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"These two mass murders were not the tip of the spear of a new invasion of al-Qaeda terrorists. These were two dysfunctional angry young men."
"Had about eight bullets in him and he was still fighting us... The only thing I had was my empty gun and I pistol-whipped him. I was trying to knock him out. I hit him as hard as I could, 10 or 12 times, couldn't knock him out... I only did it because I thought we were gonna die. I mean, truly, thought we were gonna die."
"He came charging up the street, shooting at me... So we're about six feet apart when he ran up that driveway, and he was shooting at me and I was exchanging gunfire with him... I'm lying there and I saw the front wheels go over Tamerlan. I saw him bounce up underneath the carriage a couple of times. I saw him get hung up in the rear wheels and get dragged 20, 25 feet... All we saw was taillights at that point."
"So what if a kid dies? God will take care of him."
"Do you know the Boston Marathon explosion? I did it."
"My wife opened up Internet, and on AOL, on AOL I saw a picture of Dzhokhar. I say, Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in, and ask for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured, and from those who left, ask forgiveness from these people."
"He put a shame; he put a shame on our family. The Tsarni family! He put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity!"
"On 27 October 2013, Narendra Modi, who was BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate at that time, was scheduled to address a rally in Patna. Hardly five minutes had passed since he had started his speech when eight blasts jolted the city. One of the low-intensity bombs exploded at the venue of the rally itself. Six people died and over hundred were injured in the synchronised explosions. Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh said after the blasts, ‘What a coincidence blast at the Patna Railway on the day of Modi’s Rally! The challenge to Nitish Govt to find the culprit!’ Manmohan Singh was prompt in condemning the incident and asked Nitish Kumar to ensure a speedy inquiry. The IM was again found to be at its root. Only Digvijay Singh can tell what he meant by these statements. But his remarks have time and again played politics over the sensitive issue of terrorism. He has been the most vocal among all politicians to rake up the issue of saffron terrorism. He was even seen disseminating ‘secret’ information to journalists on many occasions. The 2014 election verdict proved that his remarks had no effect on the masses and had inadvertently helped the anti-India forces sitting across the border."
"The city of Hyderabad was not as lucky the following year. On 21 February 2013, two powerful explosions shook the city. Ammonium Nitrate was used to make the bombs that took seven lives. The modus operandi of these bombings had an IM signature yet again. It proved that a series of arrests might have weakened its network, but it was certainly not out of the game. Sushil Kumar Shinde, the then Home Minister, confirmed that intelligence agencies had some prior information about the attack. However, there was no input about the place of the attack. The blast reignited the debate on security preparedness. The Manmohan Singh government found it hard to explain how an attack had occured despite intelligence inputs. The theory of saffron terrorism and the support of Afzal Guru by some politicians encouraged Pakistan to deny its hand in the terrorist activities before the UN and other international forums it used both as a ruse to deny its role in sponsoring terrorism in India. India’s soft stance to carry forward the dialogue process was further emboldening the Pakistani state."