BOSTON: Breaking Massive Explosions, Grenades, Shots Fired Multiple Officers Down LIVE Thread

Boston Police Scanner, Twitter, Independent news reporter Kevin Takumi ^

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911 Operator ‏@911BUFF 1m

BOSTON: BREAKING NEWS - 'MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS, GRENADES AND SHOTS FIRED' REPORTED ON POLICE SCANNER! MULTIPLE OFFICERS DOWN! #911BUFF

Matthew Keys ‏@TheMatthewKeys 45s

WCVB: Gunfire, explosions reported in Watertown neighborhood of Boston - http://bit.ly/11jwbKG

Three block perimeter to be established around 98 Spruce in Watertown, Mass

[Shortstop7]

This is getting scarier and scarier...

they just said on the scanner the 60 year old definitely has a device in his hand ?

[TomGuy]

Scanner: Everyone near 36 Boilston (sp?) move away.

[Mouton]

or in hot pursuit.

[R.I.chopper]

WRKO best besides FR. Guy is on ground.

[fiftymegaton]

And meanwhile the attention of everyone has been taken off the white hat guy.. for good reason.. but still.

[Shortstop7]

True...I thought I heard them asking for addresses of all family members? Anyone else hear that?

[no-to-illegals]

Stay Safe Everyone. Don't worry, LE is watching nationwide. Stay Calm. {{HUGS}} FRiend.

[Seattle Conservative]

Boston Bombers Identified as Radical Islamists…One Dead, One Still At Large
Flopping Aces ^ | 04-19-13 | Curt

Posted on Friday, April 19, 2013 7:55:35 AM by Starman417

>snip
The suspects are brothers with the last name Tsarnaez, law enforcement officials told NBC News. The suspect on the loose is 19 and has a Massachusetts driver’s license, they said. Law enforcement officials told NBC News that both men had international ties, had been in the United States about a year and had military experience.

We know they came from Chechnya and wait for it.....Muslim

>snip
Tamerlan says he doesn’t drink or smoke anymore: “God said no alcohol.” A muslim, he says: “There are no values anymore,” and worries that “people can’t control themselves.”

He was also a fan of al-Qaeda:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3009762/posts

Here’s another little tidbit - It’s rather ironic to me that their mom was arrested for shoplifting at Lord & Taylor last year and from what I’ve heard, it may have been the cameras outside of L & T’s in Boston that gave the police at least some of the best videos/pictures of the guys.

The Mother Of The Boston Bombing Suspects Was Arrested For Shoplifting Last Year
TBI ^ | 4-19-2013 | Grace Wyler

Posted on Friday, April 19, 2013 7:58:45 AM by blam

The Mother Of The Boston Bombing Suspects Was Arrested For Shoplifting Last Year

A woman believed to be the mother of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev was arrested last year for shoplifting at a Cambridge Lord & Taylor department store, according to a police briefing in the Natick Patch.
Here’s the June 13, 2012 report from the Natick Police:

7:42 p.m.: Loss prevention from Lord & Taylorcalled to report they had detained a shoplifter. Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, 45, of 410 Norfolk St., Apt. 3, Cambridge, was arrested and charged with larceny over $250 (women’s clothing valued at $1,624), and two counts of malicious/wanton damage/defacement to property.

Tsarnaeva shared an address with the two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings. The first bombing suspect, Temerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was shot and killed by Boston police Thursday night. A manhunt is underway for the second suspect, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3009763/posts

[Shortstop7]

Robot is on him now....

[no-to-illegals]

bbl

[Mozilla]

16.15 (11.15) Tom Parfitt, our Moscow correspondent, has more on Dzhokhar's social networking site VK- VKontakte (In Contact), in which he says he speaks English, Russian and Chechen.

The home page says he was at Cambridge Ringe and Latin School in the 2011 school year, and that in 1999-2001 he attended School No. 1 in Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan, on the coast of the Caspian.

He lists his World View as Islam and his “Personal Priority” as “Career and money”.

He is a member of two groups in VKontakte for Chechens, and three of his five “noteworthy pages” are Islamic-themed.

The latest post on the account – uploaded on March 19 - is a video called “The bro did good” and features a young man sitting in the back of a car and smiling as he mimics several different accents from the Caucasus region, and recounts stereotypes about each ethnic group.

Tsarnaev adds his own joke about three nations of Russia’s North Caucasus, all plagued by crime and Islamist violence.

“In school they give a riddle… A car is driving. A Dagestani, a Chechen and an Ingush are sitting in it. Question: Who’s driving? Maga [Magomed] replies: The police.”

A video expressing sympathy with rebels fighting in Syria, and a clip of a Kuwaiti sheikh talking to a blind boy who memorised the Koran also feature on Tsarnayev’s VKontakte page.

Abusive messages from other users began to appear on the page in both English and Russian on Friday.

16.11 (11.11) Apparently seven miles of air space have been shut. Police helicopter still in the air.

16.08 (11.08) A woman understood to be the mother of the Tsarnaevs was arrested last year for shoplifting at Lord & Taylor, the same department store that was cited earlier this week as having helped in the investigation to identify them thanks to their CCTV footage.

A woman was also pictured being escorted out of the Tsarnaevs' house earlier today - her identity was unclear but she was older.

Members of the FBI, State Police, Boston Police, Cambridge Police and other law enforcement agencies take away a woman near the home of suspect 2 on Norfolk Street to talk to her

[fiftymegaton]

I did not hear that. Did they ever even enter the house they supposed surrounded overnight?

[TomGuy]

Scanner

Bomb squad is still trying to ‘clear’ the older guy on the ground. This is the guy who is holding the deadman switch, but this is NOT the main perp-Suspect #2.

[bigbob]

Worst he can do now is blow himself up and maybe the bomb robot. It could be an electric razor - who knows if the guy is a nut or what?

[Gorilla44]

UMASS Dartmouth is being evacuated. They searched the bombers apartment this morning and I’m wondering if they found info. that the initial plan was to use all the bombs on campus but their plans went off the rail.

[Conserev1]

We need these cats taken alive if they can, this cell seems bigger than a 2 man squad.

[ladyjane]

It is “impossible” to be registered to vote without being a US Citizen.

In Cambridge? LOL They have ballots translated into more than 20 languages.

[fiftymegaton]

I agree about ‘this cell seems bigger than a 2 man squad’.

[tomkat]

Bearcat:

             

[Las Vegas Ron]

Sounds like they’re finally able to put their “urban warfare” training to good use.

This will be a good opportunity to watch their tactics....just sayin.