Did suspect #2 ever share where they tested these bombs?
They had to be tested somewhere, I would be interested to know where that was.
caww, you are correct at what is occurring, it’s time for them to just keep throwing everything they can at the wall and watch people scatter around trying to follow any thin lead of info.
I’m still haunted by the 15,000 freaks from hostile countries that are not where they were ‘we’ expected them to be. Can you imagine them spread out across the entire country, paired up if you will, it’s going to be a long long long summer.
I vaguely recall something about testing a dozen or two miles north of town.
Searches are coming up with articles about Tsarnaev saying they never tested the bombs.
Good question. Professor Kaczynski has commented on the difficulty of finding suitable venues for such activity. And he was a resident of Montana, where they do have wide open spaces.
They had to be tested somewhere
Not necessarily. Little Boy worked as designed, despite never having been tested, and killed ninety to 166 thousand people (accurate casualty figures are hard to com by, since many of the victims were cremated in the firestorm). Of course, Speed Bump and Joker were not exactly Manhattan Project material, but then, neither were their bombs.
I believe it was said they did not test them...
That’s a low number of people you listed....hostile or otherwise..it doesn’t take much for that equation to change regardless how long they’ve lived here, or how “normal” they may have appeared to others.
I’m not surprised we can’t keep track of them....if you consider the numbers they likely outnumber the men we have to do the job with considering all Bo’s cuts.
Getting a handle on the overseas students would be a good place to hunker down on...and require a whole lot more background checks on. But even with that...these two were here ten years! No2# was 9 yrs old when he arrived here and basically raised with Americans.
And so....Americans have to keep their guard up on them all...unfortunately.
The Patch has a story about unexplained explosions in Hanover Mass south of Boston. Commenters allege a connection. The Patch is a chain of local papers.
In addition to the articles above, this one is from the Boston Globe:
Indeed, Hanover is just south of Boston.. about 1/3 of the way between Boston & UMass Dartmouth where the younger bomber was going to school.
My guess is they tested them in Dagestan.
These tweets were dug up by “Jester,” a white hat hacker
http://jesterscourt.cc/2013/04/23/boston-marathon-bombing-just-a-hunch/
They seem to indicate that there was testing done prior to the marathon.