Saturday, April 20, 2013

Thank-you North Metro SWAT Team

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Helicopter beam upper right searching Watertown, Mass., 4/18/13, ap, UK Daily Mail
















Member of North Metro SWAT team raises fist after victory in Watertown, getty, UK Daily Mail















Another view of North Metro SWAT team in Watertown after victory, 4/19/13, ap, UK Daily Mail 











"Defiant: Joseph Eli Libby, 20, of Boston, carries a flag near a makeshift memorial on Boylston Street, near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Boston," ap (This caption from UK Daily Mail)

This was one of several pictures of American flags in Boston via UK Daily Mail. A BBC editor had earlier in the week noticed a laid back reaction to the terror bombings, and no "ramped up patriotism:"

4/16/13, "Boston bombing: A changed US reaction to terror," BBC, Mark Mardell, North American Editor

"Less than 24 hours after the Boston bombings, I was watching a vivid parade through the centre of Washington - indeed between two of the most sensitive security sites in the world, the Capitol and the White House.
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In honour of Washington DC Emancipation Day, bands blared out their tunes and girls gyrated down the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue. And no-one seemed too worried....

The mood in America after the Boston bombings generally seems one of sadness and horror but not one of anger or ramped-up patriotism. This is not 9/11."...

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Many more wonderful pictures at this link:

 4/20/13, "'We got him!' Fugitive 'bomber' captured ALIVE after he was found hiding inside a BOAT in backyard of Boston home. Cops use flash-bang grenades and gas to flush out Dzhokar Tsarnev,"
UK Daily Mail, by Louise Boyle, James Nye, Simon Tomlinson and Jill Reilly



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