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    Boston Marathon Bombings Stir Up Questions, Lessons for Public Safety Protocol

    Apr 23, 2013 10:14 PM EDT

    The bombings at the Boston Marathons stirred up questions about public safety and security at events with large crowds. Jeffrey Brown examines the safety lessons learned with Jim Davis, executive director of the Colorado Department of Safety, and Ed Cannon, former assistant chief of the New York City Police Department.

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    Boston Marathon Bombings: Feds Deny Reports of Suspect in Custody

    Apr 17, 2013 06:15 PM EDT

    3:07 p.m. ET | Police and reporters have gathered at the Boston courthouse, amid reports that a suspect has been taken custody, the Associated Press reports. A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told the Associated Press on Wednesday that a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings had ...

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    Eyewitness Account of Boston Marathon Bombings

    Apr 15, 2013 09:43 PM EDT

    PBS NewsHour's Noreen Nasir spoke to Hari Sreenivasan by phone from the site of the Boston Marathon, where two bombs went off earlier this afternoon near the finish line.

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    ... threat and the need to know and understand that threat to its roots.” Two terrorist attacks occurred toward the end of Mueller’s watch: the Boston Marathon bombing and the Fort Hood shootings in Texas. Both weighed heavily on him, he acknowledged in an interview two weeks before his departure ...

  • News Wrap: 2 charged with bringing explosives to New York protest

    News Wrap: 2 charged with bringing explosives to New York protest

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    ... particular. Jessica Tisch, New York City Police Commissioner: He also told investigators that he had hoped to carry out an attack even bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing, which he noted resulted in only three deaths. This was a planned attack motivated by extremist ideology and inspired by a violent ...

  • How 'SIM farms' like the one found near the UN could collapse telecom networks

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    ... the network could have caused if left intact. McCool compared the potential impact to the cellular blackouts that followed the Sept. 11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing, when networks collapsed under strain. So what are these SIM farms and what are they capable of? What the tech does SIM ...

  • The Secret Service has dismantled a telecom threat near the UN. It could have disabled cell service in NYC

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    Sep 23, 2025 01:24 PM EDT

    ... the network could have caused if left intact. McCool compared the potential impact to the cellular blackouts that followed the Sept. 11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing, when networks collapsed under strain. In this case, he said, attackers would have been able to force that kind of shutdown at ...

  • Wounded children overwhelmed a Gaza hospital as Israeli bombs fell this week

    Wounded children overwhelmed a Gaza hospital as Israeli bombs fell this week

    Mar 25, 2025 06:22 PM EDT

    Sidhwa recalled how he was at Boston Medical Center when the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing happened, killing three people and sending some 260 wounded to area hospitals. Boston Medical “couldn’t handle this influx of cases” seen at Nasser Hospital, he said. The staff Rokadiya marveled at how the hospital ...

  • After delays in ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, Israel renews attacks on Gaza

    After delays in ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, Israel renews attacks on Gaza

    Mar 18, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    ... to her face and scalp, and she was obviously not going to survive. William Brangham: In 2013, Dr. Sidhwa was a resident surgeon at the Boston Medical Center who treated victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa: This one mass casualty event that we had here overnight would ...

  • Why Biden commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death row

    Why Biden commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death row

    Dec 23, 2024 11:50 PM EDT

    Who are those three that did not get their sentences commuted? Robin Maher: Yes, the three that did not get sentencing relief today were convicted of federal hate crimes or terrorism offenses. And they include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of the Boston Marathon bombing, Dylann Roof, who was convicted ...