Day: April 19, 2013

The burbs on lockdown

Door to door
House to house
Yard to yard
Street to street.

Police are searching Watertown for the Boston bombing suspect..

The AP reporting:

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 and businesses were asked not to open Friday. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home.
“We believe this to be a terrorist,” said Boston Police Commissioner Ed David of the suspect on the loose. “We believe this to be a man who’s come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody.”

…A curveball of international proportions: The Boston suspects are from a town near Chechnya!?


We will see how much of that turns out to be true..

More on that military experience being reported ..


And politically and militarily, it is certainly worth noting developments recently.  Chechen commander forms ‘Army of Emigrants,’ integrates Syrian groups
So in essence, the United States  is also funding extremists from Chechnya..  

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF CHAOS: ONE NIGHT IN WATERTOWN

While many slept, they missed breaking news events of epic proportions. It felt like the scene of a BATMAN  movie, except no one is coming from Wayne Mansion to save the day..

A brief timeline of events as they have transpired so far:

  • Shortly after midnight East Coast time, a campus police office at MIT was shot killed.. Gunshots were reported on the campus and an alert was issued on the website .. the situation was called “active” and dangerous by officials
  • Shorter before 3am EDT, multipe explosions were reported to have been used against police at an incident in Watertown, Massachusetts. Speculation quickly connected the MIT police killing with the explosions in the town.. 
  • Around 4:30 AM, news broke that a suspect was on the loose in Watertown, and that the person matches the description of Suspect 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings (the one with the white ball cap).. 
  • At 5:30 AM, news broke that one suspect from Monday’s terror attack in Boston was dead after the night of violence in Massachusetts. The other, however, is on the loose. Police said he should be considered armed and dangerous.
  • Shortly before 6am, it was reported that the MBTA transit service has been shut down until further notice
  • Residents have been told to keep their doors locked and not to leave
  • The town of Watertown, MA, is being considered a ‘hot zone,’ according to NBC
  • MIT classes are canceled today..
This is a quickly developing story.. 
Police are beginning to ponder whether the suspect still alive is not own armed and dangerous, but potentially a walking bomb with an IED strapped to his person..

‘This is a lockdown like I haven’t seen in 30 years’ of reporting..
Martial law virtually declared. The American homefront becomes a warfront.. 
DEVELOPING