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Re: Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #500 on: April 23, 2013, 10:13:39 PM »
Which "what if's" ?

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #501 on: April 24, 2013, 10:27:25 PM »
Ran across a few stories where a house belonging to what were thought to be friends of the bad guys was raided.  Two men and one woman taken into custody and later released.  I wonder if this was that house?
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #502 on: April 24, 2013, 10:59:20 PM »
Two U.S. officials say the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard.

Authorities originally said they had exchanged gunfire with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAHR’ tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) for more than one hour Friday evening before they were able to subdue him.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #503 on: April 24, 2013, 11:54:52 PM »
Two U.S. officials say the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard.

Authorities originally said they had exchanged gunfire with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAHR’ tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) for more than one hour Friday evening before they were able to subdue him.


I was watching the news that night. CNN I think. They reported a barrage of fire from the area. I'm sure this story will drag out the  [tinfoil]. I doubt we will ever hear the whole story about this one either.

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #504 on: April 25, 2013, 05:33:16 AM »
Two U.S. officials say the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings was unarmed when police captured him hiding inside a boat in a neighborhood back yard.

Authorities originally said they had exchanged gunfire with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAHR’ tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) for more than one hour Friday evening before they were able to subdue him.


He was catching the bullets with his bare hands and throwing them back at the cops.  :police:
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #505 on: April 25, 2013, 08:17:13 AM »
I can pretty easily see how the cops sending less-than-lethal rounds at the boat for an hour would be reported by the news media as a shootout.

I also can not see any scenario where a person is hiding in a fiberglass boat, surrounded by cops, and starts shooting at them, but comes out alive.

I'll believe that he was unarmed, that he never shot at police from the boat, and that the news got it wrong if they say that he did, all because of the simple fact that he's not hamburger.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #506 on: April 25, 2013, 09:45:17 AM »
I can pretty easily see how the cops sending less-than-lethal rounds at the boat for an hour would be reported by the news media as a shootout.

I also can not see any scenario where a person is hiding in a fiberglass boat, surrounded by cops, and starts shooting at them, but comes out alive.

I'll believe that he was unarmed, that he never shot at police from the boat, and that the news got it wrong if they say that he did, all because of the simple fact that he's not hamburger.

I think that old boat might have been plywood, but I'm not sure.  =|

LAPD managed to shoot something 100 rounds into and at a pickup and miraculously only wounded the two women in the cab.

Looking at the wide spread of bullet holes, it's entirely reasonable that the fugitive could have received a number of non-fatal wounds.  If he had been on the starboard side of the engine box, then he would have been mostly protected.

I am not at all impressed or comforted by the fact that Boston police and whoever else was helping them, shot 20 to 30 rounds into a boat in a residential area when nobody was shooting at them.  =(

Nor running around the neighborhood all day with automatic weapons with that kind of shooting discipline  :O
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #507 on: April 25, 2013, 09:49:56 AM »
I think that old boat might have been plywood, but I'm not sure.  =|

LAPD managed to shoot something 100 rounds into and at a pickup and miraculously only wounded the two women in the cab.

Looking at the wide spread of bullet holes, it's entirely reasonable that the fugitive could have received a number of non-fatal wounds.  If he had been on the starboard side of the engine box, then he would have been mostly protected.

I am not at all impressed or comforted by the fact that Boston police and whoever else was helping them, shot 20 to 30 rounds into a boat in a residential area when nobody was shooting at them.  =(

Nor running around the neighborhood all day with automatic weapons with that kind of shooting discipline  :O

Ditto.  All that hardware, limited sov. imm., higher than your average bear wages, and still this happens.

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #508 on: April 25, 2013, 11:00:27 AM »
The Boston Police Commisioner stated:

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“Over the course of the next hour or so we exchanged gunfire with the suspect, who was inside the boat, and ultimately the hostage rescue team of the F.B.I. made an entry into the boat and removed the suspect, who was still alive,”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/us/boston-marathon-bombings.html?pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB&_r=1&



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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #509 on: April 25, 2013, 11:33:31 AM »
Exchange implies reciprocity, no? Was Dzokhar throwing fish hooks or the anchor? ???
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #511 on: April 25, 2013, 11:45:36 AM »
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I will give the commissioner the benefit of the doubt. He wasn't there, so it is likely someone reported to him that there was a shootout. Someone (likely many such someones) on the scene did the lying, though. 
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Re: Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #512 on: April 25, 2013, 02:32:46 PM »
Or like the sla shooting. Cops on north side of house reported taking fire that turned out to be shots from cops on south side going through house

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #513 on: April 25, 2013, 03:33:36 PM »
Or like the sla shooting. Cops on north side of house reported taking fire that turned out to be shots from cops on south side going through house

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True, it was my guess there was a lot of "sympathetic fire" going on. SOMEONE had to start it all off, though.
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Re: Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #514 on: April 25, 2013, 04:35:00 PM »
Or like the sla shooting. Cops on north side of house reported taking fire that turned out to be shots from cops on south side going through house

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #515 on: April 25, 2013, 04:48:16 PM »
sla shootout?9,000 rounds
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #517 on: April 26, 2013, 06:18:24 AM »
Remember Sunil Tripathi?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/sunil-tripathi-body-found-providence-river_n_3146389.html

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That's a bit racist, isn't it?   =D

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #518 on: April 26, 2013, 06:36:34 AM »
"Sunil Tripathi's Body Found? Body Pulled Out Of Providence River May Be That Of Missing Brown Student"

That's a bit racist, isn't it?   =D

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #520 on: April 26, 2013, 10:54:25 AM »
So did the bomber brothers kill him too ?    :lol:
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #521 on: April 26, 2013, 10:56:59 AM »
Anyone pick up on:

1. Dzokhar (however you spell it) supposedly shot himself through the mouth when he was caught in the boat.
2. Dzokhar was captured unarmed.

How do those two work?

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/the-bombing-suspect-didnt-shoot-himself-he-didnt-wasnt-even-armed-when-hiding-in-the-boat.html
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #522 on: April 26, 2013, 11:09:03 AM »
Anyone pick up on:

1. Dzokhar (however you spell it) supposedly shot himself through the mouth when he was caught in the boat.
2. Dzokhar was captured unarmed.

How do those two work?

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/the-bombing-suspect-didnt-shoot-himself-he-didnt-wasnt-even-armed-when-hiding-in-the-boat.html

I noticed. Chalk it up to reporters trying to be first with information and cops who like to speculate.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #523 on: April 26, 2013, 01:23:50 PM »
I noticed. Chalk it up to reporters trying to be first with information and cops who like to speculate.

Well, not to mention that the cops gratuitously riddled a boat with bullets  ;/

I'm sure they would like everyone to think that he shot himself.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #524 on: April 26, 2013, 03:41:11 PM »
Well, not to mention that the cops gratuitously riddled a boat with bullets  ;/

I'm sure they would like everyone to think that he shot himself.

....Or that it was a boating accident.
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