RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Hell, the Columbine kids were terrorists.

The Nightman Cometh wrote:Yes, with the power have hindsight how could the FBI have not caught him?

Doll Is Mine wrote:

Kadyrbayev allegedly told officials he knew at that moment that Tsnarnaev was involved in the bombings, but instead of alerting police, he decided to remove the backpack and Tsarnaev's laptop from the dorm to help his friend "avoid trouble." Ultimately, they threw it in a trash bin near the apartment Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov shared in New Bedford around 10:00pm that night

Doll Is Mine wrote:College kids are dumb.

azrider wrote:why did the dad say they were framed?

Doll Is Mine wrote:

When the FBI released photos of the bombing suspects on April 18, Phillipos (third suspect) texted Kadyrbayev to say that one of the suspects looked like Tsarnaev. According to the filing, Kadyrbayev saw the photo and then texted Tsarnaev to say he looked like the suspect. "LOL," Tsarnaev replied, according to the filing.

Later, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, who shared an apartment off campus, met Phillipos at Tsarnaev's dorm room that night, where they spied a backpack containing fireworks that were "opened and emptied of powder" and other possible bomb-making components, according to court filings. Kadyrbayev allegedly told officials he knew at that moment that Tsnarnaev was involved in the bombings, but instead of alerting police, he decided to remove the backpack and Tsarnaev's laptop from the dorm to help his friend "avoid trouble." Ultimately, they threw it in a trash bin near the apartment Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov shared in New Bedford around 10:00pm that night, according to the court filings.

Done.

Grotewold wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Hell, the Columbine kids were terrorists.

Not really, imo. The whole goth and "trenchcoat mafia" thing was way, way overblown. Harris was a psychopath and Klebold a follower

Let the 5700 who didn't cross the finish line run the Boston Marathon in 2014

By Ryan P.
Williston, Vermont

Sign Ryan's Petition

Last month, I was thrilled to get the chance to run my first marathon race: the Boston Marathon. I trained for months to prepare -- even running through subzero temperatures in the cold Vermont winter weather. In order to participate in the race, runners need to meet strict qualifying times, raise a significant amount for charity, or be granted an invite by a running organization. Like my fellow runners, I worked hard to earn my spot in this marathon and a lot of people pitched in to help me along the way, too. I never could have imagined that I wouldn’t get a chance to finish.

I was less than a mile away from the finish line when I heard that a bombing had occurred, that the marathon was over, and I wouldn’t be able to complete the race. I will never forget the chaos and confusion as I, and many other runners, struggled to locate our friends and families with limited phone reception. Less than a week later, instead of the party I had planned to celebrate finishing the race with my friends in Vermont, I organized a fundraising 5K run-walk that raised over ten thousand dollars for the fund to support victims.

But I wasn’t alone. Approximately 5,700 Boston Marathoners had our dream cut short by the terrible acts of April 15th. We were not able to experience the exhilaration that only crossing the finish line can bring. The most exciting day of our lives turned out to be the scariest. We were lucky that we hadn't quite made it to the finish and therefore were safe from harm. However, we will forever carry emotional scars from those horrifying moments.

The Boston Athletic Association (BAA), the organization in charge of running the Marathon, is providing those of us who didn’t get a chance to finish the race with a finisher’s medallion and an estimated finishing time. We are certainly appreciative of these efforts, but we feel our journey is not complete. We worked hard to get to the finish line and greet our families with tears of joy. Now we cannot say we accomplished our goals. Instead we have to say we almost finished.

That’s why I’m asking the Boston Athletic Association, as well as the Cities of Boston and Newton and towns of Hopkinton, Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, and Brookline, to grant the 5,700 of us automatic entry into the 2014 Boston Marathon. We are not asking for a free spot, simply a guaranteed entry. The leadership of the BAA has mentioned that they are considering their options on this issue, so let's send a unified message together.

We respectfully ask that a Wave Four be created so that we may run with our brothers and sisters in solidarity and healing. We want to be able to finish what we started. We want to do it with one another. We want to be able to say that we completed the Boston Marathon.

and imagine how sad i was for a couple minutes when i found out that little kid got blown up!

jerseyhoya wrote:'Mounting Evidence' Boston Bombers Involved in 2011 Triple Murder

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Hell, the Columbine kids were terrorists.

Not really, imo. The whole goth and "trenchcoat mafia" thing was way, way overblown. Harris was a psychopath and Klebold a follower

I'm talking about the fact that Harris wanted to implement a devestating attack, including off-campus explosions intended to be distractions to the true attack. That fits a very loose definition of terrorism, i.e., intimidating the general populace.