Bharat Rakshak

CRamS wrote:Guys, let me ask you this. Assuming one or both of them are TSP scum, and they had ISI input into this, I would think that being a professional terrorist org, ISI would know the existence of CC TVs and lost of people shooting video on their smart phones, so wouldn't have worn some kind of a mask or something? One of them has a goatie, I am sure he has taken it off by now.

Paul wrote:Suspect #1 in blackbaseball cap does not look caucasian. suspect #2 might look like an ABCD type.

Erin Burnett on CNN is calling them white????? Networks seem to be circumspect in speculating on the ethnicity of the suspects.

Rudradev wrote:

Paul wrote:Suspect #1 in blackbaseball cap does not look caucasian. suspect #2 might look like an ABCD type.

Erin Burnett on CNN is calling them white????? Networks seem to be circumspect in speculating on the ethnicity of the suspects.

The guy in the white cap could very well be "white". I've known plenty of Americans of Greek, Southern Italian, Albanian ethnicity who look like that and would be considered Caucasian. The other fellow could be darker, its hard to tell.

SaiK wrote:both claims, counter claims so fare have taken 100% assumptions (which is fine, as they are perspective and within guidelines). so, taking the balance off, and standing on one edge only makes the other side sharper.

i think people should be free to express what they like to say, within the scope of guidelines.. if the guidelines are abstract, then it is time to specialize them to specific areas, especially what should not be... of course, a sticky thread dedicated to evolve this also gives more guarantees to all posters, to ensure, they are within the scope of those guidelines, and no examples have been set that they can't follow, or examples have been set to follow.

/OT

shiv wrote:I thought this was a disgruntled right winger. The baseball cap photo looks like a young full blooded American male.

Lilo wrote:
Can he be a Pasthuun ?
Some of them are known to be more TFTA than the TFTA Pakjabis..

CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports investigators are hoping cell phone records may produce an identification of the mystery man in the surveillance pictures. Investigators are scouring cell phone logs to find out who made calls from the site of the second explosion around the time the bombs went off.

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday the FBI wants to speak with individuals seen in at least one video from marathon, but she says she isn't calling them suspects. Without providing details of the men's appearance or what the video shows, Napolitano told the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday that "there is some video that raised the question" of individuals the FBI would like to interview. She said the investigation is continuing "apace."

Investigators are focusing on the man spotted near the scene of the second explosion, Orr reports. Sources say a nearby surveillance camera captured images of the man carrying a backpack and talking on a cell phone. While the FBI has not identified him, he's described as a young white man as tall as 6 foot 2.

Sources who have seen the tape say he appeared to be alone and was wearing a black jacket, gray hoodie and white baseball cap backwards on his head, Orr reports. Sources told Orr the man appeared to place his backpack on the ground, then after the first explosion, he fled. Moments later the second blast occurred near the spot where he had been standing.

Investigators torn over public release of Boston evidence

The footage hasn't been made public but former FBI assistant director John Miller said on "CBS This Morning" that the public can expect to see more photos to be released of the possible suspect seen with a backpack.

shiv wrote: In other words, if you were in India and this was an Indian event, you would not be ruling out saffron terror.

That is a perfectly valid viewpoint and demands that no rash moves be made against the innocent. That seems to be as true for America as in India.

matrimc wrote:Anything is possible. Why jump to conclusions? Why not hold our horses?

CRamS wrote:
Finally, to your other point above. I respectfully disagree with your drawing an equivalence between US and India on domestic majority community terror, white Christians in the case of US, and Hindus in the case of India. In US, even if the suspects were mom & pop, apple-pie eating pious white Christian boys, you would never, ever hear of the phrase Christian terror. There will be no political gains or point scoring through the revelation that a white Christian was the terrorist. And most importantly, whites by and large will completely ignore this as a someone isolated among them, no pathology, no piskology, no scape goating, no Peter Bergen type hot air anal-yses, none of that

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Rudradev wrote:

Paul wrote:Suspect #1 in blackbaseball cap does not look caucasian. suspect #2 might look like an ABCD type.
Erin Burnett on CNN is calling them white????? Networks seem to be circumspect in speculating on the ethnicity of the suspects.

The guy in the white cap could very well be "white". I've known plenty of Americans of Greek, Southern Italian, Albanian ethnicity who look like that and would be considered Caucasian. The other fellow could be darker, its hard to tell.

sadhana wrote:Will point out that the main purpose of Pakistan in setting up 'Indian Mujahiddeen' and Headley buying red thread for Mumbai attackers (for example) was to make India==Pakistan in America's eyes wrt terrorism. Any responsible Indian govt would do its best to cut down the Pak narrative of India==Pakistan in terrorism.

CRamS wrote:Guys, let me ask you this. Assuming one or both of them are TSP scum, and they had ISI input into this, I would think that being a professional terrorist org, ISI would know the existence of CC TVs and lost of people shooting video on their smart phones, so wouldn't have worn some kind of a mask or something? One of them has a goatie, I am sure he has taken it off by now.

shiv wrote:Clearly the compulsions to do things are different depending on nationality and geography. I am not accusing anyone. I am just pointing out that I find the behavior interesting. Behaviour could be dictated by pressures.

Theo_Fidel wrote:

shiv wrote:Clearly the compulsions to do things are different depending on nationality and geography. I am not accusing anyone. I am just pointing out that I find the behavior interesting. Behaviour could be dictated by pressures.

Simple onlee Shiv, in America we the minority....

Minutes before the bombs blew up in Boston, Jeff Bauman looked into the eyes of the man who tried to kill him.

Just before 3 p.m. on April 15, Bauman was waiting among the crowd for his girlfriend to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon. A man wearing a cap, sunglasses and a black jacket over a hooded sweatshirt looked at Jeff, 27, and dropped a bag at his feet, his brother, Chris Bauman, said in an interview.


Two and a half minutes later, the bag exploded, tearing Jeff’s legs apart. A picture of him in a wheelchair, bloodied and ashen, was broadcast around the world as he was rushed to Boston Medical Center. He lost both legs below the knee.

“He woke up under so much drugs, asked for a paper and pen and wrote, ‘bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,’” Chris Bauman said yesterday in an interview.

While still in intensive care, Jeff Bauman gave the FBI a description of the man he saw, his brother said. Bauman’s information helped investigators narrow down whom to look for in hours of video of the attack, he said.

ArmenT wrote:Maybe people should stop guessing and wait for official results. As it turns out, some speculation is going on in some forums that one of the guys might be a chap called Sunil Tripathi, who's an undergrad at Brown university been missing since sometime in mid March.

US seeks information from Pakistan on list of names

By Sib Kaifee

Published April 18, 2013

FoxNews.com

Pakistan's intelligence agency has received two lists of names from U.S. officials seeking information believed to be related to the Boston Marathon bombings, sources in Pakistan have told Fox News.

The names on the lists have not been disclosed but include both Pakistani citizens and dual U.S.-Pakistani nationals, the sources told Fox News. U.S. officials want to know if any of those named had links to militant or religious extremist groups in Pakistan, the sources said.

Pakistani intelligence is also expected to check the names of those who recently traveled to or from Pakistan, along with information on their relatives, friends, and places they may have visited.

"The Americans have shared lists with us, comprising names of some suspects - mostly dual nationals. Now we are probing their links in Pakistan with any group, their recent visits to Pakistan and places they travelled to during their stay here," said a Pakistani intelligence official who requested anonymity.

The official declined to share further information, citing the ongoing investigation.

Rangudu wrote: Twitter Breaking News:

Gunshots reported in MIT campus. Area cordoned off.

anmol wrote:From forums that are connecting Sunil to the white cap guy:-
Following is I think last picture of Sunil, leaving with a man:-