We have a friend who was 2 miles from finish when the blasts occurred. She is safe, and on a flight back to Seattle at this very moment. Craziness.Originally Posted by bae
We have a friend who was 2 miles from finish when the blasts occurred. She is safe, and on a flight back to Seattle at this very moment. Craziness.
Heard back. He and his wife were fine, they helped out folks as best they could, back home soon.
The Middle East didn't cross my mind. I thought of the Olympic Park bombing, and the foiled one recently in Spokane. I'll be very surprised if this isn't domestic terrorism.
We have heard back from most of the people we know who were running the race and they and their families are safe. Otherwise, we're in a bit of shock here in Boston. It's Patriot's Day - the proudest day of the year for our Commonwealth. That morning, a large crowd gathered at Lexington Common near where I work to view the re-enactment of the beginning of our American revolution. And then this horrific and pointless tragedy, some coward hurting spectators including children for no reason. It's still sinking in. It was even more surreal this morning receiving a message of support from our minister, currently traveling in Iraq. The world's turned upside down.
I spoke with my sister-in-law in Boston at 4. Surreal was the word she used, too. She said it was such a beautiful day--and now this craziness. I am so sorry, bUU, and glad you are not hurt.
I, too, am leaning towards it being domestic........probably some misfit who hated all the crowds in his neighborhood on this holiday. In a country with so many freedoms, it will always be hard to stop these heinous acts.
I'm so sad.
I didn't mean I thought the person who did this was from the mid-east. I was talking about haters in the mid-east celebrating that we were hurt, like those in London celebrating Thatcher's death.
It very well could have been a home grown terrorist. There is plenty of hateful rhetoric going around to get some nut fired up. It could be someone against Boston, someone against the race itself, or even someone against the government (patriots day) Who knows. But the fact that they found two un-blown bombs helps in that there is a world of evidence there not blown into a million pieces.
As an update, this morning they said the only two bombs were the ones which detonated -- no undetonated bombs were found.
I, too, lean toward thinking this is domestic terrorism. Frankly, I think AQ or other more famous terrorist organizations would have done a much better job of timing and sizing the blasts. In addition, someone (newspaper? TV?) pointed out that this week in American history is rife with domestic protest: Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, and some other incident I don't remember at the moment, all occured this week in April.
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Yea I thought that information about undetonated bombs would be found false (isn't there always lots of misinformation floating around at such times - the degree of it is astounding). No, I'm not going to go deep down some tin foil rabbit hole with "yes there were undetonated bombs and they are now covering them up". I'm just going to go with the official story and the initial informaiton was wrong, it amazes me how good my instincts are in suspecting all initial information sometimes. Called it!
I don't bother to have an opinion on who it is yet. We could find out it's North Korea for all I know (it's the type of scale they are actually capable far more than nuclear warheads). It could be a faulty gas line for all I know (yes I know there are supposed to be bombs and there probably were, I'm just withholding certainty). It could be some right wing nut in a very blue state obsessed with Patriot day (mind you being angry at the govt can be rational and maybe even moral, blowing up a marathon having nothing to do with it is not). I certainly don't have any reflexive urge to blame the middle east. Because yea it's theoretically possible, but we've been told to worry about mid-east violence for a decade plus since 9-11 and there hasn't been pretty much ANY in the U.S.. So me thinks that threat is overblown. In the same time period there actually have been a few incidents of domestic terrorism. Although if they party in the middle east I'd know why. They are tired of being blown up by U.S. government bombs pretty much.
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If we're going to speculate, I'll go with the President's friend and neighbor, Bill Ayers. Once you develop an explosive ordnance skillset, you gotta use it or lose it.
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