◼ Boston Marathon bombing: Feds raid apartment, police seek rental van (+video) - CSM via Drudge
Federal authorities late Monday removed several bags from an apartment in a nearby suburb. Police investigating the Boston Marathon bombing have also issued an alert for a rental van and for a hooded man who left the area before the blasts.HUNT ON FOR BOSTON BOMBERS...
Saudi man, 20, questioned at hospital...
Suburban apartment searched...
... Cops carry out 'several large bags'...
WHO IS THE MYSTERY MAN IN BLACK ON THE ROOF?
Bombs packed with ball bearings; 3 dead, 170+ wounded; 17 in critical...
'25, 30 people have at least one leg missing'...
Martin Richard, 8, among dead...
Elderly runner in viral photo finishes race...
HEROES: Kindness, humanity amid the carnage...
◼ Witnesses recount war zone at marathon... ***WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT***
'These runners just finished and now they don't have legs': Witnesses recount war zone at end of Boston Marathon as bombs left race course littered with limbs of 25-30 people◼ UM Coach: Bomb Sniffing Dogs, Spotters on Roofs Before Explosions 'They must have had some sort of threat called in' - local15tv
Unimaginable horror as victims with missing limbs are transported away
Surgeons battling wounds usually only seen in combat
Doctor who ran to the scene: 'It was like a war zone'
Massachusetts General Hospital: 'Several amputations' performed
Ten of the victims are feared to have lost limbs
Two brothers each lost a leg, from the knee down in the blast
University of Mobile’s Cross Country Coach, who was near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when a series of explosions went off, said he thought it was odd there were bomb sniffing dogs at the start and finish lines.Axelrod: Obama Thinks Bombings Could Be Related to 'Tax Day'...
"They kept making announcements to the participants do not worry, it's just a training exercise," Coach Ali Stevenson told Local 15.
Stevenson said he saw law enforcement spotters on the roofs at the start of the race. He's been in plenty of marathons in Chicago, D.C., Chicago, London and other major metropolitan areas but has never seen that level of security before.
Blasts put world's cities on alert...
NYC deploys 1,000 cops to top landmarks...
UK police review London Marathon security...
MINISTER: Will not be 'blown off course'...
Kentucky Derby, Indy 500 to up security...
BARNEY FRANK: 'No tax cut would have helped us deal with this'...
FBI SEEKS PHOTOS, VIDEOS...
◼ UPDATE: No other bombs found - AP
President Barack Obama was careful not to use the words "terror" or "terrorism" as he spoke at the White House on Monday, but an administration official said the bombings were being treated as an act of terrorism....
Gov. Deval Patrick said contrary to earlier reports, no unexploded bombs were found. He said the only explosives were the ones that went off.
