According to the VK page (which I see no reason to believe isn’t real) he went to school in Makhachkala, which is about 100 miles east of Grozny, on the Caspian Sea.
Looks like CNN has latched onto the FOX feed. How embarrassed they must be in Atlanta!
Ted Turner must be spinning in his grave right about now. That is, if he were dead and all…
The older brother, Tamerlan, was the subject of a photo essay called “Will Box for Passport”. His family fled Checnya for Kazakhstan and then America. He had a Mercedes and liked European clothes.
Countdown to the younger brother being killed or captured begins…
Anything significant about the different spelling of his first name?
Now they are saying he was born in Kurdistan.
Fox is SPECULATING that the other guy is dead. Also, they are reporting that the hijacked car was found.
It’s still all an incredible story. If you tried to sell this as a movie script yesterday you would have been laughed at.
Here’s Tamerlan’s alleged Amazon wishlist, even. Crowdsourcing, eh?
Edit: Blank Slate, a transliteration thing, I guess. The letter would be Х in Cyrillic, I imagine, which can be transliterated as kh or h.
It’ll be difficult to escape in this sort of scenario. If he was still in the car he sped off in he’d be caught already, every police officer in Massachusetts and probably surrounding states knows the make/model of that car and color at a minimum, probably tag number too. So that means he’s either ditched it and is now driving another stolen car or he’s holed up in one of the houses in Watertown which police are sweeping house to house.
If he’s holed up somewhere, it’s just a matter of time. If he got away in another stolen car that’s his only real chance of escaping, but it’ll be difficult as I imagine checkpoints are up everywhere and another stolen car is also capable of getting you pulled over/noticed.
I don’t think that is a photoshop…one of the pics the FBI released is from the same angle but the yellow behind his head is a little further away.
Their getaway does not seem well planned. I mentioned up thread that I would have set the explosives off from the airport.
These guys are (were) nuts. There’s no real rhyme or reason to this with including this as a factor. I think you’re right that they didn’t follow through their original plan, maybe to blow themselves up at the marathon, or more bombings in crowds or something. They don’t seem to have had any follow up plan otherwise.
NECN – News, Local News, Weather, Traffic, Entertainment, Breaking News is currently interviewing someone over the phone claiming they’ve known suspect 2 since elementary school.
Just put up another no-fly zone over Watertown. Taxi service stopped. Don’t open your door unless you can tell it’s a cop. Dang, this is crazy.
ETA: Police activity in Watertown just went crazy, they said on the radio.
whdh just played an interview with a mechanic that said he has worked on a number of their cars, that they hung out with guys that drove cars with NY plates, and he last saw him Tuesday, the day after the bombing. He seemed very nervous and was demanding his car even though it wasn’t ready.
I was following this story as it broke overnight while I was at work. The first two names mentioned were Sunil Tripathi and Mike Mulugeta. They were heard across police radio in the middle of the night.
I know Sunil Tripathi is a missing Boston Student who looks similar in pictures to the one subject, but where did they get the Mike Mulugeta name from?
I went to bed for a few hours with the same information…a lot has changed since then. Now I believe they’re looking for the singer from System of a Down.
In my humble opinion: Jeff Bauman is a hero.
Despite having BOTH LEGS BLOWN OFF he was able to describe the guy to the FBI, which is how they knew what to look for in the photos.
I heard it was Queens of the Stoneage.
That may explain why they needed to do a car-jacking.