Obama vows to catch perpetrators of blasts
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April 19, 2013, Friday
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US President Barack Obama vowed yesterday that investigators would find the bombers who attacked the Boston marathon and make them "accountable".
"Yes, we will find you, and yes, you will face justice," Obama told a special inter-faith service in the city, three days after the attacks which killed three people and injured about 180 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
"We will find you, we will hold you accountable," he added in his keynote speech on a special visit to show national solidarity with what he called "one of the world's great cities."
"If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorize us," Obama said, then "it should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it."
Obama's message drew several ovations by the 2,000 congregation in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
Obama declared "there is a piece of Boston in me" as he paid tribute to a city shaken by what he has called an act of terror. He said: "Every one of us stands with you."
The painstaking work to identify a bombing suspect from reams of Boston Marathon footage yielded a possible breakthrough as investigators focused yesterday on a man seen dropping off a bag, and then walking away from the site of the second of two deadly explosions.
The discovery of the image - found on surveillance footage from a department store near the finish line - was detailed by a city politician two days after the attack.
There was a heavy police presence around the city's main Roman Catholic cathedral as residents lined up before dawn, hoping to get one of the roughly 2,000 seats inside.
Streets were blocked off around the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the FBI wants to speak with two men seen in at least one video from the marathon, but she added she isn't calling them suspects. Without providing details of the men's appearance or what the video shows, Napolitano told the House Homeland Security Committee that "there is some video that raised the question" of two men. She said the investigation is continuing "apace."
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said he shared the frustration that the person or people responsible were still at large, but he said solving the case will not "happen by magic."
"It's going to happen by doing the careful work that must be done in a thorough investigation," Patrick said. "That means going through the couple of blocks at the blast scene square inch by square inch and picking up pieces of evidence and following those trails, and that's going to take some time."
"Yes, we will find you, and yes, you will face justice," Obama told a special inter-faith service in the city, three days after the attacks which killed three people and injured about 180 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
"We will find you, we will hold you accountable," he added in his keynote speech on a special visit to show national solidarity with what he called "one of the world's great cities."
"If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorize us," Obama said, then "it should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it."
Obama's message drew several ovations by the 2,000 congregation in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
Obama declared "there is a piece of Boston in me" as he paid tribute to a city shaken by what he has called an act of terror. He said: "Every one of us stands with you."
The painstaking work to identify a bombing suspect from reams of Boston Marathon footage yielded a possible breakthrough as investigators focused yesterday on a man seen dropping off a bag, and then walking away from the site of the second of two deadly explosions.
The discovery of the image - found on surveillance footage from a department store near the finish line - was detailed by a city politician two days after the attack.
There was a heavy police presence around the city's main Roman Catholic cathedral as residents lined up before dawn, hoping to get one of the roughly 2,000 seats inside.
Streets were blocked off around the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the FBI wants to speak with two men seen in at least one video from the marathon, but she added she isn't calling them suspects. Without providing details of the men's appearance or what the video shows, Napolitano told the House Homeland Security Committee that "there is some video that raised the question" of two men. She said the investigation is continuing "apace."
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said he shared the frustration that the person or people responsible were still at large, but he said solving the case will not "happen by magic."
"It's going to happen by doing the careful work that must be done in a thorough investigation," Patrick said. "That means going through the couple of blocks at the blast scene square inch by square inch and picking up pieces of evidence and following those trails, and that's going to take some time."
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