<p>"arbargy, I think the plan was exactly what’s happening now. A big spectacular ending. "</p>
<p>I think you’d have a hard time sell me on this plan. </p>
<p>At least if you are escaping across the country you have some sort of hope. Who buys into this plan "Here we go, bro. We stay put until we are identified and cornered. Then we take off on foot and try to hijack a car when we could have quietly gotten one days ago. When we are too exhausted to go on we are riddled with bullets. No questions?</p>
<p>In the recent Dorner case, Dorner was hiding out in a cabin where he had a direct view of the police command center and wasn’t found until the cabin owners went there to clean.</p>
<p>Sax, I think that is a pretty realistic explanation. They interviewed friends of the younger brother and they all said he was normal, happy and well adjusted. He had to be influenced by someone who had a lot of control over him. So heartbreaking, the whole mess.</p>
<p>Lergmom… The younger brother was a star wrestler and had many friends in high school. He was now in college where like many of our kids he had to start over. Make new friends and figure out what he was doing. It’s easy for kids this age to feel a bit lost going from BMOC to just another student. And he had no family support</p>
<p>His older brother might have got him at a low point. </p>
<p>His older brother would not feel like such a loser if he could bring his little brother along with him. I have seen this in families where a troubled sibling relentlessly tries to get his or her siblings to live their kind of life.</p>
<p>I guess I’m still having trouble understanding how the younger brother was able to get away and vanish right after a gun battle with hundreds of police officers, seemingly without a trace, even if it was in the middle of the night. If that happened in a movie, nobody would believe that it was realistic.</p>
<p>And no, I’m not a conspiracy theorist! (They’re out in force today, all over the Internet. I never realized that there were so many people like that. Depressing.)</p>
<p>Anyone have any thoughts as to why they are doing this “controlled explosion” in the apartment where the suspects lived? Seems they would be destroying all the evidence. Is the apartment booby trapped?</p>
<p>I’m guessing they removed what they could safely remove and are likely concerned the place may have undetected booby traps that could cause great future harm. Confused as to how suspect escaped.</p>
<p>HarvestMoon1, the controlled explosion would be for safety reasons, if they found explosives or something they thought would explode, it’s safer to smother and explode it in place than to try to move it.</p>
<p>I can’t figure out how the kid got away either. I think he drove off about 1/4 mile away and then escaped on foot, which makes it a little easier to understand. He may have driven over his brother’s body as he drove away (unconfirmed). It was the middle of the night, and it’s a semi-suburban area, so there were dark places between houses to hide, once he was 1/4 mile away.</p>
<p>I have seen it speculated that the older brother held the police off with pipe bombs while white hat was getting away. Then he charged them with his suicide vest.</p>
<p>I think the vest made things a little bit difficult in terms of grabbing him. If he hadn’t run over his brother on the way, and the brother was also moble, maybe they’d have both gotten away. II don’t think MIT security police are exactly up to this sort of thing. So he jumped into a car and drove away with the owner of the car in there. Now, my guess is that he’s holed up in someone’s house or apartment, a most unwelcome guest, and who knows what will happen when he’s found.</p>
<p>My guess would be he is in someone’s home near where he ditched the car, or he grabbed someone else getting into a car and is long gone from the area. If anyone has not heard anything from someone in Boston, that might be something one might want to report.</p>
<p>My sense from following the events last night, the police was very wary after the two threw bombs at the police. Some were hand grenades, and some were IED. Police were backing off and not pursue at closed range, that was what I saw on some of the footings. That may have helped the younger one gets away.</p>
<p>How does one get hold of hand grenades these days?</p>
<p>Perhaps the younger brother committed suicide and with all the commotion just hasn’t been found yet. He simply could not be on the move with all those officers on the street.</p>
<p>An SUV plus $800 reportedly stolen from the SUV’s owner’s bank account - even at the current prices, $800 buys a lot of gas, although probably not enough to get to the Mexican border. I’m sure the car is abandoned somewhere, and the white hat is driving a new vehicle, if he is on the run.</p>
<p>Yes, I hope they find him before dark. The more time passes the more one wonders–is he hiding or did he slip the net? I would be afraid to go into my garage.</p>
<p>Someone, I can’t remember who, posted a few pages ago that if the brothers had been part of an organized group, they would not have had to rob a store, steal a car, etc. They’d have money and transportation and safe houses. This makes sense to me.</p>
<p>There is a fast-tracked path to a green card for “aliens of extraordinary ability.” I’ve written letters of support for a couple of these applications. A Ph.D is not enough; these people also have to have exceptional accomplishments. They get green cards very quickly.</p>
<p>There is a long article in the UK Daily Mail with lots of photos. The older brother had been overseas for 6 months last year and was a radical Muslim with a terrorist YouTube playlist. Also another mention of his arrest for domestic violence.</p>