Boston Marathon hit by explosions

[cronus]

[klr]

To paraphrase Boris Johnson, I'm sure there will be opportunities to misuse fresh disasters ...

[cronus]

Twelve dead, fifty injured...that qualifies it as a massacre. They've got a suspect apparently?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/t ... 0RQfVsH1yI

[klr]

Doesn't matter. My thought at this moment are with those people - yes, actual people - who are dead and seriously injured. You appear to have a completely different agenda based on your own gratification.

[cronus]

Doesn't matter. My thought at this moment are with those people - yes, actual people - who are dead and seriously injured. You appear to have a completely different agenda based on your own gratification.

People dying tragically all over the world. This is sad but a speck compared with the suffering to come, the suffering that has been, and the suffering even now happening. It is called perspective.

[klr]

Doesn't matter. My thought at this moment are with those people - yes, actual people - who are dead and seriously injured. You appear to have a completely different agenda based on your own gratification.

People dying tragically all over the world. This is sad but a speck compared with the suffering to come, the suffering that has been, and the suffering even now happening. It is called perspective.

Oh yes, I know that, but then why have you alighted on this? There must be plenty of more misery out there ...

[John_fi_Skye]

It's a really bad thing.

[klr]

It's a really bad thing.

My money is on domestic terrorism, FWIW.

[Bella Fortuna]

It's a really bad thing.

My money is on domestic terrorism, FWIW.

Undoubtedly.

[Ian]

I wonder if Wumbo will be there...

That was my first thought.

My second was (and at this time still is): who did it and why? The only reasons to target the Boston Marathon are a) publicity, or b) sheer insanity. If it was a crazy person planting various devices (and another went off at the JFK Library, plus others have been found by the BPD), then we may or may not ever find out who or why. If it was for publicity, then somebody is going to claim credit. The only reasons I can think of that he/they haven't done so by now is that either a) they're waiting for the story to keep building so that the maximum number of people know who did it and what their cause is, or b) something else in their plan has yet to happen.

I'd also bet on domestic terrorism rather than an international attack, or a lone nutjob. But who knows.

[Bella Fortuna]

Twelve dead, fifty injured...that qualifies it as a massacre. They've got a suspect apparently?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/t ... 0RQfVsH1yI

No one else is reporting this. The NY Post is a joke.

[cronus]

North Korea. I've a feeling this may be to distract security attention from something big planned to happen on American soil tomorrow? I hope I'm wrong.

[Ian]

North Korea. I've a feeling this may be to distract security attention from something big planned to happen on American soil tomorrow? I hope I'm wrong.

The CIA must be falling over themselves trying to recruit you as an analyst.

[HomerJay]

Patriots' Day in Boston, multiple small devices, looks more like home grown ATM. Could easily be just one nutter.

[cronus]

North Korea. I've a feeling this may be to distract security attention from something big planned to happen on American soil tomorrow? I hope I'm wrong.

The CIA must be falling over themselves trying to recruit you as an analyst.

Do they pay well?