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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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New York Times:
Investigators Dig for Roots of Bomb Suspects' Radicalization — WASHINGTON — The two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings were armed with a small arsenal of guns, ammunition and explosives when they first confronted the police early Friday, and were most likely planning more attacks, the authorities said Sunday.
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Lindsey Graham: Wrong name hid Russia trip — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday that the FBI did not know that Tamerlan Tsarnaev — the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect — went on a six-month overseas trip in 2011 because his name was misspelled.
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
The Conservative Paranoid Mind — There's a common thread linking conservatives' positions on gun control, immigration, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: the constant need to stoke fear. By Michael Tomasky. — Liberals and civil libertarians shouldn't yet be saying that there's utterly …
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Washington Monthly
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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The Hill, Twitchy and Shot in the Dark
Wall Street Journal:
Boston Marathon Bombings: Turn to Religion Split Bomb Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Home — By ALAN CULLISON in Makhachkala, Russia, PAUL SONNE in Moscow, ANTON TROIANOVSKI in Cambridge, Mass., and DAVID GEORGE-COSH in Toronto — After last week's Boston Marathon bombings …
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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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Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
Dead suspect broke angrily with Muslim speakers — Evidence mounts of radical turn — Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, angrily disrupted a January talk at a Cambridge mosque when a speaker compared the Prophet Mohammed and the peace activist …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Marathon bombing suspects not registered to vote — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Boston Marathon bombing suspects' geopolitical leanings are still largely a mystery, and so is their American political outlook, after a review of records in this city where they lived for the last several years.
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Badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions
Badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions
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Wall Street Journal:
Enemy Combatants in Boston
Enemy Combatants in Boston
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New York Times:
How to Handle a Terrorism Case
How to Handle a Terrorism Case
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Alyssa Newcomb / ABCNEWS:
Authorities: Boston Bombing Suspect Is Responding to Questions in Writing
Authorities: Boston Bombing Suspect Is Responding to Questions in Writing
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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’
Bomber is awake and responding to questions after he ‘shot himself in the head while he was cornered in boat’
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Washington Post:
CIA, FBI, military interrogators ready to question Boston bombing suspect
CIA, FBI, military interrogators ready to question Boston bombing suspect
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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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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Top Opponent Of Immigration Reform Totally Loses It During Immigration Hearing — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tore into conservative critics who have sought to exploit the Boston bombings to delay immigration reform, eliciting a strong rebuke from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Paul: Boston shows vulnerabilities in current immigration system
Paul: Boston shows vulnerabilities in current immigration system
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Ted Cruz vs. Marco Rubio on immigration
Ted Cruz vs. Marco Rubio on immigration
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The Hill and National Review
USA Today:
George W. Bush says library ‘a place to lay out facts’ — DEDICATING A NEW PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY — The federal government will spend more than $68.7 million this year on programming, operations and maintenance of 13 presidential libraries, including $3.5 million for the central management office.
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Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler:
No Indication Obama Will Visit Devastated West, Texas
No Indication Obama Will Visit Devastated West, Texas
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White House Dossier, Weasel Zippers, Dallas Morning News, The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
Mike Jaccarino / Fox News:
Town of West, Texas, recovers after plant blast kills 14, injures 200
Town of West, Texas, recovers after plant blast kills 14, injures 200
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NewsHounds blog
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
A red state/blue state chasm — In the week since modest gun control died in the Senate, those of us who don't think guns make the country safer have been inclined to blame a few cowardly senators whose votes could have shifted the outcome. — Unfortunately, the problem is bigger than that.
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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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Angela Waye / The Atlantic Online:
Why Is Congress Trying to Make Our Internet Abuse Laws Worse, not Better? — The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is too vague and broad to make sense in an increasingly computer-mediated world. Yet legislators don't seem to get it. — In January this year, political activist and net guru Aaron Swartz committed suicide.
Fars News Agency:
Commander Sees Boston Blast as Natural Outcome of US Policies, Actions — TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian Commander lashed out at the US for its attitude towards terrorism in the world, and stressed that the recent explosions in the US city of Boston was the outcome of the performance and policies of the US statesmen.
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