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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pronounced the deadly Boston Marathon explosions an act of terrorism on Tuesday as individuals close to the investigation said the two bombs were made of pressure cookers packed with ball bearings and metal shards that cut into the victims.

Speaking at the White House, Obama said investigators do not know if the attack was carried out by an international or domestic organization, or perhaps by a "malevolent individual." Three people were killed, including an 8 year-old boy, and more than 170 were wounded.

In his second public statement in less than 24 hours since the explosions, the president said, "Clearly we are at the beginning of our investigation." He urged anyone with information relating to the events to contact authorities.

Individuals briefed on the probe said the two bombs were made up of pressure cookers, one packed with ball bearings and the other with shards of metal, presumably to inflict maximum injuries. The bombs were placed inside black duffel bags on the ground near the finish line of the annual race, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation remains active and they were not authorized to be quoted

The administration's public assessment began to shift when Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told Congress in a morning appearance that the attacks were "a cruel act of terror."

Appearing on television a short while afterward, Obama said the events in Boston were a "heinous cowardly act, and given what we now know about what took place, the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism."

"Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it is an act of terror. What we don't yet know, however, is who carried out this attack, or why. Whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of a malevolent individual. That's what we don't yet know.".....snip~

Obama says Boston bombings an act of terrorism
Associated Press – 1 hr 41 mins ago April 16 2013<<<<<More Here.

It's Official now.....like Obama said now we just need to find out who it was. Also just coming in They said on the radio inside one of the Bombs were Bullets. which that was WBBM Radio CBS.
 
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"Any time bombs are use to target innocent civilians it is an act of terror..."? I don't know if he wants to be making statements of absolute like that. Perhaps "Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, which have not been dropped from a plane or drone, it is an act of terror..."
 
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"Any time bombs are use to target innocent civilians it is an act of terror..."? I don't know if he wants to be making statements of absolute like that. Perhaps "Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, which have not been dropped from a plane or drone, it is an act of terror..."

I guess he's admitting he's a terrorist. This was his coming out speech.
 
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"Any time bombs are use to target innocent civilians it is an act of terror..."? I don't know if he wants to be making statements of absolute like that. Perhaps "Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, which have not been dropped from a plane or drone, it is an act of terror..."

Did anybody catch what Hagel was telling Congress this morning? Other than he used the Term Cruel Act of Terror?
 
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I guess he's admitting he's a terrorist. This was his coming out speech.

Something they know despite the bombs being crude.....the way it was packed. Which would lead them to first suspect, ME groups. Or one from that region.

A Former FBI agent thought it could be someone American but radicalized thru Sharia here. A Couple of others have mentioned the same.
 
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What's that, you say? He didn't?

Notably absent from his remarks was the word "terror,

Oh lawl just more gotchya politics I see.
 
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"Any time bombs are use to target innocent civilians it is an act of terror..."? I don't know if he wants to be making statements of absolute like that. Perhaps "Any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, which have not been dropped from a plane or drone, it is an act of terror..."

The "innocent civilians" to which you refer are not the targets. The cowards hiding behind them are the targets, and their hostages are "collateral damage."
 
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The pressure cooker thing is old, it seems like I heard of that in hte 80's. Bet it was in a movie once or something. On further consideration maybe from the Irish terrorist days, but I know today isnt the first time I have heard of it.
 
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I found this 30 second clip of family guy to be really strange.

URGENT - Family Guy Shows Boston Marathon, And A Terror Attack - Predictive Programming!! .


An episode of the popular show Family Guy which was first aired less than a month ago eerily predicted the Boston Marathon bombings, depicting the main character detonating two bombs in addition to winning the marathon by killing the rest of the participants.
 
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Geez look how old he looks.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pronounced the deadly Boston Marathon explosions an act of terrorism....
Yeah we knew this shortly after the incident. Thanks, Obama, for telling us what we already knew.

...on Tuesday as individuals close to the investigation said the two bombs were made of pressure cookers packed with ball bearings and metal shards that cut into the victims.
What we need is some common-sense pressure-cooker control. (pay attention to cooking shows, not one will have a recipe involving a pressure cooker for months).

It's Official now.....like Obama said now we just need to find out who it was....
...and write them a strongly worded letter.
 
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What's that, you say? He didn't?



Oh lawl just more gotchya politics I see.

What exactly do you think you're demonstrating here?

At the time the story you linked to was posted, yesterday, it was correct. Obama didn't use the word "terror" in his statements YESTERDAY.

He did today.
 
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The "innocent civilians" to which you refer are not the targets. The cowards hiding behind them are the targets, and their hostages are "collateral damage."

Ahhh yes, the ol' "It's not our fault that we killed a bunch of civilians when dropping bombs into civilian areas because there was totally a bad guy there....I mean, yeah he's not in the body count....but he was totally there just a second ago!" excuse.

Moral flimflammery.
 
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The pressure cooker thing is old, it seems like I heard of that in hte 80's. Bet it was in a movie once or something. On further consideration maybe from the Irish terrorist days, but I know today isnt the first time I have heard of it.

BOSTON (AP) — The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shards of metal, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.

The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives emerged as investigators appealed to the public for amateur video and photos that might yield clues. The chief FBI agent in Boston vowed "we will go to the ends of the Earth" to find those responsible.

A person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still going on said the explosives were put in 6-liter kitchen pressure cookers, hidden in black duffel bags and left on the ground. They were packed with shrapnel, the person said.

The person said law enforcement officials have some of the bomb components but do not yet know what was used to set off the explosives.

A doctor treating the wounded appeared to corroborate the person's account, saying one of the victims was maimed by what looked like ball bearings or BBs. Doctors also said they removed a host of sharp objects from the victims, including nails that were sticking out of one little girl's body.

Similar pressure-cooker explosives have been used in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Pakistan, according to a July 2010 intelligence report by the FBI and Homeland Security. Also, one of the three devices used in the May 2010 Times Square attempted bombing was a pressure cooker, the report said.

At a news conference, police and federal agents repeatedly appealed for any video, audio and photos taken by marathon spectators, even images that people might not think are significant.

Richard Barrett, the former U.N. coordinator for an al-Qaida and Taliban monitoring team who has also worked for British intelligence, said the relatively small size of the devices in Boston and the timing of the blasts suggest a domestic attack rather than an al-Qaida-inspired one.

"This happened on Patriots' Day — it is also the day Americans are supposed to have their taxes in — and Boston is quite a symbolic city," said Barrett, now senior director at the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies.....snip~

Boston bombs said to be made from pressure cookers


Looks like they said they used the same type of bomb in 2010 in NY Times. ;)
 
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BOSTON (AP) — The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shards of metal, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.

The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives emerged as investigators appealed to the public for amateur video and photos that might yield clues. The chief FBI agent in Boston vowed "we will go to the ends of the Earth" to find those responsible.

A person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still going on said the explosives were put in 6-liter kitchen pressure cookers, hidden in black duffel bags and left on the ground. They were packed with shrapnel, the person said.

The person said law enforcement officials have some of the bomb components but do not yet know what was used to set off the explosives.

A doctor treating the wounded appeared to corroborate the person's account, saying one of the victims was maimed by what looked like ball bearings or BBs. Doctors also said they removed a host of sharp objects from the victims, including nails that were sticking out of one little girl's body.

Similar pressure-cooker explosives have been used in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Pakistan, according to a July 2010 intelligence report by the FBI and Homeland Security. Also, one of the three devices used in the May 2010 Times Square attempted bombing was a pressure cooker, the report said.

At a news conference, police and federal agents repeatedly appealed for any video, audio and photos taken by marathon spectators, even images that people might not think are significant.

Richard Barrett, the former U.N. coordinator for an al-Qaida and Taliban monitoring team who has also worked for British intelligence, said the relatively small size of the devices in Boston and the timing of the blasts suggest a domestic attack rather than an al-Qaida-inspired one.

"This happened on Patriots' Day — it is also the day Americans are supposed to have their taxes in — and Boston is quite a symbolic city," said Barrett, now senior director at the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies.....snip~

Boston bombs said to be made from pressure cookers


Looks like they said they used the same type of bomb in 2010 in NY Times. ;)

....so if we want to carry out an attack and cast blame on militant ME terrorists all we have to do is use a pressure cooker. Interesting.

Also, shouldn't we be banning pressure cookers or requiring background checks for people wanting to use their pressure cooker? I mean, won't someone think of the children?
 
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Something they know despite the bombs being crude.....the way it was packed. Which would lead them to first suspect, ME groups. Or one from that region.

A Former FBI agent thought it could be someone American but radicalized thru Sharia here. A Couple of others have mentioned the same.
What I don't understand is why you'd pick a target that has like 30 medics standing around waiting. That made a huge difference.
 
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Also, shouldn't we be banning pressure cookers or requiring background checks for people wanting to use their pressure cooker? I mean, won't someone think of the children?

Shhh!! The lefties will probably take you seriously...
 
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What exactly do you think you're demonstrating here?

At the time the story you linked to was posted, yesterday, it was correct. Obama didn't use the word "terror" in his statements YESTERDAY.

He did today.
Yes, he did. Do you see his calling this an act "terror" as a problem???
 
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So why did it take a whole day to say this was a terror attack? It was bombs at a public event...seems like a no brainer.
 
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Yes, he did. Do you see his calling this an act "terror" as a problem???

Pete, I have long since stopped wondering how you pull such horsecrap out of so many things, so I'll just sigh bemusedly.
 
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Something they know despite the bombs being crude.....the way it was packed. Which would lead them to first suspect, ME groups. Or one from that region.

A Former FBI agent thought it could be someone American but radicalized thru Sharia here. A Couple of others have mentioned the same.

It could be American crazies, American political extremists, but not necessarily Islamists. One of the reasons I say that is that it appears that there was little or next to no intelligence that anything out of the ordinary was being planned or discussed around the time frame the bombing occurred.
 
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Yes, he did. Do you see his calling this an act "terror" as a problem???

Just unusual. He generally denies that terrorism exists under his beneficent rule...
 
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Also, shouldn't we be banning pressure cookers or requiring background checks for people wanting to use their pressure cooker? I mean, won't someone think of the children?
I heard today that it was a high-capacity pressure cooker, the kind the military uses to feed troops.
 
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The "innocent civilians" to which you refer are not the targets. The cowards hiding behind them are the targets, and their hostages are "collateral damage."

A new definition! Collateral damage is the death any non-combatant behind which a coward hides. What is your definition of asymmetric warfare?
 
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So why did it take a whole day to say this was a terror attack? It was bombs at a public event...seems like a no brainer.

Did you NEED Obama to tell you officially yesterday that it was a terrorist attack? What difference does the timing make?
 
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....so if we want to carry out an attack and cast blame on militant ME terrorists all we have to do is use a pressure cooker. Interesting.

Also, shouldn't we be banning pressure cookers or requiring background checks for people wanting to use their pressure cooker? I mean, won't someone think of the children?

I would say when investigating.....one would look to method and by whom. Whom has the attacks within the same methodology. First Impressions would point to ME groups and or those who believe in them. Hence some speculating as to that region first. That's not to say it is......just that under what is known at this is time points in that direction.
 
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