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Trouble at Boston Marathon?

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Scarlet said:
WCVB is the ABC affiliate. And wow, Revere??? No wonder I heard a bunch of police cars blow by my building earlier! That's not too far from where I live.
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Didn't say this before, but glad you're safe.

Regarding the Revere report, interesting that you had a bunch of police cars since I haven't seen this Revere report anywhere else.

Not sure why I said NBC. I meant ABC.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Amalia Barreda of WCVB (NBC Boston) is reporting that a search has been executed in Revere, MA.




http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon

We'll see what, if any, connection this has to the explosions and whether it's playing out like she's describing it. I can't find any other sources reporting it.
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Is reporting the address responsible journalism? That whole building is now a target for any nuts that watch the news.
 
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Priceless said:
Is reporting the address responsible journalism? That whole building is now a target for any nuts that watch the news.
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Probably not. I think in the zealous effort to be the first to report, a lot of journalists are forgetting things like that.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Amalia Barreda of WCVB (NBC Boston) is reporting that a search has been executed in Revere, MA.

http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon

We'll see what, if any, connection this has to the explosions and whether it's playing out like she's describing it. I can't find any other sources reporting it.
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Update:
All agencies clearing out of 364 Ocean Ave in Revere. Still not clear what brought them here
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Looks like the national media is finally catching up on the Revere story. Sounds like it was connected to the bombings this afternoon or possibly due to a suspicious person cruising in front of a police barracks.
 
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Finally home. Glad to put that day behind me. Thankfully everyone I know from USCHO and the twittersphere made it through OK.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Looks like the national media is finally catching up on the Revere story. Sounds like it was connected to the bombings this afternoon or possibly due to a suspicious person cruising in front of a police barracks.
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"I picked a bad day to give up sniffing glue." Let's hope there's a quick resolution here. People who feel so strongly about anything that they're willing to kill innocents to prove their point, have usually made their point of view known, frequently. I've got my fingers crossed the Feebs and others will close this thing out soon.

I've been grinding my teeth all day long at the ducking and dancing around use of the term "terror" to describe what happened today. We stupidly labeled our war on Islamism as a "war on terror." Terror is a tactic. And it has been used by the IRA, Islamists, Timothy McVeigh, the SDS, the Weather Underground and many others. What happened today was a terrorist attack, regardless of the motivation(s) of the attacker(s). What remains to be learned is the variety of terrorists involved.

This effort to avoid using words like "Islamism" or "Islamic terrorism" until we're certain, makes sense on some level. But it also leads us to classify the killings at Fort Hood as "workplace violence." Well, it certainly occurred in a workplace. And was certainly violent. But that bloodless, bureaucratic phrase sort of misses the essence of the matter, don't you think? A Muslim Army psychiatrist gunning down as many unarmed GI's as he could, all the while shouting Allah u Akbar. I suppose today we would call the White Chapel ladies sliced to pieces by Jack the Ripper as victims of "workplace violence," but that would sort of miss it too. No?
 
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Old Pio said:
I've been grinding my teeth all day long at the ducking and dancing around use of the term "terror" to describe what happened today. We stupidly labeled our war on Islamism as a "war on terror." Terror is a tactic. And it has been used by the IRA, Islamists, Timothy McVeigh, the SDS, the Weather Underground and many others. What happened today was a terrorist attack, regardless of the motivation(s) of the attacker(s). What remains to be learned is the variety of terrorists involved.
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Right there with you. This was a terrorist attack. Doesn't matter if the perp(s) is Arab, Black, White, Latino, Asian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or Athiest. Doesn't matter if this was an unkown individual or known terrorist group. This was a terrorist attack.

There's a a press conference with a trauma surgeon at Mass General...these reporters need to let him finish his answers before they ask the next question.

Godspeed to those who were killed, and those who got hit.
 
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Just plain nuts!!

Don't really know what to make of all of it, other than I plan on breaking out my running shoes sometime tomorrow, and putting a couple of miles on em. Thinking the Kiwanis Trail from Tecumseh to Adrian right now.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Right there with you. This was a terrorist attack. Doesn't matter if the perp(s) is Arab, Black, White, Latino, Asian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or Athiest. Doesn't matter if this was an unkown individual or known terrorist group. This was a terrorist attack.

There's a a press conference with a trauma surgeon at Mass General...these reporters need to let him finish his answers before they ask the next question.

Godspeed to those who were killed, and those who got hit.
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You may recall the attack at LAX 10 or 15 years ago. Guy enters the international terminal. Passes KLM, Lufthansa, BOAC, JAL, etc and heads right to the El Al counter, where he begins shooting. Talking heads wondered if this was a terrorist attack. Please give me a freaking break.

During the hostage takings in Beirut I recall one of those video tapes where some poor dude reads the script the goons gave him. As God is my witness, Dan Rather suggested it wasn't entirely clear if the guy had been coerced into making his statement. Really? Because the guys with the AK's weren't in the frame? Because they weren't torturing or threatening him at precisely that moment? What a putz.
 
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The pictures are still absolutely haunting. The picture with the blonde woman with no major trauma but serious burns on her legs looking around completely dazed is bad. But the one that really gets me is the one where the guy is crouching down with his head next to a woman's is terrible. I'm certain she's the one on the Boston Globe's cover this morning, and based upon the pictures and eye witness accounts, I don't think she made it.
 
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My first thought was to make sure people I know were safe. I know people who work in the Copley area and this has to be the one time i say it, thank god for facebook cause that was the only way I got in touch with him.

It's sickening. And I don't know who said it on here, but they were absolutely right on. This was an act of terrorism. Doesn't matter if it was domestic or foreign, it was an act of terrorism. To me, this has a similar feel to 9/11 but it strikes even closer to home for me. I know people who were running, i know people who were watching in that area, and I know people working in that area.

This scared the $h!t out of me especially if I had brought my daughter into the city. We were watching the marathon at around the 5K mark. Never did I imagine that this would ever happen.

I'm terrified at what happened, but I am not going to let that change what I am doing. In fact, it will only make us stronger. Please keep everyone in your thoughts and let's hope they get who ever did this. We will not fade. We will not break. We may get a bump or a bruise, but we are stronger than that. We are.

(Sorry for the rambling, I needed to vent.)
 
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My daughter, a Senior at Simmons College, just missed the explosions yesterday. She and some friends were at the finish line when the winning runners crossed. They then decided to leave and walked about a mile down towards Fenway. They went to Remy's to catch the end of the Red Sox game. They were still there about a half hour after the game ended when the exposions went off. I had notion to call her about 3pm from work (premonition?), and ask how things were going at which point she told me the explosions had just happened. They were watching the initial TV footage and she said there was 'blood all over the sidewalks'.

I told her to leave and try to get on the T and try to get back to her apartment on Comm Ave in Brighton, several miles away. She was unable to grab the T as the line was immediately shutdown. She stayed with some friends at their apartment in the Mission Hill area until she could catch a car ride back home. She got back to her place about 7pm last night and was pretty shaken up when I called her. A guardian angel was watching over her last night. Prayers for the many victims. Horrible...
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Right there with you. This was a terrorist attack. Doesn't matter if the perp(s) is Arab, Black, White, Latino, Asian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or Athiest. Doesn't matter if this was an unkown individual or known terrorist group. This was a terrorist attack.

There's a a press conference with a trauma surgeon at Mass General...these reporters need to let him finish his answers before they ask the next question.

Godspeed to those who were killed, and those who got hit.
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Right or wrong, I associate terrorist with a mission or a philosophy; the idiot killing people in the movie theater wasn't a terrorist in my view. It was terror, it was as awful as anything, I'm not minimizing it. But there is a "relief" if it was just some crazy dude instead of an organized effort, possibly with several people who will continue to enact similar violence. To me that is terrorism.

I'd love to know the name of the guy in the video that walks up to the mangled fence as other people are struggling to pull it off people and shoots a few extra shots with his camera before walking away. Slightly shaggy hair, caucasian guy in his late 30's with a black/blue jacket and a camera bag. That guy should be identified and exposed as an opportunistic coward.
 
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No doubt as others have said that this was a terrorist attack, the kind that sadly was all too common in Israel several years ago. "dozens of limbs amputated" was the line on the morning news. I hope and pray very,very much that it was a "one-off" plot of a few isolated fanatics and not part of a broader, more well-organized, series of attacks to follow on other outdoor venues!!

While the news was all over the place, several sources reported at least one more bomb was discovered and exploded deliberately in a contained setting. Apparently the JFK Library fire was not related to the bombings after all and that was another bogus news report.


We'll see if the FBI can track down who did it. Months or years later it could make for a very interesting movie as a breakthrough in crime solving methodology, as the authorities piece together video and photo shot by various people here and there. "if you filmed anything, anything at all, share it with us." With the computer power and software to which they have access, they might easily be able to track various individuals from this video here, that photo there, etc. and follow their movements.




Part of me hopes that we can clearly and irrefutably prove that Hezbollah was involved; it's time to vaccinate society against that viral infection!
 
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pirate said:
Right or wrong, I associate terrorist with a mission or a philosophy; the idiot killing people in the movie theater wasn't a terrorist in my view. It was terror, it was as awful as anything, I'm not minimizing it. But there is a "relief" if it was just some crazy dude instead of an organized effort, possibly with several people who will continue to enact similar violence. To me that is terrorism.

I'd love to know the name of the guy in the video that walks up to the mangled fence as other people are struggling to pull it off people and shoots a few extra shots with his camera before walking away. Slightly shaggy hair, caucasian guy in his late 30's with a black/blue jacket and a camera bag. That guy should be identified and exposed as an opportunistic coward.
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I think you need to cool it on the photography front. There's not a lot else he could do. It's his job to document the incident as it plays out. I'll say the same thing I posted on GPL:

Warning: Some graphic pictures (most are hidden behind a warning) but the story is worth reading:
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/15/tra ... account/#1

I think it's important for the scenes to be captured. The same reason we have wartime photographers embedded with troops. The stories need to be told.

I vaguely remember walking through a memorial in the Newseum in DC dedicated to the media who had lost their lives in conflicts throughout the world. I remember coming into the building asking myself "Why would anyone put their life on the line for a picture or a story?" It was quite obvious after leaving that building why. Because the stories need to be told. I would highly recommend touring this building if you visit DC.
 
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