Posted on 04/17/2013 11:12:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
BOSTON, April 17 (Reuters) - Authorities have arrested a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings based on security video that showed a man depositing a bag at the scene before the blasts, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. and Boston law enforcement sources.
A U.S. law enforcement source told Reuters that a suspect had been identified and that a formal announcement would be made later in the day.
The developments are the biggest publicly-disclosed breaks since Monday's blast at the marathon finish line killed three people and injured 176 others. Investigators were searching through thousands of pieces of evidence from cell phone pictures to shrapnel shards pulled from victims' legs.
Based on shards of metal, fabric, wires and a battery recovered at the scene, the focus turned to whoever may have made bombs in pressure cooker pots and taken them in heavy black nylon bags to the finish line of the world-famous race watched by crowds of spectators.
A stretch of Boston's Boylston Street almost a mile long and blocks around it remained closed as investigators searched for clues in the worst attack on U.S. soil since the hijacked plane strikes of Sept. 11, 2001.
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The Times Square bomber (the real one, not Nanny Bloomber's "angry white dude") was apprehended at the airport when he tried to leave the country.
You’re kidding, right? What about the Somalian team?
So this one dude carried two backpaks?? and started a fire in the Library all at one time and lived to tell about it??
Yeh...Right!!
I'm betting there are 9 people involved altogether.
Not so much as the MSM though...
I assume you are joking? Kenyan men finished 2nd, 5th, 7th, and 12th, while Kenyan women finished 1st, 3rd, and 11th.
CNN walking back their report after everyone repeats it.
On Fox they believed the suspect may have worked in one of the stores where the bombing happen. Ok NO ARREST yet...sooo who is telling the truth?
“Does anyone here think a little border security might not be a bad idea?”
Nah. Herr Napolitano told us the borders have never been safer. Or was that boarders?
If it turns out to be the guy with the tattered pants, I will be stunned because he was videoed running from the scene 30 seconds after it happened by someone on the street.
It wasn’t another one of Barak Obama’s terrorist friends like Bill Ayers, was it?
Let us lay eyes upon this “right wing Tea Partier” without delay!!!/s
Good point. CNN now saying “never mind”... not in custody. WBZ has shots of crowds gathering at courthouse.
That's why I think people are foolish to post their picture on their Facebook bio identifying themselves. Except for my sisters, who are fat and old but post slim doctored pictures. Whatever, keep your pictures away from social media.
Wondering why they release this news before an actual arrest. Do they want evidence dumped before an arrest?
Every hear the saying about closing the barn door after the horse has already gotten out of the barn?
Security officials clear Boston courthouse -- order court staff, attorneys, media to leave -- Reuters witness #breaking— Reuters US News (@ReutersUS) April 17, 2013
Never mind, read followups of arrest.
The US military brass shielded a rabid jihadist who was in communication with Al Qaeda and even AFTER he killed persons at Fort Hood, we heard that it would be a BIGGER tragedy if somehow Islamist diversity was somehow restricted in our military as precaution.
The government is no longer into security. Investigations after the fact maybe but prevention means nothing to the PC crowd.
If it were a white male, we would already know all about it.
So many videos posted by Arizona ranchers of illegals crossing the border, many carrying black backpacks that look like they might have pressure cookers. We are so screwed.
I guess the Feds put out this false news in order to allow the perp to have advance warning so he has a better shot at getting away.
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