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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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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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Business Insider, emptywheel, neo-neocon, Riehl World News, Los Angeles Times, National Review and Associated Press


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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The Week, Washington Monthly and American Spectator

Suspect in Boston Marathon Attack Charged with Using a Weapon of Mass Destruction — Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, a U.S. citizen and resident of Cambridge, Mass., has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property …

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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Business Insider, Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog, msnbc.com and Telegraph


After Boston: Don't Get Fooled Again by the ‘War on Terror’ Hawks — Yes, of course terrorism is real. But that doesn't mean the hawkish approach to counterterrorism hasn't been discredited. — The self-assurance of War on Terror hawks is one of the most peculiar phenomena in our politics.
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Boston bombing suspect Tsarnaev charged with using WMD, faces death penalty — BOSTON — The surviving Boston bombing suspect is being charged with using weapons of mass destruction resulting in death and injury to others, a charge punishable by death or life in prison, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday in a statement.
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ThinkProgress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Hinterland Gazette and The Huffington Post

White House: Boston suspect will not be treated as combatant
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White House: Dzhokar Tsarnaev not ‘an enemy combatant’
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PJ Media, Sky Dancing and Daily Kos

Unsealed Complaint and Affidavit - U.S. v Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Hot Air

Boston Marathon bombing suspect is charged in hospital
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The Political Carnival and The Moderate Voice

Enemy Combatants in Boston
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The Hugh Hewitt Show, Infowars, CNN, TheBlaze.com and The Raw Story

Boston Marathon Bombings: Turn to Religion Split Bomb Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Home
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Republican Lawmaker — And Former FBI Agent — Defends Bureau's Handling Of Boston Bombing
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Los Angeles Times and Riehl World News

Badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect responding to questions
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Shakesville, msnbc.com and The Democratic Daily

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged with using ‘weapon of mass destruction’
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Post Politics, The Fix, Wonkblog, Hit & Run, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler

Boston bombing suspects did not have valid handgun licenses
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Sen. Paul Issues Letter to Majority Leader Reid Regarding Consideration of Immigration Bill — In the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombings, focus should be on National Security — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Rand Paul today issued a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging …
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette


BECK BREAKS EXCLUSIVE INFORMATION ON SAUDI NATIONAL ONCE CONSIDERED A PERSON OF INTEREST IN BOSTON BOMBINGS — Editor's Note: We'll be discussing this story and all the day's news during our live BlazeCast at 12pm ET...including your questions, comments & live chat: — Background points:
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Saudi National Questioned in Boston Attack was on Terror Watch List — The Saudi national who was initially detained and then ruled out as a suspect in the Boston Marathon terrorist attack had been flagged on a terror watch list and was granted a student visa without being properly vetted, sources have told me.
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Alleged terror plot thwarted by arrests in Ontario, Quebec — RCMP to outline joint operation involving CSIS, U.S. authorities and local police at 3:30 ET — Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce later today they have thwarted a plot to carry out a major terrorist attack …
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Jihad Watch and Hot Air
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Reuters fires Matthew Keys — Matthew Keys — who is currently facing charges that he conspired to help members of the hacker group Anonymous gain access to the Tribune Co.'s computer system — has been fired by Reuters, effective immediately. — Keys, who was Reuters' deputy social media editor …
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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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Washington Monthly, naked capitalism and The Moderate Voice


Report: Bomb suspects' carjack victim spared because he wasn't American — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon's finish line told the man they carjacked on Thursday night that they only decided not to kill him because he “wasn't an American,” according to a report Monday.
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National Review


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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Hullabaloo


Senator Told Shooting Victim's Mother He Supported Background Checks, Then Voted Against Them — Shortly before the a crucial Senate vote to expand background checks in gun transactions, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) sent a letter to the mother of a shooting victim claiming that he was “truly sorry” …
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