Explosions at Boston Marathon

[MadImmortalMan]

I'm not making any guesses.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm not making any guesses.

You really can't;  too many possibilities at this point.
Hell, could just be a single guy pissed that it's Income Tax Day.

[Barrister]

Apparently tonight's Bruins game has been postponed.

[OttoVonBismarck]

I'm not making any guesses.

You really can't;  too many possibilities at this point.
Hell, could just be a single guy pissed that it's Income Tax Day.

There is a troubling history of violence from the hardcore anti-tax types, nothing quite so flashy before but this wouldn't be totally new ground for them. Unlike an attack of 9/11 planning which you pretty much know is highly organized terror from the get go this could be anything. Anyone with a few dollars and an Internet connection can make a few pipe bombs, could easily be one lone nut.

[MadImmortalMan]

Video. Screaming warning.

[Caliga]

Two people are dead and at least 49 injured after after two powerful explosions went off near the Boston Marathon finish line, and authorities have now confirmed that they have a suspect who is currently being guarded in a Boston hospital with shrapnel wounds.

The New York Post reports the suspect is a Saudi national

[lustindarkness]

Just found out. Sucks.
The base I'm on has not gone crazy.. Yet.

[CountDeMoney]

There is a troubling history of violence from the hardcore anti-tax types, nothing quite so flashy before but this wouldn't be totally new ground for them.

Oh, I don't know...flying a plane into an IRS office building is pretty damned flashy, dude 
But that was in Austin, not Boston.  Hardcore anti-taxers just don't seem to grow in the metropolitan Northeast as much as they do south of the Mason-Dixon and the far West.  If there are any, they usually leave.

The JFK Library does make things irksome, though.  There's a significance behind that one.

Unlike an attack of 9/11 planning which you pretty much know is highly organized terror from the get go this could be anything. Anyone with a few dollars and an Internet connection can make a few pipe bombs, could easily be one lone nut.

Yup.  All it takes is one.  Interesting how the smoke from both explosions is white;  I'm no bomb expert, but I do recall from CFATS training that white smoke is often a result of homegrown chemical concoctions.

[mongers]

Two people are dead and at least 49 injured after after two powerful explosions went off near the Boston Marathon finish line, and authorities have now confirmed that they have a suspect who is currently being guarded in a Boston hospital with shrapnel wounds.

The New York Post reports the suspect is a Saudi national

Quick bomb Sudan.

[Queequeg]

Looks like JFK fire might have been unrelated, according to all the shit I'm seeing on my twitter feed.  Admittedly, not a high standard.

[CountDeMoney]

Looks like JFK fire might have been unrelated, according to all the shit I'm seeing on my twitter feed.  Admittedly, not a high standard.

Yeah, now they're saying it was a fire started in a physical plant room so far.

[Strix]

At first, it plays out like a bad Tom Clancy novel...North Korea instigates a domestic incident in the US to cover their attack into South Korea.

I wonder if it might have to do with what is happening in Mali and/or other African countries. A lot of African runners take part in the race. Maybe some AQ or AQ-associated wackos trying to make a statement.

[Queequeg]

That seems really unlikely.

[Eddie Teach]

At first, it plays out like a bad Tom Clancy novel..

The good ones all have KGB.

[Razgovory]

Two people are dead and at least 49 injured after after two powerful explosions went off near the Boston Marathon finish line, and authorities have now confirmed that they have a suspect who is currently being guarded in a Boston hospital with shrapnel wounds.

The New York Post reports the suspect is a Saudi national

Was he headless?