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Watching the live feed now and they just mentioned no confirmed fatalities. With any event like this the casualty reports will be very fluid.

Vid of the explosion?
https://v.cdn.vine.co/v/videos/2013/04/15/9000C854-1EDC-4F16-BFD2-1216BD16E309-1039-0000010027432EA9_1.0.7.mp4?versionId=Cj2e8IeN.sFllYxnTVEItFjPw7r8Bsyo

Also, pictures of the aftermath.. spoiler'ed due to blood on the ground:

 d-usa wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
Radio station just mentioned they were looking for a third bomb at the Mandarin hotel, d-usa, is that the third explosion?

Reporter just said that the cops told them "we need everyone to move back, you are going to hear another explosion, we are detonating packages"

Okay, at least these are controlled... Hopefully no one else is injured.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Watching the live feed now and they just mentioned no confirmed fatalities. With any event like this the casualty reports will be very fluid.

Yeah, CNN and local news are saying two at this point.

Awful news.

best wishes to all those affected.

If you are in the area, hope you and yours are safe and well...

and via twitter/facebook :

You can donate blood at this Location

274 Tremont Street • Boston, MA 02116

Phone:1-800-RED CROSS

I'm sure there's other locations too.

Edit :

don't take long does it eh ?



spanker.

 d-usa wrote:
Yeah, CNN and local news are saying two at this point.

Latest reported casualties;
Two fatalities
Twenty four injured

They're reporting police have found other unexploded devices. According to Business Insider, police are investigating a "possible incendiary device" at JFK library and another in front of the Mandarin hotel.

link

This Alex Jones fellow doesn't deserve the dignity of a rebuttal.
Anyway...
Aw, nuts. Well, at least these devices - if they are bombs - didn't go off, which is a small mercy, I guess.

 whembly wrote:
Vid of the explosion?
https://v.cdn.vine.co/v/videos/2013/04/15/9000C854-1EDC-4F16-BFD2-1216BD16E309-1039-0000010027432EA9_1.0.7.mp4?versionId=Cj2e8IeN.sFllYxnTVEItFjPw7r8Bsyo

Also, pictures of the aftermath.. spoiler'ed due to blood on the ground:

Spoiler:

Oh dear...

Not something I ever expected to see here in the US.

Best wishes to all those injured.

feth me... this is horrible:

Reports are saying that they're loaded with ball bearings...

How the hell would you know that?

Best wishes to all those injured and their families, as well as the families of those killed.

I hope that any other devices are found and made safe and the people behind this attack are quickly brought to justice.

Sounds like a third device has been deactivated by a water cannon

 whembly wrote:
Reports are saying that they're loaded with ball bearings...

How the hell would you know that?

Consistent wound patterns, damage to property and debris.

Damn Whembly, that picture is pretty striking...

 whembly wrote:
Reports are saying that they're loaded with ball bearings...

How the hell would you know that?

I've not heard anything about that on the BBC coverage, however, ball bearing filled bombs would make sense if you were targeting a crowd. And I would imagine there would be plenty of them around the place to see if they were used.

Some have also said that there were shotgun shells.

Also, have some real, real class:



That account was suspended pretty sharpish by twitter.

 Wolf wrote:
Damn Whembly, that picture is pretty striking...

Deadspin has an image of that second image that Whembly posted... but with the people all still there... wounds and everything...

it's fething upsetting to the stomach.

I missed that one, it's horrible to think there are people who would do this especially if they loaded the damn thigns with shotgun shells and the like.


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Apparently 2 more devices have been found and are been dismantled. from AP:Intelligence officials

Intelligence sources say that there was no chatter to indicate that an attack was imminent, raising the possibility that this was domestic terrorist(s).

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Intelligence sources say that there was no chatter to indicate that an attack was imminent, raising the possibility that this was domestic terrorist(s).

Hmmm. Are there any usual suspects, so to speak, for this kind of thing?

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Intelligence sources say that there was no chatter to indicate that an attack was imminent, raising the possibility that this was domestic terrorist(s).

I honestly wouldn't doubt it... :-\



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 Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Intelligence sources say that there was no chatter to indicate that an attack was imminent, raising the possibility that this was domestic terrorist(s).

Hmmm. Are there any usual suspects, so to speak, for this kind of thing?

White guy fringe groups?

 whembly wrote:
feth me... this is horrible:

Spoiler:

Reports are saying that they're loaded with ball bearings...

How the hell would you know that?

ball bearings all over the place, contrary to movies there's a ton of crap thrown all over in an explosion you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out

Dang. I drive pretty close to that area on the way home from work.

I just don't get the possible motivation for this. It's an utterly non-political target.

Lot of potential sources for terrorist groups. Anti-government, anti-UN, anti-who knows what. People who do these kind of stupid things don't need any real reasons for them.

They just care about body counts. Nothing more and nothing less.

JFK Library fire confirmed as unrelated - described as 'mechanical' in nature.

At least 6 critical injuries ongoing... there will probably be more fatalities...

Looks like the FBI has found an individual with back packs at the trash cans that exploded on surveillance footage.

 Gorskar.da.Lost wrote:
Hmmm. Are there any usual suspects, so to speak, for this kind of thing?

Take any grievance (legitimate or not) that you can think of and take it to its most hateful end and you can have plenty of potential groups/people.


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 Grundz wrote:
ball bearings all over the place, contrary to movies there's a ton of crap thrown all over in an explosion you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out

It makes more sense to use ball bearings than shotgun shells, a shotgun shell detonating would cause another smaller explosion after the initial detonation that would disrupt the shockwave.

Chongara wrote:
Dang. I drive pretty close to that area on the way home from work.

I just don't get the possible motivation for this. It's an utterly non-political target.

Some terrorists just want to kill people.

Unrelated:

What was the reasoning of the olympic attacker back in Atlanta?

I know this is most likely not related at all, but the style reminds me of that incident.

 d-usa wrote:
Unrelated:

What was the reasoning of the olympic attacker back in Atlanta?

I know this is most likely not related at all, but the style reminds me of that incident.

From Eric Rudolph:

" In the summer of 1996, the world converged upon Atlanta for the Olympic Games. Under the protection and auspices of the regime in Washington millions of people came to celebrate the ideals of global socialism. Multinational corporations spent billions of dollars, and Washington organized an army of security to protect these best of all games. Even though the conception and purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is to promote the values of global socialism, as perfectly expressed in the song Imagine by John Lennon, which was the theme of the 1996 Games even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27 was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.

The plan was to force the cancellation of the Games, or at least create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested. "

He bombed the Olympics and 3 abortion clinics afterwards.

News reports are questioning whether the fact that today is Patriot's Day has influenced the attack today, the timing could be more evidence of home grown terrorist(s).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots'_Day

Patriots' Day (officially Patriots' Day in Massachusetts[1] and Patriot's Day in Maine[2]) is a civic holiday commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. It is observed on the third Monday in April in Massachusetts

Wow, someone really did not want those barefooted Kenyans to win this year.




grim and inappropriate humour aside, that's really fethed up. This kind of target is as non-political as you can really get; but I think someone already covered why it's a perfect target (fear of repetition creates a resource sinkhole in the future). If it's an act of domestic terrorism, I'm having a really tough time figuring out what the intended target could be... most domestic terrorism is on entirely (perceived) political targets.

Honestly, if someone were to say North Korea was behind this (maybe they confused Boston for Houston?) I'd believe it as much as any other illogical guess.


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Grey Templar wrote:Some terrorists just want to kill people.

That prevents them from being labelled as terrorists, almost by definition.