Reflecting on 9/11 and Boston marathon bombing, Mayor Walsh warns of constant vigilance in the face of future terror.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick weighs in on using the death penalty in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
Iraq’s Ambassador to the United States, Lukman Faily, is from a country splintered almost daily by sectarian terrorism. Car bombs, kidnappings, and horrific acts of violence continue to plague an Iraq trying to recover and rebuild after more than a decade of armed upheaval. Faily was serving as his country’s ambassador in Tokyo last year when Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, and Lingzi Lu were killed and hundreds were injured in the Boston Marathon bombings. The pictures of desperate faces and devastation were familiar to him.
When Faily was told last summer he would be posted to Washington, he told himself he would run in the 2014 Boston Marathon.
“This is a way for me to say ‘thank you’ to our American friends,” says Faily.
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It will be an emotional scene as more than 36 thousand runners attempt to complete Monday's Boston Marathon. Last year, two homemade pressure cooker bombs placed next to the marathon’s finish line on Boylston Street killed eight people, tore away limbs, and troubled many Americans' hearts as it became apparent that terrorism had again visited the United States.
Iraq’s Ambassador to the United States, Lukman Faily, is from a country splintered almost daily by sectarian terrorism. Car bombs, kidnappings, and horrific acts of violence continue to plague an Iraq trying to recover and rebuild after more than a decade of armed upheaval. Faily was serving as his country’s ambassador in Tokyo last year when Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, and Lingzi Lu were killed and hundreds were injured in the Boston Marathon bombings. The pictures of desperate faces and devastation were familiar to him.
John Negroponte, Jim Johnson and Candice DeLong on the radical roots of the killers, profiling a motive and the role of technology in tracking down the killers.
Establishing the motive behind the deadly Boston bombings. A conversation with experts on national security former FBI agents Tom Fuentes and profiler Candice DeLong, Police Chief Jim Johnson, and former DNI John Negroponte.