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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh dear. I went to bed last night with some unknown guys
driving around a suburb of Boston, killed a cop at MIT, and were in a shootout with cops, then one of them got shot and was maybe dead and the other one fled.
I wake up and everybody is talking about Chechnyans.
WTF???
So let me get this straight - the marathon bombers turned out to be these 2 young brothers from Chechnya who maybe were Muslim extremists. So they bombed the marathon because - WHY????? And then last night they tried to rob some place and shot a cop. Now 1 is dead and the other is on the lam.
Just shaking my head. Did i miss anything or is that pretty much the sum of it so far?
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)That's not news!
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)add in a bunch of wild speculation because we really don't know anything yet and you're caught right up.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Now it's two Russian kids. I am a little disoriented.
entanglement
(3,615 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)And then all of a sudden it was two different guys.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Same here, went to bed after they put the naked guy in the squad car. Then after hearing how one suspect was killed, I wondered how he went from naked cuffed to dead, not that it hasn't happened before... but apparently that was the wrong perp.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
I thought the same thing when I read it
and I clicked to read more so what's that mean?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)now I'm all sticky and I smell funny.
randome
(34,845 posts)You have been so charged!
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)Why do I get the feeling that the older brother manipulated the younger one? Perhaps the older brother was jealous that the younger one had a chance to assimilate to the American way of life?
Stallion
(6,473 posts)nm
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)Welcome to DU, Stallion
Peace,
Ghost
Animal Chin
(175 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)I felt the same way when I first got on my computer this morning.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)and the older, dead one was a 2nd year med student.
And now there is a 3rd suspect, a man between ages of 60-70, with bomb strapped to his chest and "dead man switch" in his hand. On the ground, cuffed, media been shoved back and also now on the ground.
Entire city in lockdown, T closed, taxi cabs have just started up again in the last half hour or so. There was an APB out for a Honda CRV headed to CT, but it was found empty in Watertown, registered to older brother.
It's been a wild morning, kestrel.
redwitch
(14,933 posts)Which apparently saw a major opportunity with so many cops milling about.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)Whether it's Bin Laden, McVeigh or these two jokers.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)dropped numerous IEDs over a 4 mile stretch of a major Boston road, I forget which.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)kidding
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)I expected something different
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Yes, white cap man says his "world view is Muslim" but that is about it - he actually sounds pretty westernized. His brother may have been more Muslim but hard to know. And thought they were born in Chechnya, they haven't lived there since they were little kids and there doesn't appear to be any connection to radical groups there.
Marr
(20,317 posts)but it turns out to be something completely different.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)This is just insane, stunning, out-of-nowhere stuff.
randome
(34,845 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I figured this thread would be as good a place as any to ask.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)He was given back his clothes and released. At least he has a bizarre story with which to regale his friends and family.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And hey, at least he's apparently in shape. When he's 55 and flabby he'll look back on that CNN feed with fondness.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I am happy to add to a long list of DU classics.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)What a disappointment.