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An arrest has been made in the Boston bombings investigation based on two videos showing images of the suspect, a federal law enforcement source told CNN's Fran Townsend. Boston University graduate student Lingzu Lu has been identified by the school as the third person who died in Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon.....

While the liberal media goes out of its way to steer clear from blaming Muslims for the Boston Marathon bombings, jihadists online are praying an Islamist is behind the blasts. SITE Institute reported, via Religion of Peace: Amidst ongoing media reports of two explosions in the American city of Boston, Massachusetts, near the finish line of the marathon race on April 15, 2013, jihadists expressed their joy and hoped the blasts are acts of jihadi terrorism. One forum member noted that over a week ago, a jihadist announced his desire to plan bombings in the United States, but was chastised...

Abu Musab al-Suri, a modern jihad "theorist" for Al Qaeda, who is believed to have been involved with both the Madrid (2004) and London bombings (2006), and perhaps even an attack on the Paris metro in 1995, was reported to have been released from Syrian captivity in February 2012. After being captured by the CIA in 2005 Al-Suri had been transported to the country of his birth, Syria, and held there for 6-years. According to a February 4, 20012 report in The Telegraph of London, by Jason Lewis, ...he [al-Suri] is now said to have been released as a warning...

I’m a Bostonian, and you are, too. No matter where you’re from, you’ve got that Boston blood boiling through you. You may not know it yet, but you soon will. So, what makes up a Bostonian? Plenty of good, bad and indifferent factors comprise your standard-issued Bostonian. Where one is born may have a lot to do with it, according to some, but as this tragedy will prove, we’ve all got a little Boston in us. I spent six wonderful years as a Boston resident — a mere blink of an eye to many of its prideful natives. However, as...

Representative Steve King of Iowa, a prominent House conservative, says Congress should be cautious about rushing immigration reform, especially after Monday’s bombing in Boston, where three people were killed. “Some of the speculation that has come out is that yes, it was a foreign national and, speculating here, that it was potentially a person on a student visa,” King says. “If that’s the case, then we need to take a look at the big picture.” On immigration, King says national security should be the focus now, and any talk about a path to legalization should be put on hold. “We...

Today is the 239th anniversary of the Boston Massacre. This horrible tragedy, in which British soldiers killed five men and wounded six others, brought hostilities in Boston from a slow burn to an open flame. That fire would burn steady for the next five years, until it erupted in a blaze that spread throughout Massachusetts and across the colonies. The fires of an actual fight for freedom and not just an appeal to the Government for liberty were first stoked by the Massacre. In many ways, the Massacre allowed the colonists to maintain the moral high ground, despite the fact...

The Boston Tea Party, 1773 Victory in the French and Indian War was costly for the British. At the war's conclusion in 1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of recouping their war costs. They were also looking for ways to reestablish control over the colonial governments that had become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war. Royal ineptitude compounded the problem. A series of actions including the Stamp Act (1765), the Townsend Acts (1767) and the Boston Massacre (1770) agitated the colonists, straining relations with the mother...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...

I was looking into paintings of the Boston Massacre for a class project. I found Paul Revere's Painting. But it seems there are two versions of it: Here is one (a University of California website): And here is another (a University of Rochester website): A University of Virginia website also had this very same picture: The difference between the two is that there is a person who is white in one picture, and in the next he is Black American (bottom left). I know the story about Crispus (who was black and was one of the people killed), but I...