Explosions Rock Boston Marathon

**rickschoppers** · 16-04-2013, 06:22 AM

^
Facts boys, facts.

**S Landreth** · 16-04-2013, 07:07 AM

BREAKING NEWS: Authorities questioning person of interest in Marathon bombings at Brigham and Women's Hospital.: The Boston Globe

2 killed, at least 125 injured in marathon blasts,....Video: Explosions rock Boston Marathon finish line; dozens injured - Metro - The Boston Globe

Explosions rock Boston Marathon finish line; dozens injured - Pictures - The Boston Globe

https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe

**beazalbob69** · 16-04-2013, 07:34 AM

Very strange. Just yesterday I was looking at the gold price online seeing how far it dropped and the 1st thing to enter my mind was "something bad is coming" and I wake up to this news. Strange coincidence but I do not believe in coincidence. Not a very big thing but possibly the beginning of something. Almost all my family lives in Massachusetts and I probably know people that were at that race.

Feel sorry for the injured and dead another sad event. I wonder what will come of it?

**Necron99** · 16-04-2013, 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by alwarner

^ Sasquatch.

**terry57** · 16-04-2013, 07:46 AM

The guy with his leg dangling off wont be too happy for a while. Nasty Pic that one.

I'm surprised that the Bomb was not a massive one considering they had to go to the trouble of assembling it and then planting it.

They could of really caused some bother if they wanted to crank things up a tad.

**Cujo** · 16-04-2013, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by alwarner

Post what you want to. It'll be ages before all the facts are out.

BBC are also mentioning hydrogen peroxide as I'm typing this. Unconfirmed but it's certainly being speculated on.

By the BBC for fucks sake.
They're saying it COULD have been hydrogen peroxide. It COULD have been anything.
They're a news outlet speculating, disregard.

**beazalbob69** · 16-04-2013, 08:17 AM

Originally Posted by Necron99

Originally Posted by alwarner

^ Sasquatch.

Or possibly the Men In Black.

**Camel Toe** · 16-04-2013, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by Koojo

Originally Posted by alwarner

Post what you want to. It'll be ages before all the facts are out.

BBC are also mentioning hydrogen peroxide as I'm typing this. Unconfirmed but it's certainly being speculated on.

By the BBC for fucks sake.
They're saying it COULD have been hydrogen peroxide. It COULD have been anything.
They're a news outlet speculating, disregard.

Maybe The Sun?

Oops, ball bearings in the bombs ...

Terror attack on Boston Marathon kills 3, injures 130 | The Sun |News

**Cujo** · 16-04-2013, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by beazalbob69

Originally Posted by Necron99

Originally Posted by alwarner

^ Sasquatch.

Or possibly the Men In Black.

There would have been loads of people on the roofs watching the marathon, looks like he was heading to the source of the noise after hearing the explosion.

**bsnub** · 16-04-2013, 08:58 AM

Word is that a Saudi national was spotted fleeing the scene and was chased down by a civilian and held until he was arrested by police. I understand that he is in custody and being questioned at this time.

**Cujo** · 16-04-2013, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by bsnub

Word is that a Saudi national was spotted fleeing the scene and was chased down by a civilian and held until he was arrested by police. I understand that he is in custody and being questioned at this time.

'word is'? What does that mean?
Gossip?
Disregard.

**Camel Toe** · 16-04-2013, 09:05 AM

MSNBC said the "suspect" was an exchange student who ran to the hospital to be treated for burns.

**Bung** · 16-04-2013, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by bsnub

Word is that a Saudi national was spotted fleeing the scene and was chased down by a civilian and held until he was arrested by police. I understand that he is in custody and being questioned at this time.

He was probably shitting himself that they would immediately blame him regardless.

Anniversary of Waco, proposed gun restrictions, patriots day....Home grown.

I just heard they didn't use a gun to start the race in protest over proposed gun laws.....

Have to wonder, is America imploding?

**sabang** · 16-04-2013, 09:23 AM

These were not very advanced bombs at all. I'll stick me neck out, and guess this was an act of domestic terrorism.

**Zooheekock** · 16-04-2013, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

Originally Posted by Sabang

this was an act of domestic terrorism.

Indeed.

**slackula** · 16-04-2013, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by sabang

These were not very advanced bombs at all. I'll stick me neck out, and guess this was an act of domestic terrorism.

Seems entirely possible..

As Alex Altman of Time noted on Twitter, “Today is Patriots’ Day, which has significance for militia movement. McVeigh bombed Murrah Bldg on Patriots’ Day in 1995.” Patriots’ Day, a civil holiday in Massachusetts, commemorates those battles outside Boston that sparked the American Revolution. The holiday is now celebrated on the third Monday of April, though the battles actually took place on April 19, meaning the two dates are often conflated.

In addition to the Oklahoma City Bombing, which occurred on the 19th, the date also coincides with the deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. As John Avalon wrote for the Daily Beast in 2010, the day has “emerged as a ‘Hatriot’ holiday for some anti-government activists and militia groups.”

This year, Patriots’ Day also falls on Tax Day, another important date for right-wing extremists.

Alex Jones: Boston explosion a government conspiracy - Salon.com

Oh yeah, and Alex Jones is a cock.

**robuzo** · 16-04-2013, 09:34 AM

I think the average British person doesn't associate Boston and bomb with "Arab." In any case, considering the last time a major sporting event was terror-bombed it was a right-wing Christian dominionist worried about global soshulism, and considering that Boston is pretty much East Coast Librul Central along in the minds of the American right (especially among Southerners, to those who know their history much more so than NYC), there is no reason to be thinking about Mooslims, at least not at this point. It would even be a bit surprising if it were jihadis, since the target doesn't seem to have been Joos. I would expect this to have been the work of someone with a more idiosyncratic worldview involving arcane conspiracy theories about the secret history of the Boston Marathon, or something. It's very difficult to guess what this sort of bombing is meant to achieve.

**Tom Sawyer** · 16-04-2013, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by sabang

These were not very advanced bombs at all. I'll stick me neck out, and guess this was an act of domestic terrorism.

You beat me to it. Patriot's Day, Gun Lobby, Waco -- the American red-neck nutters' club trying to show.

**Zooheekock** · 16-04-2013, 09:36 AM

^^ Sarah Palin starting early for 2016 then?

**bsnub** · 16-04-2013, 09:41 AM

I was just parroting a statement that was made on CNN about the Saudi. I would agree that this would seem to be the work of teabag patriots.

**MissTraveller** · 16-04-2013, 09:49 AM

No one has mentioned the people that have died yet, or the injured.

Very sad day indeed. I knew a few people running that marathon and thank god they are alive.

What a twisted world.

**robuzo** · 16-04-2013, 09:51 AM

^Not sure what you mean. Casualty figures are in every article I've read.

**MissTraveller** · 16-04-2013, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by robuzo

^Not sure what you mean. Casualty figures are in every article I've read.

Most people's comments are talking about who did it...

Not so much about the people that were affected is what I meant.

I guess we can speculate about who did it, but we don't really know yet for sure.

Who knows it could even be North Korea.

**Camel Toe** · 16-04-2013, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by MissTraveller

No one has mentioned the people that have died yet, or the injured.

Very sad day indeed. I knew a few people running that marathon and thank god they are alive.

What a twisted world.

If they have yet to give the names of the dead how do you know your friends are alive?

**MissTraveller** · 16-04-2013, 10:06 AM

^I have talked to their families just this morning. I just got to school and read about this tragedy.

What a place to put bombs...at the finish line. So so wrong.

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