[NEWS] Explosions near Boston Marathon Finish Line (UPDATE: MIT/Watertown shootout w/ suspects)

Yep..Just didn't want to mention his name and make it get reposted over n over. The pics show some similarities but it's def way too hard to tell if its him.

 

Guys, let's not continue the totally unsubstantiated smear campaign on the student who's name I won't repeat (and who I hope Clutch edits out of the above posts). I know some of his friends who are still pretty upset over his disappearance.

 

Agree, people need to be sensitive about this suggestion. Apparently someone posted on his family's Facebook, saying that he is suspect #2. That's terrible. The responsible thing is just report any suspicions to the FBI and leave it at that.

 

I thought the FBI already had the name of the suspect?

 

the missing Brown University kid has an Indian sounding name...which certainly wouldn't match the FBI contacting Paki authorities

plus upon visual inspection I don't think it's that guy

 

They definitely look non-WASP. Caucasians though.

 

I'm not so sure. I haven't seen a great pic of #1's face but suspect #2 could easily fit in a number of Mediterranean countries....Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Turkey, even Egypt he wouldn't look out of place.

the nose/eyebrows give it away

 

Agreed, too hard to tell but the hooked nose could definitely fit in any one of those countries.

 

I put the Mediterranean/north africans in Caucasian basket. Could be American nationals with mediterranean/levent backgrounds who enacted this without any guidance but with an Islamist intent.

 

possibly even Persian

 

Wow. Sometimes I wonder if you're a real human being.

 

Google his name and FBI images come up.

 

why? I've spent time in that part of the world and can recognize them

 

Jamie Farr???

 

Unedited footage shot by the Globe.


This video shows what I believe is the backpack, very clearly, around the 4:03- 4:20 mark.


Could be someone else's though.

 

Boston Bombing Victim in Iconic Photo Helped Identify Attackers
By Asjylyn Loder & Esmé E. Deprez - Apr 18, 2013 9:45 PM ET

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.
Those words may help crack the mystery of who perpetrated one of the highest-profile acts of terror in the U.S. since the 2001 assault on New York City and the Washington area, one that killed three people and wounded scores.
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.

Video Released
The bureau released video images of two men yesterday. Both men have on hooded sweatshirts under dark jackets; one is wearing a light-colored baseball cap turned backward on his head, while the other is wearing a dark baseball cap facing forward. Both are carrying large backpacks.

“I’ve had many times alone with him, and yes, he told me every single detail,” Chris Bauman said.

Paul Bresson, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, declined to comment on specific tips in the continuing investigation. Two FBI agents interviewed at the Boston office declined to confirm or deny the account.

On April 15, Remy Lawler, 25, was standing with Jeff Bauman, said her father, Arthur Lawler, of Amesbury. Shortly before the explosion, Remy, who’s the roommate of Jeff’s girlfriend, Erin Hurley, moved closer to the finish line, away from Bauman and another friend, to take better photographs.

She suffered a baseball-sized shrapnel wound.

Shortly after, Lawler called her mother’s cell phone and left a message in which she cried “Mom! Mom!” Medics could be heard telling her, “You’re going to be all right,” her father said.

‘Feels Guilty’
“She feels guilty about a lot of this -- that she wasn’t with her friends,” Arthur Lawler said.

It would take hours before the Bauman family knew what had happened to Jeff. They learned about it the way much of the world did: the grisly image on television of their son being wheeled from the scene, his lower legs destroyed.

Erika Schneider, Bauman’s sister, saw it first. “She called my mom, freaking out,” Chris said. Chris was working at a McDonald’s near their home in Concord, New Hampshire, when his mother called him.

“Chris, you have to sprint home,” she said. “Something’s happened.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...n-iconic-photo-helped-identify-attackers.html

 

I don't see how that can be fake, if it was photoshopped where did the original image of the guy come from?

I'ts probably the clearest image of the guy out right now.

 

They sure look similar. I hope they are not the same person.