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Boston Marathon bombing suspects planned July 4 attack
Alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother had originally planned to commit suicide attacks during Fourth of July celebration, reports said. The ethnic Chechen brothers had considered striking during Boston’s large city celebrations to mark the Fourth of July but aborted the plan after building…
Jon Stewart mocks CNN’s new ‘responsible’ reporting on Boston bombing
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart beat up one of his favorite punching bags on Monday night, the 24-hour news network CNN. Last week, CNN humiliated itself after falsely claiming the FBI was arresting a “dark-skinned male” in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing — a situation that Stewart gleefully…
Boston holds memorial to remember victims of marathon bombing
Bostonians gathered at a makeshift memorial on Monday to remember the victims of last week’s devastating marathon bombings — some seeking comfort, others looking to honor the dead. At 2:50 pm (1850 GMT), church bells rang out across the city as hundreds of people stood silently at the end of…
Gun group chief: Liberals OK with liberals dying in Boston to force more gun control
Larry Pratt, the head of the lobbying group Gun Owners of America, recently agreed with a pair of conservative Internet TV hosts who asserted that liberals didn’t mind if other liberals were killed in bombings like the one in Boston last week because “they are like the Chinese” and “they…
Police kill one Boston Marathon bomb suspect and still hunt for second ‘white hat’ suspect
Police killed one of the suspected Boston marathon bombing suspects in a shootout early Friday and pursued a chaotic deadly street-to-street manhunt for his accomplice, officials said. The two men, dubbed “Suspect One” and “Suspect Two” by the FBI, led police special forces on a violent cavalcade that left inhabitants…
Police surround MIT building after shots fired in Boston
Security guards surrounded a building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology late Thursday after shots were fired, the prestigious university said on its website. “Please stay clear of area until further notice. Unknown if injuries have occurred,” the emergency alert notice said. MIT is located in Boston, where two bombs…
Boston bombing casts grim shadow over London Marathon
Sunday’s London Marathon will take place amid a climate of heightened security and increased vigilance following the fatal bomb attacks that plunged the Boston Marathon into tragedy. The twin blasts that killed three and wounded more than 180 in Boston on Monday have prompted organisers of the London race to…
Atheists shocked at exclusion from bombing memorial service
The Harvard Humanist Community was shocked Thursday when their members were, in the carefully-chosen words of New York Times best-selling author Greg M. Epstein, “blown off” and excluded from an inter-faith memorial ceremony for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. “We have friends and family who are in the…
Man assaults Muslim woman following reports of ‘dark-skinned’ Boston bombing suspect
A Muslim woman in Boston says that she was attacked by a white man on on Wednesday morning because he was apparently enraged by the Boston Marathon bombings and convinced, despite a lack of evidence, that the perpetrators were Muslim. Heba Abolaban told Malden Patch that she and her friend,…
New York Post repeatedly misidentifies Boston suspects
Authorities say they have photos of two men who are being sought in connection to the Boston marathon bombing, but they’re not the same two men on the cover of Thursday’s New York Post, which previously mis-reported that police had a Saudi national in custody as a suspect. The Post…
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