NY Post fingers two boston "Bag Men"

[Luddly Neddite]

New York Post fingers two Boston ?Bag Men? - Salon.com

The New York Post Says 'Saudi Suspect' Being Held In Boston Bombings - Business Insider

New York Post's Boston 'Bag Men' Front Page Called 'A New Low,' 'Appalling' (PHOTO)

Typical Murdoch rag. Why not just lynch them?

These two men have been cleared but the NY Post couldn't wait for that. Hope they sue Murdoch.

 

[AmyNation]

Shameful. I'd sue if I was one of those men.

 

[waltky]

Well, guess war is good for something after all...

War medicine now is helping Boston bomb victims
18 Apr.`13 - The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims.

A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs after Monday's attack. "The only field or occupation that benefits from war is medicine," said Dr. David Cifu, rehabilitation medicine chief at the Veterans Health Administration. Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops have lost a leg, arm, foot or hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and their sacrifices have led to advances in the immediate and long-term care of survivors, as well as in the quality of prosthetics that are now so good that surgeons often choose them over trying to save a badly mangled leg. Tourniquets, shunned during the Vietnam War, made a comeback in Iraq as medical personnel learned to use them properly and studies proved that they saved lives. In Boston, as on the battlefield, they did just that by preventing people from bleeding to death.

In this April 15, 2013 photo, an injured person is helped on the sidewalk near the Boston Marathon finish line following an explosion in Boston. The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs.

Military doctors passed on to their civilian counterparts a surgical strategy of a minimal initial operation to stabilize the patient, followed by more definitive ones days later, an approach that offered the best chance to preserve tissue from large and complex leg wounds. At the same time, wartime demand for prosthetics has led to new innovations such as sophisticated computerized knees that work better than a badly damaged leg ever would again. "This is a clear case where all of the expertise that was gained by prosthetic manufacturers was gained from the wars. It's astonishing how well they function and the things people can do with these prostheses," said Dr. Michael Yaffe, a trauma surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The hospital has performed amputations on three blast victims so far. A few other patients there may yet need them. Yaffe is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and many other doctors treating Boston blast victims also have had military training.

The military partnered with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons to train doctors throughout the United States on advances learned from the wars, said Dr. Kevin Kirk, an Army lieutenant colonel who is chief orthopedic surgeon at San Antonio Military Medical Center. Help, too, has come from Israel, which for decades has dealt with the aftermath of Palestinian bombs, like the ones in Boston, often laden with nails, ball bearings and other metals. "Unfortunately, we have great expertise," said Dr. Pinchas Halpern, director of emergency medicine at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center.

Halpern, who gave lectures in 2005 at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General about responding to attacks, has been in email contact with doctors in Boston this week. Among the topics he covered in his lectures were how to coordinate ambulances to distribute the wounded to area hospitals according to their type of injury, performing more CT scans than usual to locate deep shrapnel wounds and ways to identify and classify wounds. Dr. Paul Biddinger of Mass General's emergency department said the hospital took much of Halpern's advice. "We improved our plans for triage, site security, reassessment and inter-specialty coordination" following Halpern's visit, Biddinger said.

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[Luddly Neddite]

Apparently, they fingered the wrong guys. The FBI is just now making photos public. Thanks to Murdochs newspaper, the real bombers knew what was happening before the FBI released it to the public.

 

[Political Junky]

The NY Post has refused to apologize for accusing those innocent boys.

 

[waltky]

Prob'ly more like a couple o' Chechnyan wannabes...

U.S. official: Boston suspects not likely directly tied to al Qaeda
April 19th, 2013 - Initial indications are the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers likely do not have direct links to any major al Qaeda group or affiliates, or to a new significant terrorist threat to the United States, according to a U.S. official familiar with the latest intelligence information.

These are some early assessments but far from final conclusions, the official said. The assessments are part of a full interagency review now underway by the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement community, who are going back through their databases and information looking for any links to the two men. In the last several hours, the intelligence review to a large extent has focused on regional militant connections the men have had in Russian or Central Asia. But the official also noted they simply may have been "inspired" by a militant ideology or may simply have been disgruntled persons aiming to carry out an attack, and had no connections to foreign groups. "We simply don't know yet," he said.

The review was ordered by James Clapper, director of National Intelligence. Initially, before the men were identified by the FBI, the review was looking at any indications of a threat emerging from overseas against the United States. Once the identities of the men became known, with their possible ethnic Chechen background, the focus shifted. One official said some of the focus of the review is now purely regional - on any militant connections the men may have had in Russian or Central Asia. But he also noted they simply may have been "inspired" by a militant ideology or disgruntled persons aiming to carry out an attack.

The intelligence community is tasked under the review with checking any intelligence gathered overseas while the FBI will focus on what is known inside the United States.

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U.S. intel agencies reviewing all data on Boston bombing suspects
April 19th, 2013 - U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are again reviewing all intelligence on the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing for clues about their motivations and connections to possible terrorist groups, U.S. officials told CNN.

In the hours since the identities of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerian Tsarnaev were confirmed by the FBI, “there is a very methodical and in-depth analysis under way on these suspects and the connections they may have had to any overseas group,” a senior U.S. official said. Until Thursday, the Obama administration had not come up with any specific intelligence - including intercepts or online messages - indicating a threat to the Boston Marathon, according to officials that CNN had spoken with previously. But now, with the identification of the suspects, social media messages they have posted, and other information coming to light, “we can focus more specifically on their potential connections overseas,” the senior official said.

The officials said that agencies are going back through all relevant data - things such as intelligence reports, intercepts, jihadist websites, passport records — that they have collected to see if there is any information about the suspects and if there are potential links to international or domestic terrorist groups.

However, the senior official also strongly emphasized that the intelligence community simply has no answers at this point as to whether there is an international connection or whether the suspects were "inspired" or "influenced" by overseas groups. He also reiterated it is entirely possible this was purely an act of domestic terrorism with no foreign nexus.

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Boston bombing amputees face a tough road...

Boston Marathon bombing amputees face tough, costly recovery
April 21, 2013 — Army veteran Tammy Duckworth still remembers the anger she felt when well-wishers offered encouragement after she lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down over Iraq in 2004.

“I thought, how the heck is my life ever going to get back to normal?” she recalled. Duckworth spent a year recovering and many more adapting to her new life. “Recovery is not a smooth process,” she said. “You are trying to process what happened. Your family is going through shock. ... You have to find a new normal.” But Duckworth did, thanks in part to major medical and therapeutic advances. She has run in three marathons, earned a new pilot’s license and, last year, won a seat representing Illinois in Congress. “I have done things I never dreamed of doing,” she said.

The victims of Monday’s Boston bombings now face similar challenges; at least 13 confront futures with lost or maimed limbs. Their recoveries will be long and arduous, experts say. For many of the injured, even those who have health insurance, the process may also be costly. Health insurance plans often restrict coverage for therapy and prosthetics. But a decade of wars has helped fuel breakthroughs that could help many Boston victims — including those with amputated limbs — live full, active lives. “The world becomes a very different place when you lose a limb,” said Karen Mattie, rehabilitation director at Boston Medical Center, one of several hospitals caring for people injured in the bombings. “But the beautiful thing is that prosthetics can help people regain an amazing amount of function.”

Emergency personnel assist the victims at the scene of a bomb blast during the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts

At the end of the week, several dozen bomb victims remained in hospitals, including two who lost more than one limb. Those with missing or damaged limbs could face more surgeries in the coming days and weeks as doctors clean wounds to prevent infection and repair damaged muscles, blood vessels and other tissue. “It’s not as simple as just sewing up a wound,” said Dr. Carl J. Hauser, a trauma surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He also noted that many of the injured experienced shock and lost significant amounts of blood, which can complicate recovery.

Once rehabilitation begins, many patients will confront the frustrations of adapting to life without a foot or a leg. Depression is common. “They also have to try to process what their life is going to be like now,” said Dr. Paul F. Pasquina, who headed the rehabilitation program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for much of the last decade. “That can weigh greatly on one’s emotional well-being.” About a third of adults who have traumatic injuries will suffer from some form of prolonged stress disorder, according to Dr. David X. Cifu, director of the Veterans Health Administration’s physical medicine and rehabilitation program, which has dealt extensively with the long-term effects of trauma. Paying for care can add to the strain.

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Feds ask to interview wife of suspected bomber
Apr 22,`13 -- Federal authorities have asked to speak with the wife of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and her lawyer said Sunday he is discussing with them how to proceed.

Amato DeLuca told The Associated Press that Katherine Russell Tsarnaev did not speak to federal officials who came to her parents' home in North Kingstown, R.I., Sunday evening, where she has been staying since her husband was killed during a getaway attempt early Friday. Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother, Dzhokhar, 19, two ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia, are accused of planting two explosives near the marathon finish line Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 180. A motive remains unclear.

DeLuca said he spoke with the officials instead, but would not offer further details. "I spoke to them, and that's all I can say right now," he said. "We're deciding what we want to do and how we want to approach this." DeLuca also offered new details on Tamerlan Tsarnaev's movements in the days after the bombings, saying the last day he was alive that "he was home" when his wife left for work. When asked whether anything seemed amiss to his wife following the bombings, DeLuca responded, "Not as far as I know." He said she learned her husband was a suspect in the bombings by seeing it on TV. He would not elaborate.

DeLuca said his client did not suspect her husband of anything, and that there was no reason for her to have suspected him. He said she had been working 70 to 80 hours, seven days a week as a home health care aide. While she was at work, her husband cared for their toddler daughter, DeLuca said. "When this allegedly was going on, she was working, and had been working all week to support her family," he told the AP. He said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was off at college and she saw him "not at all" at the apartment they shared with her mother-in-law.

Katherine Russell Tsarnaev was attending Suffolk University in Boston when friends introduced her to her future husband at a nightclub, DeLuca said. They dated on and off, then married in 2009 or 2010, he said. She was raised Christian, but at some point after meeting Tamerlan Tsarnaev, she converted to Islam, he said. When asked why she converted, he replied: "She believes in the tenets of Islam and of the Koran. She believes in God."

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[MarcATL]

The NY Post has refused to apologize for accusing those innocent boys.

The bastards have doubled down.

And the dunce RW lemmings are rejoicing over theFOXNEW's ratings as if it's some badge of honor to have all the RW in a trance.

There's just no helping some people.

 

[waltky]

"Whoever came in alive, stayed alive."...

Doctors: All Boston bomb patients likely to live
22 Apr.`13 — In a glimmer of good news after last week's tragedy, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive.

That includes several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, and a little girl riddled with nails. Even a transit system police officer whose heart had stopped and was close to bleeding to death after a shootout with the suspects now appears headed for recovery. "All I feel is joy," said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, referring to his hospital's 31 blast patients. "Whoever came in alive, stayed alive."

Three people did die in the blasts, but at the scene, before hospitals even had a chance to try to save them. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who police say was fatally shot Thursday by the suspects was pronounced dead when he arrived at Massachusetts General. The only person to reach a hospital alive and then die was one of the suspected bombers — 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

17-year-old Sydney Corcoran is tended to at the finish line of the Boston Marathon after two bombs exploded within seconds of each other. More than 180 people were hurt in the explosions, and at least 14 of them lost all or part of a limb. But one week after the Boston Marathon bombings, doctors say everyone injured in the blasts who made it alive to a hospital now seems likely to survive.

But the remarkable, universal survival one week later of all others injured in the blasts is a testimonial to fast care at the scene, on the way to hospitals, then in emergency and operating rooms. Everyone played a part, from doctors, nurses and paramedics to strangers who took off belts to use as tourniquets and staunched bleeding with their bare hands. As of Monday, 51 people remained hospitalized, three of them in critical condition and five listed as serious. At least 14 people lost all or part of a limb; three of them lost more than one.

Two children with leg injuries remain hospitalized at Boston Children's Hospital. A 7-year-old girl is in critical condition and 11-year-old Aaron Hern of Martinez, Calif., is in fair condition. The surviving bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is in serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a neck wound. "Our training, our practicing, went a long way" to minimizing chaos so that hospitals and emergency responders worked effectively to treat the many wounded, said Dr. William Mackey, surgery chief at Tufts Medical Center. "Trauma care is optimism translated into action," said Dr. Russell Nauta, chairman of surgery at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., where the wounded transit police officer, Richard Donohue, remains in stable but critical condition.

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Let's Fix David Henneberry's Boat
Apr 22, 2013 - In Friday's standoff between law enforcement and the Boston bombing suspect, David Henneberry's beloved boat was destroyed by bullet holes, blood, and bad juju. Now, a donation campaign on Crowdtilt is attempting to raise enough money to repair or replace the boat, ironically named the Slipaway II.

As the search for the 2nd bombing suspect raged on in the Boston area, Mr. Henneberry of Watertown noticed that there was someone hiding in his boat. He immediately notified authorities, who were able to capture the suspect alive.

As of 3 p.m., around $6,400 has been donated. The goal is $50,000, which is the value of his 22-foot Seahawk cruiser.

Let's Fix David Henneberry's Boat - The Daily Beast