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[snip] Not going to discuss this at length here, but I would hope that most people would be able to understand that, whether one supports the pretext for a war or not, there is indeed a difference between military actions that result in civilian casualties and the targeted and indiscriminate...

One possibility I think hasn't been considered enough when it comes to both KT and the three arrested today is the middle option: none of them knew anything about the bombing, but one or all may have been sympathetic enough to the T brothers' radical views that they weren't terribly horrified by...

I don't know... I think there's a good chance there are more people involved in this than TT and DT, but his being "twice removed" from known terrorists doesn't strike me as a smoking gun. We know that TT had become radical; it stands to reason that he would have had some interaction with other...

According to the cab driver (http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/22070055/2013/04/24/cab-driver-says-marathon-bombers-suspect-were-protective-of-backpacks) the day before the bombing the brothers, already carrying backpacks with something heavy inside, initially asked him to take them from Malden...

I'm wondering why the sister hasn't seen the brothers in "years," according to one of the above links. Since the mother seems to have lived with them while she was in the US - and as recently as last year - that would imply a pretty deep rupture within the family.

Did you see the older brother's Amazon wish list, which was linked in the CBS local article in post #1031? It included a few books on how to create fake IDs, as well as a number on the mafia.

I'll give the mother a pass for her denial, because no matter what her own political views were, it must be impossible to imagine that your children would do something like this. But the aunt? She hasn't even seen them for five years. Her behavior is completely inexcusable.

Someone on my facebook friends list who has a police radio (he's an EMT) says that there are multiple shooters. Mt. Auburn hospital just went to code black(bomb threat). According to him, no confirmation of explosives - it is still marginally possible that the police were exploding...

I live in the area, about 1.5 miles from MIT. A friend who lives closer told me she heard what she thinks were explosives, going off a little bit earlier. She also posted literally one minute ago that there were tanks going by her apartment. You hear about robberies, assaults, and sometimes...

The more I hear, the more this trip seems odd to me. Any one factor can be easily explained, but the combination becomes harder to ignore. There’s nothing strange about a married mother taking a trip abroad with a friend. However, this isn’t just a married woman, it is a woman who has been...

A couple of thoughts on the itinerary: 1. Traveling to Paris or Rome might well have been more expensive than traveling to Amsterdam or Munich. I've known people - and not only super-adventerous people - who have, while on trips to Israel, gone to Ben Gurion airport and caught the cheapest...

Do the charges against Sloan seem credible, from what you've heard or read about the case? I ask because we now have two close friends, both men of good character, as far as anyone knew, involved in some sort of intrigue. Is it possible, however far-fetched, that someone with a beef against both...

Forgive me if this has come up - I read through the thread very quickly, and probably missed some salient points - but do we know what kind of social circle Ray Gricar moved in? Did he socialize with well-connected people (either in the government or PSU) who might have had some awareness of...

Thanks for the reply, J. J. I agree that Gricar wouldn't have been susceptible to political pressure in 2005, but personal embarassment is another issue. I also don't think there would have been a money trail in the blackmail scenario, because the person wouldn't have been blackmailing RG...

Hi, all. I’ve recently become fascinated with the Gricar case, and just wanted to run some thoughts by those who have spent far more time than I have analyzing it, especially J. J. I consider murder the least likely scenario. The fact that Gricar had previously done a search for destroying a...