Bombing

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Birmingham, Ala.

A terror attack in a crowded London tube train left at least 18 hospitalized Friday morning, according to multiple reports.

The April 6 missile strike on the Shayrat Airbase in Homs, Syria, has provoked a week of debate on everything from its legality to its political significance. The only thing about which everyone agrees is that as a tactical matter, it did very little. The 59 Tomahawk missiles were dropped on the…

Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor who had been investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center (the AMIA building) in Argentina, has been found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment. Nisman was famous in intelligence and law enforcement circles for amassing evidence that implicates…

Speaker of the House John Boehner supports President Obama's actions against ISIS. 

With lawmakers ratcheting up pressure on Obama to take action in Syria, few in the administration have been paying close attention to Libya, apparently. As Fox News's Jennifer Griffin reported last night on Special Report with Bret Baier, the United States was baffled for days as to who conducted…

Condemnation of Israel for its conduct of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza continues unabated. The chief accusation, heard time and again, is that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have either been cavalier about civilian casualties or are intentionally inflicting them. Israel and its defenders, for…

President Obama announced last night "two operations in Iraq -- targeted airstrikes to protect our American personnel, and a humanitarian effort to help save thousands of Iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water and facing almost certain death."

A few weeks ago the Times Literary Supplement ran a photograph of the grisliest act of violence in Italy since World War II—Italy’s equivalent of our own September 11 attacks. In 1980 a shadowy group of homegrown terrorists planted a time bomb in the waiting room of the Bologna Central station.…

THE WEEKLY STANDARD Casual Podcast, with Christopher Caldwell reading his essay "Stranger on a Train."

The Boston police announces that "Three additional suspects taken into custody in Marathon bombing case."

Jeff Bauman, a survivor from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, tells a Boston radio show his killer is dead--and he's still alive. "He's dead and I'm still here," said Bauman, who helped identify the suspects to authorities from his hospital bed.

An important story from the Boston Globe:

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on welfare, sponsored by tax payers. Tsarnaev, now dead, is suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon last week. 

CNN’s headline this morning reads, “Boston suspect: It was just us.” The headline links to an article that begins by explaining that the “surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told investigators that his older brother, not any international terrorist group, masterminded the deadly…

Senator Lindsey Graham made the case yesterday that the Boston bombing suspect should've been held as an enemy combatant:

A lawyer writes in:

The White House announced today that President Obama will be observing a moment of silence today for Boston bombings last week. The event is "closed press."

During President Obama’s trip to Israel last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to apologize for the “operational mistakes” that in May 2010 led to the deaths of nine Turks who attacked Israeli commandoes after they boarded the…

There is still much we don’t know about the Boston Marathon bombers. It will take time to piece together a more complete picture of their backgrounds. But the investigation has taken an important turn since late last week, as U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials are delving into their…

“In this age of instant reporting and tweets and blogs, there's a temptation to latch on to any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions,” said President Obama, in the late evening of April 19, after Dzokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive in Watertown, Mass. “But when a tragedy like this…

In a joint statement, four lawmakers urge President Obama to treat the Boston bombing suspect picked up last night in Watertown, Mass. as an “enemy combatant.” Here’s the joint statement, signed by Rep. Peter King, Senators Kelly Ayotte, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham:

The police chief of the Watertown police department shares amazing new details of the chase for the Boston bombings suspects from Thursday night into Friday evening:

The delusional aunt of the suspects in the Boston bombings accused the feds of setting-up her nephews:

The suspect still on the run in the Boston bomings case appears to have used Twitter, under the account @J_tsar. On Wednesday, a couple days after he allegedly murdered innocent Americans, the suspect appears to have tweeted, "I'm a stress free kind of guy."

The Chechen president has apparently released a statement that blames the suspects' American upbringing for their alleged terrorist activity. 

UMass Dartmouth claims the suspect is "a student registered" at that university.

And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?They were, those people, a kind of solution. How many times in the last century have these concluding lines of C. P. Cavafy’s famous 1898 poem, “Waiting for the Barbarians,” been quoted? How many modern intellectuals have pondered the…

Mass. governor Deval Patrick said today a "massive manhunt underway" to look for the bombing suspects in the Boston-area:

Suspect two in the Boston bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is currently on the loose, appears to have attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. He appears to have been awarded a city scholarship in 2011.

Steve Hayes, with Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell made the case this evening that the National Rifle Association is to blame for the slow investigation into the Boston bombings:

After multiple media outlets (especially CNN) wrongly reported that an arrest had been made in Boston, the FBI is urging media to "exercise caution and attempt to verify information through appropriate official channels before reporting."

After reporting that a suspect in the Boston bombings had been arrested, CNN backed off:

In a statement to the press, the Department of Homeland Security says that it doesn't believe the Boston bombings are part of a "broader plot" and it "continues to keep in place enhanced security measures at transportation hubs."

In explaining why President Obama didn't call the Boston bombings a "terrorist attack," former adviser David Axelrod said, "I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is -- we really don't know who did this -- it was tax day":

The Associated Press reports: