Posted on 04/17/2013 7:25:00 AM PDT by Nachum
The FBI has begun to send pictures and other data from the crime-scene investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing to law-enforcement agencies around the country, including an image of a shredded black backpack in which one of the devices may have been hidden. Reuters and the Associated Press managed to get copies of the unclassified bulletin and published a few of the images late in the evening, as did ABC:
that the bomb inside the backpack was an “improvised explosive device (IED)” made out of a common pressure cooker. ABC News had previously reported that law enforcement recovered mangled parts of a pressure cooker bomb that included wires, shrapnel and a circuit board.
The advisory said there was “insufficient evidence” to determine if the second explosive, which was also hidden in a backpack less than a block away, was made from a pressure cooker as well.
Authorities have not yet determined the fusing system for the devices or what exactly set them off, the advisory said. The blasts erupted at approximately 2:50 p.m. EST near the marathon’s finish line Monday afternoon killing three people — including an 8-year-old boy — and injuring more than 170 others. Authorities have no suspects in the case and no group, domestic or international, has taken responsibility for the attack.
I find that pretty curious, actually. Normally, terrorist groups use the media frenzy as a platform for their extremist agendas. Obviously the media interest won’t fade away completely in the next couple of days, but the arc of media coverage will begin to wane significantly as normal news coverage returns. Why wait to make the agenda for the attack known rather than take advantage of the short-lived terror it caused?
CBS has more of the images, and the FBI’s call for more:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
This one and reddit has some serious investigation going on .
Some very observant FReepers are on the case, too.
Great link. Put it on my “dead pool” file under “working theories”
http://www.nachumlist.com/deadpool.htm
and on Twitter.
Bet it hits the news cycle in an hour :)
“This one and reddit has some serious investigation going on .”
They may as well. If there’s a chance that someone “brown” did it, Obama’s FBI won’t be interested. See: Benghazi.
Thanks for the great link.
The foreign looking guy wiyh a full backpack, a wire going into one ear, wearing psuedo military pants with side pockets...and standing alone, looks a little suspicious to me.
OMG!!!! Whoever is making those circles and arrows is FABULOUS!!
Because the terrorists' audience is not the general public, the audience is the Obama administration.
Their message is "comply with the demands we have given you, or we will paint the streets of America red with blood, and people will blame YOU".
Pressure cookers, aren’t as popular today, as they were 30 years ago, and I would suggest it would be difficult to buy one....pressure cookers available today are probably made offshore....I would think it a simple task to locate the prime distributors of these cookers, and follow up to the local stores/outlets....
This morning (on the radio) I heard that they are now looking at all the purchases of pressure cookers in the Boston area.
Fortunately (or in a odd sense, unfortunately) we've killed most of them. The survivors are much smarter. If they have network(s) in this country that are still intact and functioning, they aren't going to bring increase scrutiny on them by bragging. Also, history has proved that the act causes the terror they desire, the bragging often causes people to get angry instead of scared. And fear IS what they are after.
Did you see the chick labeled ‘da bomb’? No, I’m not loling.
Huh? They can be purchased in any big store and most hardware stores. The local hardware near me even carries parts ( gaskets, blow-out plugs) for most brands and sizes.
Pressure cookers are about as rare as coleman lanterns or canning jars, ie not at all.
Typical 4chan juvenile humor.
Didn’t you know the definition of ‘not as popular today’ is ‘I’ don’t have one. As for the difficulty in buying one, money and WalMart equals pressure cooker.
Over here - pics
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