Savvy Internet sleuths have found images taken from surveillance cameras of members of the crowd gathered at the Boston Marathon that appear to identify Navy SEALs.

For comparison, below are a few photos of late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Note the skull logo on his baseball cap, his pants and his boots:

Now look at the individuals spotted wearing backpacks, a similar cap, and similar pants (and boots) at the Boston Marathon:

A video on Youtube also appears to capture a member wearing similar garb walking around the marathon post-explosion with something that looks like a detonator, but in actuality could be a radiation detector.

The reason this is important is because the Boston Police Commissioner is on record stating that they had “no specific intelligence” that there was a drill, while University of Mobile coach and marathon participant Alastair Stevenson has publicly stated that there was announcements telling people to stay calm and not be alarmed because beefed-up security was part of a “training exercise.”

If police were aware of a perceived threat, wouldn’t it make more sense to be announcing an evacuation order rather than tell everyone to stay calm?

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leaked photo of the Dead Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev *Warning:Graphic*

Note: Liveleak cannot verify the image.
A gruesome death photo of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has surfaced online … and law enforcement sources tell TMZ it’s 100% authentic.

The picture shows the lifeless corpse of 26-year-old Tamerlan laying on a table.

The body has multiple bullet wounds … as well as a gigantic gash along his chest rib cage area.

The body is covered in blood … especially in the facial region.

In the death photo, Tamerlan’s mouth and eyes are open wide.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the photo is authentic. One source tells us officials are investigating to find out who leaked the picture.

Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police in Watertown, Massachusetts early this morning. His 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar is on the run.

Both are suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing that killed 3 people and injured nearly 200

The following image of the suspect being apprehended has emerged.

A glimpse of 19-year-old bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is visible through an ambulance window as the Boston Marathon bombing suspect is transported to the hospital.

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Passed as part of the National Defense Authorization Act

[NDAA 2013] HR 4310, signed by Obama on 12/29/2012.

Pages 326-328

Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, author of “American Sniper,” was fatally shot along with another man at a gun range Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. (Associated Press/Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Paul Moseley)

The death of a former Navy SEAL sniper who penned a best-selling tell-all book might not deter former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura’s defamation suit against the author.

Chris Kyle and a neighbor were shot dead by an acquaintance on a shooting range near Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday, Feb. 2. Kyle and Chad Littlefield were shot by Eddie Ray Routh, police said. Kyle, 38, went to the range with Routh, a veteran who was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, said one of Kyle’s colleagues. The motive was unclear, police said.

Kyle’s book, “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,” detailed his 150-plus insurgent kills from 1999 to 2009. In the book, Kyle wrote that in 2006 he decked “Scruff Face,” whom he later acknowleded as Ventura, for being disrespectful at a California bar.

Ventura, also a former member of the Navy’s special forces, says the punch never happened and sued Kyle for defamation, invasion of privacy and wrongly profiting from the story of the punch.

Kyle’s attorneys sought to have the latter two claims dismissed, but a federal judge refused and told both sides to be ready for trial by Aug. 1.

“I’m shocked and terribly saddened by his death and the circumstances of the death,” said Kyle’s Minneapolis attorney, John Borger. Given Kyle’s death, Borger said, “it’s way too early to determine what effect this will have on the lawsuit.”

Ventura attorney David Olsen said the former governor

currently is in Mexico and that they plan to discuss the lawsuit’s next steps this week. Olsen said available legal alternatives would be to pursue the case against Kyle’s estate or against the book’s publisher, William Morrow, an imprint within HarperCollins.

“There are things we can do,” Olsen said, “and I know that the governor still wants to clear his name.”

Ventura is seeking $50,000, court records show.

Kyle was remembered by fomer SEALs and current colleagues as a man willing to help.

“What I know is Chris and a gentleman — great guy, I knew him well, Chad Littlefield — took a veteran out shooting who was struggling with PTSD to try to assist him, try to help him, try to, you know, give him a helping hand, and he turned the gun on both of them, killing them,” said Travis Cox, the director of a nonprofit Kyle helped found.

Lt. Cmdr. Rorke Denver, who served with Kyle on SEAL Team 3 in Iraq in 2006, called Kyle a champion of the modern battlefield. Denver wasn’t surprised that Kyle apparently used a shooting range to help someone with PTSD.

“For us, for warriors, that’s a skill set that has become very familiar, very comfortable for us,” said Denver, a lieutenant commander in a reserve SEAL team. “So I

actually see it as kind of a perfect use of Chris’ unique skill set and expertise of which he has very few peers.”

Police in Texas said Routh opened fire on Kyle and Littlefield around 3:30 p.m. Saturday and then fled in a Ford pickup truck, which police said was Kyle’s truck. At about 8 p.m., Routh arrived at his home near Dallas and was arrested after a brief pursuit.

Routh was arraigned Saturday evening on two counts of capital murder, police said. Routh was in Erath County Jail on a combined $3 million bond, police said. A knock on the door at Routh’s last known address went unanswered Sunday. A for-sale sign was in front of the cream-colored wood-framed home.

The U.S. military confirmed Sunday that Routh was a corporal in the Marines from June 2006 to January 2010. He was deployed to Iraq in 2007 and Haiti in 2010. His current duty status is listed as reserve.

The medical examiner will release where Kyle and Littlefield were hit, police said.

Kyle is survived by his wife, Taya, and their two children, Cox said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Boston Bombing Culprits Identified?

UPDATE: FBI briefing on Boston bombings postponed. The FBI said it “needs more time to prepare” before speaking to the media. Struggling to get their narrative straight in the aftermath of numerous men with backpacks being identified?

Photos collated on the 4chan website show numerous images of suspicious individuals wearing large backpacks present at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Three of the men appear to be Arab or Middle Eastern in appearance, whereas another two of the individuals are white.

The images show the men looking away from the marathon runners, talking on cellphones and running from the scene immediately after the blast.

Remains of one of the backpacks are also photographed yards from where one of the bombs exploded. The FBI states that at least one of the pressure cooker devices used in the bombing was housed in a backpack.

Some of these men may have merely been victims, but the image of the two men standing together wearing the same clothes and carrying heavy backpacks and wearing credentials suggests they may have been involved in a drill or in the actual attack. One of individuals, a white man whose backpack was found at the scene of the bombing, looks badly dressed and disheveled.

The Associated Press is now reporting that authorities have identified a suspect wearing a “black jacket on a cell phone, wearing a gray hoodie and a white baseball cap backwards placing a black bag at the second bomb site outside of the Forum restaurant on Boylston Street and then leaving the area before that explosion,” a description which closely but not specifically could be applied to more than one different man identified in the photos below.

As eyewitness Ali Stevenson reported, marathon runners were told before the bombing that a “drill” was taking place involving bomb sniffing dogs and spotters of roofs and to remain calm, although police later denied that any exercise had taken place.

CNN reported that authorities have identified one of the suspects involved in the attack by means of “video from a department store near the site of the second explosion” and “video from a Boston television station.” CNN backed off a report that a suspect had already been arrested.

The Boston Globe also reports that, “authorities have an image of a suspect carrying and possibly dropping a black bag at the second blast site on Boylston Street.”

NewsCenter5 is reporting that, “An arrest is imminent or may have already taken place,” and that the individual is being taken to court.