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Mass. police: Bomb suspects didn't have gun permit — You are here — Home » Massachusetts » Mass. police: Bomb suspects didn't have gun permit — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon …
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Alyssa Newcomb / ABCNEWS:
Authorities: Boston Bombing Suspect Is Responding to Questions in Writing — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awake and responding sporadically in writing to questions, authorities said. Investigators are asking about other cell members and other unexploded bombs, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Boston bombing suspects did not have valid handgun licenses — (Reuters) - The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings, who police say engaged in a gun battle with officers early Friday after a frenzied manhunt, were not licensed to own guns in the towns where they lived, authorities said on Sunday.
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Washington Post:
CIA, FBI, military interrogators ready to question Boston bombing suspect — Federal prosecutors on Sunday were preparing to file charges against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, even as he remained under heavy guard at a local hospital amid questions about whether authorities would be able to interrogate him.
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The Week, Hot Air, Prairie Weather, Post Politics and Politico
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
College Friend Of Boston Bombing Suspect Says They Discussed Bombing At School Gym — A student who was friendly with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told CNN Sunday that he discussed the Boston bombing with the suspected bomber at the UMass Dartmouth gym after Monday's bombing.
Wall Street Journal:
Enemy Combatants in Boston — Was there a FISA order issued for Tamerlan Tsarnaev? — A row has broken out over whether the Obama Administration is violating the legal due process of Boston terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by not reading him his Miranda rights before questioning.
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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
Make No Mistake, It Was Jihad — Let's hope the administration gets over its reluctance to recognize attacks on the U.S. for what they are. — If your concern about the threat posed by the Tsarnaev brothers is limited to assuring that they will never be in a position to repeat their grisly acts, rest easy.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Report: Suspects not licensed to own guns — The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night. — The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms …
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JustOneMinute and Twitchy
Daily Mail:
Caught just in time: ‘Bombers were about to plant MORE devices but plot was spoiled by release of CCTV photos’
Caught just in time: ‘Bombers were about to plant MORE devices but plot was spoiled by release of CCTV photos’
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Tom Curry / NBC Politics:
Terrorist suspect may have traveled to Russia in 2012 under alias
Terrorist suspect may have traveled to Russia in 2012 under alias
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Crooks and Liars
U.S. News:
Badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions
Badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions
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New York Times:
Suspects Seemed Set for Attacks Beyond Boston
Suspects Seemed Set for Attacks Beyond Boston
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
F.B.I. Interview Led Homeland Security to Hold Up Citizenship for One Brother
F.B.I. Interview Led Homeland Security to Hold Up Citizenship for One Brother
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ImmigrationProf Blog, Daily Mail, Outside the Beltway and Twitchy
Barney Henderson / Telegraph:
Boston bomber: FBI ‘dropped the ball’ over Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Boston bomber: FBI ‘dropped the ball’ over Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Weasel Zippers, Jihad Watch and The Gateway Pundit
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham: FBI ‘Dropped The Ball’ With Boston Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Lindsey Graham: FBI ‘Dropped The Ball’ With Boston Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Arsen Mollayev / Associated Press:
Chechen Terrorist Group Denies Involvement In Boston Attack
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Lindsey Graham blames FBI for Boston bombing: ‘The ball was dropped’
Lindsey Graham blames FBI for Boston bombing: ‘The ball was dropped’
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - How doctor's daughter became the Muslim convert widow of Boston bomber: Terrorist husband ‘brainwashed’ her and she gave up her dreams of college to have his baby at 21 — Schoolfriend tells MailOnline how Katherine Russell had dreams of joining the Peace Corps - but was ‘totally transformed’ by Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Israel Matzav, The Gateway Pundit, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Riehl World News and American Power
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Daily Mail:
Bomber is awake and responding to questions after he ‘shot himself in the head while he was cornered in boat’ — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is responding sporadically in writing to questions from investigators regarding other cell members and other unexploded bombs
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Weasel Zippers, BBC, Riehl World News and Infowars
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid? — In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, we are suffering through the inevitable period of liberal hand-wringing. Liberals can't help themselves: while normal people are reviling the bombers, celebrating their capture or death …
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Betsy's Page, Daily Kos and NewsBusters
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Jobless Trap — F.D.R. told us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. But when future historians look back at our monstrously failed response to economic depression, they probably won't blame fear, per se. Instead, they'll castigate our leaders for fearing the wrong things.
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The Moderate Voice and naked capitalism
Arutz Sheva:
Kerry Compares Boston Victims, Marmara Terrorists — At Istanbul, Secretary of State makes jarring comparison between Boston Marathon terror victims, IHH terror activists killed by Israel. — Speaking at Istanbul, Turkey, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a jarring comparison between …
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Israel Matzav and Atlas Shrugs
Mike Jaccarino / Fox News:
Town of West, Texas, recovers after plant blast kills 14, injures 200 — Officials now number the dead from a Central Texas fertilizer plant explosion at 14, while residents attempt to recover some semblance of normalcy in the 2,800-person town of West. — “The devastation is immense,” …
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