Boston Police said Wednesday they have arrested three more suspects in the marathon bombing investigation, but gave no immediate details. Sources told NBC News that the trio are suspected of removing items from the dorm room of Dzokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who is charged with placing a bomb at the finish line of the April 15 [...]
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A Brit’s View: Stupidity Meets Idiocy in Failed Bomb Plot
What do you get when you cross one form of stupidity with another form of idiocy? In Britain the answer is a failed makeshift terrorist attack. The foiled bombing was due to happen last summer. The court case is going on this week. The details are quite bizarre. Now I don’t want to dumb down [...]
Authorities Say “Misha” Not Tied to Boston Bombing
I’ve been cooperating entirely with the FBI. I gave them my computer and my phone and everything I wanted to show I haven’t done anything. And they said they are about to return them to me. And the agents who talked told me they are about to close my case. – Mikhail Allakhverdov, aka “Misha” [...]
Bush Legacy and Library in Torture’s Shadow
But there is another building, far from Dallas on land leased from Cuba, that symbolizes Mr. Bush’s legacy in a darker, truer way: the military penal complex at Guantánamo Bay where Mr. Bush imprisoned hundreds of men after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a vast majority guilty of no crime. [New York Times] A LIBRARY [...]
Bloomberg’s Boston Bombers’ Fantasy: Hitting Times Square
“New York was next on their list of targets,” Bloomberg said of brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Bloomberg said he received confirmation of the chilling second phase of their plot from the FBI. “The fact is, New York City remains a prime target for those who hate America and want to kill Americans.” [Fox News] [...]
Guns in the U.S.A.: The Public, the NRA, and Occupy’s Silent No More
A recent Pew Poll about guns in the U.S.A., or more specifically, about the recent Senate vote; and Occupy the NRA’s “Silent No More” actions, scheduled for tomorrow, provide two indications of how the public is thinking and feeling about the gun arguments. They don’t change much, those arguments. They fairly frequently become headline news, [...]
Tamerlan Tsarnaev Listed on “Highly Classified” Database
WHAT GOOD is it if you’ve got a dangerous individual on a watch list of “potential terrorists” if it’s so “vast” law enforcement agencies can’t keep track of who’s on it? From Reuters: The name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was listed on the U.S. government’s highly classified central database [...]
George W. Bush Library Opens, Amnesia Ensues
It took less than 4 1/2 years of the Obama presidency for President George W. Bush to mount his comeback. While doing absolutely nothing on his own behalf (he’s been the most silent ex-president in my lifetime), his approval is up to 47 percent according to The Post/ABC poll. That’s up 14 points from his [...]
Hillary’s Strong Rhetoric Resonates After Boston
Though currently she is — at least temporarily — out of political life, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to enjoy a strong favorability rating, now 64%.. – Hillary Clinton Is Still Popular, More So Than Obama, Biden [Gallup] HILLARY Clinton’s comfortable front row seat just got a lot cozier. The conversations that [...]
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Charged with Using Weapon of Mass Destruction *Updated*
UPDATE: Rachel Maddow offered reporting from Pete Williams of NBC News from the transcript of the interview of Tsarnaev, which happened after he was read his rights and began cooperating. Tsarnaev told authorities that there was no foreign involvement; that he and his brother learned to build the bombs came through the Internet; and that [...]
Tom Brokaw and Melissa Harris-Perry on Boston Terrorist Attack
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “There’s a lot we still need to know about what motivated him, obviously.He’s a Chechen, but their beef is with Russia, not with us. But, he’s also a Muslim. And the fact is that Islamic rage is still out there. We saw it [...]
Dzhokar Tsarnaev Awake, Responding to Questions in Writing
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. [ABC News] IT DIDN’T take traveling to a foreign country for Dzhokar Tsarnaev to be radicalized, though there is evidence that [...]
BOSTON TERRORIST DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV IN CUSTODY, IS ALIVE *Updated*
Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info. — Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 20, 2013 CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody. — Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 20, 2013 IT’S OVER. Suspect 2 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is [...]
BOSTON LOCKDOWN: Suspect 1 Dead, Suspect 2 Believed Cornered *Updated*
UPDATE 3: ABC News spoke to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s father from his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala, who leveled a warning, a threat to U.S. law enforcement. “Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia,” the dad said. The father warned, however, “If they killed him, [...]
MSNBC Rises with Riveting Reporting: Uncle of Suspect, “Turn Yourself In”
“…He put a shame… He put a shame on the Tsarni family. He put a shame on the entire Chechnyan ethnicity. … Turn yourself in.” – Ruslan Tsarni, uncle of Tsarnaev brothers FROM THE moment MSNBC coverage of the Boston Marathon terrorist attack began, NBC News Pete Williams has led the cable pack, which has [...]
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