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/Facebook(CBS/AP) PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The FBI is helping Providence police in the search for a missing Brown University student who disappeared earlier this month.
PICTURES: Missing Brown University student
Spokesman Gregory Comcowich said Sunday that federal law enforcement officials were aiding the search for 22-year-old Sunil Tripathi, who was last seen in the campus area on March 15.
Sangeeta Tripathi, the student's sister, told the Providence Journal that his wallet, ID cards, credit cards and cell phone were found in his room.
Sunil Tripathi is a philosophy major at Brown who grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was living in Providence since 2008 and was on approved leave from the Ivy League school.
The search expanded outside Providence to Boston, Connecticut, New York and Philadelphia.

Quote:Boston Marathon Bombing: Indian-Origin Sunil Tripathi One of Alleged Suspects

[B]Police yet to confirm if the suspect killed in the shootout was Tripathi.
Update:Boston Marathon Bombing: Indian-Origin Sunil Tripathi Not a Suspect

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Boston marathon bombing suspects



Boston police on Friday revealed the names of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, one of whom is an Indian origin person, Sunil Tripathi, reported CBS-affiliated television station WFSB.
The other suspect named in the case is Mike Mulugeta. On Friday morning, it was reported that police arrested one of them.
The two men were narrowed down as suspects after camera surveillanceshowed them carrying suspicious-looking backpacks believed to contain the explosives.



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Recent reports said that one of them, possibly Tripathi, died in a police shootout, while the other is on the run.
Tripathi, a 22-year-old student from Brown University, had gone missing since 16 March. Police authorities and his family had been desperately searching for him. His family had even opened up a Facebook account called "Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi".
According to Daily Mail, the family had taken down the page on Friday morning.
Twenty-two year-old Tripathy, aka "Sunny", who was raised in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, had reportedly taken some time off from university. He was living in an apartment in Providence with his classmates.
After he was reported missing, Tripathy's brother Ravi and sister Sangeeta, had been making all efforts to trace him down.
"We've just been literally walking every road we saw him walk. Walking in every nook and cranny, talking to every local business, and really trying to move forward," Sangeeta said.
"Everyone's racking their brains to see if they can come up with places that he might be or where he might have gone," Ravi said.
Ravi describes his missing brother as a quiet person, saying, "He found really simple things made him very happy... He was a musician and listened to classical music."
Though reports are doing the rounds that Tripathi is among the key suspects, no formal announcement has been made by the officials.

Magda Hassan Wrote:And who is this guy?

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When linking Boston to Chechnya, exercise caution

By David Gordon and Willis Sparks
APRIL 19, 2013



Editor's note: This is a memo originally published by Eurasia Group, a political risk firm. It is being reprinted with permission.
It now looks like the two perpetrators in the Boston Marathon bombing are ethnic Chechens who were raised as Muslims. But before we leap blindly into geopolitical speculation on what this all means, let's take a step back and a deep breath. These bombers may well have more in common with the shooters at Columbine than the 9/11 hijackers.
Early reports suggest these young brothers arrived in the United States by way of Central Asia. The family may or not have fled Russian-Chechen violence in Chechnya in the early 1990s. The two boys appear to have arrived in the Boston area at a tender age-the older brother was about 16, and the younger was about 9.
The early portrait emerging seems to be of a deeply religious young man who saw no place for himself in American culture after a decade in the Boston area and his teenage younger brother. Though the greater Boston area is home to a substantial community of people from the Caucasus/Caspian region, there does not as yet appear to be evidence of a cell or a disaffected community of politically or ideologically active people from this area who pose a threat to their neighbors, to Massachusetts or to the United States.
Unfortunately, there will be those who assume an al Qaeda link, given that Chechin extremists have been directly involved in a range of al-Qaeda-related operations and insurgencies from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Middle East and North Africa. Russian officials have also consistently asserted a very tight link between Chechin nationalists generally and and al-Qaeda, largely to justify the repressive Russian policy in a hostile corner of its territory.
But the question is does this have anything to do with the alleged actions of these brothers in Boston? Is there evidence of that? That's what we should be looking for.

Something may emerge, but unless and until it does, skepticism is our best weapon against misinformation. Unless some linkages do emerge, the Boston Marathon bombing is unlikely to reshape US counter-terrorism approaches, either at home or abroad. At the international level, it may open up some room for greater collaboration with Russian security and intelligence agencies, but will not be a game-changer in US Russian relations.

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Magda Hassan Wrote:And who is this guy?

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Peter Lemkin Wrote:Suspect #2 is [we are told] still too injured [or unconscious] to talk. hutup: I'll bet the FBI/DHS/et al. are all broken up about that! angryfire