There's a lot of people claiming that this should never have happened, that intelligence should have been better. They wonder how one person could do this, when in reality there were probably multiple perps. It's Call of Duty warriors telling us how to do stuff they don't understand.

One of the oddest theories that's turned up is that it was an MIT prank that went FUBAR as part of the holidays celebrations.

Civic duties noted to be learned from in this : First Aid is something that should be taught in schools and need to find a class for myself.

I can't figure out, especially if it's politically motivated, why they don't go after those who make them angry, instead of people utterly removed from their circumstance, like marathon runners on a nice afternoon.

No, i'm the resident dumbass. Get my ass right. ;)

Gunshots reported around Stata Center in Boston. Boston Police, Massachusetts National Guard, ATF, and the FBI are all responding.

Have you ever lived in the Middle East? Me 2 1/2 years in Saudi and 3 years in Egypt... none of my Arab friends or acquaintance gave a &*!@ about settlements.

The core issue between Arabs/Muslims and Israelis/Jews is older and more complex that.

Not entirely surprised. One bad thing happens, the whackos and wannabees come bursting out of the woodwork. This is, however, a bit more whacko than usual.

]CNN's reporting is particularly confused, making both claims in the same article. Clearly an 'update' fiasco. CBS is saying '"Involved".

USA Today and Associated Press are reporting that the suspects are indeed Russian, the "white hat" guy is identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19 yrs old.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/19/suspect-in-custody-newspaper-says/2095845/

As speculated by my mother: They may not have been prepared for the level of observation - the sheer numbers of cameras. It's possible they had no end-game plan, thought they'd just sit out the investigations anonymously, and have now panicked when they realized that they were found out so quickly.

Which is why I maintain contact with my buds still in uniform. There's less they can tell me than we used to know, but they still have insights they can legally share. Not the same as sourced news, but second-hand analysis from informed sources still matters.

Heads full of worms, aye.

What I find odd is that 4chan had it nailed in the first few hours. Seriously I was on the threads and it was picked apart thoroughly, and that's one of the guys identified.

Now I get to watch as the conspiracy theorists who were analyzing this one in real time, get it right and see the law enforcement follow it. If they realize that if this happened a week ago, they would be finding every excuse under the sun why it couldn't be them.

Have been listening to BBC World News Hour on the way to work this AM.
They spoke with the boys' uncle, who characterized the older suspect as a 'loser' - a dropout who was doing a whole lot of not much, despite having much potential. BBC's Russia Desk has spoken with the boy's father, who seems to have a lot of difficulty connecting teh younger boy to events in his mind. Apparently the younger brother was expected to be a real star. Both boys were into martial arts; wrestling and some form of Asian martial art. The younger is reported to have had a scholarship in wrestling.


Other stories on the BBC include one about the man seen being hustled off in a wheelchair, both legs with rough dressings on; He lost both legs, but when he woke after surgery, he managed to request a pen and paper, wrote out an accurate description of one of the suspects. This was before the pictures had been released - and handed the description off to an FBI agent.

Increasingly, the 'Columbine' angle seems to be accurate.

How did they get their guns?
Once again the NRA will be found to be murderers.
Jon , NJ (04.19.13)

Police have identified Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, as the "black hat" bombing suspect, killed during the manhunt that followed. Readers have pointed out that Johannes Hirn made Tsarnaev the subject of a photo essay, "Will Box for Passport," taken before the boxer competed at National Golden Gloves competition in Salt Lake City. The captions give us a micro-profile of the suspect.

Tamerlan, who studies at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and wants to become an engineer, took the semester off from school to train for the competition.
Tamerlan fled Chechnya with his family because of the conflict in the early 90s, and lived for years in Kazakhstan before getting to the United States as a refugee.
Originally from Chechnya, but living in the United States since five years, Tamerlan says: "I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them."
If he wins enough fights... Tamerlan says he could be selected for the US Olympic team and be naturalized American. Unless his native Chechnya becomes independent, Tamerlan says he would rather compete for the United States than for Russia.
Tamerlan says he doesn't drink or smoke anymore: "God said no alcohol." A muslim, he says: "There are no values anymore," and worries that "people can't control themselves."

Now that the CopyCats have been activated and watched an entire city be placed on lockdown and utterly disrupted, I'd be nervous about attending any of the gay Pride Parades and Events coming up worldwide throughout the month of June. That will bring out the true crazies if there are anymore.

Actually, I *would* recommend pretty much something very close to exactly that. Living normally, and refusing to bend to these kinds of things is a great big F*SK YOU! to the people who do them - They want to make us change - Screw that!

Common-sense actions and precautions that do not interfere with life as lived normally are fine. But panicking into making serious changes to our social structure and behavior is surrender. I frankly find the DHS to be one of the most humiliating defeats forced on us by terrorism. The Patriot Act is another.

You cannot prevent whackos - they exist now, and always will, in every society, no matter what the precautions. But there are people out there who hate us simply for being us. The best way to stave them off whilst getting revenge on them is to keep on being what they hate.

A police state for terrorism is like a sledge hammer for a fly, you won't hit the fly any better and you'll wreck your home.

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev became a U.S. citizen on September 11, 2012, a federal official tells CNN.

In my 48 years, I have yet to see any genie go back into the bottle. Not once.

I'm just not buying it. The aerial support have had days and days to "be at the ready".

As stated in my post above, most of the aerial exercises I witness are at night. Exclusively. It's practically a given.

Obviously, these guys are not fully prepared for some reason, which I find strange. And strange that not one of the dozen officers had enough of a handle on the situation that a pursuit was not initiated.

This is all really hard to justify, and I'm finding it more and more suspicious.

Sixty people still unaccounted for after deadly fire and huge explosion at fertilizer plant in U.S. state of Texas.

I haven't been keeping up for the last 4 pages because you guys starting going into other territories, but I see that ones down and the other is still being hunted.

I'm posting though because I can't help but notice msn's conspiracy theory title to one of their article:

Bombing suspect on the run became US citizen last year on Sept. 11

Is that really even important information? Also is it me that is perhaps reading into that too much?