Explosion at Boston Marathon II

There ya go. It was CTE. Send his brain to BU.

 

AP reporting the mother is on a watch list.

 

Where's Misha? We need to find Misha.

 

FBI Affidavit wrong:

Officials continued to revise and, in some cases, correct some of their initial accounts of the manhunt during the fast-moving events of last week. An armed carjacking that state and federal officials at first said last week had occurred in Cambridge, Mass., actually appears to have taken place across the Charles River in Allston, a Boston neighborhood, several law enforcement officials said Thursday.

The Cambridge police initially said the carjacking had been carried out by two men “in the area of Third Street in Cambridge.” A sworn affidavit from an F.B.I. agent accompanying the criminal complaint against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that was unsealed on Monday said “an individual carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint in Cambridge, Massachusetts.”

Christina Sterling, a spokeswoman for the United States attorney’s office in Massachusetts, said Thursday that officials had written “Cambridge” in the affidavit because that is what investigators believed at the time. She said that “has since changed.”

And a law enforcement official said that although ballistics tests were still being done, officials believed that most of the bullets that were fired in a shootout between the police and the brothers in Watertown, Mass., early Friday morning were fired by police officers. One law enforcement official said that “most of the expended rounds were from law enforcement, no doubt about it.”

Only one gun has been recovered from the brothers, officials said. The law enforcement official, noting that the brothers had thrown explosive devices during the battle, including a pressure-cooker bomb similar to the ones used at the marathon, said it was “like a combat situation.” Tamerlan Tsarnaev was mortally wounded after the battle.

Several law enforcement officials said that because Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did not have a gun when he was captured after the shootout, hiding in a boat in a nearby backyard, the gunshot wound in his neck could not have been self-inflicted, as some law enforcement officials had said they believed earlier. Contrary to initial reports that the police had “exchanged” gunfire with the suspect, the official said it appeared that police officers surrounding the boat had apparently fired into it after they saw something push through the boat’s tarp, and feared it might be an explosive device or a gun.

“One officer then fired,” the law enforcement official said. “The other officers there, hearing a shot going off, thought it was coming from the suspect and started shooting until the cease-fire was ordered.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/us/dzhokar-tsarnaev-moved-to-medical-detention-center.html?hp&_r=0

 

What these 2 deranged brothers did is horrific beyond description. What these law enforcement agencies are doing is covering up their panicy and poorly executed investigation.

Looking for amateur terrorists may be different than looking for professional terrorists, but what the cops did, FBI included, in this instance is farsical.

And the news journalists who covered this and who are covering this have been, at best, with exceptions, nothing more than stenographers at a press conference. At worst, they have repeated every rumor, speculation and supposition that they heard, with breathless anticipation and overwrought emotion. They've been more like newstertainment thanjournalists

The murdered and maimed deserve better, from law enforcement and from journalists.

 

Well said. It has to cause the families of the murdered and maimed great pain that they were against amateur jihadis and not first team Al Qaeda terrorists. And now they find out that the crack investigation team is handling it like mall cops.

Justice will ultimately prevail but the FBI is not making it easy with such shoddy work so far. No Miranda rights and inaccurate affidavit just gives the defense attorney ammunition to poke holes in and delay the case.

In looking at timeline clearly when the FBI released the photos at 5 pm on Thursday the 18th they had no idea who the terrorists were despite #1 being on watch list.

 

Mother was in terror data base.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/04/26/bombing-suspects-mom-also-terror-database/ZpS6NUjC0eqwrVODsi8rjP/story.html

 

Sort of embarrassing, the FBI these days.

Well, not "sort of." Maybe that should be the next story.

Maybe that should be a hard-hitting newspaper series.

 

Pretty sure it's the New Yorker who publishes hard-hitting newspaper pieces these days.

 

Maybe Drew Magary could take it on. That would be fun.

 

It reminds me a little of the Jessica Lynch story.

I get that things were happening fast, and that all the facts weren't clear right away. But, that didn't stop a lot of folks in law enforcement from telling a story that included a lot of details that turned out to be false. And, it didn't stop the press from believing every detail either.

 

If the top of the pressure cooker came off, the contents would've spilled out on the road when it was thrown.

Which likely happened with the bombs that didn't detonate.