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WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — For just a few minutes, it seemed as if the dragnet that had shut down a metropolitan area of millions while legions of police went house to house looking for the suspected Boston Marathon bomber had failed. Weary officials lifted a daylong order that had kept residents in their homes, saying it was fruitless to keep an entire city locked down. Then one man emerged from his home and noticed blood on the pleasure boat parked in his backyard. He lifted the tarp and found the wounded 19-year-old college student known the world over as Suspect No. 2. Soon after that, the 24-hour drama that paralyzed a city and transfixed a nation was over. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture touched off raucous celebrations in and around Boston, with chants of "USA, USA" as residents flooded the streets in relief and jubilation after four tense days since twin explosions ripped through the marathon's crowd at the finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180. The 19-year-old — whose older brother and alleged accomplice was killed earlier Friday morning in a wild shootout in suburban Boston — was in serious condition Saturday at a hospital protected by armed guards, and he was unable to be questioned to determine his motives. U.S. officials said a special interrogation team for high-value suspects would question him without reading him his Miranda rights, invoking a rare public safety exception triggered by the need to protect police and the public from immediate danger. President Barack Obama said there are many unanswered questions about the Boston bombings, including whether the two men had help from others. He urged people not to rush judgment about their motivations. Dzhokhar and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, just outside Boston. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died early in the day of gunshot wounds and a possible blast injury. He was run over by his younger brother in a car as he lay wounded, according to investigators. During a long night of violence Thursday and into Friday, the brothers killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman during a gun battle and hurled explosives at police in a desperate getaway attempt, authorities said. Late Friday, less than an hour after authorities lifted the lockdown, they tracked down the younger man holed up in the boat, weakened by a gunshot wound after fleeing on foot from the overnight shootout with police that left 200 spent rounds behind. The resident who spotted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his boat in his Watertown yard called police, who tried to persuade the suspect to get out of the boat, said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "He was not communicative," Davis said. Instead, he said, there was an exchange of gunfire — the final volley of one of the biggest manhunts in American history. The violent endgame unfolded just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives at the marathon's finish line, an attack that put the nation on edge for the week. Watertown residents who had been told Friday morning to stay inside behind locked doors poured out of their homes and lined the streets to cheer police vehicles as they rolled away from the scene. Celebratory bells rang from a church tower. Teenagers waved American flags. Drivers honked. Every time an emergency vehicle went by, people cheered loudly. "They finally caught the jerk," said nurse Cindy Boyle. "It was scary. It was tense." Police said three other people were taken into custody for questioning at an off-campus housing complex at the University of the Massachusetts at Dartmouth where the younger man may have lived. "Tonight, our family applauds the entire law enforcement community for a job well done, and trust that our justice system will now do its job," said the family of 8-year-old Martin Richard, who died in the bombing. Queries cascaded in after authorities released the surveillance-camera photos — the FBI website was overwhelmed with 300,000 hits per minute — but what role those played in the overnight clash was unclear. State police spokesman Dave Procopio said police realized they were dealing with the bombing suspects based on what the two men told a carjacking victim during their night of crime. The search by thousands of law enforcement officers all but shut down the Boston area for much of the day. Officials halted all mass transit, including Amtrak trains to New York, advised businesses not to open and warned close to 1 million people in the city and some of its suburbs to unlock their doors only for uniformed police. Around midday, the suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., pleaded on television: "Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness." Until the younger man's capture, it was looking like a grim day for police. As night fell, they announced that they were scaling back the hunt and lifting the stay-indoors order across the region because they had come up empty-handed. But then the break came and within a couple of hours, the search was over. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured about a mile from the site of the shootout that killed his brother. A neighbor described how heavily armed police stormed by her window not long after the lockdown was lifted — the rapid gunfire left her huddled on the bathroom floor on top of her young son. "I was just waiting for bullets to just start flying everywhere," Deanna Finn said. When at last the gunfire died away and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken from the neighborhood in an ambulance, an officer gave Finn a cheery thumbs-up. "To see the look on his face, he was very, very happy, so that made me very, very happy," she said. Authorities said the man dubbed Suspect No. 1 — the one in sunglasses and a dark baseball cap in the surveillance-camera pictures — was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, while Suspect No. 2, the one in a white baseball cap worn backward, was his younger brother. Chechnya, where the brothers grew up, has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West. The older brother had strong political views about the United States, said Albrecht Ammon, 18, a downstairs-apartment neighbor in Cambridge. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as "an excuse for invading other countries." Also, the FBI interviewed the older brother at the request of a foreign government in 2011, and nothing derogatory was found, according to a federal law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The official did not identify the foreign country or say why it made the request. Exactly how the long night of crime began was unclear. But police said the brothers carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston, then released him unharmed at a gas station. They also shot to death a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, 26-year-old Sean Collier, while he was responding to a report of a disturbance, investigators said. The search for the Mercedes led to a chase that ended in Watertown, where authorities said the suspects threw explosive devices from the car and exchanged gunfire with police. A transit police officer, 33-year-old Richard Donohue, was shot and critically wounded, authorities said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ran over his already wounded brother as he fled, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation. At some point, he abandoned his car and ran away on foot. The brothers had built an arsenal of pipe bombs, grenades and improvised explosive devices and used some of the weapons in trying to make their getaway, said Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Watertown resident Kayla Dipaolo said she was woken up overnight by gunfire and a large explosion that sounded "like it was right next to my head ... and shook the whole house." "It was very scary," she said. "There are two bullet holes in the side of my house, and by the front door there is another." Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied accounting as a part-time student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston for three semesters from 2006 to 2008, the school said. He was married with a young daughter. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was registered as a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Students said he was on campus this week after the Boston Marathon bombing. The campus closed down Friday along with colleges around the Boston area. The men's father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in a telephone interview with the AP from the Russian city of Makhachkala that his younger son, Dzhokhar, is "a true angel." He said his son was studying medicine. "He is such an intelligent boy," the father said. "We expected him to come on holidays here." A man who said he knew Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Krystle Campbell, the 29-year-old restaurant manager killed in Monday's bombing, said he was glad Dzhokhar had survived. "I didn't want to lose more than one friend," Marvin Salazar said. "Why Jahar?" he asked, using Tsarnaev's nickname. "I want to know answers. That's the most important thing. And I think I speak for almost all America. Why the Boston Marathon? Why this year? Why Jahar?" Two years ago, the city of Cambridge awarded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a $2,500 scholarship. At the time, he was a senior at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, a highly regarded public school whose alumni include Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and NBA Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing. Tsarni, the men's uncle, said the brothers traveled here together from Russia. He called his nephews "losers" and said they had struggled to settle in the U.S. and ended up "thereby just hating everyone." ——— Sullivan and Associated Press writers Stephen Braun, Jack Gillum and Pete Yost reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Mike Hill, Katie Zezima, Pat Eaton-Robb and Steve LeBlanc in Boston, Rodrique Ngowi in Watertown, Mass. and Jeff Donn in Cambridge, Mass., contributed to this report. http://www.boston.com

Wow you have very strong opinions and I will not argue with your perception or judgements. What is good for you is not your place to judge what is good for me, why don't we leave that to God.

No I am not sympathizing I am trying to UNDERSTAND how this can happen.

This all went down in the neighborhood of one of my BGF's they have been holed up in their apartment since 1:30 AM. FOX NEWS SUCKS! Nothing they say is even close to the true story. The 19 year old was an amazing kid and people who know him are broken hearted, they cannot believe he has done such a monstrous thing. He went to college with my daughter and he does not fit the profile of a killer. There is speculation his brother was a great influence on him. I was just at a local store and the cashier was freaked out because a young man came in ranting and raving because his friend got arrested by the FBI because I guess he was using social media to suggest his opinion that this is a conspiracy. A very bad day, a very bad day to have a birthday.

Like I stated there is a great video on Boston.com and you can see there were not many people seated in the grandstands at the time of the bombing. There were barricades made of metal between the runners on the street and the sidewalk. After the bombings you will see in the video that the police and spectators were trying to break down and crawl over the barricades to get to the victims, it appears it was spectators on the sidewalk that were injured.

Many injured went to Beth Israel Hospital - An eight-year old boy died of injuries. So sad. I heard on the local radio a nurse who worked at the medical tent for the runner's was treating a victim who had lost two lower extremities. It appears from this radio conversation that most of the injuries were limbs - It appears from this knowledge they suspect the bombs were probably in the trash cans - (at the street level).

Thank you for your kind words.

This has been an extremely fearful and sad day for those of us who live and work in Boston and for the country. It seemed even more traumatic because I happen to work with a team of folks from all over the world, however, how odd is it that I share a workspace with a man from CO who's children were in school during Columbine Shootings, who's daughter was a teacher of a student killed in the Aurora shootings, another who is from Newtown, CT and lastly an International coworker from Pakistan. The panic in their eyes is extremely heart-wrenching. My birthday is the official patriots day and I have a few celebrations that were memorable, but not because I was experiencing joy. If you want to see the best coverage of news go to Boston.com and scroll through the blog - a sports camera person was filming the finish line when the bombs went off, there were TWO BOMBS that exploded and from the local news the third was also on the same street but was deployed by the police. Be aware this is a gruesome video. This turned out to be an electrical fire and not related to the bombings. However until the investigated they treated it as it was a related incident.

CYA MED - Cover your ARSE - Now we wait for the rest of the clowns....

Fascinating to me as well. Dreamers I guess. I am a realist. People put your thinking caps on....

Sounds like you friends got majorly ripped off.

Awesome! What an emotional roller coaster.

As I suspected.

This makes sense because statistics are outrageous, there are 40-50 million more males to females. Because the Chinese enforced the one-child-per-family and having a son was a better option due to cultural beliefs, many female girls were killed or given up for adoption. Sad....there is a chance that 40-50 million men in China will either have to seek a wife outside of their country or stay a bachelor or worse yet, remain a virgin. Link

What amazing stories and thanks for sharing them. I thank God for my three adopted children who taught me so much about pain and suffering, but not mine, theirs. I suffered their pain so much and could only love them more for what they had been through in their short lives. I was led by GOD to love them no matter what and to stick by them, no matter how many times they pushed me away, I became stronger and stronger. I did this over and over, year after year, and now they are young adults on their way to a happy life. I thank GOD for giving me the strength.

I saw this article and topic posted some time ago and wanted to participate and just did not find the time until now. I practice holistic and preventative medicine. I adjust my diet and consume many herbal remedies, vitamins, minerals and add more and more organic and super-foods to my diet as I learn about them. I have been using Graviola or as stated in the posted article "soursop" as a preventative measure against cancer. I figure it really could not hurt. It can be purchased at this web site http://www.herbdealer.com/macamart/proddetail.php?prod=FG00393&cat=15 For over 20 years I have been experimenting in holistic health. I was raised on a diet of whole foods, mainly organic. I am over 50 and most people who meet me mistake me for more than a decade younger than I am. This is also reflected in my skin, weight, spirit and energy. I have no disease or health problems with exception to occasional accidents. I rarely feel ill and rarely use any over-the-counter medicines. However, I am not perfect and will indulge in what I consider a rather unclean diet, but usually get back on track after either gaining a few pounds, getting ezema or feeling low energy. I believe in detoxing the body and feel this is the best way to eliminate the toxins that contribute to the production of cancer cells in the body. We really need to listen to our bodies, but to listen, we need to work hard to eliminate the years of neglect to understand what feeling well is actually like. I highly recommend the Anti-Aging Manual by Joseph B. Marion. My book has a broken binding it has been referred to so many times - a wealth of information. I also recommend Eat Right for Your Blood Type. When I use this diet method I can take off pounds rather quickly and feel rather energetic. There is lot to be learned about who we are when one learns about their blood, it can really point to our genetics and why one method of healing is not necessarily the right method for another. When I have the time and money I hope to go back to school to study to be an official holistic practitioner and to own a farm where I can grow medicinal herbs. I wish I would have known when I was young I would have had such a passion for natural health. Psychology Today Fighting Cancer with Science and Nature Why natural agents that kill cancer cells warrant further investigation Published on July 10, 2011 by Christopher Lane, Ph.D. in Side Effects In the U.S. (and across the West, more generally), we are understandably suspicious of medical hoaxes and scams, given the damage they can cause. Our media and pundits try to weed out medical assertions that are unsupported by science. The Internet, in particular, abounds with dubious products whose untested, often wildly oversold effects can easily persuade the unthinking and the credulous to part with their cash. Yet as someone who follows and comments on developments in especially psychiatry, I frequently am struck by the faith we place in products that come with FDA approval, but a litany of unpleasant, sometimes risky side effects. When, for example, millions of men across America are willing to "double their risk of hearing loss" and jeopardize their eyesight for an erection, as recent studies warn about those routinely taking Viagra, you know that potency is something we take very seriously as a people and culture. Seriously enough to tune out such warnings and opt unthinkingly for a blue pill, rather than a wealth of natural aphrodisiacs whose effect is basically identical—minus, of course, the nasty health risks. When our knowledge of natural products is also limited, even impoverished, by cultural biases that skew toward pharmaceuticals, our information-base shrinks accordingly. We ignore the well-known medicinal properties of vast amounts of natural products and end up placing enormous faith in pills whose very advertisements are forced to devote significant amounts of time and space to a laundry list of side effects. (The U.S. shares with New Zealand the dubious distinction of being the only Western countries to allow direct-to-consumer advertising of psychotropic pharmaceuticals.) Because I also spend large amounts of time in South America, in particular Peru, from where I'm blogging this summer, cultural differences in medicine and public health can be especially striking. From here, over the last few weeks, I've been able to follow with intense interest the arguments both for and against naturally existing cancer-fighting agents, such as the leaves of the guanabana tree (hereafter known as "graviola"). From all that I've been able to investigate, from PubMed to the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, my sense is that the leaves of this remarkably promising fruit should be getting more rather than less attention from the scientific community. Yet though in Perú graviola is routinely part of a cancer-fighting arsenal, along with chemotherapy, in the States the latter prevails, eclipsing more or less all other options. First, some key background. About three years ago, word spread rapidly on the web about the cancer-fighting properties of "graviola," the leaves of the guanabana tree (Annona muricata), also known as "soursop," "cherimoya," "custard apple," and "Brazilian paw paw." The tree grows in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, as well as countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia with similarly temperate climates. In all of these countries, the fruit is eaten widely; it is often put in shakes and fruit salads, because it is so delicious. Additionally, the leaves and fruit are frequently used to treat viruses, infections, and depression. There is also, apparently, limited production of the fruit in southern Florida. As millions of people suffer from all kinds of cancers, for which we have treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy (generally, with terrible side effects) but no cure, interest in and demand for graviola, in particular, skyrocketed around 2008 when reports of its efficacy started to rise. At the same time, some small businesses and a few hucksters, generally selling graviola with a host of other products (essiac tea, burdock root, sheep sorrel, blue-green algae, and so on), overstated their medicinal effects, whose accuracy had also been exaggerated in all the hubbub and excitement. Very quickly, a treatment known to kill some cancer cells and tumors (see below) morphed inaccurately into assurance about cancer's cure. As rapidly as excitement had skyrocketed, skeptics rushed to denounce the "cancer cure" as a fraud and scam afflicting the needy, the desperate, and the gullible. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) swooped in to fine and close various businesses that had unwisely reported an ability to cure cancer. And in September 2008, Medical News Today publicized the FTC's actions, quoting its director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Lydia Parkes, as saying: "There is no credible scientific evidence that any of the products marketed by these companies can prevent, cure, or treat cancer of any kind" (my emphases). The only problem with Parkes's blanket dismissal of all these elements is that, in the case of graviola at least, her claim wasn't in fact true. In 1976, as Richard D. McCarthy, MD, reports on the encyclopedic cancer website U.S. Cancer Centers: Cancer Center Information and Research, "The NCI or the National Cancer Institute did some research on the guanabana cancer cure [sic] and came up with some interesting results. The study . . . showed that the leaves and stems of the plant were incredibly efficient at destroying certain cancerous cells in the body." Inexplicably," another site notes, "the results [of the NCI research] were published in an internal report and never released to the public. Since 1976, guanabana has proven to be an immensely potent cancer killer in 20 independent laboratory tests, but as of now, no double-blind clinical trials. [However], a study published in the Journal of Natural Products, following a recent study conducted at Catholic University of South Korea, stated that one chemical in guanabana was found to selectively kill colon cancer cells at '10,000 times the potency of (the commonly used chemotherapy drug) Adriamycin. '... The most significant part of the Catholic University of South Korea report is that guanabana was shown to selectively target the cancer cells, leaving healthy cells untouched." Adds the same site, "A study at Purdue University, Indiana, recently found that leaves from the guanabana tree killed cancer cells among six human cell lines and were especially effective against prostate, pancreatic and lung cancers." The article, "Paw Paw and Cancer: Annonaceous Acetogenins from Discovery to Commercial Products," appearing in Journal of Natural Products 71.7 in 2008, was authored by Dr. Jerry L. McLaughlin of Purdue's Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. The journal is published by the American Chemical Society and American Society of Pharmacognosy (copyright restrictions prevent me from circulating the article in question). In response to the predictably enormous rise in public interest in graviola, Cancer Research UK also released a statement about the alleged cancer "cure" that included these sentences: "In laboratory studies, graviola extracts can kill some types of liver and breast cancer cells that are resistant to particular chemotherapy drugs. But there haven't been any large-scale studies in humans. So we don't know yet whether it can work as a cancer treatment or not. Overall, there is no evidence to show that graviola works as a cure for cancer." On the basis of the laboratory studies quoted here, with Cancer Research UK acknowledging that "graviola extracts can kill some types of liver and breast cancer cells," you might think that such preliminary but hopeful results would at least warrant further investigation. As the site states, "we don't know yet," implying a desire for further research, but also essentially acknowledging ignorance because of the rather astonishing absence of "large-scale studies in humans." TO READ MORE PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK Thanks for taking the time to read this long post. Happy health to you!

Interesting topic. I am not a papillon pup, nor is my name Dana. So far I have admitted to two misconceptions you may have had, however, I did not lie, just misled you. I don't live in Boston, but I live near Boston. Everything I have shared with you is either my true opinion or a fact. I work for a proxy of the federal government and the rest is top secret.

Great Article. My gut reaction to this tragic situation was that the cause of this incident was Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. It just so happen that in the past year I have had to deal with three separate incidents of young adults who were either prescribed or were abusing Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. What I personally witnessed allowed me to form an opinion that these drugs are dangerous, causing hallucinations, violent thoughts and severe mood behavior issues. Male age 21 - abused SSR's - to the extent he is now permanently damaged, lives at home, has no chance to ever live a normal life, anti social, no memory, talks to himself. Prior to this abuse a typical teen, just mildly troubled. Female age 28 - abused SSR's - to diet - She ended up in a psych ward where they were continuing to give her more prescribed drugs which worsened her condition. She was hallucinating and was at times very agitated, we thought we were going to loose her to permanent brain damage. She refused all drugs and had to get a lawyer to get released. She is drug free, but still has episodes. Male age 21 - College student prescribed SSR's to control ADHD - after 8 years of using these prescribed drugs he had a violent incident because of the violent thoughts he was having. He was given more prescribed SSR's - failed school and lost a full scholarship to a top engineering school. Decided to go drug free and is struggling with his failures now for several years, but is free of violent thoughts and depression that was drug induced. I think we have a national epidemic that is being swept under the carpet. Now these experiences led me to go on forums and research these prescribed drugs and I was not shocked by what I found, however, these experiences are more common than we are being led to believe and I feel we have a national epidemic.

Clever, very clever.

Thanks for clearing this up you have stated this concept concisely. I have been told I am a liberal for the very reasons you stated, yet I have voted republican as many times as not. I want to believe I have the right to think for myself. We are the United States and we all have much in common, I wish we could find in each other were we can stand together instead of focusing on our differences. As long as we continue this banter and hatred, we will never stand together to make the changes and elect the right officials we need to grow as a nation. There are thieves everywhere stealing from the middle class, let's just call it what it is, not some name that describes what? Look around, all the thieves have their hands in the pockets of the middle class and the working poor, govt., big business and those who use food stamps for drugs. It is out of control and I feel helpless as a working middle class citizen. One of my foreign friends once stated this perfectly, he said "It's the bloody monkey, on the bloody monkey's back".

He also forgot the Madrid fault, the flooding of the Mississippi river valley, Hudson river valley, the sink holes in Louisiana and the most recent earthquake in Idaho, the locusts in Egypt....Oh and the alien invasion. We are in for troubled times, however my guess is suffering is part of human existence, always been.

You mean delay.....right? well of course they delay everything.

Me too! Too busy working to live. Looking forward to living to work.

I heard this on the radio this morning. Truly sad.