Boston bombings: Police in shoot out with gunmen outside Boston

[Razor]

I guess I was wrong about my impression of the ethnicities of the suspects. They now appear to be Chechens according to news reports...

Yeah, at least two news agencies are saying they are Chechens. AP says the surviving suspect is named : Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Also

In a shootout with police, the suspects were throwing grenades. Based on the way they engaged police, authorities believe they have some paramilitary training.

 

[sorcerer]

So this Sunil Tripathi is all cybercrap?

Yes.
and the Chechens rumour will also be cyber crap in a few hours.

 

[tramp]

The two are brothers!?

The first hard reports about the identities of the Boston Marathon bombin are coming out.
Here's what we know.
-- NBC reports that the two suspects are brothers.
-- They are reportedly of Chechen background, and is possibly from Turkey.
-- They have been repotedly here legally.
-- They are NOT, as previously speculated by some, connected to a missing Brown University student.
-- The age of the two brothers is 19 and 20, according to NBC's Pete Williams.


Read more: Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev - Business Insider

 

[Razor]

So this Sunil Tripathi is all cybercrap?

At least according to the News agencies. But it is a fact that the police did in fact at one point of time refer to the second suspect as Tripathi. As more information is coming in I guess now they have changed their assumption
Besides, the picture of the second suspect and that of Sunil did not really match.

 

[Blackwater]

This suspect on the right is now allegedly dead:

Either Turkish or Chechniyan they must have gone to Pakistan for training


It is confirmed by BBC that they were brother of Chechniyan origin

 

[Blackwater]

Boston bombings: Muslim Americans await bomber's ID

As the investigation into who was behind the Boston bombings goes on, Muslim communities are braced for a backlash should the perpetrator share their faith.

The day after the Boston Marathon bombings, Yusef was treated differently.

The 10-year-old went to his Ohio-area school and was surprised by a question from a classmate, according to his family. While the class was discussing the explosions, the classmate is said to have asked: "Does that mean Yusef is going to blow up the school?"

A confused Yusef, whose family asked that his last name not be used, says he repeated the classmate's question. But the teacher apparently only heard Yusef's end of the exchange, a misunderstanding that resulted in detention and having his locker searched.

This story is exactly what Anum Hussain feared when she first heard of the bombings. Hussain is a regional director with the Muslim Inter-Scholastic Tournament and teaches Muslim youth about bullying.

Having grown up in the aftermath of 9/11, Hussain worries that this generation of Muslims could be bullied because of the blasts - especially if the person responsible is a Muslim.

"The sad truth is that regardless of the facts, people are already getting unfairly stereotyped," says Hussain.

"We're all on the edge of our seats praying that the person who did these acts isn't a Muslim. We're tired of being blamed for the actions of one person."
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A white terrorist will be framed as an individual aberration. A culprit who is an Arab, Muslim or black American will vilify an entire community of people"

Khaled Beydoun, UCLA School of Law

It's a sentiment shared by many, especially among Arab, African, Asian and Sikh Americans. As the FBI investigation inches closer to finding a suspect, these communities fear a new wave of ethnically charged violence and harassment.

Some Muslims see progress in the way they are treated, and are heartened by the official response to the Boston attacks, which has used language with care and deliberation.

"It starts with the leadership of the country, if they are being able to do this slowly, it will trickle down to the people," one woman at a meeting of the Islamic Society of Northeastern University told the BBC.

"Even news and online articles are starting to tone down a little from a few years ago. People are starting to understand that not all Muslims are bad."

But others are concerned that the good work of the past few years could be quickly undone if the bomber is Muslim.

"Despite some of the headway and normalcy achieved since 9/11, it could be extinguished in an instant if the perpetrator fits the caricature of a terrorist," says Khaled Beydoun, a critical race studies fellow at UCLA School of Law.

When Beydoun heard about the Boston attacks, he was worried about a friend who was running in the marathon. But a familiar fear crept into his mind as he thought about who was responsible for the attacks.

From crises such as the Newtown shootings to the blasts in Boston, Beydoun has always worried about the national reaction if the perpetrator is a Muslim or "looks" Muslim.

"It's part of this collective consciousness that Muslims and Arab-Americans experience in any time of crisis," says Beydoun.

He thinks that white suspects are treated differently to suspects from minority groups.

"With a white American versus an Arab or Muslim American, we know from previous incidences that a white terrorist will be framed as an individual aberration," he says.

"Whereas a culprit who is an Arab, Muslim or black American will vilify an entire community of people."

BBC News - Boston bombings: Muslim Americans await bomber's ID

 

[tramp]

At least according to the News agencies. But it is a fact that the police did in fact at one point of time refer to the second suspect as Tripathi. As more information is coming in I guess now they have changed their assumption
Besides, the picture of the second suspect and that of Sunil did not really match.

You must have heard of the 'kakathaliya nyaya' .... a crow lands on a frond; a palmyra nut falls... deduction is the nut fell because of the crow's action.
Tripathi was missing since March from a nearby locality. So it was deduced one of them is him.. that two a bright kid doing philosophy major.. yeah enough to be considered a wierdo.

 

[Singh]

Ok the bombers are apparently Chechen brothers and not Tripathi and Mulugeta?

 

[Blackwater]

Ok the bombers are apparently Chechen brothers and not Tripathi and Mulugeta?

yes confirmed by BBC both r brothers from chechniya,

now news is awaited about their training in pakistan

 

[Blackwater]

 

[Apollyon]

Internet investigators supposedly heard Tripathi's name on Police Scanner and mistook him for Boston Bombing suspect.

 

[LurkerBaba]

Chechens are Caucasians. There should be no resemblance to brown people

Update: 1 suspect is in custody

 

[Razor]

Chechens are Caucasians. There should be no resemblance to brown people

Update: Suspect 1 is in custody

Suspect 1 is dead, right ?

 

[Singh]

1 is dead and other is in custody or on the run ?

 

[LurkerBaba]

Suspect 1 is dead, right ?

Typo. I meant 1 suspect is in custody now (post edited)

 

[average american]

They tried to rob a 711 usually trained terrorist have an exit stratgy. One SOB dead, one to go.

 

[Singh]

So manhunt is over ? Kudos to boston police deptt.

 

[Singh]

They tried to rob a 711 usually trained terrorist have an exit stratgy. One SOB dead, one to go.

Chechens are tough sobs ! Before the troubles they were not religious at all, after saudi money and ideology came they have been getting themselves killed all over the world

 

[Razor]

Suspect #1: Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Suspect #2: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

 

[tramp]

They seem to have been convinced they would not be found out because they stayed on in the vicinity and do not seem to have a proper exit strategy!! Maybe indoctrinated on the internet!