Boston Marathon Finish bombed

originally posted by MLipton:
And we'll have to see if the tax day timing has anything to do with it. Regardless, it's appalling.

Mark Lipton
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Doesn't seem likely now. I doubt these losers paid much in taxes.
 
These guys sure do seem like pathetic amateurs. They set off bombs in a public place and then just went home?

If they were pros, they'd have been on planes out of town Monday. With some cash in their wallets. Two different planes, to two different first destinations. And then to get lost in a -stan somewhere.

Or so it seems to me.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
These guys sure do seem like pathetic amateurs. They set off bombs in a public place and then just went home?

If they were pros, they'd have been on planes out of town Monday. With some cash in their wallets. Two different planes, to two different first destinations. And then to get lost in a -stan somewhere.

Or so it seems to me.
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they would need backers for that, hopefully they're unaffiliated amateurs.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
These guys sure do seem like pathetic amateurs. They set off bombs in a public place and then just went home?

If they were pros, they'd have been on planes out of town Monday. With some cash in their wallets. Two different planes, to two different first destinations. And then to get lost in a -stan somewhere.

Or so it seems to me.
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Counterterrorism specialist agrees:

[From the NYT]

Several officials, asked about the tradecraft employed by the two brothers identified as suspects, said that despite the devastation they are alleged to have caused at the marathon and the killing of one police officer and grievous wounding of another, their planning and tactics appeared, at least at this point, to be flawed.

“They didn’t practice tradecraft,” said one official, a veteran counterterrorism investigator who has been briefed on the case. “Listen, I just don’t understand how anybody could do something like that and basically go home and expect that they wouldn’t get caught.”

Another official pointed to one obvious flaw in their operational strategy.

“They apparently didn’t have a plan to escape,” the official said.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by SFJoe:
These guys sure do seem like pathetic amateurs. They set off bombs in a public place and then just went home?

If they were pros, they'd have been on planes out of town Monday. With some cash in their wallets. Two different planes, to two different first destinations. And then to get lost in a -stan somewhere.

Or so it seems to me.
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Counterterrorism specialist agrees:

[From the NYT]

Several officials, asked about the tradecraft employed by the two brothers identified as suspects, said that despite the devastation they are alleged to have caused at the marathon and the killing of one police officer and grievous wounding of another, their planning and tactics appeared, at least at this point, to be flawed.

“They didn’t practice tradecraft,” said one official, a veteran counterterrorism investigator who has been briefed on the case. “Listen, I just don’t understand how anybody could do something like that and basically go home and expect that they wouldn’t get caught.”

Another official pointed to one obvious flaw in their operational strategy.

“They apparently didn’t have a plan to escape,” the official said.
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Maybe it wasn't a flaw. Maybe they just wanted to cause as much mayhem as possible before getting caught.
 
Their community profiles are odd, too, especially the younger one. Any chance these are not the right guys? Is there a good, detailed account of the shoot-out around?
 
Story starts to remind me a bit of the DC sniper case--everyone who knows the kid says what a good egg they thought he was. Not so much about the older brother.
 
originally posted by Yule Kim:

Maybe it wasn't a flaw. Maybe they just wanted to cause as much mayhem as possible before getting caught.
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The younger one seems to be improvising pretty well today.

Police seem to be running out of houses to search in Watertown.
 
originally posted by Yule Kim:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by SFJoe:
These guys sure do seem like pathetic amateurs. They set off bombs in a public place and then just went home?

If they were pros, they'd have been on planes out of town Monday. With some cash in their wallets. Two different planes, to two different first destinations. And then to get lost in a -stan somewhere.

Or so it seems to me.
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Counterterrorism specialist agrees:

[From the NYT]

Several officials, asked about the tradecraft employed by the two brothers identified as suspects, said that despite the devastation they are alleged to have caused at the marathon and the killing of one police officer and grievous wounding of another, their planning and tactics appeared, at least at this point, to be flawed.

“They didn’t practice tradecraft,” said one official, a veteran counterterrorism investigator who has been briefed on the case. “Listen, I just don’t understand how anybody could do something like that and basically go home and expect that they wouldn’t get caught.”

Another official pointed to one obvious flaw in their operational strategy.

“They apparently didn’t have a plan to escape,” the official said.
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Maybe it wasn't a flaw. Maybe they just wanted to cause as much mayhem as possible before getting caught.
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or cause mayhem before dying in a shoot out with police.
These investigators trying to fathom why amateurs aren't doing it by the book are worrisome.
 
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Terror on the fly
 
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