Two blasts at Boston marathon kill three and injure more than 100

[MrBlueSky]

Recipe for disaster: Pressure cookers a savage’s favorite

By JOSH MARGOLIN and JOSH SAUL
Last Updated: 10:12 AM, April 17, 2013
Posted: 1:11 AM, April 17, 2013

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A crime-scene investigator holds the twisted remains of the first explosive device that detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon yesterday.

The pressure-cooker bombs that exploded in the viewing area of the Boston Marathon have long been favored by terrorists across the globe.

The two used in Monday’s attack are similar to devices in the failed 2010 Times Square bombing and the 2006 Mumbai train bombings that killed more than 200 people, officials said.

“They’re made out of stainless steel and the whole idea is the pressure builds up and when it explodes it rips the metal into shrapnel . . . And it all fits in a duffle bag,” said Matthew Horace, retired special agent in charge of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives field office in Newark.

“This is done just to harm people. It’s the explosive pressure that explodes out and tears the metal at like 200 mph.”

Pressure cookers have become terrorists’ bomb casing of choice because security teams usually remove garbage cans and mailboxes in advance of high-profile or sensitive events, Horace added.

Pressure cookers are common in South Asia and the Middle East and don’t usually arouse suspicion there, according to an Interagency Counter Terrorism Task Force advisory sent out to NYPD and other first-responders yesterday.

But because the cooking appliances are less common in the United States, “the presence of a pressure cooker in an unusual location such as a building lobby or busy street corner should be treated as suspicious,” the advisory said.

When American citizen Faisal Shahzad tried to blow up Times Square with a SUV-load of explosives in 2010, he used a pressure-cooker bomb packed with 120 firecrackers as part of the payload.

Authorities also found two pressure cookers — along with other bomb-making materials — in the Texas hotel room of Naser Jason Abdo, an Army private arrested in 2011 for allegedly plotting to blow up a restaurant full of GIs.

The inexpensive bomb casings are used with greater frequency outside the United States, especially in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.

To build a pressure-cooker bomb, terrorists surround an explosive with metal objects such as nuts and bolts or nails — to act as shrapnel — and use a cellphone, digital watch or garage-door opener to detonate the device.

Pressure cookers were regularly used in Afghanistan to attack US and coalition forces.

Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch provided detailed descriptions of how to build a pressure-cooker bomb in a 2010 issue of its magazine “Inspire,” in an article titled, “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom.”

White supremacists also have circulated copies of the al Qaeda magazine on their Web forums, according to the SITE Monitoring Service, a US independent group tracking online militant messaging.

In 1976, a pressure-cooker bomb hidden near Grand Central Terminal exploded as an NYPD Bomb Squad tried to defuse it, killing one cop and injuring three.

Additional reporting by Beth DeFalco , Post Wires

 

[MrBlueSky]

Boston Marathon Footage Shows Bomb Suspect: Official

Posted: 04/17/2013 7:58 pm EDT | Updated: 04/18/2013 2:08 am EDT

BY DENISE LAVOIE AND RODRIQUE NGOWI, ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON (AP) -- In what could be a major break in the Boston Marathon case, investigators are on the hunt for a man seen in a department-store surveillance video dropping off a bag at the site of the bombings, a Boston politician said Wednesday.

Separately, a law enforcement official confirmed that authorities have found an image of a potential suspect but don't know his name.

The development - less than 48 hours after the attack that left three people dead and more than 170 wounded - marked a possible turning point in a case that has investigators analyzing photos and videos frame by frame for clues to who carried out the twin bombings and why.

City Council President Stephen Murphy, who said he was briefed by Boston police, said investigators saw the image on surveillance footage they got from a department store near the finish line, and matched the findings with witness descriptions of someone leaving the scene.

"I know it's very active and very fluid right now - that they are on the chase," Murphy told The Associated Press. He added: "They may be on the verge of arresting someone, and that's good."

The bombs were crudely fashioned from ordinary kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and ball bearings, investigators and others close to the case said. Investigators suspect the devices were then hidden in black duffel bags and left on the ground.

As a result, they were looking for images of someone lugging a dark, heavy bag.

One department store video "has confirmed that a suspect is seen dropping a bag near the point of the second explosion and heading off," Murphy said.

A law enforcement official who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity and was not authorized to discuss the case publicly confirmed only that investigators had an image of a potential suspect whose name was not known to them and who had not been questioned.

The turn of events came with Boston in a state of high excitement over conflicting reports of a breakthrough.

A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told the AP around midday that a suspect was in custody. The official, who was not authorized to divulge details of the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the suspect was expected in federal court. But the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said no arrests had been made.

By nightfall, there was no evidence anyone was in custody. No one was brought to court. The law enforcement official, who had affirmed there was a suspect in custody even after federal officials denied it, was unable to obtain any further information or explanation.

At least 14 patients remained in critical condition. Dozens of patients have been released from hospitals around the Boston area, and officials at three hospitals that treated some of the most seriously injured said they expect all their remaining patients to survive.

On Wednesday, investigators in white jumpsuits fanned out across the streets, rooftops and awnings around the blast site in search of clues. They picked through trash cans, plastic cup sleeves and discarded sports drink dispensers

Boston remained under a heavy security presence, and some people admitted they were nervous about moving about in public spaces.

Tyler King, a personal trainer from Attleboro who works in Boston, said four of five clients canceled on him a day earlier because they were worried about venturing into the city. He took the train in, but "I kind of kept my head on a swivel."

Kenya Nadry, a website designer, took her 5-year-old nephew to a playground. "There's still some sense of fear, but I feel like Boston's resilient," she said. "The fine men in blue will take care of a lot of it."

Police were stationed on street corners across downtown Boston, while National Guardsmen set up tents on the Boston Common and stationed tactical vehicles.

Dr. Horacio Hojman, associate chief of trauma at Tufts Medical Center, said patients were in surprisingly good spirits when they were brought in.

"Despite what they witnessed, despite what they suffered, despite many of them having life-threatening injuries, their spirits were not broken," he said. "And I think that should probably be the message for all of us - that this horrible act of terror will not bring us down."

President Barack Obama planned to visit Boston on Thursday to attend a service honoring the victims.

The blasts killed 8-year-old Martin Richard of Boston and 29-year-old Krystle Campbell of Medford, Mass. The Shenyang Evening News, a state-run Chinese newspaper, identified the third victim as Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University.

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Associated Press writers Jay Lindsay, Pat Eaton-Robb, Steve LeBlanc, Bridget Murphy and Meghan Barr in Boston; Eileen Sullivan, Julie Pace and Lara Jakes in Washington; and Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee contributed to this report.

 

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[Motaro]

'Bombers will be caught', Obama tells Boston memorial

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Barack and Michelle Obama at Boston memorial service Photo: US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle attend a memorial service for the victims of the bombings. (Reuters: Brian Snyder)

US president Barack Obama has told a memorial service in Boston that the "evil" marathon bombers will be found, as investigators reportedly focused their efforts on two potential suspects.

Mr Obama used an address to pay tribute to the victims and said Boston's resolve was "the greatest rebuke against whoever committed this heinous act".

"Yes, we will find you, and yes, you will face justice," Mr Obama told a congregation of 2,000 people at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, three days after two bombs killed three people and injured about 180 in a hail of nails and ball bearings.

"We will find you, we will hold you accountable.

If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorise us, it should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it.
US president Barack Obama

"If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorise us, it should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it."

Mr Obama's address came as US media reported that the FBI may be about to release images of persons of interest.

The Boston Globe was reporting that authorities have clear video images of two suspects which they will release later on Thursday (US time).

Other media are reporting the photos are of one suspect and another man wanted for questioning.

The crowded scene along the race course in central Boston was recorded by surveillance cameras and media outlets, providing investigators with significant video footage of the area before and after the two blasts.

"There is some video that has raised the question of those that the FBI would like to speak with," Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano told a Congressional hearing.

But she added that she would not call the "individuals" in the images suspects.

Investigators have so far kept information close to their chest, fearing a repeat of a fiasco which occurred when similar photos, which were released following the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, led to the arrest of an innocent man.

The FBI was yesterday forced to deny reports from CNN, Fox and the Associated Press that a suspect had been arrested.

Bostonians outside church where Obama was giving a memorial speech Photo: Bostonians stand outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross as US president Barack Obama pays tribute to the bombing victims. (Reuters: Jessica Rinaldi)

A line of people several city blocks long formed outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End, about 1.5 kilometres from the bombing site.

Security was heavy around the church, with dozens of city police officers and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Mr Obama told the service of his love for Boston, where he and first lady Michelle Obama lived as students, and declared that "You will run again".

"We may be momentarily knocked off our feet but we'll pick ourselves up, we'll keep on going. We'll finish the race," he said.

Mr Obama, who also met relatives of the dead and recovering victims at Massachusetts General Hospital, said Americans had seen "the face of evil" in the attacks.

He listened attentively to speeches by the city's religious leaders at the service.

Nasser Wedaddy, head of the New England Interfaith Council, spoke for American Muslims and highlighted how the Koran says that killing one person "is like killing all mankind".

He told how he experienced a car bomb while living in Damascus as a child.

"What happened on Monday has shocked and horrified us, but it has also brought us together," he said in a message carefully prepared by Muslim leaders who fear a backlash if the attackers are found to be militant Islamists.

The Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley, read a message from Pope Francis in which he said the people of the city should keep "working together to build an even more just, free and secure society."

Acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma played with a choir of teenagers, some of whom fought back tears as they sang for the service.

Boston has also held emotional tributes to the dead - eight-year-old Martin Richard, restaurant manager Krystle Campbell and Boston University graduate student Lu Lingzi of China.

Doctors at Boston Medical Centre said a second Chinese student caught in the blast had come out of a coma and was improving.

The girl's family was expected in Boston soon.

Police are out in force around the bombing site, which remains closed off for several blocks as they search for evidence.

The service comes the day after the FBI arrested a Mississippi man in connection with letters believed to have contained the deadly poison ricin and sent to federal officials, including Mr Obama.

The FBI said there was no indication of a connection between the ricin letters and the Boston bomb attacks, but they reminded Americans of anthrax mail attacks in the wake of the 9/11 hijackings 12 years ago.

Investigators believe the Boston bombs were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shrapnel.

Ten victims lost limbs, and emergency room doctors reported plucking nails and ball bearings from the wounded.

 

[Motaro]

Boston bombings: FBI release photographs of two suspects

Suspect 2. Photographs released by the FBI showing people wanted by the police in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings

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[AceFrehley]

FBI releases photos, video of Boston Marathon bombing suspects

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Last Updated: 6:05 PM, April 18, 2013
Posted: 5:34 PM, April 18, 2013

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The FBI today released pictures and video picture of two men, carrying backpacks and identified as “suspects” in the Boston Marathon bombing. One suspect has a black jacket, white shirt, khaki pants and a black hat, with a backpack slung over both shoulders. The second man wore a backward white adjustable baseball cap, while carrying a tan or gray backpack over his right shoulder.”

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“Today we are enlisting the public’s help to identify the two suspects,” said Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office. “They are identified as suspect 1 and suspect 2. They appear to be associated.” DesLauriers added: “At this time these are the people of interest to the FBI.”

The men were seen strolling on Boylston Street before the explosions rang out. “As you can see from one of the images suspects 1 and 2 appear to be walking together through the marathon crowd on Boylston Street in the direction of the finish line,” DesLauriers said. He urged citizens to keep an eye out for the two men, but not to approach them.

“We consider them to be armed and extremely dangerous,” DesLauriers said. “No one should approach them. No one should attempt to apprehend them but law enforcement.” Photographs show Suspect 2 putting down a backpack in front of the Forum restaurant, where the second of twin bombs went off on Monday, feds said.

“For 100 years, the FBI has relied on the public to be its eyes and ears,” DesLauriers said. "We know the public will play a critical role in identifying and locating these individuals. Somebody out there knows these individuals as friends, neighbors, co-workers or family members. “Though it may be difficult, the nation is counting on those with information to come forward.”

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[AceFrehley]

Two men probed in Boston Marathon bombings cleared by investigators

By JOSH MARGOLIN
Last Updated: 2:11 PM, April 18, 2013
Posted: 1:43 PM, April 18, 2013

The two men whose photos were being circulated internally among police have been cleared as authorities determined that neither man had any role in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Investigators have now cleared the two men whose pictures were circulated last night in an email among law enforcement officials, sources told The Post today.

Authorities determined neither had any information or role in Monday’s attacks at the Boston Marathon.

The pictures, which were distributed yesterday evening in an attempt to identify them, show the two men standing with a backpack and duffel bag near the finish line, where a pair of bombs killed three and maimed 176.

Meanwhile, sources said today that the feds have an image from a store video camera of a person of interest. They also have an image of a potential witness that was captured on film, though that person is not considered a suspect, the sources said.

Authorities have not decided whether to publicly release any photos today.

Sources said the investigation could be a prolonged effort.

“It's not like we're going to have somebody in cuffs in five minutes but it is evolving,” said a federal law enforcement source.

 

[MortalKombat]

One Boston Marathon bombing suspect dead, other still at large: authorities

By JENNIFER BAIN in Boston and LARRY CELONA and DAN MACLEOD in NY
Last Updated: 8:09 AM, April 19, 2013
Posted: 3:16 AM, April 19, 2013
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FBI photos show the men suspected in Monday's Boston Marathon bombings. "Suspect No. 1" at left has died, officials said, while "Suspect No. 2" (right) remains at large.

One of the men suspected in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings is dead, and the other remains at large this morning, authorities say.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said the man known as “Suspect No. 1” – seen wearing sunglasses and a black cap in video and pictures – was wounded in a shootout with police, and later died at the hospital.

“Suspect No. 2,” seen wearing a backwards white cap over his shaggy hair, is still on the loose, Davis said in an early-morning press conference. Law enforcement officials are conducting a manhunt to find him.

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19

"Suspect No. 2" was identified in a law enforcement intelligence bulletin as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, the AP reports.

The suspects were identified as hailing from the Russian region near Cechnya - and they've been living legally in the US for at least one year, the AP reports.

Details are rapidly coming in from various sources as new information becomes available.

Both CBS and CNN have reported that the suspects are brothers, but this information has not been confirmed.

TV reports show a very heavy police presence as the federal courthouse just after 7:30 a.m.

Gov. Deval Patrick said today that a shelter in place order is underway for the entire city of Boston as well as Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge and Allston-Brighton.

The announcements followed a bizarre and bloody series of events that started with the fatal shooting of a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology late last night and continued with a massive police confrontation with two of the shooting suspects in the nearby city of Watertown.

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Sources told The Post that two men were involved in the killing of the MIT officer at 10:48 p.m. They then carjacked a Mercedes-Benz and made their getaway.

The suspects in the MIT shooting then got into a gun battle with police. There were also reports of explosive devices found in Watertown.

During the firefight, a second police officer was struck by bullets and taken to the hospital, Davis said.

Hospital officials said the deceased suspect's body featured a combination of gunshot wounds and blast-related injuries.

While one suspect was killed, the other got away. Officials are urging nearby residents to stay indoors - and not to pick up any strangers on the side of the road.

All public transportation in and around Watertown, including Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority service, was also suspended as a safety measure, Mass. Emergency Management Director Kurt Schwartz said.

Amtrak has also suspended service in the are, according to TV reports.

"We are hoping that as the hours proceed that we will be able to turn back on portions of the system," Schwartz said. "The system has been shut down now as a safety measure.we are asking people not to wait for public transportation. If you are waiting at a public bus or train station please go home."

Nearby schools such as Boston University also canceled classes, and businesses are urged to remain closed.

Davis called the suspect a "terrorist ... who came here to kill people."

Three people were killed and 176 were injured in Monday's bombings, which punctured the innocence of Boston's Patriots' Day celebrations.

The men were spotted walking down Boylston Street toward the marathon finish line shortly before the pressure-cooker blasts launched shrapnel through the helpless crowd.

The man identified as Suspect No. 1 wore a black jacket, a white shirt, a black hat, khakis and sunglasses. He had a black backpack and appeared to be wearing a Bridgestone golf cap.

Suspect No. 2 wore a backward, white, adjustable baseball cap and carried a lighter-colored backpack over his right shoulder.

“As you can see from one of the images, Suspects 1 and 2 appear to be walking together through the marathon crowd on Boylston Street in the direction of the finish line,” DesLauriers said.

Suspect No. 2 set down his backpack in front of the Forum restaurant, an upscale bar and grill where the second bomb went off, at around 2:50 p.m., feds say.

A photo obtained by The Post shows the suspect at that scene before the blast — with tragic little victim Martin Richard, 8, standing to the left on a police barrier.

Suspect No. 1 was not seen on any of the footage dropping his backpack, authorities said.

In another photo, posted online, a person who closely resembles Suspect No. 2 is seen calmly walking from the mayhem as smoke fills the air in the background. The man who took the photo told CNN last night that the FBI had seen it.

“Only one we believe to be planting the device is suspect Number 2,” said DesLauriers. “Suspect Number 2, with the white cap on, proceeded west on Boylston Street, and that’s all we know right now.”

The killers used crude bombs made from pressure cookers that were stuffed with ball bearings, nails and other metal items.

At least one of the devices was powered with a rechargeable Tenergy battery that is typically used in such children’s toys as remote-control cars.

FBI agents, in fact, went to several toy stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to ask about the battery, employees told ABC News.

Meanwhile, it was revealed last night that a victim who lost both legs in the attack — and who was photographed being wheeled from the scene in a now-iconic photo — provided evidence while still in intensive care.

Jeff Bauman awoke in the hospital and asked for a pen and paper on which he wrote: “bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,” his brother, Chris, said.

Bauman then gave the feds a full description of the man he saw drop a bag at this feet. He said the man wore a cap and sunglasses, a description similar to the image of the FBI’ s Suspect No. 1, his brother said.

Mark Abbamonte, 26, told The Post he was in lockdown at his Watertown home and could see police evacuating people down the street and checking their home.

Abbamonte said the overnigh firefight happend just three blocks from his home and "could see all the explosions from my house."

"I woke up on the third explosion; my roommate heard three explosions. There were so many [gunshots] I couldn't even count. I heard cops yelling to someone to , 'get on you knees.'"

"It woke me up, I heard [te explosion] and panicked, I didn't know what it was. I thought it was fire crackers, but with what happened in Boston Monday I knew it could be something."

"I just hope they catch the second suspect. I'm calmer than I was a few hours ago, but I'm running on adrenaline. It's been a long night."

Additional reporting by Frank Rosario, Josh Margolin, David K. Li and Dan Good

 

[MortalKombat]

Boston 'bombers' are brothers from CHECHNYA: One is killed in shoot-out, second still on loose after running gun battle that left cop dead as desperate men hurled more bombs at police cars

• Terrorist dubbed 'Suspect 1' killed after explosions and machine gun fire rocked Boston suburb of Watertown
  
• Manhunt for 'Suspect 2' who was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap as police name him a 'terrorist'
• Both suspects are 'brothers from the Russia region near Chechnya and had lived in U.S. for at least one year'
• Police chief: 'Terrorist on the loose who wants to kill people – do not open your door'
• City in lockdown: All mass public transport shut down as armed officers conduct house-to house searches
  
• Police officer critically wounded in exchange of gunfire after suspects threw explosives during car chase
  
• Hunt sparked after police officer was gunned down on MIT campus while responding to reports of disturbance
• Both men are wanted over Monday's Boston marathon bombings which killed three people and injured over 180
• Investigators believe they planted explosive devices at two locations along the finishing line of the race
• Suspects walked away from the scene 'pretty casually,' federal official says
• David Green, a Florida man running the marathon, released a clearer photograph of a man closely resembling the suspect identified by the FBI Suspect Number Two
  

By JAMES NYE, SIMON TOMLINSON, JILL REILLY and LOUISE BOYLE PUBLISHED : 03:21 GMT, 19 April 2013 | UPDATED: 12:27 GMT, 19 April 2013


One of the Boston bombing suspects is dead and the second is on the loose and said to be 'armed and dangerous' after a dramatic shootout in the suburbs of the city.The terrorist, dubbed 'Suspect 1' by the FBI, has been named as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26. He died in hospital with gunshot wounds and possible blast injuries after a fierce gun battle rocked the Watertown area hours after a police officer was shot dead at the nearby MIT campus.His brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap, is on the run and reportedly has explosives strapped to his body.

Boston Police Chief Ed Davis said: 'There is a terrorist on the loose who wants to kill people - do not open your door'.Today, sources said the suspects were believed to be brothers from the Russia region near Chechnya and had lived in U.S. for at least one year. Boston was in lockdown as police hunted the second suspect through the streets, with all mass transit shut and residents warned to stay inside. A transit police officer was critically wounded in the exchange of gunfire with the suspects, police added.

On his tail: SWAT teams train their weapons toward as house from the roof of a shed as they carry out door-to-door searches for the fugitive terrorist

'Armed and extremely dangerous': 'Suspect 1' (pictured right) has been killed in a shoot-out with police. 'Suspect 2' (pictured left) is on the run and the public are being warned not to approach

Lock-down: Police patrol a neighborhood in Watertown as officers go door to door during the manhunt on Friday morning

Dangerous operation: A bomb squad officer uses a robot to remove an item, believed to be a water bottle, from the back of the car allegedly used by the suspects

On the run: This image provided by the Boston

Regional Intelligence Center shows Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings

Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev is believed to be a legal immigrant to the U.S., who arrived in the country one year ago from the Russian region of Chechnya which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars.

The 19-year-old, who attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, is an amateur wrestling champion.

The older brother attended Bunkerhill Community College and was studying to become an engineer but took a year off to pursue boxing.

The drama unfolded hours after the FBI released images of two men named as suspects in the Boston blast which killed three and injured 176 on Monday.

Swarming the streets: Dozens of armed officers check houses in the suburb of Watertown after the second suspect fled during a car chase and firefight

Plan of action: Police convene on School and Walnut Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, after a fierce gun battle with the terrorists, one of whom died from multiple bullet wounds

Are these the bombers? The shoot-out came hours after these images were released in the hunt for two 'armed and extremely dangerous' men

Is this their man? This photograph was tweeted by a resident near the shoot-out who claims it is one of the suspects fleeing on foot next to a scorch mark on the pavement
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</center>The Middlesex district attorney said the two men are suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer on campus in Cambridge late last night, then stealing a car at gunpoint. Dozens of police officers, FBI agents, national guard, K-9 units and SWAT teams rushed to Watertown after midnight after a reported car chase involving the two suspects in a black 2013 Mercedes. A short time later, police received reports of a carjacking by two men who kept their victim inside the car for about half an hour, the statement said.

Police pursued that car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the car at police and gunfire was exchanged, the statement said. 'During the exchange of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately taken into custody.' A doctor from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said the suspect died after suffering multiple wounds from gunshots and possibly the blast of an explosive.

Armed and ready: Police officers aim their weapons as they close in on two suspects in the Boston bombings after a university officer at MIT was shot dead on campus

Gun battle: Police officers draw weapons from behind a car during a dramatic shoot-out with two of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings

Warning: Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis tells the media that there is a terrorist on the loose who wants to kill people and tells people not to open their doors

Connections: A map showing the locations of the Boston Marathon bombings, the MIT campus where a police officer was shot dead and the suburb of Watertown where the gunfight broke out

TIMELINE OF TERROR: HOW EVENTS UNFOLDED IN BOSTON

THURSDAY AFTERNOON: FBI released the pictures of the bombing suspects.
MIT CAMPUS, CAMBRIDGE 10.20pm: Police received reports of shots fired on the MIT campus.
10.30pm: An MIT campus police officer was found shot in his vehicle in the area of Vassar and Main streets. According to authorities, the officer was found with multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital and pronounced deceased. Authorities launched an immediate investigation into the circumstances of the shooting. The investigation determined that two males were involved in this shooting.

CAMBRIDGE: 11.30 pm (approx): Police received reports of an armed carjacking by two males in the area of Third Street in Cambridge. The victim was carjacked at gunpoint by two males and was kept in the car with the suspects for approximately a half hour.

Midnight (approx) The victim was released at a gas station on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. He was not injured.

WATERTOWN. Midnight – 1am (approx.) Police immediately began a search for the vehicle and were in pursuit of the vehicle into Watertown. At that time, explosive devices were reportedly thrown from the car by the suspects. The suspects and police also exchanged gunfire in the area of Dexter and Laurel streets. During this pursuit, an MBTA Police officer was seriously injured and transported to the hospital. During the pursuit, one suspect was critically injured and transported to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased. In Watertown, witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots and explosions at 1am. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents were in the neighborhood and a helicopter circled overhead. 'It sounded like a stick of dynamite went off,' a local resident told the Boston Globe. 'I looked out the window, and it was like nothing I’ve ever seen – blue light after blue light after blue light. '

WATERTOWN 1:30am: The Cambridge bomb squad arrive in Watertown.

CURRENT: An extensive manhunt is ongoing in the Watertown area for the second suspect, who is believed to be armed and dangerous. The case is being investigated by local, state and federal authorities working in cooperation.

The Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad is assessing and removing any potentially explosive devices that may have been thrown on the street in Watertown by the suspects. The investigation remains active and ongoing.

'There were signs of more than just gunshot wounds, said the doctor, who did not give his name.

'A second suspect was able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point in time,' Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, told a news conference.

'What we are looking for right now is a suspect consistent with suspect No 2, the white-capped individual who was involved in Monday's bombing of the Boston Marathon,' Alben said.

Police say the two suspects discharged several explosives at police from the vehicle during the pursuit.

According to eyewitness reports, two men believed to be in their early twenties engaged in a furious gun fight with dozens of police on a backstreet of Watertown. Andrew Kitzenburg spoke to the New York Times about the view he had from his third floor window as he saw two men in jackets shooting at at least 10 police from behind a black Mercedes SUV.

The gun battle was being waged 70 yards apart and Mr. Kitzenburg said that the two men and police were engaged in 'constant gunfire'. Suddenly a police SUV 'drove towards the shooters' and was fired upon until it was damaged and rolled to the side of the road, crashing into two cars in his driveway.

Dramatically, Mr. Kitzenburg said the two gunmen then threw a large bomb, 'They lit it, still in the middle of the gunfire, and threw it. But it went 20 yards at most. The unknown device did explode and at that point, one of the men ran towards the gathered police officers and was tackled - it is not clear from Mr. Kitzenburg if he was shot or not.

Then suddenly, the other man returned to his SUV and drove towards police officers and 'put pedal to the metal'. The car 'went right through the cops, broke right through and continued west.'

Mr Kitzenburg said that the two men had left backpacks by the car and that a police bomb robot was currently dealing with the devices. Police have told all residents to remain in their homes while they clear the area.

Police screamed at reporters on the scene to turn off phones 'if they want to live' as they hunted for the suspects - fearful that improvised explosives could be remotely detonated. The shoot-out came hours after the FBI released images and video of the Boston bombing suspects as they launched a hunt for two 'armed and extremely dangerous' men.

The images show them walking in single file toward the finishing line of the race around 13 minutes before the twin detonations. Hours after the initial photos were made public, investigators released close-up shots this morning of the two suspects that more clearly show the men's faces.

Suspect Number One was wearing a black baseball hat, a dark hooded jacket and khaki pants. Suspect Number Two was wearing a white basketball cap on backwards and a dark hooded sweatshirt.

Vigilant: Police officers stand in a shopping mall as the search for the 'Suspect 1' continues

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Hunt: Police officers with their weapons out search for a suspect on the streets of Watertown

Alert: A police officers rides in the back of a van with his weapons out following a tense night of police activity

Link: It's not clear whether the incident which unfolded tonight is related to the Boston bombing on Monday

False alarm: A man lies spread out on the ground as police trains their weapons on him, however it is thought he is not of the suspects

Shoot out: According to eyewitness reports, two men believed to be in their early twenties engaged in a furious gun fight with dozens of police on a backstreet of Watertown

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Massachusetts State Police spokesperson Dave Procopio said that they believe multiple possible explosive devices were used against police tonight during this incident at Watertown

The FBI made no mention of the men's height, weight or age range and would not discuss the men's ethnicity.

'It would be inappropriate to comment on the ethnicity of the men because it could lead people down the wrong path potentially,' said FBI agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the Boston FBI office.
The information on the first suspect was developed within a day or so before its release, DesLauriers said. Agent Daniel Curtin said the FBI did not issue the photos earlier because authorities wanted to be meticulous: 'It's important to get it right.'

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And according to FBI sources who have spoken to CNN, still unreleased footage reveals that the suspects stayed at the scene to watch the devastation the two blasts created.

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'When the bombs blow up, when most people are running away and victims were lying on the ground, the two suspects walk away pretty casually,' said the official to CNN, who has seen the unreleased video.

'They acted differently than everyone else,' he added.

Stand-off: A police officer trains his weapon as chaos descends on Boston after multiple shots and explosions were heard in the suburb of Watertown

On alert: Police search neighborhoods yard by yard after a chase and shoot-out with two heavily armed men following the shooting of an MIT police officer

Manhunt: Dozens of police officers, FBI agents, national guard and SWAT teams rushed to Watertown after a car chase involving two suspects in a black Mercedes

Witnesses reported hearing explosions and gunfire as the police apparently engaged the two men and local television footage showed one man lying spread out on the ground, with his arms out, surrounded by police.However, it is now thought that this man is not one of the suspects wanted by law enforcement.Police officials would not discuss the incident with reporters.When asked for information on the incident, Boston police spokeswoman Neva Coakley frantically told MailOnline, 'I don't know anything... I don't know anything at this point.'An officer at the Waterdown police department responded similarly to questions about the incident, saying only, 'They are out in the street, that's all I know,' before hanging up the phone.As the battle raged, police urged everyone to stay inside of their homes. The area is still considered extremely dangerous. Massachusetts state police spokesman Frank Schifone told MailOnline that only one suspect is accounted for and he’s in the hospital.

Asked whether there is any tie between tonight’s incidents and the marathon bombings, he said, ‘At this time we don’t know. It’s all unfolding.’Initial reports suggest that one suspect is in custody and a police officer has been injured.Earlier, Cambridge police and the Middlesex District Attorney's office confirmed an officer was shot dead responding to a report of a disturbance when he was fired upon multiple times.He later died at a hospital. His name was not immediately released.State police spokesman Dave Procopio says the shooting took place about 10:30 p.m. outside an MIT building.Procopio says authorities are searching for a suspect or suspects. No arrests have been made.MIT police, Cambridge police and state police are involved in the investigation.About 11,000 people attend the prestigious school.The campus website said police were sweeping the campus and urged people to stay indoors.In a statement issued to the press, law enforcement officials said that no arrests have been made in the shooting and the search for a suspect or suspects is ongoing.

Chaos: In a photograph captured by David Green, a man closely resembling suspect Number Two in the Boston Marathon bombings (pictured far left in a white baseball cap) is seen calmly walking away from the scene

Early on Friday morning, the FBI released closeup shots of Suspect Number One (left) and Suspect Number Two (right)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston issued an emergency alert at 10.48 p.m. on Thursday night reporting that shots had been fired putting an officer was down and that a shooter was on the run. It has been reported that a 'Hispanic looking man' took the officer's weapon from him before firing on him. MIT posted this alert to their website.

'At 10:48 PM today gunshots were reported near Building 32 (Stata) which is currently surrounded by responding agencies. 'The area is cordoned off. Please stay clear of area until further notice. Unknown if injuries have occurred.. Although the situation is considered active and extremely dangerous, an investigation is underway.

'Updates will be provided at this site when more information becomes available.' The injured officer was from MIT Police and was being taken to Mass. General Hospital where he is currently in a critical condition. The campus newspaper 'The Tech' posted to Twitter, 'Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside.' Massachusetts State Police initially said the officer has suffered ‘life-threatening injuries.’ He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Clearer shot: David Green, 49, captured this picture with his iPhone likely of the man identified by the FBI as Suspect Number Two, as Green faced east on the corner of Fairfield and Boylston Streets, shortly after the Boston Marathon blasts

Comparison: Suspect Number Two is seen in surveillance footage from the FBI released on Thursday (left). The man closely resembling that suspect is seen (right) in a clearer image released by a man who had competed in the Boston Marathon and captured the picture as he ran toward the site of the blast

Earlier on Thursday, FBI Special Agent Richard DesLauriers spoke at a press conference to release photos of two men identified as 'suspect one' and 'suspect two' from surveillance footage near the blast site.

Suspect one is dressed in dark clothes, a baseball cap and wearing sunglasses, while suspect two is clearly wearing a white baseball cap on backwards - both are seen in the images with back packs on.
Originally, Mr Green thought that his photograph also included the man referred to as Suspect Number One, who was wearing a black baseball hat, a dark hooded jacket and khaki pants.

Though there is a man wearing khaki pants in Mr Green's picture, who is seen next to a woman in a pink jacket, the man in his picture is wearing a red jacket and is not believed to be the suspect being hunted down by the FBI.

Wanted: Suspect One (pictured back in khakis and a black hat) and Suspect Two (pictured front in a white hat and backpack) are the main suspects in the Monday bombings

Captured on camera: Suspects One (left) and Two (back right) who are wanted for questioning in relation to the Boston Marathon bombing of April 15th were revealed in this handout photo during an FBI news conference today

Images of suspect number one (left) and suspect number two (right) were released by the FBI on Thursday at a press conference held in Boston

The District Attorney's office in Boston later confirmed the officer had passed away.The school is describing the situation as 'active and extremely dangerous.' - and FBI agents have been witnessed at the scene.Boston has been on edge after two bombs ripped through the crowd near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injured 183 more.The image taken by Florida businessman David Green emerged just hours after the FBI lodged an appeal to identify two suspects behind the attacks that killed three and injured over 180.

His picture shows runners and spectators fleeing in panic around the suspect, closely resembling the man identified by officials as Suspect Number Two, who is wearing a white basketball cap and a dark hooded sweatshirt.Mr Green has spoken to the FBI and told the New York Times and CNN's Piers Morgan that agents believe the man is Suspect Number Two.

Earlier on Thursday, the FBI launched a hunt for two 'armed and extremely dangerous' men now considered suspects in Monday's deadly Boston bombings - as it was revealed they stayed to watch the carnage unleashed by the twin blasts.The earlier images, released by the FBI, show the as-yet unidentified men walking in single file toward the finishing line of the race eastward along Boylston Street at 2:37pm, approximately 13 minutes before the twin detonations which came 12 seconds apart. Hours after the initial photos were made public, investigators released closeup shots on Friday morning of the two suspects that more clearly show the men's faces.

This combination of Associated Press file images released by the FBI on Thursday show two images taken from surveillance video of what the FBI are calling suspect number 1, (left), in black cap,and suspect number 2, (right), in a white cap

Mr Green captured the astonishingly clear photo with his iPhone at 2:50pm on Monday, as he ran toward the site of the first blast. The married 49-year-old, who is the CEO of an athletic apparel company, had competed in the marathon and finished the race at around 1:40pm. It was the first time he had competed in the race.He was in search of friends who were cheering for him in the crowd when the blasts occurred, he told CNN's Piers Morgan on Thursday night.

As he ran toward the scene of the blast, he captured just one picture with remarkable clarity. After the explosions, Mr Green posted the photo to his Facebook page and also contacted the FBI on Monday, alerting them to the scene he had captured on his smartphone. On Thursday, after officials released the photos of the main suspects in the Boston bombings, one of Mr Green's friends contacted him and noted the resemblance to the man in Green's photograph and the picture of Suspect Number Two released by the FBI.

'I have spoken to several agents,' Mr Green, who is from Jacksonville Beach, Fla. told the New York Times.'They have got the photos, they are picking up material from me, and I don’t think there's any doubt,' he said. During his interview with CNN, Mr Morgan also probed about the authenticity of the photo.FBI officials 'told me it looks like a good picture,' he said.

After Mr Green's photograph was published, a federal investigator in Boston told the MailOnline that officials would not comment on the credibility of photographs other than the earlier pictures released by the FBI.The Florida resident told Piers Morgan that he is still numb from his experience in New England earlier this week. 'I was incapable of helping anybody. It was well beyond anything I had seen or knew how to deal with,' he said.

'It all happened very fast, there was a lot of screaming and a lot of noise.'As he sorts through the emotional impact of the experience he said it brings him some relief knowing that a simple photograph could possibly help investigators locate the perpetrators of the horrific attack. 'I hope if it helps solve this case, [it could] in a way redeem what I couldn't do at the site,' he told the CNN host.

In the photo taken by Mr Green, the man who appears to be Suspect Number Two is not wearing a backpack in the aftermath of the blast. He noted that a closeup of the photograph shows how the side of the suspect's hat has a number 3 emblazoned on the side. Previously, commentators had speculated it appeared that the number on the hat could have been a 7.Agent DesLauriers confirmed there are images of suspect two placing a backpack on the floor at the site of the second explosion 'within minutes' of the blast - but the FBI declined to show this sequence as specific details about it may be important for future questioning.

Making a direct appeal to the public, agent DesLauriers asked for any information, however insignificant that could lead to them identifying and eventually speaking to these individuals who are wanted in connection with the terror attack which killed three and injured over 180 people.

DesLauriers said investigators were particularly interested in interviewing witnesses who were in front of the Forum restaurant, site of the second blast.He also cautioned the public not to approach the two men, even if they think they identify them.'We consider them to be armed and extremely dangerous, No one should approach them, do not apprehend them,' said DesLauriers.'Do not take any action on your own. If you see these men, contact law enforcement.'The bombings that killed three people and wounded over 180 began a week of security scares that rattled the United States and evoked memories of the September 11, 2001 hijacked plane attacks.

Members of the media photograph images released by investigators of suspects in the two explosions during the Boston Marathon, at a news conference in Boston
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Fugitive Boston Marathon 'bomber' showed interest in Islam

By JENNIFER KEIL, DAVID K. LI and NORA BARAK
Last Updated: 11:09 AM, April 19, 2013
Posted: 10:26 AM, April 19, 2013

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev has every reason to live and love America. Now he’s the nation’s most wanted accused criminal, as cops shut down Boston and surrounding suburbs in a massive manhunt for the suspected bomber.

The fugitive came to America in 2009 and excelled in school, winning a $3,500 scholarship in 2011, according to his own Facebook page.

He listed his languages as "English, Russian and the Chechen language" and Islam to be his religion, according to the page.

Dzhokhar graduated in 2011 from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a prestigious public high school just outside Boston.

He was a high school wrestler and one neighbor said he’s completely floored that the sweet teenager he knows could be the FBI’s “Suspect No. 2” in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing.

“He was so grateful to be here, so grateful to be at the school, so grateful to be accepted,” photographer and neighbor Larry Aaronson told CNN.

“There was nothing [in Tsarnaev’s background] remotely close to this at all. He was a lovely kid.”

Aaronson said he understands how unbelievable his version of Tsarnaev appears to be.

“I’m not trying to protect or cover up,” he said. “This is the way I knew him to be.”

Tsarnaev was reportedly a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where cops descended on campus and shut it down.

The school could not immediately confirm if Tsarnaev was currently enrolled there.

According to Tsarnaev's Facebook page, he lists five things he "likes" including "corporation of evil" which is accompanied by a photo from Angry Birds. He also likes a Web site that hails Russia's decision to forbid adoptions of Russian children to US parents.

He also shows an interest in flags of caucuses in the republic and iPhones. His various posts show an interest in the spread of Islam.

He also posted an Instagram image of a Syrian child bleeding with the caption, "U don't care because I am not ur child right?"

According to Dzhokhar's Russian Facebook page, he came to US in 2009. In 2011, he won a $3,500 scholarship for college. They live with their parents.

Earlier today, the father of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing claims that his son who is still on the loose is a smart and accomplished young man.

Anzor Tsarnaev spoke with The Associated Press by telephone from the Russian city of Makhachkala on Friday after police said one of his sons, 26-year-old Tamerlan, had been killed in a shootout and the other, Dzhokhar, was being intensely pursued.

"My son is a true angel," the elder Tsarnaev said. "Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the US. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here."

According to a report on CBS News, neither brother was enrolled as a student.

A year-old YouTube video shows Tsarnaev in a video titled “Caucus Accents” where he parodies different accents by doing impressions of each with the caption "Islam is not the religion of terrorism! Judge Muslims on Islam, not vice versa!"

“He was normal,” Rindge & Latin classmate Lulu Emmons told the Boston Globe. “He kind of fit in with everyone. Not really close with anyone, but he was friendly."

Emmons can't believe she might have sat next to a terrorist in class.

“I am just a little shocked. I sat next to this guy. I joked with him. I laughed with him. I had class with him. It is a little crazy,” she said.

 

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Dead Boston Marathon 'bomber' was avid boxer, family members claim he was bad influence on younger brother

By DAVID K. LI
Last Updated: 3:56 PM, April 19, 2013
Posted: 3:54 PM, April 19, 2013
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.

The Boston Marathon bombing suspect, killed early this morning in a shootout with cops, was a community college dropout who became a devout Muslim over the past several years.

Family and friends of fugitive of Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, said he idolized his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who died today following the murder of an MIT campus police officer.

Dzhokar Tsarnaev was clearly the more academically inclined brother, having attended a prestigious high school before enrolling at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, meanwhile, had studied accounting as a part-time community college student.

The big brother was a student at Bunker Hill Community College for three semesters, studying accounting in fall 2006, spring 2007 and fall 2008, school officials said.

Despite their the brothers’ Chechen roots, Tamerlan didn’t become a devout Muslim until about seven years ago, family said.

"When I was speaking to the older one, he started all this religious talk, 'Insh'allah' and all that, and I asked him, 'Where is all that coming from?'" uncle Ruslin Tsarni said outside his Maryland home.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev at the 2009 Golden Gloves National Tournament of Champions in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Some family members said they believed Tamerlan was a bad influence on his little brother.

“I used to warn Dzhokhar that Tamerlan was up to no good,” cousin Zaur Tsarnaev told The Boston Globe in an interview today from Makhachkala.

“[Tamerlan] was always getting into trouble. He was never happy, never cheering, never smiling. He used to strike his girlfriend. He hurt her a few times. He was not a nice man. I don’t like to speak about him. He caused problems for my family.”

Tamerlan was an avid boxer who posed for a photographer’s picture essay “Will Box for Passport.” The photographer followed the 201-pound Tamerlan through his bouts at the 2009 National Tournament of Champions in Salt Lake City.

In the photo essay, the dead suspect revealed he had struggled to fit into American culture.

"I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them,” he said.

As a devout Muslim, Tamerlan didn’t drink or swear.

“He talked about it [religion] a lot,” said John Allan, owner of the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center in Boston where the dead suspect often fought.

“He always kept his shirt on. He did not like swearing at all.”

Allan told The Globe that the young fighter loved boxing but didn’t like the gym, which he believed promoted a culture opposite to his Muslim beliefs.

“In fact, he had a big problem with the boxing gyms he was training at because he thought they were very disrespectful because they used foul language and joked around a lot and weren’t what he considered professional,” said Allan.

 

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Photo of fugitive 'bomber' shows him just feet from youngest victim Martin Richard

By LARRY CELONA
Last Updated: 1:38 PM, April 19, 2013
Posted: 12:34 PM, April 19, 2013

A chilling photo emerged today of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev walking just feet from the sweet boy killed by the deadly blast.

The image shows Martin Richard standing on a barricade, in a photo obtained by The Post. Later, the young boy was been eating ice cream and standing near the finish line with his family when the first bomb went off.

The terrified family was trying to hop over the race barriers to safety when the second blast occurred, killing Martin.

“This is something [his parents] will never recover from,’’ said the Richards’ next-door neighbor, Jane Sherman said earlier this week.

“He went to the marathon with his family, and he never made it home.’’

His sister, Jane, 6, was severely injured and their mother, Denise, was hit in the head by the explosion and had to undergo surgery.

Doctors removed ball bearings from father Bill Richard’s leg. Only Martin’s older brother, Henry, 12, ran fast enough to get out of harm’s way.

“They were looking in the crowd as the runners were coming to see if they could identify some of their friends when the bomb hit,” said Rep. Steven Lynch (D-Mass.), who has known the Richards for 25 years.

Bill Richard was supposed to run the race but dropped out because of an injury, his friends and neighbors said.

 

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'I just do not believe our boys would do that': aunt

From ASSOCIATED PRESS
Last Updated: 4:47 PM, April 19, 2013
Posted: 3:16 PM, April 19, 2013
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Maret Tsarnaeva, an aunt of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, holds a reporter's smart phone which displays a scene from the bomb site

TORONTO — An aunt of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects said Friday the older brother recently became a devout Muslim who prayed five times a day, and she doesn't believe the brothers could have been involved in Monday's attack.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev had married and had a 3-year-old daughter in the U.S., Maret Tsarnaeva told reporters in Toronto.

"He has a wife in Boston and from a Christian family, so you can't tie it to religion," she said.

But she said the 26-year-old Tamerlan "seemingly did not find himself yet in America, because it's not easy."

Tamerlan was killed Thursday night during a shootout with police, and a huge manhunt was under way in the Boston area for his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar.

Tsarnaeva said she wants proof they are involved in the deadly bombing.

"We're talking about three dead people, 100-something injured, and I do not believe, I just do not believe our boys would do that ... I don't know them in the way that they could be capable of this," Tsarnaeva said.

She said her brother Anzor Tsarnaev had high expecations for his sons, especially Tamerlan.

She said her brother was desperate when he found out Tamerlan dropped out of his university. She said he always demanded more of his children and said Tamerlan was his favorite.

Tamerlan wasn't a devout practicing Muslim, "but just recently, maybe two years ago, he started praying five times a day," she said.

Tsarnaeva called both boys smart and athletic.

"Within the family, everything was perfect," she said.

Meanwhile, in an interview broadcast on Fox News, the suspects' father said he believed his son was framed.

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The suspect's uncle earlier urged his surviving nephew to turn himself in.

"Yes, we're ashamed. They're the children of my brother," Ruslan Tsarni, 42, told a throng of reporters outside his home in Montgomery Village, Md.

"Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured and from those who left," Tsarni said, raising his voice.

He said the older brother, Tamerlan, had become a devout Muslim about seven or eight years ago.

"When I was speaking to the older one, he started all this religious talk, 'Insh'allah' and all that, and I asked him, 'Where is all that coming from?'" said Tsarni, a corporate lawyer and executive.

He said his nephews had struggled to settle themselves in the U.S. and ended up "thereby just hating everyone."

Asked what he thought provoked the bombings, Tsarni said: "Being losers, hatred to those who were able to settle themselves. These are the only reasons I can imagine of. Anything else, anything else to do with religion, with Islam, it's a fraud, it's a fake."

Tsarni previously told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he was not completely shocked when he learned Friday morning that the older brother was named as a suspect.

"It's not a surprise about him," he said. "The younger one, that's something else."

Tsarni, who described himself as Muslim, vehemently denied that Chechnya or Islam had anything to do with the Boston bombings.

He said his brother left the U.S. and he had not talked to him since 2009. He said they had a personal falling out but did not elaborate.

"If somebody radicalized them ... it's not my brother, who just moved back to Russia. Who spent his life bringing bread to that table, fixing cars."

He offered his condolences to the bombing victims.

"We're sharing with them their grief. I'm ready just to meet with them. I'm ready just to bend in front of them, to kneel in front of them, seeking that forgiveness."

 

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Sister of suspected Boston Marathon bombers lives in NJ, 'I don't know what's gotten into them'

From POST WIRE REPORT
Last Updated: 3:39 PM, April 19, 2013
Posted: 11:50 AM, April 19, 2013

A woman who has been identified as the sister of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers spoke out today from her New Jersey home, according to an online report.

Alina Tsarnaeva, who refused to come to out of the West New York apartment but spoke from behind a door, expressed confusion over her brothers actions.

“They were great people. I never would have expected it,” she told the Star-Ledger. “They are smart – I don’t know what’s gotten into them.”

Just after 11 a.m., FBI agents arrived at the building set up a perimeter around it.

1 BOSTON MARATHON BOMB SUSPECT DEAD, MANHUNT UNDERWAY FOR BROTHER

Tsarnaeva, who did not identify herself but was listed on public records as the woman living there, referred to Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan, 26, as her own “brothers.”

“No I’m not okay – no one is okay right now,” she said. “I’m hurt for everyone who has been hurt. I’m sorry for all the people who are hurt and for all the people who lost their lives.”

Tsarnaeva told the newspaper she hadn't seen her brothers in several years.

Later, the FBI removed a computer from the apartment and black plastic bags, according to NorthJersey.com.

West New York Michael E. Indri told the site Tsarnaeva is cooperating with authorities.

 

[Motaro]

Bradley Cooper visits Boston Marathon bombing victim

Last Updated: 12:45 PM, April 19, 2013
Posted: 12:42 PM, April 19, 2013

Bradley Cooper and New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman have paid a visit to gravely injured Boston Marathon bombing victim, Jeffrey Bauman, Jr..

Edelman posted a photo of their visit on Twitter with the caption: “Visited #survivor #stud #hero Jeffrey Bauman Jr. today. He was looking great and is a true inspiration. #strong”

In the photo, Bauman gives a thumbs-up and holds a football while lying in his hospital bed.

The 27-year-old Bauman lost both his legs below the knees in the horrific Boston attack. Bauman was photographed being wheeled from the scene in a now-iconic photo captured by AP. Despite his injuries, he provided evidence while still in intensive care.

Julian Edelman via Twitter
New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman posted this photo of his and Bradley Cooper's visit to the hospital. “Visited #survivor #stud #hero Jeffrey Bauman Jr. today. He was looking great and is a true inspiration. #strong”

Bauman awoke in the hospital and asked for a pen and paper on which he wrote: “bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,” his brother, Chris, said.

Bauman then gave the feds a full description of the man he saw drop a bag at this feet. He said the man wore a cap and sunglasses, a description similar to the image of the FBI’s Suspect No. 1, his brother said.

The “Silver Linings Playbook” actor is in Boston filming director David O. Russell’s "American Hustle,” with Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale.

 

[Motaro]

Terrifying cache of explosives found at home of Boston bombing suspects as thousands of police officers scour locked-down city for fugitive after his elder brother accomplice dies in gun battle

• Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, 'Suspect 1' killed after explosions and machine gun fire in Boston suburb of Watertown
  
• Manhunt continues for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19,'Suspect 2' who was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap as police name him a 'terrorist'
  
• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted online he will 'kill everyone because we killed his brother'
• Two people taken into custody at the home in Cambridge where the brothers grew up
  
• Both suspects are 'brothers from the Russia region near Chechnya and had lived in U.S. since 2002'
• Police chief: 'Terrorist on the loose who wants to kill people – do not open your door'
• City in lock down: Mass public transport closed, flights canceled, armed officers conduct house-to house searches
• Amtrak cancels routes between Providence, Rhode Island and New York
  
• Police officer critically wounded in exchange of gunfire after suspects threw explosives during car chase
  

By JAMES NYE, LOUISE BOYLE, SIMON TOMLINSON and JILL REILLY PUBLISHED: 03:21 GMT, 19 April 2013 | UPDATED: 21:18 GMT, 19 April 2013
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A terrifying cache of explosives believed to belong to the suspected bombers have been found today as thousands of police officers continue to scour Boston for fugitive Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.At least seven IEDs have been located, some in Watertown and some at the Tsarnaev family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, police said. There were fears among officials that devices had been planted at other locations after one was reportedly discovered in the Charlesgate section of the city. The IED has been made safe.Police and SWAT teams were seen rushing to the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth campus where Dzhokhar is a student.

IIt earlier emerged that Dzhokhar, 19, posted a chilling message on Twitter eight months ago where he wrote: ‘Boston marathon isn’t a good place to smoke'.The message was uncovered as Boston remained on lock-down 16 hours into the manhunt for the 19-year-old terror suspect after he fled the scene of a shoot-out with police where his accomplice and older brother Tamerlan, 26, was killed.The tweet last August appeared on the micro-blogging site from user @J_Tsar - named in multiple reports as an alias for the man behind Monday’s atrocity. He also tweeted about his intent to grow a beard and how he ‘wanted out’ of American life.The messages suggested the level of forethought and planning that the Chechen immigrants allegedly put into the devastating attack on Boston which killed three people, including at eight-year-old boy, and left 176 injured.

Volatile: Police conduct a door-to-door search for 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after it emerged that IEDs had been found at two addresses in Watertown and Cambridge

Terrorists: Tamerlan Tsarnaev (right) was killed during an exchange of gunfire with police on Wednesday night. His younger brother Dzhokhar (left) is still on the run and reportedly has explosives strapped to his body

Foreboding: The message posted on Twitter to 'Abdul' by J_Tsar last August 10 mentioned the Boston Marathon - eight months before the atrocious attack

On the move: Several different agencies including the Boston police, FBI and SWAT teams were working together

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Scrutiny: A man looks out of his door as a SWAT team member approaches his neighbor's house this morning. Police have warned residents to stay indoors as the terror suspect remains at large

Flee: Residents evacuate as police go door-to-door on Norfolk Street in search of a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Cambridge
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Constant danger: Scores of police and SWAT team members were surrounding the Boston suburb on Friday morning

The tweets added to a picture of Dzhokhar which was emerging on Friday, as a young man who had hidden his sinister intentions beneath the facade of a party-loving but dedicated student who was captain of his high school wrestling team.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, emerged as the FBI's 'Suspect 2' on Thursday after he was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap and dropping a backpack shortly before the huge blasts.
Scores of heavily-armed police swarmed a Boston suburb today as the net tightened around the 'armed and dangerous' suspect who remained at large.

During a televised press conference on Friday, superintendent of Mass. State Police Timothy Alben said officers made door-by-door searches and had covered 60-70 per cent inside their perimeter.

Today's stand-off followed a dramatic night in which two suspects killed MIT campus police officer Sean Collier, 26, and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle that left one of them dead and his brother on the loose.

The terrorist, dubbed 'Suspect 1' by the FBI, was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26. He died in hospital from gunshot wounds and possible blast injuries after a fierce gun battle in Watertown, hours after the police officer was shot dead at the nearby MIT campus.

It was revealed today Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev are legal immigrants who have been in the U.S., for around a decade. They come from the Russian region of Chechnya which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars.

The entire city of Boston is on lock down with residents warned to stay indoors, public transport shut down, taxi service suspended and a no-fly zone above the city. Amtrak has suspended routes between Providence, Rhode Island and New York.

Fast-moving investigation: Since pictures of the two suspects were released at 5pm on Thursday, events have rapidly unfolded in the manhunt for the terrorists
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The drama unfolded around six hours after the FBI released clear images of two men named as suspects in the Boston blast which killed two young women and an eight-year-old boy and injured 176 during the city's annual marathon on Monday.

Just before 11pm on Thursday, the suspects approached Officer Collier from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shot him in the head.The two then stole a Honda CRV, robbed a nearby 7-Eleven, carjacked a Mercedes SUV and briefly kidnapped the driver before letting him go, the sources said. One brother drove away in the CRV, and the other drove away in the Mercedes. One then ditched the CRV and reunited with his brother in the Mercedes, where they then withdrew $800 from the ATM with the carjacking victim's card. Authorities say both suspects were in the Mercedes when they encountered police and hurled explosives at officers. Police officer Richard Donohue, 33, was seriously wounded in an exchange of gun fire.Tamerlan reportedly had an improvised explosive device strapped to his chest when he was killed. Dzhokhar escaped by driving through a line of police officers at the end of the street. The stolen vehicle has now been recovered by investigators.

Student: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (left) graduated from his Cambridge high school and was in college studying medicine. He is on the run after his brother Tamerlan (right) was killed after they were named terror suspects

High alert: State police arrest an unidentified man walking at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth campus during their sweep of the university on Friday

Distress: Police take away a woman near the home of 'suspect 2' Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Norfolk Street

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted online he will 'kill everyone because we killed his brother', according to a dispatcher in Watertown. Explosions were heard at a Boston home this morning as police continue to hunt for a marathon bombing suspect and another possible accomplice. Two people, one believed to be the mother of the men, have been taken into custody at the home in Cambridge where the brothers grew up but are not considered suspects. The home is surrounded by FBI and the bomb squad is on the scene. Dzhokhar was born in Kyrgyzstan, according to NBC. His brother Tamerlan was reportedly born in Russia. The brothers are believed to have moved to America with their family in 2002 or 2003.

Door to door: FBI went to every house in the search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after he and his brother led police on a car chase on Thursday night

Stay indoors: A resident views police in tactical gear conduct a search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings

Fast-paced: SWAT teams enter a suburban neighborhood around 9am on Friday to search for the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Massachusetts

Escape: A neighbor is escorted to safety as police surround a home while searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings

Closing in: Police run down a street in Watertown, Massachusetts on Friday screaming at members of the public and media to pull back as the hunt for terror suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev continues

Tightening the noose: SWAT teams close in on a property in the Watertown area

Lock-down: Police patrol a neighborhood in Watertown as officers go door to door during the manhunt on Friday morning

The 19-year-old, who attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, is an amateur wrestling champion who holds a Massachusetts driving license. He is a registered student at University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. The campus was ordered closed on Friday morning.

The older brother Tamerlan attended Bunker Hill Community College and was studying to become an engineer but took a year off to pursue boxing. He traveled to Russia for six months last year. He said in an interview with a Boston University student magazine in 2010: 'I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them.'

Tamerlan was once arrested for domestic assault on a girlfriend, ABC reported. In the hours since the Tsarnaevs have been identified as the prime suspects in the bombings, a picture has begun to emerge of the older brother as a man who felt like an outsider in the U.S. and had recently become radicalized. The 26-year-old had a profile on YouTube channel since August 2012. Five months ago, Tamerlan created a playlist dedicated to terrorism.

Named simply ‘Terrorists,’ the playlist included a pair of videos, which are now no longer available. Although most of the clips in the channel are ordinary music videos, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s YouTube channel shows signs that he had been drawn to radical Islamism. Among the songs on his playlists was one called ‘I will dedicate my life to Jihad.' He also featured videos recorded by recent converts to Islam.

Fears: Onlookers take pictures as they watch from windows while SWAT team members search for one remaining suspect at a neighboring apartment building

To the safety: A police officer evacuates a shoeless man holding a child as members of law enforcement keep the entire area in lock down

Cautious: Police from several different agencies search an apartment complex after a shootout

A friend of the brothers told CNN that he had known them since 2006 and they were 'normal kids' who partied and occasionally smoked. A classmate told CBS that Dzhokhar did not have an accent and that he assumed he had always lived in the U.S.

The uncle of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev urged his nephew to turn himself in. Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village in Maryland, said that the 19-year-old should give himself up and ask for forgiveness. The father of the suspects said that his son Dzhokhar is a smart and accomplished young man. Anzor Tsarnaev spoke by telephone from the Russian city of Makhachkala on Friday.

Anzor Tsarnaev said: 'My son is a true angel. Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the U.S. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here.' A sister of the Boston bombing suspects is 'heartbroken and devastated' after meeting with police and FBI over her brothers' involvement in the atrocious attack, it was revealed today. Police officers of West New York, New Jersey and FBI descended on the home of the woman who is believed to be Ailina Tsarnaev just after 11am on Friday.

Federal agents were seen removing cell phones and computers from her quiet suburban home in West New York in New Jersey. Two police trucks are being sent to her home after it was feared that Dzhokhar might try to reach her. However police did not expect the 19-year-old suspect to arrive. Police director Michael Indri told reporters she is a young mother with a baby girl and that she had not spoken to either brother 'in years'.

The director went on to describe the siblings as 'estranged'. The reason for the falling out is unclear. Indri said to the best of his knowledge there has been no attempt by Dzhokhar to contact his sister but the FBI said it is a possibility. The FBI are no longer at the property but her front door is being guarded by two police officers.

Director Indri was unaware how the young woman discovered that her brothers were the most wanted men in America but said that she ‘was co-operating fully’.

Threat: Small signs are posted in the Boston Public Gardens while devoid of people as law enforcement urged people to 'shelter in place'

Connections: A map showing the locations of the Boston Marathon bombings, the MIT campus where a police officer was shot dead and the suburb of Watertown where the gunfight broke out

On his tail: SWAT teams train their weapons toward as house from the roof of a shed as they carry out door-to-door searches for the fugitive terrorist
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Dangerous operation: A bomb squad officer uses a robot to remove an item, believed to be a water bottle, from the back of the car allegedly used by the suspects

Heroes: MIT campus police officer Sean Collier, 26, (left) was shot dead by the fleeing terror suspects. Officer Richard Donohue, 33, (right) was injured in the exchange of gunfire but is now in a stable condition in hospital

Flushing him out: SWAT teams along with Boston police flooded into suburban areas of the city during a fast and fluid investigation

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Second Boston Marathon bombing suspect in custody

By PEDRO OLIVEIRA Jr., LARRY CELONA, PHILIP MESSING, JAMIE SCHRAM and DAN MANGAN
Last Updated: 10:25 PM, April 19, 2013
Posted: 7:02 PM, April 19, 2013
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This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown, Mass.

The second of two brothers accused of orchestrating the Boston Marathon bombing massacre is now in custody.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — whose older brother Tamerlan was killed by cops early this morning — was captured hiding out in a boat parked in a backyard Friday and his older brother lay dead in a furious 24-hour drama that transfixed the nation and paralyzed the Boston area with fear.

At approximately 8:45 pm EST, cops cuffed him.

He was rushed away to a hospital moments later in serious condition.

Massachusetts State Police Col. Timothy Alben said, "For neighbors that lived in fear for an entire day, we are entirely grateful for the outcome here tonight. We have a suspect in custody."

Gov. Deval Patrick said, "It was a very, very complicated case, a very challenging case. There are still some questions to be answered. It’s a night when I think we’re all going to rest easy."

President Obama spoke from the White House about Tsarnaev's capture, saying it closes what he calls "an important chapter in this tragedy."

He said the nation owes a debt of gratitude to law enforcement officials and the people of Boston for their help in the search for the men.

Obama says there are still many unanswered questions about the Boston bombings, including whether the two men had help from others. He is urging the public to not rush to judgment about their motivations.

Capturing Tsar marked the end of a tense and chaotic twenty-four hours.

“Negative movement. Negative movement. He’s on his back,” a cop radioed after a series of loud pops at the scene of the standoff — where police feared Tsarnaev may have wearing an explosive suicide vest, as his brother had when he died.

“He’s bloody and definitely been shot,” a source told The Post. “He’s bleeding badly, covered in blood.”

The shocking discovery of Tsanaev came about an hour after cops revealed that a massive, all-day manhunt had failed to locate him, and allowed local residents to go back outside.

Reporters doing live broadcasts from the scene flinched as a flurry of gunshots were exchanged in the area where Tsarnaev was cornered by cops after an elderly resident spotted movement inside his 24-foot boat, which is stored on a trailer.

“He unhooked the zipper door [on the canvas wrapped around the boat], he saw there was a body,” a neighbor of the older man told The Post as the drama unfolded right outside his own house.

“So he ran in the house and called the police right away.”

Cops raced to the boat-owner’s house, and exchanged a flurry of shots with Tsarnaev as the owner took refuge in the neighbor’s home.

“He’s sitting up in the boat. They don’t know if he’s got explosives or not,” the neighbor said as he watched Tsarnaev though his window, whie police brass thronged his house.

A law enforcement source said the suspect appeared to be moving and was able to sit up “on the fence side, in the rear of the boat” before officers launched a “flash-bang” grenade, used to stun targets.

“Perp is sitting up in the boat. He’s been hit but is still alive,” said the source. “They asked him to come out, he didn’t comply. They saw movement and shot, thinking he was still armed. Everyone has been given instructions to stand down,” said the source.

“They really want him alive.”

More than 20 hours before, Tsarnaev’s 26-year-old brother Tamerlan was shot and killed after the pair cold-bloodedly murdered an unsuspecting MIT campus cop, car-jacked a woman in her Mercedes SUV, then fired assault rifles and lobbed pipe bombs and a grenade at pursuing police.

Dzhokhar amazingly managed to escape on foot after mistakenly running over his shot brother with a black SUV — triggering an unprecedented lock-down of Boston and surrounding areas.

During that manhunt, his and his brother’s fascination with “jihad” videos on social media and following the preaching of a firebrand cleric came to light.

But the Chechnen immigrants’ specific motive for Monday’s horrific bombings — which killed three people and injured 170 others — remained a mystery as 9,000 officers hunted door-to-door for fugitive college student Dzhokhar.

Among other rapid developments:

• Authorities found multiple assembled pipe bombs in the brothers’ Cambridge apartment, where investigators planned to do a “controlled explosion” to make the residence safe to enter. They also found other explosives linked to the brothers’ elsewhere, including un-exploded pipe bombs along the chase route.

•  Their mother Zubeidat, speaking from their native Russia, said “my son would never do this. It is a set-up” — and bizarrely claimed that Tamerlan, who had “was controlled by the FBI . . . for three to five years.” FBI sources scoffed at that claim.

• Sources told The Post that the FBI interviewed Tamerlan in 2009 after Russian authorities alerted US counterparts that he was a “radical,” but when questioned by the feds Tamerlan denied that claim.

• The FBI also interviewed the brothers’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev, in 2001, after the 9/11 terror attacks that year, when he was spotted taking photographs of the Manhattan skyline. No other action was taken, sources said.

• The brothers’ uncle Ruslan Tsarni angrily spoke out on live television, calling both of them losers, saying “we’re ashamed” as he urged, “Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness.” Tsarni said the brothers struggled to adjust to American life during their decade living here, but ended up “just hating everyone.”

• An Amtrak train was stopped and searched by police yesterday morning in Norwalk, Conn. after a false alarm that Dzhokhar was on-board.

• Authorities searched the West New York, NJ, apartment of one of the sisters of the brothers.

• The Boston Red Sox postponed a night game at Fenway Park, and Boston Bruins postponed their playoff game as well to keep people off the street at the search for Dzhokhar continued.

The head-spinning series of events capped a dramatic week that began when two separate homemade bombs exploded seconds apart — about 100 yards from each other — at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday.

The explosion’s three fatalities included an 8-year-old boy, Martin Richard. Multiple victims suffered amputated limbs from the blast, including two brothers who each lost a leg.

For three days authorities scrambled to discover who planted and ignited the two bombs — and sifted through thousands of videos and photos they obtained from surveillance cameras and private individuals’ cameras and smartphones.

Yesterday afternoon, the FBI, for the first time, released video and still images of two unidentified men, both wearing baseball caps, and walking purposefully with backpacks toward the locations where the bombs were left. An image after the explosions showed the man who had been wearing a white baseball hat backwards walking calmly away after the explosions — without his backpack.

That man was later identified as Dzhohkar, and his black-hat wearing companion as his brother Tamerlan.

Hours after their images went viral on the Internet — setting off a flurry of tips to authorities — the brothers began their rampage by killing MIT cop Sean Collier, and carjacking an unidentified woman who the took to multiple ATMs to get money from her account.

“Tell the police that we did the bombing,” the brothers told that woman, according to a source.

The running firefight the AK-47-toting brothers started in Watertown with cops — who they tried to slaughter by flinging homemade bombs at them — stunned residents who cowered in their houses.

“It looked like Iraq,” said a cop involved in that gun battle. “There was so many shell casings. Between them and the bombs that they threw at us, it looked like Iraq.”

The brothers’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev, echoed his wife when he spoke to reporters from the Russian republic of Dagestan, saying that his sons were “set up! They were set up!”

“They killed my older son Tamerlan,” said Anzor.

And he called the fugitive Dzhohkar “a true angel.”

But Boston Police Commissioner Ed David had something much different to say about Dzhohkar yesterday.

“We believe this man to be a terrorist,” David said. “We believe this to be a man who’s come here to kill people.”

With AP

Additional reporting by Josh Margolin and Dana Sauchelli

Bing maps view of the house in Franklin St, where police have pinned down a suspect in a boat in the backyard.

Bing maps view of a house in Franklin St, where police have pinned down a suspect in a boat in the backyard.

 

[Motaro]

'We got him!' Fugitive 'bomber' captured ALIVE after he was found hiding inside a BOAT in backyard of Boston home. Cops use flash-bang grenades and gas to flush out Dzhokar Tsarnev

• Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, on Friday night after a day-long manhunt using helicopters and heavily armed officers in a Boston suburb
• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, apprehended 'covered in blood and hiding in a covered boat in Watertown by homeowner who ventured out after curfew was lifted'
  
• Residents were warned to stay indoors amid gunfire, flash-bang explosions and tear gas
• The Boston Police Department said on Twitter that the suspect was in custody and officers were sweeping the area
• Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, killed after explosions and machine gun fire on Thursday night
  
• Both suspects are brothers from the Russia region near Chechnya and had lived in U.S. since 2002

By LOUISE BOYLE, JAMES NYE, SIMON TOMLINSON and JILL REILLY PUBLISHED: 03:21 GMT, 19 April 2013 | UPDATED: 03:37 GMT, 20 April 2013
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The Massachusetts college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombing was captured wounded, but alive after hiding out in a boat parked in a backyard on Friday evening. Boston police confirmed that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been apprehended, taking to social media to announce, 'Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info.'The mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, was quoted by the Boston Globe as taking to the police scanner to exclaim, 'We got him'. The bloody endgame came four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180. His older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, lay dead in a furious 24-hour drama that transfixed the nation and paralyzed the Boston area with fear.

Relieved law enforcement officers began cheering and clapping after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was arrested and is now in a serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is reported to have lost a great deal of blood. And thousands of jubilant members of the public took to the streets of Watertown to salute FBI, SWAT, ATF and police officers as they left the scene of Tsarnaev's final showdown. Neighbors reported that Tsarnaev was 'covered in blood' as he was taken away by law enforcement officials. Boston police commissioner Ed Davis was celebratory in his tone as he took to Twitter to say, 'It’s a proud day to be a Boston police officer. Thank you all.'

This striking picture show Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying on the ground of the property of 67 Franklin Street in Watertown after authorities apprehended him. It is not known if the bag visible in the bottom left belongs to the suspect

Seriously Injured: This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown, on Friday, April 19, 2013

Victory: Boston Swat team members smile after the capture of the second of two suspects wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings April 19, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts

'We Got Him': This is the exact moment that Boston police commissioner Ed Davis told Boston Mayor Thomas Menino that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been apprehended - as the suspect is seen (right) wearing an oxygen mask as he is transported to hospital for treatment

Suspect: An ambulance carries Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the scene after he was apprehended in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA

Wounded- but Alive: This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown on Friday

Jubilant: Boston Swat team members celebrate after the capture of the second of two suspects wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings on Friday evening

Overnight, the two suspects were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Investigators still have given no details on the motive for the bombing. Early on Friday morning, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a ferocious gun battle and car chase during which he and his younger brother hurled explosives at police from a stolen car, authorities said. The younger brother managed to escape.

During the getaway attempt, the brothers killed Sean Collier an MIT policeman and severely wounded another officer, authorities said. After a tense tumultuous all-day manhunt and house-to-house search by thousands of SWAT team officers with rifles and armored vehicles, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was cornered in a homeowner's yard, where he exchanged gunfire with police while holed up in a boat, authorities said.

He was taken away on a stretcher and was hospitalized in serious condition with unspecified injuries, police said. Just before 9 p.m., Boston police announced via Twitter that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was in custody. They later wrote: 'CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.'

A cheer went up from a crowd of bystanders in Watertown. 'Everyone wants him alive,' said Kathleen Paolillo, a teacher. Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted 'We got him,' along with a photo of himself talking to the police commissioner.

Cheering for Heroes: Two women applaud after the arrest of a suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown on Friday evening

Thankful: Residents applaud after the capture of the second of two suspects wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings after thousands of heavily armed police staged an intense manhunt for the Chechen teenager

'We Got Him': Watertown residents along Arsenal Street cheer for police officers after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev four days after the dual bombings at the Boston Marathon in Watertown, Massachusetts

Fist Pump: A SWAT officer raises his fist in Watertown, Mass. Friday, April 19, 2013, after the manhunt for the second of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing was captured

Just prior to this, police fueled the paranoid atmosphere when they said three other people were taken into custody for questioning at an off-campus housing complex at the University of the Massachusetts at Dartmouth where the younger man may have lived. Up until the younger man's capture, it was looking like a grim day for police. As night fell, they announced that they were scaling back the hunt because they had come up empty-handed.

But then a break came in a Watertown neighborhood when a homeowner saw blood on his boat, pulled back the tarp and saw the bloody suspect inside, police said. Chechnya has been 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.

The older brother had strong political views about the United States, said Albrecht Ammon, 18, a downstairs-apartment neighbor in Cambridge. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as 'an excuse for invading other countries.'

Also, the FBI interviewed the older brother at the request of a foreign government in 2011, and nothing derogatory was found, according to a federal law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The official did not identify the foreign country or say why it made the request.

Endgame: An ambulance carries Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the scene after he was apprehended in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA on Friday (left) as Police SWAT teams leave the area (right)

Heroes: A member of the North Metro SWAT team raises his fist while leaving the scene near Franklin Street on April 19, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts

Tense: Police officers listen to a vehicle's radio for word just before the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev four days after the dual bombings at the Boston Marathon in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA

The dramatic culmination of an almost 24-hour man hunt began this evening when gunshots were heard in Watertown, Massachussetts as police vehicles with flashing lights roared towards a house on a quiet street and bomb squad arrived on the scene.A Bearcat, a robotic device, was being sent in to check for explosives and tear gas being used.The owner of the boat David Henneberry reportedly emerged from his house after the curfew in Boston was lifted, saw blood on the vessel, lifted the cover and discovered a person inside. He then fled back to his house and called police, according to CNN.

Flash-bangs were being thrown in by police who had surrounded the area to try to flush out the suspect who appeared to have been at the location for most of the day.Police told neighbors that the suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is covered in blood and may have been shot in exchange of gun fire last night where his accomplice elder brother was killed.

Police immediately reissued an alert to stay inside after earlier announcing that people could move about with caution. An ambulance also arrived at the scene as a helicopter flew overhead. The joint task force of FBI and police officers appeared to be moving more carefully after making visual contact with the suspect inside the perimeter they had searched for the past day.

CNN reported that a family of ten were removed from the scene and officers were seen carrying children. The home reportedly belongs to Mr Henneberry and Elizabeth Henneberry, a couple in their mid-sixties.

Drama: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is believed to have been taken in this ambulance and taken to Mt. Auburn hospital in the city to be treated for his wounds

Expectant: Reporters gather to the rear of the ambulance believed to be carrying Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Mt. Auburn hospital to be treated for his wounds

Relief: Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (left) congratulates Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick upon the capture of marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

The search for the younger brother all but paralyzed the Boston area for much of the day. Officials shut down all mass transit, including Amtrak trains to New York, advised businesses not to open, and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay inside and unlock their doors only for uniformed police.

'We believe this man to be a terrorist,' Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said. 'We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people.' Around midday, the suspects' uncle Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., pleaded on television: 'Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness.'

Authorities said the man dubbed Suspect No. 1 — the one in sunglasses and a dark baseball cap in the surveillance-camera pictures — was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, while Suspect No. 2, the one in a white baseball cap worn backward, was his younger brother.

Found? Police rushed to the scene where it is thought that the suspect was in a boat in a backyard

Stand-Off: Officers look on as the search for suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings continues, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown

A police officer keeps watch after responding to a reported shooting next to a small 9/11 tribute painted on a truck on April 19, 2013 in Watertown

Police keep a close watch on a blocked-off street as they move towards a police assault on a house on Franklin Street in Watertown, Massachusetts on Friday evening

A light beam from a helicopter, top right, aims in the direction of Watertown, where officials searched for a suspect in the Boston Marathon explosions all Friday

Police officers guard the entrance to Franklin street where there is an active crime scene search for suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown

Police officers keep watch after responding to a reported shooting on April 19, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts - the culmination of an almost 24-hour search for Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Fear: People react while watching police respond to a reported shooting on April 19, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts

Police SWAT team members run towards the scene of gunfire as police assault a house on Franklin Street during the search for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Police converge near the scene where 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was in hiding on April 19, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts

This map shows the location of incidents surrounding the manhunt for the two Boston Marathon bombings suspects and includes an updated timeline of events and information on the Tsarnaev brothers

Emergency call: A homeowner phoned 911 which sent police racing to the scene in a Boston suburb

An officer carries a child away from an area where a suspect is hiding on Franklin St., on April 19, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts

Lock down: An individual appears to have been cornered in a boat in a backyard in a Boston suburbs, reports said

Hiding place: Police carefully moved in on the alleged suspect who has already thrown explosive devices at officers on Thursday

Cornered: Police converge near the scene where it was believed 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in hiding
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[MrBlueSky]

Second Boston Marathon bombings suspect captured; siblings' motives for massacre remain unclear

By FRANK ROSARIO in Boston and LARRY CELONA and DAN MANGAN in New York
Last Updated: 9:46 AM, April 20, 2013
Posted: 1:51 AM, April 20, 2013

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is visible through an ambulance window after he was captured in Watertown, Mass. Friday.

The Chechen immigrant brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon were devout Muslims who appeared to become more radicalized in recent months — posting Islamic “jihad” videos on social-media sites and following the preachings of a firebrand cleric.

But the men’s motive for Monday’s massacre — which killed three and maimed more than 170 others — remained a mystery as the younger brother, college student Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was taken into custody last night.

HE’S SUNK: Home surveillance video catches Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sneaking into a boat in the back yard of a Watertown, Mass., property, where police caught the Boston Marathon bombing suspect last night.

GRATITUDE: Relieved residents of the Boston suburb of Watertown applaud departing law-enforcement officials last night after the surviving bomber was taken into custody.

He was captured after a nearly two-hour standoff and shootout with cops after he hid out in a boat stored in a back yard in Watertown, a Boston suburb.

His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was fatally shot yesterday morning after cops said the pair executed an MIT campus cop, carjacked a man in his Mercedes SUV, then fired assault rifles and lobbed pipe bombs and a grenade at pursuing police.

Dzhokhar escaped on foot after running over his mortally wounded brother with an SUV — triggering an unprecedented lockdown of Boston and its surrounding suburbs.

Among yesterday’s rapid developments:

* Three people were taken into custody in New Bedford “on the assumption there is an affiliation with suspect Number 2,” said Lt. Robert Richard of the New Bedford Police.

Dozens of cops swarmed the neighborhood, detaining two young men and a woman, and evacuating neighboring apartments, witnesses said.

* Authorities found multiple assembled pipe bombs in the brothers’ Cambridge apartment, where investigators planned to carry out a “controlled explosion” to make the residence safe to enter.

They also found other explosives linked to the brothers elsewhere, including unexploded pipe bombs along the chase route.

* It emerged that the FBI had interviewed Tamerlan about his “extremist views,” but then closed the case.

Tamerlan was interviewed by the FBI in 2009 after authorities in Russia said he was a “radical,” according to sources. When G-men asked Tamerlan whether he was a radical, he replied “no,” a source said.

* Their father, Anzor, was interviewed by the FBI in 2001 for taking pictures of the Manhattan skyline after the 9/11 attacks.

* Their mother, Zubeidat, speaking from their native Russia, said, “My sons would never do this. It is a set-up” — and bizarrely claimed that Tamerlan “was controlled by the FBI . . . for three to five years.”

* The brothers’ uncle Ruslan Tsarni, speaking on TV, called both the men “losers” of whom he was “ashamed,” and urged, “Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness.”

Tsarni said the brothers struggled to adjust to American life during their decade living here, but ended up “just hating everyone.”

* Authorities searched the West New York, NJ, apartment of one of the suspects’ sisters.

* The Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins postponed their games to keep people off the street as the search for Dzhokhar continued.

The events capped a dramatic week that began when two homemade bombs exploded seconds apart — about 100 yards from each other — near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday.

Police clear the bleachers after two explosions went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15.

The explosions’ three fatalities included an 8-year-old boy, Martin Richard. Multiple people lost limbs in the blast, including two brothers who each lost a leg.

For three days, authorities scrambled to discover who had planted and ignited the two bombs — and sifted through thousands of videos and photos they obtained from surveillance cameras and private individuals’ snapshots and smartphones.

On Thursday afternoon, the FBI for the first time released video and still images of two unidentified men, both wearing baseball caps and walking swiftly with backpacks toward the locations where the bombs were left.

An image showed the man who had been wearing a white baseball hat backward walking calmly away after the explosions — without his backpack.

That man was later identified as Dzhohkar, and his black-hat-wearing companion as his brother, Tamerlan.

He was seen leaving the scene as panicked spectators scrambled from the smoke-filled scene on Boylston Street.

The FBI released these surveillance photos of the suspects Thursday.

Hours after their images went viral on the Internet — setting off a flurry of tips to authorities — police said the brothers began their rampage by killing MIT campus cop Sean Collier and carjacking an unidentified man who the took them to multiple ATMs to get money from his account.

“Tell the police that we did the bombing,” the brothers told that man, according to a source.

The running firefight the AK-47-toting brothers started in suburban Watertown with cops stunned residents who cowered in their houses. In addition to firing, the brothers flung homemade bombs at the cops.

SWAT team members and police swarmed Watertown Friday searching for 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The brothers’ father echoed his wife when he spoke to reporters from the Russian republic of Dagestan, saying that his sons were “set up — they were set up!”

“They killed my older son, Tamerlan,” Anzor said.

And he called Dzhohkar “a true angel.”

But Boston Police Commissioner Ed David had something much different to say about Dzhohkar yesterday.

“We believe this man to be a terrorist,” David said. “We believe this to be a man who’s come here to kill people.”

Additional reporting by Josh Margolin