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CSPAN Callers – Possible False Flag in Boston Bombing
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Monday, April 22, 2013
CSPAN Callers – Possible False Flag in Boston Bombing
CSPAN Callers – Possible False Flag in Boston Bombing
Friday, April 19, 2013
Boston manhunt ends, bombing suspect captured
Boston Police say a 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings is in custody after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his older brother and accomplice dead.
Police announced via Twitter that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was in custody.
Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info.
— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 20, 2013
His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was killed Friday in a furious attempt to escape police.
WBUR’s Curt Nickisch said it’s a relief to folks in Boston.
“It takes a huge weight off of the minds of everybody here in Watertown,” he said, “and I can tell you business is going to be good at bars tonight here in Boston.”
Nickisch said about the time the lockdown was lifted was when residents were headed home anyway and it’ll be closer to business as usual next week.
The brothers are suspects in Monday’s marathon bombings, which killed three people and wounded more than 180 others. The men are also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in his vehicle late Thursday.
Authorities in Boston had suspended all mass transit and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay indoors as the hunt for the remaining suspect went on.
The bombings on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, tearing off limbs in a spray of shrapnel and instantly raising the specter of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Chechnya was the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.
Investigators in the Boston case have shed no light on the motive for the bombing and have said it is unclear whether it was the work of domestic or international terrorists or someone else entirely with an unknown agenda.
The endgame — at least for Suspect No. 1 — came just hours after the FBI released photos and video of the two young men at the marathon’s finish line and appealed to the public for help in identifying and capturing them.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Boston manhunt ends, bombing suspect captured
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Reddit users may cause harm in quest to aid Boston bombing investigation
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Authorities in Boston have flagged video and other images of a possible suspect in the marathon bombings. The Associated Press says there’s no identification yet. The U.S. Attorneys’ Office and the FBI have been releasing official reports about their investigation, but there’s also been amateur sleuthing taking place online at sites like Reddit and 4Chan.
“I think that Reddit is where it pops up the most because [it"s] a really popular community that is kind of networked in a way that gives it a lot of visibility,” says Adrien Chen, senior writer at the news site Gawker. “But you’ve [also] got conservative bloggers, you’ve got people on Twitter, other message boards — basically wherever anybody is talking on the Internet.”
Online postings include time-lapse animations of people seemingly fleeing the bombing scene, and people with backpacks staring unsmiling along the marathon route. Though these efforts may be in good-faith, most, if not all of the people deemed suspicious were most likely not involved.
“This is not an inherently terrible idea to try to sift through some of these pictures to help the authorities, that’s if everything goes right,” says Will Oremus, a tech writer at Slate. “If everything goes wrong, you’ve got a lot of people out there who have been identified by their face as possible terrorists and they are totally innocent.”
Though Oremus says the idea that “Redditors” could solve a crime isn’t too far-fetched.
“A year or two ago, there was a hit and run incident, a photo was posted to Reddit, some gear-head noticed that the headlight belonged to a 1990 Cadillac, he knew the make and model, and they ended up solving the crime,” says Oremus.
To hear more about the implications of a public, crowdsourced manhunt, click on the audio player above.
Reddit users may cause harm in quest to aid Boston bombing investigation
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