memeorandum: Hagel: Israel, US see ‘exactly same’ Iran threat (Associated Press)

9:10 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 …

Discussion: BBC, The Gateway Pundit, The Truth About Guns, Jihad Watch and Riehl World News

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’

Discussion: Guardian, Weasel Zippers, CANNONFIRE, Pat Dollard and Telegraph

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 …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

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’

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Little Green Footballs, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Impolitic, The Lonely Conservative, Power Line, The Hinterland Gazette, Riehl World News and The Gateway Pundit

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 …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Atlas Shrugs, Weasel Zippers, Pat Dollard and Jihad Watch

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 …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Charles Apple, Israel Matzav, Weasel Zippers, msnbc.com, Daniel W. Drezner, Business Insider, The Reaction, Gawker and Booman Tribune

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.

Discussion: Roger L. Simon, Pat Dollard, Gawker, Patterico's Pontifications, American Power, Business Insider, The Reaction, Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com, ABCNEWS, Riehl World News and Wall Street Journal

Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Home-grown terrorist attack threatens to disrupt Obama's second-term agenda

Discussion: Prairie Weather and The Hill

Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Obama thanks Putin for help in Boston

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

NPR:
Older Suspect Described As Controlling, Manipulative

Discussion: The Jawa Report and The Lead with Jake Tapper

Associated Press:
Gov: Bombing suspect seriously hurt but stable

Discussion: Politico and The Hill

Fbi / Federal Bureau of Investigation:
2011 Request for Information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev from Foreign Government

Discussion: Infowars, Weekly Standard, The Raw Story, The Lead with Jake Tapper, Hot Air, Guardian, The Hinterland Gazette, The Lonely Conservative, Yahoo! News, The Jawa Report, National Review, Business Insider, CANNONFIRE and CNN

Daily Mail:
'He didn't try to be a hero': Stepson of brave Boston boat-owner describes the moment …

Discussion: Salon, naked capitalism, Business Insider, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, New Republic, Associated Press, ABCNEWS and ABCNEWS

Taylor Cormier / WBSM:
Three Connected to Bombing Suspect Questioned in New Bedford

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys, Business Insider and WLNE-TV

CBS News:
Boston bomings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev bled for hours from neck, leg wounds, “might not have lived” if not found

Discussion: The Boston Globe, Washington Post, TIME, neo-neocon, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, The Hill, The Moderate Voice and The Hill

Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:

Bill Maher: Comparing violence of Islam to Christianity ‘liberal bullsh*t’ [VIDEO] — On HBO's “Real Time” on Friday night, host Bill Maher entertained UC-San Bernardino professor Brian Levin, director of the Center for Study of Hate and Extremism, who maintained that despite the events in recent days …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Patterico's Pontifications, Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs and Blazing Cat Fur

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: Althouse, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Deadline.com

Kavkazcenter.com:

There is another version of who bombed Boston Marathon — According to an American information portal Natural News, the Boston Marathon could have been blown up by an FBI affiliated American military organization “The Craft”. — In an article dated April 19 and entitled …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Blazing Cat Fur, Infowars, Informed Comment, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives

Discussion: The Hope For America, Chicago Boyz and The Daily Caller

Associated Press:

Hagel: Israel, US see ‘exactly same’ Iran threat — TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Sunday the United States and Israel see “exactly the same” threat from Iran, but differ on when it may reach the point of requiring U.S. or Israeli military action.

Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill

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 …

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, Infowars and Right Turn

Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Graham, McCain: No criminal trial for captured suspect

Discussion: The Hill and Pat Dollard

Mike Lillis / The Hill: ACLU calls for Miranda rights for Boston bombing suspect

Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Debate Over Delaying of Miranda Warning

Discussion: Sky Dancing, emptywheel, Little Green Footballs, Liberal Values, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Lawfare, ThinkProgress and Slate

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.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Jihad Watch, Associated Press and Reuters

Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Kerry annouces doubling of nonlethal aid to Syrian opposition

Discussion: bigstory.ap.org, Reuters and The Lonely Conservative

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