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Following The Boston Hunt
Updates below (last 2:00pm)
It is pretty amazing that I can follow the bomber hunt in Boston from Germany minute by minute through live TV, live Boston police scanner and via several twitter streams. There is even a Google map to follow the various incidents.
According to AP the two suspects of the marathon bombing are Chechen brothers from Russia's Daghestan. The area like Chechnya has been a hotbed that has exported Jihadists to allegedly Afghanistan, Syria and now probably the U.S. too. There is no need for Obama to bomb that country though. These brothers have been living in the U.S. for several years plus Putin already did that.
It seems they robbed a 7/11 at around 10:30pm local time somewhere near Cambridge.
Next an MIT police officer gets killed in his car with several shots.
The two suspects then highjack a Mercedes SUV and its driver. After 30 minutes the car driver is led out at a gas station.
Police pursue the Mercedes SUV to Watertown. The car rams a police car and a violent shoot out develops through which the suspects throw some grenades at the police. One of the suspects gets shot multiple times and also receives shrapnel from the explosives. One policemen is also shot. The wounded suspects dies on the way to the hospital. The officer is seriously wounded. There is some video and a photo of the intense shoot out.
The second suspect flees in the car.
Police puts Watertown under lockdown and started searching houses in the area. Public transport in Boston is shut down.
At 6:30am some black sedan is stopped by police at Charles Circle in Boston. Lots of police is send there though it is unclear what happened.
The fleeing suspect is now identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev (this Djohar Tsarnaev?), aged 19, who has been living with his brother and sister in Cambridge, Mass. for several years. His dead brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev had a youtube channel. The last channel he subscribed to is titled "Allah is the One". He also links to several AQ or Jihadist videos. That does not mean that we know why these folks did what they did.
Update 8:00am
All of Boston is now ordered under lockdown. People are supposed to stay home. All public traffic, including taxis, has been shut down.
Tamerlan Tasarnaev, photographed as Will Box For Passport, has been in the U.S. for at least 5 years. On one of the photos caption he is quoted: "I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them." He wanted to learn how to fake IDs.
In 2011 Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev received a Cambridge city scholarship.
Police radio traffic just warning extreme caution when approaching subject. Possible "suicide vest".
Update 8:55am
SWAT teams are currently surrounding a few houses in Watertown.
Update 2:00 pm
Search in Watertown ongoing but the guy probably got away.
The WSJ has a pretty good fact collection about the brothers.
There is still no proof that these guys were the marathon bombers. It seems likely but not more.
There is still no known motive, just speculations about motives.
Everyone who knew the brothers thinks it is impossible for them to do such a thing.
What is the religion of the owner of the neglected fertilizer factory that blew up in Texas?
some here who see all evil in US and no evil in other imperial powers won’t like this quote, which summarizes the chechen predicament–though its direct relevance to Boston is perhaps tenuous. I don’t put it beyond FBI to be running these two “useful idiots” at all, and then messing it up, or letting the bombs explode on purpose to create panic in a false flag.
stephen kinzer, and yes I know he is jewish:
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The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend off Mongol conquerors, but at a terrible cost. Turks, Persians, and Russians sought to seize Chechnya, and it was finally absorbed into the Russian Empire in 1859.
Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule. Russian attempts to suppress Chechen separatism have even made a contribution to world literature, in the form of Leo Tolstoy's masterful novella, Hadji Murad, which the critic Harold Bloom has called "my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world."
Tolstoy served with a Cossack regiment assigned to fight Chechens in the 1850s – a stark reminder of how long this conflict has festered. A hardy plant, the thistle, is for Tolstoy the perfect symbol of Chechnya and its "desperately brave" rebels.
"What vitality!" a Russian soldier marvels as he contemplates a thistle at the end of the story:
Man has conquered everything and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.
During the second world war, Stalin accused the Chechens of collaborating with the Nazis – a credible charge, since Chechens will ally themselves with anyone who might help them throw off Russian rule. He deported the entire Chechen population to Siberia and Kazakhstan. Tens of thousands died before he permitted their return after the war.
The end of the Soviet Union brought not respite to the long conflict, but a ruinous intensification of it. Today, Russia – driven by the steely will of President Vladimir Putin – is as determined as ever to crush the insurgency without granting Chechens any form of autonomy or self-rule, much less independence.
This has led some Chechens to take the path of terror. They are held responsible for crimes that make the Boston Marathon bombing seem like child's play – most of them outside Chechnya. Among the attacks attributed to or claimed by Chechen rebels are the 1999 bombing of a Moscow shopping center, in which 64 people were killed; the 2002 siege of a theater, also in Moscow, that resulted in 120 deaths; the 2004 attack on a school in the town of Beslan, in which 380 people, nearly all of them children, were slaughtered; and just three years ago, an attack on the Moscow subway system by two female suicide bombers that killed 39.
Russia has fought this long conflict with their own kind of savagery. Russian forces have killed tens of thousands of Chechens since the 1990s, and leveled Grozny, the Chechen capital, in the 1994-95 phase of the conflict. A separatist leader, Shamil Basayev, allegedly the planner of the Beslan school massacre, was assassinated in 2004, evidently by Russian security forces. That same year, President Putin named a local ally, Ramzan Kadyrov, to run Chechnya for him.
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Posted by: kodlu | Apr 21 2013 0:26 utc | 94
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