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Trouble at Boston Marathon?

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dxmnkd316 said:
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/...nvestigating-photo-that-shows-bag/#?hpt=hp_t2

higher res pictures of the POTENTIAL bomb before it went off. Again, no confirmation, just speculation.
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As I understand it, these two pictures were taken an hour apart. While I have no opinion as to whether the object pictured is a bomb, the fact that it's missing, an hour later, after an explosion doesn't necessarily resolve the matter. It could have been a bag of wet diapers that got blown away by a bomb.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Saw this, laughed a little (much needed laugh) and also thought, "Hell. Yes."

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Without even reading your description, the first words out of my mouth were, "Hells yes"
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Not sure who put that together, but the video was incredibly tasteless. Even by my standards.
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The clip would be funny if something tragic like that hadn't happened. And I hate the Family Guy and have similar black humor tastes.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
I don't think this is domestic. Outside of it being tax day, it isn't politically charged enough. They'd rather draw attention to a specific government installation or business. Blowing up a random crowd full of people minding their own beeswax isn't exactly the Dale Carnegie way of making anyone sympathetic to your views.

I agree that if it was foreign terror, AQ and others would be falling over themselves to claim it. No one seems to want this hot potato at the moment. Then again, they may be trying to wait a few days for emotions to die down so the entire world doesn't LASER DEATH KILL them. Also, this was not really organized enough to be the doings of a big group, probably just a couple people. Maybe has to do with Syria, they hacked NPR's website yesterday.

My WAG is either a lone cuckoo clock, or a 1-4 person group of homegrown Middle East sympathizers.
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Yeah, my thoughts are that Islamic Terrorists would be quick to take credit for it. They're all about the Martyrdom and the virgins that somebody said there would be there waiting for them in heaven. And well, while they might not be the sharpest tools in the shed, I think they have a pretty good idea of how the global 24 hour news cycle runs and how they really want to plant their flag on it to say they did it, Death to America! Durka! Durka! Durka!!

North Korea would be another possibility as well. However, I would think that the New Leader there is probably too much of a Diva to wait this long before taking credit for this. Not to mention that his PR team would probably want to spin it that he was there, won the race by a half hour, punched out a couple of Kenyans for a laugh and then set off the bombs himself.

That just leads me more to thinking its more of a domestic terror plot than from a foreign interest. At the moment, feels more like a lone wolf type of deal, either angry about something. Or is one of those First Responder types who loves being a hero way too much. You know, that firefighter who sets a fire so that he can be first on the scene and can come in to save everybody there?? Could be that was what this was all about, just that the bombs had a hell of a lot more kick to them than what he planned perhaps??

But that's just my WAG.
Brenthoven said:
Saw this, laughed a little (much needed laugh) and also thought, "Hell. Yes."

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Darn you, I was going to post that here...
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Not to mention that his PR team would probably want to spin it that he was there, won the race by a half hour, punched out a couple of Kenyans for a laugh and then set off the bombs himself.
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Apart from setting off the bombs....they're probably doing that anyway. It'd be a hell of an encore after winning The Masters at -87....

Even though these are IEDs, I think we're going to find it closer to the McVeigh, Unabomber end of the spectrum vs. the Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah end.
 
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No offense to anyone who's posted theories of who's responsible here, but my hair is about to burst into flame with the confusing, contradictory use of "domestic" and "foreign" in the context of who was responsible for the bombing, and why. Islamism, whether it's the overseas or homegrown variety is potentially the issue here. Take the case of "Dr." Hasan at Ft. Hood. What difference does it make if he got his Islamist inspiration in Pakistan or on the 'phone from Anwar Al Awlaki? None to me. And certainly not to the unarmed GI's he gunned down.

When I hear talking heads using the word "domestic" it seems to me they're avoiding the potential elephant in the living room. Not wanting to mention the "I" word or the "M" word. We have historically had plenty of nut cakes here at home. And they are truly domestic and not influenced or encouraged by overseas interests. The Weather Underground, union goons, anarchists, pro-life nut balls, Klan types, all have used terror and bombs to punctuate their political arguments.

While I understand it would be a worst case scenario if it turns out one of AQ's various iterations was responsible for planning and carrying out the attack, the fact is that if Muslim extremism, whether imported or domestic, is responsible that's something we have to recognize. I'd guess the days when AQ can plan and carry out a major strike from their rat holes in the Middle East are probably over. Certainly the nature of the attack would affect our response. But if this attack was planned and carried out by Islamists on either side of the pond, it won't make any difference to the Richard family, who lost their beautiful 8-year old son. Whose little daughter lost a leg. And whose mother suffered a severe brain injury.
 
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Sar'nt said:
Whatever. CAIR has been continously very emphatic about condemning terrorist attacks.
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Right, but this time marked the first time I can recall in which they also said that there is no justification in the Quran for such atrocities. It was this element and not the general condemnation that seemed refrreshing to me.
 
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According to CNN and the Associated Press, based on two anonymous federal sources and one anonymous BPD source, an arrest has been made.
 
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