Postby tifosi77 » Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:13 am
Well at least one of the actual shooters is on video barking into camera about something (probably about how great Allah is), so they should be able to do a matchy-match thing with that guy. I think he's also on video repeatedly slashing someone's throat.
Bombing suspects are a different breed in terms of their catchability. There's usually no outward indication of their involvement (as direct action on their part is often not required by the nature of the thing), they aren't waving a weapon around and shouting slogans and whatnot, they aren't required to be on-scene for minutes on end. And the time commitment to actually perpetrate the act is only seconds, so if you don't actually observe them placing the device in those scant seconds you'll probably never catch them. I think that's how they caught the Boston guys, a victim saw one of the brothers placing a backpack on the ground and that guided the way they scanned CCTV footage. And even at that, it took them a couple days to PID the bad guys and get the word out, and their ultimate takedown was fueled by their perpetration of a carjacking and police shooting completely unrelated to the bombing. Frankly, it's sort of amazing that they caught the Boston guys at all, let alone in only three days.