• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev taken into custody after police
standoff • Suspect, 19, found hiding in boat in Watertown backyard • Obama: 'Our nation is in debt to the people of Massachusetts' Swat teams and hundreds of
other police officers
surrounded Tsarnaev for about
two hours. The suspect was
taken to hospital in a serious
condition The 22-hour manhunt for the
surviving Boston bombing
suspect reached a dramatic
and surprising conclusion on
Friday night when 19-year-old
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive after being
surrounded by heavily armed
police in a suburban backyard. Tsarnaev was found hiding in a
boat in the yard of a home in
Watertown, the small town
where his elder brother
Tamerlan was fatally shot by
police after a chase which began on Thursday night. The
pair had been identified as
suspects in Monday's double
bomb attack on the Boston
Marathon that killed three
people and injured more than 170. For about two hours, Tsarnaev
had been surrounded by Swat
teams and hundreds of other
officers, surviving a barrage of
gunfire and flash grenades. At
8.41pm, it was finally announced over the police
radio: "Suspect in custody". The suspect was injured in
Thursday's shootout and had
suffered significant blood loss.
Police said he was in a serious
condition in hospital on Friday
night. When the news came through
that Tsarnaev captured alive,
Thomas Menino, the mayor of
Boston who has been a
stalwart throughout the week
despite struggling with his own health issues, reacted by
saying: "We got him." A large
crowd gathered near the
location of the suspect's arrest
began clapping and shouting
"Thank you" as a police ambulance carrying the
suspect drove by. At a jubilant press conference
after the arrest, the sense of
relief among law enforcement
officials was palpable. Massachusetts police colonel
Tim Alben said: "We are so
grateful to bring justice and
closure to this case. We are
grateful for the outcome here
tonight. We're exhausted, folks, but we have a victory
here tonight." Explaining the breakthrough
that had led to Tsarnaev's
capture, Edward Deveau, the
Watertown police chief,
praised local residents. "It was
a call from a resident of Watertown," he said. "We
asked you to remain vigilant
and you did. We got the call
and we got the guy." In a statement at the White
House, President Obama said:
"Tonight our nation is in debt
to the people of Boston and the
people of Massachusetts. All in
all, it's been a tough week, but we've seen the character of
our country once more." But he said there were many
unanswered questions. "Why
did young men who grew up
and studied here as part of our
communities and our country
resort to this violence?" Shortly before the arrest,
police in New Bedford,
Massachusetts, confirmed that
the FBI had taken three people
into custody for questioning at
a housing complex where Tsarnaev, a student at the
University of Massachusetts at
Dartmouth, may have lived. Tsarnaev's apprehension
brings to an end five days of
high anxiety that began at
2.50pm on Monday, with the
blasts, 12 seconds apart, near
the finish line of the marathon. The FBI say the brothers had
dropped bags containing
bombs made from pressure
cookers packed with nails and
ball bearings. More than a million residents
of Boston and the surrounding
towns had been told to stay
inside their homes for most of
Friday as hundreds of law
enforcement officers went door to door in Watertown
searching for Tsarnaev. He had
managed to flee Thursday's
shootout on foot. The final flurry of frenzied
police activity began shortly
before 7pm on Friday, just
minutes after police chiefs had
come before the TV cameras
and told the residents of Watertown that they were
ending the citywide lockdown,
despite admitting that they
had lost track of the suspect. A renewed bout of gunfire of
about 30 rounds ripped
through Watertown as Swat
teams and dozens of police
vehicles raced to the area of
Birch Road, a leafy street with about 14 houses in it. Police
immediately ordered people in
Watertown to stay indoors,
while officers evacuated
nearby households, helping
families flee across an adjacent field. A resident of Watertown had
called police to report he had
found a man covered in blood
hiding in the boat standing in
the yard of a house in Birch
Road. Officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect as
they surrounded the boat.
There was no chance this time
that the suspect could escape. It is now believed that
Tsarnaev may have been holed
up in the boat all day, eluding
the door-to-door search that
was going on elsewhere. Birch
Road is just a couple of blocks outside the 20-block exclusion
zone that the police had set up
early on Friday in an attempt
to contain the suspect. Amid fears that Tsarnaev may
have been wearing a suicide
vest or carrying explosives,
officers were extremely
cautious about moving in. As
darkness fell, the barrage of forces ringed around the boat
was reinforced by specialist
FBI squads dressed in full
military gear, wearing
protective helmets and vests
and equipped with nightvision goggles. Bomb disposal
experts, equipped with a
robot, were also brought in. Police used a helicopter to
monitor the boat from
overhead, reporting early in
the operation that there was
visible movement coming from
underneath the tarp, suggesting that Tsarnaev was
at that point still alive. Minutes
before 8pm there were flashes
of light and booms thought to
be grenades thrown into the
board. Around 150 people had
gathered at the end of Franklin
Street to watch the police
operation. Most were
neighbours who lived within
one or two blocks. Many had waited here for an hour or
more after hearing police had
the second suspect cornered. The first sign that Tsarnaev
might have been taken into
custody or subdued came
when a uniformed officer
walked away from the top of
Franklin and vigorously clapped the hand of a fellow
official. He looked down at the
ground and clapped his hands
two or three times. The crowd read the signal and
broke out into applause,
cheering. "Did you get him?"
one man shouted. An officer
nodded his head. The cheers
intensified. "It feels great," said Bill
Forbush. He lives two blocks
away from where Tsarnaev
was apprehended. He and his
wife, Ann, had been standing
on the corner for an hour and a half. They had heard the first
gunshots, and heard the sounds
of what reportedly were flash
bang grenades. They had also
spent 20 hours indoors while
the town was locked down. "It's nice to be out in the spring
air and be relieved," Bill
Forbush said. "There's a great
sense of relief." As he spoke police vehicles and
officers began to stream out of
Franklin Street. Each vehicle
and each official was cheered.
"Great job, you guys," shouted
one man, over and over. Tsarnaev had proved to be
exceptionally adept in eluding
the combined forces of some of
the most highly trained and
heavily armed law
enforcement agencies in America. By that point he had
managed to evade capture for
more than four days. The drama began around
10.30pm on Thursday night
when the two brothers, of
Chechen origin, ambushed a
police officer, Sean Collier, 26,
on the campus of MIT. They then carjacked a black
Mercedes, sparking a car chase
with police that ended with
the huge gunfight in
Watertown in which pipe
bombs and other explosive devices were thrown by the
suspects. Source: http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/apr/20/boston-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-captured-alive

Head on! Good or bad the response was swift. US would v arrested the boko haram culprit n sponsors long b4 now

Fanatastic job!

Nigeria really has a long way to go

Watched this drama all throught the night slept off after the shot was fire severally before getting to bed. This is great!

Hope the guy gets amnesty.

Could this be a false flag operation?

Father and mother of both young men on CNN, angry over event asserts that this was a set up.
They said the elder son have been complaining to the mom about FBI contacting him severally.


twitchy.com/2013/04/19/dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-mother-says-shes-100-percent-sure-this-was-a-setup/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/boston-marathon-things-we-know/index.html

Who is operating/faking his tweeter account set up:
twitchy.com/2013/04/19/were-pretty-sure-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-is-not-tweeting/

http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/who-is-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston/64382/

peleson: Head on! Good or bad the response was swift. US would v arrested the boko haram culprit n sponsors long b4 now

wetin concern america with our Problem, boko boys na our problem. Boston bombing na america problem and they are solving it the way they fit solve ham, we self they solve our own by amnesty.

Keneking: Watched this drama all throught the night slept off after the shot was fire severally before getting to bed. This is great!

Me too. CNN did a great job in covering it real time, min by min.

Good job! To Nigerians, this feat was pulled off in 3 days by Boston Police. Not Federal or state while in Nigeria, the entire federal police have been chasing shadows under the watch of the retardeen. The FBI and citizens who give information have made this operation to conclude on time. In Nigeria, the army, airforce, navy, SSS, police, etc have never been successful apprehending terrorist criminals. The retardeen coward is holed up in his enclave of Aso Rock eating N 1 B food while hiding away. The mostly gullible and impoverished Nigerians are too per-occupied with surviving everyday than to help any police or law enforcement agency with tips or information, do not have extra money to make such phone calls and when they do, they are considered as suspects themselves for giving information. The PDP government over the years have foisted this culture on Nigerians and in this same site, you will see the most fool.ish of them defending their retardeen president and useless PDP.

Never under estimate the power of FBI

These 2 bombers are the daftest i have ever seen or heard off....How on earth do they expect to beat the US security apparatus....this is a mistake Al-Kaeda will never make..........You can never beat America to it,NEVER.......They will go after you anywhere on earth even if you go to the ocean,they must see you dead body before they return...........Its a very useless effort carrying out such dangerous terrorist fit against US without a solid and carefully planned way out.........even committing sucide would have been better off..............Am not giving any kudos to any US law efforcemnet for the capture becuase if you know America very well,immediately i heard the news ,i knew the bombers will be captured in a very short while not when you have helicopters hovering everywhere and robotic equipped bombed squad........
Just that these guyz just give those police officers an avenue to shine and show off......