The yahoo article @ http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/boston-mit-shooting-explosion-suspect-watertown-064355149.html says, "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was seen placing a backpack on the ground minutes before the blast, investigators said."
Is this the same backpack that is mentioned in this next article @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311457/Boston-explosions-victim-Jeff-Bauman-lost-legs-identified-bomber-woke-hospital.html, which says, "
A man who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon bombings helped the FBI identify one of the bombers after he woke up in the hospital under the influence of strong pain medication, asked for pen and paper and scribbled to his family that the bomber had looked directly at him.
Jeff Bauman, whose horrific injuries have been widely circulated in photographs, wrote to his brother that a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt looked directly at him as Jeff waited near the race's finish line and dropped a bag on the ground in the moments before the blast.
The victim's brother, Chris Bauman, told Bloomberg News that two minutes after his brother observed the man leaving the bag, the deadly blast ripped through the crowd.
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'He woke up under so much drugs, asked for a paper and pen and wrote, "bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,"' his brother, Chris, said on Wednesday in an interview.
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His brother said that despite Jeff's terrible injuries and the amount of pain medication he is on, Jeff has amazingly been able to recount vivid details leading up to the blast.
'I’ve had many times alone with him, and yes, he told me every single detail,' Chris said.
For two minutes, the bag was at Bauman's feet and he did nothing? Not even call out to the guy who dropped it, like, hey, you lost something? Or thought it was suspicious someone would drop a large backpack on the ground and keep on walking?
Why would Bauman remember the hooded sweatshirt (which, in the picture, appears to be under a jacket) and not remember the white baseball cap turned backwards? Seems like the hat would have been more memorable.
BUT, memories right before trauma are usually lost... so, this amazing memory of details doesn't mesh with normal. Also note that his "memory" was being filtered through his brother, Chris.
However, maybe Bauman didn't remember the white baseball cap because it wasn't Suspect #2 who dropped the bag?
In this article @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311443/We-got-Fugitive-bomber-captured-ALIVE-hiding-inside-BOAT-backyard-Boston-home-Cops-use-flash-bang-grenades-gas-flush-Dzhokar-Tsarnev.html, the person who dropped the bag was wearing sunglasses... makes a world of difference since Suspect #1 was wearing sunglasses throughout this incident, but Suspect #2 was not wearing sunglasses... Is the story changing so an eyewitness can pin something on the remaining suspect? Watch for this point, since it's not totally clear.
But just before 2.50 p.m. on Monday, Bauman was waiting in the crowd for his girlfriend to cross the finish line when a man wearing a cap, sunglasses and a black jacket over a hooded sweatshirt looked at Jeff, 27, and dropped a bag at his feet.
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