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Kerry: Too Soon to Link Boston Attack and Chechnya
2013-04-20
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 on Friday refused to speculate on the implications of the reported Chechen roots of two brothers believed to have carried out the Boston bombings.

"I think it's fair to say that for this entire week we've been in pretty direct confrontation with evil," Kerry said after talks with Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade.

He was speaking as thousands of heavily armed police staged a house-to-house hunt for a teenager suspected of carrying out the Boston marathon bombings, hours after his brother was killed in a shootout.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan were said to be of Chechen origin but were legal residents of the United States.

Kerry, who for almost three decades served as the senator for Massachusetts and has long ties to the Boston Marathon, said people should not jump to conclusions until Sherlocks complete their probe into Monday's attack.

"I'm not going to get into speculation, I'm not going to deal with a hypothetical," the top U.S. diplomat insisted, when asked about the suspects' ties to Chechnya, a mainly Moslem Russian republic in the Northern Caucasus.

"The one thing I will say is: terror is terror. And this underscores the importance of all of us maintaining vigilance and cooperating together internationally.

"Terror anywhere in the world, against any country, is unacceptable. And we need to continue to stand up and fight against it in the way that we are."
Posted by:Fred

#12  John is wrong again,

Looks like there is a connection between the dead older brother and the Chechyan Emirates group run by our buddy Count Doku
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2013-04-20 22:14  

#11  "Terror anywhere in the world, against any country, is unacceptable. And we need to continue to stand up and fight against it in the way that we are."

Jeez, like in...Benghazi?
God, he's such a despicable piece of shit...
Posted by: tu3031   2013-04-20 17:58  

#10  P2K, my brain was looking for a word along that line.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2013-04-20 11:33  

#9  Our media friends want to investigate how this happened - why can't they just become good Democrats?
Posted by: Bobby   2013-04-20 10:44  

#8  Rico, bring me the Tsarnaev file. Rossman, bring the car around.

You can bet there were more than a few Oh f**k moments in Washington when the Bureau 'ran the traps' and discovered they had actually received a tip on this fellow from foreign intelligence and had actually interviewed him as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-20 09:59  

#7  The Best and the Brightest - ain't.
"aristogogue / aristagogue" - here is my first encounter with the word, very useful.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2013-04-20 09:45  

#6  But his fellow travelers couldn't slow down to blame Tucson on Palin, or other acts on the Tea Party, or Sandy Hook on the NRA.

aristagogue - those who gain power or prestige by playing upon the vanity, prejudices and insecurities of those who see themselves as our best and brightest, or who wish to be so seen by others.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-04-20 07:47  

#5  Stopped clock.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-04-20 02:50  

#4  Twasn't Chechnya at all ...

To wit,

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > EGYPTIAN MULLAH SAYS BOSTON BOMBING PART OF MALI JIHAD | BOSTON ATTACK BEGAN IN MALI, TOP MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OFFICIAL SAYS.

Essam Elerin, Vice-Chair of mb's "Freedom & Justice Party" aja FJP.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-04-20 01:28  

#3  How about the Islam roots, genius?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-04-20 01:04  

#2  This vain, foppish, silly man would be amusing to laugh at as he postures, utterly incapable of noting amidst his preening that he has nothing of substance to say. Sadly, he is the Secretary of State, and does not see how sad that is for the Republic.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2013-04-20 00:28  

#1  I'm not going to deal with a hypothetical

Nor will he deal with the facts.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-20 00:10  

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