Boston bombs - developing news

[Kooky]

Choc's safe, I'm chatting to her right now. Mr Choc also. Very close by choc's work.

[chocolate]

thanks kooky

[Kooky]

I thought I told you to go raid the chocolate vending machine?

[chocolate]

I thought I told you to go raid the chocolate vending machine?

yes m'am

[nev]

Take care choc, just saw this and immediately thought of you. xx

[Lili Von Shtupp]

Horrible news, glad you're safe, Choc. Boston must be just devastated, but it's a scrappy fighter of a city. Nothing will keep it down.

[daffodil]

Hope the cowards who did this are swiftly caught and brought to justice. Glad all ok in the choc household.

[T2K]

Prediction: it will be a US citizen or legal resident with connections to extremists in the Middle East or Pakistan. Similar to the last big terrorist attack in the US, the Army Major in Texas (even though the Obama administration classifies that as "workplace violence").

[baloo]

I thought it would more likely be a weird us based breakaway mob like the Oklahoma bombing.

[T2K]

You mean "anti-government homegrown terrorists" - certainly a possibility. Or a foreign terrorist cell. But, we'lll soon find out and I'll stick with my prediction. These things don't go unsolved.

[avatarless]

Ugh... how many times have I walked down that street...? So very different when you've lived there. In contrast, the earthquake in Iran in which hundreds died barely registers for me.... Nor does the bombing in Baghdad. Glad to hear everything's OK with you, Choc! As for whodunnit, the two options left are lone nut-job and false flag attack; you'll never prove the latter, so I guess I'll take the first.

[chocolate]

So far no one knows anything - lots of heightened security around. thanks all..

[Tas]

For some reason, my unsupported theory is homegrown, along lines of Baloo comment. Few folk around work suggested North Korea connection, in a parallel of the 1987 Korean Airline bombing, given timing of current conflict. ALL unsupported and as per T2K, do trust there will be some very clever investigations going on, and in due course some inkling of answer will come to the front.

[T2K]

I bet within one week we know who did it, more or less why they did it, etc.

A "homegrown" terrorist would have attacked something at least ostensibly related to the federal government, I think.

[slinky]

A "homegrown" terrorist would have attacked something at least ostensibly related to the federal government, I think.

That's what Mr. S was saying & I've seen reference to that idea a few times in various news articles.

Right now I'm just hoping they catch the person(s) responsible before they get a chance to do it again. I've seen headlines saying things like 'Trail gone cold' which I hope isn't the case for long.

[Lili Von Shtupp]

One thing that's made me thankful about living overseas - I don't have to suffer the effects of the 24 hour cable news cycle and all its fricken hype spewage, frothing up the natives.

[baloo]

I bet within one week we know who did it, more or less why they did it, etc.

A "homegrown" terrorist would have attacked something at least ostensibly related to the federal government, I think.

Fair point. It could be race related....

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

[skank-la]

Dennis Lehane: "Boston took a punch on Monday — two of them, actually — that left it staggering for a bit. Flesh proved vulnerable, as flesh is wont to do, but the spirit merely trembled before recasting itself into something stronger than any bomb or rage."

A great piece in the New York Times by Boston's Native Son

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/opini ... .html?_r=0

[expat yorkshire]

coincidence ?

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/te ... index.html

[baloo]

Looking at the photos of the people they are trying to find, I'd say T2K's early, but very low risk call might be on the money.

[nev]

Grenades, explosions in Boston

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/north ... 6624370358

[T2K]

Admittedly, my prediction was the most logical and low-risk. Of course, that hasn't stopped a lot of our domestic idiots in the US from fervently praying that the Boston bombing was committed by white boys that don't vote D.

They'll be caught within 48 hours I bet.

The MIT thing, if in fact it really is "automatic gunfire" (this is routinely mis-reported in the US, though) and hand grenades may be related. Machineguns and military-grade explosives are rare items in US crimes.

[slinky]

News reports are saying it's possible that the MIT guys are the suspects from the bombing at the Marathon. Apparently one is in custody and the other is at large. I would expect we'll hear soon whether or not these are the same guys.

[Tas]

Jeez, hate to think Alan Jones could be right.

[T2K]

Not sure who Alan Jones is.

But it looks like it's the two guys from the photo. For some reason they robbed a 7-11 and then an MIT cop responded, was shot and later died, one terrorist (the one in the black hat) was later killed in a shootout after a chase, white hat one is still at large (but will not doubt be caught or killed soon).
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/bos ... 55149.html