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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!

It is understood where I live about 8 hrs drive from Boston that the whole city was locked down. I hope no one has to go through a situation like this be it here in N. America or anywhere else in the world but to put it into perspective approximately 65 people were killed in Iraq during that same week due to bombs going off.


I think that a lot of people believe that Boston was locked down. It was actually the town of Watertown which is a small suburb of Boston, and in fact, it was where this guy was located. It would have been horrible if they never found him. I do appreciate that lives and limbs are being lost a much more rapid rate in Afghanistan but that is a war zone. Boston was only a war zone for 5 days before the enemy combatants were identified, disarmed, killed and captured. Unfortunately, Afghanistan will be going on forever and ever; I'll bet property values are a bit lower than Watertown.

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