Cambridge MA - Police Pursuit of Marathon Bombers 4-19-13

2000hrs- SWAT has deloyed flash bangs. Avaiation advising suspect appears to be on his back, not moving ATT.
 
In the google map above the boat trailer minus the boat is in the shadow under the tree....in another photo shown on TV the boat is on the trailer & covered in shrink wrap & closer to the house.
 
2044hrs- Media reorting suspect in custody, unconfirmed reort that he is alive.
 
Suspect # 2  in custody.  Unkown condition.
Watertown FD , EMS to treat and transfer the suspect to Hosp.
Applause form the crowd.

Great job PD, and all Law enforcement and the people of greater Boston for cooperating
 
Quote Boston Mayor "We Got him".

Great job by the area PDs. Very diffucult day/night for all involved.

  MIT police officer LODD, May he Rest in Peace.
 
The Chechen, jihadlist, al Qaeda connection



AEI?s lead Russia scholar, Leon Aron, has this, in part, to say:


Islamic radicals have been very active in Chechnya since the early 2000s, when the Chechen independence movement truly radicalized into a fundamentalist movement. Since then, there have been several large attacks in Russia, such as the Beslan school siege in 2004 and the Nord Ost theater attack in 2002. Several Chechens were sent to Guantanamo. . . .

[Ties between Chechnya and al-Qaeda] go[] back to the late 1990s, when the then second-in-command of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, went to Chechnya to look for a base. He was arrested but then let go. The Pankisi Gorge in Georgia was a training camp of al-Qaeda until Georgia ? with American help ? ousted them. So it?s a long connection. To read more, see my paper on Chechnya here.

The Chechen independence movement was initially secular; it was a region that suffered hugely ? initially under the Soviets ? when there were mass deportations to gulags in 1944. We see in many other places that something that begins as a secular movement becomes radicalized. After a Moscow theater was seized in a 2002 terror attack, there was a brutal Russian assault on Chechnya. And we saw how this movement became more of a martyrs? movement that had nothing to do with the independence of Chechnya and more to do with jihad. It started as a Soviet/Russian problem, it festered, legitimate demands for independence were never met, and the younger fighters became radicalized. . . .

What initially starts as a secular movement for independence becomes part of the worldwide jihad. . . .

There?s a longstanding Chechen terrorist connection. In November 2002, at the Hamburg trial of one of the 9/11 plotters, it turned out that three of the 9/11 pilots were recruited during al-Qaeda training in Afghanistan, where they had come to ?fight the Russians in Chechnya.? In December 1996, Zawahiri came to scout a potential base for al-Qaeda in Chechnya. In an audio tape attributed to bin Laden (broadcast in 2002 by al Jazeera), Osama bin Laden mentioned a list of Muslim grievances: ?As you look at your dead in Moscow, also recall ours in Chechnya.? The radicalization of the Chechen movement has long roots
 
Great job by all in Boston.  Sorrow and anger for what happened.  Pride for response - could have been much worse.  Compassion for individuals and families hurt. 


Note - politicians - please do not take credit - close our borders.
 
This was the process for terrorists (e.g. - older brother) to have become citizens:

http://news.yahoo.com/boston-bombing-suspects-became-u-citizens-183054490.html

Steps:
1. Tourist visa - security screen by State Dept - State Dept gives instructions for free on web site - lots of jobs for State Dept providing info and screening (a joke)- good for 6 months (9/11 hijackers used tourist visas)
2. Asylum - request for a "well grounded fear" of persecution in one's home country (a joke -everyone from Chechnya region and other regions in turmoil would be eligible)  - another security check by State Dept - need a lawyer
3.  Green card - 1 year after asylum - another security check
5.  Naturalization - 5 years - lawyer hired - security checks - review by State Department - if granted qualifies for citizenship

 
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