Things go boom

[Elder Iptuous]

only tangentially related, but it's quite a coincidence; this guy goes up to Boston to run the marathon, crossing the finish line moments before the first bomb, then flies back to his home in TX where he was driving on I35 through West, where he was close enough to feel the blast of that explosion!

[Suu]

only tangentially related, but it's quite a coincidence; this guy goes up to Boston to run the marathon, crossing the finish line moments before the first bomb, then flies back to his home in TX where he was driving on I35 through West, where he was close enough to feel the blast of that explosion!

That guy is going to have some stories to tell his grandkids.

[Suu]

He's on the fucking run. CT and RI have been notified to lookout for his car. They think he's headed to NYC.

[LMNO]

Word of a third accomplice, who was stripped before being put in the cop car, due to fear of hidden bombs.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

He's on the fucking run. CT and RI have been notified to lookout for his car. They think he's headed to NYC.

Looks like he's holed up in Watertown.

They are looking for 2 other people now.

[Eve]

Local news says state police/SWAT are quietly clearing out a section of Watertown.

[Junkenstein]

only tangentially related, but it's quite a coincidence; this guy goes up to Boston to run the marathon, crossing the finish line moments before the first bomb, then flies back to his home in TX where he was driving on I35 through West, where he was close enough to feel the blast of that explosion!

House prices near to where that guy lives must be dropping fast.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm still avoiding speculation, but I can't see any flaws.

I can.  I'm speculating.  I am also not an expert.  I have some counterinsurgency training, way the fuck back in the stone age, but that was in terms of infantry in suppression of, not political motivations for, terrorists.

But it's a good guess, I think, and I'm sort of sticking to it until facts either prove me right or cause me to publicly wallow in my shame.

*wallow, wallow*

[The Good Reverend Roger]

No, I think it was a local.  Why?  Because the Boston Marathon is a regional thing.  Outside of Boston and the marathon/self-flaggelation crowd, it's unknown.  So it was someone from that region.  It occurred on tax day, so it was more than likely a right wing loon.  I can accept the possibility that it was a local self-radicalized Muslim or something like that, but that possibility seems pretty slim.  The choices of date & target don't add up.  The symbolism is all wrong.

Given the incompetence in the bomb making, I assume it was an amateur, another Eric Rudolph, maybe.

And Roger's gut leads him wrong.

[Cain]

It's still possible this isn't a Muslim thing.

I mean, the odds are definitely higher that it is.  But I'm waiting to see what we find out before jumping to any conclusions.  Even the very plausible theory offered by Enki about an FBI entrapment operation gone wrong.

[LMNO]

Even the very plausible theory offered by Enki about an FBI entrapment operation gone wrong.

I must have missed that, because Enki.  But it's a pretty interesting theory.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Even the very plausible theory offered by Enki about an FBI entrapment operation gone wrong.

I must have missed that, because Enki.  But it's a pretty interesting theory.

Enki? Plausible? 

[Cain]

Even the very plausible theory offered by Enki about an FBI entrapment operation gone wrong.

I must have missed that, because Enki.  But it's a pretty interesting theory.

It was on IRC, just now.  Essentially, the theory is the FBI radicalised these guys, but they got too enthusiastic and made the bombs themselves, instead of waiting for duds from their handler.

It's possible, it has happened before.  But we can't know for sure this early into the investigation.

[Suu]

He's on the fucking run. CT and RI have been notified to lookout for his car. They think he's headed to NYC.

Looks like he's holed up in Watertown.

They are looking for 2 other people now.

That's not what I just heard.

GO MEDIA! WOOOO!

[Faust]

No, I think it was a local.  Why?  Because the Boston Marathon is a regional thing.  Outside of Boston and the marathon/self-flaggelation crowd, it's unknown.  So it was someone from that region.  It occurred on tax day, so it was more than likely a right wing loon.  I can accept the possibility that it was a local self-radicalized Muslim or something like that, but that possibility seems pretty slim.  The choices of date & target don't add up.  The symbolism is all wrong.

Given the incompetence in the bomb making, I assume it was an amateur, another Eric Rudolph, maybe.

And Roger's gut leads him wrong.

Hey at least you didn't nearly get the wrong guy killed like reddit and 4chan did.