Explosions at Boston Marathon

[Tchocky]

AP reporting the suspects are Chechen.

[Jimbuna]

Here's hoping they get the other one before anyone else is harmed or killed.

[Tchocky]

http://www.wbur.org/listen/live

[Penguin]

local news channel, still accessible atm: http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive
they repeatedly sum up the situation for the folks who just got up

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I don't like dead suspects. Sometimes you never can find out if you got the right guy.

I hope they manage to get the second guy alive, but at the end of the day, you've got to put the lives of the public and law enforcement first.

Chechens? That's unusual, normally they blow stuff up in Moscow rather than America. But, America would still be a valid target for them.

Sounds like, according to the livestream link just posted, that SWAT teams have discovered something.

[Tchocky]

Well, they're going house to house in Watertown - so a lot of things look like "they found the house!"

[Skybird]

Possible students from Chechen, Russia. Does not sound like a Nazi plot anymore. I had this on top of my list of possible scenarios, like in case of the ricin letters as well.

[VirtualVikingX]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Possible students from Chechen, Russia. Does not sound like a Nazi plot anymore. I had this on top of my list of possible scenarios, like in case of the ricin letters as well.

You specifically suspected Chechen perpetrators in this case? May I ask why?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by VirtualVikingX

You specifically suspected Chechen perpetrators in this case? May I ask why?

It's being reported:

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News agency Associated Press is reporting that the Boston bomb suspects are from a Russian region near Chechnya, and have lived in the US for at least one year. That information is as yet unconfirmed.

Naturally, like with the Boston bombings and the 'arrest' the other day, whether it'll still be the case within an hour or two is another question.

[Tchocky]

From what I hear the name of the suspect at large was discovered from a drivers license picture match.

aaaaand police are surrounding an address in Cambridge now. Norfolk Street.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by VirtualVikingX

You specifically suspected Chechen perpetrators in this case? May I ask why?

German news report that, with reference to US media sources. Two main suspects should be brothers.

[Oberon]

Entirety of Boston has been put into 'shelter in place' mode, aka residents told to stay indoors, keep their doors locked and not to open up unless a properly identified police officer asks them to.

[TarJak]

Both suspects names as the Tsarnev brothers. The older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 was killed earlier and the younger brother Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass is still on the loose.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/terroris...419-2i4xc.html

Subway and Amtrak stations have been shut down and traffic in and out of Watertown has been halted.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Both suspects names as the Tsarnev brothers. The older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 was killed earlier and the younger brother Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass is still on the loose.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/terroris...419-2i4xc.html

It's said that Tamerlan had an IED on his chest and may have suffered damage from it, also that during the incident in which Tamerlan was apprehended, his brother ran over him in a car whilst escaping.

Quite dramatic.

[AVGWarhawk]

Sounded like a war zone in Boston last night.