Explosions reported at Boston Marathon

[Madrun Badrun]

 
Guy lost a leg in the explosion  (gore) http://i.imgur.com/vkmrx13.jpg
 

[Atramental]

 

[demi]

A leg? Looks like he lost both to me.

[Great Rumbler]

Probably not related at all, but it was 20 years ago this Friday that the siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco ended.

[archnemesis]

I thought that was April 19th.

[Mandark]

Yeah, hence "this Friday."

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, hence "this Friday."

Right. Like I said, it's probably not related, but I noticed that anniversary while checking up on some local news sites [Dallas-area].

[archnemesis]

Oh, sorry about that. Time for me to go to bed.

[brob]

Who cares about accuracy in reporting, it's all about speed. Get all the hits. How are the 24/7 news channels holding up? I heard Wolf Blitzer was asking people if they were gonna run next year.

[Shadow Mod]

He was.

Also people on rooftops watching must be involved!

[Don Flamenco]

Probably not related at all, but it was 20 years ago this Friday that the siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco ended.

i miss the days when it was just crazy cults

[Madrun Badrun]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live

[Madrun Badrun]

Obama is on

[Eric P]

no new info
"we have no idea who did it, but we will find out and when we do we will bring them to justice" basically

no questions taken

[ManaByte]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/323911328832036864

NBC News confirming a suspect under guard.

[Mandark]

I think I'm going to avoid coverage for a little while.  Hope there isn't another Richard Jewell situation.

[Human Snorenado]

The NY Post story is sketchy as fuck and I haven't seen it anywhere else. 

A lot of things make me think this could be a domestic terrorist- date (tax day, anyone) and anniversary this week (branch davidians), similar MO to some of the bombings Eric Robert Rudolph carried out in Atlanta (the abortion clinic he bombed was around the corner from my best friend's house, and he used multiple bombs in that attack and possibly others)

Having said all of that, it's stupid and irresponsible for ANYONE to engage in baseless speculation.  I'd like to know more facts.

[ManaByte]

Gawker's scifi site i09 is trying to use this for hits. WTF.

[Rufus]

Gawker's scifi site i09 is trying to use this for hits. WTF.

"Why social media is great"? Struck me as terribly misguided as well. For the exact same reason that social media is NOT great right now.

[brawndolicious]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/323911328832036864

NBC News confirming a suspect under guard.

Seem he was near the explosion and ran away like everybody else but was tackled by some civilian. Apparently he is cooperating with the police but I'm guessing he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/323911328832036864

NBC News confirming a suspect under guard.

Seem he was near the explosion and ran away like everybody else but was tackled by some civilian. Apparently he is cooperating with the police but I'm guessing he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Boston.

[ManaByte]

NBC just said one person of interest is here on a student visa.

[ManaByte]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/jordan-extremist-praises-boston-bombing

[ManaByte]

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/15/several-hurt-in-explosions-at-boston-marathon-finish-line/

[Madrun Badrun]

You know I think there is both a cultural and temporal bigotry going on here.  Had it been a German accused of bombing and it been 1915, you guys would have already been smashing the German shops.  Your preferential treatment of Middle Easterns is sickening. 

[brawndolicious]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/jordan-extremist-praises-boston-bombing

Sort of a common sentiment in the middle-east when there's some tragedy in America, that "they now feel the pain that we have".

[AdmiralViscen]

You missed one, Mana

www.google.com

[Shaka Khan]

God fucking dammit. Horrifying news and video.

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Please don't let it be an Arab Please don't let it be an Arab Please don't let it be an Arab.

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[Shaka Khan]

Can we ban Mana until the dust is settled? I really don't feel like wading through his FUD spam. Things are terrible as is.

[Trurl]

God fucking dammit. Horrifying news and video.

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Please don't let it be an Arab Please don't let it be an Arab Please don't let it be an Arab.

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It was probably a nerd extremist getting back at the jocks.

[Beezy]

Can we ban Mana until the dust is settled? I really don't feel like wading through his FUD spam. Things are terrible as is.

seconded

[Human Snorenado]

Can we ban Mana

Capital idea, stopped reading after this

[Positive Touch]

sorry, im not allowed to care unless it was an american killed in iraq.

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nbc evening news had a list of terrorist attacks in the last few years that ignored pretty much anything that happened outside the us and europe :rudy

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[Phoenix Dark]

Can we ban Mana until the dust is settled? I really don't feel like wading through his FUD spam. Things are terrible as is.

How is that FUD spam? He's posting news items, everyone here is looking for info. I don't see anyone posting nonsense from Alex Jones or whatever in here (like on GAF)

[Positive Touch]

 :leo

[Shaka Khan]

Can we ban Mana until the dust is settled? I really don't feel like wading through his FUD spam. Things are terrible as is.

How is that FUD spam? He's posting news items, everyone here is looking for info. I don't see anyone posting nonsense from Alex Jones or whatever in here (like on GAF)

You wouldn't be saying this if I was playing WoW too.

[Mandark]

Mana's appointed himself as the forum's own news aggregator for this story, just like he did with the Christopher Dorner thread, and it seems that more than a few people find the linkspam more annoying than helpful.  "At least he's not posting Alex Jones" is rather a low bar to clear.

[Phoenix Dark]

Meh. Having waded through the gaf thread I see nothing wrong with providing reputable news links. I'm refreshing twitter and this thread.

[Diunx]

So they grabbed the first arab they ran into? Smh

[Don Flamenco]

God fucking dammit. Horrifying news and video.

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Please don't let it be an Arab Please don't let it be an Arab Please don't let it be an Arab.

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I agree and also

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Please don't let it be an autistic gamer Please don't let it be an autistic gamer Please don't let it be an autistic gamer

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to protect my people's as well.    :'(


but i'm going 50/50 on some kind of tea party/gun nut extremist or middle eastern terrorist group of some sort. 

worst case scenario is a North Korea link cause that'll lead to war for sure.


I guess if I had my choice, I'd hope for gun nut extremist.

[TakingBackSunday]

fits yet again

[ManaByte]

Dead updated to 3. One was an eight year old.

[The Sceneman]

absolutely horrible  My thoughts are with the victims and their families.

[Eric P]

The person questioned in the hospital was a Saudi national, who was report­edly tackled and held by a ­bystander after he was seen running from near the scene of the explosion, said a law enforce­ment source who spoke with someone involved in the FBI’s investigation.

The Saudi man, believed to be a university student in ­Boston, is cooperating with the FBI and told agents that he was not involved in the explosions, and that he ran only because he was frightened. Investigators did not characterize the man as a suspect. No one had been ­arrested or charged by late Monday night.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/15/three-killed-more-than-injured-marathon-blast/QQOiYNU2n1vt1Xul3BXVsL/story.html

[Groogrux]

This is just messed up.  I mean, sure, I get a little jealous at runners who have the dedication to get out there every day and do their thing.  They just seem so smug.  But not enough to blow them up.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

im fine thanks for asking friends

[BobFromPikeCreek]

The person questioned in the hospital was a Saudi national, who was report­edly tackled and held by a ­bystander after he was seen running from near the scene of the explosion, said a law enforce­ment source who spoke with someone involved in the FBI’s investigation.

The Saudi man, believed to be a university student in ­Boston, is cooperating with the FBI and told agents that he was not involved in the explosions, and that he ran only because he was frightened. Investigators did not characterize the man as a suspect. No one had been ­arrested or charged by late Monday night.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/15/three-killed-more-than-injured-marathon-blast/QQOiYNU2n1vt1Xul3BXVsL/story.html

 

[StealthFan]

Can we ban Mana for fucking ever.

[Don Flamenco]

The FBI says there is no more threat in Boston...but how would they know that unless they planted the bombs themselves

This is just messed up.  I mean, sure, I get a little jealous at runners who have the dedication to get out there every day and do their thing.  They just seem so smug.  But not enough to blow them up.

   would've been much funnier to lay out some wire right before the finish line and pull it taut to make a bunch of runners trip over it. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Do you guys even know that the media is focussing on this while 548690436 other people died in similar incidents yesterday?

/facebook and every article everywhere

[Steve Contra]

This hurts.  We had about 11 friends and family out for the race and my wife's family has about 20-25 finishes between them.  Everybody is devastated :'(

[Eric P]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/injured-saudi-is-a-witness-not-a-suspect-in-boston-bombing/2013/04/16/791de708-a6ad-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html

By Greg Miller, Tuesday, April 16, 12:05 PM

U.S. law enforcement officials said Tuesday that a Saudi national injured in the Boston Marathon bombing is regarded as a witness, not a suspect.

The Saudi, who is recuperating at a Boston hospital, is in his 20s and is in the United States on a Saudi scholarship to study at a university in the Boston area.

The federal officials’ explanation echoed comments by a Saudi official at the country’s embassy in Washington. The embassy official said that a Saudi national has been questioned as a witness but is not regarded as a suspect. The Saudi official cited information provided to the embassy by U.S. law enforcement officials.

“We’re not aware of any Saudi suspect or Saudi person of interest,” said the Saudi official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the preliminary nature of the information.

He declined to identify the young man, but said he sustained serious burn injuries. The official said the victim is cooperating with U.S. investigators and granted permission for his Boston area apartment to be searched.

“He volunteered to have it searched,” the Saudi official said. “He is fully cooperating with authorities.”

He is one of two Saudi citizens who were injured in the attacks, officials said. The other is a female student who attended the race with her son and husband, and who sustained shrapnel injuries to her legs.

They are among thousands of Saudi nationals who attend college in the United States. The Saudi consulate in New York has dispatched a representative to Boston to meet with the hospitalized Saudi.

[treythemovie]

The fud about that Saudi Arabia student just won't stop

King Says Bombing Should Slow Immigration Reform
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told National Review that Congress "should be cautious about rushing immigration reform, especially after Monday's bombing in Boston, where three people were killed."

Said King: "Some of the speculation that has come out is that yes, it was a foreign national and, speculating here, that it was potentially a person on a student visa. If that's the case, then we need to take a look at the big picture."

He added: "We need to take a look at the visa-waiver program and wonder what we're doing. If we can't background check people that are coming from Saudi Arabia, how do we think we are going to background check the 11 to 20 million people that are here from who knows where."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/16/king_says_bombing_should_slow_immigration_reform.html

Bachmann's boytoy is such a racist smh

[Squiddy]

Americans am cry.
2 people die, two dozen are maimed.

Elsewhere, like say in Iraq, that's how many people are killed on a daily basis thanks to insurgent bombings.

Most of you don't even know the people who have died or gotten injured, you're no better than Ashodin and his feeble attempt at mourn-olympics.
Fucking grow up you immature imbeciles.

[Himu]

Can we ban beefcutlets yet or at least change his posts to pics of kitties and puppies when he posts

[TakingBackSunday]

oh fuck off.

[Great Rumbler]

blabblahblabh

 

[Rufus]

People care more about tragedies that are closer than they do about distant ones in countries where it's all but expected because they're still ruined. What a revelation. Get fucked with that 'grow up' nonsense.

[Joe Molotov]

Americans am cry.
2 people die, two dozen are maimed.

Elsewhere, like say in Iraq, that's how many people are killed on a daily basis thanks to insurgent bombings.

Most of you don't even know the people who have died or gotten injured, you're no better than Ashodin and his feeble attempt at mourn-olympics.
Fucking grow up you immature imbeciles.

 

When your country gets blown up, I'll be sure not to care about it.

[Phoenix Dark]

Americans am cry.
2 people die, two dozen are maimed.

Elsewhere, like say in Iraq, that's how many people are killed on a daily basis thanks to insurgent bombings.

Most of you don't even know the people who have died or gotten injured, you're no better than Ashodin and his feeble attempt at mourn-olympics.
Fucking grow up you immature imbeciles.