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Started by LMNO, April 15, 2013, 08:19:14 PM

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Cain

#15
April 15, 2013, 08:57:40 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2013, 08:53:55 PM
Cain, would I be right in thinking the probability of a third explosion decreases significantly as time passes without incident?

Eventually, yes.

Sometimes there are secondary bombs which are designed to kill emergency responders.  Those can be detonated up to an hour after the first attacks.

I see GA has also covered this point, more or less.

LMNO

#16
April 15, 2013, 09:00:04 PM
Police did/are finding devices, and unfortunately have to blow them up, which is freaking everyone out.

Cain

#17
April 15, 2013, 09:02:23 PM
Well, that rules out any chance of this being a serious gas-line error, then.

BBC has drawn parallels between this and the 1996 Atlanta bombings.

LMNO

#18
April 15, 2013, 09:08:28 PM
I shit you not, the thought running through my head on loop is, "If you're scared, the terrorists have won."

Cain

#19
April 15, 2013, 09:08:50 PM
"the Associated Press is reporting that Newtown families were in the VIP area next to the finish line."

Update: 2 dead, 22 injured, from the BBC.

Cain

#20
April 15, 2013, 09:16:53 PM
Police have confirmed the source were "small homemade" bombs at the news conference.

The Good Reverend Roger

#21
April 15, 2013, 09:17:30 PM
This is too fucking convenient.

The war porn wasn't scaring anyone.  Might have been domestic yahoos, ME and DPRK types like the GREAT BIG SYMBOLIC targets...But I smell shit.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#22
April 15, 2013, 09:17:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 15, 2013, 09:16:53 PM
Police have confirmed the source were "small homemade" bombs at the news conference.

Wait.  Bombs at the conference, or confirmation at the conference?
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

#23
April 15, 2013, 09:20:35 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 15, 2013, 09:17:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 15, 2013, 09:16:53 PM
Police have confirmed the source were "small homemade" bombs at the news conference.

Wait.  Bombs at the conference, or confirmation at the conference?

Latter. 

QuoteBREAKING: Small homemade bomb is preliminary cause of explosion at Boston Marathon, law enforcement officials tell NBC News

— NBC Nightly News (@nbcnightlynews) April 15, 2013

The Good Reverend Roger

#24
April 15, 2013, 09:21:50 PM
I wonder who's going to get this stapled to their faces?

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

#25
April 15, 2013, 09:24:35 PM
"Patriot's Day" in Mass. today.

American nativism + lots of foreigners is often a less than amicable mix.  Not sold on it, just suggesting.  Islamists also like international events.  Small and homemade suggests a less professional outfit though, maybe even a "lone wolf" radical.

Cain

#26
April 15, 2013, 09:27:25 PM
Two more devices found and dismantled.

Quote from: BBC Live FeedBreaking News

Citing a US intelligence official, the Associated Press reports two more explosive devices have been found at the Boston Marathon and are being dismantled.

I assume these are in addition to the one the police destroyed with a controlled explosion.  So that means at least five bombs.

LMNO

#27
April 15, 2013, 09:27:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 15, 2013, 09:02:23 PM
BBC has drawn parallels between this and the 1996 Atlanta bombings.

Any more on this one?

Cain

#28
April 15, 2013, 09:28:50 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on April 15, 2013, 09:27:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 15, 2013, 09:02:23 PM
BBC has drawn parallels between this and the 1996 Atlanta bombings.

Any more on this one?

Not really.  Just noting that the last time a sports venue specifically came under attack was that particular episode.

Elder Iptuous

#29
April 15, 2013, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Cain on April 15, 2013, 09:27:25 PM
Two more devices found and dismantled.

Quote from: BBC Live FeedBreaking News

Citing a US intelligence official, the Associated Press reports two more explosive devices have been found at the Boston Marathon and are being dismantled.

I assume these are in addition to the one the police destroyed with a controlled explosion.  So that means at least five bombs.
were they all in the same general location?
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