wednesday. the atf announced the blast left a massive crater 93 feet wide and ten feet deep. to give you a better sense of the destruction here is a satellite picture of the plant and surroundings before the explosion and hears the same area after the explosion. veritable war zone. the destruction from the blast spread over 37 square blocks in west, texas equivalent to wiping out a quarter of new york s central park. according to waco tribute the explosion killed 15 people including ten firefighters most of whom were volunteers and two emergency responders. three others who died are believed to be people who lived nearby. six days after the blast we have the names of those who were killed. 41-year-old morris bridges, 37-year-old perry calvin. 26-year-old jerry chapman. 50-year-old cody dragoo. 52-year-old kenneth harris. 65-year-old judith monroe. 29-year-old cyrus reed. 57-year-old mariano saldivar. 33-year-old kevin sanders. 48-year-old robert snokhous and his 50-year-old brother dou
the pieces after one of the worst industrial accidents in recent memory. here s what we now know about the explosion of the west fertilizer company last wednesday. the atf announced the blast left a massive crater 93 feet wide and ten feet deep. to give you a better sense of the destruction here is a satellite picture of the plant and surroundings before the explosion and hears the same area after the explosion. veritable war zone. the destruction from the blast spread over 37 square blocks in west, texas equivalent to wiping out a quarter of new york s central park. according to waco tribute the explosion killed 15 people including ten firefighters most of whom were volunteers and two emergency responders. three others who died are believed to be people who lived nearby. six days after the blast we have the names of those who were killed. 41-year-old morris bridges, 37-year-old perry calvin. 26-year-old jerry chapman. 50-year-old cody dragoo. 52-year-old kenneth harris. 65-year-old ju
0 local muslim community at all. the islamic society of boston took pains to report that neither brother was a member or even a regular attendee of the cambridge mosque. based on what we re learning about his life leading up to the bombing tamerlan tsarnaev does not seem to have been taken in by an extremist movement. these anecdotes we do have of his interactions with the muslim community in fact tell the opposite story and paint a portrait of profound alienation from the muslim community. of an extrication from anything larger. we have a mental category for people who commit violence inspired by an extremist version of islam and that is the category of terrorist. we also have another mental category for a pair of disturbed, self-radicalizing young men who create a private world that justifies the most horrific of acts, disturbed sociopaths. as the picture of the brothers motivation slowly comes into focus it is hard not to wonder if we are seeing something more like columbine than j
0 bona fide reporting, nuggets of information which we have not had until now upon which to piece together the answer to that central question that has been bothering all of us, the question of why. nbc news is able to report tonight that dzhokhar tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother acted alone, they learned to build pressure cooker bombs over the internet, and were motivated by a desire to defend islam because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. now, that early reporting may prove to be wrong. it may prove that the suspect retracts those statements later or maybe he s lying or he might be confused. but there is a small but significant cornerstone to build from that was not there before. we have left the realm of pure, complete speculation inside which would be frankly irresponsible to address questions of motives in the first place. in the case of dzhokhar tsarnaev even as we learn more about him and his life leading up to the bombing and what he is telling investigato
know. it s the question everyone is asking each other over beers and in offices. and it s, in the first hours and days after the attack speculation about motive and intent was all over the place. while credible information was actually nowhere to be found. but that is slowly starting to change. now today we are finally getting bona fide reporting, nuggets of information which we have not had until now upon which to piece together the answer to that central question that has been bothering all of us, the question of why. nbc news is able to report tonight that dzhokhar tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother acted alone, they learned to build pressure cooker bombs over the internet, and were motivated by a desire to defend islam because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. now, that early reporting may prove to be wrong. it may prove that the suspect retracts those statements later or maybe he s lying or he might be confused. but there is a small but significant cor