May 5, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Living in the shadows of the ongoing war on terror are 1,715 American military people who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few of those brave folks lost all four limbs when bombs blew apart their bodies. In addition, there are now at least 20 new amputee victims because of the brutal terror bombing in Boston.
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April 24, 2013 in The Daily Republic
WASHINGTON (AP) New information emerged Wednesday from U.S. officials that the name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects had been added to a U.S. government terrorist database long before the explosions. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more than 4,000 mourners paid tribute to a campus police officer who authorities say was gunned down by the suspects.
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April 23, 2013 in The Daily Republic
WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday challenged the Obama administration to explicitly spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings amid growing concerns about unchecked powers of the presidency and Americans’ civil liberties.
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April 23, 2013 in The Daily Republic
WASHINGTON (AP) In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family members said.
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April 23, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
BOSTON Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, U.S. officials said Tuesday, adding another piece to the body of evidence they say suggests the two brothers were motivated by an anti-American, radical version of Islam.
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April 22, 2013 in The Daily Republic
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) The elder suspect in the Boston bombings regularly attended a mosque and spent time learning to read the Quran, but he struggled to fit in during a trip to his ancestral homeland in southern Russia last year, his aunt said.
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April 22, 2013 in The Daily Republic
The injured include several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, a little girl riddled with nails and a transit system police officer whose heart had stopped and was close to bleeding to death after a shootout. Continue Reading
April 22, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Authorities found many unexploded homemade bombs at the scene, along with more than 250 rounds of ammunition.
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April 21, 2013 in The Daily Republic
PIERRE (AP) The Capital City Children’s Choir of Pierre hoped to get back on its planned tour schedule in Boston on Saturday, a day after the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody.
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April 20, 2013 in The Daily Republic
We are living in a time when just about every security measure is controversial — from drones to Internet snooping with a warrant.
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