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25 Apr 2013, 12:32 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, suggested in a commentary published in Foreign Policy Journal that the Boston Marathon bombing attacks by two Muslim brothers from Chechnya were the result of the United States “global domination project” and Washington’s policy on Israel. [read post]
12 May 2013, 10:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, many of these tired and meritless political arguments – and renewed calls to abandon the use of civilian courts in dealing with terrorism-related activity – are being made once again. [read post]
22 Aug 2017, 6:30 am by J. Dana Stuster
It’s a pattern familiar from attacks in Belgium, France, and the Tsarnaev brothers who detonated improvised bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013. [read post]
5 Feb 2016, 4:22 pm by Kent Scheidegger
It's hard to imagine how people can do, bomb, and kill 168 people in Oklahoma City, or do the Boston Marathon bombing, but this is what I believe, and for a couple of reasons.Number one, too many innocent people, including minorities, African Americans, have been executed when they were not guilty. [read post]
3 Jun 2013, 12:26 pm by Ritika Singh
” According to Paul Sonne at the Wall Street Journal, the Russian Federal Security Service hinted to a Congressional delegation that it did not know about Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s trip to Dagestan last year. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 8:09 am by Daniel Byman
Recent years have seen bloody and horrific attacks, like the 2015 shootings and bombings in Paris that killed 130 people—but 1988 saw 440 people die, most of whom perished when Libyan agents bombed Pan Am 103. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 12:50 pm by CJLF Staff
Son of Police Captain Charged in Connection with ISIS Terror Plot:  The son of a Boston police chief, who was one of the first responders at the scene of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, has been arrested and charged in connection with a plot to engage in terrorism on behalf of the Islamic State, or ISIS. [read post]
In fact, the worst school massacre in U.S. history was carried out with bombs. [read post]
2 Jan 2015, 11:13 am by Cody Poplin
A federal judge has denied requests by Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to delay his trial by nine months and to move it to another city. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 12:30 pm by Cody Poplin
Ed Davis, Boston’s police commissioner during the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, suggested that the assault indicates the attackers had “military training. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 5:30 am by Daniel Byman
However, in some cases the perpetrators remain at large, as in Paris in 2015 and the Boston marathon bombing in 2013. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 8:00 am by Ilya Somin
Despite some claims to the contrary, the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombings were not refugees, but arrived in the US as small children of an asylum seeker (a category not subject subject to the same degree of vetting as refugees). [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 11:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Truth is, with limited exceptions, government surveillance cameras don't reduce crime and aren't even all that useful for investigating crime after the fact: After the Boston marathon bombings, one recalls, it wasn't city surveillance that captured the culprits, even though cameras were in place, but security video volunteered from nearby stores and cell-phone pics taken by bystanders. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 10:09 am by Eugene Volokh
" And, similarly, in [that case], the Missouri court concluded that posts on the social media website Twitter referencing "pressure cookers and allusions to the Boston Marathon bombing were tasteless and offensive, [but] the context of [the defendant's] tweets was such that a reasonable recipient would not [have] interpret[ed] them as serious expressions of an intent to commit violence. [read post]
28 May 2013, 4:12 am by David DePaolo
It seems that a couple times per month some completely law abiding private pilot is detained and essentially searched, without warrant, and without legal authority, in the name of terrorism, despite the fact that general aviation has never been identified as a credible terrorism threat - it's simply much, much easier to plant a bomb at the Boston Marathon than it is to learn how to fly a plane and rig it as an explosive device. [read post]
9 Jun 2013, 7:37 am by David Oxenford
But, as even Chairman Genachowski, the immediate past Chair of the FCC, apparently recognized in a tweet addressing the use of one of the prohibited expletives by Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in an on-air statement addressing the Boston crowd at the first baseball game at Fenway Park after the Marathon bombing, sometimes the use of these words is understandable, excusable, and perhaps even appropriate. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 9:14 am by David Pozen
It also foregrounds the tension between Facebook’s seemingly sincere concern for free speech values and its explicit aspiration to make users feel socially safe and “connected” (and hence to maximize the time they spend on the site), a tension that is shaped by market forces but ultimately resolved by benevolent leader and controlling shareholder Zuckerberg.There is a jarring scene in Klonick’s essay, in which a photograph from the Boston Marathon… [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 12:00 am
” Wang’s rambling reference to the Petit murders in Cheshire and the Boston Marathon bombing are, to say the very least, bizarre. [read post]