its findings. A third law enforcement official said the Justice Department is expected to reach the same conclusion, based on a recommendation from the FBI.

Federal prosecutors have said in court filings that Todashev named Tsarnaev as a participant in an earlier triple homicide in Massachusetts. The filings were made in the case against Tsarnaev's brother, surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

According to the filings, Todashev told investigators Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a triple slaying in Waltham on Sept. 11, 2011.

In that case, three men were found in an apartment with their necks slit and their bodies reportedly covered with marijuana. One of the victims was a boxer and friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The filing was prosecutors' attempt to block Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from getting certain information from authorities, including investigative documents associated with the Waltham slayings.

Authorities allege that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, and 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechens from Russia, planned and carried out the twin bombings near the finish of the marathon on April 15. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces 30 federal charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction and 16 other charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a gunbattle with police as authorities closed in on the brothers several days after the bombings.

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The executive director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Florida, which has been working with Todashev's family and conducting its own investigation, said he wants to see the details of Ashton's report. Hassan Shibly pointed out that Todashev's live-in girlfriend and others connected to the case have been deported since the shooting.

"The DOJ's and the State Attorney's investigations relied on evidence gathered by the FBI, and the only person who can contradict first-hand their narrative is dead," Shibly said.

http://www.kvue.com/news/252079591.html
Man who lost his legs in Boston bombing is engaged
March 24, 2013

CARLISLE, Mass. (AP) — A man who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombings, then helped authorities identify the suspects, is engaged and an expectant father.

Jeff Bauman, 28, and his fiancee, Erin Hurley, 27, told The Associated Press in a recent interview that the baby is due July 14. They don't know if it's a boy or a girl, and they want it to be a surprise.
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An AP photo of a badly injured Bauman being rushed away in a wheelchair by three rescuers became one of the most memorable images of the April 15, bombings, which killed three people.

He was standing near the finish line waiting to cheer on Hurley as she completed the marathon when the two bombs exploded. Bauman became a hero after he provided a description of one of the suspected bombers from his hospital bed.

Bauman's memoir on his experiences, called "Stronger," is out April 8, one week before the anniversary of the bombings.

 ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lawyers-say-fbi-wanted-marathon-suspect-informant-n66631
Lawyers Say FBI Wanted Marathon Suspect as Informant
March 28, 2014

awyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of planting one of the bombs at last year's Boston Marathon, said Friday that repeated contacts by the FBI were among "precipitating events" leading up to the bombings.

In court documents filed Friday, defense lawyers asked the judge overseeing the case for an order requiring the government to turn over all records of the FBI's contacts with Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan. He was interviewed by FBI agents in response to a concerns expressed by the Russian government that he might become radicalized.

"We seek this information based on our belief that these contacts were among the precipitating events for Tamerlan's actions during the week" of the bombings, the lawyers aid.

They wrote that the Tsarnaev family and "other sources" have said that the FBI made more than one visit to talk to Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his parents, during which agents "questioned Tamerlan about his internet searches, and asked him to be an informant, reporting on the Chechen and Muslim community."

The court filing quotes prosecutors as saying they have no evidence that the older Tsarnaev was asked to be an informant.

Nonetheless, the defense lawyers say they believe that Tamerlan misinterpreted the visits by the FBI as pressure, increasing his paranoia and distress.

"We do not suggest that these contracts are to be planed and have no evidence to suggest that they were improper," the lawyers say.

The FBI's interview took place in 2011.

The court document makes clear that his lawyers will stress the age difference between the younger Tsarnaev and his older brother, who were 19 and 26 at the time of the bombing. The lawyers say they will resist any attempt to persuade the jury "that the brothers were equally culpable, despite the marked differences in their ages, personalities, and levels of prior involvement in violent activity."
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-defense-plans-pin-blame-older-b/nfNmL/
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense plans to pin blame on older brother
March 29, 2014

New court documents filed this week by lawyers of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev show how the defense plans to place the blame on older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

"His defense team has documents that show [Dzhokhar] Tsarnaev as a submissive 19-year-old who was coerced by his older brother, Tamerlan." (Via WHDH)

"They say that the suspect's brother, Tamerlan, may have been, 'An all-powerful force who could not be ignored or disobeyed.'" (Via HLN)

According to ABC, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers are also looking to get an unredacted version of a U.S. government report that details the shooting death of Ibrahim Todashev, an associate of Tamerlan Tsarnaev 's.

Before Todashev was killed by law enforcement last year, the FBI says he confessed to being involved in a 2011 triple-murder in Massachusetts and added Tamerlan Tsarnaev had something to do with it. (Via Orange County Corrections Department)

ABC also said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense plans to show that the accused Boston bomber saw Tamerlan — who was killed in a shootout with police — as "all-powerful" partly because of his involvement in that unsolved triple-murder. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers also claim the FBI, at one point, tried to recruit Tamerlan as an informant.
 
"The defense says agents approached the accused older brother and asked him to give information about Boston's Muslim and Chechen communities. The government denies that." (Via CNN)

Lawyers suggest Tamerlan might've become paranoid and stressed out before the Boston Marathon attack because of the FBI's alleged request. (Via WBZ-TV)

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2014/04/15/boston-tribute-marathon-joe-biden-survivors/7744367/
Boston honors marathon survivors, first responders
April 15, 2014

Breaking: Marathon Finish Line Evacuated After Suspicious Packages Discovered
April 15, 2014. 7:15PM

Update, 7:40 p.m.: Bomb squad is on the scene:
David Meyers @davidfmeyers
The #Boston PD Bomb Squad is suiting up to check out a suspicious backpack left near the marathon finish line.


http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/04/15/breaking-marathon-finish-line-evacuated-after-suspicious-packages-discovered/DTSiAn2NlNQe3honPF97uO/story.html?p1=ClickedOnBreakingNewsBox

I hope this is just a backpack that was misplaced. 

April 15, 2014 Tweets
https://twitter.com/bostonpolice (https://twitter.com/bostonpolice)

Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  13m
#BPDPublicSafetyAlert: #BPD Bomb Squad still on scene in the area of Marathon Finish Line investigating call for 2 unattended backpacks.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  16m
#BPDPublicSafetyAlert: Boylston St has been closed & MBTA Green Line service temporarily suspended. Community members asked to avoid area.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  21m
Public Safety Alert: #BPD asking pedestrians & motorists to avoid the area in and around the Boston Marathon Finish Line.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  22m
Public Safety Alert: #BPD investigating 2 unattended backpacks found in the area of Boston Marathon Finish Line.

April 15, 2014 Tweets
https://twitter.com/davidfmeyers (https://twitter.com/davidfmeyers)

David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  5m
Even though the finish line & backpacks are 50-75 yards away from the media positions for @ABC and others, no one has been asked to move.

 David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  7m
After about 5 mins down Boylston and near the finish line, the Boston PS bomb technician has returned to his mobile command.

 David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  13m
The Boston PD bomb technician is now headed west on Boylston towards the finish line and the suspicious backpacks.

 David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  20m
The #Boston PD Bomb Squad is suiting up to check out a suspicious backpack left near the marathon finish line. pic.twitter.com/uCeZfpT7eQ (http://pic.twitter.com/uCeZfpT7eQ)

David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  41m
The Boston PD has closed off Boylston past the Marathon finish line. Plain clothes officers are turing people away. pic.twitter.com/ZDwYhr65nK (http://pic.twitter.com/ZDwYhr65nK)

April 15, 2014 Tweets
https://twitter.com/bostonpolice (https://twitter.com/bostonpolice)

Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  3m
#BPDMediaAdvisory: For officer safety - media outlets are discouraged from showing any live video of backpacks found near Finish Line.

 ::MonkeyShocked::

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boston-marathon-finish-line-evacuated-masked-man-dumps-backpack-reports-article-1.1757577
Boston Marathon finish line evacuated after masked man yelling ‘Boston Strong’ dumps backpack
Barefoot and wearing a black veil, the man dropped a large backpack shortly before being apprehended by police. The area is on high alert as commemorations for the victims of last year's bombing are underway Tuesday.
April 15, 2014

April 15, 2014 Tweets
https://twitter.com/cbsboston (https://twitter.com/cbsboston)

WBZ Boston News ‏@cbsboston  3m
Bomb Squad robot inspecting bag left near Boston Marathon finish line http://shrd.by/VNQs1w
ore
 WBZ Boston News ‏@cbsboston  44m
.@HagerWBZ Reports Man Was Wearing Black Veil And Yelling 'Boston Strong' Before Leaving Backpack http://shrd.by/VNQs1w
 
 WBZ Boston News ‏@cbsboston  47m
Watch WBZ-TV Live: Boylston Street Evacuated After Bags Left Unattended http://shrd.by/7Ajjzn
 
 WBZ Boston News ‏@cbsboston  48m
Update: Two Unattended Backpacks Left At Finish Line Of Boston Marathon- Area Evacuated @BreakingNews http://shrd.by/VNQs1w

 WBZ Boston News ‏@cbsboston  1h
Breaking: Area near Boston Marathon Finish Line evacuated after backpack left unattended http://cbsloc.al/1hGXyIT  pic.twitter.com/M6sfh62FYK (http://pic.twitter.com/M6sfh62FYK)

Wow, Samantha!  This seems to just be hitting the news.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

Yea.. I caught it soon after and posted here. The boston.com page I posted has a video of the person walking down the street.

It's not on any stations here yet.. (MA)

From the video it really seems like an extremely ignorant persons version of a "prank". (For lack of better word and not to make light of it obviously)

WATCH LIVE: Boston Marathon finish line evacuated, man detained after backpacks found
April 15, 2014, 7:05 pm

(NECN) - A man was detained Tuesday night and the area near the Boston Marathon finish line evacuated after two unattended backpacks were found.

Boston Police said two backpacks were left unattended by the finish line around 8 p.m. Authorities say Boylston Street has been closed and they are asking the pedestrians and motorists to avoid the area.

NECN witnessed a man being put in the back of a police cruiser. Boston Police confirm that a male suspect is in custody in connection to the unattended backpacks; it is unknown if he is under arrest or if he was being questioned. Eyewitnesses said he was wearing all black with a veil covering his face. Video also shows he was not wearing any shoes.

One backpack was detonated around 8:50 p.m., setting off several car alarms in the area.

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http://www.necn.com/04/15/14/WATCH-LIVE-Boston-Marathon-finish-line-e/landing.html?blockID=865137&feedID=11106

 ::rhino::

This is the problem with terrorism.  Even after the initial deed is done, we have to keep looking over our shoulders, checking.  Staying on alert.  It costs valuable time and resources.  And then there are copy cats and the kind of thing that happened today.  I have no idea what security measures were taken for this year's Boston Marathon in the sense of planning, personnel but I bet it was a lot!   

April 15, 2014 Tweets
https://twitter.com/davidfmeyers (https://twitter.com/davidfmeyers)

David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  6m
Now a 3rd controlled explosion has been conducted on Boylston near the #Boston Marathon finish line by the Boston PD.

 David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  47m
An 2nd controlled explosion has been conducted on Boylston near the #Boston Marathon finish line and the explosion was very loud!

David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  1h
An explosion has been heard on Boylston near the #Boston Marathon finish line as the bomb squad has completed a detonation per protocol.

 David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  1h
"FIRE IN THE HOLE!" just yelled on Boylston by the Boston PD.

 David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  1h
The BPD bomb technician is headed back towards the suspicious backs near the finish line as pedestrians are cleared. pic.twitter.com/ugBY6Z7LbZ (http://pic.twitter.com/ugBY6Z7LbZ)

April 15, 2014 Tweets
https://twitter.com/bostonpolice (https://twitter.com/bostonpolice)

Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  23m
#BPDMediaAdvisory: The BPD Bomb Squad is still on scene. Live video of the area is prohibited & discouraged until the scene is cleared.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  1h
#BPDSafetyPublicAlert: To ease fears & concerns relating to backpacks - #BPD again discouraging their use at this year's #BostonMarathon.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  1h
#BPDPublicSafetyAlert: #BPD confirming a male suspect in custody in connection to the unattended backpacks found at the Finish Line.

 Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  1h
#BPDMediaAdvisory: For officer safety - media outlets are discouraged from showing any live video of backpacks found near Finish Line.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/04/15/boylston-street-evacuated-after-backpack-left-near-finish-line/
Bomb Squad Detonates Bags Left Near Boston Marathon Finish Line
April 15, 2014

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WBZ-TV photographers on scene say they saw a person with the backpack screaming “Boston Strong” before police cleared everyone from the area.
Witnesses say the person was barefoot, wearing a long black veil and was acting strange. Boston Police say one man has been taken into custody.
The Bomb Squad inspected the bag left behind the photo bridge and detonated it just before 9:00 p.m. The second bag was detonated about 40 minutes later.
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It's interesting this person called attention to himself and the backpacks. 

April 15, 2014 Tweets
https://twitter.com/bostonpolice (https://twitter.com/bostonpolice)

Boston Police Dept. ‏@bostonpolice  1m
#BPDPublicSafetyAlert: BPD confirming that the unattended bags at the Finish Line have been disrupted for precautionary reasons.

April 15, 2014 Tweets
https://twitter.com/davidfmeyers (https://twitter.com/davidfmeyers)

David Meyers ‏@davidfmeyers  1m
An ALL CLEAR has been given by the authorities on Boylston St. after two suspicious backpacks were detonated by the bomb squad.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2014/04/person_in_custody_after_suspicious_bags_found_at
Person in custody after suspicious bags found at marathon finish line
April 15, 2014

A person is in custody tonight after police report suspicious bags were found at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street.

An eye-witness told the Herald tonight a man dressed all in black and wearing a black veil walked down the middle of Boylston Street, with a backpack on his back, chanting "Boston strong, Boston strong."

"He was weird looking," said Matthew VanWinkle. "He was wearing a black veil, a black hat, and no shoes."

The bomb squad is now on the scene and police have pushed everyone back. A bomb squad member yelled "fire in the hole" as they did a detonation. There is no word yet if the backpack had explosives or not, but the backpacks have been "neutralized."

That section of Boylston near Dartmouth Street is closed down. A robot was used to examine one of the bags.

The Boston Fire Department has also sent an engine and ladder company to the scene as a precaution. The MBTA also tweeted out that Green Line trains are bypassing the Copley stop.

Sadly, the alert hit around the same time as the Norden brothers, J.P. and Paul, were completing their team's Hopkinton-to-Boston relay to raise funds for prosthetics. Both brothers lost a leg in last year's attacks at the finish line. Now the double-decker bus they rode in is parked near the area.

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One bag can be seen just under the photo bridge about 30 feet after the historic finish line of the Boston Marathon. The stands are already set up in preparation for Monday's 118th running of the race

the guy, that dropped the packs name is Kayvon Edson, says/calls his self an artist
JMO  in this case art should not scare the victims, or anyone else

some of his sites.............
 http://www.youtube.com/user/naturalselecti0n
http://naturalselection.net/index.php/sexybomber/

i meant to post this b4 last post..

U.S
Two backpacks detonated by police at Boston Marathon finish line after masked man yelling ‘Boston Strong’ dumps bag
BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN   
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 7:31 PM Updated: Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 12:24 AM
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The man was quickly taken into custody and identified as Kayvon Edson, sources told WBZ-TV. He's charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and possession of a hoax device, according to the news station.
A second unattended bag was also detonated but may have been left by somebody else
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The rice cooker was filled with confetti, a source told the CBS affiliate, while the second bag had photography equipment inside.
more imgs vids
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boston-marathon-finish-line-evacuated-masked-man-dumps-backpack-reports-article-1.1757577 

He should spend a long stretch in prison to enable him to contemplate his art, and should pay for the cost of the bomb squad and other expenses incurred for his art show.  JMHO

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-anniversary/tsarnaev-can-view-victim-autopsy-photos-judge-n81996
Tsarnaev Can View Victim Autopsy Photos: Judge
April 16, 2014

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the bomb attack on the Boston Marathon, will be allowed to see autopsy photos of the victims.

The judge, George O’Toole of U.S. District Court in Boston, rejected a claim by the government that Tsarnaev should not see the photos because it would disturb the families of the victims.

The ruling came a year and a day after two bomb blasts killed three people and injured 264 near the marathon finish line. A police officer was killed in the ensuing manhunt.

Under court rules, lawyers for Tsarnaev are allowed to see the photos as they prepare a defense. The goverment sought a special restriction — that Tsarnaev himself not be allowed to see them unless the government offered them as evidence at trial.

The government argued in court papers that allowing Tsarnaev to see all the photos would subject marathon victims to “needless harm and suffering.”

The defense lawyers said they had never heard of such a restriction, and that decisions about what Tsarnaev can and can’t see are best left to his lawyers.

Tsarnaev was not in court for the hearing.

The judge also rejected a defense request to dismiss some of the criminal counts against Tsarnaev because they were duplicative and might prejudice the jury against him.

Tsarnaev, 20, goes on trial in November and could face the death penalty if convicted. He has pleaded not guilty to 30 criminal counts.
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The next hearing for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is June 18.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20140416-710132.html
Judge Weighs Looser Restrictions on Alleged Boston Bomber
April 16, 2014


BOSTON--A federal judge indicated Wednesday he may loosen oversight of prison meetings between accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older sisters, which the defense said are key to understanding family dynamics.

Prosecutors allege Mr. Tsarnaev, now 20, planted two bombs at the marathon finish line a year ago with his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died days later in a firefight with police. The surviving brother, who has pleaded not guilty to all charges, has been held in a federal prison hospital outside Boston under tight restrictions, including a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent present when he has met with his two sisters.

"If the government's indictment is true, this is about family," said David Bruck, one of Mr. Tsarnaev's attorneys, speaking during a federal court hearing. "It is our job to plumb that," with a defense investigator on hand to observe visits, he added.

The defense, which has sought to loosen restrictions on Mr. Tsarnaev's confinement, has suggested he was influenced by his domineering, older brother.

Mr. Bruck argued that monitoring by an FBI agent connected to the prosecution could raise "ammunition" for a potential penalty phase in the case. Mr. Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if convicted.

Prosecutors have disagreed with loosening the restrictions on the family visits, for security reasons, while claiming the defense is responding to an occasion in which the suspect made a statement to his own detriment--which they haven't spelled out--overheard by an FBI agent. Mr. Bruck denied his client made such a statement.

Judge George A. O'Toole didn't rule on the matter Wednesday, but said "I don't think the safety, security issue looms very large." He suggested potentially lifting the monitoring or having federal agents on hand who aren't part of the prosecution team. He gave prosecutors more time to weigh in before he issues a final order on the matter.
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A still-tense atmosphere was on display Tuesday night, when Boston police performed a controlled detonation on two unattended bags at the already set-up finish line for this year's marathon, which will take place Monday. One bag was allegedly dropped there by a local man who was arrested on site and arraigned Wednesday, while the other was left by a television news crew when the area was evacuated.

The local man, Kevin Edson, was arrested on several charges, including possession of a hoax device and making a false bomb threat, according to the local district attorney's office. He is being held on $100,000 cash bail and was sent to a state hospital for a mental-health evaluation, the office said. A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/image-shows-dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-message-arrest/story?id=23335984

Image Shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Last Message Before Arrest
April 17, 2014

A new image shows the bullet-riddled anti-American rant allegedly scrawled by suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the inside wall of a boat as he hid from a police manhunt last year.

“The U.S. government is killing our innocent civilians, but most of you already know that… I can’t stand to see such [bullet hole] go unpunished,” says the handwriting captured in the image obtained by ABC News from a law enforcement official in Massachusetts. “We Muslims are one body. You kill one of us, you hurt [bullet hole] us all.”

Two state and two federal law enforcement officials confirmed the authenticity of the image.

Along with bullet holes that interrupt Tsarnaev’s message, the image shows drips of red liquid on the wall, which could be paint or, officials said, blood. Dzhokhar had been injured in a firefight with police hours before – the same firefight that took the life of his older brother and alleged co-conspirator Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

ABC News has previously reported Tsarnaev wrote an anti-American message on the boat, called the Slip Away II, in which he hid during the massive manhunt last April. Law enforcement sources previously said that the message also included the phrase “F*** America”. That portion of the message was not included in the image obtained by ABC News. This week law enforcement sources said Dzhokhar also lamented elsewhere in the note that his brother was able to meet Allah first.

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(http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ABC_boat_banner_mar_140415_4x3_992.jpg)

http://www.iwanttobuyused.com/AF2/vdp/38609629.html
Memorial held for policeman slain after Boston Marathon bombing
April 18, 2014

Reuters) - More than 1,600 people gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday for a memorial service for a popular campus police officer shot to death a year ago in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.

MIT police officer Sean Collier, 27, was shot multiple times in his car in an apparent confrontation with the bombing suspects days after the blast, which left three people dead and more than 260 injured when two homemade bombs exploded near the race's finish line. Collier was killed in an unsuccessful attempt to steal his gun, authorities said.

Police officers, government officials, students and faculty joined members of Collier's family at the outdoor service under a tent a short distance from where Collier was killed, a place marked by a temporary memorial planted with flowers.
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Ruiz unveiled plans for a permanent memorial modeled after an open hand, with five radial walls, expected to be completed next year. Cambridge Mayor David Maher said during the service that a nearby street corner would be named "Sean Collier Square."
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http://www.statesman.com/news/ap/marathon-suspect-statements-should-be-thrown-out/nfrTq/
Marathon suspect: Statements should be thrown out
May 8, 2014

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-friends-separate-trials-20140513-story.html
Judge: Three friends of Boston bombing suspect to be tried separately
May 13, 2014

Three friends of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be tried separately, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, while rejecting a defense bid to move the proceedings out of Massachusetts.

U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock in Boston ruled on a variety of motions filed on behalf of Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev, and Robel Phillipos.

Tazhayakaov, Kadyrbayev and Phillipos will be tried on June 30, Sept. 8, and Sept. 29, respectively, Christina Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Atty. Carmen Ortiz in Boston, told the Los Angeles Times.
Woodlock rejected arguments by the defense that the none of the trio could receive a fair trial in Massachusetts because of the heightened emotions caused by last year's Boston Marathon bombings. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured in the two blasts near the race's finish line. An MIT police officer was killed in the manhunt for suspects that followed the attack.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is being held in near-total lockdown, faces federal charges that could lead to the death penalty if he is convicted of his alleged role in the attack. His brother, Tamerlan, died during the manhunt.
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http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Friend-of-marathon-suspect-expected-to-testify-5476329.php
FBI: Pals of marathon suspect had to be questioned
May 14, 2014

OSTON (AP) — An FBI agent says that two friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) would have been arrested if they did not come to a police station voluntarily.

Special Agent John Walker testified in federal court on Wednesday that Dias Kadyrbayev (DY'-us kah-dur-BY'-ehv) and Azamat Tazhayakov (AZ'-maht tuh-ZAY'-uh-kahv) were brought in for questioning willingly four days after the attack. Both were held in handcuffs.

Walker said that the two men had to be questioned because they might know the whereabouts of a dangerous fugitive. He also added that they were Kazakhstan nationals in the U.S. illegally.

Kadyrbayev's attorney says his client was not interrogated willingly. He wants Kadyrbayev's testimony kept out of his upcoming trial.

Kadyrbayev is charged with tampering with evidence for removing Tsarnaev's laptop and a backpack from his dorm room.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-sent-joking-texts-friend-n106866
Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Sent Joking Texts to Friend
May 15, 2014

Text messages show Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev joking with a friend not to text him hours after the FBI released Tsarnaev's photo as a suspect in the deadly attack.

Dias Kadyrbayev texted Tsarnaev shortly after the FBI publicly released photos of Tsarnaev and his brother as suspects in the deadly 2013 attack.

Tsarnaev responded that he had seen the news, then texted, "Better not text me my friend," then "Lol."

In another text, Tsarnaev told Kadyrbayev he could go to his room and "take what's there" followed by a smiley face.
Some of the messages had been released previously, but a complete transcript of Kadyrbayev's text messages in the days after the bombing was released by prosecutors Thursday.

Kadyrbayev and another friend, Azamat Tazhayakov, are accused of removing a backpack containing fireworks and a laptop from Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth several days after the bombings. A third friend, Robel Phillipos, is accused of lying to investigators.

None of the men are accused of participating in the bombing or knowing about it ahead of time.

Tazhayakov and Phillipos declined to testify this week during a hearing over statements they made under questioning by federal agents. U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock said Thursday he would not throw out their statements.

Kadyrbayev had been expected to testify Friday, but Woodlock said that will be postponed until after testimony from an expert witness.

The judge did not rule on Kadyrbayev's request to suppress statements he made to investigators; his suppression hearing is expected to resume in two weeks.

Prosecutors and the men's attorneys are arguing over whether the statements were voluntary and can be used as evidence in the upcoming trials. Prosecutors have said the men willingly spoke to federal agents after being told of their right to remain silent and to contact a lawyer. Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl, has argued that his client, who is from Kazakhstan, did not have a complete command of the English language and did not fully understand the waiver forms he signed.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/22/boston-marathon-bombings-suspects-used-fuses-made-from-christmas-lights-feds/?cmpid=edpick&google_editors_picks=true
Boston Marathon bombings suspects used fuses made from Christmas lights, feds say
May 22, 2014

The Boston Marathon bombing suspects used "relatively sophisticated" bombs with fuses made from Christmas lights and remote-control detonators made from model car parts, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Wednesday.

Prosecutors also said that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev used fine black powder from firecrackers as fuel for the bombs and, since none was found in searches of their homes and cars, investigators worried they had help.

The prosecutors were arguing against a defense motion to throw out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's statements to FBI agents because he was questioned without a lawyer.

"In light of the history of coordinated terrorist attacks (and planned attacks) such as the ones in Mumbai, India, Times Square, the New York subway system, and on September 11, the FBI had a duty to be investigate whether any additional attacks were imminent," the filing said. "Interviewing Tsarnaev as soon as possible was therefore essential to protect the public from possible harm."

Prosecutors say the bombs, comments Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, made to a carjacking victim that they might explode more bombs in New York and a note Tsarnaev wrote in a boat where he was captured made it imperative to know if there was a continuing terror threat before informing him of his rights, an allowed exception.

They say Tsarnaev said he and his brother acted alone and there were no more bombs.
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I wonder if the bombs were assembled elsewhere?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/13/us-usa-explosions-boston-idUSBRE98C0B920130913
Two friends of Boston bomber plead not guilty to cover-up charges
September 13, 2103

(Reuters) - Two college friends of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that they helped cover his tracks when the FBI was trying to find the people responsible for the April 15 attack.

The appearance in federal court in Boston of a third man charged in the same case was postponed until later on Friday. All three are charged with going to Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the bombing, where they removed a laptop and a backpack containing empty fireworks shells after receiving a text message from him telling them to "go to my room and take what's there," according to court papers.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/boston-bomb-suspect-s-friends-plead-not-guilty-in-case.html
Boston Bomb Suspect’s Friends Plead Not Guilty in Case
Aughust 13, 2013
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Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, citizens of Kazakhstan who attended the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth with Dzhokhar, saw the images online and recognized their friend, prosecutors said. They went to Tsarnaev’s dormitory, removed his laptop computer and a backpack containing fireworks and a jar of Vaseline and brought the items to their apartment in New Bedford, Massachusetts, according to the indictment.
Trash Bin
The backpack was placed in a garbage bag and put in a trash bin, according to the prosecutors. The Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered it from a landfill about a week later.
One of the suspects told the other that Tsarnaev had used the Vaseline to make bombs, according to the indictment. Also, the suspects saw that the fireworks had been opened and emptied of powder, according to court records.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mounting-evidence-boston-bombers-involved-2011-triple-murder/story?id=19151271#.UY0d_UoyB8H
'Mounting Evidence' Boston Bombers Involved in 2011 Triple Murder
May 10, 2013
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Then, Gerry's Italian Kitchen became a focal point again on April 24, nine days after the Marathon bombing, after investigators removed two Planet Aid charity donation bins from a parking lot it shares with a neighboring grocer. A driver had discovered discarded fireworks inside and law enforcement sources told ABC News the gunpowder had been removed from the cartridges.

It is unclear how the Tsarnaev brothers were associated with Gerry's Italian Kitchen, if at all, but looking back, multiple residents of Waltham and Watertown remember Tamerlan Tsarnaev delivering food to their homes and Tsarnaev family members have told reporters the brothers worked as pizza deliverymen. The eatery's management, however, steadfastly denied that either Tsarnaev brother worked there.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boston-bomber-tsarnaevs-boat-note-we-muslims-are-one-body-n111751
Boston Bomber Tsarnaev's Boat Note: 'We Muslims Are One Body'
May 22, 2014

Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note declaring “we Muslims are one body” as he emerged from the boat where he had hidden from investigators, according to a report based on court documents.

The accused bomber wrote about his dead brother, Tamerlan, NBC News affiliate in Boston WHDH reported.

"I do not mourn because his soul is very much alive. God has a plan for each person. Mine was to hide in this boat and shed some light on our actions,” Tsarnaev wrote in the note, according to WHDH.
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The court documents cited by WHDH were filed Wednesday by prosecutors opposing a motion from the Tsarnaev’s lawyers to suppress statements he made at the time of his arrest, claiming he had made them under duress.

During those interviews, court documents allege, Tsarnaev "readily admitted involvement" in the bombings and remained "responsive, coherent, and clearheaded" throughout the questioning.

The documents confirm an exclusive report last year by NBC News that federal prosecutors believe Tsarnaev and Tamerlan closely followed a bombmaking process detailed in the digital al Qaeda magazine “Inspire.”

They also reveal the bombers used powder from crushed fireworks, fuses made from Christmas lights and detonators assembled from model car parts to construct their bombs, prosecutors allege in new court documents.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-charged-impeding-marathon-bombing-probe-23925366
Man Charged With Impeding Marathon Bombing Probe
May 30, 2014

A Massachusetts man who knew the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings was charged Friday with obstructing the investigation into the deadly bombings.

Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, of Quincy, destroyed, altered and falsified records in a federal investigation, and made false statements in a federal investigation, federal prosecutors said.

Matanov, a legal resident of the U.S. originally from Kyrgyzstan, is not accused of participating in the bombings or of knowing about them in advance. He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Boston on Friday afternoon.

His lawyer, Paul Glickman, did not immediately return a phone message left Friday morning at his office. Matanov's phone number could not immediately be located.

Matanov knew Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and in the days after the April 2013 bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260, Matanov realized the FBI would want to talk with him because he shared their "philosophical justification for violence," prosecutors said.

He talked to the brothers on numerous occasions after the bombings, and even took them out to dinner the day of the explosions, they said.

"In the days following the bombings, Matanov continued to express support for the bombings, although later that week he said that maybe the bombings were wrong," the indictment said.

He tried to contact the brothers after he saw media reports identifying them as the suspects, prosecutors said.

Matanov deleted information regarding the brothers from his computer, including Internet searches, they said.

He also allegedly asked a friend to destroy his cellphones, but that friend refused.

And he repeatedly lied to investigators about the extent of his friendship with the Tsarnaev brothers, prosecutors said.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/03/us-usa-explosions-boston-brothers-idUSKBN0EE27A20140603
Accused Boston bombers used Cambridge arsenal in final fight: prosecutors
June 3, 2014

(Reuters) - The ethnic Chechen brothers accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing returned to their family's Cambridge, Massachusetts, apartment to gather weapons after the FBI released photos of the duo three days after the attack, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who are accused of shooting dead a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer the night of April 18, 2013, sprang into action after U.S. officials released photos, according to court papers filed in U.S. District Court in Boston.

"Almost immediately, (Dzhokhar) Tsarnaev left UMass-Dartmouth, drove back to Cambridge, and met his brother at the Norfolk Street apartment, where they collected a small arsenal of weapons, including at least six bombs, a handgun and other weapons, and then embarked on a murderous crime spree," federal prosecutors said in a court filing.

Prosecutors are arguing against a bid by defense attorneys to have evidence found in the search of that apartment thrown out at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's upcoming trial on charges of committing the bombing that killed three people and injured 264.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boston-bombing-suspect-tsarnaev-expected-die-prosecutors-n121686
Boston Bombing Suspect Tsarnaev Expected to Die: Prosecutors
June 3, 2014

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sent his mother an e-mail suggesting he expected to die in a confrontation with authorities, prosecutors said in court documents Tuesday.

The email — which ended by saying, "If I don't see you in this life, I will will see you in the akhira," or afterlife — showed that Tsarnaev abandoned his expectation of privacy when he left his older brother's apartment with weapons and bombs three days after the bombings last year, prosecutors said.

That makes an FBI search of the apartment legal, prosecutors contended in documents filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston (PDF).
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/06/03/college-friend-alleged-marathon-continues-testimony-obstruction-case/P3AfvUDIpdZwvomdbROveO/story.html
Tsarnaev friend questioned on his understanding of English
June 3, 2014

A college friend of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was again subjected to cross-examination in federal court today by prosecutors questioning his claims that his limited command of English kept him from understanding his rights when dealing with federal agents investigating the bombing.

Dias Kadyrbayev, 20, testified for a second day in a hearing in which he is asking a judge to throw out incriminating statements he made to the FBI that led to charges that he obstructed justice.


The suppression hearing, which stretched over three days last month and the past two days, concluded before noon. Prosecutors said US District Judge Douglas Woodlock would likely not rule until the end of August, just before Kadyrbayev’s Sept. 8 trial.

Kadyrbayev said on the witness stand today that his English was limited, though he admitted he sometimes did drug deals in English and had some friends who only spoke English.

Kadyrbayev also said he “suspected” but “did not know” that Tsarnaev was suspected in the Marathon bombings when, several days after the terror attack, he removed Tsarnaev’s backpack from a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth dorm room and later threw it in a dumpster.

Speaking English with relative ease, despite a pronounced accent, Kadyrbayev, a Kazakh national, testified Monday that he was manipulated into giving the statements to the FBI.

But prosecutors, during cross-examination, attempted to portray Kadyrbayev as a chronic liar.

Kadyrbayev’s testimony has also painted a picture of an aimless young man failing courses, smoking and dealing marijuana, tricking professors, and crazy about cars.

Kadyrbayev’s attorney, Robert Stahl, toward the close of the hearing, asked the judge to probe why Kadyrbayev did not get a message when he was being interrogated by the FBI that a public defender had left a message for him at a State Police barracks, seeking to represent him.

The judge said the lawyer’s attempt to contact Kadyrbayev was irrelevant because it was Kadyrbayev’s responsibility to ask for a lawyer and he allegedly never did, even after being informed of his Miranda right to a lawyer.

Kadyrbayev told agents that he, along with his roommate, Azamat Tazhayakov, 20, also from Kazakhstan, took Tsarnaev’s backpack containing fireworks from his University of Massachusetts Dartmouth dorm room on the night of April 18, 2013, three days after the bombings, and threw it in a dumpster behind their apartment in New Bedford. Tsarnaev was on the run at the time.

Federal prosecutors have said gunpowder from fireworks was used in the two bombs that exploded at the Marathon.

A third Tsarnaev friend, Robel Phillipos, 20, was also allegedly present. While Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov face charges of obstruction of justice, Phillipos faces a lesser charge of lying to investigators. Tazhayakov’s trial is slated for June 30, while Phillipos’s trial is set for Sept. 29.

While lawyers for the accused have said they did not realize Tsarnaev was a bombing suspect, federal investigators told the Globe in May 2013 that Tsarnaev had told Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov that he knew how to make a bomb and that Tsarnaev, Tazhayakov, and others had set off fireworks along the Charles River in Boston a couple of months before the bombings.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/06/18/marathon-bombing-suspect-lawyers-due-court/470Nw4a7Nu7FQ9WBnHrXUO/story.html
Marathon Bombing Suspect's Lawyers Due in Court
June 18, 2014


COMMENT
BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are due in court along with federal prosecutors for a status conference.

A U.S. District Court judge is expected Wednesday to set a schedule for motions to be filed before Tsarnaev’s trial begins in November.

Defense attorneys also are expected to formally file a motion to move his trial from Boston. The lawyers have said they plan to seek a change of venue because of intense media coverage.

Authorities say Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, planted two pressure cooker bombs near the finish of the 2013 marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/marathon-bombing-suspects-lawyers-due-in-court/2014/06/18/c48ea928-f6a9-11e3-afdf-f7ffea8c744a_story.html
No ‘betrayal of US’ argument for marathon suspect
June 16, 2014

BOSTON — A federal judge has ruled that “betrayal of the United States” should not be a factor in considering if Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) gets the death penalty.

U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole said Wednesday it was “highly inappropriate” for prosecutors to draw a distinction between a “naturalized” and “natural-born” U.S. citizen.

Federal prosecutors argue Tsarnaev deserves death, in part, because he betrayed his allegiance to the U.S. after it gave him and his Russian-born family asylum and citizenship more than a decade ago.

Tsarnaev’s attorneys argued that the federal government has never cited a defendant’s immigration history in nearly 500 previous death penalty cases.
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http://time.com/2894675/tsarnaev-boston-marathon/
Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect’s Lawyer Can’t Hold Private Family Meeting
June 16, 2014

A judge ruled Wednesday that lawyers for accused Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could not meet with him and his sisters without federal agents present.

Tsarnaev’s attorneys argued they needed to understand Tsarnaev’s relationship with his family to build a case for why he should not be executed if convicted of the attacks, Reuters reports. They claimed that the presence of federal officers would prohibit normal conversation.

U.S. District Judge George O’Toole denied the request, and approved a proposal from federal prosecutors to bring in a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent from outside Boston to monitor the meetings in the prison.

Defense attorneys have asked for the trial—due to begin November—to be moved out of Boston, where two homemade bombs killed three people and injured 264 others. Lawyers fear pretrial publicity might prejudice any potential juror. The deadline for attorneys to argue for this request was Wednesday.
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Personally, I don't see it matters where the trial is - all Americans hate what he did.

Were these students here in the U.S. on study visas enrolled in classes?  If not, they should have gone home or been deported.  Of course, there will be the problem of them saying it's not safe to go back where they came from.  Does anyone keep track of where the people coming in on student visas are and if they are enrolled in classes? 


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/us/at-trial-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-friend-accused-of-knowingly-discarding-evidence-in-boston-marathon-bombing.html?_r=0
Friend Knew Suspect Able to Set Blasts, Jurors Told
July 7, 2014

BOSTON — A federal prosecutor told jurors on Monday that a college friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, believed that his friend had been involved in the attack and tried to cover up incriminating evidence.

In her opening arguments, Stephanie Siegmann, an assistant United States attorney, also asserted that at a restaurant in March 2013, a month before the bombing, Mr. Tsarnaev told the defendant, Azamat Tazhayakov, and another friend, Dias Kadyrbayev, that he knew how to build a bomb and that gunpowder would be needed. Ms. Siegmann said Mr. Tsarnaev also discussed martyrdom with his friends during the meal, saying, “You would die with a smile on your face and go straight to heaven.”

Then, Ms. Siegmann said, less than two hours after the bombings, Mr. Tsarnaev texted Mr. Tazhayakov the words, “Don’t go thinking it’s me.”
She then laid out the case against Mr. Tazhayakov, and said that, shortly after the F.B.I. released images of the bombing suspects, he went with Mr. Kadyrbayev to Mr. Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. There, she said, the pair took items including a backpack containing fireworks and a jar of Vaseline, which Mr. Kadyrbayev said he believed had been used in bomb-making. A bag of marijuana was also taken, Ms. Siegmann said. Investigators later found Mr. Tsarnaev’s laptop in the apartment of Mr. Tazhayakov and Mr. Kadyrbayev. Ms. Siegmann said the two discussed what to do with the backpack before Mr. Kadyrbayev threw it in a Dumpster outside of the apartment; investigators later found it in a landfill.

“When they removed all these things, the defendant thought that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was one of the Boston Marathon bombers,” Ms. Siegmann said. She accused the duo of “removing evidence, hiding evidence” in an effort “to protect their friend.” Mr. Tazhayakov is charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy. He faces 20 years in prison on the obstruction charge, and five years on the conspiracy charge.

Mr. Tazhayakov is not accused of having any involvement with the actual bombing — a fact that his lawyer, Nicholas Wooldridge, made plain at the beginning of his opening argument. “It’s not about the bombing,” Mr. Wooldridge told jurors. “Don’t get sidetracked. Don’t get shocked and awed.”

Mr. Wooldridge tried to distance Mr. Tazhayakov from the act of removing items from Mr. Tsarnaev’s room and discarding the backpack. Mr. Wooldridge said that it was Mr. Kadyrbayev, hunting for marijuana, who had initiated the search of the dorm room and who had taken the backpack and thrown it in a Dumpster. This, the lawyer said, was at the request of Mr. Kadyrbayev’s girlfriend, who has not been charged.

Mr. Tazhayakov “never took a backpack out of the dorm room, he never even touched that backpack, and he sure never tossed it,” said Mr. Wooldridge, who said that his client did remove a pair of his own headphones from the room and that he was watching a movie while Mr. Kadyrbayev threw the backpack away. Mr. Kadyrbayev and Mr. Tazhayakov are natives of Kazakhstan who entered the country with student visas.
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/08/fbi-agent-testifies-that-friends-marathon-bombing-suspect-jointly-decided-throw-out-evidence/I2P7rNforMYKO9YDhAS6bJ/story.html?p1=ArticleTab_Article_
Tsarnaev friends agreed on tossing evidence, FBI agent says
July 8, 2014

Two friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev jointly decided they should throw out a backpack with fireworks after learning that Tsarnaev’s older brother, Tamerlan, had been killed in a shootout with police days after the bombings, an FBI agent testified today.

FBI agent Sarah Wood is on the stand in US District Court in Boston this morning where Tsarnaev friend Azamat Tazhayakov is on trial for allegedly obstructing the federal investigation into the April 15, 2013, bombing that killed three and wounded more than 260 people.

Wood was one of the FBI agents involved in questioning Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both of whom are former students at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and are from the central Asian nation of Kazazkhstan, when the investigation into the bombings focused on the Tsarnaev brothers.

Today, Wood testified that through questioning of the two men, investigators learned that they went to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s UMass dorm room where they found a backpack with fireworks that apparently had been emptied of their explosive powder. The friends then huddled on what their next step would be.

Kadyrbayev was pacing the room when he allegedly said that he believed they should throw out the backpack and the fireworks, an idea that Tazhayakov agreed with, Wood testified.

In her opening statement Monday, Assistant US Attorney Stephanie Siegmann detailed what Tazhayakov allegedly knew and when, including a message between Tazhayakov and a friend early April 19 that refers to the bombing suspects as “brothers” hours before authorities released their identities.

A third friend, Robel Phillipos, is accused of the less-serious charge of lying to investigators about his whereabouts that night. Each of the three friends has pleaded not guilty and will be tried separately. Tazhayakov’s trial before US District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock is the first.

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The Tsarnaev brothers, while on the run April 18 after authorities released their photos, also allegedly killed MIT police Officer Sean Collier in Cambridge. Tamerlan Tsarnaev later died in a shootout with police in Watertown; his younger brother escaped and was a fugitive for much of the day April 19 until he was found in a boat stored in the backyard of a nearby house.

He is scheduled to face trial in November and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against him.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/21/jury-resumes-deliberations-trial-azamat-tazhayakov-friend-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev/6H1OxaskP38B3v15ryzvPJ/story.html
Tsarnaev friend guilty of conspiracy, obstruction
July 21, 2014

A former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student has been found guilty in federal court of obstruction of justice and conspiring to obstruct justice by hindering the investigation into his college friend, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Azamat Tazhayakov was convicted by a 12-member jury in US District Court in Boston. The jury had deliberated about 15 hours over three days.

Tazhayakov, 20, faces a maximum 20-year prison sentence on the obstruction of justice charge, and up to five years in prison on the conspiracy charge. Sentencing was set for Oct. 16, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office said.
It was the first case related to the Marathon bombings to go to trial. As the verdict was announced, Tazhayakov’s mother began to weep openly. Her son had a less dramatic response. He was seen at one point lowering his head into his hands, but he appeared stoic at a decision that could send him to prison for years.
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After Tazhayakov is sentenced in October and serves his time, he should be escorted directly from prison by LE put on a plane with an air marshal or whomever would have the job, and make sure he goes back where he belongs, never to be allowed back in this country.  He came here under the guise of a "foreign exchange student", and instead of using this privilege wisely, he helped a terrorist.   ::MonkeyNoNo::  JMHO

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0814/Tsarnaev-lawyers-ask-to-postpone-and-move-trial-from-Boston
Tsarnaev lawyers ask to postpone and move trial from Boston
Tsarnaev's lawyers told a federal judge that prosecutors have given them volumes of evidence — much of it poorly organized — as part of the pre-trial discovery process that they still need to sort through.
August 14, 2014

http://www.pressherald.com/2014/08/20/friend-of-marathon-bombing-suspect-to-plead-guilty/
Friend of marathon bombing suspect to plead guilty
Dias Kadyrbayev is accused of removing a backpack from the dorm room of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
August 20, 2014

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http://www.kvue.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/27/boston-marathon-bombing-survivor-weds-nurse-he-met-in-recovery/14701151/
Boston Marathon bombing survivor weds nurse he met in recovery
August 27, 2014

The Boston Marathon bombing survivor whose photo of him staggering away from the aftermath of the explosion, with his clothes shredded, became an iconic photo of that tragic day married a nurse who helped him recover from his injuries.

James Costello and nurse Krista D'Agostino tied the knot at Boston's Hyatt Regency on Saturday in an outdoor ceremony before nearly 160 friends and family, a hotel spokeswoman confirmed to ABC News today.
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http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-tsarnaev-bomb-threat-20140827-story.html
Tsarnaev sister arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat
August 27, 2014

The sister of the men suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings was arrested in New York on Wednesday on suspicion of threatening to bomb her boyfriend's ex, a police spokesman said.

Ailina Tsarnaeva, 24, sister of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, turned herself in to the New York City Police Department, an NYPD spokesman told the Los Angeles Times.

There, Tsarnaeva, who lives in North Bergen, N.J., was arrested on suspicion of aggravated harassment and making a phone threat, a misdemeanor, said the spokesman, Lt. John Grimpel.

The victim was an unidentified woman living in Harlem who shares a child with Tsarnaeva's boyfriend, Grimpel said.

The arrest was first reported by the New York Post, which reported that the threat was connected to a custody dispute.

Grimpel told The Times that Tsarnaeva made the threatening phone call Monday.

“Over the phone, she commented about a bomb, a bomb threat," Grimpel said, saying that the misdemeanor charge fit what was said in the call. "If there’s a real bomb, obviously it’s different.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/24/judge-rules-marathon-bombing-trial-will-remain-in-boston/
Judge rules marathon bombing trial will remain in Boston
September 24, 2014

BOSTON –  A judge has granted a two-month trial delay for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but denied a defense request to move his trial.

Judge George O'Toole ruled Wednesday night that the trial will begin Jan. 5 instead of Nov.3.

He said there's no reason to assume before the trial that a fair jury cannot be found in Massachusetts.

Defense attorneys had asked to have the trial moved to Washington, D.C., and delayed until at least September 2015
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http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Docs-Tsarnaev-knew-brother-involved-in-2011-case-5817717.php
Docs: Tsarnaev knew brother involved in 2011 case
October 12, 2014

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) say a prosecution witness is prepared to testify Tsarnaev knew his older brother was involved in a 2011 triple slaying.

The information was revealed in a court filing by the defense late Friday. The filing seeks a number of items from prosecutors, including any evidence of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's involvement in the Waltham slayings. Prosecutors have previously declined to provide such information, saying it could jeopardize the ongoing investigation.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers say any evidence showing his now-deceased brother participated in the triple homicide is critical to their defense. In that case, three men's bodies were found sprinkled with marijuana, their throats slit.
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October 17, 2014 Tweets
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 Peter Wilson @PetesWire  ·  Oct 17
BREAKING: Federal judge denies motion to dismiss case against accused #BostonMarathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. #wbz

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/20/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-marathon-bombing-trial/17610077/
1,000 will be summoned to seat Boston bombing jury
October 20, 2014

BOSTON — Jury selection in the Jan. 5 trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will take at least a week to complete, a federal judge said Monday at a brief status conference in Boston.

Judge George O'Toole said about 1,000 potential jurors will need to fill out questionnaires to produce 100 qualified individuals who could serve as the 12 jurors and six alternates.

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Tsarnaev is charged in a 30-count indictment that alleges he worked with his older brother, Tamerlan, to explode two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line April 15, 2013. The blasts left three dead and more than 260 injured, including 15 who lost limbs. If convicted, Tsarnaev could get the death penalty.

In court filings earlier this year, defense attorneys had petitioned O'Toole to relocate the trial on the grounds that impaneling an impartial jury in Boston would be impossible. O'Toole ruled last month that the trial would go forward in Boston. He said that despite the widespread impact of the bombings, the Boston metropolitan area is large enough to generate a sufficient pool of qualified jurors.

Attorneys will be back in court at least twice before the trial begins. Status conferences are scheduled for Nov. 12 and Dec. 18.

Oh, dear me.  So Tamerlan was a "bad influence".   ::MonkeyNoNo::  Sarcasm alert, btw.  How about Dzhokhar was old enough to know right from wrong.  He knew it was wrong to set bombs out to kill and maim innocent men, women and children.  It's all about choices, and Dzhokhar chose the evil way and now it's time to pay.  JMHO

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/25/us-usa-explosion-boston-idUSKCN0J92JS20141125
Judge denies Boston bomb suspect request for triple murder evidence
November 25, 2014

(Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for evidence in the ongoing investigation of a 2011 Massachusetts triple murder, saying the information wouldn't help their case.

Tsarnaev's lawyers had asked the judge to force prosecutors to hand over information about the killings, which may have involved Tsarnaev's older brother Tamerlan and which they argued could help show Tamerlan was a bad influence.

"After review, it is my judgment that, contrary to the defense speculation, the report does not materially advance that theory," U.S. District Judge George O'Toole said in his decision. He said the information could also undermine the ongoing investigation.

Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to federal charges he and his brother placed bombs at the finish line of the world-renowned race on April 15, 2013, killing three people and injuring more than 260. His trial is due to begin in January and he could face the death penalty if convicted.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who prosecutors argue was the ringleader in the worst attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, was killed days after the bombing in a shootout with police.

Ibragim Todashev, an acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's, told investigators in May 2013 that Tsarnaev had taken part in a triple murder in Waltham, in which three men were stabbed to death, according to federal prosecutors. Todashev provided a confession and was later shot dead by law-enforcement agents who said he lunged at them, according to the FBI.

Prosecutors said at a hearing earlier this month they have already shared the substance of Todashev's confession with Tsarnaev's defense team, and were not privvy to the details of the local police investigation into the Waltham killings.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/year-half-boston-marathon-suspect-make-court-appearance/story?id=27664016
After Year and a Half, Boston Marathon Suspect to Make Court Appearance
December 17, 2014

Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to appear in federal court for a final status conference hearing Thursday before his trial is slated to begin on murder and terrorism charges next month – making it the first time he has been seen in more than a year and a half.

Tsarnaev, 21, has not been in court since his arraignment on July 10, 2013 on charges that he and his brother Tamerlan detonated two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the historic race in April 2013, killing three and wounding more than 260 others, with 16 of those victims losing limbs.
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Among the issues expected to be discussed Thursday is the jury selection process, which is slated to being Jan. 5. Tsarnaev’s trial is expected to run for two to three months.

Based on court filings, defense attorneys want the judge to include a question for potential jurors that would “identify those jurors who are especially likely to believe that the death penalty should be automatic for terrorism-murders, or for murderers of children or police officers.”

Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if convicted. He has pleaded not guilty.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boston-bombing-suspect-dzkokhar-tsarnaev-asks-another-trial-delay-n273961
Boston Bombing Suspect Dzkokhar Tsarnaev Asks for Another Trial Delay
December 23, 2014

Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bomb suspect on Tuesday renewed their request to delay the start of the trial — now scheduled to begin Jan. 5 with jury selection — until September 2015.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys say they've been overwhelmed with material from prosecutors, are finding it difficult to research Tsarnaev's family overseas, and are worried that the jury could end up deliberating around the second anniversary of the blast that killed three and injured more than 260.

"Given the ubiquity and intensity of anniversary news coverage and related public activities, even the most conscientious jurors are likely to be exposed to influences that would require a mistrial," defense lawyers wrote in a motion filed in federal court.

"This risk could be avoided — and the fairness of the trial increased — by waiting to begin trial until after the anniversary has passed."

The government's witness list contains the names of 590 law enforcement personnel and 142 civilian witnesses, and prosecutors say they might use any of 1,238 exhibits. Some of the material turned over was not indexed, making it difficult to sort through the mountain of data, they complained.

"The sheer volume of material, alone, requires a continuance. As a practical matter, it impossible for the defense to digest this information, much less attempt to pursue investigative leads it may suggest, in time to make effective use of it at trial," Tsarnaev's lawyers argued.

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"The trial in this case is currently set to begin just 18 months after the defendant was indicted, which would bring this case to trial faster than 99 of the 119 federal capital trials to get under way since 2004," they wrote.

The defense also said it has encountered "new obstacles" in digging into Tsarnaev's family history in Chechnya, Dagestan and Central Asia and aren't sure they can get get witnesses they have identified to show up at the trial.

The judge has declined in the past to push the start of the trial into late 2015. He did grant a small delay from November 2014 to January 2015.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boston-bombing-trial-defense-presses-delay-n276226
Boston Bombing Trial: Defense Presses for Delay
December 29, 2014

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are continuing to press their bid for a trial delay, suggesting that prosecutors have not turned over material that could help them show their client was under the sway of his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnav.

"The brothers' alleged 'radicalization' is a more complex story over a longer period of time that can only be understood by painstaking analysis of activity across multiple electronic devices that the government has seized," the defense wrote in a Monday filing.

Previously, Tsarnaev's team slammed the government for dumping a mountain of files on them less than a month before trial, withholding some exhibits and belatedly adding a new DNA expert. Prosecutors have argued Tsarnaev's lawyers are exaggerating the situation and insist they have turned over everything required.

The trial is slated to start in January, but the defense are asking for a nine-month delay.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/12/31/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-trial-starts-monday-after-judge-rejects-delay-request/naLS6rOK7e7bjFZQPHB34M/story.html
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Trial Starts Monday After Judge Rejects Delay Request
December 31, 2014

Monday it begins. The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of orchestrating the Boston Marathon bombings, will begin January 5 after a federal judge rejected the defense’s request to postpone the trial.

US District Judge George A. O’Toole also denied the defense’s request to move the trial to another district. Tsarnaev’s lawyers had asked for more time to prepare for the trial because of the amount of evidence in the case, and had asked for it to be moved to another district to avoid what they said would be a biased jury.

Jury selection begins Monday. The case will take place at Joseph Moakley courthouse in Boston. Tsarnaev appeared in court for his final pre-trial hearing December 18, his first appearance in public since July 2013.
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http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Prosecutors-to-reply-to-marathon-bomber-s-appeal-5989399.php
Prosecutors: Keep bombing suspect's trial in state
| January 1, 2015 | Updated: January 1, 2015 7:26pm

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Thursday reiterated their opposition to moving the Boston Marathon bombing suspect's trial out of state and said in a court filing that jury selection should begin as planned on Monday.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers want a federal appeals court to overturn a judge's decision to keep the 21-year-old's trial in Boston. They argue Tsarnaev cannot receive a fair trial in the city's federal courthouse, which is just a few miles from where the bombing occurred.

Tsarnaev's lawyers filed the appeal Wednesday after a U.S. District Court judge denied their change-of-venue request as well as a motion seeking a nine-month delay.

The defense is asking the district court judge to postpone jury selection pending the outcome of the appeal.

Prosecutors said in their response filed Thursday with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the district court correctly found that Tsarnaev had not demonstrated "the rare and extreme case" in which impartial jurors could not be found from a pool of millions of people.

"The Boston Marathon bombing and related events during the week of April 15, 2013, affected several hundred victims, including both those allegedly killed and injured by Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan, and their families," the filing said. "Moving the trial out of the Eastern Division would create an enormous hardship for those victims and their families, depriving many, if not most of them, of any ability to see the trial."

Recent high-profile federal trials in Boston — such as that of former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger — suggest that an impartial jury could be found, prosecutors said.
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Oh brother...   ::MonkeyNoNo::  I guess the defense team is having to really dig around to find someway to defend him.  This whole family bit the hand that was feeding them.  That includes both brothers, the sister and the mother.  The father is in denial or whatever.  The U.S. allowed this family in and it's too bad they weren't sent right back out.  JMHO


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boston-marathon-bomber-lawyers-issue-viral-photo-article-1.2099788

Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say viral photo of shoveled finish line should delay trial
In their latest attempt to delay and relocate the trial of accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his lawyers say a viral photo from Boston's recent snowstorm opened old wounds from the April 2013 attack. Bostonians loved a picture of a mystery man shoveling snow from the marathon's finish line, and Tsarnaev's team says this proves Boston can't hold a fair trial.
February 1, 2015

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/boston-bombing-trial-10-women-8-men-selected-jurors-n316576
Boston Bombing Trial: 10 Women, 8 Men Selected as Jurors
March 3, 2015

Ten women and eight men were selected Tuesday to sit as jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev. While six of them are being designated as alternates, all must report when the trial resumes at 9 a.m. ET Wednesday with opening statements in Boston federal court.

The final stage of jury selection capped off nearly two months of whittling down jurors — slowed by Tsarnaev's defense team's asking four times to have the trial moved out of Boston. His lawyers argued that he would not be able to find an impartial jury, given the heightened emotions in the case. Tsarnaev faces 30 charges for his alleged role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and wounded 264 others. If found guilty, the 21-year-old could be put to death.

The jurors are:

Juror 35: A man who works for the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. He told the court that he attended a fund-raiser for marathon bombing victims and donated $50 or $75 and that he was open to life or death sentences in this case based on the evidence.
Juror 41: A woman who describes herself as a senior executive assistant. She told the court that one of her friends, a former correctional officer, now works in human resources for the sheriff's department and that other friends work for jail systems.
Juror 83: A man who says he was a student studying psychology and neuroscience before his financial aid fell through. He told the court he doesn't know much about the case but believes Tsarnaev "was involved in something" and that he thinks the death penalty is valid.
Juror 102: A woman who's a nurse at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Massachusetts. She told the court says she has no opinion on the death penalty. Adding, "I am really in the middle." She told the government she could impose death penalty if appropriate.
Juror 138: A man who works for the water department in a city near Boston. He wrote "no" on his questionnaire when asked whether he believed Tsarnaev was guilty and said he favors the death penalty.
Juror 229: A woman who runs events and is a former domestic violence social worker. She told the court she's unsure about whether Tsarnaev is guilty and about the validity of the death penalty.
Juror 286: A woman who supervises about 50 workers at a restaurant. She told the court she has been high-fived for wearing a "Boston Strong" shirt and that she could vote for the death penalty.
Juror 349: A woman who designs women's clothing for a startup firm. She told the court she believes Tsarnaev is guilty but is unsure about the death penalty.
Juror 395: A woman who's a legal executive assistant for a managing director of a corporation. She told the court she believes Tsarnaev is guilty but is unsure about the death penalty.
Juror 441: A man who says he was fired as an auditor in January and is trying to collect unemployment. He told the court he's unsure whether Tsarnaev is guilty and is neutral on the death penalty.
Juror 480: A man who works at Massachusetts General Hospital as a telecommunications engineer. He told the court he would need to see evidence before deciding guilt or innocence.
Juror 487: A woman who's a single parent with three children at home. She told the court she believes Tsarnaev is guilty but is unsure about the death penalty. She says she bought a "Boston Strong" T-shirt for a nephew.
Juror 552: A man who is retired from the telecommunications industry. He told the court he has friends or relatives in law enforcement but remains unsure whether Tsarnaev is guilty and is open to death penalty or life sentence.
Juror 567: A man who works as an air traffic controller at Otis Air National Guard Base in Falmouth. He told the court he believes Tsarnaev "was somewhat involved" but that he can be impartial and is open to the death penalty.
Juror 588: A woman who works in digital sales for Barnes & Noble. She told the court she believes there was "some involvement" by Tsarnaev but is unsure whether he guilty of the specific charges, and she expressed reservations about the death penalty.
Juror 598: A man who paints houses. He told the court he's unsure whether Tsarnaev is guilty and is conflicted about the death penalty. He said his wife might have donated to a victims fund.
Juror 608: A woman who is retired as an actuary.
Juror 638: A woman who's a supervisor at a government agency. She told the court she's unsure whether Tsarnaev is guilty.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/boston-bombing-suspects-widow-investigation-face-charges/story?id=29366623
Boston Bombing Suspect’s Widow Under Investigation, Could Face Charges
March 3, 2015

The widow of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is under active investigation and could face potential criminal charges related to the deadly blast, law enforcement officials told ABC News.

A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office and the FBI declined to comment and authorities said no decision has been made on whether to eventually bring charges while prosecutors concentrate on the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Russell’s brother-in-law.

Russell, who was married to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is suspected of being the woman who accompanied Tsarnaev to a Macy’s in Boston two months before the April 2013 attack where the couple bought five pressure cookers – two of which were allegedly used to make the bombs placed at the marathon finish line. In an affidavit to search the Tsarnaev’s home, FBI agents said they were looking for clothing consistent with those seen on a security video at Macy’s.

A few weeks earlier Tamerlan Tsarnaev had gone to a fireworks store in New Hampshire and bought 48 mortar shells, also used in the bombs. At the fireworks store, Tamerlan had asked for the “biggest and loudest” fireworks available and spent roughly $200, according to court documents.

“To live in a small apartment and buy five pressure cookers and have all those explosives obviously just does not make sense – something other than cooking was going on,” said former FBI special agent and ABC News consultant Brad Garrett.

Both lawyers for Russell and federal prosecutors declined to answer ABC News questions about Russell’s status, but a senior law enforcement official said she could face charges of misprision of a felony, or failing to notify authorities of a crime about to happen.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a police shootout three days after prosecutors say he and his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, detonated twin bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people – including an eight-year-old boy – and injuring some 260 others.

Days after Tamerlan Tsarnaev was identified as one of the suspected bombers, Russell’s attorney, released a statement saying Russell was assisting the investigation into the bombing and was not aware of the plot beforehand.

“As a mother, a sister, a daughter, a wife, Katie deeply mourns the pain and loss to innocent victims, students, law enforcement officers, families and our community,” the attorney, Miriam Weizenbaum, said then.

Shortly after the bombing, Russell left her family and moved to New Jersey to live with Tsarnaev’s two sisters. She later moved out of her sister-in-law’s apartment and was last seen in a transitional housing facility for the homeless in New Jersey, according to authorities briefed on the investigation. Authorities told ABC News the FBI put Russell under surveillance during last year’s Boston Marathon race.

Opening statements in the murder trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are set to begin Wednesday morning. Russell is not expected to be called as a witness for the government.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31727243
Boston bombing trial: Tsarnaev lawyer admits his guilt
March 4, 2015

The trial of the man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon two years ago has begun, with his defence lawyer telling the jury he committed the crime.

"It was him," the lawyer said as she prepared to defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's actions by saying he had been influenced by his older brother.

Mr Tsarnaev, 21, could face the death penalty and is charged with more than 30 counts relating to the bombings.

It was the deadliest terror attack on US soil since 9/11.

Speaking before the defence, a federal prosecutor said in opening statements on Wednesday that Tsarnaev had "murder in his heart" when he placed the bomb.

In 2013, Mr Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to all charges related to the attack.

The left side of the court was filled with about two dozen of the attack's victims as the trial began.

Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed after two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel detonated in April 2013.

More than 260 people were injured, with many losing limbs.
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Judy Clarke, a famed attorney who has represented a number of high-profile suspects in the past, began her opening remarks by saying: "It was him."

She said that her team would not attempt to "sidestep" Mr Tsarnaev's guilt in carrying out the "senseless, horribly misguided acts carried out by two brothers".

Instead, she will argue that his elder brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind of the plot and coerced the younger sibling into being a submissive participant.

Mr Tsarnaev is also accused of killing a police officer in the days after the bombing.

A huge police manhunt followed the attacks, culminating in Mr Tsarnaev's arrest and the death of his elder brother.

Guillty on First 10 Counts.. judge reading the verdicts now.

These are Death penalty eligible

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/08/us/boston-marathon-bombing-trial/
Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts in Boston bombing
April 8, 2015

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Jurors found that Tsarnaev was responsible for killing the three people who died from the marathon bombings -- Krystle Campbell, Lingzi Lu and Martin Richard. He was also responsible for the shooting death of MIT police officer Sean Collier three days after the marathon blasts, the jurors said.

Seventeen of Tsarnaev's convictions are capital charges, meaning he's eligible for the death penalty.

The trial will move into a penalty phase, where the jury will hear testimony and arguments from both sides and ultimately be tasked with deciding whether he gets the death penalty or life in prison.

That's what federal prosecutors are now focusing on, said Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. "We are gratified by the jury's verdict and thank everyone who played a role in the trial for their hard work," Oritz said, declining to comment further.

Tsarnaev's attorney, Judy Clarke, is one of the nation's foremost experts on keeping clients off death row.

She has successfully fought for the lives of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, and Jared Loughner, the gunman who killed a judge and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

For weeks, Clarke has been laying the groundwork for her argument to persuade the jury to spare Tsarnaev's life.

But a date for the penalty phase of the trial has not yet been set.
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Thanks.. Got distracted while they were reading them and forgot to find an article at the end.

You're welcome Samantha. 
I didn't buy the theory put forth by the defense that Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was just following his brother, etc., etc.  He  knew full well what he was doing and what he helped planned to do and did do horrific, terroristic things to innocent men, women and children.  His age shouldn't be a factor either.  As far as I can see, the U.S. took his family in and as it turns out, they did more than bite the hand that was feeding them.   ::MonkeyNoNo::  JMHO  He needs to face severe punishment for his evil deeds.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32359044
Boston bombing: Parents of youngest victim oppose execution
April 17, 2015

he parents of youngest victim in the Boston marathon bombing have called on federal authorities to drop the death penalty as a possible punishment for bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Bill and Denise Richard's eight-year-old son was one of three people killed in the explosions in April 2013.
The Richards said an execution sentence "could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives."
Tsarnaev was convicted last week.
The Richards made their plea in a front-page piece in the Boston Globe on Friday.
"We are in favour of and would support the Department of Justice in taking the death penalty off the table in exchange for the defendant spending the rest of his life in prison without any possibility of release and waiving all of his rights to appeal," they wrote.
The Richards were injured in the attack and their daughter, Jane, lost one of her legs in one of the explosions.
"The defendant murdered our 8-year-old son, maimed our 7-year-old daughter, and stole part of our soul. We know that the government has its reasons for seeking the death penalty, but the continued pursuit of that punishment could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives," they said.

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/04/17/attorney-responds-anti-death-penalty-plea-from-marathon-bombing-victim-family/ND0vreylvwxt0G0UNxZFzM/story.html
U.S. Attorney Has No Plans to Change Course After Anti-Death Penalty Plea from Marathon Bombing Victim’s Family
April 17, 2015

A statement from U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz says she is “aware” of the anti death penalty views of the parents of 8-year-old Boston Marathon bombing victim Martin Richard, but that “many have strong views” on how best to move forward.

“I have spoken with Bill and Denise Richard many times since the beginning of the case and I am aware of their views,” Ortiz wrote. “Many have strong views about the best way to proceed. Those views have been heard and have played a role—and continue to play a role—in the Department of Justice’s handling of this case.”

Yesterday, Richard’s parents wrote an essay in which they urged prosecutors to seek a life sentence against Tsarnaev instead of the death penalty.

“As long as the defendant is in the spotlight, we have no choice but to live a story told on his terms, not ours,” Bill and Denise Richard wrote in an essay published in The Boston Globe. “The minute the defendant fades from our newspapers and TV screens is the minute we begin the process of rebuilding our lives and our family.”

Christina Sterling, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s office, confirmed to Boston.com that there are no plans to adjust the prosecution’s strategy as the result of the Richard family’s plea.

Martin Richard was the youngest victim of the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. His younger sister, Jane, lost a leg in the attack, and his brother, Henry, was also injured, though less seriously. Both Denise and Bill Richard were also wounded.

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s full statement:

“I have spoken with Bill and Denise Richard many times since the beginning of the case and I am aware of their views. My relationship with them, and with all of the victims and survivors, is very important to me. Over the past two years, I have heard from scores of survivors and victims about their feelings regarding this case. Many have strong views about the best way to proceed. Those views have been heard and have played a role—and continue to play a role—in the Department of Justice’s handling of this case. The attorneys in a criminal case are legally bound to keep many matters relating to the case confidential, even from the people most affected by the crimes. I therefore cannot comment on the specifics of the statement. But as I have previously assured both Bill and Denise, I care deeply about their views and the views of the other victims and survivors. As the case moves forward we will continue to do all we can to protect and vindicate those injured and those who have passed away.”
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(There is a clickable link if you look at the article in full that contains the Richard Family's full essay)

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-trial/feds-turned-away-tsarnaev-relative-whod-hoped-attend-trial-n353281
Boston Bombing Trial: Feds Turned Away Tsarnaev Relative
May 4, 2015

A relative of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was denied entry to the United States last month when he arrived from Russia for the penalty phase of the trial, sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News.

The family member was turned around at Logan International Airport and sent right back home to Russia 10 days ago because he did not want to adhere to security measures imposed on the family members, the two sources confirmed, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the ongoing trial.

These measures included ankle bracelets and law enforcement monitoring.

The sources did not identify the relative. But one source said the relative had been uncooperative in the past during the government's investigation of Tsarnaev family following the April 15, 2013, bombing, which killed three and injured over 200 others.
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A Customs and Border Patrol‎ spokesperson said the agency could not comment on specific individuals. The spokesperson issued a statement that says, in part, "under ‎U.S. immigration law, applicants for admission bear the burden of proof to establish that they are clearly eligible to enter the United States. In order to demonstrate that they are admissible, the applicant must overcome ALL grounds of inadmissibility."

The relatives who made it for the trial are being held at an undisclosed location in the greater Boston area, the sources said.

On Thursday, when some of them were expected to testify, they were transported in three separate cars driven by law enforcement, all taking separate routes and using an underground garage in the FBI's headquarters in downtown Boston in an apparent attempt to avoid media helicopters.

The relatives' testimony was postponed until Monday after a juror became ill.

As many as five family members are expected to testify as the defense continues their presentation and testimony in the death penalty phase of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial Monday.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/15/jurors-to-continue-deliberating-punishment-for-boston-marathon-bomber/
Jurors sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death in Boston Marathon Bombing trial
May 15, 2015

DEVELOPING: A federal jury Friday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death.

Tsarnaev showed no emotion as the jury decided his fate. He had has hands clasped in front of him as he stood facing the jury.

The 21-year-old faced the death penalty for his role in the April 15, 2013 attack in which two pressure-cooker bombs were detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Death though may not come quickly. Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh spent four years on death row before he was executed. McVeigh was given the death penalty in 1997. He was executed in 2001. 

The panel went through a lengthy and complicated verdict form.

The jurors found Tsarnaev guilty of several aggravating factors. They found that his role in the bombing was "heinous, cruel and depraved" on eight counts.

The jury found he committed an act of terrorism that involved substantial planning and premeditation.

The panel also ruled an aggravating factor the death of 8-year-old Martin Richard, the youngest victim of the bombing.

As the jury found Tsarnaev lacked remorse for what he did, the young man slowly rocked back and forth, standing between his two lawyers.

The jury also weighed more than 20 mitigating factors that the defense asked the panel to consider in sparing him from death.

But only three jurors found that Tsarnaev was under the control of his older brother, Tamerlan.

The jury reached a decision in the penalty phase of the death penalty trial after 14 hours of deliberations over three days.

Tsarnaev was convicted last month of all 30 federal charges against him, 17 of which carried the possibility of the death penalty.

The 2013 bombing killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Tsarnaev was also convicted of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer days later during a massive police manhunt for him and his brother.

His brother was killed in a shootout with cops.

The defense sought to save Tsarnaev's life by pinning most of the blame on his radicalized older brother.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/tsarnaev-friend-sentenced-to-six-years-for-hindering-boston-marathon-bombing-probe-1433258601
Tsarnaev Friend Sentenced to Six Years for Hindering Boston Marathon Bombing Probe
Dias Kadyrbayev, who had pleaded guilty, told the judge he was ashamed of his actions
June 2, 2015

BOSTON—A former college friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for trying to impede the investigation into the deadly attack.

Dias Kadyrbayev pleaded guilty in August to obstruction of justice and a similar charge for removing a laptop and backpack from Mr. Tsarnaev’s dorm room three days after the April 2013 bombing.
Mr. Kadyrbayev and two other friends visited the dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth after investigators released surveillance photos of Mr. Tsarnaev and his brother as suspects in the bombing and after he exchanged texts with Mr. Tsarnaev, federal prosecutors said. Authorities hadn’t yet identified the brothers by name
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In a court filing before the sentencing, the family of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who was killed by the Tsarnaev brothers said Mr. Kadyrbayev might have prevented his death if he had gone to police with what he knew. Officer Sean Collier was fatally shot on the same night the friends visited the dorm room.

Prosecutors said Mr. Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, killed Mr. Collier in a failed attempt to get his gun. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed hours later in a shootout with police. His younger brother was captured.

In a court filing last week, Mr. Kadyrbayev’s lawyers said he takes responsibility for his actions, but they rejected the notion his actions played a role in Mr. Collier’s death. They said he was uncertain the surveillance photos depicted Mr. Tsarnaev. Mr. Kadyrbayev didn’t believe “someone he knew and liked could be involved in such a despicable act,” the defense wrote.

But prosecutors said that by heading to the dorm, rather than immediately calling the police to assist in the investigation, there was a missed opportunity. “Kadyrbayev knew more than two hours before MIT Police Officer Collier was murdered that his friend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was one of the two Boston Marathon Bombers,” they said in separate court filing.

“The defendant here could have helped,” Judge Woodlock said. “But he didn’t.”
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Mr. Kadyrbayev is among four people that authorities accused of actions after the bombing that could have hindered the investigation. None was accused of assisting in or knowing about the bombing itself.

The remaining two friends who went to the dorm room on April 18, 2013—Azamat Tazhayakov and Robel Phillipos—are scheduled to be sentenced Friday. A jury found Mr. Tazhayakov guilty in July for his role in taking evidence from the room. Mr. Phillipos was convicted in October for lying to investigators about the visit.

Another associate, cabdriver Khairullozhon Matanov, pleaded guilty in March to lying to investigators about how well he knew the Tsarnaev brothers and trying to destroy evidence that could link him to the men.

It seems to me the Tsarnaev's courted publicity in the first place by choosing to unleash their terror on  innocent men, women and children at a very crowded, public event: The Boston Marathon.    And now Dzhokhar and his defense team don't want publicity?  I suppose you could say publicity can work for or against a person...   And they want to move the trial away from the Boston area, because they feel Tsarnaev won't get a fair trial?  He shouldn't haven't gone off all evil and terrorist like on his neighbors then. The U.S. gave them sanctuary.  They were allowed in this country and they were free to work, go to school, marry, have children and enjoy the freedoms we have to offer.  But no-o-o-o-o...  JMHO

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boston-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-files-appeal-citing-publicity-n411396
Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Files Appeal Citing Publicity
August 17, 2015

Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appealed his conviction and death sentence on Monday, arguing that publicity made it impossible for him to get a fair trial in the city and that capital punishment is unconstitutional.

In court papers, defense lawyer William Fick cited a recent dissent by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in which he said that he believes the death penalty "now likely constitutes a legally prohibited 'cruel and unusual punishment.'"

However, the majority opinion in that very same case opened with the declaration that "capital punishment is constitutional."

Tsarnaev was sentenced to death in June for helping his older brother carry out the April 15, 2013, blasts that killed three people and injured and maimed more than 200 others.

The appeal claims that "continuous and unrelenting publicity" about the bombings, the defendant and his family, and wrenching survivor stories prevented him from getting an impartial hearing. It notes that Boston announced a new holiday marking the bombings while jurors were deliberating Tsarnaev's guilt.

As users of social media, the jurors would have found it impossible to avoid coverage, the appeal argues.
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The defense repeatedly asked for a change of venue before the trial began, but the requests were rejected by the judge

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/12/01/us-boston-bombing-trial-idUSKBN0TK4B820151201
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber to argue for new trial
December 1, 2015

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are due in court on Tuesday to seek a new trial for their client, who was sentenced to death in June for the 2013 bomb attack that killed three people and injured more than 260.

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole agreed last month to hear defense attorneys' arguments about a federal sentencing law that applied additional prison time for crimes committed while in possession of a firearm. The Supreme Court found it overly broad two days after Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by lethal injection.

Defense lawyers are also asking that rules put in place ahead of the trial providing them with privacy to communicate with their client be left intact as they prepare for appeal.

The defense in August asked that Tsarnaev be re-tried outside Boston, saying the intense publicity surrounding the attack and the trial unfairly influenced the 12 jurors who found their client guilty and sentenced him to death.
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In addition to killing three people with homemade pressure-cooker bombs that the brothers learned to make from an al Qaeda publication, the two shot dead a university police officer as they tried to flee the city.

Martin Richard, 8, Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu, 26, and restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, died in the bombing. Three days later the Tsarnaevs shot dead Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26.

The legal wrangling over Tsarnaev's fate could play out for years, if not decades. Just three of the 74 people sentenced to death in the United States for federal crimes since 1998 have been executed.