BREAKING NEWS

Obama to visit Boston amid search for suspect seen on video

By REUTERS

APRIL 18, 2013 10:05

BOSTON - US President Barack Obama was due to visit Boston on Thursday to attend a memorial service for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing amid a manhunt for a suspect seen on video taken before two blasts struck near the finish line on Monday.

Obama will address an interfaith service and by extension the country following the blasts that killed three people and wounded 176 in the worst attack on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001.

The president also leaves a capital city that was abuzz on Wednesday after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a Mississippi man in connection with letters sent to Obama and two other officials that were believed to have contained the deadly poison ricin.

The FBI said there was no indication of a connection between the ricin letters and the Boston bomb attacks, but they reminded Americans of anthrax mail attacks in the wake of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings 12 years ago.

Investigators believe the Boston bombs were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shrapnel. Ten victims lost limbs and emergency room doctors reported plucking nails and ball bearing from the wounded.

Egyptian delegation set to arrive in Israel on Friday - report

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

04/25/2024 04:51 PM

Cabinet to discuss suggestion that British reps. visit Nukhba terrorists

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

04/25/2024 04:40 PM

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's conviction overturned

By REUTERS

04/25/2024 04:26 PM

Sweden to move on with sending troops to Latvia as part of NATO forces

By REUTERS

04/25/2024 03:37 PM