Two bombs go off at the Boston Marathon

[speeder]

Anything is possible but more likely just panic behavior in the heat of a chaotic, violent episode.

[Tervuren]

Ossi - I see it at the local indoor kart track all the time, most people have no idea how much force is involved in a moving vehicle. I do not think your scenario likely.

Rather, one of two things:

Ranger/Seal team members would prefer to be shot from friendly fire rather than fall into enemy hands in the Vietnam war. A lot of them had a pact - we won't be captured alive. If there was no way to rescue a member, he'd asked ahead of time in that situation to be shot at. So this is scenario 1, guy jumps out to try to stop cops, cops get him, "they" don't want prisoners taken, so he drives over his brother. This also gives him an opportunity to still get away as the police will not just leave the body.

Other scenario, like I said, most people have no clue how much force and inertia vehicles have because they only drive them in gentle arcs relative to velocity. Trying to get the cops away from his brother was likely, but he may not of meant to run him over, just the inertia of the vehicle carried him over once he started to try to change course when the cops moved out of the way.

I'm not sure we can really know, but just throwing out two more likely scenarios. It may be a mix of the above, or it may be what you suggested.

[techweenie]

In light of all the media inaccuracy, I give you the 'good idea of the day.'

Borowitz Report : The New Yorker)

[Crowbob]

I lean toward Tervuren's first scenario. That being a pact between the Boston Muslim brotherhood not to not be taken alive. This is also consistent with white hat (the younger) having succumbed to the purported svengali-like black hat (the elder).

[VaSteve]

Apparently, little brother was a bad driver. I heard somewhere that they got his car back from the shop in the middle of the week for their getaway. It was in the shop getting body work.

[widgeon13]

Originally Posted by ossiblue

It all seems just so bizarre.

I think you made the point there.

[mikesride]

Here is a link to a Canadian news article, the nutbar aunt raving on like the American government did this and her two little angels are just scapegoats. She says its time to go home in the article......I say the Canadian tax payers would be happy to buy the tickets....GOODBYE!!!!

link at Sun News : Toronto aunt of Boston bombing suspects receiving threats

[widgeon13]

"Tsarnaeva was shocked to learn that the boys she hasn’t seen in five years had been named suspects in the marathon explosions that killed three people and injured scores more."

She's a whack job, she hasn't seen them in five years.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by carambola

12 member sleeper cell.
3 more members have been taken into custody.

it's all over the news...

[ossiblue]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

it's all over the news...

The only "news" sources I found for this story are tabloids and blogs. If you have a link to a credible news source, a link would be appreciated.

[Baz]

Interesting readers' comments at both links....

Boston Marathon Bombings: FBI Hunts Terror 'Sleeper Cell' Linked to Tsarnaev Brothers - IBTimes UK

Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist



[QUOTE]The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.

Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.

More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday.

A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people learn from Google.

“They were too advanced. Someone gave the brothers the skills and it is now our job to find out just who they were. Agents think the sleeper cell has up to a dozen members and has been waiting several years for their day to come.”

A specialist team of CIA and FBI interrogators was yesterday flown to a Boston hospital to grill wounded Dzhokhar, 19, about the secret group. The University of Massachusetts student was caught on Friday after hiding out in a boat parked in a garden in locked down Watertown the day after a gun battle with police left his 26-year-old brother and a rookie cop dead.


Boston Marathon Bombings: FBI Hunts Terror 'Sleeper Cell' Linked to Tsarnaev Brothers

[widgeon13]

That's funny. Where was that reported, The New York Post?

[motion]

It might sound funny, but I think that's exactly how its going to play out. These guys were not alone on this. They had plenty of help. I have no doubt the same people who taught/supplied them have plans to do this again.

[Baz]

Dzhokhar even went to a college party two days after the bombs wreaked havoc at the finish line. According to fellow students, he “looked relaxed” as he joined in a party at the campus on Wednesday night.

I hope everyone realizes (if they didn't already know) that these people are experts at causing havoc, killing and maiming, as much as they can blend in with normal people.

In essence we are dealing with SNEAKY COWARDLY THUGS. People better wake up - they are out to get US and they are living in both YOURS and MY town!

[Baz]

Tamerlan, a talented boxer, was said by neighbours to have become increasingly radical in his Islamic beliefs in recent years.

He was already under FBI surveillance.....I wonder if a phone call was ever made by these neighbours to the FBI when they grew suspicious?

[ossiblue]

Again, the above linked articles are from well known tabloid sources. There are no identified sources for their information. Yes, there was a warranted search in a home but it was to question the residents as it was a place the younger brother had lived for a short time. No one was arrested or put into custody. This reporting is just a hair shy of the NY Post's implication of the two innocent teens they splashed over the front cover of their rag.

[Baz]

10 Crazy Things on Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Amazon Wish List -

ViralRead » 10 Crazy Things on Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Amazon Wish List

Not suspicious at all!

[widgeon13]

That would only be funny if it wasn't true.

[Joe Bob]

A Seagull Attack.......come blasting in, crap on everything then try to fly out.....classic terror tactic.

[lonewolf]

A terrorist attack on a passenger train in Canada was just stopped before they got it off.
Two Al..... in custody.