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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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cell phone records. sloppy or else suicide bomber types really don't care if they get caught. They prefer to live and bomb another day. But if they get caught that is the cost of doing business I suppose.
1 posted on 04/17/2013 4:32:04 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

I just hope these aren’t Obama phones they were using


2 posted on 04/17/2013 4:34:59 PM PDT by shadeaud (We need to learn to know what our enemies are truly creating)
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To: plain talk
But, if they are martyred, they get a bunch of 'virgins"...


3 posted on 04/17/2013 4:36:02 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("...once a bell is rung by a biased media, it's impossible to un-ring it."-Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
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The old Usama rule was no communication after an attack has begun. They should have paid attention.

Of course the 19 were going to be martyrs anyways so who cares.

4 posted on 04/17/2013 4:36:47 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: plain talk

Thanks CBS/DailyMail for explaining this in public, so the next terrorist won’t make the same mistake.

Great job.

/sarc


5 posted on 04/17/2013 4:38:04 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: plain talk; a fool in paradise

British press, as always, gets it.


6 posted on 04/17/2013 4:39:17 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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“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.”

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.


7 posted on 04/17/2013 4:39:18 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Why is it that we get news from the Daily Mail in London? The US media is an embarassment.
8 posted on 04/17/2013 4:39:52 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: LyinLibs

everyone knows this anyway...unless you’re like me and i use disposable boost and virgin mobile phones.


9 posted on 04/17/2013 4:40:32 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Jabba the Nutt

The Daily Mail is our “Radio Free Europe”.


10 posted on 04/17/2013 4:40:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Where is his picture?


11 posted on 04/17/2013 4:40:57 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Leftists favorite Mass Murderer: Kermit Gosnell)
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Why is it that we get news from the Daily Mail in London?

Everything in the Daily Mail is repackaged info from US media/television. This story appears to be entirely based on CBS news, for example.

12 posted on 04/17/2013 4:42:27 PM PDT by Strategerist
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My guess is that they were “cheap” and got on a family verizon plan....so they’re all connected. Just stupid...


13 posted on 04/17/2013 4:42:37 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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IF the picture they highlight is of the suspect, he certainly appears to be white. This is the guy dressed in black no hat, who they think is reacting oddly to the blast.


14 posted on 04/17/2013 4:45:09 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: plain talk

Should have been using a track phone. Smash it and scatter the pieces in the harbor after you’re done.
Maybe they have the wrong guy?


15 posted on 04/17/2013 4:45:25 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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They’re pretty stupid alright, that’s the definition of the kind of person who does this kind of stuff. But I think they’ve learned that there’s no percentage in suicide bombing. These guys won’t give up. We need to tighten up our immigration policies and not allow these people entry into the country. Am I profiling? You damn well better believe I am. It’s not the Amish making these terrorists attacks world-wide. And it’s not American citizens. Well, with a few notable exceptions like the nutcase Unabomber and leftist Bill Ayers’ Weathermen, et al.


16 posted on 04/17/2013 4:47:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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Even if it was a throw away, they still got visual on him via a frames of video synced with the cell data.


17 posted on 04/17/2013 4:48:20 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: plain talk
For $10-$20 cash, anyone can get a disposable pre-paid phone. For another $20, he can get a pre-paid card with enough minutes for the job. The only trick would be to put on a costume, complete with mask, while paying for it or to buy it far ahead of time so the security video has been written over.

I have to wonder if this guy was just cheap, like the first WTC bomber who went back to the rental center for the deposit, after claiming that the van had been stolen. Maybe he watched Homeland and thought investigators have no way of telling what phone number made a phone call to alert a terrorist chief about an impending assassination attempt. Heck, maybe he even thought cell phone signals aren't jammed inside the Pentagon building.

18 posted on 04/17/2013 4:55:40 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: plain talk

Who says it was a disposable Wal-Mart phone? Speculations based on nothing.


19 posted on 04/17/2013 4:56:56 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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The Daily Mail is our “Radio Free Europe. [U.S.A.]

With some help from Canada.
Sure is comforting to know more people are noticing. Not just politics, but crime, specially by protected groups.

20 posted on 04/17/2013 4:57:36 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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