Americas

To Boston From Kabul With Love

Source: NBC News via Wasim Sr. A chicken vendor in Kabul, Afghanistan expresses sympathy for Bostonians after the marathon attack.By Ron Mott, Correspondent, NBC News KABUL – After more than three decades of war, you would think Afghans would be desensitized to violent attacks like the Boston Marathon explosion. A Boston-based […]

A Giant Setback for Human Rights

Source: NY Times: The Supreme Court’s conservatives dealt a major blow Wednesday to the ability of American federal courts to hold violators of international human rights accountable. The court declaredthat a 1789 law called the Alien Tort Statute does not allow foreigners to sue in American courts to seek redress […]

Boston Bombing Suspect Caught

Source: ET The teenage suspect in the Boston Marathonbombings, whose flight from the police after a furious gunfight overnight prompted an intense manhunt that virtually shut down the Boston area all day, was taken into custody Friday night after the police found him in nearby Watertown, Mass., officials said.The suspect, […]

Immigration and terror

Source: The Economist. THE strangest commentary produced by the news that the Boston terrorists seem to have been a pair of Chechen brothers from Dagestan has been speculation that this could mean trouble for immigration reform. The initial speculation earlier this week, before the bombers’ identities were known, involved comparisons […]

Two Dagestani brothers nembers of Chechen Wahhabi cell identified as responsible for Boston terror

Source: LUBP Two Dagestani brothers nembers of Chechen Wahhabi cell identified as responsible for Boston terror DEBKAfile Special Report April 19, 2013 http://debka.com/article/22911/Two-Dagestani-brothers-nembers-of-Chechen-Wahhabi-cell-identified-as-responsible-for-Boston-terror Parts of Boston, Watertown and other outlying towns were placed under curfew and public transport suspended Friday, April 19, as police huntedr one of the the Boston […]