What ever happened to "Innocent until proven guilty"??

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39. You didn't address the possibility of accomplices in your OP

but you'll find me in agreement with you on that possibility. The actions of these two, however, do not indicate coercion. Do coerced individuals engage in robbery, kidnapping, murder, and a gunfight to the death - all after setting up IEDs to kill and injure as many people as possible? I think not. Even if those doing the coercing had threatened to kill their family members, these two had already performed their assigned task, so committing 'suicide by cop' would have been no more beneficial than surrendering. The surviving brother still has time to spill his guts in order to protect family members *if* that is, indeed, the case...which I find extremely unlikely.

Other than that, what is sofa king costly about setting up that bombing? These guys, offspring of lawyers and one of them an engineer, drove expensive vehicles, so what is the impediment to purchasing pressure cookers, ingredients to make black powder, constructing circuit boards for the triggering devices, and the cell phones to activate them? Backpacks and ball bearings wouldn't increase the cost all that much. Expertise? Elder brother is an engineer, indicative that he's no dummy. Aside from strategically placing their backpacks in trash receptacles and strolling away - acts, BTW, that were documented with surveillance cameras - what else is so frightfully challenging?

Another 'if,' I know, but if there were accomplices, then I hope the best interrogators on the planet are able to extract that information - and by 'best,' I mean without the use of torture, as in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who confessed to everything except putting the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder.