Posted on 04/15/2013 3:31:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Initial reports from the Boston Police are citing 3 dead and dozens injured by 2 successive explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line. The Boston Marathon is an international spectacle, established in 1897. The world's best marathon runners train for this event and this attack certainly mars this historic event.
As the situation is both breaking and dynamic, details about the background of the bombing are slowly emerging. An analysis of open-source intel, currently available, suggests that there is indeed a potential for there to be involvement on behalf of a foreign terrorist organization or even a home grown terrorist cell. As of now, Boston Police are operating under the assumption that this is a 'possible terrorist attack.'
1. Today, the 15th of April, is known as 'Patriot's Day' in Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin. This civic holiday marks the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. The obviously powerful nationalist imagery of today's date leaves the potential for symbolic targeting.
2. Video footage and witness reports are indicative of IED-like explosions that were possibly located in trash cans. The nature of these coordinated explosions are certainly the products of a deliberate attack and not a possible accident or gas line explosions. IED's are typical in asymmetric warfare attacks, commonplace with insurgent attacks. Further reports suggest the use of intentional shrapnel, like ball bearings or possibly shot gun pellets.
3. In yesterday's New York Times, an op-ed was published titled "Gitmo is killing me," which described the hunger strikes and treatment of the prisoners held there. This attack could be coordinated to the publicity associated with the running of the piece.
Boston area hospitals are reporting numerous cases of lost limbs and shrapnel related injuries....
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Maybe they were sick. OTOH, this could be a big piece of the puzzle. I'm certain our alert State Department will check it out immediately. If they can find Kenya on the map.
True, but since 1969, Massachussetts has celebrated Patriot's Day on the 3rd Monday in April.
Nah, couldn’t be. Everybody knows it was those evil MSM reporters who did it. They get overtime for covering stuff like this, you know, so they have a financial motive. Probably network terrorism consultants... they’d never get paid if there were no incidents.
Okay, maybe I’m being wry, but let’s remember that in those fire districts where volunteer firefighters are paid by the call, the group most responsible for arson fires is volunteer firefighters.
As the guy use to say on a TV show ‘verly interesting’.
2 more unexplored devices have been found. A third device has been found at Boston college but has not been reported
Probably there is a way to shut down cell traffic for phones you buy and don’t have to give any info - SS#, address, dob etc - so that detonating cell phones can be shut down.
Same day as the Waco fire twenty years ago
Pray for Becka.
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Sometimes a Kenyan is just a Kenyan...
We pray for the Victims, Liberals “pray” that the Perps are Right Wing Tea Party NRA Members.
Only two ball bearings a week and no high capacity trash cans.
“Five of the Kenyan elite didnt run this year. They said they were sick.”
Call it #4 - Source?
I’ll add:
5. US drones strike in Paki. Widely reported last night.
6. John Miller reported the latest edition of the jihad magazine Inspire encouraged jihadis to act on their own in the US and gave receipes for explosives.
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Don't know if it's significant, but in addition to
1. Today, the 15th of April, is known as 'Patriot's Day' in Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin. This civic holiday marks the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. The obviously powerful nationalist imagery of today's date leaves the potential for symbolic targeting.
Today is Yom HaZikaron in Israel, Memorial Day for fallen war dead, tomorrow is Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel's Indepencence Day. Different calendar, it's the 5th of Iyar, not May 15.
I suppose it doesn't matter, but this thread State Department Ramping Up Program to Bring Muslim Students to the US-skyscraper surplus? is less than 2 weeks old.
What happens when the temperatures warm and the snow melts? Craziness from a winter of people with a bad case of cabin fever or what. Maybe tax day has taxed people past their tipping point of watching their hard earned money stolen by the federal government only to watch it be pissed away and wasted like millions of dollars to China for birth control.
Within short order of recent American History, the anniversaries of horribly pointless tragedies, beginning with the Virginia Tech shootings on April 16, 2007; the Oklahoma City Bombing on April 19, 1995, which unimaginable event was premeditated by the bloody end of the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas on April, 19, 1993; and ending with the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999, are the all-consuming, blazing memories of those living and left behind, who cannot forget. Will they, the ones left behind, find closure or peace of mind some day? It would seem doubtful.
Early American History entails the tense events of the night of April 18, 1775, when Paul Revere and William Dawes are sent from Boston to warn colonists that British soldiers were coming to destroy their weapons depot. Revere reaches Lexington, Massachusetts around midnight and warns Sam Adams and John Hancock. Thus, the beginning of the American Revolution ensued.
April 12, 1861 was the beginning of the American Civil War, which ended, when Confederate resistance collapsed after General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865. Five days later, President Abraham Lincoln was the first president of the United States to be assassinated on Good Friday, April 14, 1865.
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Philadelphia Deringer pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to shoot and kill President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865
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The Rwandan Genocide (April 6, 1994) and the Armenian Genocide (April 24, 1915) commemorate the horror and indescribable suffering of ethnic cleansing. Following these blows to humankind by humankind are the Qana Massacre in Southern Lebanon (04/18/1996) and the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia (04/28/1996).
The momentous natural disaster of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 took place on April 18, and the tragic sinking of the RMS Titanic occurred in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912. The Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 was a nuclear accident that is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It resulted in a severe release of radioactivity due to a power excursion that destroyed one of the site’s reactors. Most fatalities from the accident were caused by radiation poisoning. An accident it may have been, but it was still manmade.
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Adolph Hitler, born April 20, 1889
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The key to Germanys ruin was the birth of Adolph Hitler on April 20, 1889, which Neo-Nazis will be celebrating this coming Tuesday, and the rest of the world will ignore or try to forget. His birth staged the culmination of disaster and disgrace that was the Third Reich. A termination that inevitably marked Germany as the devil incarnate of humanity to this day. Though, apparently it is not the only country with an evil past.
On April 13, 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency director Allen Dulles authorized the MK-ULTRA project. Launching one of its most dubious covert programs ever and turning unsuspecting humans into guinea pigs for its research into mind-altering drugs. Due to its possibly delicate disposition, no information is available on the CIA website in regards to this project.
Two events of the 20th century that greatly impacted the United States were the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968, whose death was a tremendous loss of hope and caused violence of historical proportions, and the racial Los Angeles Riots after the Rodney King verdict on April 29, 1992, which turned L.A., ironically ‘the city of angels, into a warzone of helter-skelter .
Yup, April sucks.
Third to last paragraph describes the Kenyan exuces.
I also heard that he holds an FFL, and has a hoard of food & supplies in an underground bunker, too.
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Q: What’s the difference between a “basement” and an “underground bunker?
A: Liberals have a basement under their house, with a well stocked, comfortable “man-cave”; Conservatives have the same thing, except we call it a “cramped underground bunker, filled with hoarded supplies”.
Kenyan is just a Kenyan......LOL
The only significance in the date IMHO, is that this was the date set for the Boston Marathon. That means there would be a whole crowd of people standing around a street. IE - Easy targets. So it was a target of opportunity. Now that does not preclude the possibility that there has been type of sleeper activation where they are supposed to target opportunity. If these Islamic Terrorist organizations are as meticulous in their planning as Communist Terrorist organizations, they could have all annual targets targeted through out the calendar year. The sleepers just wait to be awoken. Then they check their calendars.
i cannot find any news stories on the five elite runners from Africa who pulled out of the Boston Marathon...
Third paragraph from last.
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