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5:40 AM ET, April 21, 2013

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Christopher Bucktin / Mirror.co.uk:
Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev  —  Police believe the pair were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack  —  Covered boat: Fugitive was found in back yard  —  The FBI was last night hunting …
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Daily Mail:
‘Terrorista#1’: Bragging license plate on BMW belonging to friends of captured Boston bomber who were arrested along with another woman in dramatic raid  —  The two men arrested last night in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings drive a car with the licence plate that reads: ‘Terrorista #1’
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Amazing New Details from the Chase for the Boston Bombers  —  The police chief of the Watertown police department shares amazing new details of the chase for the Boston bombings suspects from Thursday night into Friday evening:  —  The police chief, Edward Deveau, describes how cops nearly apprehended …
Daily Mail:
Was Boston bomber inspired by Russia's Bin Laden?  FBI tracked radicalised older brother ‘for five years’ after being told of his links to Chechen terrorists  — But FBI later discounted Tamerlan as a threat, despite telling his mother he was an ‘extremist leader’
New York Post:
Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Fighter with a hidden hatred  —  He was as American as apple pie, a handsome Golden Gloves boxer who wore preppy sweaters, married his high-school sweetheart and tooled around the family's quaint Boston neighborhood in a Mercedes.  —  But Tamerlan Tsarnaev …
The Boston Globe:
Brothers in Marathon bombings took two paths into infamy  —  The two young brothers from Cambridge seemed to be on promising paths, one a scholarship student at college, the other fighting for a national title in amateur boxing.  —  And then, apparently with little warning …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Inquiry Shifts to Suspect's Russian Trip  —  WASHINGTON — With one suspect dead and the other captured and lying grievously wounded in a hospital, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned on Saturday to questions about the men's motives, and to the significance of an overseas trip one of them took last year.
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Obama thanks Putin for help in Boston  —  President Barack Obama spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday evening and thanked the Russian leader for unspecified cooperation in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings.  —  As law enforcement officials surrounded …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
NPR:
Older Suspect Described As Controlling, Manipulative
Fbi / Federal Bureau of Investigation:
2011 Request for Information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev from Foreign Government
Associated Press:
Gov: Bombing suspect seriously hurt but stable
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Home-grown terrorist attack threatens to disrupt Obama agenda
Discussion: The Hill
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Lindsey Graham: ‘Enemy combatant’  —  Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain are calling for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings to be tried as an enemy combatant, rather than as an ordinary criminal.  —  “Under the Law of War we can hold this suspect as a potential enemy combatant …
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Graham, McCain: No criminal trial for captured suspect
Discussion: The Hill, Pat Dollard and The Verge
Mike Lillis / The Hill:   ACLU calls for Miranda rights for Boston bombing suspect
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
What rights should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get?
Emily Bazelon / Slate:
Why Should I Care That No One's Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Koch Brothers Making Play for Tribune's Newspapers  —  Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged …
Discussion: Deadline.com
Associated Press:
U.S. providing Syrian rebels $123 million more in aid  —  ISTANBUL — The United States is providing Syrian rebels with $123 million in new nonlethal aid that may include armor and other types of supplies that haven't been part of the assistance package in the past.
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Kerry annouces doubling of nonlethal aid to Syrian opposition
Stephen F. Knott / Washington Post:
George W. Bush is victim of a rush to judgment  —  Stephen F. Knott is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and the author of “Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics.”  —  The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum will be dedicated Thursday …
Discussion: Althouse and Trail Blazers Blog
UPI:
2 shot as thousands rally to celebrate marijuana in Denver  —  Two people were shot in Denver's Civic Center Saturday where thousands of people gathered for marijuana-inspired “420 Day” festivities, paramedics said.  —  Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said a man and woman in their 20s …
Discussion: Pat Dollard and The Gateway Pundit
Bill Daley / Washington Post:
Heidi Heitkamp betrayed me on gun control  —  Bill Daley was White House chief of staff from 2011 to 2012 and secretary of commerce from 1997 to 2000.  —  I want my money back.  —  Last October, I gave $2,500 to support Heidi Heitkamp's campaign to become North Dakota's junior senator.
Discussion: Politico
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Ben Goad / The Hill:
Bill Daley: Heitkamp gun vote a ‘betrayal’
Discussion: Booman Tribune
 
 
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