Boston Terrorist attack

[turge]

Better version:

Notice they are calling them "bombing suspects" and not "terror suspects"?

Even though Obama said it was an act of terrorism? It's good that they took him alive. More info that way if these kids were just the bait.

If he's a die hard extremist he wouldn't shoot himself.
Now, blowing yourself up with the intent of taking others with you is a different story for a fanatical I guess.

But then again, as Nando mentioned, you can't rationalize their behavior.. so he could also be a weenie and shoot himself I guess.

^ This

interesting. it seems ironic that after interviewing these people, they go out and end up doing something terrible. almost as if it was "planned".

"Never let a good tragedy go to waste." -.gov

[george graves]

[ak-]

sup kim

[george graves]

[ak-]

kim you are on a public forum
what are you doing kim

kim!

[george graves]

[george graves]

(ok - I'm done - I didn't mean to make light of the situation that occurred - just bring some much needed levity to the the recent events now that we all breathed a sigh of relieve.)

Side note - am I the only one that noticed how the FBI wasn't wanting camera time in all of this....Not a lot of attention whores in the FBI - Hats off to them. Yet the local PD and what not - seemed to trip over themselves to get in front of the camera.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall listening to who was actually in charge during the the whole thing.

[ak-]

Found this

Not sure what the old man has to do with it though

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[frankenbeemer]

(ok - I'm done - I didn't mean to make light of the situation that occurred - just bring some much needed levity to the the recent events now that we all breathed a sigh of relieve.)

Side note - am I the only one that noticed how the FBI wasn't wanting camera time in all of this....Not a lot of attention whores in the FBI - Hats off to them. Yet the local PD and what not - seemed to trip over themselves to get in front of the camera.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall listening to who was actually in charge during the the whole thing.

Good stuff George. Bravo zulu to law enforcement for the quick capture. I wouldn't credit the FBI too much, Eric Rudolph was on the 10 Most Wanted List for 5 years until captured by a rookie police officer from Mayberry, I mean Murphy, NC (pop. 1627).

[Fusion]

[nando]

I saw this comment in a news post that I thought made a lot of sense:

So the two very young sons were left behind in the U.S. by the parents when they were at impressionable ages. By a dad who, by his action of leaving the U.S., sent them the implicit message of having rejected the U.S. as his homeland. The elder son, adrift in a country foreign to his childhood experience and without parental guidance, and having said that he was without friends in the US., apparently sought some kind of stability in "religion." The younger son would, in such a situation, be inordinately dependent upon his older brother for guidance and for a sense of belonging. Such is a recipe for classic fundamentalist, extremist thinking, where the need for a sense of belonging and security is desperate. No matter which "religion", or cult. A place to "fit in", with its only credential being something only vaguely familiar from past, childish impressions of what "home" might have stood for. May God have mercy on their abandoned, misguided souls.

[frankenbeemer]

That does make a lot of sense. Perhaps too harsh on the father, perhaps not. Maybe the surviving brother will heed his uncle's advice to seek forgivness and in so doing fill in these details.

[blazing]

I saw this comment in a news post that I thought made a lot of sense:

Ya and I suppose us Americans deserved what these poor little misguided muslim terrorists did to us too.

[frankenbeemer]

Ya and I suppose us Americans deserved what these poor little misguided muslim terrorists did to us too.

Why would you say that?