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Fast Forward Second Suspect in Boston Marathon Bombing Captured
Police captured a 19-year-old man suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings with his older brother after a day-long manhunt on Friday that closed down the city and turned a working-class suburb into a virtual armed camp. The break in the case sent waves of relief through the Boston suburb of Watertown where armoured…
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Fast Forward Second Suspect in Boston Bombings Surrounded, Local Media Reports
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was surrounded by police on Friday evening in the suburb of Watertown, local media reported. Reuters could not independently confirm the reports, which came after a Reuters witness heard gunfire in Watertown. The manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, one of two brothers believed to have carried out…
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Fast Forward Boston Bombings Edge Into U.S. Immigration Debate in Congress
An already contentious immigration bill became the lightning rod for more controversy on Friday when a senior Republican U.S. senator linked the measure to the Boston Marathon bombings and the hunt for the two ethnic Chechen suspects. “Given the events of this week, it is important for us to understand the gaps and loopholes in…
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Fast Forward Sirens Ring To Commemorate 70th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Sirens wailed in two Polish cities as the country commemorated the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The sirens in Gdansk and Warsaw Friday were part of a series of commemorative events in memory of the failed but fierce armed rebellion that Jews led in the Polish capital in 1943 against…
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Fast Forward Pro-Moscow Chechen Leader Blames U.S. for Boston Bombing
The Russian-installed leader of Chechnya criticised U.S. police on Friday for killing an ethnic Chechen suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing and blamed the violence on his upbringing in the United States. “The root of evil should be looked for in the United States,” Ramzan Kadyrov said in comments posted online after the…
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Fast Forward Boston Suspect Praises Islam, Chechnya Independence on Web Page
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on what appears to be his page on a Russian language social networking site. Abusive comments in Russian and English were flooding onto Tsarnaev’s page on VK, a Russian-language social media site, on Friday after he was identified as…
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Fast Forward Boston Bombing Suspects Showed Few Radical Signs
The suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are ethnic Chechen brothers who spent much of their lives away from the breakaway Russian republic and showed few outward signs of radicalism in the United States. Much is still unknown about Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, named by a national security official as suspects in the twin bombings…
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Fast Forward Boston Bombers Bring Echo of Chechnya’s Legacy of Violence
During the lifetime of the two Boston bombing suspects, their homeland Chechnya has seen two Russian invasions unleash some of Europe’s worst bloodshed in generations, and produced fighters who have carried out horrific attacks on civilians. So far there has been no claim of responsibility for the attacks on the Boston Marathon or evidence made…
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