Explosion at Boston Marathon II

Common pattern. The more he embraced Islam, the more radical he became:

 

stupid Feds, they should read him his rights while he's unconscious or in surgery.

 

If the case does get thrown out because of this technicality. simple release him on the front steps of the Federal courthouse in Boston ... after tweeting out to the city of Boston that he will be available for a few friendly chats.

 

For all the celebration of the Boston Police community one still has to ask:

How did the brothers get into the alleged security lockdown area of the Marathon?

How did suspect 2 escape capture Thursday night in Watertown when he was being chased by
" every available police cruiser". The police really dropped the ball on this one. How could
they lose track of the black Mercedes SUV when it took off after shootout?

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7HL5tnU1gs&feature=related

 

The FBI investigated the older brother two years ago, and spoke to family members, so they surely spoke with the younger brother as well.

Once these bombs went off, why didn't they look at locals with (suspected) ties to radical Islam? If someone at the FBI had recognized them, they could have picked them up, instead of having to release their pictures, which set off the chain of events which resulted in the murder of the MIT cop, and the lock down of the city for 24 hours.

 

Lou Dobbs says Glenn Beck is a socialist

 

Yup - when you start to drill down beyond all the pats on the back of yesterday, law enforcement does not look good.

 

So, the older brother's "best friend" was murdered two years ago according to the Globe article. Had his throat slit.

Murder remains unsolved.

Gotta wonder if he killed him.

 

Boom, the "security lockdown" area of the Marathon is the one with lots of cops that's swept for bombs BEFORE the runners start arriving. The number of people with backpacks, bags, etc. is enormous, as the videos the FBI showed make plain. The prime directive for the many many police at every marathon is to protect the runners from being inadvertently hurt by the crowd. After the lead runners finish, there's a lot of churn among the spectators in that area. As for escaping capture, he crashed and abandoned the stolen SUV not six blocks away from the site of a massive shootout with explosions in the middle of the night in which an officer was seriously wounded. In the chaos, he got about a block and a half outside the line they set up as their original search perimeter.
The three people in New Bedford were NOT arrested. They were taken in for FBI questioning and released. My guess is they were students who knew the younger brother and were being questioned as to where he might go if he escaped Watertown. That would be SOP.
YF, things went too fast to get into the "let's investigate all past targets of investigations" mode for the FBI. They got videos and victim ID of two men lessw than 48 hours after the crime and went public as the quickest way to ID them.
The suspects were either killed or apprehended four days after a mass murder. Cops got killed and hurt doing it and that sucks. But to say that's not good police work is foolish.

 

But Michael, they only released the photos & video to the public because they could not identify the bomber without the public's help.

They did not want to. They knew it might spook them if they saw their pictures on the news. (And, it did.)

But, these guys were known to the FBI. Surely there is a way to put their photos in front of every FBI agent before they put them out to the public.

No one who spoke with them recognized them, or thought to take a look at them?

That's kind of bad.

 

When the FBI spoke to this guy, he wore robes and had a flowing beard. They didn't take his picture. The images didn't jog anybody's memory and didn't exist in a database. Would it have been better if it jogged somebody's memory? Probably. But it also might've led to a shootout on Norfolk Street in Cambridge rather than on Franklin Street in Watertown.