What Did We Learn from 9-11? Nothing.
April 19, 2013
AS most of you probably know, one of the two men believed to be the Boston Marathon bombers has been killed in a police firefight, and the other is at large. As reported by Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugged, the men were Muslim brothers from Chechnya who have been in the country legally for at least a year:
AP sources identify the surviving Boston bomber [above] as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. The man is said to be from Russia’s south, not far from the Chechen Republic.
The man reportedly lived in Turkey before arriving legally in the U.S. about a year ago.
The name is listed among the recipients of Cambridge scholarships in 2011.
The second suspect is said to be his brother.
An NBC report claims the two immigrated at least two years ago. One of the brothers is said to have a Massachusetts drivers’ license.
There is a page at the Russian social network VKontakte (In Contact) with the name Dzhokhar Tsarnaev living in Boston and studying at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School.
Not only do we freely open our borders to Muslims from Chechnya, we give them scholarships too — and within a short time of their arrival.
Below is a description from the LA Times of the events of last night and this morning. It is unclear what the suspects, armed with explosives, were doing on the MIT campus. It seems safe to assume they were attempting another bombing. An MIT police officer was killed.
The incident began about 10:30 p.m. Thursday when an MIT police officer was shot to death on campus after responding to a disturbance. As authorities searched for the shooter, an SUV was carjacked nearby. Police chased it to Watertown, a Boston suburb.
Officials said that the suspects opened fire and tossed explosives at pursuing officers.
Dr. David Schoenfeld said he was watching news of the MIT shootings at home in Watertown about 12:45 a.m. Friday “when I started hearing the gunshots and explosions. I realized something was really wrong.”
He called Beth Israel, drove in and “arrived before the patient.”
“Given what had happened at MIT and all the sirens, I felt strongly that this was related to what happened earlier in the week,” he said, referring to the marathon explosions.
He declined to say whether he treated the patient, saying only that it was clear who the patient was because “there was a large police presence when the patient arrived.”
“You give the best care you can to every patient that comes to you, regardless what may or may not be,” Schoenfeld said. “You don’t know what happened out there and you don’t know who they are. You don’t know what the circumstances are, whether they are a suspect, a police officer or an innocent.”
The second suspect is still on the loose, officials say, and is considered armed and dangerous. In FBI photographs, the suspect is shown wearing a backwards white baseball cap and a gray hooded sweatshirt.
Officials have essentially shut down Boston while they search. Gov. Deval Patrick suspended all mass transit service, including trains, ferries, buses and commuter rail.
Beth Israel also said they accepted 24 victims from Monday’s bombing. Half have been released. One remains in critical condition.
More on the suspects from The New York Times:
Officials said the two men were from Chechnya, a long-disputed, predominantly Muslim territory in southern Russia that fought two bloody wars in the 1990s against Russian authorities.
The family lived briefly in Makhachkala, the capital of the Dagestan region, near Chechnya, before moving to the United States, said a school administrator there. Irina V. Bandurina, secretary to the director of School No. 1, said the Tsarnaev family left Dagestan for the United States in 2002 after living there for about a year. She said the family — parents, two boys and two girls — had lived in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan previously.
Both brothers have substantial presence on social media. On Vkontakte, Russia’s most popular social media platform, the younger brother, Dzhokhar, describes his worldview as “Islam” and, asked to identify “the main thing in life,” answers “career and money.” He lists a series of affinity groups relating to Chechnya, and lists a verse from the Koran, “Do good, because Allah loves those who do good.”
The older brother left a record on YouTube of his favorite clips, which included Russian rap videos, as well as testimonial from a young ethnic Russian man titled “How I accepted Islam and became a Shiite,” a clip titled “Seven Steps to Successful Prayer.”
