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Experts Skeptical Homegrown Terrorists Were Behind Boston Bombings
National Journal ^ | April 16, 2013 | Matt Vasilogambros

Posted on 04/16/2013 6:56:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: null and void

I don’t read much into that fact except for that is when the security got let down, which then allowed the bombers to strike.

Security is for the Official People, donchaknow? Not for the average at paying shlub.


21 posted on 04/16/2013 7:42:22 PM PDT by SargeK
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To: SargeK
a less experienced and effective security presence that presented the opportunity for the attackers.

Yep.

How did that happen?

Obama administration has SLASHED budget for domestic bombing prevention by 45 per cent…

22 posted on 04/16/2013 7:42:36 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In February 2010, a man flew a small plane into the IRS building in Austin, Texas, killing himself and one other person.

Um, National Journal, check your facts:
That guy was not a right-winger or a typical "anti-tax" activist.

He wrote a rambling, confused manifesto that was more left-wing than anything else.

23 posted on 04/16/2013 7:46:23 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: mass55th
"Most of the evidence points against an antigovernment group being responsible..."

I had to read that twice, myself.

24 posted on 04/16/2013 7:46:44 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Yeah, I can see it being lefties who are trying to make conservatives look bad. Anyone remember the D.C. sniper case a few years back? The media was going on and on about right wing movements, until they actually found the shooter...


25 posted on 04/16/2013 7:47:33 PM PDT by NorthernCrunchyCon (Rand Paul/ Nigel Farage)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am thinking the Boston Marathon, where there are women runners, is the type of event they would want to target. Women runners do not observe the strict dress code that Muslims want. The ability to run 26 miles would be difficult in the hijab and long clothing to conform with Islamic modesty laws.


26 posted on 04/16/2013 7:48:36 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: skeeter

[. . . this writer sure sounds like he wants us to believe it was domestic terrorists who bombed the marathon.]

Yeah, it’s bait-and-switch.


27 posted on 04/16/2013 7:51:29 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Precisely! And the low information voter, which they cater to, has already been convinced that it was a Tea Party supporter or an NRA Member or any Conservative perpetrated this. Conclusions have already been drawn - Big Dyke Napolitano has already declared that it was not part of a larger plot - despite having very few facts. Of course if it were perpetrated by the 0bama regime she WOULD know the extent of involvement.


28 posted on 04/16/2013 7:54:31 PM PDT by 21st Century Crusader (August 26, 1191)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Surely you don’t mean to suggest that the SPLC is in the defamation for profit business?


29 posted on 04/16/2013 7:57:47 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: digger48

Thanks for pointing that out to me. I’ll blame my old age for misreading it :-)


30 posted on 04/16/2013 8:11:04 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SargeK

McVey was a useful idiot for a Muslim group.


31 posted on 04/16/2013 8:19:38 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Was any one from Sarah's family running?

A Ha~~!!!! J'accuse

32 posted on 04/16/2013 8:36:20 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: jsanders2001

Yes. It seems to me that if it were a home grown group, they would have announced themselves by now. The mudslimes used to climb all over themselves to take credit before, but they’ve gotten smarter now.


33 posted on 04/16/2013 8:42:25 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: PghBaldy

Eric Michael Rudolph is one of the few non-muslim terrorists, if not the only, I can think of who targeted civilians (excluding the civil rights era).


This guy is a terrorist so your statement is incorrect. I don’t give a damn who a terrorist votes for or does not vote for.

http://www.khq.com/story/16366575/in-depth-coverage-the-harpham-sentencing


34 posted on 04/16/2013 9:14:29 PM PDT by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The article is basically a press release by the SPLC wrapped up as an info piece.


35 posted on 04/16/2013 10:14:35 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: the OlLine Rebel

It might be almost any radical group-—But-—I do think the mass wounding, double bombs, Terror at a soft target seem to point to the Middle East—maybe payback for Drone attacks? Maybe something paid for by Iran? Maybe Egyptians hitting us for holding the Blind Sheikh they worship? Could be almost anything. The truth will come out—I only play its before they strike again.


36 posted on 04/16/2013 11:17:53 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“President Obama made it clear on Tuesday....”

Unfortunately, America’s idiot chief exec couldn’t make clear a hot and cloudless day in July.


37 posted on 04/17/2013 12:38:18 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Most likely a random Moslem individual or group of pals. No affiliation. Just like the other small-time bombers who failed. Times Square, etc. Probably American in origin, but not in culture.


38 posted on 04/17/2013 6:51:00 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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