Opinion  Nahum Barnea
As if they caught another bin Laden
Nahum Barnea
Published: 21.04.13, 21:33
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1. As I somewhat agree with you, I don't understand
Yossef   (04.21.13)
what you want to say exactly ???
2. Boston exaggeration
israeli ,   israel   (04.21.13)
What you mean is that we have explained to anyone how NOT to do it. The next time they will be smarter and maybe NOT get caught! Why do we publish all this info?
3. Shtuyiot be mitz agvaniyot, Mr Barnea
Baruch ,   Paris, France   (04.22.13)
You're a sourpuss Mr Barnea. The inhabitants of Boston are proud to be Americans and they are proud of their security forces. What's wrong with that?
4. ehtics course
milson   (04.21.13)
that individuals can be brainwashed whether radical islam, ultraorthodox jewry or ultra christianianty and then to carry out acts of violence needs more than fbi counteractions, pychological assessment of grievances. All students need special courses in elementary and high schools on ethics in society, right and wrong and consequences of actions. In the boston case, that the younger brother was heavily into marijuana made him more likely to go along with his brother since marijuana blunts ones appreciation of consequnces of one's behaviour. As to barnea, chalk up another misinformed and dumb article. Bostonians have reason to celebrate as the marathon bombings were serious. At this stage one cannot say whether the boys are linked to a larger sleeper cell with funding from caucauses. terrror did not win as shalev, another stupid haaretz reporter wrote. Bostonians were relisilent and carried on and this will be the new normal until the moslem parents of disaffected kids clean up their act, and those host countries find a representative governement rather than the brutal scum that is now in place in the entire middle east and elsewhere in most moslem countries.
5. It may have been overkill......
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (04.21.13)
but it worked! It sends just the right message to these vermin.
6. thats great, but
saul ,   ny   (04.22.13)
Nobody knew for sure it was a big nothing until near the end, and as so, the authorities had an obligation to treat this as something larger until that was concluded. As of the celebration, that was more a reaction of college students to being cooped up all day than anything else.
7. What Else Would You Expect
Brett ,   Florida   (04.21.13)
Form people who voted for obama TWICE! This country, this land, is under the heel of The Almighty now, or it soon will be.
8. Who is the idiot who wrote this rubbish?!!!
Josh   (04.21.13)
These brothers were trained by and part of a larger terror cell. Your ignorance is amazing.
9. Yossef he means its a dangerous message to every teenager..
thomas   (04.21.13)
assembling bombs and blow it up as a shortcut to fame!, ofcource after watching crime movies on TV!!.
10. Overreaction to 9/11, global terror, has bankrupted America
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (04.21.13)
...as predicted by Osama Bin Laden in his "Letter to America" in 2002.
11. reality TV
sad observer   (04.21.13)
In an age of reality TV this was the ultimate episode with millions of characters and a prime time ending. It was more voyeurism than fear, more sports fan behaviot than patriotism. Lost was the victims and their families whose lives were transformed.
12. #1 - what he is saying is that too much
Barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (04.21.13)
attention will have cause / effect reaction - followers.
13. #1 You don't understand?
Shlomo ,   USA   (04.21.13)
Then how can you somewhat agree? It's illogical.
14. A lot of disturbed sadists Vigilance Vital
Zivron   (04.22.13)
With seven billion people plus in the world and a fast ubiquitous and Bad Stories Media a lot of People don't Read the Papers or Watch the TV it's too depressing.Terror tribal wars Gang violence is innate and UltraVigilance and Ultasurvivalism needs be a Covert Background necessity.
15. Overkill !!
Mike ,   NZ   (04.22.13)
CNN was the worst culprit ... we were treated to scenes of Rambo Cops, posse's of screaming police cars and black painted SWAT trucks, volleys of auto gunfire that would have done O.K. corral proud ! then if that wasent enough we were treated to numerous repeats wth Wolf B going over every sordid detail, over and over again. . . . and if that wasent enough, now Cnn has put together a programme called " Reporters in Danger" . I get the feeling all you folks in the US have enjoyed all this sordid entertainment. . . . my heart goes out to the Victims, god bless you all !!
16. The author states: "looking back at the
Runner1983 ,   USA   (04.22.13)
whole affair, the manhunt for the two brothers appears to have been a classic case of overkill." With all due respect to the author, where is the "overkill?" If law enforcement did not act the way they did, they would have been criticized for not deploying all of the resources at their disposal.
17. #10 are you stupid or something?!?!?
Jerome ,   Basalt, Colorado   (04.22.13)
18. Boston Isn't Tel Aviv
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (04.22.13)
The people in Boston reacted spontaneously as they saw fit. The Boston metro area reacted differently that might be expected anywhere else in the US, too. That lockdown was entirely voluntary and it worked. The homeowner who fount Suspect Two also went outside his own home for his smoke when the authorities said it was OK. So when the police got the guy, they applauded the police who had literally taken bullets for the people they were hired to protect and serve. Not many places in the world would show appreciation for their police that way.
19. heads in the sand
israel israeli ,   tel aviv   (04.22.13)
The fertilizer plant explosion was not reported because it did not challenge the Leftist worldview, just like mass murderer Gosnell is not being reported because he only targeted blacks. Boston, the heart of America's extreme Left and Obama worship, wants to believe that two crazed brothers carried out a solo attack, no different than McVeigh. If it turns out that the attack is bigger than the two, it will be a tragedy for the Left because it means everything they believed in is wrong. It means Israel and white Christians are not the source of all evil. It means the Left preoccupation with attacking Israel endangered their own lives. It means that Obama wasted five years. It means that they are to blame for the problems in the Middle East.
20. #15 CNN
Arturo   (04.22.13)
Rest easy, most folks in the USA don't watch CNN.
21. #17 $Trillions up in smoke, a million dead, for what? Israel
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (04.22.13)
22. #18 Best Comment
Matt ,   Queens USA   (04.22.13)
23. Right response.
Get Real ,   UK   (04.22.13)
The American re-action sends out a dangerous message, to the terrorists.That the country despises them and rejoices when they are captured or killed, and is grateful to the police etc for the resources used and their efforts in bringing an end to this terror threat.
24. when there is no prevention
Cipora Julianna Kohn ,   Z   (04.23.13)
when there is no prevention, and when there is no ideological understanding, the result is overkill. the us lets in all manner of undesirables without background checks. they enter the state on tourist visas and on student visas. the obama administration is claiming that jihad is a legitimate tenet of islam and islamic terror as such does not exist. it is impossible to fight an enemy whose very existence is denied.
25. The Real Msg We Will Hunt You Down
AMERICAN GIRL ,   USA   (04.23.13)
If I remember correctly Mossad has a similar motto.
26. #23 - what is obviously missing in Boston today?
William ,   Israel   (04.23.13)
Attacks on Mosques, Muslims, and Russians/Chechens. Why? Because its Boston and they know better, but it doesn't mean their naive nor ignorant by any means.
27. #21 - America didn't do it for Israel, they did it for US
William ,   Israel   (04.23.13)
And you know it. Every person knows America did what it did, for better or worse, solely for the US and at the behest of its people. Despite those Lefties who often rush to the side of the criminals to claim them as victims, most Americans saw the need to take notice of Islamic terror and do what it needed to protect itself. Since 2001, America is much smarter and understands the situation that Middle East and Europe have been dealing with for decades. Isolationism isn't an option today anymore than it was after WWI. And you know it.
28. #10 - I thought America was bankrupted by Dem policies
William ,   Israel   (04.23.13)
like relaxed home loans with no money down, as pushed by Hillary Clinton during her husband's administration to bring about the American dream of broad home ownership. That left the economy in ruins and took trillions of $$ of worth from America's bottom line, moving it to debt and mounting foreclosures. How's that socialist policy working out for ya?
29. For those who don't know Boston - best Tweet
William ,   Israel   (04.23.13)
"Boston is probably the only major city that if you f*ck with them, they will shut down the whole city....stop everything...and find you."
30. #25 Mossad motto
Dov ,   Chicago US   (04.24.13)
-through deception wage war.
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