Boston suspect’s Web page venerates Islam, Chechen independence – World – Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper.

On social media site, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev identifies himself as a 2011 graduate of a public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, posts links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect identified by authorities as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Photo by Boston Police Department / AFP

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on what appears to be his page on a Russian language social networking site.

Abusive comments in Russian and English were flooding onto Tsarnaev’s page on VK, a Russian-language social media site, on Friday after he was identified as a suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon.

Police launched a massive manhunt for Tsarnaev, 19, after killing his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a shootout overnight.

On the site, the younger Tsarnaev identifies himself as a 2011 graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

It says he went to primary school in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, a province in Russia that borders Chechnya, and lists his languages as English, Russian and Chechen.

His “World view” is listed as “Islam” and his “Personal priority” is “career and money”.

He has posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and to Islamic web pages with titles like “Salamworld, my religion is Islam” and “There is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts”.

He also has links to pages calling for independence for Chechnya, a region of Russia that lost its bid for secession after two wars in the 1990s.

The page also reveals a sense of humor, around his identity as a member of a minority from southern Russia’s restive Caucasus, which includes Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and other predominately Muslim regions that have seen two decades of unrest since the fall of the Soviet Union.

A video labeled “tormenting my brother” shows a man resembling his dead brother Tamerlan laughing and imitating the accents of different Caucasian ethnic groups.

He has posted his own joke: “A car goes by with a Chechen, a Dagestani and an Ingush inside. Question: who is driving?”

The answer: the police.

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

DEBKAfile Special Report April 19, 2013, 5:45 PM (GMT+02:00)

The two Boston bombers.

Two Chechen brothers from Dagestan, members of a Wahhabi cell funded by Saudi al Qaeda, were identified as the terrorists who detonated two bombs at the Boston Marathon last Monday and carried out a bombing-shooting spree at the MIT campus in Waterton outside Boston, Friday, April 19, in which a police officer was killed.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhohav Tsarnaev, 19, escaped the MIT campus in a hijacked SUV, chased by the police. As they threw explosives out of the window, critically injuring another police officer, police bullets hit the older brother, who died in custody. The younger one, identified earlier as “Suspect 2 in the white cap” made a run for it.

Warning he is armed and dangerous, the police hunt has placed parts of Boston, Watertown and other outlying towns under curfew and suspended public transport. Hundreds of law enforcement officers, federal agents, national and state police backed by helicopters are scouring the area door to door, backed by helicopters, after warning people to stay home and not open the door to strangers.

The Boston police stress that the event is still ongoing and the investigation is closely coordinated with Washington.

The Chechen government denies the two brothers lived in their country and say the family left some years ago and finally settled in the United States. Boston officials report that the older brother has lived in the US for almost 10 years. The student won a scholarship in 2011 to study at a college in Cambridge.

The incident began with gun shots reported at 10:48 p.m. at Building 32 on Vassar Street near Main Street, off Kendall Square, when the two men armed with guns, explosives and wearing body armor were apparently about to seize the university building. The police officer who responded to the upset was shot dead.

The attack occurred shortly after the FBI released images of the two main Boston Marathon bombing suspects with an appeal to the public for information to identify them. Only later were they linked to the MIT event.  A portrait photo of the wanted terrorist has just been released.

Read the earlier story in debkafile.

The FBI released Thursday images of two suspects filmed on the move at the site of the Boston Marathon bombings of Monday, April 15. The footage with stills has been widely distributed and an FBI Tipline set up. Public assistance in identifying the two youngish men is considered critical to the investigation.

Suspect 1 is shown wearing a black cap and, walking fast close behind him, Suspect 2 in a white cap. Both carry large black packages and both have Middle East complexions.
FBI Agent Richard Deslauriers who is in charge of the investigation said Suspect 1 planted the first bomb, while a few seconds later, Suspect 2 was filmed placing a package at the site of the second, more powerful bomb, and walking away very fast.
Both men are dangerous, he said, and should not be approached by the public

The images the FBI released of the two suspects have been floating around the Internet for the past 36 hours. And so the suspects must know they are being hunted. debkafile’s counterterrorism sources add that both have either gone to ground in a pre-arranged hideout or have left the United States. The way they walk behind each other as they pass through crowds without losing contact strongly recalls the formation maintained by the suicide bombers who blew up the London Tube train on July 7, 2007

Boston locked down for massive manhunt; one bombing suspect killed by police, the other at-large – The Washington Post.

By Annie Gowen, Clarence Williams and Debbi Wilgoren, Updated: Friday, April 19, 7:32 PM

WATERTOWN, Mass. — Boston and its suburbs remained in an unprecedented state of lockdown Friday afternoon as scores of police and federal agents searched for the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, after his brother died in an early-morning confrontation with authorities.

The quest to find Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old immigrant from Kyrgyzstan, riveted the nation in a way reminiscent of the televised 1994 police chase of O.J. Simpson, only in the smartphone era. In Boston, it triggered the massive disruption of a major American city, with mass transit cancelled, schools and business closed and hundreds of thousands residents ordered to stay indoors. A 20-block area of the suburb of Watertown was completely cordoned off.

Law enforcement officials said they believed Tsarnaev may be strapped with explosives , which only added to the concern. His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed during a wild night in which the brothers allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven store , killed an MIT campus police officer, critically wounded a transit officer and carjacked a Mercedes SUV before getting into a shootout with police.

The dramatic turn of events came only hours after the brothers were introduced to the world as suspects, via photos and video footage in Monday’s bombings that killed three people and injured more than 170 at the finish line of the venerable sporting event.

“This situation is grave. We are here to protect public safety,” Police Commissioner Ed Davis said. “We believe this to be a terrorist. We believe this to be a man here to kill people.”

Even as the manhunt continued, federal agents and police were scouring cell phone, travel and other records, interviewing people who knew the brothers and looking for any possible connects to foreign terrorist organizations, law enforcement officials said.

The brothers’ alleged motive attack remains unknown. Two law enforcement officials said they believe there is a “Chechen connection” to the bombings. In the last several months, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had posted videos to YouTube indicating his interest in radical Muslim ideologies.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born in Kyrgyzstan, law enforcement authorities said. He has a Massachusetts driver’s license. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was born in Russia and became a legal U.S. resident in 2007.

The brothers are believed to have come to the United States with their family several years ago from the southern Russian republic of Chechnya. State Department officials said the family appears to have arrived in the country legally.

A night of mayhem

The manhunt was triggered Thursday night after the brothers apparently robbed a 7-Eleven store on or near the MIT campus in Cambridge, about 10:20 p.m. They allegedly shot the Sean Collier, a 26-year-old MIT campus police officer, as he sat in his car. Collier, of Somerville, joined the force in January, 2012 after working as a civilian for the Somerville Police Department, officials said.

Soon after the shooting, the brothers allegedly carjacked a Mercedes SUV from Third Street in Cambridge. They forced the driver of the car to stop at several bank machines to withdraw money, and succeeded in taking $800 from one location.

The driver, who was released unharmed on Memorial Drive, told police that the brothers had bragged to him that they were the marathon bombers, law enforcement authorities said.

“The guy was very lucky that they let him go,” Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said.

Police were trying to activate the tracking device on the stolen Mercedes when other patrol officers spotted the vehicle in nearby Watertown, about eight miles west of Boston, and tried to do a traffic stop, Procopio said.

The suspects fled, throwing what Procopio called “IEDs” at police. Shots were fired, and multiple explosive devices were thrown from the vehicle. Some exploded, which led to panic and concern in the town.

Richard J. Donohue, 33, a three-year-veteran of the transit police force, was shot during the chase and is being treated at Mount Auburn Hospital, authorities said.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev — who was pictured in a black baseball cap in the photos released Thursday evening— was fatally injured, law enforcement officials said.

He had been shot multiple times in the torso and sustained injuries from some sort of explosives, said doctors at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, where he was taken. He was in cardiac arrest when he arrived at the hospital, and could not be revived.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev— who authorities on Thursday night had dubbed suspect No. 2, in a white baseball cap — fled the vehicle on foot, which prompted the search and subsequent lockdown.

Procopio said that after the night of mayhem, police have five active crime scenes around the Boston area. “We’ve got crime scenes we haven’t even been able to process yet,” he said.

Massive police response

All public transportation was shut down in the greater Boston area Friday morning, officials said, and no vehicle traffic was permitted in or out of Watertown during the massive manhunt.

Residents of Boston, Watertown, Newton, Waltham and other suburbs were asked to stay inside, with their doors locked. Universities and schools announced they would close for the day, and businesses were instructed not to open. Streets were ghostly quiet. Thousands of officers searched house-to-house, and some areas were evacuated.

In Washington, President Obama was briefed by his top national security advisers, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano canceled an appearance at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration in order to monitor the situation.

Police in Cambridge closed down a stretch of Norfolk Street, where the Tsarnaev family lived.

Outside the Arsenal Mall in Watertown, scores of reporters waited outside a police staging area that was taking on the appearance of an armed camp. State troopers marched in formation, dozens of motorcycle police officers rolled past, and two large transit buses pulled up, filled with police wearing neon safety vests.

Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives swept the area with a bomb-sniffing dog.

We’ve got every asset that we can possibly muster on the ground right now,” Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick (D) told reporters. “We are going to need the public to help us help them stay safe.”

Michael Demirdjian, 47, a postal worker from Watertown, said he was on his way back from Logan Airport early Friday when he suddenly found himself surrounded by police cars.

“It was amazing,” he said. “There were police cruisers all around. Thirty to forty cruisers followed us to my house.”

He made it to his house, on Spruce Street, but “it was in the zone and they wouldn’t let us in.”

He said he saw police going from house to house with dogs, searching, the area blazing with flashing emergency lights. Heavily armed police told him he could not enter.

“They said ‘no way’,” said Demirdjian, who had been awake all night. “I want to go home but it looks like it’s not going to happen.”

A ‘quiet’ high school student

One high school classmate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Deana Beaulieu, described him as a quiet boy who had been on the wrestling team at Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School.

They attended school together since the 7th grade, first at Cambridge Community Charter School, she said. He graduated high school in 2011.

Another high school classmate, Ty Barros, said Tsarnaev was a student at the University of Massachusetts’s Dartmouth campus, about an hour south of Boston.

A message that was posted on the university’s Web site on Friday said that the campus was closed and being evacuated “in response to information that the person being sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing is a registered student.”

“Students, staff and faculty have been asked to leave campus in a calm and orderly fashion,” the statement said.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev applied to the University of Massachusetts’s Boston campus in 2011 and was accepted, but then immediately withdrew, according to spokesman DeWayne Lehman. “He was not a student.”

State Department officials said the Tsarnaev family appears to have arrived legally in the United States, though they did not specify when they arrived or the type of visas the family members had received.

Chechnya has been racked by years of war between local separatists and Russian forces and extensive organized crime since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. The extent of the possible connection remained unclear. Chechens have dispersed across the former Soviet republics and other countries in the region, but officials said there are not large numbers of them in the United States.

Larry Aaronson, who said he was a neighbor of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, described the young man in glowing terms in an interview with CNN. He said Tsarnaev told him he was Chechen, and had been in Chechnya during the war there.

“He was grateful to be here,” Aaronson said. “He was compassionate. He was caring. He was jovial…. He was a lovely, lovely kid.”

Aaronson said he realized he sounded like the stereotypical neighbor who praises someone suspected of a terrible crime. But “this is what I know him to be,” he said. “He was a wonderful kid. He was an outstanding athlete…. He was never a troublemaker in school.”

Sari Horwitz, Clarence Williams, Jenna Johnson and Anne Gearan in Washington and Annie Gowen in Watertown, Mass. contributed to this report.

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Column One: Israel: The happy little country | JPost | Israel News.

Netanyahu thought a moment and said, “I’d like to be remembered as the leader who preserved Israel’s security.”

As Independence Day celebrations were winding down Tuesday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a guest appearance on Channel 2’s left-wing satire show Eretz Nehederet. One of the final questions that the show’s host Eyal Kitzis asked the premier was how he would like to be remembered after he leaves office.

Netanyahu thought a moment and said, “I’d like to be remembered as the leader who preserved Israel’s security.”

On the face of it, Netanyahu’s stated aspiration might seem dull. In a year he’ll be the longest-serving prime minister in the state’s history, and all he wants is to preserve our national security? Why is he aiming so low? And yet, the studio audience reacted to Netanyahu’s modest goal with a thunderclap of applause.

After pausing to gather his thoughts, a clearly befuddled Kitzis mumbled something along the lines of, “Well, if you manage to make peace as well, we wouldn’t object.” The audience was silent.

The disparity between the audience’s exultation and Kitzis’s shocked disappointment at Netanyahu’s answer exposed – yet again – the yawning gap between the mainstream Israeli view of the world, and that shared by members of our elite class.

The Israeli public gave our elites the opportunity to try out their peace fantasies in the 1990s. We gave their peace a chance and got repaid with massive terror and international isolation.

We are not interested in repeating the experience.

We will be nice to leftists, if they are polite. We might even watch their shows, if there’s nothing else on or they are mildly entertaining. But we won’t listen to them anymore.

This is why US President Barack Obama’s visit last month had no impact on public opinion or government policy.

Obama came, hugged Netanyahu and showered us with love just like Bill Clinton did back in the roaring ’90s. He praised us to high heaven and told us he has our back. And then he told us we should force our leaders to give Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to our sworn enemies even as they teach their children to aspire to kill our children.

And we smiled and wished him a pleasant flight home.

Obama had no idea what he was getting into when he came here. Like Kitzis and his colleagues on Channel 2, Obama surrounds himself with people who, like him, prefer fantasy to reality. In Obama’s world, Islamic jihad is about the West, not about jihadists. In Obama’s world, the most pressing issue on the international agenda is apartments for Jews in Jerusalem and Efrat. And in Obama’s world, what Israelis need more than anything else is for leftist Europeans to love us.

Talk about retro.

But a lot has changed since the 1990s. Twenty years after Yitzhak Rabin shook Yasser Arafat’s hand on the White House lawn and so officially ushered in Israel’s Age of Terror, most Israelis don’t really care what the Europeans or the Arabs think of us.

The Europeans prattle on about Israeli racism, and threaten to put yellow stars or some other nasty mark on Israeli goods. They ban Israeli books from their libraries in Scotland. They boycott Israeli universities, professors and students in England. In Italy they hold rallies for convicted mass murderer Marwan Barghouti at their national Senate. And in France they butcher Jewish children.

And then the likes of Catherine Ashton expect us to care what they think about us. Well, we don’t.

For their part, Americans are bemoaning the resignation of the unelected Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and insisting that he was a true partner for Israel, who just couldn’t make a go of it due to forces beyond his control. While most recognize Fayyad’s departure has nothing to do with Israel, some US pontificators have blamed Israel for Fayyad’s failure. Elliott Abrams, for instance, wrote, “Israeli governments also gave him less cooperation than he deserved.” To that we answer, Fayyad was nothing more than a Western delusion, like Arab peace with Israel.

Fayyad didn’t have a chance of leading the Palestinians because he never personally killed a Jew. And the Palestinians only accept murderers as their leaders. But the fact that he never killed a Jew personally didn’t render Fayyad a partner for Israel.

Fayyad dutifully used donor funds to pay the salaries of terrorists in Judea, Samaria and Gaza every month.

He led the Palestinian branch of the boycott, divestment and sanctions war against Israel. He made working for Israelis and buying Israeli goods criminal offenses. Fayyad personally led raids into private homes to inspect people’s refrigerators to see if they had Israeli cottage cheese on their shelves. He organized and attended bonfires where they burned Israeli goods.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is not the sort of behavior you would expect a peace partner to engage in.

The Americans who insist on mourning Fayyad’s departure refuse to accept the obvious fact that Palestinian aspirations for statehood are a cheap, shoddy, for-export-only Arab product. The Palestinians don’t want a state. They want to destroy Israel. Unable to accept this basic fact, the Americans invent lies like Fayyad-as-peace partner and try to shove them down Israel’s throats. Well good riddance, Salam Fayyad.

Obviously Fayyad is not the last word in Western delusion. They will think of a new perfect solution to replace him in short order.

But in their endless search for the next silver bullet, the Europeans and the Americans and their Israeli followers miss the fact that the easiest way to build a secure and peaceful world is not by wooing terrorists. The best way to achieve these goals is by accepting the world as it is. This is what the Israeli people has done. True

Report: Israel, UAE, Saudis in huge US arms deal | JPost | Israel News.

Israeli Officials Stress Readiness for Lone Strike on Iran – NYTimes.com.

By ISABEL KERSHNER

Published: April 18, 2013

Police search for suspect after gunfight outside Boston; explosives reportedly detonated | Fox News.

BREAKING NEWS: Police in Watertown, Mass., reportedly were searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday.

Police and federal authorities were investigating if the suspects are possibly tied to the Boston Marathon bombing.

WCBV-TV said the suspects threw and detonated explosives during a car chase with police.

Police were working to apprehend a young male with a hat on who was reportedly pulling on vehicle doors, according to police scanner traffic.

An FBI official told Fox News early Friday that one person was in custody and an officer was down but said it was too early to tell if the police activity in Watertown or the MIT shooting were related to the Boston Marathon bombing.

Dozens of officers and National Guard members descended on Watertown shortly after the shooting outside a building on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, according to the Associated Press.

Authorities were calling for somebody to get on the ground and put their hands up and a loud thud was heard after someone shouted “fire in the hole,” the news agency reported.

Fox News reporters on the scene cannot yet confirm these reports.

Earlier Friday, Cambridge police and the Middlesex District Attorney’s office said the MIT officer was responding to a report of a disturbance when he was shot late Thursday. He later died at a hospital. His name was not immediately released.

State police spokesman Dave Procopio said the shooting took place about 10:30 p.m. outside an MIT building. The area was cordoned off and surrounded by responding law enforcement agencies, according to a posting on the university’s website.

Authorities told MyFoxBoston.com that the officer appeared to have been shot multiple times. There were no other victims.

Procopio said authorities were searching for a suspect or suspects. No arrests have been made.

The university described the situation late Thursday as “active and extremely dangerous.” People were urged to stay away from the Stata Building, a mixed use building with faculty offices, classrooms and a common area.

The shooting came little more than three days after the twin bombings on the Boston Marathon that killed three people, wounded more than 180 others and led to an increase in security across the city.

Watertown Police Chase: Gunfire, Explosions Reported On Scanner (LIVE UPDATES).

Posted: 04/19/2013 1:28 am EDT  |  Updated: 04/19/2013 2:45 am EDT

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Shortly after the fatal shooting of a police officer on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday night, a second shooting incident was reported in Watertown, Mass.

The Boston Globe reported via Twitter that one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing had been caught, and another was on the loose after a firefight with police.

Chatter on the police scanner revealed confusion on the scene as officers reported gunfire, explosions and chaos at the intersection of Laurel and Dexter Streets. Heavily armed officers from Homeland Security have been spotted in the area, as have members of the FBI and National Guard. Helicopters are currently using search lights to illuminate the darkened neighborhood.

CLICK HERE for live updates

Larry Victor, a dentist in Watertown, told The Huffington Post that he heard dozens of shots and at least two explosions.

In response, all police units have been ordered to retreat to a perimeter being set up near Auburn, Walnut & School Streets. Officers entering the perimeter were ordered to turn off their cellphones. A robot has been brought in to investigate the scene for explosives.

Andrew Kitzenburg of Watertown told the New York Times that he observed a confrontation from a third floor window. He saw two men in jackets engaging in “constant gunfire” with police officers.

The shooters tried to detonate a bomb. “They lit it, still in the middle of the gunfire, and threw it. But it went 20 yards at most,” Kitzenburg told the paper.
MORE FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:

WATERTOWN, Mass. — Police have converged on a neighborhood outside Boston where there were reports of explosives being detonated and police are telling reporters to turn off their cell phones.Dozens of officers and National Guard members are in Watertown, where television outlets report that gunfire and explosions have been heard. A helicopter is circling overhead.

Authorities early Friday were calling for somebody to get on the ground and put their hands up and a loud thud was heard after someone shouted “fire in the hole.”

Reporters are being told to move away from the scene. A police officer told a reporter: “If you want to live, turn off your cell phone.”

Earlier Thursday night a campus police officer was shot and killed at MIT and authorities were searching for the person responsible.

This is a developing story….

LIVE UPDATES

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10:12 AM – Today

CNN Rolling Video Of Earlier Naked Arrest

10:10 AM – Today

Suspects In Watertown Reportedly Boston Bombing Suspects, 1 In Custody

10:07 AM – Today

HuffPost Reporter Confirms: One Suspect “Accounted For”

A State Police officer told HuffPost Crime Reporter Michael McLaughlin that one suspect is “accounted for.” It’s unclear if that is one of the Marathon Bombing suspects.

The Boston Globe has reported that one of the Marathon Bombing suspects is in custody.

State Police told McLaughlin that another suspect is armed and on the loose. Additionally, a transit officer is injured and in serious condition, and authorities are still looking for more explosive devices.

9:56 AM – Today

PHOTO Of Possible Suspected Gunman From Watertown Scene

9:51 AM – Today

‘We Are Trying To Determine If There’s A Connection’

9:42 AM – Today

FBI Releases NEW Photos Of Bombing Suspects

New photos were released on the FBI’s website, though the Boston Globe reports that one of them is in custody and another is on the run.

9:37 AM – Today

NY Times Details Explosions, Police SUV Fired Upon

From NY Times:

Two young men, armed with guns and explosives in what appeared to be backpacks, engaged in a violent standoff with dozens of police on a street in Watertown, Mass., Thursday night, a resident said.

Andrew Kitzenburg, 29, said he looked out of this third floor window to see two young men of slight build in jackets shooting at dozens of police officers from behind a black Mercedes SUV. The officers and the men were 70 yards apart, he said, and engaged in “constant gunfire.”

A police SUV “drove towards the shooters,” he said, and was shot at until it was severely damaged. It rolled out of control, Mr. Kitzenberg said, and crashed into two cars in his driveway.

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9:34 AM – Today

One Suspect Still On The Loose

Watertown residents are advised to stay indoors. One suspect may be in custody, according to the Boston Globe, but police have set up a 20-block perimeter to find the other.

9:24 AM – Today

Marathon Bombing Suspect In Custody?

9:21 AM – Today

Watertown Update From Associated Press

WATERTOWN, Mass. — Police have converged on a neighborhood outside Boston where there were reports of explosives being detonated and police are telling reporters to turn off their cell phones.

Dozens of officers and National Guard members are in Watertown, where television outlets report that gunfire and explosions have been heard. A helicopter is circling overhead.

Authorities early Friday were calling for somebody to get on the ground and put their hands up and a loud thud was heard after someone shouted “fire in the hole.”

Reporters are being told to move away from the scene. A police officer told a reporter: “If you want to live, turn off your cell phone.”

Earlier Thursday night a campus police officer was shot and killed at MIT and authorities were searching for the person responsible.

9:16 AM – Today

FBI, National Guard On Scene In Watertown

9:08 AM – Today

Bomb Robots On Scene

Bomb robots are roaming the streets of Watertown, and officers are still suiting up and loading weapons, HuffPost reporters on scene verify.

9:06 AM – Today

Watertown Scene Ongoing, Residents Told To Retreat To Homes

8:51 AM – Today

Man Taken Into Custody In Watertown

From HuffPost’s Christina Wilkie

8:48 AM – Today

No Connection Between Shootings/Bombings Yet

There is no confirmed connection between the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, the MIT shooting and the Watertown incident tonight. It’s yet unclear whether the “active” shooter or shooters in Watertown had any connection to the officer-involved shooting earlier.

8:42 AM – Today

Reports Of Devices Detonated In Watertown

Our reporters on the ground in Watertown say they’ve just heard an explosion at the scene. Others are reporting that police may currently be detonating unexploded devices:

8:39 AM – Today

Naked Male Put In Police Car

From HuffPost’s Christina Wilkie on the scene in Watertown:

A male was just put into a police car. He was naked. Policeman just heard yelling that they have another suspect in custody and they’re waiting for a positive ID. A robot has been brought in.

8:34 AM – Today

Suspect Possibly On Ground, Another In Custody

WHDH reports that there might be a gunman on the ground after the gunfire and “explosions” in Watertown.

 

WCVB reports that police are still looking for an “active shooter.”

8:14 AM – Today

7News Image Of Watertown Scene

8:09 AM – Today

WCVB Reporter Jim Lokay Tweets Shooting Location

8:07 AM – Today

WATCH: Live Coverage Of Police Confrontation In Watertown

Watch live here.

8:04 AM – Today

Gunfire, Explosions Reported In Watertown

Details are sketchy, but many news outlets are reporting gunfire and explosions in Watertown, Stations are hearing reports of gunfire on police scanners.

7:45 AM – Today

PRESS RELEASE: Police, DA Investigating Fatal Shooting

From Cambridge State Police:

CAMBRIDGE — Massachusetts State Police and Cambridge Police are investigating a fatal shooting this evening in Cambridge, Middlesex Acting District Attorney Michael Pelgro and Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas announced this evening.

An MIT campus police officer responding to a report of a disturbance in the area of Vassar and Main streets was reportedly shot. According to authorities, the officer was found evidencing multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to the hospital and pronounced deceased.

Authorities launched an immediate investigation into the circumstances of the shooting.

There are no other victims. No arrests have been made. The investigation remains ongoing.

7:21 AM – Today

Boston Globe: Officer Dies Of Injuries From Shooting

CAMBRIDGE — An MIT police officer was shot and killed Thursday night, according to the Middlesex district attorney’s office.

The officer, who has not been identified, was shot multiple times, according to the district attorney’s office. No one else was hurt.

Read more here.

7:11 AM – Today

MIT Sends Alert To Students That Campus Is Being Swept

(ECNET):MITAlert: Police are sweeping the campus as this time. Continue to Stay Indoors. More info: emergency.mit.net.

7:05 AM – Today

Massachusetts State Police Report Search For Suspect or Suspects Is Ongoing

“No arrest has been made and the search for a suspect or suspects is ongoing,” read a statement from the Massachusetts State Police.

Read more here.

6:55 AM – Today

Photo: HuffPost Reporter Michael McLaughlin Captures Police Officers On Scene

6:52 AM – Today

Report: Officer Shot, Suffered Life-Threatening Injuries

CAMBRIDGE — An MIT police officer suffered life-threatening injuries Thursday night and was taken to a hospital, according to a State Police spokesman.

MIT and Cambridge police responded to a report of shots fired about 10:30 p.m. Thursday near Main and Vassar streets, said State Police spokesman Dave Procopio.

Read more here.

6:44 AM – Today

MIT Website Update: Injuries Reported, Situation Still Active

Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:41 PMUpdate on shooter incident. Responding agencies continue to investigate the situation. The scene is outside of Building 32 (Stata) and 76 (Koch) near Vassar and Main Streets. Injuries have been reported. The situation is still very active and we ask everyone to stay inside.

6:36 AM – Today

Cops Visible On The Scene

According to HuffPost’s Michael McLaughlin, reporting from the ground, “about two dozen cops and detectives are clustered in an area south of Main St, a short distance from crime scene tape,” with more police continuing to arrive by car.

6:27 AM – Today

MIT Website: ‘Stay Indoors And Away From Building 32’

MIT’s Emergency Information website posted at 11:20pm on Thursday:

Responding agencies continue to investigate active shooter incident at building 32(Stata). Please stay indoors and away from Building 32((Stata) and surrounding area.

Click here to view the website.

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WCVB NewsCenter5: MIT Police Officer Reportedly Shot

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Police officers with guns drawn investigated in Watertown, Mass., early Friday morning.

By RAVI SOMAIYA

Published: April 19, 2013

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Police officers blocked off the scene of a shooting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.

Police officer shot dead at MIT in attack suspected tied to Boston bombing.

DEBKAfile Special Report April 19, 2013, 9:39 AM (GMT+02:00)

The two Boston bombing suspects on film

An officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Watertown near Boston was killed early Friday, April 19, when he responded to a disturbance caused by the appearance of two men armed with guns, explosives and wearing body armor. It is suspected they were preparing to seize a university building in a terror attack. After initial gunshots were heard at Building 32 on Vassar Street, dozens of SWAT teams, police moved toward the building, soon joined by FBI agents and a police helicopter. Gunfire and explosions were heard during the hunt for the killer indicating a gun battle in progress. One suspect is reported injured and taken to hospital under heavy guard. An MIT alert described the situation as active and extremely dangerous. One man is in custody, but it is not known whether he was involved. The situation remains unclear.

The incident occurred hours after the FBI released filmed images of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday with a request to the public for assistance in identifying them. A possible link between the two events is being intensely investigated.
debkafile reported earlier:

The FBI released Thursday images of two suspects filmed on the move at the site of the Boston Marathon bombings of Monday, April 15. The footage with stills has been widely distributed and an FBI Tipline set up. Public assistance in identifying the two youngish men is considered critical to the investigation.
Suspect 1 is shown wearing a black cap and, walking fast close behind him, Suspect 2 in a white cap. Both carry large black packages and both have Middle East complexions.
FBI Agent Richard Deslauriers who is in charge of the investigation said Suspect 1 planted the first bomb, while a few seconds later, Suspect 2 was filmed placing a package at the site of the second, more powerful bomb, and walking away very fast.
Both men are dangerous, he said, and should not be approached by the public

The images the FBI released of the two suspects have been floating around the Internet for the past 36 hours. And so the suspects must know they are being hunted. debkafile’s counterterrorism sources add that both have either gone to ground in a pre-arranged hideout or have left the United States. The way they walk behind each other as they pass through crowds without losing contact strongly recalls the formation maintained by the suicide bombers who blew up the London Tube train on July 7, 2007