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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: Little Ray
You are going to get the 'fibbies' out there draining the harbor like they did that lake in their search for anthrax.

Do you know what that'll cost!

61 posted on 04/17/2013 5:49:34 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Girlene
Very interesting.. The other guy has white hat, sunglasses (or logo on hat) and pointy sideburns, as you say.. The white hat brigade. Smokey haze in photo is after detonations?

What are the odds? This could be the crew. Female(s) could be lookouts.

62 posted on 04/17/2013 5:50:08 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: plain talk

63 posted on 04/17/2013 5:51:35 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: catnipman
Yeah, right. I’m sure the bomber used his own personal cell phone, instead of, say, an untraceable throwaway available for a few bucks in every Walmart in America.

You're way overestimating these idots. Remember the first idiot that bombed the WTC? The rear axle of the truck was found a few blocks away with the serial number on it and it was traced to Ryder truck rentals. The idiot went back to that Ryder truck desk for his "deposit" back.

64 posted on 04/17/2013 5:53:13 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: Girlene

Those 3 white hats look like they came from the same batch. The pointy sideburns man’s brim is blocked by tree branches but this photo indicates they are a ‘team’, bomber crew or not.


65 posted on 04/17/2013 5:53:32 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: stlnative

Yeah, I see them...thanks.


66 posted on 04/17/2013 5:55:06 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: muawiyah

All this talk and the bombs were probably RC, not cellphone. The media has been horrible! Could be a bunch of disinformation so that the real perps think the FBI has the wrong guys!


67 posted on 04/17/2013 5:55:33 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: stlnative

Do you know much time was there between when those photos were taken and the bomb went off?


68 posted on 04/17/2013 5:57:32 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: Girlene

Backwards cap guy doesn’t have the alleged black jacket on, over hoodie though.


69 posted on 04/17/2013 6:00:24 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: PhilDragoo

Yep, pressure cooker. In the bag.


70 posted on 04/17/2013 6:00:46 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Come visit Tasmania!)
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To: plain talk; a fool in paradise
baseball cap backwards

He should be easy to spot, who in his right mind would wear a baseball cap backwards?!

71 posted on 04/17/2013 6:01:59 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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72 posted on 04/17/2013 6:03:31 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Girlene

Well that pack seems to have what looks like a pot lid handle.


73 posted on 04/17/2013 6:03:41 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: plain talk

I don’t know if this is related or not. I was talking to a v close friend in the close vicinity of the bombing, ~4 hrs after it happened. I happened to mention that the bombs were put in trashcans—& the cell connection was severed. I heard a v strange signal, like an emergency frequency noise that I have never heard before, after which the line went dead. Fwiw.


74 posted on 04/17/2013 6:04:12 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: azcap

those are the ones. blue jacket no hat and white cap. You have seen other pics and they do seem to be together.


75 posted on 04/17/2013 6:07:40 PM PDT by rlbedfor
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To: PhilDragoo

Is that the pressure cooker?


76 posted on 04/17/2013 6:08:22 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: PhilDragoo

But that device is an old style and does not look like the Fagor brand used.


77 posted on 04/17/2013 6:09:46 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: plain talk
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

All these pictures, and I still dont see the individual with a grey hoody and a black jacket on. Also it seems most of the pictures posted are from the first blast, not the second.

78 posted on 04/17/2013 6:11:32 PM PDT by Slicksadick (Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
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To: Zhang Fei

http://www1.macys.com/shop/product/fagor-670041500-pressure-cooker-4-qt-casa-essentials-electric?ID=743226&cm_mmc=Google_Seasonal_PLA-_-PLA+Sale_PLA+Sale-_-17231727995_-_-_mkwid_65FjL241_17231727995%7C-%7C65FjL241&gclid=CJKP09uD07YCFQnznAodnHgA5Q Fagor makes electric pressure cookers with a very sophisticated timer ~ with a delay feature ~ plus they’re on sale and are actually CHEAPER than the older systems that you sat on a stove. So far the only description of the pressure cooker has come from the press ~ but the fibbies haven’t told us exactly what it was


79 posted on 04/17/2013 6:11:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: plain talk
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

All these pictures, and I still dont see the individual with a grey hoody and a black jacket on. Also it seems most of the pictures posted are from the first blast, not the second.

80 posted on 04/17/2013 6:12:32 PM PDT by Slicksadick (Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
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