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Boston Marathon Bombings: What Happened And What Didn't (Nice summation of current info)
Deadspin.com ^ | 4/16/13 | Barry Petchesky

Posted on 04/16/2013 12:47:09 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter

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Aerial photo via Bing Maps. Graphic by Jim Cooke.

1 posted on 04/16/2013 12:47:09 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter

More pics, video and links at the original source.


2 posted on 04/16/2013 12:47:30 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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The timing gave rise to other kinds of speculation: Monday was Patriots' Day, after all. It's a Massachusetts holiday commemorating the opening battles of the American Revolution, one that's been co-opted by fringe groups. The Waco assault occurred on Patriots' Day,...

Are we to infer from this article that the US Government, which conducted the Waco Assault, is a fringe group?

3 posted on 04/16/2013 12:52:01 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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how refreshing to have just the facts as known......

about the Saudi student..he may not be a suspect but at the presser this morning one of the big shot cops said ICE was involved....I'll bet they're checking out a lot of "students"...

4 posted on 04/16/2013 12:53:18 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Straight Vermonter

Thanks for this post. It thought the explosions were across the street from each other. That’s what I get for listening to the news yesterday. DOH!


5 posted on 04/16/2013 12:54:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
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I want to know why Patriot’s day is the 15th and not the 19th.

Oh let me guess - they wanted long weekends even at tat level. Who cares when it actually is.


6 posted on 04/16/2013 12:55:42 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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Well, the second bomb is delayed to hit those who exit the building maybe? What building was that second bomb in front of? Might be a lead or clue.. There MUST be surveillance video of the person or persons who placed those backpacks there.

I would look closely at the location of the second bomb and why that spot was chosen. Could be more significant than the first bomb.

7 posted on 04/16/2013 12:55:43 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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Hitler’s birthday is April 20th. That would seem to rule him out. Besides, I’ve heard he’s dead.


8 posted on 04/16/2013 12:58:03 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Judging from the position of the "roof guy" determined from several photos and the location of the building he was on from Google maps, he does not have a view of either bomb site.

The building he was on was near the second bomb but he was well back from the front of the building and high enough that he would not have a view of the site.

Just a coincidence.

9 posted on 04/16/2013 12:58:15 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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They’ve been doing it that way since 1969. The holiday is a really big deal in Boston, I don’t see how it could be that way mid-week.

Look at it this way, 47 state don’t celebrate the day at all.


10 posted on 04/16/2013 1:00:34 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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“The JFK library, several miles away from the marathon route”

This is slightly misleading. It gives the impression that’s it’s a couple of miles down the road. Boston is a very small city. The JFK Library is not in downtown Boston at all. It is in Dorchester, part of Greater Boston, several miles to the south, by the water of Dorchester Bay, in a totally different area.


11 posted on 04/16/2013 1:00:56 PM PDT by cotton1706
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If the two bombs went off twelve seconds apart, that might indicate that the timers were meant to set them off at the same time.

The finish line and just before the finish line would likely be the most crowded spots.


12 posted on 04/16/2013 1:02:31 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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“They’ve been doing it that way since 1969. The holiday is a really big deal in Boston, I don’t see how it could be that way mid-week.”

By contrast, Bunker Hill day, June 17, is always celebrated on the date, no matter what day of the week it is. We Bostonians are a strange lot.


13 posted on 04/16/2013 1:03:57 PM PDT by cotton1706
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Point is, if the subject of the holiday is actually important, the ACTUAL DATE stays unchanged.

Thank God July 4 is still July 4, not the most convenient day for travelers and revelers. It must still be somewhat important to the Feds to not downgrade it to the closest Monday.


14 posted on 04/16/2013 1:05:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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I would look closely at the location of the second bomb and why that spot was chosen.

I would hazard a guess that the second explosion, being about 1 to 2 blocks down the street, was set there to catch anyone running away from the first explosion near the finish line.

There would be many more people on that side of the finish line than on the other side of the finish line.
12 seconds is enough, especially in this day and age, for most people not in the radius of the first blast to be moving away from the first and be caught in the second.

15 posted on 04/16/2013 1:06:29 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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My wife’s cousin is a Boston paramedic and was a first responder. His sister told us the injuries he responded to were “horrific”. Last night he was in the hospital helping the doctors and nurses.


16 posted on 04/16/2013 1:08:21 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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I’m sure there is software available to stitch together all the disparate videos taken at the scene. This is the kind of stuff that game designers do all day long.


17 posted on 04/16/2013 1:08:33 PM PDT by glorgau
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That is strange.

But then, is it actually “celebrated”? Or is it like our MD Day March 25, or Defender’s Day Sept 12 - noted in local calendars but no-one actually knows it unless you’re a geek like me?


18 posted on 04/16/2013 1:11:08 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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Accountability should be against Congress for leaving
the borders open, and against the DO”J” and
Obama for arming and defending al Qaeda.


19 posted on 04/16/2013 1:11:30 PM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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It’s celebrated at Bunker Hill, and remembered by those of us that remember. Otherwise, it’s just a day the the city and county employees get off.


20 posted on 04/16/2013 1:14:27 PM PDT by cotton1706
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