Tag Archives: Boston Attacks

CNN is reporting on-air that security video from a Lord & Taylor store on the marathon route may have led to a “significant breakthrough” in the investigation of the Boston bombings.  A suspect may have been identified but authorities are not saying much as this writing.  Story developing… UPDATE: The FBI has scheduled a press conference for 5PM. UPDATE II: …

Gothamist reports: “We had these ads all over the city, and beginning today, the MTA is removing all of them,” the organization’s CEO Ken Podziba told us this morning, adding that the decision to pull the ads was a no-brainer. “We were getting phone calls and emails from people who thought the ads were inappropriate and we agreed. The last …

Sweet Caroline is played at every Red Sox home game.

BostonMarathonConspiracy.com.

One of the Boston cops shown in one of yesterday’s most-widely publicized photos is openly gay police officer Javier Pagan, says Boston Pride on their Facebook page: The Police Officer to the far right is a good friend of Boston Pride! He is the Boston Police Gay Liaison to the community Javier Pagan.  One of the First Responders who was …

In yesterday’s first press conference on the Boston bombings, President Obama did not use the word “terrorism” and wingnut sites went predictably ballistic. Today the president did say the word and praised Boston’s first responders: “If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil – this is it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

Multiple right wing sites such as Free Republic, Townhall, and Gateway Pundit are today posting information from the Facebook page of a 20 year-old Saudi national whom they claim is being “guarded by federal agents” in a Boston hospital as a “person of interest” in the Boston bombings.  The FBI and other law enforcement agencies continue to say that they …

Organizers for the London Marathon vow that this weekend’s race will go on as scheduled but that attendees and participants should prepare for extremely tight security measures. Also being planned is heightened security for Wednesday’s funeral for Margaret Thatcher. “In light of the awful attacks in Boston, they will require extra vigilance from everyone involved and it is also to …

This morning Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Tom Menino held a joint press conference with the FBI to announce continued security measures and to declare that “Boston will overcome” this disaster. Only two improvised explosive devices or IEDs, both of which exploded, were discovered yesterday at the scene of the Boston Marathon, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Tuesday. …

AmericaBlog has posted a roundup of front pages from around the nation and the world.

Crackpot conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was quick yesterday to declare that the federal government likely planned the bombing in Boston. In the second clip, a “reporter” from Jones’ InfoWars site interrupts an FBI press conference to make the “false flag” claim.

After the news broke yesterday about the Boston Marathon attack, Fox News contributor and World Net Daily columnist Erik Rush made the above tweets, the last of which has since been deleted. PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: Two months ago Rush claimed that President Obama wants Christians declared insane and put in asylums. In late October last year, Rush wrote a World …

The Boston Globe reports: Boston will be largely open for business on Tuesday, but so much will be different, as a wounded city awakens to higher security and heightened vigilance following the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon. Heavily armed police will be out in force. Bags will be searched on the ­MBTA. And the area around Copley Square will …

The New York City Light Brigade is projecting a series of images on the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Hit the link for more photos.