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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Cheat Sheet - The Politicization of Boston

Today: Doctors Still Have to Treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , Bombing Suspect Awaits Charges , Three Injured at Denver 4/20 Rally
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

April 21, 2013
Partisans

The attacks have nothing to do with immigration reform, but partisans are rushing to exploit them anyway. Howard Kurtz examines the false arguments.

HUMANITY

What's a good doctor to do when a villain hobbles into the emergency room? Kent Sepkowitz on the human obligation to treat everyone. Even the Boston bombing suspect.

WAITING ROOM

Investigators prepared Sunday for a chance to interview the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings as they turned to finding a motive for the bombing. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was in serious condition and unable to speak because of a bullet injury to his throat before his Friday capture. Investigators have zeroed in on a trip made by his brother, Tamerlan,  to Moscow, in January 2012. It is still unclear whether Tamerlan could have had contact with militant Islamist groups in Southern Russia while there. Tamerlan was killed in a gun battle with police early Friday. Authorities have yet to charge the surviving Chechen brother, who is represented by a public defender.  Pressure cooker bombs packed with ball bearings and nails killed three people and injured 176 at the Boston Marathon Monday.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH

Gunshots injured three people at a 4/20 pro-marijuana rally on Saturday, disrupting the first celebration in the state since Colorado voters legalized the recreational use of pot. Denver police said a man and a woman were each shot in the leg and a youth was grazed by a bullet, but the wounds were not life-threatening. Officers were looking for two suspects in the shootings, which occurred despite high security at the event. Police said attendance was lower than the anticipated 80,000 but declined to provide a new estimate.

TOWER OF STRENGTH

In the aftermath of Boston's bombings Sunday, London marathoners showed solidarity with 30 seconds of silence at the start of their 26 mile run through the city. Many of the thousands of spectators lining the streets were wearing black ribbons to commemorate the three dead and 170 injured in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing. The race was also marked with a 40 percent higher police presence than at last year's race. Barbara Stephenson, Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy said the commemoration underscored the "special relationship," between the two cities. "We've had responses from Her Majesty the Queen, all through Twitter from the British people, and now we have got tens of thousands of London Marathon runners wearing a black ribbon in solidarity with the people of Boston," she said.


STORY HOUR
George W. Bush Library to Open in Texas
13th presidential museum.
LAW AND ORDER
Boston Triggers Post-9/11 Legal Issues
Obama describes bombings as an act of "terrorism."
ASSISTANCE
U.S. Doubles Aid to Syrian Opposition
Kerry pledges $123 million in new funding.
JUDGMENT DAY
Musharraf Banned from Seeing Lawyer
Ex-leader remains under arrest over 2007 emergency decree.
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