**10 Years On - The Boston Bombing Backstory**
10 Years On - The Boston Bombing Backstory
_Authored by Lloyd Billlingsley via AmGreatness.com,_ (https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/14/boston-bombing-backstory/)
_**Local police, not the FBI, are the true warriors against terrorism...**_
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**Ten years ago, at the April 15, 2013 running of the Boston Marathon, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted pressure-cooker bombs that wounded more than 250 and killedLingzi Lu (https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2015/03/11/linzi-lu-tsarnaev-trial/), 23,Krystle Campbell (https://www.tbf.org/donors/forms/krystle-campbell-memorial-fund), 29, andMartin Richard (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3018235/Jurors-sob-hear-Boston-bombing-victims-Martin-Richard-Lingzi-Lu-painfully-died.html), only eight years old.**
The 2016 film“Patriots Day (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4572514/)” dramatizes the story but doesn’t start at the beginning.
**A year and a half before the bombing, theFBI ignored warnings (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-explosions-boston-congress/russia-warned-u-s-about-boston-marathon-bomb-suspect-tsarnaev-report-idUSBREA2P02Q20140326) from Russia about the Tsarnaevs’ terrorist connections.** In the film, Kevin Bacon plays special agent Richard DesLauriers, in charge of the “counterterrorism investigation (https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/boston/press-releases/2013/fbi-boston-division-announces-retirement-of-special-agent-in-charge-richard-deslauriers),” after the fact.
**Local police, not the FBI, go after the bombers and manage to take down Tamerlan.** Dzhokhar hid in a boat and suffered several wounds, including one to the mouth thatmay have been self-inflicted (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/20/213778483/shot-through-mouth-was-bombing-suspects-most-severe-injury).
The brothers had murdered MIT police officer Sean Collier, as U.S. Attorney William Weinreb explained, “shooting him in the head at point-blank range twice in the side of the head and once right between the eyes (https://abcnews.go.com/US/images-show-sean-collier-murder-scene-boston-marathon/story?id=29556597).”
**That brought the death toll to four. As they buried their dead, Bostonians had cause to wonder why the FBI failed to learn from previous bombings.**
In 1993, the FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorists from detonating approximately1,200 pounds of explosives (https://www.911memorial.org/connect/commemoration/February26-1993) at the World Trade Center. The blast claimed the lives of John DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Stephen Knapp, William Macko, Wilfredo Mercado, and Monica Rodriguez Smith. The blast wounded more than 1,000, including 88 firefighters, 35 police officers, and a medical worker.
Three years later, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the FBI failed to stopEric Robert Rudolph (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/olympic-park-bomber-eric-rudolph-agrees-to-plead-guilty) from planting a bomb, packed with nails, that killedAlice Hawthorne (https://www.ajc.com/news/daughter-olympic-bombing-victim-was-terrible-terrible-day/vlm1jhRaWjblxYCh1gDo5H/) of Albany, Georgia. Turkish cameraman Melih Unzonyol suffered a fatal heart attack and the bomb wounded more than 100 others.
The FBI then tried to frame security guardRichard Jewell (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3513548/), subject of the eponymous Clint Eastwood film, who tried to evacuate the area before the blast. For his part, Rudolph had an example to follow.
Back in 1978 Ted Kaczynskimailed a bomb (https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/02/when-billy-met-teddy/) that wounded Northwestern University professor Buckley Crist. Kaczynski’s bombs also wounded United Airlines president Percy Wood, Vanderbilt University secretary Janet Smith, UC Berkeley electrical engineering professor Diogenes Angelakos, engineering student John Hauser, University of Michigan professor James McConnell, his assistant Nicklaus Suino, and computer store owner Gary Wright.
Kaczinski’s explosive devices maimed renowned computer scientist David Gelernter in 1993 and killed computer store owner Hugh Scrutton, advertising executive Thomas Mosser and lobbyist Gilbert Murray, in 1994. The so-called Unabomber had been active for 17 years, during the administrations of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton—all without detection by the FBI.
Only with the aid of Kaczynski’s brother, who identified the bomber through his public manifesto, was the FBI able to track down Ted. He pleaded guilty in 1998 and was sentenced to life without parole.
Three years later, the FBI failed to prevent the attack of September 11, 2001, with 3,000 casualties, billions in damages, and suffering that endures to this day. It remain…
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