Shooting reported on MIT campus

[Likely Voter]

This is starting to seem more an more like the case of Faisal Shahzad the failed Time Sq. Bomber. Immigrants who tried to make it work in the USA then life didn't work out then became 'self-radicalized'

But were their motivations more about Chechnyan nationalism or anti-Western Radical Islam?

[Tender Branson]

This is starting to seem more an more like the case of Faisal Shahzad the failed Time Sq. Bomber. Immigrants who tried to make it work in the USA then life didn't work out then became 'self-radicalized'

But were their motivations more about Chechnyan nationalism or anti-Western Radical Islam?

This will only be known of course if they get him alive and he talks to them about their motive.

Something else now: "to submerge in Watertown" - kind of a bizarre phrase for describing the suspect hiding in the city.

[Peeperkorn]

Immigrants who tried to make it work in the USA then life didn't work out then became 'self-radicalized'
 

The same story of the terrorists of Madrid.

[Likely Voter]

I hate to get political, but this is not going to help immigration reform, especially in the House.

[Spamage]

Correct me if I'm wrong but did NBC just say they became citizens on 9/11?

[Mr. Morden]

NBC just reporting that the older brother (the one who's now dead) apparently left the USA for several months early in 2012 to visit Russia.

[Tender Branson]

Correct me if I'm wrong but did NBC just say they became citizens on 9/11?

They are not US citizens, but LPRs.

[Tender Branson]

Quote of the Day

"I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?"

-- Arkansas State Rep. Nate Bell (R), on Twitter.

[Dereich]

The uncle is an outspoken guy; his interviews are pretty great. Here's two of them: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/19/turn-yourself-in-and-ask-forgiveness-angry-uncle-bombing-suspect-demand
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/51596458/#51596458

Also, remember to take this http://www.shouldilivetweetthescanner.info/ into account when posting; there's still a lot of false information going around muddling up everything. There is also speculation that the scanner information is intentionally falsified to keep important information from being broadcast to the suspect.

[Peeperkorn]

Quote of the Day

"I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?"

-- Arkansas State Rep. Nate Bell (R), on Twitter.

Disgraceful.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Chechens, eh? Looks like the "Homegrown right-wing extremist" speculation was wrong.

[BluegrassBlueVote]

Quote of the Day

"I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?"

-- Arkansas State Rep. Nate Bell (R), on Twitter.

So I guess that makes all of Boston's conservative gun-toters even bigger cowards.

[Mr. Morden]

The older brother may have been influenced by an Australian sheik who hated Harry Potter:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/19/bombing-suspects-followed-harry-potter-hating-australian-sheikh/

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He also called for the beheading of Geert Wilders:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/19/the-sheikh-who-may-have-influenced-boston-s-tsarnaev-brothers.html

EDIT: more:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/459253/20130419/feiz-mohammad-tamerlan-tsarnaev-boston-marathon.htm

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[minionofmidas]

Black Hat is reported to have been killed.


White Hat guy has reportedly been identified as Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student who has been missing since March.

Whoever came up with this is a fukcing moron.

The traditional media is a joke. Not sure why people still take them seriously.

Eh, I think the internet community is more to blame for the Tripathi thing blowing up, honestly.

The traditional media's use of the internet is a disgraceful joke.

[minionofmidas]

This is allegedly his social media profile:

http://vk.com/id160300242

So he wrote this 1 year ago...

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Which Google translates as...

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Looks like a Chechen lunatic, indeed.

Huh? It's a timehonored bitter joke adapted to Russia, where the Black, the Mexican and the Chinese guy of the California version would have be Caucasians to make it work.

[Old Man Svensson]

Quote of the Day

"I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?"

-- Arkansas State Rep. Nate Bell (R), on Twitter.

Oh, wow, what a display of American empathy. Wonder how much good his AR-15 would have done him in the face of a shrapnel bomb?

[bgwah]

I wonder how many Texas conservatives which they had sensible zoning laws now...

[minionofmidas]

I wonder how many Texas conservatives which they had sensible zoning laws now...

That was what we were wondering about, hearing about that (including the apparently exaggerated number of 60 dead) on the radio. Who the hell puts a fertilizer plant inside town, near the high school and the hospital, when there's vast miles of emptiness around? Don't these people realize a fertilizer plant is a security risk?

[Peeperkorn]

Ultraconservative Arkansas should be expelled from the Union. The only good thing they gave to the World was our beloved Macho Supremo Alpha Male Bubba Clinton.

[minionofmidas]

Ultraconservative Arkansas should be expelled from the Union. The only good thing they gave to the World was our beloved Macho Supremo Alpha Male Bubba Clinton.

Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell, Jimmie Driftwood, Levon Helm, Billy Bob Thornton, Gauge *leer* ... yeah I admit, not that impressive a list overall.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Not sure if this has been posted or not yet, but this is supposedly his real twitter profile: https://twitter.com/J_tsar

[minionofmidas]

Not sure if this has been posted or not yet, but this is supposedly his real twitter profile: https://twitter.com/J_tsar

Good. I approve of stress free kind of guys.

[Peeperkorn]

Ultraconservative Arkansas should be expelled from the Union. The only good thing they gave to the World was our beloved Macho Supremo Alpha Male Bubba Clinton.

Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell, Jimmie Driftwood, Levon Helm, Billy Bob Thornton, Gauge *leer* ... yeah I admit, not that impressive a list overall.

Cash (or the rests of him) could stay.

[Likely Voter]

How does a 19 year-old slip away? They had a million cops/FBI/etc there and he just drove off? No helicopters?

My bet is he is close by to the location of the shooting. He is probably in some strangers house and is holding them hostage or maybe killed them and his trying to wait it out. That's probably why they are going door to door.

[Eraserhead]

Ah, didn't think the older one looked 20 as they were originally reporting. 26 makes more sense.