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…
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…
Everything was strange in Boston’s heavily Jewish suburbs on Friday, as it was for residents throughout the area. But as armies of police combed the area seeking the second suspect in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, some Jews experienced something more than their non-Jewish neighbors — sparks, in some cases, of earlier traumas. “We…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bloomberg News reports that the Boston bombing suspect shown in the photographs released by the FBI was first identified by Jeff Bauman, the man in the much-circulated photo being wheeled away from the blast with his lower legs blown off. Just before 3 p.m. on April 15, Bauman was waiting among the crowd for his…
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