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Boston bomber 'is trapped by his phone': FBI 'use phone records to identify suspect
Daily Mail ^ | April 17, 2013 | Rachel Quigley

Posted on 04/17/2013 4:32:04 PM PDT by plain talk

The FBI said there has been 'substantial progress' in the Boston bombing investigation after they analyzed surveillance footage shot from a nearby department store which showed a man planting the second bomb. Investigators said the individual is seen at the site of the second explosion wearing a black jacket, a grey hooded sweatshirt and a white or off-color-white baseball cap backwards placing a back-pack on the ground while talking on his cellphone. The video obtained by the FBI captures this man using his cellphone at the moment the first explosion detonated 100 yards away on Boylston Street on Monday and 12 seconds before the second blast close to where he is standing. Federal agents then focused on the time-frame of that conversation to retrieve cell-phone records to identify potential callers according to CBS News. Call logs were then obtained through the cell phone masts surrounding the attack zone and using these, investigators matched up the users' identity with the time specific video and pictures to zero in on the individual.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: boston; bostonbombing; marathon; massachusetts; waronterror
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To: Girlene

Yes. It’s possible white hat (with blue man) handed off his backpack to ‘bending over man’/down jacket man’ then proceeded to bomb zone #2.


41 posted on 04/17/2013 5:24:49 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Revolting cat!
British press, as always, gets it.

Yup. We are still waiting for the US media to report who shot Lincoln.

42 posted on 04/17/2013 5:26:59 PM PDT by llevrok (2013: The USA is in a Cold Civil War.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

I’ll let my imagination run wild and say there were at LEAST four people involved; A cell. When none of this turns out to be true, oh well at least it was interesting.


43 posted on 04/17/2013 5:27:23 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Third Person

Looks like Tiger Woods.....


44 posted on 04/17/2013 5:27:51 PM PDT by llevrok (2013: The USA is in a Cold Civil War.)
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To: Little Ray

They follow the cell # and the users whereabouts at different times before the bombing. They can find a photo of he guy in a different place and time and match the recorded signal and history of the phone.


45 posted on 04/17/2013 5:29:02 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy (Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
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To: Girlene

I think they are....but the federales have pics of the bombers and why don’t the release them?.....they would be outed tonight!


46 posted on 04/17/2013 5:29:15 PM PDT by cherry
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To: shadeaud
I just hope these aren’t Obama phones they were using

Now that you mention it, I hope they were. Given this Administration and Government's penchant to emotionally knee-jerk react to every tragedy by passing new laws to restrict our rights, I hope they (a)ban pressure cookers and (b) ban Obama Free Cellphones after this.

NO, I'm not being sarcastic!

47 posted on 04/17/2013 5:29:51 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Here's another photo, ala Conservative Tree House of a man with backward white cap, grey hooded sweatshirt.



The white hat guy, farthest right, "could" be the same as the one above (pointy sideburns)......or not. It's all speculation at this point.
48 posted on 04/17/2013 5:32:46 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: plain talk
Federal agents then focused on the time-frame of that conversation to retrieve cell-phone records to identify potential callers according to CBS News. Call logs were then obtained through the cell phone masts surrounding the attack zone and using these, investigators matched up the users' identity with the time specific video and pictures to zero in on the individual.

The Feds were provided with the authority to track suspected terrorists via cell phone records as part of the Patriot Act. Gee, the left isn't going to like that.

49 posted on 04/17/2013 5:33:28 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: catnipman

The phone call that triggered the bomb could have been made from Patagonia. They need a lot more than a video of a man on a cell phone to make their case.


51 posted on 04/17/2013 5:36:10 PM PDT by SargeK
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To: Girlene

they are in the pix in post 36 but are not circled. They are on the lower part of the pix and about center of it. You can make out the blue jacket on one and the white hat on the other.


52 posted on 04/17/2013 5:37:00 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: Girlene

Blue man’s got a heavy backpack too. Hmmm.


53 posted on 04/17/2013 5:39:57 PM PDT by IM2MAD (IM2MAD=Individual Motivated 2 Make A Difference)
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To: azcap

The backpack could still be held by the man in the black jacket and white hat (the one that is circled in red in the photo you posted).

His back got tired so he took the pack off and now he is holding it by its top strap with both of his hands centered in front of him.

The lady in front of him wearing the big black sunglasses and wearing her black hair in a bun is blocking the view of the backpack.

What else do we know aside from the two pictures of these guys?


54 posted on 04/17/2013 5:39:59 PM PDT by joseph20 (...to ourselves and our Posterity...)
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To: AmusedBystander

Looks like Bill Ayers too me


55 posted on 04/17/2013 5:40:45 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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To: Girlene

they I just don’t see the 2 in the blue jacket and the other with the white hat being the perps. I just don’t see them hanging around that long before setting off the bombs. They were there at 2 1/2 hours after the race started.


56 posted on 04/17/2013 5:41:12 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: azcap

Judging by the sideburns, he must be a Starfleet Graduate.


57 posted on 04/17/2013 5:41:35 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...)
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To: Jim Robinson; ntnychik; potlatch; onyx; Fred Nerks

58 posted on 04/17/2013 5:47:06 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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To: shadeaud
Betta not be ma Obamaphone!
59 posted on 04/17/2013 5:47:19 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: catnipman
Depending on the terrorist he used either his own or someone else's credit card to buy the throwaway phone.

It remains to be seen if this fellow is even a suspect. Remember, there are people who ALWAYS run from the site of an explosion ~ those who've been up on the firing line are going to look for cover ~ and will size up the situation.

60 posted on 04/17/2013 5:47:38 PM PDT by muawiyah
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