Posted on 04/15/2013 7:26:59 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
A renowned expert on world terrorism says the deadly blasts that rocked Boston have all the earmarks of a domestic attack — not unlike Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 truck-bomb explosion in Oklahoma City.
“It’s interesting the timing of this event,’’ Dr. Harvey Kushner told Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show.
“It’s Patriot’s Day, Tax Day. It’s a holiday in Boston and we’re coming up on what was the Oklahoma City bombing April 19th, and also the Battle of Lexington, which started the American Revolution.
“A lot of domestic terrorist organizations used to key in on that date, April 19. And Boston … is the center of this patriot movement and patriot feeling.’’
Kushner, author of “Holy War on the Home Front: The Secret Islamic Terror Network in the United States’’ and “The Encyclopedia of Terrorism’’ said the marathon’s prominence appears to be a factor in it being targeted.
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“Whether it’s at the hand of a domestic terrorist, or an internationally sponsored group or a wannabe, this is not good for this country because it just shows the vulnerability of this nation.
“This is not flying planes into buildings, but it’s certainly hitting America on an important day and it just shows our vulnerability.’’
He said he believed the explosions could be the work of “a McVeigh type, if I could be so bold.’’
Kushner, Chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice at Long Island University, said other large U.S. cities could now be in jeopardy.
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IMO, they seem like a hastily planned and executed jihadist attack in retalliation for the children that obama killed last week. and you can bet they’ll try like hell to cover that reality up if it turns out to be the case. This wasn’t domestic.
What a crock! Trying to pin this on some radical 'conservative' (as they attempted to make McVeigh) is exactly what liberals want to do.
It's far more likely to be a Muslim associate - just the type that liberals love to make nice with.
Long Island University? LOL
Loser- Big Loser
You're onto something. This coulda been a revenge of those who had to undergo the torture of watching the movie!
Yes I was thinking the same thing this is a large sophisticated cell that wanted to kill American children. This is Jihadi....
I’m telling you THE BABY KILLERS DID IT!!!!!
Foreign jihadis would have more explosives too, so my money is on 1-3 local jihadis.
But what do I know.
Yep...large cell also at least 8-10. I bet none of these lefties aching to blame it on the tea party wouldn’t take you up on your bet.
Did you happen to notice the media airing the democrip proposition that we must give up some of our rights to be safer, BEFORE this latest suspicious bombing?
Is that because people who think the military planted a chip in their head always hate marathon runners ?
Today is the day President Lincoln died, I'm sure this bombing was the work of a Confederate patriot.
Today was the day that Jackie Robinson first played in a Major League Baseball game, I'm sure this was the work of a racist Klansman.
Today is the anniversary of Pol Pot's death, I'm sure this was the work of someone against the Vietnam War.
Oh yea, and we're coming up on the date of the Waco Massacre (even though it's not until February, it's still coming up)
See how easy this is when you can just make shit up?
At the sake of being berated I will make a comment. First these idiots out in the media trying to make this a Right Wind conspiracy issue are idiots as we all know. What I will admit to is that I had concerns when I heard about what happened. My instinct is its Muslim extremists. However the timing of April 15th Patriots Day etc.. did give me pause to hope it wasn’t some crazy person or group that was upset over the current assault on our rights. I also thought through the process of maybe it was a left wing plot to try to frame the right wing.
Bottom line, I understand people, especially liberals, thinking it could be a right wing group, you just should not go on the air waves stirring the flames. I would also be tempted to jump to the conclusion that a leftist could be behind a terror attack if it happend on Lenin’s birthday, or an Iraqi attack if it happened on the day of Saddam’s execution.
Bottom line we need to find who did it and put the hammer down no matter who it turns out to be who did it!
Remember the Atlanta bombing? How the Clintons blamed the wrong man.
If only the liberals could capture McVey’s ghost. All these years liberals are demonizing vets as enemies of the State and yet no vet has come forward to take up McVey’s cause.
McVey was working with Islamists.
I agree. Al Qaeda likes using multiple bombs and teams, the later of which this clearly required. A large team of ‘home grown’ terrorists would have been ratted out because everyone else speaks English too.
The ‘experts’ are missing a few ‘connections’ to blame it on.
Today is the Anniversary of Kim Il Sung’s Birth.
The newest Li’l Kim has declared it a national holiday and is passing out presents to the peasants. Since he knows he can’t really nuke the USA, he has decided to give presents to Boston; Exploding backpacks..
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But the biggest connection that the left has failed to make:
Today is April 15th.
There is an A and an R in April.
AR-15.
AR-15 is an ugly black rifle with big ammunition ‘clips’;
Ergo: The NRA did it.
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