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Re: Boston Marathon hit by explosions

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:23 pm

Twoflower wrote:The kid that died was the child of my cousin's boss. His daughter lost a leg and his wife is in critical condition.
Sorry to hear that, Twofy. :console:
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:39 pm

Mistermack found on scene of Boston massacre -- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1317947

More marathon runners paying for Boston's sins, and learning their lesson: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... limbs.html

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Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Twoflower wrote:The kid that died was the child of my cousin's boss. His daughter lost a leg and his wife is in critical condition.
Sorry to hear that, Twofy. :console:
Glad you are OK Twofy but sorry about this ghastly business.

Violence is a very bad way to solve problems. I wonder what idiot felt this would help their cause.

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Re: Boston Marathon hit by explosions

Post by cronus » Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:56 pm

Rum wrote:
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Twoflower wrote:The kid that died was the child of my cousin's boss. His daughter lost a leg and his wife is in critical condition.
Sorry to hear that, Twofy. :console:
Glad you are OK Twofy but sorry about this ghastly business.

Violence is a very bad way to solve problems. I wonder what idiot felt this would help their cause.
They've got a Saudi under hospital arrest so my guess is Afghanistan....or Iraq? :think:
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Re: Boston Marathon hit by explosions

Post by klr » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:01 pm

The death toll after the Boston marathon bombing has risen to three as federal and local investigators swarm the city to try to hunt down those responsible for a pair of explosions that also caused injuries to 176 other people, at least 17 of whom remain in a critical condition.

Various security agencies have raided a flat in a Boston suburb. Officers from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement searched the fifth floor flat in Revere, five miles from the site of the blast. They were then seen leaving the property with a brown paper bag, according to the Associated Press.

During a press conference this afternoon, authorities denied claims of other unexploded devices near the blast scene. They also confirmed no arrests have yet been made.

As news emerged that one of the dead was an eight-year-old child, doctors from area hospitals began to report that many of those admitted had suffered from shrapnel injuries. The devices had been packed with ball bearings, according to reports from Reuters and other agencies, to cause maximum injuries. Hospitals also confirmed that numerous patients suffered lower limb injuries including some who had undergone amputations.

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Re: Boston Marathon hit by explosions

Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:15 pm

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They've got a Saudi under hospital arrest so my guess is Afghanistan....or Iraq? :think:
Sez who?
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:16 pm

Scrumple wrote:
Rum wrote:
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Twoflower wrote:The kid that died was the child of my cousin's boss. His daughter lost a leg and his wife is in critical condition.
Sorry to hear that, Twofy. :console:
Glad you are OK Twofy but sorry about this ghastly business.

Violence is a very bad way to solve problems. I wonder what idiot felt this would help their cause.
They've got a Saudi under hospital arrest so my guess is Afghanistan....or Iraq? :think:
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Re: Boston Marathon hit by explosions

Post by cronus » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:17 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Scrumple wrote:
They've got a Saudi under hospital arrest so my guess is Afghanistan....or Iraq? :think:
Sez who?
Honest sources.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/f ... H44vMFOEXM
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:20 pm

Rum wrote:
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Twoflower wrote:The kid that died was the child of my cousin's boss. His daughter lost a leg and his wife is in critical condition.
Sorry to hear that, Twofy. :console:
Glad you are OK Twofy but sorry about this ghastly business.

Violence is a very bad way to solve problems. I wonder what idiot felt this would help their cause.
If I had to guess, I'm thinking it's some sort of tax protest group, based solely on the day on which it occurred, and the possibility of it being dubbed "the Boston Massacre" etc. However, we don't know.

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:23 pm

Scrumple wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:
Scrumple wrote:
They've got a Saudi under hospital arrest so my guess is Afghanistan....or Iraq? :think:
Sez who?
Honest sources.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/f ... H44vMFOEXM
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Edit: They also said yesterday that 12 people had been killed. Tip: if the NYP is saying it and no one else is... you should be a little sceptical. :ddpan:
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Post by Rum » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:25 pm

The bombs were filled with ball bearings, designed to inflict maximum damage. That doesn't sound domestic, but who knows. It is all speculation at this point. Someone usually 'takes responsibility' as some stage.

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Re: Boston Marathon hit by explosions

Post by cronus » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:29 pm

Rum wrote:The bombs were filled with ball bearings, designed to inflict maximum damage. That doesn't sound domestic, but who knows. It is all speculation at this point. Someone usually 'takes responsibility' as some stage.
Sounds domestic now...buying lots of nails would raise attention and they knew this. A foreigner wouldn't be that clued up? :coffee:
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:31 pm

Rum wrote:The bombs were filled with ball bearings, designed to inflict maximum damage. That doesn't sound domestic, but who knows. It is all speculation at this point. Someone usually 'takes responsibility' as some stage.
CLINT VAN ZANDT, FORMER FBI PROFILER: At this point, as an investigator, you don't want to shut down any options, but based upon the type of explosive that appears, the size of the explosive, the way it was done, this is well within the capability of somebody with too much time in front of the internet who was looking up bombs and who hates government, who hates America. For whatever his or her reasons for doing something like this, this is well within the realm of one person.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:59 pm

A common criticism of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has always been that it delivers one message in English to an international audience, and another message entirely in Arabic to its domestic audience. If anyone is ever looking for an example of this, they need to look no further than the Islamist organization's reaction to the bombing of the Boston Marathon.

In English, the Brotherhood's political party released a statement "categorically reject[ing] as intolerable the bombings committed in the U.S. city of Boston," and "offer[ing] heartfelt sympathies and solemn condolences to the American people and the families of the victims."

In Arabic, senior Brotherhood leader and the vice chairman of the group's political party Essam el-Erian took a different tack. In a post on his Facebook page, he condemned the Boston attack -- but also linked it to the French war in Mali, the destruction in Syria and Iraq, and faltering rapprochement between the Turkish government and Kurdish rebels.

El-Erian is making the case that all of these setbacks -- from Boston to Baghdad -- are somehow connected. "Who disturbed democratic transformations, despite the difficult transition from despotism, corruption, poverty, hatred, and intolerance to freedom, justice tolerance, development, human dignity, and social justice?" he asked. "Who planted Islamophobia through research, the press, and the media? Who funded the violence?"

El-Erian just poses those questions -- he doesn't accuse any specific group of masterminding the Boston Marathon attack or the unrest across the Middle East. But while Brotherhood leaders feel free to indulge in such conspiracy-mongering in Arabic, these claims are notably absent from the group's English-language media.
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