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[acalculatedname]

Today, 7/22/13, is Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev's 20th birthday! I'm sure he's having a great one, wherever he's being detained and most likely viciously beaten and tortured at every possible opportunity.

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[acalculatedname]

I too assume he had some involvement - I'm just not sure it's the level of involvement that has always been maintained. My own personal feeling is that he couldn't get out of helping his brother, or at least giving the appearance of helping his brother, and couldn't bring himself to turn in his brother either, but that was about all. If that is the real story, it's still of course horrific that he let it go down, but it's a very different story than actually building the bombs and planning the attack.

But we'll never know, I'm sure, what the real deal was. I did not like the way the authorities handled this, the way they released information. It makes them seem inherently untrustworthy and/or that they were / are covering up significant details in the interest of LET'S JUST GET SOMEONE TO CHARGE OK.

(and of course the way the US media fucked up over and over that week was a whole other enchilada-- something I saw again a few weeks later when the tornado hit here and they were reporting "dozens of drowned children" in the basement of a school but mysteriously were never called on nor felt obligated to take that claim back when it turned out to be untrue.)