Friday, April 19, 2013
The fourth estate is dead
I have to say after watching the past several hours of news, I can only say that the mainstream media as it was, including cable news, is slowly going to be gone over the next few years. Twitter and 4Chan did more exclusive reporting than the big time press.. Amazing job, being scooped by users of Twitter, late night tin foil radio show tosts, and 4Channers.. Amazing.
Oh man, apparently that's a fake account. I hate people, who would create that?
Unbelievable.. Thanks for that update.
I will kill all of you as you killed my brother.
The suspect — posting online just now — per the police scanner. (via evanfleischer)
Answering the where did Drudge get this question..
But .. apparently the Boston suspect is posting right now on Twitter..
Is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, posting online? A red unlinked line of text on the Drudge Report right now
COP: ‘He is posting online — I will kill all of you, as you killed my brother’…
Not sure where Drudge is getting this, unless he has someone relaying the words being said on Boston scanners
Boston and its surburbs, universities and transit system were on total lockdown Friday as police hunted for marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — on the loose after his terrorist brother was killed in a stunning chain of events that left one cop dead and another injured, officials said.
Authorities were confronting a double-edged nightmare: a ruthless killer at large in a densely populated area and a four-mile stretch of road possibly littered with explosive devices tossed from the suspects’ getaway vehicle during a wild chase and firefights.
Two unidentified people were taken into custody at the Cambridge, Mass., home where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan grew up, but they were not being described as additional suspects. Three dozen FBI agents were ringing the house.
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Currently, The Washington Post is putting together a live board composed of Tweets, Instagram, and other social media and news updates. These are some of the most astonishing scenes currently coming out of Boston.
Police and military are still on a high profile manhunt for the younger suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, MIT shooting, and police shootout last night in Watertown. The older suspect has been killed during conflicts with police.
Martial Law if I’ve ever seen it..
Suspect in Boston Marathon bombing died of gunshot and possible blast wounds, doctor says
(Reuters) - The Boston Marathon suspect who died had multiple wounds from gunshots and possibly the blast of an explosive, said a doctor at the hospital where the man was treated on Friday
Suspect in Boston Marathon bombing died of gunshot and possible blast wounds, doctor says
NY Times: Dead Boston bombing suspect is 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev - FOCUS Information Agency
Boston. 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev is the Boston bombing suspect, whow as killed in an exchange of fire with the police, the online edition of the New York times informed.
NY Times: Dead Boston bombing suspect is 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev - FOCUS Information Agency
The kids aren’t alright. Here is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. He’s armed, he dangerous. And almost an entire state is on lockdown as he runs ..
Authorities urged residents in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Allston-Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to stay indoors. All mass transit was shut down and businesses were asked not to open Friday. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home. "We believe this to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed David of the suspect on the loose. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."
Portion of a AP dispatch just released
Police warn people in Boston suburb not to open doors
WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Massachusetts State Police warned people in the Boston suburb of Watertown not to open their doors and said they would conduct a door-to-door, street-by-street search
Police warn people in Boston suburb not to open doors
Sunil Tripathi: 4Chan Beats Out FBI, News Media in Identifying Boston Bombing Suspect
Anthony Gucciardi | 4chan users have identified FBI Boston Marathon bombing suspect as missing student Sunil Tripathi.
Sunil Tripathi: 4Chan Beats Out FBI, News Media in Identifying Boston Bombing Suspect
...A curveball of international proportions: The Boston suspects are from a town near Chechnya!?
Identities revealed: The suspects were brothers, from Russia near Chechnya, may have military experience, and have lived in the United States for about a year.. We will see how much of that turns out to be true..
More on that military experience being reported ..
And politically and militarily, it is certainly worth noting developments recently. Chechen commander forms ‘Army of Emigrants,’ integrates Syrian groups
The Syrian ‘rebels’ have been joined by militants from Chechnya in “Jihad” against Assad.
So in essence, the United States is also funding extremists from Chechnya..
AP: Surviving Boston bomb suspect identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass.
WASHINGTON — AP: Surviving Boston bomb suspect identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass.
We will see.
AP: Surviving Boston bomb suspect identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass.
Lester Holt reports on NBC NEWS
'This is a lockdown like I haven't seen in 30 years' of reporting..
Martial law virtually declared. The American homefront becomes a warfront..
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF CHAOS
While many slept, they missed breaking news events of epic proportions. It felt like the scene of a BATMAN movie, except no one is coming from Wayne Mansion to save the day..
A brief timeline of events as they have transpired so far:
- Shortly after midnight East Coast time, a campus police office at MIT was shot killed.. Gunshots were reported on the campus and an alert was issued on the website .. the situation was called “active” and dangerous by officials
- Shorter before 3am EDT, multipe explosions were reported to have been used against police at an incident in Watertown, Massachusetts. Speculation quickly connected the MIT police killing with the explosions in the town..
- Around 4:30 AM, news broke that a suspect was on the loose in Watertown, and that the person matches the description of Suspect 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings (the one with the white ball cap)..
- At 5:30 AM, news broke that one suspect from Monday’s terror attack in Boston was dead after the night of violence in Massachusetts. The other, however, is on the loose. Police said he should be considered armed and dangerous.
- Shortly before 6am, it was reported that the MBTA transit service has been shut down until further notice
- Residents have been told to keep their doors locked and not to leave
- The town of Watertown, MA, is being considered a ‘hot zone,’ according to NBC
- MIT classes are canceled today..
This is a quickly developing story..
Police are beginning to ponder whether the suspect still alive is not own armed and dangerous, but potentially a walking bomb with an IED strapped to his person..
DEVELOPING
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