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

Yup.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Story: Boston bomb suspect's dad tells him to surrender, warns "hell will break loose" if son dies <a href="http://t.co/qHYJ2cMCko" title="http://abcn.ws/11o7qw8">abcn.ws/11o7qw8</a></p>&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/325253578312798209">April 19, 2013</a></blockquote>
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All this from @Bianna Golodryga(ABC)

Spoke with the father for 10-15 minutes.

He is aware of what is happening, watching on TV.

In utter shock. Says his sons would never do such a thing.

Tamerlan(?) is the father of a 3 year old daughter

They lived in Mass. for 10 years, he moved back to Russia for health reasons with his wife last year.

He did speak with both sons following the bombing in Boston on Monday evening. He asked them if they were there. They said no, they don't attend such things. They were calm.

They were bright students. Focused on school work, didn't have many friends.

Tamerlan is married, does have a wife and 3 year old daughter.

He would like to convey to his son to give himself up peacefully. He has a bright future ahead and come back home to Russia.

He is finding out real time, watching on TV. Very distressed but clear that his sons wouldn't do something like this. A huge shock to him.

If his son died, if they killed him, all hell would break loose.

He did speak with his sons a couple of days ago, after the bombings. They said they had no idea about the situation, they weren't there, and they weren't involved.

He stands firm his sons would have never done something like this.

Both boys stayed in the U.S. They love this country and studied here. Youngest came here as a small child.

Father is concerned about his well-being and that of his grandchild and daughter-in-law who lost her husband.

He clearly has a close relationship with his children. Spent 10 years living in the U.S.. 2 daughters in NY.

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(Someone from People Magazine I believe)

One of the sisters, I think in NJ, said she is in mourning and horrified and mystified about what happened. Doesn't know what got into the 2 boys. Her husband is not a muslim and there is some issues there with the family, sounds like there might be some estrangement but I don't want to go there.

 

Just a couple of pawns in the Chechen jihadist movement.

 

Told ya so

I was very close when I said Turkish/Persian

You were cheerleading during this whole thing. Kinda tacky if you ask me

 

Better make sure these guys are positively ID'd, or else it would be way to traumatic for the family. God I can't even imagine what the father is going through right now, the emotional shock must be too much.

 

They were from Krygystan what are you talking about?

 

I said Russian all along. I win.

 

Screw that. Take him alive. Need to know why they would do this. Let him rot in prison.

 

One internet cookie for you

 

I don't think that's what happened. It was probably more like, "Were you at the Boston Marathon? Are you ok?" The quote may not have been phrased properly.

 

He didn't ask if they did it, he asked if they were there to see if they were safe.

 

It's being translated, and then relayed days later, then paraphrased by a journalist onto twitter. So no.

 

So armed Caucasians were responsible for this

 

did you mean to say "Kyrgyzstan"?

They're Chechen

 

CNN: Armed Caucasians are responsible

FOX: Armed Muslim terrorists with odd names are responsible

Pick your narrative.

 

not really since they're not ethnically Russian but rather Chechen. I was closer by saying Turkish/Persian. Sorry.

 

With all the people that they've interviewed, mainly friends of this guy, saying all the positive things about him -- this is going to be a conspiracy theorists wet dream.

 

But the younger one had been in the US for almost 2/3 of his life. He's been raised in America.

 

Anyone else think he resembles the actor in the movie Kick Ass?

 

This destroys everything that Borat worked so hard for.