Explosions at Boston Marathon

[Feuer Frei!]

It seems the Washington Times is quickest on the reporting trigger:

Police have taken into custody and questioned a Saudi national in connection with the bombings at Monday’s Boston Marathon, law enforcement officials told one reporter.
The New York Post reported that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents questioned the 20-year-old suspect at Boston’s Brigham and Women's Hospital, while he was being treated for shrapnel injuries on his leg. They’re keeping him under heavy guard and in custody, The Post reported.

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It seems the Washington Times is quickest on the reporting trigger:

Pages 2&3 in this topic.

[Armistead]

Thoughts for all those in Boston today!

Boston is heroic! Amazing to see all the people run into the fray to help others, not knowing if other bombs would go off. I doubt if they were worried who was liberal or right wing, they acted like Americans!

[19Herr_Rapp86]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Glen Beck has a love child..

First of all, 2 n's in Glenn. I'm a subscriber. (I know, I know. I've braced for impact... Here it comes... )

Second, thoughts and prayers are with the whole of Boston due to this tragedy.

Thirdly, I wouldn't get too worked up over whodunnit or all the whatnot. We've got a good intelligence team, police force, etc. We'll find them. Tim McVeigh or however you spell it, nor Ted Kazinsky, again, however you spell it, or even Osama bin Laden (I know how to spell that one!) weren't caught right away. We'll get the guy though. I hope the casualty list doesn't continue to grow.

[andritsos]

I am so saddened to learn something like this happened, as for any kind of violence

From all the people targeted and hit,shocked, the reports of even dead kids and as a running event, to learn that quite many injuries are on the legs too..
its just terrible

also a person from my running club took part in the event ( did finish some time before , and was near the finish line watching , at some point decided to turn away to go to hotel or something and as did that, the explosions happened)

i hope the perpetrator(s) get caught

my thoughts on all the affected people

[swamprat69er]

My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Boston and those caught up in this tragedy.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

It seems the Washington Times is quickest on the reporting trigger:




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This was already denied by the FBI earlier. There have been a few people that they have questioned, but so far no-one has been taken into custody.

[geetrue]

Originally Posted by Oberon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copeland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwi...ouse_explosion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Minsk_Metro_bombing

Ball bearings and nails are pretty common ingredients in a bomb designed to injure and maim over a while radius, acting in a similar manner to a claymore or fragmentation grenade. They were used quite a lot during 'The Troubles' over here, including during one particularly gruesome detonation at Hyde and Regents Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Pa..._Park_bombings)

First of al I feel very sorry for the dead and the injured and the pain they are going through right now.

It is the fear this attack leaves behind that we have to overcome ... we can't cancel every sporting event and we can't let fear rule us, with that said ...

I'm sorry if you thought I meant other countries domestic violence ... I meant our country the USA. I meant domestic terroist like Timothy Mcvea.

I don't have time to google while in the middle of a good book about Ephesians, but I don't recall this kind of bomb used on our soil.

I know the one stopped in the Times Square bomb scare had nails and stuff in it, but again that was a wacko from Pakistan (was he from the Boston area or was that Conn?).

Other clues that point to the middle east are the 911 attackers flew out of Boston and some were even living there before the attack.

I know this is going out on a limb, but I really think there is a connection between the latest earthquake in Iran being the worse in forty years and very deep under ground causing very few injuries due to it's remoteness.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/wo...rder.html?_r=0

TEHRAN — Southeast Iran was hit by the most powerful earthquake to strike the country in 40 years on Tuesday and its reverberations were felt as far away as India, but Iranian officials said the tremor had originated so deep underground, and in such a sparsely populated area, that it caused relatively few casualties and only minor damage.

As long as our money says in God we trust then I feel comfortable in making the connection of an eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth.

One more clue too ... with today is the 65th anniversary of Israel statehood ...

however it is the 70th anniversary I would worry about which is five years from now after her neighbors have settled there differences and have grown stronger in brotherhood.

I'll leave North Korea (I can't get use to calling them anything Democratic) off my suspect list even though they have been beating the war drums for weeks now and have just been quoted yesterday of saying that they would strike South Korea without warning if provoked:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/world/...tum/index.html

(CNN) -- North Korea turned up the temperature yet another degree on its neighbors Monday, warning that it would not give any advance notice before attacking South Korea.

God bless Boston and all of it's strong people and the FBI and the ATF and all of our countries resources in locating this enemy of the state.

I say put him in the same cell with Whitey

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by geetrue

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I know this is going out on a limb, but I really think there is a connection between the latest earthquake in Iran being the worse in forty years and very deep under ground causing very few injuries due to it's remoteness.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/wo...rder.html?_r=0



As long as our money says in God we trust then I feel comfortable in making the connection of an eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth.

One more clue too ... with today is the 65th anniversary of Israel statehood ...

however it is the 70th anniversary I would worry about which is five years from now after her neighbors have settled there differences and have grown stronger in brotherhood.

I think you are reading a bit too much into religious prophecy.For starters it is unknown who is behind this attack.So to assume that the earthquake on the Pakistani-Iranian border was punishment from god is a stretch.

Furthermore the United Sates was not founded specially on Christianity "In God we trust" was not added to currency and seals until 1864.In fact in my humble opinion that term flies in the face of the 1st Amendment.

As I have stated before I dislike speculation but this attack seems much more amateur than a planned one by any Islamist group.For example they would have used higher grade explosives and set the bombs at chest height to insure that more people where killed they also would have made it a suicide attack.Now a lone wolf following the ideals of a group is possible if so this person or persons did not receive any specific training at a camp.An well organized Islamist group would also have taken the effort to acquire a high grade explosive.

I suspect that the perps where expecting the bombs to have much more explosive force than they produced they probably hoped that the blasts would have reached all the way across the street with deadly force.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by geetrue

One more clue too ... with today is the 65th anniversary of Israel statehood ...

You are a month off Israel declared its independence on May 14 1948.

[DP990]

First and foremost this country was founded on religious beliefs, thats why the earlist settlers left england to avoid persecution. The first admendment protects us from that. It is my personal belief, that what is happening in our public schools is a direct result from removing prayer from schools. Most of us who are members of this forum grew up during those years. And I don't think anyone of us would even consider performing a dispicable act in the tragedy of the conn. shootings. We reap what we sow. Our children are growing up without the basic values that we were taught in schools and our parents.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by DP990

First and foremost this country was founded on religious beliefs, thats why the earlist settlers left england to avoid persecution. The first admendment protects us from that. It is my personal belief, that what is happening in our public schools is a direct result from removing prayer from schools. Most of us who are members of this forum grew up during those years. And I don't think anyone of us would even consider performing a dispicable act in the tragedy of the conn. shootings. We reap what we sow. Our children are growing up without the basic values that we were taught in schools and our parents.

Implying that only the religious can be moral or ethical people. Which is most definitely not the case.

I'm sorry if you thought I meant other countries domestic violence ... I meant our country the USA. I meant domestic terroist like Timothy Mcvea.

I don't have time to google while in the middle of a good book about Ephesians, but I don't recall this kind of bomb used on our soil.

Do you not remember the Army of God and their bombings?
The olympics would be an easy example to remember of domestic terrorists using shrapnel to maximize casualties.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by DP990

First and foremost this country was founded on religious beliefs, thats why the earlist settlers left england to avoid persecution. The first admendment protects us from that. It is my personal belief, that what is happening in our public schools is a direct result from removing prayer from schools. Most of us who are members of this forum grew up during those years. And I don't think anyone of us would even consider performing a dispicable act in the tragedy of the conn. shootings. We reap what we sow. Our children are growing up without the basic values that we were taught in schools and our parents.

You need to re-read the 1st Amendment and better understand the lives of the founding fathers hint hint they where secularists.


Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[Hottentot]

Sorry for offtopic, guys, I know how important this is, but I just wanted to say that this is a horrible event which at least to me came completely out of the blue (I literally found out about it by opening the newspaper's website and seeing the front page filled with it). Even under the threat of getting brigged for continued offtopic, I just wish to offer my condolences.

Since I have no idea who might have done it nor a political agenda, I'm sorry to say I can't contribute to the thread's topic and therefore will now take my leave. Sorry again to disturb this thread with the offtopic.