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Explosions reported near finish line at Boston Marathon [W:162, 896, 911]]

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Big thumbs up to the City of Boston. I heard they were well prepared for this and had people on staff at the Hospitals and on stand by to take in the many injured.

That said with the injuries that I'm starting to see online, I think the death toll with rise.
 
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In other words it is or it isn't "Patriot's Day" related in the same way as it is or isn't marathon related, and is or isn't Boston related.

In other words, we still don't know a damn thing.

Bingo!

Sometimes terrorists or loonies pick significant dates, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they pick govt. buildings, and sometimes they don't.
 
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CNN is saying no one in custody but that they're looking for a dark-skinned or black male with a black backpack who was seen attempting to enter a secure area prior to the blasts.

They just reported there is one in custody and the authorities are looking for a work truck that earlier tried to gain access to the route. They further stated the injured are being questioned per procedure.
 
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I heard about this when I got home from work tonight. Things were a bit tense at our house since my wife's uncle ran in the Boston Marathon. Fortunately we found out about an hour later that he's just fine.

My hearts go out to the people who were injured, and I hope they catch whoever did it.
 
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And there we finally have the North Korean connection - nuke em! :shock:

Hey, hey, easy. That's not what I said.
 
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Nor does the fact that some people may engage in unpopular war against government mean that all war against government is unjust.

Targeting civilians, as was done here, is not only unjust, but also despicable at every level
 
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So lets blame North Korea. There it's solved.

Oh, just shut up. (And I shouldn't have said that as well)
 
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Is your name Janet Napolitano? Here we have a Saudi National being detained and dont get me wrong he may not be involved but where do you come up with that notion?

I'm only pointing out that the tactics match those used by insurgents in Iraq.
 
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Bingo!

Sometimes terrorists or loonies pick significant dates, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they pick govt. buildings, and sometimes they don't.


But in this case I think we are better off letting people who are arguing what it isn't slide and focusing on those who are sure of what it is. The first is harmless, the second isn't.
 
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April 15th is also the day of the Boston Marathon which appears to have been the target. Had the marathon been the 13th or the 17th, I unfortunately believe the results would have been no different.

Terrorists tend to be into symbolism. I am sorry though that I had made this remark.
 
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Right Wing extremist ? The Aryan Brother hood?

No, not for a millisecond.

The only people that brought that nonsense up was of course.....MSNBC.

Actually what came to mind was Islamic terrorist.

Everybody's instincts are different, and based on their own personal experiences. There is nothing definitive, and I understand that. Instincts are instincts, we all have a right to our own feelings on the subject. Everyone thought the Oklahoma City bombing about was foreign and they were wrongs. Anything is still possible at this point. All I was saying, that it seemed odd to me that a guy would get into a shootout with police, they find bomb making material in his trunk, and then less then a month later a bomb goes off. It feels like a pretty eerie coincidence.
 
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Terrorists tend to be into symbolism. I am sorry though that I had made this remark.

Terrorists are into inflicting mass casualties...period.
 
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Let's bear in mind that at this point, we still know nothing about the perpetrators.
 
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There are some seriously ****ed up, sick people in this world.
 
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Let's bear in mind that at this point, we still know nothing about the perpetrators.

Since when has this ever stopped anyone from reaching conclusions that mirror their thought processes or prejudices?
 
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I hope the government does not use this as an excuse to take away more freedoms/rights of law-abiding Americans in the name of security.

These were pretty small bombs - relatively speaking.

This sounds more like 1 or 2 whacko(s) then a determined, organized, terrorist attack.
 
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Terrorists are into inflicting mass casualties...period.
I'm not sure what the precise definition of terrorism is, but I usually think of it as...causing terror...generally, at least


It sounds like these bombs were small and crude...so this may have been one or a few wildly misguided individuals.
 
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Yes, uncalled for at this time. But I think it is meant to give an example of what was seen mere hours after the CT shooting.

And I might have agreed with you if the person is question hadn't spent the rest of the thread leading up the that moment being a deploringly inhumane douche-bag making jokes about pictures of people who were horribly injured by the blast.

He gets no quarter. Treat douche-bags like douche-bags, I always say.
 
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Among the dead is an 8 year old. Let's hope were waterboarding the hell out of this guy in custody if they know he's in on this.
 
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I'm not sure what the precise definition of terrorism is, but I usually think of it as...causing terror...generally, at least

Right and killing a buncha folks, while they're watching a foot race, is a damn good way to scare the living crap out of people.


It sounds like these bombs were small and crude...so this may have been one or a few wildly misguided individuals.

We have no ideas as to the quality of construction. They went off, so that automatically puts their quality at good+.

This was done by someone with some training.
 
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I hope the government does not use this as an excuse to take away more freedoms/rights of law-abiding Americans in the name of security.

These were pretty small bombs - relatively speaking.

This sounds more like 1 or 2 whacko(s) then a determined, organized, terrorist attack.

That's exactly what they're going to do.
 
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