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Hurricane Sandy plunges
presidential race into uncertainty
New York Daily News, by Jonathan Lemire
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 10/30/2012 9:43:55 PM
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| Hurricane Sandy plunged the presidential campaign into an unprecedented period of uncertainty, leaving both sides scrambling to grasp the right tone for voters coping with a historic natural disaster. The monster storm, likely the biggest “October surprise” in history, left both campaigns without a script, forcing them to make uncharted, and potentially politically-damaging, decisions on the fly. Some campaign rallies were cancelled, while others were rebranded as hurricane fundraisers. Ads continued to air, but swing state residents without power couldn’t see them. And some pollsters scuttled
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Comments:
Romney gradually opening a lead over the past 3 weeks is now ''uncertainty'' due to the hurricane.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
cincinnati whig, 10/30/2012 10:00:19 PM (No. 8975793)
I don't see how this can impact any Electoral votes except by keeping turnout low in the central part of Pennsylvania.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
uno, 10/30/2012 10:04:06 PM (No. 8975802)
Today's rhetorical question: How soon before the democRats call Sandy racist?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Janjan, 10/30/2012 10:14:50 PM (No. 8975820)
Seriously if the media think Obama will suddenly surge in the polls because he is handing out money to the storm victims they are dreaming. Again.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FormerDem, 10/30/2012 10:18:32 PM (No. 8975826)
For most people it is really not all that big a deal and Obama is going to look like McCain getting hysterical last time if he keeps this up.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
curious1, 10/30/2012 10:18:52 PM (No. 8975828)
No, they are are now uncertain they can cheat enough to win in PA.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
John c, 10/30/2012 10:20:52 PM (No. 8975834)
Oklahoma saved clinton, guess they want to duplicate the feat and not let a good crisis go to waste.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
HistoryBuff, 10/30/2012 10:21:31 PM (No. 8975836)
Sorry I don't have my ID, it washed away in the Hurricane. Let me vote anyway.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
dman, 10/30/2012 10:23:38 PM (No. 8975844)
Worst impact in NY, NJ, and CT - all blue states. No change in electoral college outcome. NerØbama's performance at Red Cross HQ this afternoon was far from impressive. He's no Rudi Giuliani, Chris Christi, or even George W. Bush. IMO it's all about turnout.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
roytheelectrician, 10/30/2012 10:27:37 PM (No. 8975852)
I predict this will supress the dem vote in a huge way.
They werent enthused enough to go vote for him in the first place, but they now have a justifiable excuse not to.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
FIREMAN28, 10/30/2012 10:30:42 PM (No. 8975856)
CERTANTY is Romney winning.
The Wun will be handing out Obamaphones on the streets.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
saraguay, 10/30/2012 10:39:58 PM (No. 8975871)
i do hope that this storm suppresses the vote for pres. obama. it would be so awesome if he lost new york or new jersey. i know. dream on.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ktwo, 10/30/2012 11:03:38 PM (No. 8975913)
A big break for O. It gives him a few days escape from issues. And from questions about Libya. Hard to go wrong handing out federal assistance and looking at storm damage.
But I doubt if it will change votes. Stealing some in PA may prove more important than the storm. Ditto Ohio and Michigan.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mercedesops, 10/30/2012 11:08:39 PM (No. 8975920)
Just wait until the NY/NJ gas station riots start this weekend. Expect Obama to prop up the suburbs of Philly and Pittsburgh along with Northern VA and Eastern Ohio.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 10/30/2012 11:40:15 PM (No. 8975962)
They wish.
I don't believe it will move Obie's needle a bit - other than downward.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Sunhan65, 10/31/2012 1:31:56 AM (No. 8976039)
I'm glad everyone's so confident. Please take nothing for granted and remember to vote.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Kurto, 10/31/2012 3:41:19 AM (No. 8976082)
The press is delusional if they think 0bama can act presidential for a few days, and that will change the outcome of the election.
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Boston attacks may finally
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Postmedia News [Ottawa, Canada], by Matthew Fisher
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 6:11:37 PM
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LONDON — The most savage wars that I have witnessed were the Rwandan genocide and the two Chechen wars. Much of the slaughter in Chechnya was murder at close quarters. The Chechens killed Russians with great exuberance. Lacking other means, they primarily used crude homemade bombs, booby traps, snipers and assault weapons. The Russian troops were often drunk, demoralized and badly led. They mostly fought back with cannon fire, heavy artillery and attack aircraft, which they used promiscuously and indiscriminately to kill civilians. The FBI and CIA are obsessed right now with the riddle of why Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Official: Boston bombing suspect suffers
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 12:32:40 PM
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BOSTON - The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk, a federal official told CNN on Saturday, possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him about a motive in the attack. With one suspect dead, authorities believe answers to a motive and whether the brothers had help rest with Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was captured Friday night just minutes after authorities had indicated that a massive manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty. The official, who was briefed on Tsarnaev´s condition
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Mass. governor says he has no idea what
motivated Boston Marathon bombers
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 9:08:53 AM
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Washington — The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Speaking Sunday on CBS’ ”Face the Nation,” Deval (deh-VAL’) Patrick said it’s hard to imagine why someone would deliberately harm, quote “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.” Patrick also said law enforcers believe the immediate threat ended when the police killed one of the alleged terrorists and captured the other. The two men were brothers whose family had come to the U.S.
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Muslims guard against backlash
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Chicago Tribune, by Manya A. Brachear
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:22:13 PM
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The Council on American Islamic Relations again offered sympathy to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Friday, but added a plea for Americans not to generalize and conclude that Muslim teachings influenced the suspect in any way. "Our focus is primarily on the victims," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter at a press conference Friday afternoon. "We don´t want to be drawn into defending ourselves." Citing acts of violence in Boston and New York, Rehab blamed Islamophobic forces for inciting hate crimes.
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5 snowboarders die in
Colorado backcountry avalanche
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Los Angeles Times, by Michael Mello
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:16:40 PM
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Five snowboarders died in a backcountry avalanche Saturday afternoon about 60 miles west of Denver, authorities said. A group of six snowboarders started out at Loveland Pass, which is just short of 12,000 feet in elevation, but got no more than a mile down the mountain when the slide swept them away, Clear Creek County Sheriff Don Krueger told the Los Angeles Times. One snowboarder dug himself out and called for help. The Sheriff’s Office said the call came in around 2 p.m., about an hour after the avalanche. Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecaster
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North Korea reiterates it
will not give up nuclear arms
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Reuters, by Robert Birsel
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 9:41:20 AM
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SEOUL - North Korea reiterated on Saturday that it would not give up its nuclear weapons, rejecting a U.S. condition for talks although it said it was willing to discuss disarmament. North Korea, in a sign of a possible end to weeks of heightened hostility on the Korean peninsula, offered the United States and South Korea a list of conditions on Thursday for talks, including the lifting of U.N. sanctions. But the United States said it was awaiting "clear signals" that North Korea would halt its nuclear weapons activities. The U.S. should not think about the denuclearization
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After Boston and Tsarnaevs,
Russians Urge U.S. to Rethink Chechnya
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New York Times, by Harvey Morris
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 9:37:07 AM
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LONDON — Russian commentators are speculating that a Chechen connection in the Boston Marathon bombings will force the United States to reassess its view of the Kremlin’s actions in the troubled Caucasus region. After the capture on Friday night of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the second suspect in Monday’s attack, following the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his brother, in a gun battle with police, U.S. authorities have yet to establish a motive for the crime. In Russia, as in the United States, attention focused on whether the bombings were connected with the politics of Chechnya, where the brothers’ family originated.
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No Miranda rights for now
for bombing suspect
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Politico, by Josh Gerstein
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 10:25:57 PM
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The Boston Marathon bombing suspect captured Friday night will not be immediately read his Miranda rights, a Justice Department official said. The announcement came as a debate broke out among lawmakers, lawyers and political activists over whether the suspect, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, should be prosecuted in a civilian criminal court or subjected to military interrogation and over when and whether Tsarnaev should be told about his right to an attorney. (Snip) The Obama administration appeared to be taking a middle course, holding off on advising Tsarnaev of his rights, but still directing him into the criminal justice system for prosecution.
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Chechnya: How a remote Russian
republic became linked with terrorism
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Christian Science Monitor, by Fred Weir
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 9:43:49 PM
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Moscow - The main suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing are said to be two brothers from Chechnya, a mountainous and mainly Muslim republic in southern Russia that has been the scene of cyclical revolts and brutal crackdowns by Moscow´s forces for the past 200 years. Though Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev have spent most of their lives outside of Chechnya, their postings on YouTube and the Russian-language VKontakte social media site illustrate a proud attachment to their ancestral homeland and offer many hints that both identified closely with Chechnya´s defiant and fiercely independent mountain warrior traditions. Where is Chechnya?
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Cheers erupt on streets of
Watertown after suspect´s arrest
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CNN, by Staff*
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 9:39:53 PM
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Watertown, Massachusetts -- First there was a burst of gunfire. Then a series of blasts. Then, less than an hour later, cheers. After nearly 24 hours of a massive manhunt for one Boston Marathon bombing suspect that terrorized several cities and riveted a nation, the shouting and applause on the streets of Watertown, Massachusetts, was a welcome sign of victory. Police shouted, "Yay!" Neighbors clapped. "Is that him?" someone asked as an official in a law enforcement vehicle drove by the crowd. A person inside the vehicle said "Yes" -- and the crowd of residents erupts
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My boys have been framed,
father of Boston suspects says
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Reuters, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 8:19:04 PM
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia - A man who identified himself as the father of two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings said on Friday he believed his sons had been framed and pleaded with police to spare his younger son who was still on the run. U.S. police said they killed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and were conducting a massive search for his brother and suspected accomplice, Dzhokhar, 19, on Friday after the bombings killed three people and wounded 176. Both ethnic Chechens, the brothers lived in Russia´s volatile Dagestan region, which borders Chechnya, more than a decade
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Boston suspect´s web page venerates
Islam, Chechen independence
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Reuters, by Peter Graff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/19/2013 3:18:36 PM
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Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on what appears to be his page on a Russian language social networking site. Abusive comments in Russian and English were flooding onto Tsarnaev´s page on VK, a Russian-language social media site, on Friday after he was identified as a suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon. Police launched a massive manhunt for Tsarnaev, 19, after killing his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a shootout overnight. On the site, the younger Tsarnaev identifies himself as a 2011 graduate of Cambridge Rindge
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Feds ´investigating possibility that the
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by David Martosko
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/20/2013 12:06:21 AM
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Federal law enforcement officials are actively investigating the possibility that the Boston bombers were known to the government’s terror-trackers, MailOnline understands. Any inquiry into the marathon bombing will look into whether agents could have taken action – but didn’t – to prevent the Tsarnaev brothers from obtaining the explosives that killed 3 and wounded 173 others. CBS News reported Friday evening that two years ago, the FBI interviewed the elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in Thursday night´s dramatic shootout. The feds reportedly spoke to him at the request of an unspecified foreign government, but couldn´t
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USA needs refuge from refugees
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/20/2013 5:55:25 AM
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So once again, no good deed goes unpunished. Uncle Sam lets another bunch of leeching future terrorists into the country who have absolutely no business being here, gives them “asylum,” making them immediately eligible for welfare, and this is the thanks we get? They turn into mass murderers. We bring in thousands of Muslims from a primitive society that has been battling Christians for centuries, and put them into a peaceful Christian society — what could possible go wrong? This is what I was thinking about yesterday, with much of the city under what amounted to martial law.
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The Kennedy meth
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New York Post, by Larry Getlen
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/21/2013 5:09:29 AM
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In 1962, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, a man “peeled off his clothing and began prancing around his hotel suite.” His bodyguards were cautiously amused, until the man “left the suite and began roaming through the corridor of the Carlyle.” The man in question was delusional, paranoid and suffering a “psychotic break” from the effects of an overdose of methamphetamine. He was also the president of the United States. The reason for John F. Kennedy’s bizarre behavior was that, according to an explosive new book, the president was — unbeknownst to him, at first — a meth addict.
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Zogby: Obama still one
of the great communicators
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/20/2013 7:10:32 PM
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that when it came to messaging Boston, President Obama had the right touch. "We have had presidents who have been able to rally local communities and the nation when people are hurting. This president is truly one of the great ones. He carried the right message to the people of the Boston area and beyond when he told them Thursday ´we will finish this race.´ He also has a strong shot at gaining an immigration reform victory with the package drawn up by
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Boston bombers: FBI hunting
12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to
brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Mirror [UK], by Christopher Bucktin, Andy Lines
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/21/2013 6:34:23 AM
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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
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Rubio Reason for Legalizing Illegals:
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-Fla.), one of eight senators who have crafted legislation that would put illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship, explained in a Senate floor speech yesterday that one of the reasons he wants to do this is that he believes illegal aliens are currently driving on U.S. roads without drivers licenses and auto insurance and his bill would encourage them to get licenses and buy insurance. Rubio explained that under his bill ilegal aliens who "have committed serious crimes" will be deported. However, the proposal will apparently not deem as a serious crime the habit
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Don’t Rule Out Anything
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Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/21/2013 5:01:15 AM
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“In this age of instant reporting and tweets and blogs, there´s a temptation to latch on to any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions,” said President Obama, in the late evening of April 19, after Dzokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive in Watertown, Mass. (Snip)In an exceptionally well-reported story in the Daily Beast Friday, we read this: "One U.S. intelligence official who was regularly briefed on the investigation told Newsweek that he and his colleagues all but ruled out al Qaeda central or one of its affiliates giving direct and specific instructions for the attack."
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Muslims guard against backlash
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Chicago Tribune, by Manya A. Brachear
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:22:13 PM
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The Council on American Islamic Relations again offered sympathy to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Friday, but added a plea for Americans not to generalize and conclude that Muslim teachings influenced the suspect in any way. "Our focus is primarily on the victims," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter at a press conference Friday afternoon. "We don´t want to be drawn into defending ourselves." Citing acts of violence in Boston and New York, Rehab blamed Islamophobic forces for inciting hate crimes.
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Mass. governor says he has no idea what
motivated Boston Marathon bombers
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 9:08:53 AM
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Washington — The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Speaking Sunday on CBS’ ”Face the Nation,” Deval (deh-VAL’) Patrick said it’s hard to imagine why someone would deliberately harm, quote “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.” Patrick also said law enforcers believe the immediate threat ended when the police killed one of the alleged terrorists and captured the other. The two men were brothers whose family had come to the U.S.
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Official: Boston bombing suspect suffers
throat injury, may not be able to talk
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 12:32:40 PM
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BOSTON - The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk, a federal official told CNN on Saturday, possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him about a motive in the attack. With one suspect dead, authorities believe answers to a motive and whether the brothers had help rest with Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was captured Friday night just minutes after authorities had indicated that a massive manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty. The official, who was briefed on Tsarnaev´s condition
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Terror Expert: Boston Attack More
Columbine More Than 9/11, These
Are ‘Murderers Not Terrorists’
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/21/2013 11:13:04 AM
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Philip Mudd, former counterterror expert for the CIA and the FBI, joined Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday to discuss the nature of the threat posed by the Tsarnaev brothers and any network they may have been associated with in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. He said the Boston attack reminded him more of the 1999 attack on Columbine than a terror event orchestrated by a foreign network. “I would charge these guys as murders not terrorists,” Mudd said of the suspects in the attack on the Boston Marathon. “Do you think we have to fear copycats – more of these small,
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