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Boston: One dead, one captured, city re-opened

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GIVE HIM A HOTDOG!
 
It's incredible to think I experienced this from the very start to finish here on the thread, went to sleep for like 4 hours but the remaining time I was glued to the screen haha.
I'll never forget this, GAF!

Same. I slept for five hours early this morning and made a run to the store for food but was on my laptop the whole time otherwise.

I am still in the doghouse with my girlfriend.
 
crazy... yeah i definitely can't see this being some organized cell, he would never be taken alive

Though there have been incidents of younger jihadists actually surrendering due to them being afraid of death.

Its one of the problems that such groups face when using "throwaways" in such events.
 
Haven't been following the family that closely to know that, the father didn't speak a lick of English so I just assumed they weren't planning on spending the rest of their lives here as citizens.

I don't condone breaking laws to deal with deluded parents. But boy howdy, I've never seen such denial.

Denial isn't a crime, unless they specifically helped the suspect then I don't see why they have to be punished.

Does this mean he surrendered ?

A negotiator talk him into surrendering.
 
Let's not go nuts. The FBI talked to the older brother. Did nothing.
The Boston PD didn't find squat. It was a private citizen that found him. In fact they let him get away, then spent the day failing to find him after calling in thousands of officers and the National Guard. It was worse than the Blues Brothers movie.
I can't wait to see the taxpayer's bill for this little escapade.

LMAO if you think they "let him get away".

They had to contain a relatively large area with a high population density and lots of places to hide.

When they engaged them, the suspects threw bombs in populated areas of city. Furthermore, it's not like the officers could just let loose when they engaged because their assault rifle rounds would easily penetrate the walls of houses in the line of fire. They had to clear the bombs that were thrown by the suspects. They had to clear the search area block by block while coordinating a massive effort to keep him from sneaking out of a city of millions of people.
 
Can you imagine seeing a blood trail in your backyard, opening the boat tarp and seeing a fugitive?

shit, the first 2 parts of that are bad enough. The third could be body, serial killer, fugitive, ALIEN, Donald Trump. List goes on.
 
Let's not go nuts. The FBI talked to the older brother. Did nothing.
The Boston PD didn't find squat. It was a private citizen that found him. In fact they let him get away, then spent the day failing to find him after calling in thousands of officers and the National Guard. It was worse than the Blues Brothers movie.
I can't wait to see the taxpayer's bill for this little escapade.

You gotta be fucking kidding me
 
Speaking of which, this might be a good time to remind folks that cheering on torture and prison rape are frowned upon on GAF.

I know emotions are running high, but let's try to be better than that.

This. I'm kind of glad that suspect No. 2 was taken into custody alive. The entire side of my father's family is from the Boston. Mass. area. I know that we all have bloodlust and if I were the parents of that 8-year-old kid that got killed, I'd want his head on a pike. That being said, we are a nation of laws. We have a chance to show the rest of the world, especially those places that hate us, that we can give one of our most hated and detested enemies/criminals a fair trial and a day in court even if his conviction is a forgone conclusion at this point. Don't forget this piece of shit is an Amecrican citizen and has all the rights us normal people have. Yeah, of course, a part of me would like to see this guy taken out back and shot, but we are a civilized society (to some extent.) Wow, sorry if I offfended anybody with this post, especially those in Boston.
 
Thank god this shit is over. A friend of mine from high school tweeted that the bomber was another kid that went to school with us that disappeared in the Boston area recently and SWAT busted into his house a neighborhood over from mine. Fucking absurd. Glad everyone can relax now. Cops probably shouldn't get their information over Twitter.

Glad the kid decided to be taken alive, too. I doubt any reasoning he can give will ever be remotely near justifiable, but I'd like to hear why he did it.
 
Do we even know this was for religious reasons? Couldn't it easily be because of the wish Chechnya independence? Not like terrorism for that would be anything new, although directed at the US and not Russia would.

Well, I'm jumping the gun a bit maybe making a stretch admittedly. Someone linked to the older brother's YouTube account and he had favorited many videos featuring these muslim loons that you tend to see on YouTube. One was in English and it was some guy bashing the west because they watch Harry Potter. The guy in the video was infuriated because he felt the west was promoting paganism.
 
Yeah whatever their reasons there's not been a lot to suggest they're part of a larger group, so let's be grateful for the little things I suppose. It should be VERY interesting to hear what info the Russians passed on about the older brother.
 
Haven't been following the family that closely to know that, the father didn't speak a lick of English so I just assumed they weren't planning on spending the rest of their lives here as citizens.

I don't condone breaking laws to deal with deluded parents. But boy howdy, I've never seen such denial.

The father lives in Dagestan, Russia. The last time he's seen his two boys was probably when the oldest went on that extended trip back in 2010.
 
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