Friday, April 19, 2013

Boston Bomb Suspect Captured Alive in Backyard Boat


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Boston Bomb Suspect Captured Alive in Backyard Boat

PHOTO: Gunshots are heard in the area where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar  Tsaranev could be hiding after a massive manhunt in Boston, Mass. on April 19, 2013.


The alleged Boston Marathon bomber who hid from authorities for more than 20 hours was captured tonight by police, sending cheers up through the Watertown neighborhood where he was found.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was discovered by a homeowner lying in a boat in the man's backyard around 7 p.m. The man noticed blood on the boat, spotted a body inside the boat and called 911, according to Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
According to police, a helicopter with infrared technology then located Tsarnaev in the boat and noted that he was moving about within it. The helicopter directed officers on the ground to the boat, where they briefly exchanged gunfire shortly before 7 p.m.
Police halted their gunfire and sent hostage negotiators to try and talk Tsarnaev out of the boat Davis said.
But the suspect was not responsive, and after about an hour and 45 minutes, officers went to the boat and took Tsarnaev into custody.
His arrest sparked a spontaneous celebration in Watertown with people high fiving police, chanting Boston strong and USA.
"We got him," Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted immediately after Tsarnaev was arrested. "I have never loved this city & its people more than I do today. Nothing can defeat the heart of this city .. nothing."
The Boston police department also sent out a tweet in the aftermath trumpeting, "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, are believed to be behind the bombing of the Boston Marathon on Monday that killed three individuals and injured more than 170.
Tsarnaev was then transported away from the scene in an ambulance, as law enforcement officials and onlookers clapped and cheered.
The alleged bomber had been shot by police during gunfire nearly 24 hours earlier, when he and his brother allegedly shot and killed an MIT police officer and then engaged in a shootout with cops.
Police said tonight that there were some 200 rounds of ammunition, as well as improvised explosive devices and homemade hand grenades found at the scene of the shooting. Tamerlan was killed in the gunfire, but Dzhokhar fled on foot into Watertown.
Police locked down a 20-block section of Watertown today and searched door-to-door with heavily armed SWAT team members.
But police said at a press conference after the standoff ended that Tsarnaev had escaped their manhunt and hid himself in the boat just one block outside of the perimeter they were searching.
"We know he didn't go straight to the boat," said Watertown police chief Edward P. Deveau. "We found blood in the car he abandoned and we found blood in a house inside the perimeter. We had no information that he had gotten outside the perimeter, but it was very chaotic this morning. We had a police officer who was shot and bleeding."
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"We had a perimeter that we thought was solid and we did that but we were about one block away," Deveau said.
Tsarnaev is in "serious" condition at a hospital tonight, Davis said.
A senior Justice Department official told ABC News that federal law enforcement officials are invoking the public safety exception to the Miranda rights, so that Tsarnaev will be questioned immediately without having Miranda rights issued to him.
The federal government's high value detainee interrogation group will be responsible for questioning him.
The Miranda exemption exists to protect the public safety from another attack, according to the official.
The capture was quickly followed by a press conference with a host of law enforcement officials, ranging from the Boston police commissioner to the FBI and the U.S. Attorney who will ultimately prosecute the case, all of whom praised the work of officers and the public.
President Obama condemned the actions of the bombers today, though he warned the public not to jump to conclusions about motivations.
"In this day of instant reporting, tweets, and blogs, there is a temptation to latch onto any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions, but when a tragedy like this happens, with the public safety at risk and the stakes so high, it important to do this right," Obama said. "That's why have an investigation, that's why we relentlessly gather the facts, that's why we have courts."
"Whatever hateful agenda drove these men cannot, will not prevail," he said, "and whatever they thought they could achieve failed because the people of Boston refuse to be intimidated, and we as Americans refuse to be terrorized."
The rush of developments this evening came after a day of searching turned up nearly no signs of Tsarnaev, and government officials finally lifted a city-wide lockdown order that had been in effect since the morning.
At a news conference around 6 p.m., Gov. Deval Patrick lifted the lockdown order, saying they had not found the suspect in Watertown.
Shortly after the Patrick's announcement, Watertown homeowner David Henneberry walked into his backyard and saw something amiss with his boat, according to Henneberry's neighbor, George Pizzuto.
"He looked and noticed something was off about his boat, so he got his ladder, and he put his ladder up on the side of the boat and climbed up, and then he saw blood on it, and he thought he saw what was a body laying in the boat," Pizzuto said. "So he got out of the boat fast and called police."
Henneberry notified police, and minutes later gunfire erupted and dozens of law enforcement officers rushed to secure a perimeter around Franklin Street in Watertown, where residents were immediately warned to stay indoors and "shelter in place."
"That boat's his baby. He takes care of it like you wouldn't believe. And they told him it's all shot up," Pizzuto said. "He's going to be heartbroken."
Earlier in the day, police in took three individuals into custody in connection with the search for Tsarnaev.
Lt. Robert Richard of New Bedford, Mass., said three "college age" individuals were taken in for questioning by the FBI. New Bedford is less than 15 miles north of Dartmouth, Mass., where Tsarnaev attends college.
The hunt for the brothers heated up Thursday night after they were reported to have robbed a convenience store, although police said today that the report was false. Police have recovered surveillance video of the Tsarnaevs buying gas in Cambridge.
They are believed, however, to have ambushed and killed MIT security officer Sean Collier as he sat in his patrol car Thursday night.
They later hijacked a Mercedes SUV Thursday night and told the driver that they were the Marathon bombers, police said. The vehicle was spotted by police about 12:50 a.m. today, sparking a chase and gunbattle that included the brothers tossing explosives at the pursuing cops, police said.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in the gun fight and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was able to get away, fleeing on foot in Watertown, police said.
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Beth Israel Hospital said a patient, apparently Tamerlan Tsarnaev, came in under guard and had suffered blast and shrapnel injuries as well as so many gunshot wounds that caregivers were "unable to count" them.
Police officer Richard Donohue Jr., 33, was injured in the firefight and is in critical condition at a hospital.
ABC News' Aaron Katersky contributed to this report.

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DAD OF ALLEGED BOMBING BROTHERS WARNS U.S.: IF SECOND SON IS KILLED, ‘ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE’ (PLUS: HE ALLEGES CONSPIRACY?)

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Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, received less-than-favorable words this morning from a man claiming to be their uncle. But it seems the alleged terrorists’ father isn’t quite as infuriated by his son’s purported actions. In fact, in an interview with ABC News, he defended their innocence and had harsh words for U.S. authorities.
Anzor Tsarnaev issued a clear call to his son, Dzhokhar, telling the 19-year-old to turn himself in peacefully. But he also sent a warning to the U.S. officials, claiming, “If they killed him, all hell will break loose.” By “they,” it seems he was talking directly about police and federal authorities who are handling the situation.
Father of Alleged Bombing Brothers Warns U.S. If My Son Is Killed, All Hell Will Break Loose
WATERTOWN – APRIL 19: Police seal off Arsenal Street during a search for 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev April 19, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts. Credit: Getty Images 
Speaking from Makhachkala, a city in Russia, the father told ABC that he believes Tamerlan and Dzhokhar are innocent. Beyond believing that his sons are free-of-blame, though, it seems Anzor was also embracing a conspiracy theory of sorts.
“If they kill my second child, I will know that it is an inside job, a hit job,” he said. “The police are to blame. Someone, some organization is out to get them.”
Previously, Anzor spoke with the Associated Press, showering praise upon Dzhokhar. In a telephone interview, he told the outlet that his son Dzhokhar is “a true angel” and that his boy is currently studying medicine.
“He is such an intelligent boy,” Anzor continued. “We expected him to come on holidays here.”
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Learn more about the family and be sure to keep up-to-date with Blaze updates on this developing story.
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PHILADELPHIA – They were breathing because their chests were moving up and down – until an abortionist would “snap their necks.”
That was the testimony today in the Philadelphia murder trial for abortionist Kermit Gosnell from a former business worker, Serena Cross.
Earlier testimony has been replete with gushing blood, severed body parts, feet preserved in jars, body pieces plugging a drain and death.
Gosnell, whose “House of Horrors” has pulled back a curtain to reveal horrific activities inside the abortion industry, has been charged with murdering a woman who was getting an abortion as well as seven newborn babies who, against odds, survived the abortion procedure and were breathing and crying in his office, as the pro-life group Operation Rescue has documented.
Cross was asked by the prosecutor if any of the babies were ever born alive.
“Oh yes, a lot of times I saw the baby move. They would be trying to get out of the fluid,” Cross said.
“Most of the babies delivered were still breathing and Dr. Gosnell would snap their necks,” Cross said.
“He said they weren’t breathing but I saw that their chests were moving up and down,” Cross said. “This happened more than 10 times.”
“I heard them cry, but it was more like an umm, like a whine,” Cross said.
As to what Gosnell did with the babies after they were delivered:
“Dr. Gosnell would put the babies into a container,” Cross said. “He would take them out of the room and clip their necks.”
Cross worked at Gosnell’s Women’s Health Center from 2005 through December 2009.
She explained she went to school to become a medical assistant, a program that trained her to draw blood and keep medical files.
Co-prosecutor Joanne Pescatore asked Cross about her schedule at the Philadelphia facility.
“My working hours were usually about 8:30 to 5:00, but when there were a lot of second trimester abortions, I would work until about 3:00 a.m.,” Cross said.
Much of the testimony from Cross centered on medication and whether she or her co-workers were authorized to administer medication.
Pescatore asked Cross, “Were you trained on how to give medication?”
“No, I wasn’t trained on how to give medication and am not state certified to be a medication technician,” she said.
Cross alluded to the number of times she and her co-workers were tasked to administer intravenous medication. She admitted that neither she nor any of the other clinic workers were certified medication technicians.
But that didn’t prevent Cross or her co-workers from administering IV medication, she said.
“I would give the medication, inject the medication before he (Gosnell) came in to do the procedure,” Cross said.
Cross said she was also frequently assigned to do ultrasounds, a medical procedure she also admitted she was not trained to perform.
“The only training I received was at the clinic from Dr. Gosnell. He trained me, but it was only for a few minutes,” Cross said. “Then I was set loose to do them.”
Another feature of the five week trial is testimony on how infrequently Gosnell was actually present at the facility.
“We did a lot of second trimester abortions. I can’t say exactly how many. He was almost never there during a second trimester abortion,” Cross testified.
There were other problems, she testified.
“There was no monitoring equipment to know how much medication [we] were giving intravenously . The medication we would give was Lorazepam,” Cross said.
“There were no monitors, no blood pressure monitors,’ Cross said. “We had a defibrillator but I don’t know that we ever used it.”
She said patients complained about their arms swelling, but while Gosnell “said he would be in, sometimes he wasn’t there.
“In most cases the patients were never monitored. They would be in pain but just fall asleep,” Cross said.
She said she was present when one of the patients delivered while sitting on the toilet.
“In one case a mother delivered while sitting on the toilet. The baby was in the fluid, flailing, breathing, but suffocated,” Cross said.
Cross recounted another second trimester abortion.
“I remember one time when Linda Williams (a clinic assistant) helped in one procedure. Linda pulled the hands back on the baby. The baby was outside the mother for about 20 minutes. Then Linda snapped the baby’s neck with the scissors,” Cross said.
The prosecutor then asked if patients at the clinic were all local.
“No. Women came from all over. Some would stay in the rooms on the third floor,” Cross said.
The prosecutor also introduced photographs as evidence, including those of dirty surgical instruments, blood stains, ripped treatment tables, and blood stains on the instruments.
Then, there was one photo of a cabinet.
“This picture is a bunch of jars in a cabinet,” Cross said.
The prosecutor asked, “What was in the jars?”
“The jars had babies’ feet in them.”
Another photograph, an enlargement, showed a baby’s foot in a plastic specimen bag.
At one point, Cross testified about a patient named Shaquanna Abrams who came for a second trimester abortion.
“She delivered and the baby came out big, about 12-16 inches. He came out, and Dr. Gosnell put him in a box, a plastic box. The baby pulled his arms together because he was too big for the box,” Cross said. “The baby was so big his arms and legs hung out of the box. That’s why he pulled his arms together.
“Dr. Gosnell took the box from the room. Dr. Gosnell took pictures of the baby, then he snapped the baby’s neck,” Cross said.
She added, “Dr. Gosnell said that this baby was so big he could have walked me to the bus stop.”
Operation Rescue staffer Cheryl Sullenger was at the trial and she said the testimony is horrific, and stunning.
“I can’t believe some of the things I heard. It’s gross, it’s cruel, and it’s barbaric,” Sullenger said. “It’s inhuman.”
Sullenger’s organization has been monitoring the weeks of testimony already in the case, listing testimony about:
  • Rusty and filthy abortion equipment has been brought into the courtroom to document unsanitary conditions.
  • Medical records appear to have blood and other stains on them.
  • Gosnell’s staff acted as though they were doctors, even though some had little or no medical training.
  • Medications, including anesthetics, found in the office had expired years earlier.
  • A defense attorney blamed the woman, Bhutan immigrant Karnamaya Mongar, for her own death, since she left several blanks on her medical form. Prosecutors said she spoke little English and likely was unaware she needed to provide information.
  • Patients appeared to repeatedly get overdoses of drugs for their abortion procedures, including Mongar.
  • Photographs of the bodies of babies, revealed gaping wounds in the back of their necks. According to testimony, Gosnell or staff members routinely snipped their spinal cords to make sure they were dead. Operation Rescue said: “The babies were all intact and had the appearance of being partially mummified or dried. The brownish-black skin had shrunk as it dried, revealing the upper spinal column that authorities say was pierced with scissors in order to snip the spinal cords of newborn babies born alive during abortions by Gosnell.”
  • Photographs were introduced of babies’ feet, or even whole legs, Gosnell had preserved in jars.
  • Testimony revealed Gosnell was reusing plastic tubes for abortions.
  • Crime scene investigator John Taggart testified about retrieving a large garbage disposal that was under the sink in the wash room. Operation Rescue president Troy Newman explained the significance: “I had seen it before in the abortion clinic in Wichita, Kan., that Operation Rescue bought and closed, then renovated into a usable pro-life office. Aborted baby remains were likely ground up in the disposal then flushed down the sink.”
  • A former Gosnell employee, Steven Massof, testified the abortion business was chaotic and that he saw more than 100 babies born alive who had their necks snipped in what he described as “a beheading.”
  • He also testified at times “it would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place.”
The outrage began when the grand jury looked into Gosnell’s operations and activities.
When the FBI raided the location, the grand jury report stated, “There was blood on the floor. A stench of urine filled the air. A flea-infested cat was wandering through the facility, and there were cat feces on the stairs.”
The grand jury asked: “How did this go on so long? Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has deliberately chosen not to enforce laws that should afford patients at abortion clinics the same safeguards and assurances of quality health care as patients of other medical service providers.”
Report author Dave Andursko noted the list of unethical practices is extensive.
“The callous killing of babies outside the womb, the routinely performed third trimester abortions, the deaths of at least two patients, and the grievous health risks inflicted on countless other women by Gosnell and his unlicensed staff are not the only shocking things that this grand jury investigation uncovered. What surprised the jurors even more is the official neglect that allowed these crimes and conditions to persist for years in a Philadelphia medical facility,” Andursko wrote.

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Boston Bomb Suspect's Dad Tells Him to Surrender, Warns ' Hell Will Break Loose' if Son Dies

PHOTO: Robin Young tweets this photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "My beloved nephew on right, djohar tsarnaev on left, happy cambridge Rindge and Latin grads.heartbreaking"

The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed "all hell will break loose."
Anzor Tsarnaev spoke to ABC News from his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala as Boston police carried out an intense dragnet for his son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, survived a running gun battle with police during the night that left an MIT security officer dead and a Boston cop badly wounded. His older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout.
The father said he spoke to his sons by phone earlier this week. "We talked about the bombing. I was worried about then," Anzor Tsarnaev said.
He said his sons reassured him, saying, "Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good."
The elder Tsarnaev insisted that his sons were innocent, but said he would appeal to his son to "surrender peacefully."
"Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia," the dad said.
The father warned, however, "If they killed him, then all hell would break loose."
"If they kill my second child, I will know that it is an inside job, a hit job. The police are to blame," the father told ABC News. "Someone, some organization is out to get them."
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is now described as willing to die in a battle with police, was more striking for taking acting classes, advanced placement courses and being a star athlete with lots of friends in high school.
PHOTO: Robin Young tweets this photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "My beloved nephew on right, djohar tsarnaev on left, happy cambridge Rindge and Latin grads.heartbreaking"
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"He never seemed out of the ordinary at all," high school classmate Sierra Schwartz told "Good Morning America" today. "This is not someone who seemed troubled in high school or shy. He was just one of us. It's very weird."
Steven Owens told ABC News, "I met him when I was in seventh grade and he was just a great kid. He was fun to be around. Very studious, very smart. I don't remember a time when he was ever having trouble in school. He was a great athlete. Great to be around."
Owens said Tsarnaev "always had a positive attitude," but had expressed some political opinions in school.
"He always thought the war [Iraq, Afghanistan] was stupid," Owens said. "He didn't enjoy the idea of war. We didn't really talk about it much. The only time it ever really came up was when we were learning about it in school."
When Owens first saw authorities' photos of Tsarnaev, he wasn't positive it was him since he hadn't seen him in a few years.
"I started looking through my yearbook because I thought I recognized him and there he was," Owens said. "I was just so surprised."
Students at UMass Dartmouth are being evacuated from their dorms, following confirmation that Tsarnaev lived in the Pinedale residence hall.
The search for Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., has effectively shut down Boston and its surrounding cities today, including Watertown, Mass., where his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in an overnight shootout.
Boston is on lockdown and police are engaged in a large operation in Watertown.
Law enforcement sources tell ABC News the suspects are believed to be brothers are of Chechen ethnicity and their family came from the semi-autonomous Russian province of Dagestan. A law enforcement source confirmed that at least one of the brothers is a legal permanent resident in the United States.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born in Kyrgyzstan, a law enforcement source citing State Department documents told ABC News. The brothers are believed to have spent time there.
Schwartz went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School with Dzhokhar, who is now the target of a massive police dragnet.
She recognized him immediately when she saw his photo released by authorities.
"I was like, 'Wow, that looks just like Dzhokhar…," she said. She then noticed that his Facebook page had been deleted.
Schwartz knew he went to college, but did not remember where. She last saw him in Cambridge in the summer of 2011 before starting college. She was not aware that he had a brother.



"He was a great athlete. He did well. I think he won a scholarship for it," Schwartz said. "This is very unexpected….this is out of the ordinary. Completely shocking."
Schwartz is still reeling from the news that her former classmate is the most wanted person in America.
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"When I woke up, it's like I'm living a nightmare right now. It can't be described," she said. "I just really hope they catch him."
"We all knew him for four years and that's something a lot of people can't say," she added.
Tsarnaev's father Anzor Tsarnaev lives in Makhachkala, the capital of Republic of Dagestan.
"My son is a true angel," Anzor Tsarnaev told the Associated Press. "Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the U.S. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, identified as Suspect 1, was killed overnight after exchanging fire with police officers, during which multiple explosive devices were detonated, authorities said.
The Monday bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 170.