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Re: Bombing at the Boston Marathon
« Reply #150 on: April 19, 2013, 07:26:10 PM »
Haven't posted in here in a while.. and I now remember why. carry on.  ::)

Wait... you come and ress ah conspiracy theory on we, I flesh it out fuh yuh and yuh vex with mih? Okay  :-\

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« Reply #153 on: April 19, 2013, 07:43:06 PM »
Mind yuh lose yuh security clearance.

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« Reply #155 on: April 20, 2013, 05:48:40 AM »
Just gettin a feeling, those two are being framed.  :-\

Possible... I feel is photoshop they photoshop dem in dem pictures.  And on de film too... yuh know how tricksy dem American hobbitses is.  De carjack victim probably lying too.. when he say they tell him that it was dem who responsible fuh de marathon bombing.  Like de tantie say, all police have is picture of dem walking down de street... fella juss lorse he bookbag in de scramble.

Haven't posted in here in a while.. and I now remember why. carry on.  ::)

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« Reply #156 on: April 20, 2013, 08:15:16 AM »
This kinda lower the standard for terrorist ent? The 9/11 operation compared to this is like EPL vs SSFL. Looks like de war on terror going good.

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« Reply #157 on: April 20, 2013, 09:21:17 AM »
This kinda lower the standard for terrorist ent? The 9/11 operation compared to this is like EPL vs SSFL. Looks like de war on terror going good.

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« Reply #158 on: April 21, 2013, 07:04:26 AM »

5 Days That Shook Boston


By Steve Painter-
 
What started in Boston on the afternoon of April 15th during the Boston Marathon ended last night, April 19th in Watertown, a Boston suburb, when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured and taken to Mt. Auburn Hospital. His older brother, Tamerlan, who may have been the leader of this duo, was  already dead from having been run over by Dzhokhar after a firefight with police the night before, he now clings to life at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where several of their victims are also recovering from their horrific week of terror.
 
Two bombs, packed with shrapnel such as nails, BB’s, and ball bearings and placed in pressure cookers, exploded near the finish line of the Marathon last Monday, killing 3 and injuring 176, along a crowded street, packed with spectators and runners alike. The bombs sent hundreds into panic and running for cover. Many of the injured were severely wounded and at least a dozen amputations have been performed by surgeons at local hospitals. The bombs were strong but not sophisticated. The projectiles from the bombs were designed to blow horizontally outward to fulfill the purpose of the bombers, which was to maim and kill as many as possible.
 
The profile of these two brothers is interesting. Tamerlan had dropped out of college at Bunker Hill Community College, where he was studying to become an engineer, and was married with a young girl, age 3, but had not visited his wife, Katherine Russell, in over a year. Katherine and her daughter currently reside with her parents in Providence, R.I. Neighbors says that Tamerlan would visit on weekends but stopped visiting for unknown reasons. He was athletic and enjoyed boxing as a hobby. Evidently, money was not an issue for both men as Tamerlan drove a Mercedes. There has been no word if, or where, he was employed. But Tamerlan had a dark side. In fact, on his YouTube page, he had a folder to house terrorism videos, which was created only 5 months ago. That folder was empty, it is unclear if he emptied it, or YouTube deleted the contents. In addition, he had videos of Amir Abu Dudzhan and Timur Mutsuraev, both in their own rights, are Muslim leaders  who call for jihad, with Dudzhan saying, “Jihad is the duty of every able-bodied Muslim.” On his Amazon wish list, he had such things as “How to make Driver’s Licenses and other ID on your home computer” and “The I.D. Forger: Homemade Birth Certificates & Other Documents Explained” as well as “Secrets of a Back Alley ID Man: Fake ID Construction Techniques Of The Underground” and “The Lone Wolf And the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule” and, notably “How to Win Friends & Influence People.” Tamerlan has been quoted as saying he didn’t smoke or drink anymore, believing “God said no to alcohol.” He went on to say “There are no values anymore,” and worried that “people can’t control themselves.” But Tamerlan was not known at local Mosques in Boston. Although obviously a Muslim, it appears he was not very religious, and certainly not faithful. Interestingly, he traveled to Russia last year, where his father lives in Dagestan, and stayed there for 6 months. Also of note is the fact that the FBI was asked by an unknown foreign nation to investigate him because of his extremism,  believing he was involved in nefarious activities. The FBI interviewed him in 2011, and finding nothing amiss, concluded the case and then requested more information from this foreign nation, but never heard from them again.
 
Dzhokhar, is 19 and a college student at UMass – Dartmouth, which is located about an hour south of Boston. It has been reported that he was about to fail out of school, but the college has not made any such statement.  He lived on the third floor of Pine Dale dormitory and was even seen on campus Wednesday, two days after the bombing and is said to have slept there that night, in his room. He kept up an active presence on a Russian social networking site, Vkontakte, he has indicated some interest in conflicts and causes that have been connected to terrorist activities, there is no solid evidence to suggest that he is motivated by religious or nationalist causes. Indeed, he seems like a pretty normal young adult, has friends and classmates that had thought highly of him before he was identified as one of the bombers. He had a habit of smoking cigarettes and pot, even smoking pot quite often, almost every day, according to friends. On his Vkontakte page, he has posted video messages sympathetic to the cause of Chechen independence, and also for rebel fighters in Syria. In one of the videos, the Russian subtitles of the video read, “They are killing your brothers and sisters without any reason, simply because they say our Lord is Allah.” It should be noted that the rebel forces in Syria are comprised mostly by Sunni Muslims and another video on his page indicates a sympathy for Salafi Islam, an extreme form of Sunni Islam. Like his brother, he was not known to local Mosques and doesn’t seem that religious. Additionally, he was active on Twitter, having the handle of @j_tsar. In fact, you can view his most interesting tweets here: Dzhokhar’s Tweets. Jahar, as he is known to friends, was captured Friday night in Watertown, a suburb of Boston. Read More http://myvoicetv.net/blog/5-days-that-shook-boston/
 

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« Reply #159 on: April 22, 2013, 11:47:09 AM »
ah reading de FBI missed out on a report on tamerlan, de older brother, because someone misspell he name. ah mean really?!!?!  ah surprise dey eh pick up timbaland and charge he with terrorism. steups.

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« Reply #160 on: April 22, 2013, 12:17:43 PM »
Reason prevails: the defendant is to be tried in civilian court.

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« Reply #161 on: April 22, 2013, 01:25:21 PM »

Why does America lose its head over 'terror' but ignore its daily gun deaths?


The marathon bombs triggered a reaction that is at odds with last week's inertia over arms control

by Michael Cohen

The thriving metropolis of Boston was turned into a ghost town on Friday. Nearly a million Bostonians were asked to stay in their homes – and willingly complied. Schools were closed; business shuttered; trains, subways and roads were empty; usually busy streets eerily resembled a post-apocalyptic movie set; even baseball games and cultural events were cancelled – all in response to a 19-year-old fugitive, who was on foot and clearly identified by the news media.

The actions allegedly committed by the Boston marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, were heinous. Four people dead and more than 100 wounded, some with shredded and amputated limbs.

But Londoners, who endured IRA terror for years, might be forgiven for thinking that America over-reacted just a tad to the goings-on in Boston. They're right – and then some. What we saw was a collective freak-out like few that we've seen previously in the United States. It was yet another depressing reminder that more than 11 years after 9/11 Americans still allow themselves to be easily and willingly cowed by the "threat" of terrorism.

After all, it's not as if this is the first time that homicidal killers have been on the loose in a major American city. In 2002, Washington DC was terrorised by two roving snipers, who randomly shot and killed 10 people. In February, a disgruntled police officer, Christopher Dorner, murdered four people over several days in Los Angeles. In neither case was LA or DC put on lockdown mode, perhaps because neither of these sprees was branded with that magically evocative and seemingly terrifying word for Americans, terrorism.

To be sure, public officials in Boston appeared to be acting out of an abundance of caution. And it's appropriate for Boston residents to be asked to take precautions or keep their eyes open. But by letting one fugitive terrorist shut down a major American city, Boston not only bowed to outsize and irrational fears, but sent a dangerous message to every would-be terrorist – if you want to wreak havoc in the United States, intimidate its population and disrupt public order, here's your instruction booklet.

Putting aside the economic and psychological cost, the lockdown also prevented an early capture of the alleged bomber, who was discovered after Bostonians were given the all clear and a Watertown man wandered into his backyard for a cigarette and found a bleeding terrorist on his boat.

In some regards, there is a positive spin on this – it's a reflection of how little Americans have to worry about terrorism. A population such as London during the IRA bombings or Israel during the second intifada or Baghdad, pretty much every day, becomes inured to random political violence. Americans who have such little experience of terrorism, relatively speaking, are more primed to overreact – and assume the absolute worst when it comes to the threat of a terror attack. It is as if somehow in the American imagination, every terrorist is a not just a mortal threat, but is a deadly combination of Jason Bourne and James Bond.

If only Americans reacted the same way to the actual threats that exist in their country. There's something quite fitting and ironic about the fact that the Boston freak-out happened in the same week the Senate blocked consideration of a gun control bill that would have strengthened background checks for potential buyers. Even though this reform is supported by more than 90% of Americans, and even though 56 out of 100 senators voted in favour of it, the Republican minority prevented even a vote from being held on the bill because it would have allegedly violated the second amendment rights of "law-abiding Americans".

So for those of you keeping score at home – locking down an American city: a proper reaction to the threat from one terrorist. A background check to prevent criminals or those with mental illness from purchasing guns: a dastardly attack on civil liberties. All of this would be almost darkly comic if not for the fact that more Americans will die needlessly as a result. Already, more than 30,000 Americans die in gun violence every year (compared to the 17 who died last year in terrorist attacks).

What makes US gun violence so particularly horrifying is how routine and mundane it has become. After the massacre of 20 kindergartners in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, millions of Americans began to take greater notice of the threat from gun violence. Yet since then, the daily carnage that guns produce has continued unabated and often unnoticed.

The same day of the marathon bombing in Boston, 11 Americans were murdered by guns. The pregnant Breshauna Jackson was killed in Dallas, allegedly by her boyfriend. In Richmond, California, James Tucker III was shot and killed while riding his bicycle – assailants unknown. Nigel Hardy, a 13-year-old boy in Palmdale, California, who was being bullied in school, took his own life. He used the gun that his father kept at home. And in Brooklyn, New York, an off-duty police officer used her department-issued Glock 9mm handgun to kill herself, her boyfriend and her one-year old child.

At the same time that investigators were in the midst of a high-profile manhunt for the marathon bombers that ended on Friday evening, 38 more Americans – with little fanfare – died from gun violence. One was a 22-year old resident of Boston. They are a tiny percentage of the 3,531 Americans killed by guns in the past four months – a total that surpasses the number of Americans who died on 9/11 and is one fewer than the number of US soldiers who lost their lives in combat operations in Iraq. Yet, none of this daily violence was considered urgent enough to motivate Congress to impose a mild, commonsense restriction on gun purchasers.

It's not just firearms that produce such legislative inaction. Last week, a fertiliser plant in West, Texas, which hasn't been inspected by federal regulators since 1985, exploded, killing 14 people and injuring countless others. Yet many Republicans want to cut further the funding for the agency (OSHA) that is responsible for such reviews. The vast majority of Americans die from one of four ailments – cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease – and yet Republicans have held three dozen votes to repeal Obamacare, which expands healthcare coverage to 30 million Americans.

It is a surreal and difficult-to-explain dynamic. Americans seemingly place an inordinate fear on violence that is random and unexplainable and can be blamed on "others" – jihadists, terrorists, evil-doers etc. But the lurking dangers all around us – the guns, our unhealthy diets, the workplaces that kill 14 Americans every single day – these are just accepted as part of life, the price of freedom, if you will. And so the violence goes, with more Americans dying preventable deaths. But hey, look on the bright side – we got those sons of bitches who blew up the marathon.

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« Reply #162 on: April 22, 2013, 01:54:47 PM »
This thing rel jokey, is just for Agent Jack Bauer to come out the shadows now. This just not right.

Why did they not place them on a "no fly list"?
Why won't they play the audio of the parents speaking?
Why not follow up on the allegations from the moms as they follow up on less during the hunt.
The whole western world looking for you and how do you hide? Shoot a cop, rob a gas station and steal a bimmer telling the driver look is we who bomb, but kill the police because he recognize alyuh?


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« Reply #163 on: April 22, 2013, 06:14:50 PM »
This thing rel jokey, is just for Agent Jack Bauer to come out the shadows now. This just not right.

Why did they not place them on a "no fly list"?
Why won't they play the audio of the parents speaking?
Why not follow up on the allegations from the moms as they follow up on less during the hunt.
The whole western world looking for you and how do you hide? Shoot a cop, rob a gas station and steal a bimmer telling the driver look is we who bomb, but kill the police because he recognize alyuh?


Boston Supremacy!

On the basis of what?  Because of their ethnicity?  The older one HAD to go back to Chechnya as a condition of being naturalized.  They killed the cop because he could follow them, shoot at them, notify other cops on the way... any number of reasons why they shot him and not the hostage.  Too many conspiracy theorists out there.

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« Reply #164 on: April 23, 2013, 09:05:00 AM »
This thing rel jokey, is just for Agent Jack Bauer to come out the shadows now. This just not right.

Why did they not place them on a "no fly list"?
Why won't they play the audio of the parents speaking?
Why not follow up on the allegations from the moms as they follow up on less during the hunt.
The whole western world looking for you and how do you hide? Shoot a cop, rob a gas station and steal a bimmer telling the driver look is we who bomb, but kill the police because he recognize alyuh?


Boston Supremacy!

On the basis of what?  Because of their ethnicity?  The older one HAD to go back to Chechnya as a condition of being naturalized.  They killed the cop because he could follow them, shoot at them, notify other cops on the way... any number of reasons why they shot him and not the hostage.  Too many conspiracy theorists out there.

de us govt was contacted by a foreign govt about the older brother. really, anybody that receives "military training" from rebel groups (non-NATO) ought to be on some kind of list.

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« Reply #165 on: April 23, 2013, 09:59:41 AM »
This thing rel jokey, is just for Agent Jack Bauer to come out the shadows now. This just not right.

Why did they not place them on a "no fly list"?
Why won't they play the audio of the parents speaking?
Why not follow up on the allegations from the moms as they follow up on less during the hunt.
The whole western world looking for you and how do you hide? Shoot a cop, rob a gas station and steal a bimmer telling the driver look is we who bomb, but kill the police because he recognize alyuh?


Boston Supremacy!

On the basis of what?  Because of their ethnicity?  The older one HAD to go back to Chechnya as a condition of being naturalized.  They killed the cop because he could follow them, shoot at them, notify other cops on the way... any number of reasons why they shot him and not the hostage.  Too many conspiracy theorists out there.

Bakes you serious? How the thousands on the no fly list got on it, volunteer? Are you not following the plot?

Now the excuse is they got on the flight because his name was misspelt.  :bs:  Your ticket has one name and your ID has another name and no red flags?
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« Reply #166 on: April 23, 2013, 12:39:48 PM »
de us govt was contacted by a foreign govt about the older brother. really, anybody that receives "military training" from rebel groups (non-NATO) ought to be on some kind of list.

You only get de abridged version of de memo in Canada or what?  With the limited info the Russians give them about his contact with Chechen muslims what was the US supposed to do with that.  He from Chechnya and all his family still there, of course he will have "contact" with Chechen muslims.  The FBI investigated and even interviewed him and didn't have enough info to do anything else.  They ask the Russian for more info and never hear back from them.



Bakes you serious? How the thousands on the no fly list got on it, volunteer? Are you not following the plot?

Now the excuse is they got on the flight because his name was misspelt.  :bs:  Your ticket has one name and your ID has another name and no red flags?

You need to stop reading from dem conspiracy manuals yuh find on de net.

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« Reply #167 on: April 23, 2013, 01:01:34 PM »
de us govt was contacted by a foreign govt about the older brother. really, anybody that receives "military training" from rebel groups (non-NATO) ought to be on some kind of list.

You only get de abridged version of de memo in Canada or what?  With the limited info the Russians give them about his contact with Chechen muslims what was the US supposed to do with that.  He from Chechnya and all his family still there, of course he will have "contact" with Chechen muslims.  The FBI investigated and even interviewed him and didn't have enough info to do anything else.  They ask the Russian for more info and never hear back from them.

thing is, in de recent past de us govt "rendition" people on similar evidence. anyway, if russia asking about someone in one of their restive areas and dey eh answering questions on them, dey should put that name on a list and only take it OFF de list when de russians respond in the negative. that would be de prudent thing to do.

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« Reply #168 on: April 23, 2013, 02:19:44 PM »
thing is, in de recent past de us govt "rendition" people on similar evidence. anyway, if russia asking about someone in one of their restive areas and dey eh answering questions on them, dey should put that name on a list and only take it OFF de list when de russians respond in the negative. that would be de prudent thing to do.


Uhm... yeah the US never "render" a citizen. Can't do it, actually.   FBI had no legal basis to act on the info the Russians gave them.  Funny how allyuh does bitch about the US excesses... den bawl fuh it in de same breath.

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« Reply #169 on: April 23, 2013, 02:46:58 PM »


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/22/boston-marathon-terrorism-aurora-sandy-hook/print

Why is Boston 'terrorism' but not Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tucson and Columbine?

Two very disparate commentators, Ali Abunimah and Alan Dershowitz, both raised serious questions over the weekend about a claim that has been made over and over about the bombing of the Boston Marathon: namely, that this was an act of terrorism. Dershowitz was on BBC Radio on Saturday and, citing the lack of knowledge about motive, said (at the 3:15 mark): "It's not even clear under the federal terrorist statutes that it qualifies as an act of terrorism." Abunimah wrote a superb analysis of whether the bombing fits the US government's definition of "terrorism", noting that "absolutely no evidence has emerged that the Boston bombing suspects acted 'in furtherance of political or social objectives'" or that their alleged act was 'intended to influence or instigate a course of action that furthers a political or social goal.'" Even a former CIA Deputy Director, Phillip Mudd, said on Fox News on Sunday that at this point the bombing seems more like a common crime than an act of terrorism.

Over the last two years, the US has witnessed at least three other episodes of mass, indiscriminate violence that killed more people than the Boston bombings did: the Tucson shooting by Jared Loughner in which 19 people (including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) were shot, six of whom died; the Aurora movie theater shooting by James Holmes in which 70 people were shot, 12 of whom died; and the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting by Adam Lanza in which 26 people (20 of whom were children) were shot and killed. The word "terrorism" was almost never used to describe that indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people, and none of the perpetrators of those attacks was charged with terrorism-related crimes. A decade earlier, two high school seniors in Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, used guns and bombs to murder 12 students and a teacher, and almost nobody called that "terrorism" either.

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« Reply #170 on: April 23, 2013, 03:12:24 PM »


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/22/boston-marathon-terrorism-aurora-sandy-hook/print

Why is Boston 'terrorism' but not Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tucson and Columbine?

Two very disparate commentators, Ali Abunimah and Alan Dershowitz, both raised serious questions over the weekend about a claim that has been made over and over about the bombing of the Boston Marathon: namely, that this was an act of terrorism. Dershowitz was on BBC Radio on Saturday and, citing the lack of knowledge about motive, said (at the 3:15 mark): "It's not even clear under the federal terrorist statutes that it qualifies as an act of terrorism." Abunimah wrote a superb analysis of whether the bombing fits the US government's definition of "terrorism", noting that "absolutely no evidence has emerged that the Boston bombing suspects acted 'in furtherance of political or social objectives'" or that their alleged act was 'intended to influence or instigate a course of action that furthers a political or social goal.'" Even a former CIA Deputy Director, Phillip Mudd, said on Fox News on Sunday that at this point the bombing seems more like a common crime than an act of terrorism.

Over the last two years, the US has witnessed at least three other episodes of mass, indiscriminate violence that killed more people than the Boston bombings did: the Tucson shooting by Jared Loughner in which 19 people (including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) were shot, six of whom died; the Aurora movie theater shooting by James Holmes in which 70 people were shot, 12 of whom died; and the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting by Adam Lanza in which 26 people (20 of whom were children) were shot and killed. The word "terrorism" was almost never used to describe that indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people, and none of the perpetrators of those attacks was charged with terrorism-related crimes. A decade earlier, two high school seniors in Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, used guns and bombs to murder 12 students and a teacher, and almost nobody called that "terrorism" either.

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the prez call the bombing an act of terrorism in the earlies. a mistake?

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« Reply #171 on: April 23, 2013, 09:59:00 PM »
Big up to Saro Thompson! A classmate from Pres days.

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Trini nabs suspect in Boston bombing

 By Richard Charan


THE man who captured and handcuffed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the end of a city-wide hunt last week, is a Trinidad and Tobago national now a police officer living in the United States.
 
Saro Thompson was credited with taking into custody terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he attempted to hide in a boat behind a suburban home.
 
Tsarnaev’s brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who is believed to have masterminded the bombings, was killed hours before.
 
Thompson and members of the Transit Police SWAT team gave an account of the capture during a press conference on Monday.
 
Shortly after the story was carried on cable news networks, Thompson was recognised by his schoolmates at Presentation College, San Fernando, where he attended from 1991.
 
Many were surprised that Thompson had turned out to be a police officer, since he was described as quiet and unassuming.
 
Others were shocked that Thompson had been involved in the arrest of a man linked to one of the worst acts of terror on American soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
 
But all were proud, said President of PREStige (the school’s alumni association), Steven Samlalsingh, who said Twitter and Facebook lit up as Thompson’s brother, Robin Thompson, shared the good news.
 
Samlalsingh said the college has had much to celebrate recently, with the appointment of past pupils Anthony Carmona to the Presidency, and past pupil Lt Commander Don Polo as his aide de camp.
 
Last week Monday, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the famed Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring almost 200 persons.
 
The identities of the suspects were unknown until law enforcement released their images last Thursday, sparking a fast moving series of events during which a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer, and a second officer, were wounded.
 
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed and his brother escaped into a residential area of Watertown.
 
It was a home owner who tipped off police officers when he found blood on the boat.
 
According to an article in the Boston Globe newspaper, Thompson said that as officers approached the boat where the suspect was hiding last Friday night, they felt no fear.
 
“At a time like that, training kicks in. We knew we gotta get him out, get him down.” he said.
 
Thompson, who is originally of Dow Village, South Oropouche, later visited a hospital to deliver the news to the police officer who was wounded during the firefight with terror suspects.
 
“We got him,” Thompson said he told fellow officer Richard Donahue.
 
According to the article, Donahue, 33, was injured during a shootout between the police and the suspects in Watertown early Friday morning, after Donahue and other transit officers joined in pursuing the suspects.
 
After the fire fight, transit officers, including Thompson, were part of the search for the suspect who remained at large, but were dismissed at 6.30 p.m., after authorities announced that they believed the suspect had escaped their perimetre.
 
Minutes later, the SWAT team was called back to the scene after the suspect was located.
 
Thompson said Tsarnaev had already indicated to law enforcement officers that he was willing to surrender.
 
However, he said officers were unsure whether the suspect had improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
 
Thompson said at the press conference, “When we first started moving up to the boat, he was laying on the side of the boat. He was in and out of consciousness. When we got to about ten or 15 yards of him, he sat back up. We moved from behind the shield cover and we pulled him down and put the cuffs on him”.
 
The Express was told that both Thompson and his brother were pupils of Presentation College but emigrated to the US in 1994. Their father, Dr Robin Johnson, is deceased, and mother Merle Johnson is a nurse. Samlalsingh said, “We hope to host both Saro and the President at our upcoming annual reunion in early June, and at a gala event for the President later in the year”.

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« Reply #172 on: April 24, 2013, 07:09:49 AM »
we really have a 'look' or a 'finish' in trute oui

last night on cbs they had the four swat members..a vietnamese,2 white fellahs and the thompson guy...but he sound like he from "Doorchestah"

ah tell mih wife, "dat fellah look like he parents is trini's"
she say " that's stupid, how could you possibly know that?"

ah goin an print out Kaliman post as mih victory and demand some extra kinky slackness tonight
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« Reply #173 on: April 24, 2013, 07:24:08 AM »
we really have a 'look' or a 'finish' in trute oui

last night on cbs they had the four swat members..a vietnamese,2 white fellahs and the thompson guy...but he sound like he from "Doorchestah"

ah tell mih wife, "dat fellah look like he parents is trini's"
she say " that's stupid, how could you possibly know that?"

ah goin an print out Kaliman post as mih victory and demand some extra kinky slackness tonight
Really eh ,thats big news , great ,happy to hear  :beermug:.

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« Reply #174 on: April 24, 2013, 07:25:13 AM »
we really have a 'look' or a 'finish' in trute oui

last night on cbs they had the four swat members..a vietnamese,2 white fellahs and the thompson guy...but he sound like he from "Doorchestah"

ah tell mih wife, "dat fellah look like he parents is trini's"
she say " that's stupid, how could you possibly know that?"

ah goin an print out Kaliman post as mih victory and demand some extra kinky slackness tonight

Ahmm, glad to be of assistance I guess.....  :( :o ;D

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« Reply #175 on: April 24, 2013, 07:40:56 AM »
we really have a 'look' or a 'finish' in trute oui

last night on cbs they had the four swat members..a vietnamese,2 white fellahs and the thompson guy...but he sound like he from "Doorchestah"

ah tell mih wife, "dat fellah look like he parents is trini's"
she say " that's stupid, how could you possibly know that?"

ah goin an print out Kaliman post as mih victory and demand some extra kinky slackness tonight
2010 Christmas I was in New York .The UPS man reach, an indian guy with an imperfect American accent. I watch his haircut and notice a gold chain so I asked him if he's a Trini he answered 'yeah , I'm from Penal mayne.

In January in New York again I got searched in Customs. The officer was an indian guy. I don't how to describe it  but yes it's a look ,I tell myself this man is a Trini .Then I see Bridgelal on the nametag that confirmed it for me. He ask me if I bring doubles.

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« Reply #176 on: April 24, 2013, 08:02:19 AM »
he say 'mayne' and he livin new york ?:laugh:

we freshwaters does mix up we regions
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« Reply #177 on: April 24, 2013, 08:32:14 AM »
he say 'mayne' and he livin new york ?:laugh:

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Yeah mayne.

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« Reply #178 on: April 24, 2013, 08:40:12 AM »


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/22/boston-marathon-terrorism-aurora-sandy-hook/print

Why is Boston 'terrorism' but not Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tucson and Columbine?

Two very disparate commentators, Ali Abunimah and Alan Dershowitz, both raised serious questions over the weekend about a claim that has been made over and over about the bombing of the Boston Marathon: namely, that this was an act of terrorism. Dershowitz was on BBC Radio on Saturday and, citing the lack of knowledge about motive, said (at the 3:15 mark): "It's not even clear under the federal terrorist statutes that it qualifies as an act of terrorism." Abunimah wrote a superb analysis of whether the bombing fits the US government's definition of "terrorism", noting that "absolutely no evidence has emerged that the Boston bombing suspects acted 'in furtherance of political or social objectives'" or that their alleged act was 'intended to influence or instigate a course of action that furthers a political or social goal.'" Even a former CIA Deputy Director, Phillip Mudd, said on Fox News on Sunday that at this point the bombing seems more like a common crime than an act of terrorism.

Over the last two years, the US has witnessed at least three other episodes of mass, indiscriminate violence that killed more people than the Boston bombings did: the Tucson shooting by Jared Loughner in which 19 people (including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) were shot, six of whom died; the Aurora movie theater shooting by James Holmes in which 70 people were shot, 12 of whom died; and the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting by Adam Lanza in which 26 people (20 of whom were children) were shot and killed. The word "terrorism" was almost never used to describe that indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people, and none of the perpetrators of those attacks was charged with terrorism-related crimes. A decade earlier, two high school seniors in Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, used guns and bombs to murder 12 students and a teacher, and almost nobody called that "terrorism" either.

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the prez call the bombing an act of terrorism in the earlies. a mistake?

An egregious mistake.
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« Reply #179 on: April 24, 2013, 08:49:50 AM »


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/22/boston-marathon-terrorism-aurora-sandy-hook/print

Why is Boston 'terrorism' but not Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tucson and Columbine?

Two very disparate commentators, Ali Abunimah and Alan Dershowitz, both raised serious questions over the weekend about a claim that has been made over and over about the bombing of the Boston Marathon: namely, that this was an act of terrorism. Dershowitz was on BBC Radio on Saturday and, citing the lack of knowledge about motive, said (at the 3:15 mark): "It's not even clear under the federal terrorist statutes that it qualifies as an act of terrorism." Abunimah wrote a superb analysis of whether the bombing fits the US government's definition of "terrorism", noting that "absolutely no evidence has emerged that the Boston bombing suspects acted 'in furtherance of political or social objectives'" or that their alleged act was 'intended to influence or instigate a course of action that furthers a political or social goal.'" Even a former CIA Deputy Director, Phillip Mudd, said on Fox News on Sunday that at this point the bombing seems more like a common crime than an act of terrorism.

Over the last two years, the US has witnessed at least three other episodes of mass, indiscriminate violence that killed more people than the Boston bombings did: the Tucson shooting by Jared Loughner in which 19 people (including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) were shot, six of whom died; the Aurora movie theater shooting by James Holmes in which 70 people were shot, 12 of whom died; and the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting by Adam Lanza in which 26 people (20 of whom were children) were shot and killed. The word "terrorism" was almost never used to describe that indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people, and none of the perpetrators of those attacks was charged with terrorism-related crimes. A decade earlier, two high school seniors in Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, used guns and bombs to murder 12 students and a teacher, and almost nobody called that "terrorism" either.

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the prez call the bombing an act of terrorism in the earlies. a mistake?

An egregious mistake.

Actually, President Obama pointedly did NOT call it terrorism at first. This was a hot right-wing talking point all week.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/04/obama-on-boston-the-question-of-terror.html
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/15/Obama-speech-Boston-attack
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/why-does-it-matter-if-president-obama-calls-the-boston-marathon-bombing-an-act-of-terror/

By Thursday, when I guess he had better information he used the term "act of terror" which is parsing, i know, but this is a country where they have serious discussions about flag lapel pins.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/04/16/obama-boston-marathon-bombing-remarks/2087565/

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For a violent act to be considered “terrorism,” it not only needs to produce a fear, it also needs to have an underlying political objective. This is why incidents like the Newtown shooting, in which a lone shooter committed a random act of violence for no discernible reason, is not considered an “act of terror,” despite the fact that is terrifying. While the attacks today in Boston certainly resemble other “terrorist” acts like the 2007 London subway bombings and others, without knowing who is responsible and what the real motives were, it would be irresponsible to call them “terrorism.”
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