1 Bomber Dead; 2nd Soon-to-be-Dead

So the Marathon Bombers have a profile sure to delight both left and right. For the left, they finally got their white terrorist. For the right, they are immigrant student Islamists from Chechnya. Finally a public enemy number one that can unite the country!

From the AP here:

The suspects were identified to The Associated Press as coming from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston, and said he “may be armed and dangerous.”

Two law enforcement officials told the AP that Tsarnaev and the other suspect, who was not immediately identified, had been living legally in the U.S. for at least one year.

My late night blog post was somewhat accurate in that these were students. At least one attended Bunker Hill Community College for engineering. And they certainly weren’t interested in any tax day protests.

Video from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Facebook also has this picture of spilled blood on the floor: twitter.com/igorvolsky/sta…

— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) April 19, 2013

The night before suspects were found, NY Daily News linked bombing to Waco, Ruby Ridge: twitter.com/GCarpetPernman… Screen-cap by @gcarpetpernman

— Will Antonin (@Will_Antonin) April 19, 2013

@will_antonin @gcarpetpernman Well, those all took place on this one tiny planet. From a galactic viewpoint it’s certainly suspicious.

— Illbay (@Illbay) April 19, 2013