Explosions at Boston Marathon Finish Line

Never mind running them out of the city, Ian, Fred Phelps and his crew of inbred psychos should be run off the planet.

It was a pretty classic terrorist action: detonate one bomb for the initial scare, then detonate the second one when the first-responders, others trying to help, and rubberneckers move in.

WD40 wrote:

Of course.

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There is no way in hell they're serious about this.

KJM wrote:

WD40 wrote:

Of course.

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There is no way in hell they're serious about this.

I'm afraid they are.

By all means come to Boston, WBC. It'll make it easier to kick your asses.

Speaking of the Westboro Gang(calling them a 'church" at this point is showing them more respect than they deserve). this video from Anonymous may be of some interest to you.



EDIT: Yeah, I know it's from last December, but the message is still worth listening to.

Chris wrote:

this video from Anonymous may be of some interest to you.

Congratulations, this is the dumbest thing I've ever read. This takes the title from you and gives it right back to you. Truly, you are a man dedicated to unmatchable stupidity.

The FBI has released pictures of the Boston bombing suspects.

Are those two white dudes?

My parents (of course) think they're from the middle east. I hope they're white. I hope that they're white and from the Midwest.

Aggie wrote:

Are those two white dudes?

Backward cap guy looker whiter than sour cream. Black hat guy looks like he has a darker complexion and could be white or Asian. They both look young.

rachel wrote:

Aggie wrote:

Are those two white dudes?

Backward cap guy looker whiter than sour cream. Black hat guy looks like he has a darker complexion and could be white or Asian. They both look young.

But they couldn't POSSIBLY be Arab. Because it's not politically correct for them to be Arab.

It's also never possible for white people to be Muslim terrorists or bugshit insane. They're very obviously Romney voters, and that clearly means that ALL REPUBLICANS EVERY are psychotic, evil assclowns.

There, I just summarized your next five posts.

In possibly related news:

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DEVELOPING: 7News sources say the Watertown suspects are also the Boston Marathon suspects. NBC News: Pressure cooker was found in Watertown.

Police converge on Watertown neighborhood

WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- A tense night of police activity just days after the Boston Marathon bombings has caused police to converge on a neighborhood outside Boston where they say there were explosives.

The chaos in Watertown, about 10 miles west of Boston, occurred just hours after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and killed on campus. It was unclear if the outbursts of violence were related. No arrests had been made in the officer's fatal shooting, and a manhunt was on for the shooter.

The officer had been responding to report of a disturbance Thursday night when he was shot multiple times, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney's office and Cambridge police. It said there were no other victims.

ETA: Marathon Bombings One suspect apprehended, another remains on the loose

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

There, I just summarized your next five posts.

...Is it rachel who dumped you? Is that what's going on here? Awwwww, poor baby. Tell Mama where it hurts.

grmblfjx wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

There, I just summarized your next five posts.

...Is it rachel who dumped you? Is that what's going on here? Awwwww, poor baby. Tell Mama where it hurts.

Oh god, I'm laughing so hard I can't even breathe.

Aggie wrote:

Are those two white dudes?

They're Chechens, actually. One suspect's dead and the other's on the run from every law enforcement agency except the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. You can get further details from the Associated Press and the Boston Herald...

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WATERTOWN — Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large Friday, authorities said as the manhunt intensified for a young man described as a dangerous terrorist.

The suspects were identified to The Associated Press as coming from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston, and said he "may be armed and dangerous."

Two law enforcement officials told the AP that Tsarnaev and the other suspect, who was not immediately identified, had been living legally in the U.S. for at least one year

What the hell is going on in the world?!?

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WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing during a shootout and were engaged in a house-to-house search for a second man on Friday in the Boston suburb of Watertown after a bloody night of shooting and explosions in the city's streets.
Authorities warned people in Watertown not to leave their homes and not to answer the door. During the night a university police officer was killed, a transit police officer was wounded, and the suspects carjacked a vehicle before leading police on a chase that ended with one suspect shot dead.
Police said the suspect they were seeking was the man shown wearing a white cap in surveillance pictures released on Thursday night which had been taken shortly before Monday's explosions that killed three people and wounded 176 at the finish of the Boston Marathon.
The blasts triggered security scares across the United States and evoked memories of the September 11, 2001 attacks. On Friday the authorities effectively closed down Boston, halting transportation systems and telling people to stay home as the hunt continued.
Officials said as police had closed in on the two men overnight they attacked the officers with explosives and gunfire before one of them was shot and taken to a hospital, where he died.
"We believe this to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis of the suspect still at large. "We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."
The dramatic events overnight followed the release on Thursday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of pictures and video of two suspects seen wearing backpacks and baseball caps in the crowd minutes before the bombs exploded.
About five hours later, a university police officer was shot and killed on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Middlesex County District Attorney said in a statement.
A short time later, police received reports of a carjacking by two men who kept their victim inside the car for about half an hour before releasing him, the statement said.
Police pursued that car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the car at police and shots were exchanged, the statement said.
"During the exchange of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately taken into custody. A second suspect was able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point in time," Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, told a news conference.
The wounded suspect was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he died, said Dr. Richard Wolfe, chief of emergency medicine.
"This was a trauma arrest, multiple injuries, probably, we believe, a combination of blast, potentially gunshot wounds," Wolfe told a news conference. When asked how many gunshot wounds, he said: "Unable to count."
The blast injuries may have been caused by "an explosive device, possibly shrapnel, thermal injury. It was pretty much throughout the trunk. It was multiple wounds," he said.
Inside the 20-block search area, police performed street-by-street checks of yards with full tactical gear, long rifles and full armor, a Reuters photographer witnessed.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick suspended all public transportation service on the Boston-area subway, bus and rail system as a precaution.
"People that are at subway stations or at bus stops we are asking them to go home, we do not want people congregating and waiting for the system to come back on," said Kurt Schwartz, director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
Schwartz also asked people in the Boston-area communities of Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Allston-Brighton to stay indoors and asked businesses in those areas to remain closed pending further notice.
MIT said it canceled all classes on Friday after one of its police officers was killed.
U.S. President Barack Obama was briefed overnight by a counterterrorism aide on the Boston bombing investigation and manhunt, a White House official said.
(Additional reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles and David Bailey in Minnesota; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Mary Milliken and Lisa Shumaker)

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The Guardian's blog is pretty good for info, but this bit took me a little aback.

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• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, on the run in Boston area

Please tell me the guy's name isn't pronounced "Joker."

Wow.

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The deceased suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon, which killed three and injured more than 170, appears to have posted a video to his YouTube playlist extolling an extremist religious prophecy associated with Al Qaeda.

snip. So, a religious nut, then? Looks like.

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26 year-old brother of the second Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, seems to have had a YouTube page where he posted religious videos, including a video of Feiz Mohammad, a fundamentalist Australian Muslim preacher who rails against the evils of Harry Potter.

Or possibly a Harmonian.
ETA: More likely to be one of those crazed Snapefen who wish that drip Harry were written out of Snape's stories.

I hope like hell they catch this guy alive, so he can answer for what he's done. Five people dead now--three in the bombings and two in this incident (one of them was the first suspect in the photos that were put out)--and countless lives disrupted. We need to know why.


UPDATE: We got 'im!

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Police have nabbed the 19-year-old suspected Boston Marathon bomber, after a day-long manhunt that completely shut down the city of Boston and several suburbs and left one police officer dead. Some Bostonians flooded into the streets cheered the news, celebrating an end to five days of fear since the bombs wounded more than 175 people and killed three.

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Tsarnaev was found in a boat in the yard of a home on Franklin Street, close to where he and his older brother engaged in a shootout with police nearly 24 hours earlier. The homeowner discovered Tsarnaev when he saw blood on the outside of his boat and then lifted the tarp to find a person, covered in blood, inside. Police used a heat-detecting device on a helicopter to find out that he was still inside, and exchanged gun fire with the suspect for the next hour, before he was apprehended.

He is now at the hospital, although which one has yet to be confirmed. One report said Mass General, another said Beth Israel Deaconess. I just hope they have good security around him.

rachel wrote:

The Guardian's blog is pretty good for info, but this bit took me a little aback.

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• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, on the run in Boston area

Please tell me the guy's name isn't pronounced "Joker."

Almost.

Lady Anne wrote:

rachel wrote:

The Guardian's blog is pretty good for info, but this bit took me a little aback.

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• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, on the run in Boston area

Please tell me the guy's name isn't pronounced "Joker."

Almost.

Sound like a Russian trying to pronounce Joker

Here's some slightly less-bad news: Costco workers rally around an injured colleague.

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Employees at the Costco wholesale club where Jeff ­Bauman works are rallying around the Boston Marathon bombing victim who lost both legs and is recovering at Boston Medical Center.

Bauman, 27, has health ­insurance to help cover what will be enormous medical bills, but his employer, Costco Wholesale Corp., is also matching donations made by colleagues at the chain’s Nashua location.

“What is important is that he is covered and will be taken care of,” said Bob Nelson, a Costco executive.

And the company and his co-workers are doing other things to cheer him up and help his family. Mr. Bauman was one of the reasons the suspects were identified so quickly, according to The Telegraph.

Mother Jones has a roundup of things the Tsarnaev brothers did that don't make sense (aside from bombing the Boston Marathon in the first place). In brief they are:

1. Wear a backwards hat and no sunglasses. (Did these guys never watch TV crime dramas?)
2. Not react to the explosions. (Really, didn't they ever?)
3. Leave their car in the shop. (I've just committed a heinous felony. Why do I go tell the shop guy that I need my car right now and then not take it?)
4. Stay in Boston. (I've just committed a heinous felony...)
5. Kill an MIT police officer. (No reason for that so far.)
6. Run out of cash. (You'd think criminal masterminds would have some idea about making a budget. They took a hostage instead.)
7. Not understand how ATMs work. (They drew up to the limit on the hostage's PIN and then drove around trying to take more money out of other ATMs on his account.)
8. Confess to the hostage. (I've just committed a heinous felony...)
9. Stop for snacks. (That's when the hostage one of them confessed to escaped.)
10.Keep the hostage's phone. (Did these stupid fuckers never watch TV crime dramas?)
11.Bring a BB gun. (WTF?)

There's more in-depth commentary at the link.