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Authorities last night described these people as "not suspects". But they took them away in handcuffs, so there must have been at least some concern about safety, if not arrests; Daily Mail characterizes it as "arrests", which seems fair given the pictures:

The two men arrested last night in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings drive a car with the licence plate that reads: 'Terrorista #1'

The students, named by neighbours by their first names Azmat and Diaz, drive a black BMW 330XI with the personalised plate and a sticker on the back which reads: 'F*** you, you f****** f****'.



They are thought to be from Kazakhstan and had not been seen since the bombings until last night when their ground floor apartment in New Bedford, MA, was raided by a dozen FBI agents at gunpoint.

One of their girlfriends was also arrested. All three are in their late teens or early 20s.

Their apartment was raided because police say the younger Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have lived at their address.

MailOnline has discovered another link – Dzhokhar Tweeted pictures of the car on his Twitter account J_tsar.

In one picture the BMW is next to another dark coloured sports car with the caption: 'Place your bets' as if they are about to race.

In another a group of boys stand by both vehicles and a youth can be seen making a gesture that looks like a gun towards the camera.

The three arrests took place at the Hidden Brook housing complex in New Bedford.

A neighbour claimed that the men had said the BMW was stolen or that they claimed they had rented it and were not paying the rental fee.[/b]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312123/Two-owners-Terrorista-1-BMW-believed-friends-surviving-Boston-bombing-suspect-taken-custody-second-time.html

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Boston Terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev Kicked Out Of Mosque
Service After Screaming At Imam For Honoring Non-Muslim MLK Jr.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev... (who you see here taking a very long nap)... was thrown out of the mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center Mosque, about three months ago, after he stood up and shouted at the imam during a Friday prayer service, they said. The imam had held up slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of a man to emulate, recalled one worshiper who would give his name only as Muhammad.

Enraged, Tamerlan stood up and began shouting, Muhammad said.

"You cannot mention this guy because he's not a Muslim!" Muhammad recalled Tamerlan shouting, shocking others in attendance.

"He's crazy to me," Muhammad said. "He had an anger inside.... I can't explain what was in his mind."

Tamerlan was then kicked out of the prayer service for his outburst, Muhammad recalled. "You can't do that," Muhammad said of shouting at the imam.

Still, Tamerlan returned to Friday prayer services and had no further outbursts, Muhammad said.


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NEW BEDFORD — Agents wearing FBI and Department of Homeland Security jackets detained two men at the Hidden Brook apartment complex just hours after releasing three people believed to be associated with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

A neighbor who declined to identify herself said the same two men were among the three people taken into custody by the FBI Friday afternoon.

An FBI spokeswoman could not provide any information on the two men, both of whom were led away in handcuffs around 3:50 p.m. Saturday, or anything related to the apartment, citing the "ongoing" nature of the investigation.

MSNBC wants the FBI to checkout the local Tea Party.

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Mother of the two Tsamaeva terrorists busted for shop-lifting last year.

Loss prevention from Lord & Taylor called to report they had detained a shoplifter. Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, 45, of 410 Norfolk St., Apt. 3, Cambridge, was arrested and charged with larceny over $250 (women's clothing valued at $1,624), and two counts of malicious/wanton damage/defacement to property.

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CNN's Christiane Amanpour Says She Hoped "Beyond Hope"
The Boston Bombing Suspects Weren't Muslims

(I'm sure she's devastated they weren't white "right-wing" terrorists.)

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/04/19/cnns-amanpour-hoped-beyond-hope-boston-bombers-werent-mideast-muslims#ixzz2QwBJp2qw

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Suspect #2 Put Backpack Down Right
Next To 8-Year-Old Martin Richard

Megyn Kelly        ✔ @megynkelly 
Fox's @RickLeventhal reports officials knew of Suspect #2 on
Tue & have pic of him putting backpk down right nxt to
8-yr-old victim Martin.
4:11 PM - 18 Apr 2013

Picture Of Bombing Suspect With Bomb Next To 8 Year Old

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Who could not feel better looking at those furry faces?
Ruthie and Luther visit with a survivor in Boston.

Amid the suffering and wreckage of the tragedy in Boston, a little furry comfort is on its way.

Specially trained golden retrievers are being sent to the city by The Lutheran Church Charities to provide relief to the community after the attacks, reported Today.com.

The dogs will be stationed at a Lutheran church just a few blocks away from the finishing line, for anyone who wants to talk or cuddle. They are also scheduled to visit victims of the attacks in local hospitals, Today said.

A user on Reddit posted a photo of a therapy dog — not affiliated with The Lutheran Church Charities canines— greeting those who returned to the area to collect their gear Wednesday morning — and the image has gone viral, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Reports coming are getting weirder and weirder....


Report: Boston Terrorists May Have Had Suicide Pact, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Tried
To Blow His Brains Out, Bullet Tore Through His Neck Instead

The alleged Boston Marathon bomber is awake and responding to questions in his hospital bed.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is responding sporadically in writing to questions from investigators regarding other cell members and other unexploded bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

The 19-year-old shoved his pistol in his own mouth and pulled the trigger as SWAT officers and federal agents closed in on the boat where he was hiding on Friday night. However, instead of killing him, the bullet simply tore through his neck.

Authorities initially said they couldn't question him because of the throat wound. CNN reports earlier today that Tsarnaev was 'intubated and sedated' at a Boston hospital.

The Boston police commissioner said Tsarnaev is in 'critical but stable' condition on Sunday – which appears to be a downgrade from reports earlier this weekend that his condition was only 'serious.'

Boston Mayor Tom Menino had earlier feared that federal agents would never be able to interview Tsarnaev but it seems that investigators may already be making progress.

Police sources told MailOnline that investigators are looking into the possibility that Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan had a suicide pact so that neither of them could be taken alive and put on trial. Authorities believe Dzhokhar likely killed him brother, who was handcuffed, when he ran over him.

A suicide pact could also explain why 19-year-old Dzhokhar ran over his own brother in his stolen Mercedes SUV as he escaped from the scene, the sources added.






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312486/Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev-Boston-bombing-suspect-gun-mouth-fired-botched-suicide-attempt.html#ixzz2R7xLRkZU

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What's His Jihad?

Liberal Hopes For Right Wing Extremism Dashed in Boston

20th April 2013
by Scott Kirwin

So contrary to the hopes of some on the Left, the bombers of the Boston Marathon are not white tea party types like myself but Muslims from Chechnya. Dzhokar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, had been in the country for several years. One of the assumptions made by liberals about Islamists is that they misunderstand us, that if they only got to know us better (and if we stopped blowing them up in their homeland and supporting the evil Jews) they'd like us and wouldn't want to harm us. Attacks like 9-11, the thwarted Time Square bombing, and the Fort Hood Shooting are in the eyes of liberals based on ignorance just as much as they are on misguided foreign policy.

Cases like the Tsarnaev brothers undermine the "they don't understand us" argument originally put forward by Erasmus 500 years ago, as do the inconvenient facts that all of the 9-11 hijackers as well as the plotters including Osama bin Laden himself spent years studying in the United States and the West. These men are not ignorant, and to imply that they are shows an elitist and racist arrogance that liberals would abhor if they could see themselves from a perspective other than their own.

I don't believe I am stuffing a straw man when I write that to a greater degree an American liberal believes the following:

1. Atheism is the sign of an enlightened mind.
2. All religions are the same, based on ignorance, and the enemies of knowledge.
3. Women are the equal of men and should be treated as such in all spheres both public and private.
4. Western culture is inferior to other cultures, or at best, equivalent.
5. Sexual freedom is the greatest expression of personal freedom.

In the US there are no doubt several protestant denominations of Christianity that would agree with at least some of these propositions. The most liberal sect of Islam I know of is the Ismaili sect, and even that sect would disagree with all of the propositions. Do you think Tamarlan Tsarnaev believed in any of those propositions with the possible exception of western inferiority (or rather did, evidently blowing himself up before capture)?

My abhorrence of Islam isn't based on fear or ignorance. I've read the Koran and more importantly, the Hadith, or interpretations of the Koran in the centuries following Muhammad's death. I've lived in a Muslim country, eaten halal food and have celebrated Muslim holidays. I have studied Islam and its history and although do not consider myself an expert on either I know my way around the religion well enough so that I can confidently say that I know what I don't know. How many liberals have done the same? A liberal looks at the Muslim community and blames American conservatives for Islamic extremism. I look at the Umma... (A community of faithful within Islam: within Islam, the community of the faithful that transcended long-established tribal boundaries to create a degree of political unity) ...and wonder why, based on the teachings of Muhammad and the interpretations found in the Hadith, all Muslims aren't Islamic extremists. Muslims have a pretty good idea of what American life and life in general in the West is like, and the truth is that a sizeable minority of them don't like it.

These Muslims find the idea of a government without G-d just as abhorrent as liberals find a government with G-d. Islam makes it clear that all law derives ultimately from Allah through his prophet Muhammad, which is why the Hadith sprung up to handle legal questions that Muhammad himself didn't address while alive. By this logic Western society and the Shi'a heretics who accept a limited separation between religion and state is heretical by its very existence, and lacking Allah's support, weak and Evil. In Islam there is no freedom in the Western sense of the word; instead there is a freedom that comes through submission, a type which any pre-Enlightenment European, fundamentalist Christian married woman or perhaps any dedicated servant or slave could relate to, but a concept which would be completely alien to most raised in the post-Enlightenment West. What liberals refuse to understand is that the message of Islam, of complete submission to Allah, can be appealing on its own. The idea that a man like Osama bin Laden, born of wealth, educated in the finest schools in the West would choose a philosophy where women have few rights, homosexuality does not exist, and unbelievers are allowed to live only as future converts to Islam over the Leftist paradise of sexual and economic equality must rankle the liberal, if she would only allow herself to be rankled. I suppose it is possible. After all, Charles Krauthammer, David Horowitz and are ex-liberals as am I.

Charles Krauthammer once wrote Conservatives think Liberals are stupid, whereas Liberals think Conservatives are Evil. What's ironic is that libertarians and their conservative allies feel towards Liberals the same way Liberals feel about Muslims, that they are ignorant and misguided, that if they just understood us better they'd like us. But unfortunately Liberals see us the way we see jihadists, as enemies meant to be crushed. How else to explain the vain hope by the Left that the bombers turned out to be white men from the Right? And how sad?


Isn't terrorism supposed to provoke terror?  Because it seems to me the only thing the bombings at the Boston Marathon have provoked is anger.  Maybe we need a new word for such acts, furyism, because I'm not seeing any terror or fear, just pure white-hot anger.

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