Explosions near finish line of Boston Marathon

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BroomWagon:
And, as the article states, that on-line information could have been downloaded by anyone.
 
“ALL OF IT,” said Robert Redford, when asked if he supported the bombings by The Weather Underground.
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Redford came out for terrorism on a mainstream morning television show in an interview with democrat-operative-leftist-hack George Stephanopoulos, who was slobbering over Redford’s pro-terrorist movie, The Company You Keep. I drew my illustration of Redford, below, days ago, and I wonder if he’s for the terrorist attack in Boston today. Or maybe he wants to wait and see if it’s leftist terrorists before he decides he’s all for it. Below is a list of what Robert Redford was for, via Sean Hannity on FOX News.
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Robert Redford’s Terrorist Heroes
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Lujack said:
And thanks to William Calley, I always assume that white junior officers have massacred civilians at some point…except for the part where I don’t, because that’s asinine.
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Welcome back!
 
Lujack said:
And thanks to William Calley, I always assume that white junior officers have massacred civilians at some point…except for the part where I don’t, because that’s asinine.
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And thanks to the Muslim Brotherhood, Boko Harum, Al Qaeda, El Shabah, I assume that most places with radical Islam never persecutes Christians.
 
meltzerboy said:
And, as the article states, that online information from Al-Qaeda could have been downloaded by anyone.
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We’ve had a lot of these kinds of bombs happen in the US as well.

But I do understand, Israel has probably seen these kinds of bombs.
 
meltzerboy said:
I think that’s my point. The perpetrator might be a foreign terrorist, a domestic terrorist, or a lone wolf. They all have access to the Internet.
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This is true, but we should take note of all information. That’s a revealing article none-the-less, even some kids like Kliebold and Harris at Columbine could have done this.

One thing I wonder about is the Marathon lasts for a number of hours, about 7 hours I’d say, 8 even in full. I wonder if the explosions were timed for a certain part of the race. Really, many more people could have been killed.
 
Bloggers unheard from in some years came alive, and violence spiked, with an increased number of bombings and abductions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Boston bombing occurred on the 10th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Have any of the US news outlets made that connection?

Words can’t express how sick I am of terrorist acts resulting in civilian death and severe injury like this event.
 
epan said:
Bloggers unheard from in some years came alive, and violence spiked, with an increased number of bombings and abductions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Boston bombing occurred on the 10th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Have any of the US news outlets made that connection?

Words can’t express how sick I am of terrorist acts resulting in civilian death and severe injury like this event.
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The internet traffic angle I did hear was touched on…but you say it well, I did not hear bloggers mentioned, just a vague reference.
 
BroomWagon said:
The internet traffic angle I did hear was touched on…but you say it well, I did not hear bloggers mentioned, just a vague reference.
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Riverbend is a famous one. She has fled Syria, and is in some unnamed Arab country. Further news from here is that this years opium crop is expected to be a record crop.

Particularly on Sunday, 4/14, which is the official date, violence was quite high.
 
Obama administration has SLASHED budget for domestic bombing prevention by 45 per cent, says former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary
  • $20 million budget under Bush became $11 million under Obama
  • Both administrations neglected domestic bombing prevention, devoting a tiny fraction of the $1 billion earmarked for IED prevention overseas
  • Obama issued a lengthy ‘National Policy for Countering Improvised Explosive Devices’ in February but a spokesman won’t say if it failed
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Also from the above article:
That assessment comes from Robert Liscouski, a former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 that killed three Americans and injured at least 173 others.
He told MailOnline that the Obama-era DHS is, on the whole, about as well-positioned as it was during the Bush administration to handle the aftermath of the April 15 bombings in Boston, ‘but the Obama administration has continued to cut the budget for offices such as the Office for Bombing Prevention from $20 million started under Bush, to $11 million today.’
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So now the right is trying to criticize the President for cutting spending?
 
oldcelt said:
Also from the above article:

So now the right is trying to criticize the President for cutting spending?
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It is a well publicized by the left and the right that the “spending” cuts could be made in places that actually need to be cut. Why hasn’t anyone in either party suggested cuts to programs that overlap for instance? Lots of those. The waste, fraud, and inefficiency is a huge problem, as everyone knows. This President is no better than the previous. What happened to “I will go line by line” to eliminate unneeded programs? What happened to the “streamlining” that was promised? The “spending cuts” as in absolutely everything is politicized and nobody wins. Neither party has the welfare of the people in mind in Washington. It’s all for political gain. The spirit of narcissism is stifling.
This is no doubt a topic for another thread, but if people in Washington would actually do the logical thing, and the right thing, we may not have to cut defense spending at all, either domestic or foreign. We could save billions, freeing up some money for necessary defense. Instead, government just keeps growing. It’s a cancer that threatens to do us in.
 
garn9173 said:
We’ll agree to disagree.

Like it or not, that right there is one GIANT red flag for me.
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CNN is the only US news channel I see regularly because it comes free as part of my TV package.(I wouldn’t pay good money for it.) Do you remember when the US ambassador was killed in Libya? CNN started what appeared to me to be little more than a witch hunt on the guy who made the offensive video. (The video maker was arrested under the guise of some other offence. Has anyone else ever been arrested, charged or convicted in connection with that assassination?). Their biased and hysterical reporting became so embedded that even when the rest of the world was convinced that the video didn’t prompt the attack it was painful watching them clinging on to their initial conclusion and then trying to back off without losing too much credibility.

From what I watched last night, CNN appeared to be back to their old tricks with “experts” intimating that the Boston bomber is likely to be anyone who doesn’t vote Democrat but tacking on a little hint that it might be Islamic terrorism…making sure they can’t be accused of failing to cover all angles. If we go down that road of in your face bias that fosters prejudice, bigotry and discrimination we are no better than the likes of them. Let’s try not to lie with the dogs, albeit dogs of a different breed.
 
markomalley said:
From WFXT-TV (Boston):Sources told FOX 25 there was an American Airlines flight that was headed to Chicago. There were two men on that plane – not sitting next to each other – and speaking Arabic.

There were some concerned marathoners on the flight so the plane was brought back to the gate and the two men were escorted off the plane.

No other details were immediately available.
Interesting. Also this from WFXT:
A law enforcement official says it’s possible that a man who was stopped by police as he ran from the scene of yesterday’s bombings at the Boston marathon was simply running to protect himself from the blast, as many others did. The official says the man was tackled by a bystander, and then by police.
According to police, this is the man whose apartment in Revere was searched by FBI agents overnight. Investigators were seen leaving with brown paper bags, plastic trash bags and a duffel bag at about 2 a.m. Tuesday.
FoxNews.com, citing a source, had identified the man as a 20-year-old Saudi whose Facebook page identified him as a current or former student at the New England School of English. Fox News later reported on-air that the man had been “ruled out” as a suspect in the bombing.
Also, Newsweek / Daily Beast reports that this type of bomb (pressure cooker bombs) are widely used by Al Qaeda.

CBS has a story up about DHS warnings about pressure cooker bombs from as far back as 2004, including facsimiles of official DHS documents.
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And this person has been ruled out as a suspect.
 
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