Explosions at Boston Marathon

[Queequeg]

The "guy in custody" report is being disputed.

[Barrister]

Have difficulty imagining this as a NK plot.  While NK does have a history of terrorism, it's pretty old, and they know that the US (unlike SK) will respond pretty seriously to acts of domestic terrorism.

Islamic terrorism?  Could be, of course.

Domestic / right wing terrorism.  Certainly not impossible.  But usually they strike at some kind of perceived government structure.  An IRS office or a federal building.

[OttoVonBismarck]

The NY Post is the paper posting most of the craziest stuff, so take anything from them with a grain of salt. I'd follow the Boston Globe which is mostly just repeating whatever BPD is releasing.

[Queequeg]

Domestic / right wing terrorism.  Certainly not impossible.  But usually they strike at some kind of perceived government structure.  An IRS office or a federal building.

Boston on Patriot's Day?

[Tonitrus]

Domestic / right wing terrorism.  Certainly not impossible.  But usually they strike at some kind of perceived government structure.  An IRS office or a federal building.

Boston on Patriot's Day?

If it were a Tea Party bomb maybe.

[mongers]

Any significance to it being a marathon and/or in Boston, or just that it was a large gathering of people ?

What about the time of the explosion, 4 hours 10 minutes after the start and more than 1 1/2 hours after the high profile winners; bombs on timers, possibly faulty or were the bombs left a few minutes/moments before igniting, if so perhaps to take advantage of security possibly being ramped down ?

[Queequeg]

https://twitter.com/Eric_Twardzik/status/323910549895262210/photo/1

[jimmy olsen]

Just woke up and saw this. Terrible

[Solmyr]

 

[sbr]

4 hours is average finish time and that is when there is most potential people at finish area.

[MadImmortalMan]

The NY Post is the paper posting most of the craziest stuff, so take anything from them with a grain of salt. I'd follow the Boston Globe which is mostly just repeating whatever BPD is releasing.

There's always tons of false info that gets reported when these things happen. I'm not buying anything unconfirmed.

[Razgovory]

Have difficulty imagining this as a NK plot.  While NK does have a history of terrorism, it's pretty old, and they know that the US (unlike SK) will respond pretty seriously to acts of domestic terrorism.

Islamic terrorism?  Could be, of course.

Domestic / right wing terrorism.  Certainly not impossible.  But usually they strike at some kind of perceived government structure.  An IRS office or a federal building.

With all the flags down there it looks like Olympic bombing in Atlanta.

[mongers]

Have difficulty imagining this as a NK plot.  While NK does have a history of terrorism, it's pretty old, and they know that the US (unlike SK) will respond pretty seriously to acts of domestic terrorism.

Islamic terrorism?  Could be, of course.

Domestic / right wing terrorism.  Certainly not impossible.  But usually they strike at some kind of perceived government structure.  An IRS office or a federal building.

With all the flags down there it looks like Olympic bombing in Atlanta.

Yes, wasn't that a pipe bomb or two ?

The first explosion there looks quite substantial, bigger than a small package, perhaps the size of a rucksack bomb or suicide-bomber ?

[mongers]

The NY Post is the paper posting most of the craziest stuff, so take anything from them with a grain of salt. I'd follow the Boston Globe which is mostly just repeating whatever BPD is releasing.

There's always tons of false info that gets reported when these things happen. I'm not buying anything unconfirmed.

Yeah weren't the first reports of the Oklahoma bomber, about two or three arabs ? 

[MadImmortalMan]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/photos-of-the-boston-marathon-bombing/100495/

There's a gross one in there.