Shooting reported on MIT campus

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So earlier the word was that Suspect #2 was missing Brown U. student Sunil Tripathi, but now people are saying it's not him?  Here's a twitpic, suggesting that they look different:

https://twitter.com/india_review/status/325174912878776321/photo/1

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/nbc-reports-overseas-figures-not-missing-brown-student-are-s

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Channel 7 (NBC affiliate) just reported that the suspects are from Turkey.

Update: Legal residents of the USA from Turkey.

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https://twitter.com/4cast4you/status/325196545509167104

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/nbcs-pete-williams-boston-suspects-may-be-from

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Update from Channel 7: The two suspects are brothers.  The one that's on the run is just 19 years old.

Name: Dzhokar Tsarnaev

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He apparently signed a petition about chickens: http://www.gopetition.com/petition-comment.php?cid=6977621

(assuming this is the same guy)

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Security at the Olympics in Sochi next year should be interesting.

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This is allegedly his social media profile:

http://vk.com/id160300242

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On the older (now dead) brother, taken from an essay on him when he competed in a boxing competition:

link

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Also, Amazon wishlist includes:

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[Mr. Morden]

Ummm....what is this Twitter account?:

https://twitter.com/Dzhokhar_A

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More interviews with people who know/knew Dzhokhar:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/former-classmates-shocked-by-boston-bombers-crimes

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I'm reading stuff on twitter about a possible third accomplice or maybe just a family member who police are looking for.  Train searched in Norwalk, CT, according to ABC News:

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/325246363145236481

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The pics of the Boston area on Twitter show a ghost town.  At the police's request, everyone's inside, leaving empty streets:

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https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/325254055171604480

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NBC showing live interview with their uncle.  The guy is quite a character.  Calls his nephews "losers".

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NBC just reporting that the older brother (the one who's now dead) apparently left the USA for several months early in 2012 to visit Russia.

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The older brother may have been influenced by an Australian sheik who hated Harry Potter:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/19/bombing-suspects-followed-harry-potter-hating-australian-sheikh/

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He also called for the beheading of Geert Wilders:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/19/the-sheikh-who-may-have-influenced-boston-s-tsarnaev-brothers.html

EDIT: more:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/459253/20130419/feiz-mohammad-tamerlan-tsarnaev-boston-marathon.htm

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How does a 19 year-old slip away? They had a million cops/FBI/etc there and he just drove off? No helicopters?

I'm not sure on the exact timeline, or just how many cops he eluded at the time of the car chase.  At some point, after having engaged with cops in a car chase, that involved him running over his older brother with the car(!), he managed to lose cops and drive a short distance to somewhere where he ditched the car, then either went off on foot or switched to a different car.  I'm not sure exactly how many cops were on the scene yet at that point.  Maybe not all that many.

And I'm not quite sure of the geography, but from some of the discussion on the NBC affiliate early on, it sounded like this went down close enough to Cambridge that he could have even gotten there by foot from where the car was ditched?  Does that mean that he could have gotten onto one of those college campuses, could even be hiding in some building there, and no one would find him because they cancelled classes so there's no one on campus?

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Lindsey Graham's response:

https://twitter.com/grahamblog/status/325346404644048897

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is hard to spell:

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This woman claims to have gotten facials from the suspects' mother.  Of course, it's all just one person's take and hearsay, but it's an interesting read:

http://alyssalindley.tumblr.com/post/48368749553/ive-met-the-boston-bombers

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Esquire with their own unique take on the story:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/lust-during-wartime