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Three more arrested in Boston Marathon investigation

The Boston Police Department assured the public there was no threat or risk to its safety.

POLICE IN BOSTON investigating the marathon bombings have confirmed three additional arrests have been made.

They have been taken into custody in connection with the 15 April attacks on the city.

Police said there is no threat to public safety but would not release any further information.

It was initially understood that the two suspects – brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaeva – were working alone. Tamerlan was killed during a shoot-out with police on 18 April. Dzhokhar remains in custody and has been charged with using weapons of mass destruction.

Citing a police source, the Boston Globe reports that the three additional suspects are college students with connections to Dzhokar. They were detained by federal authorities. Initial reports suggest they helped the 19-year-old in the days after the attacks by misleading authorities and moving his belongings.

As part of the investigation, police have searched the home of Tamerlan’s widow – 24-year-old Katherine Russell – because female DNA was found on debris from the pressure cookers used to make the bombs.

The brothers’ mother Zubeidat Tsarnaev is also suspected of playing a role in radicalising her sons. She currently lives in the Dagestan region of Russia and denies her sons role in the bombing which killed three people, including an eight-year-old boy.

More: Boston bombing suspect had links to slain Islamists

Read: Mother of Boston Marathon suspects insists: ‘My sons are innocent’

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    Mute Lisa Coyne
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    May 1st 2013, 4:54 PM

    You just don’t mess with the yanks!!

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    May 1st 2013, 5:58 PM

    probably just a few of his mates acting out of some misguided sense of loyalty, as opposed to having been part of the actual plot. still they’ll be in serious trouble for doing it.

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    Mute Kevin Cooney
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    May 1st 2013, 5:02 PM

    Maybe the original suspects are innocent afterall?

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    Mute Robert Callaghan
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    May 1st 2013, 5:28 PM

    Maybe not

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    Mute Kevin Cooney
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    May 1st 2013, 5:33 PM

    Read the tea leaves. Reuters reporting 3 college students arrested on suspicion of helping the brothers after the attacks?

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    Mute Reg
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    May 1st 2013, 5:36 PM

    Of course they’re innocent, they had a shoot out with cops and thew pipe bombs at them just for a laugh!

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    Mute Michael
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    May 1st 2013, 6:17 PM

    This is why we have a court system

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    Mute Jason Bourne
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    May 1st 2013, 6:36 PM

    A day in court and proof.

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    Mute mattoid
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    May 1st 2013, 7:40 PM

    @Reg
    They were CIA clones ;-)

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    Mute Ian Martin
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    May 1st 2013, 5:27 PM

    Someone got water boarded,and started talking!!!

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    Mute Shane Wixted
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    May 1st 2013, 5:18 PM

    Cowards who carried out this attack.

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    Mute GOLDEN ARMS
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    May 1st 2013, 6:02 PM

    Cowards, dunno, puppets most definitely

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    Mute Shane Wixted
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    May 1st 2013, 6:46 PM

    At the end of the day everyone is responsible for their own actions. Using religion as a justification for peoples actions or to say that they are some how manipulated by fundamentalists in a free society is just wrong.

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    Mute Paul Keane
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    May 1st 2013, 7:33 PM

    If they were not puppets before they certainly will be now.

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    Mute mattoid
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    May 1st 2013, 7:45 PM

    @Golden
    Great that you can be so definite.
    What evidence are you privy to that none of the rest of us have access to?

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    Mute See My Vest
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    May 1st 2013, 5:26 PM

    Well done to the BCPD for shutting down a city and marching women and children from their own homes at gunpoint to catch the lone, teen terrorist.

    Hey Boston, Stockholm called and wants it’s syndrome back!

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    Mute Martin Dolan
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    May 1st 2013, 5:32 PM

    Do you understand what stockholm syndrome is ?

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    Mute Lisa Coyne
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    May 1st 2013, 5:38 PM

    Stockholm syndrome, or capture–bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.[1][2] The FBI’s Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.[3]

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    Mute See My Vest
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    May 1st 2013, 5:43 PM

    Thanks for that Lisa. Some people do need every little thing spelled out for them.

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    May 1st 2013, 5:56 PM

    See my vest, Lisa is right but your wrong!
    When the shoot out was happening people were actually out on the streets watching.
    How can you say that people were marched to their homes?!
    The police were trying to protect the public.
    Your clueless!

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    May 1st 2013, 6:06 PM

    Btw, I think your suffering from the syndrome yourself. You quoted it first.

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    Mute See My Vest
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    May 1st 2013, 6:26 PM

    Hardly I just happen to read more than the Journal for news. The media in the west only tell half the story. A bombing in Afghanistan on April 6 killed 12 people. 7 of which were children. Where’s your tears for them? What about the thousands injured and killed in Iraq, Iran and Burma due to US drone strikes? No sympathy there either?
    Scroll to the next western story like a good sheep there.

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    May 1st 2013, 6:40 PM

    Look in the mirror yourself to see a sheep.
    How do you know how I feel about other bombings?

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    Mute Declan Noonan
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    May 1st 2013, 6:42 PM

    Since when has the US targeted Iran and Burma with drone strikes?
    Are you thick?

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    May 1st 2013, 8:02 PM

    See. What about the 40 killed in the attack by the Talliban on the court house last month or the 20 killed on the bus killed by Talliban on the bus last month as well. Or maybe the 150 young girls poisoned in their school in Kabul yesterday? Have you shed a tear for them?

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    Mute See My Vest
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    May 1st 2013, 9:30 PM

    Mick I have not but I have read about countless bombings and what can only be described as terrorist acts perpetrated by forces in several countries. The US is by no means innocent when it comes to bombing civilians. The problem is that it’s always the innocent man on the street that gets hurt. My issue is with people like Declan above who read the Daily Sheeple or whatever western rag he heads and seems to think that Obama equals good and any man with turban equals bad.

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    May 1st 2013, 9:42 PM

    See my vest, how do you know how I feel about Obama or someone who wears a turban?!
    You are being very presumptuous.
    Your just another clueless person that comes on here thinking that they know everything.
    Don’t make comments either about what news I get.
    How could you possibly know?!

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    Mute See My Vest
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    May 1st 2013, 10:12 PM

    The very first comment you directed at me called me clueless. How could you possibly know if I’m clueless or not? Should we now get Lisa back to explain hypocrisy to you?

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    Mute mattoid
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    May 2nd 2013, 12:06 AM

    In fairness your comment about Burma and Iran made you sound pretty clueless…

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    May 2nd 2013, 2:59 AM

    See my vest, go back to your original comment. Mentioning Stockholm syndrome was ridiculous and had nothing to do with this story. There was a bombing, followed by a manhunt. People were asked/advised/ warned or whatever to stay in their homes for their own protection.
    Btw, how many red thumbs did you get for your comment?
    Stop looking for something that does not exist.

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    May 1st 2013, 6:09 PM

    Of course they found female DNA, Maybe because she was his wife and found on pressure cooker maybe she was using it to make dinners before her husband used it for a bomb?

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    May 1st 2013, 6:27 PM

    They had multiple devices – I suspect he may have purchased them to make bombs, as opposed to clearing out the kitchen presses…

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    May 1st 2013, 5:53 PM

    Female DNA on bomb fragments.I render a guess that this evidence occurred after the explosion? Sad thought

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    May 1st 2013, 7:50 PM

    Very sad thought – can’t see why you’re getting so many red thumbs unless people are missing the implication of what you’re saying :-/

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    May 1st 2013, 6:24 PM

    When this goes to court and if he pleads guilty then its game, set and match and will put to bed all the conspiracy theories around this crime. But if he pleads innocent then we will hear all the evidence against him and what his defence is going to be. He has a defence lawyer at the moment and if he pleads not guilty you can be sure there will be an army of publicity hungry lawyers lining up to represent him.

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    May 1st 2013, 6:51 PM

    Not being read his rights immediately might have some impact on the case though. Plenty have got off in Ireland on less. Might be interesting

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    May 1st 2013, 7:28 PM

    I believe there is some clause in Federal law referring to a Terrorist act that allows questioning with Miranda being applied.

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    May 1st 2013, 7:28 PM

    Without*

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    Mute Dar Ryl
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    May 1st 2013, 7:38 PM

    That’s in the media anyway Mick, but we’ll wait and see. I doubt that kind of wrangling with the law would happen in England and they are vulnerable to attacks also. They’ll do it all by the book and the charges stick. They questioned a guy without a lawyer that couldn’t talk and was heavily medicated. Just gonna be interesting is all

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    May 1st 2013, 7:54 PM

    Dar that depends on his legal team and whether he goes guilty or not.

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    May 1st 2013, 8:52 PM

    it’s called the patriot act

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    May 1st 2013, 10:52 PM

    I don’t think its the Patriot Act. That has more to do with electronic eves dropping without a warrant and examining financial records.

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    May 1st 2013, 11:04 PM

    The land of the free eh, lol

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    May 1st 2013, 8:48 PM

    It looks like the bombers were Muslim

    1) They used pipe and pressure-cooker bombs, the same that are used by al-Qaeda in Pakistan and elsewhere. .
    2) The elder of the two bombers, Tamerlan had a YouTube account with videos celebrating jihad and the prophesy of the Black Banners
    3) According to the FBI’s own statement, the Russia govt raised concerns that Tamerlan was “a follower of radical Islam”.
    4) The same warning added that Tamerlan had “changed drastically” since 2010, something corroborated by both friends and family members who say that Tamerlan suddenly started praying “five times a day”.
    5) Tamerlan, a strict Muslim who did not drink or smoke, rails against the decadence of America – a classic complaint of those who espouse the path of jihad. “There are no values anymore”, said Tamerlan “people can’t control themselves”.
    6) And then Tamerlan visited Dagestan for six months, a place where Islamist terrorists are known to proliferate and train, and according to the local police, also seems to have made contact with known militants who were under surveillance.

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    May 2nd 2013, 12:04 AM

    I recommend anyone unfamiliar with the word ‘bifurcated’ should read it up in the dictionary. The ‘Boston’ bombing was quite clearly conducted by the clique of US intelligence that remains loyal to the neocons from the last Presidency. Anyone who thinks the official narrative (Chechen Jihadists) is correct needs their head examined.

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    May 2nd 2013, 1:46 AM

    Stephen. What if he stands up in court and when asked how do you plead. And if he says GUILTY. What then?

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