A pair of explosions rocks the finish line at the Boston Marathon, injuring at least a half-dozen people.

da.

the 7-11 holdup and shooting of the MIT cop don't make sense to me, i feel like there are some big holes that will be filled later. maybe they panicked when their pics hit the news?

just as well that sunil guy is missing!

and...brothers?

it's getting quite intense on the scanner

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web

2 brothers 26 and 19. i guess the 26 year old was killed and manhunt for 19 year old kid. watching the news is insane. armored vehicles rolling through with automatic weapons drawn. they had a house surrounded when i was just watching and reported gunfire but not sure...

Miriam Elder writes from Moscow:

According to his account on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte, Tsarnaev graduated from the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, a Massachusetts high school, in 2011, and attended School No. 1 in Makhachkala, the capital ofDagestan, from 1999 to 2001.

He appears to have been a good student, having received a a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge in 2011 to pursue college. He was also named a wrestling all-star at his high school the same year.

On his VKontakte page, Tsarnaev says he considers “career and money” most important in life. As his worldview, he wrote: “Islam”.

The page says Tsarnaev speaks English, Russian and Chechen, and belongs to a number of groups devoted to Chechnya. Dagestan, a republic neighbouring Chechnya, maintains a small Chechen minority.

Tsarnaev was born on 22 July 1993, just before a fierce battle for independence broke out in the republic of Chechnya, attempting to secede from Russia in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. Over time, the independence movement grew increasingly Islamist in character. Largely quashed by Moscow, a low-level insurgency persists in Chechnya and has leaked into neighbouring Dagestan.

On VKontakte, Tsarnaev follows several pages devoted to Islam. He also lists one of his favorite songs as “Hey Sexy Lady” by Shaggy.

  On 4/19/2013 at 2:51 PM, keltoi said:

 

 

Tsarnaev follows several pages devoted to Islam. He also lists one of his favorite songs as “Hey Sexy Lady” by Shaggy.

lol, Four Lions, truly.

I'll never understand radical Islam, what a bunch of hypocritical wankers

heres a 2010 photo gallery of one of the brothers boxing:

http://johanneshirn.photoshelter.com/gallery/Will-Box-For-Passport/G0000VQW7v6xWA7o/

the guy is posting online "i will kill all of you as you killed my brother"

wtf that last sentence?

How convenient for Russian government to have Chechen terrorists bomb US targets and get legitimization for Russian military operations in Chechnya. Not saying that Putin is behind this but it seems awfully convenient for him. Oh man, this is going to generate so many conspiracy theories.

  On 4/19/2013 at 2:59 PM, triachus said:

heres a 2010 photo gallery of one of the brothers boxing:

 

 

http://johanneshirn.photoshelter.com/gallery/Will-Box-For-Passport/G0000VQW7v6xWA7o/

Why is it always the handsome ones?

Edit: god, he's so tonk. Those arms...

Just arrived to my work desk to this total apeshit, fuck I hope they're able to take him out with no further loss of life.

Also get your raincoats ready for the inevitable load of abhorrent feces-flinging propaganda to follow.

  On 4/19/2013 at 3:03 PM, Iain C said:

 

  On 4/19/2013 at 2:59 PM, triachus said:

heres a 2010 photo gallery of one of the brothers boxing:

 

 

http://johanneshirn.photoshelter.com/gallery/Will-Box-For-Passport/G0000VQW7v6xWA7o/

Why is it always the handsome ones?

 

Edit: god, he's so tonk. Those arms...

 

he looks pretty douchey to me

apologies to watmmers who also wear oversized scarfs

  On 4/19/2013 at 3:03 PM, Iain C said:

 

  On 4/19/2013 at 2:59 PM, triachus said:

heres a 2010 photo gallery of one of the brothers boxing:

 

 

http://johanneshirn.photoshelter.com/gallery/Will-Box-For-Passport/G0000VQW7v6xWA7o/

 

Why is it always the handsome ones?

 

Edit: god, he's so tonk. Those arms...

 

so fucking power. those biceps are huge

  On 4/19/2013 at 3:03 PM, Iain C said:

 

  On 4/19/2013 at 2:59 PM, triachus said:

heres a 2010 photo gallery of one of the brothers boxing:

 

 

http://johanneshirn.photoshelter.com/gallery/Will-Box-For-Passport/G0000VQW7v6xWA7o/

 

Why is it always the handsome ones?

 

Edit: god, he's so tonk. Those arms...

 

lol

  On 4/19/2013 at 3:00 PM, keltoi said:

the guy is posting online "i will kill all of you as you killed my brother"

where?

1m ago

He said he had spoken to one of his nephews yesterday after a falling-out and the nephew had asked him for forgiveness.

  On 4/19/2013 at 3:17 PM, lumpenprol said:

 

  On 4/19/2013 at 3:00 PM, keltoi said:

the guy is posting online "i will kill all of you as you killed my brother"

where?

 

sorry, this was a police announcement (from scanner)

i just don't get it. On that boxing page he says if he went to the olympics, he'd rather compete for the US than for Russia. He says he likes the movie Borat. Talk about cognitive dissonance. I just don't get how these callow, douchey, goofy, dorky, and ultimately normal-seeming dudes suddenly decide to go allah akbar.

  On 4/19/2013 at 2:59 PM, lumpenprol said:

 

  On 4/19/2013 at 2:51 PM, keltoi said:

 

 

Tsarnaev follows several pages devoted to Islam. He also lists one of his favorite songs as “Hey Sexy Lady” by Shaggy.

lol, Four Lions, truly.

 

I'll never understand radical Islam, what a bunch of hypocritical wankers

 

It's possible to be a Muslim and like Shaggy.

It's too early to say whether these attacks were religiously motivated, or whether these guys' interpretation of their religion could be called "radical". The Chechen conflict - if that is a motivating factor here - is about far more than just religion, and either way it's generally dangerous to speculate about the motives based simply on religious or ethnic affiliation.

Earlier on you seemed convinced that the totally innocent Indian-American guy was responsible... so perhaps you should rein it in a little until we know more.

2m ago

^ all from the guardian feed btw.

maybe hottie half-Portuguese half-Italian gf dumped him

On Sunil Tripathi: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/19/the_internets_shameful_false_id/

Nice one reddit, you mugs: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311248/Sala-Barhoum-track-star-teenager-denies-involvement-Boston-Marathon-bombing-picture-widely-circulated.html