With the internet and complete freedom of information and the highly competative nature of journalists getting the "scoop", there will never be a chance for anyone to hide thier cards anymore, those days are gone.
I'm from Boston. I know people who were injured. The trooper from the Bomb Squad who pulled suspect 2 from the boat is a close friend of mine. Many of my friends were involved in the manhunt. While the kid was just outside of the perimeter so he did go unnoticed for the bulk of the day, he had been hit the night before and this was known. when he was pulled from the boat, he was near death. There certainly was an element of luck in his capture, (a citizen noticed blood on his boat cover), the same is true of Timmothy McVeigh's capture. It is amazing that 2 terrorists, who thought they'd never be caught were grabbed within 5 days.
The decision to lock down the very small city of Watertown was a wise one, not only to capture a terrorist who had already used a WMD to kill/maim a great # of our citizens, but to further protect the surviving citizens from a now desperate fugitave who still possessed more WMD's. It is not strange that all who question the decision seem to be from locations far away from Boston.
All this said I hope and pray that nobody here is ever effected by a horrible situation like this. There is 4evil in the world. These 2 morons picked the wrong f#%$in' city to bomb!
