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NEWS MEDIA REPORTS ON APRIL 15, 2013 BOSTON TERRORIST ATTACK.

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Boston Marathon fugitive Dzhokhar Tsarnaev caught after harrowing 22-hour chase.

Published: Friday, April 19, 2013, 8:57 AM

Updated: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 4:48 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/manhunt-boston-marathon-bomber-suspect-underway-article-1.1321605

Search for Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, locked down the Boston metro area and authorities pinned him down in a winterized boat in the a Watertown backyard. The second suspect was his sibling, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who charged at police with explosives strapped to his chest when he was shot dead.

Fugitive Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, found wounded and cowering inside a drydocked boat, was arrested Friday night in the same suburban town where his big brother was killed hours earlier in a blazing gunfight with cops.

Four days after purportedly blowing up the Boston Marathon, the violent run of the brothers Tsarnaev reached its bloody finish line.

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Fox's Chris Wallace Asks: Perhaps Boston Residents Would Have Liked Firearms During Tsarnaev Manhunt?

By Randy Hall | April 19, 2013 | 19:17.

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Fox's Chris Wallace Asks: Perhaps Boston Residents Would Have Liked Firearms During Tsarnaev Manhunt?

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While discussing the ongoing manhunt for the second suspect behind the bombing of the Boston Marathon, Chris Wallace -- the host of Fox News Sunday -- linked the Monday terrorist attack with the debate on gun rights currently going on across the country.

Pointing to the fact that most of the region is in a tight lockdown due to the search for 26-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Wallace asked how many people in the area “do you think, might like a gun to be able to protect themselves and defend their homes?”

“All the people in that Watertown neighborhood, hiding, doors locked,” he told Bill Hemmer, a co-host of the channel's morning America's Newsroom program, wondering how many are “worried that this guy might get into their home, maybe take them hostage.”

“That feeds into the gun debate that we’ve had here in Washington,” Wallace said.

“To be realistic,” he added, “the extraordinary story of the last decade is not that” terrorists are still out there, “it's how incredibly successful, and in some cases, lucky we've been.”

“But as so many people from the Bush Administration have said, we have to be right and effective 100 percent of the time,” Wallace noted. “They only have to be right or lucky once, and in this case, they were.”

He then stated that Tsarnaev and his 19-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- who was killed earlier in the day during an encounter with police -- were successful because “they were hiding in plain sight.”

The newsman then complimented the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for tracking down the bombers even though “they looked like thousands of other people on the streets of Boston that day.”

 “Yes, we didn't stop it ahead of time,” Wallace said before praising the fact that “in 48, 72 hours,” the federal agents “were able to identify and put pictures of these two people on the screen.”

Wallace’s take on the recent discussion of gun control was quite a bit different from the rest of the media’s. Many journalists have been visibly angered at that the gun bill backed by Democrats and President Obama went down to defeat in the Senate.

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Boston Police going door-to-door in hunt for second marathon bomb suspect.

http://www.kptm.com/story/22023297/multiple-explosions-heard-as-boston-police-surround-home-in-bombing-manhunt

(FOX News) - Police were donning bullet-proof vests and going door-to-door as a perimeter tightened in the Watertown section of Boston, where the second Boston Marathon bomber could be hiding.

Earlier, gunfire was heard in the area, a bullet -riddled SUV was recovered and multiple explosions echoed from inside a house in the area, following a chaotic night of mayhem that included the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer and a shootout with police, authorities said early Friday.

Police believe the two suspects from Monday's terror attack are brothers, Muslims possibly from Chechnya or a nearby region, according to sources who spoke to Fox News. The man on the loose was identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass. They are believed to have been here for 'several years,' sources said.

Schools are closed, train and bus service is suspended and police were telling residents of neighborhoods including Cambridge, Waltham, Watertown, Newton, Arlington and Belmont to stay indoors. Police have formed a wide perimeter and believe the suspect is on foot, armed and dangerous, inside.

"Suspect No. 1 is dead, Suspect Two is on the run," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said at a Friday morning press conference. "There is a massive manhunt underway."

The dead suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot multiple times in a gunfight with police Thursday night and pronounced dead at a hospital. Police also found a car believed to be registered to Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Boston, after earlier issuing a lookout bulletin to Connecticut State police.

Police in Maryland surrounded a home in an upscale suburb Montgomery Village, where the suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, is believed to live.

The suspects apparently surfaced just hours after the FBI released their imaged late Thursday afternoon, shooting the police officer, robbing a convenience store, carjacking a man who later escaped and engaging in a wild shootout with Boston police, in which they hurled explosives from their stolen car.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said on Twitter that one of the two suspects was killed and that the at-large suspect, labeled by the FBI as "suspect two" in the marathon bombing, was "armed and dangerous."

Authorities urged residents in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Allston-Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to stay indoors. All mass transit was shut down.

"We believe this to be a terrorist," Davis said in a press conference. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."

The Middlesex district attorney said the two men are suspected of killing the MIT police officer on campus late Thursday, then stealing a car at gunpoint and later releasing its driver unharmed. Hours earlier, police had released photos of the marathon bombing suspects and asked for the public's help finding them.

The suspects threw explosives from the car as police followed it into Watertown, according to the district attorney's news release. The suspects and police exchanged gunfire, and one of the suspects was critically injured and later died early Friday while the other escaped.

During the pursuit, a MBTA transit police officer was seriously injured and transported to the hospital, the news release states. He was identified as Richard H. Donahue Jr., 33, and was being treated at Mt. Auburn Hospital..

Hours earlier, police had released photos of the marathon bombing suspects and asked for the public's help finding them. A new photo of the suspect on the loose was released later showing him in a grey hoodie sweatshirt. It was taken at a 7-Eleven in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston.

Dozens of officers and National Guard members descended on Watertown shortly after the shooting outside a building on MIT's campus in Cambridge, according to the Associated Press.

Authorities were calling for somebody to get on the ground and put their hands up and a loud thud was heard after someone shouted "fire in the hole," the news agency reported.

Witnesses told The Associated Press they heard multiple gunshots and explosions at about 1 a.m. Friday. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents were in the neighborhood and a helicopter circled overhead.

State police spokesman David Procopio told news agency, "The incident in Watertown did involve what we believe to be explosive devices possibly, potentially, being used against the police officers."

Doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston where a suspect in the marathon bombings was taken and later died said they treated a man with a possible blast injury and multiple gunshot wounds. They wouldn't say if the patient they treated, who came in with police, was the suspect in the black hat from marathon surveillance footage.

Earlier Friday, Cambridge police and the Middlesex District Attorney's office said the MIT officer was responding to a report of a disturbance when he was shot multiple times late Thursday. He later died at a hospital. His name was not immediately released.

Procopio said the shooting took place about 10:30 p.m. outside an MIT building. The area was cordoned off and surrounded by responding law enforcement agencies, according to a posting on the university's website.

The shooting came little more than three days after the twin bombings on the Boston Marathon that killed three people, wounded more than 180 others and led to an increase in security across the city.

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Fox News' Jennifer Griffin, Jana Winter, Mike Tobin, Mike Levine, Griff Jenkins and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Boston bombing enters immigration bill debate as lawmaker cites 'gaps' in system

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/19/top-republican-says-boston-attack-shows-need-to-fix-gaps-in-immigration-system/#ixzz2R0xKz2Zw

The Boston bombing entered the debate over immigration legislation Friday, as a leading Republican said emerging information about the suspects underscores the need to address "gaps and loopholes" in the nation's immigration system.

Other lawmakers, however, rebuked Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, for making that connection and said it's too early to draw assumptions about the role the immigration system played.

Grassley cited the Boston terror attack and ongoing manhunt at the start of a Capitol Hill hearing Friday morning on newly unveiled comprehensive immigration legislation. The Boston crisis rapidly overshadowed the hearing, the first held for the major piece of legislation. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had been scheduled to testify but canceled as federal law enforcement agencies were pulled into the crime scene.

Grassley, though, suggested the attacks in Boston could influence how the immigration bill is considered.

"It's important for us to understand the gaps and loopholes in our immigration system. While we don't yet know the immigration status of the people who have terrorized the communities in Massachusetts, when we find out, it will help shed light on the weaknesses of our system," said Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The two suspects have been identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed early Friday morning.

The two are believed to be from the region near Chechnya. One source briefed on the matter said they are thought to have arrived in the United States about a decade ago. The younger brother, Dzhokhar, whom police are still looking for, apparently was granted asylum in 2002. He was granted citizenship on Sept. 11, 2012. Fox News has also learned that the older brother had an arrest for domestic violence.

The case appeared to spark an interest by Grassley in potential legislative changes, though he did not specify what. 

"How can individuals evade authority and plan such attacks on our soil?" Grassley asked Friday. "How can we beef up security checks on people who wish to enter the United States? How do we ensure that people who wish to do us harm are not eligible for benefits under the immigration laws, including this new bill before us?"

Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., though, cautioned that the facts in the Boston case are still coming out. He urged lawmakers to let that information emerge "before jumping to any conclusions about Boston."

"I'd like to ask that all of us not jump to conclusions regarding the events in Boston or try to conflate those events with this legislation," Schumer said.

Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., also pushed back on comments by Grassley and others after the hearing.

"In the wake of this week's terrorist attack in Boston, some have already suggested that the circumstances of this terrible tragedy are justification for delaying or stopping entirely the effort for comprehensive immigration reform," they said. "In fact the opposite is true: Immigration reform will strengthen our nation's security by helping us identify exactly who has entered our country and who has left -- a basic function of government that our broken immigration system is incapable of accomplishing today. The status quo is unacceptable."

Meanwhile, lawmakers proceeded to debate the immigration bill at the hearing, as senators begin the work of considering and modifying the sweeping legislation.

Schumer said it would "unleash the potential of our legal immigration to create robust economic growth."

Doug Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, also said the legislation could have a major impact on the economy.

"At its core, immigration reform represents an economic policy opportunity," he testified.

He and others claimed the legislation could help the U.S. economy grow, by welcoming in foreign entrepreneurs and budding small business owners.

But Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., citing last month's poor jobs report, claimed the changes could put Americans in direct competition with more immigrants for scarce jobs, even in low-skilled areas.

"This is indisputable. We have more unskilled labor than we can find jobs for today," he said.

The bill would aim to boost border security, improve legal immigration programs and eventually grant citizenship to some 11 million people here illegally.

The 844-page legislation was introduced around 2 a.m. Wednesday, and critics say there's been insufficient time to digest it and they've pushed for more hearings and a long process. Friday's hearing was the first of two the Judiciary Committee is expected to hold on the bill before it begins amending and voting on it next month.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.   Read more:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/19/top-republican-says-boston-attack-shows-need-to-fix-gaps-in-immigration-system/#ixzz2R0vGR7F2

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-- Edited by REAL REPUBLICAN on Saturday 20th of April 2013 01:08:57 PM