Explosion at Boston Marathon

[trileacman]

I suppose nobody claiming responsibility means an American psycho is responsible rather than al quaeda or similar organisations.

Another anti-American rant, when will you people realise that the Muslamics are to blame?

FFS we don't know who did this!

You are worse than he is with that statement.

[muppet]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing

[give her dixie]

Israeli police head to US to aid in Boston Marathon bombing investigation

http://rt.com/usa/police-israel-investigation-boston-009/

The investigation into Monday's deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon has officially gone international: law enforcement officials from Israel have been sent to the United States to assist in the probe.

Israel Police Chief Yohanan Danino says he has dispatched officials to Boston, Massachusetts, where they will meet with Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and other authorities, the Times of Israel Reports.

Citing an earlier report published by the newspaper Maariv, Times of Israel writes that Danino has dispatched police officers to participate in discussions that "will center on the Boston Marathon bombings and deepening professional cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of both countries."

The paper reports that Israeli law enforcement planned the trip before the deadly pair of bombings on Monday that has so far claimed three lives, but the discussions will now shift focus in order to see how help from abroad can expand the investigation.

In an address made Tuesday, Israel President Shimon Peres said that tragedies such as this week's incident in Boston, sadly, bring people together from across the world.

"When it comes to events like this, all of us are one family. We feel a part of the people who paid such a high price. God bless them," Peres said. "Today the real problem is terror, and terror is not an extension of policy: Their policy is terror, their policy is to threaten. Terrorists divide people, they kill innocent people."

Around 20 hours after two bombs detonated near the finish line of the annual race, United States President Barack Obama went on record to condemn the tragedy as a terrorist attack.

"This was a heinous and cowardly act," said Obama from the White House, "and given what we now know the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism."

But even as officials come to assist from as far away as Israel, authorities are still in the dark as far as finding any leads in the case. Pres. Obama has directed the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security to assist in the investigation, but no agencies have identified suspects or motives at this time.

Pres. Obama has also said that his administration has been directed to implement "appropriate security measures to protect the American people," but details as to what that could mean remain scarce. Meanwhile, at least one leading lawmaker is asking for the US to respond to the terrorist attack by increasing the scope of the ever-expanding surveillance program already growing across the United States.

"I do think we need more cameras," Rep. Peter King (R-New York) told MSNBC after Monday's attacks. "We have to stay ahead of the terrorists and I do know in New York, the Manhattan Security Initiative, which is based on cameras, the outstanding work that results from that.  So yes, I do favor more cameras.  They're a great law enforcement device.  And again, it keeps us ahead of the terrorists, who are constantly trying to kill us."

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has also confirmed that he has dispatched law enforcement officers from the Big Apple to assist in the investigation by meeting with agents at a Boston fusion center, one of the DHS-funded data facilities that collects surveillance camera footage and other evidence in order to analyze events like Monday's attack.

"We are certainly engaged in the information flow with the FBI through our Joint Terrorism Task Force. We have two New York City police officers, police sergeants, who are in the Boston Regional Intelligence Center," Bloomberg said on Tuesday. "They're up there, they've been up there since last evening."

But in a study conducted last year by the Senate's bipartisan Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, lawmakers found that those fusion centers have been more or less unhelpful in assisting with terrorism probes.

The Department of Homeland Security's work with state and local fusion centers, the subcommittee wrote, "has not produced useful intelligence to support federal counterterrorism efforts." Instead, they added, so-called "intelligence" shared between facilities consisted of tidbits of shoddy quality that was often outdated and "sometimes endangering [to] citizen's civil liberties and Privacy Act protections."

"More often than not," the panel added, information collected and shared at DHS fusion centers was "unrelated to terrorism."

[Minder]

Video of the two suspects released

http://deadspin.com/the-fbi-is-seeking-these-two-suspects-in-the-boston-mar-476330910?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

[Puckoon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22209841

Another terrible bombing in Baghad today - 27 dead, 2 children.

[Tony Baloney]

Video of the two suspects released

http://deadspin.com/the-fbi-is-seeking-these-two-suspects-in-the-boston-mar-476330910?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

These boys A-rabs?

[ballinaman]

Video of the two suspects released

http://deadspin.com/the-fbi-is-seeking-these-two-suspects-in-the-boston-mar-476330910?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

These boys A-rabs?

Don't look like farm boys from Texas anyways.......

[Harold Disgracey]

Some mad shit going on in Boston at the moment, policeman shot dead at MIT, explosives thrown at police & one suspect arrested. Big search ongoing for the second one.

[NAG1]

All over the BBC news now one of the suspects is dead the other on the loose in the locality of MIT.
One Police man dead and another seriously wounded.

[EC Unique]

Would be better to get the **** alive to get some information out of him by what ever means.

[theskull1]

I think you mean waterboarding

[Bingo]

Would be better to get the **** alive to get some information out of him by what ever means.

I'd have no doubt this is the plan but by looks/sounds of it, these pair where prepared to fight whatever came with them.

I only hope he hasn't broke into one of the households in the area and is currently held up with hostages.

Strange set up with this lad going missing. If they are the bombers, as it appears likely, I'd have thought they'd be well clear of Boston by now.

[ballinaman]

http://americanlivewire.com/mike-mulugeta-sunil-tripathi/

[Bingo]

Looks like the 2 suspects names were picked up from police scanner, One of them dead according to reports :

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40mikemulugeta&src=typd

The other still missing..

It turns out that his family had been searching for one of them since March 16th :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c1Ecru5RLdk

https://twitter.com/findingsunny

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi&d=4800958371725771&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=nld1_cZ9TIaHOQiAMeSeWxqLMiqIiDje

They are reporting that this missing student isn't the suspect.

[johnneycool]

Looks like the 2 suspects names were picked up from police scanner, One of them dead according to reports :

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40mikemulugeta&src=typd

The other still missing..

It turns out that his family had been searching for one of them since March 16th :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c1Ecru5RLdk

https://twitter.com/findingsunny

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi&d=4800958371725771&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=nld1_cZ9TIaHOQiAMeSeWxqLMiqIiDje

They are reporting that this missing student isn't the suspect.

All you need now is some vigilante taking out the wrong person because of this wall to wall coverage almost in real time and not always accurate!!