While this is one side of the coin, the other side of the coin is this tells all terrorists that we have a particular set of skills. We WILL find you, we WILL kill/arrest you. You WON'T get away with shit. You think the next 19 year old is going to get duped into thinking you can commit an act of terror and get away scott free?
-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
Boston: One dead, one captured, city re-opened
- Thread starter Joel Was Right
- Start date
- Status
While this is one side of the coin, the other side of the coin is this tells all terrorists that we have a particular set of skills. We WILL find you, we WILL kill/arrest you. You WON'T get away with shit. You think the next 19 year old is going to get duped into thinking you can commit an act of terror and get away scott free?
Meh, I'm not going to spare any pity for a child-murderer.
I think combined the cops, state troopers, national guard number about 9000 remember reading that number but it's still fucking unbelievable that they have not caught him yet.
He's acutely aware of what he's doing.
The Albatross
Member
Are you the judge of when terrorists win and lose?
I'd rather spend a ton of money and resources doing everything we can to catch this potential mass murdered (who tried to murder 1000+ people 4 days ago, and obviously had plans to murder more) than run the risk of even 1 other person dying by his hands.
If preventing another mass murder attempt means "the terrorists win" then, by all means, then that's a "loss" I'm more than happy to take.
What video?
brokenbeans
Banned
Can you hide in the sewers?
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
I'm guessing if nothing happens in the next 24 hours they'll pull back their efforts.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
No way the guy gets taken alive at this point.
MrCunningham
Member
The 7/11 robbery doesn't make any sense to me, why would they go and do this after their faces get plastered all over the news as bombing suspects?
Also, at this point, I wonder if Dzhokhar is held up at a safe house somewhere? It makes me wonder if he is staying at a friend/ realities place just to lay low.
Until they are sure he is no longer in the city?
opticalmace
Member
Doesn't mean he's right.
DouglasteR
Member
Im amazed by the speed this thread grows, we should put some device attached to it to generate some electricity ^^
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
So the guy killed one cop and injured 15 others, yet (according to the father) the cops were "cowards" for shooting his son? I know he is in full-blown denial, but that is kind of a fucked up thing to say.
Because sometimes people snap.
Lovely Salsa
Banned
What if they catch him and he blames everything on his brother? Like he has nothing to do with it, he was just with him?
What?
SpectreFire
Member
Have they considered calling in more National Guard units and surrounding the entire town to make sure he can't get out?
That's what the family said (don't know which family member though) lol.
y they did it.
TimeEffect
Member
Jesus. What a toolbag.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Yea, I could see that happening. Do they know if they were always together, or just a recent thing?
If I were intent on harming the US I would find it very interesting the extent to which two punks with pressure cookers and ball bearings can disrupt an entire city. Sounds like asymmetric warfare.
Winterfang
Banned
Exactly, they did something like that and it ended with one Cop down and a bunch of them in the hospital. This isn't a matter of being a liberal of conservative. This kid is dangerous.
jim-jam bongs
Member
But if this is what it takes to keep Boston safe from this lunatic, isn't that irresponsible?
I posted a few pages back but my post got buried.
Fox news reported that the suspects didn't actually rob the 7-11, only purchased gas and got picked up on the security camera. I wondered too why they would rob a store but it appears they didn't.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
...the hell are you talking about?
It's linked in the update post on every page.
Eh that's kind of a silly definition of terrorist victory; it's one or two days of the city being frozen due to a police search, not years and years; if this extended for, say, months, I'd say the terrorists won.
They had more explosives; if the FBI hadn't shown their hand, they could easily have committed another bombing because nobody had any idea of who they were. They reacted with extreme violence to the cops, which shows that regular law enforcement wouldn't work in this case.
Ace Harding
Member
Its pretty difficult to improvise your way into a sewer and leave no trace of your entry. Not impossible I suppose, just unlikely.
Devolution
Member
He's talking about the people who kept naming Sunil and we're convinced it was him. Dude got Ryan Lanza'd hard. People learn nothing.
I think this protracted exchange has run its course.
seriously.
not to make light of the situation, but its similar in GTA3 when you would go nuts, each time you went more nuts it would escalate. Right now this guy is practically sitting at 5 stars of law enforcement.
I am normally one to agree and say they have no right to search the premises of private residences. But in cases like this its absolutely necessary.
Depends but I don't really think this will go on, someone somewhere will spot him remember this is the most wanted man in the entire state probably the country right now.
It sucks, but he certainly isn't a poor kid. He made the decision to go along with it and to accept whatever was offered up to him. I in no way place any blame on the other brother or anyone else for pulling the young one into it if that is what happened.
Yeah right
I get that but how normal his tweets were the days leading up and after don't indicate snapping. I get that I shouldn't read too much into that but still, seems weird.
Blowing up a kid makes sense to you? They are fucking lunatics. Nothing is going to make sense.
It will either end up (if hes caught alive) being typical extremest illogical bullshit or that he's just fucking insane. Either way i just want him six feet under.
Of course. You don't start acting irrational and crazy before you try to blow people up because that would set off red flags to people around you.
Aren't terrorist trained into acting normal, fitting in? If you were going to do something like this would you suddenly change your behavior? No, you wouldn't.
Actually I think this deserves to get addressed again.
If we don't go with the full force of our conviction and arrest/kill this guy, then we don't send a message with the next 20-something who gets a bright idea to try this.
You do this to send a message to others like him.
And also do this because this psycho himself has proven capable of not just one act of violence, but several, and has the capacity for more.
The Albatross
Member
1) The older brother was described by his own uncle, this morning (before he knew they were wanted for the marathon bombing) as "a loser and a prick." He had nothing good to say about him.
2) he did not have a future in boxing... he's 26 and was boxing in independent circuits in small Massachusetts towns.
3) The 19 year old got a $2500 scholarship to a mediocre public college in Massachusetts. I mean, sure, that's better than nothing but it's not like he was some prodigy.
But, it is a good question, why would any two people do this. It's a legitimate question to ask, but when it starts to get towards the "why would any two people do this, therefore I think that it is a setup/conspiracy," that's another question all together.
Winterfang
Banned
There was an absurd amount of people, blaming a missing kid by the name of Suhil, who wouldn't take a no from an answer.
Haven't heard much about their personal relationship with each other, oddly enough. Everything I've heard so far is people talking about them individually.
CambriaRising
Member
He will still be charged and convicted as an accessory.
- Status