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.
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....
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.
Breaking news with more pictures of device :
Hmm
What?
Actually, there are times when I have been impressed by 4chan, aka “Anonymous”. This is because, at times, they have proven very capable at vigilante justice against pedophiles, rapists and other criminals they despise.
For example, using some impressive computer forensics, they have located pedophiles very quickly, within hours, collected enormous amounts of incriminating information, and forwarded it to the appropriate police agencies, all without “tainting” it as evidence, so it is still admissible in court.
They also have a major down on local government that is complicit in crime, like the police and prosecutors in Steubenville, Ohio, who just did not want to prosecute players on their winning high school football team for the gang rape of an unconscious 15 year old girl. The police were extremely callous as well, saying that because the girl was unconscious, she shouldn’t have cared that she had been gang raped.
More recently, they are forcing a Canadian local government to act after a girl was gang raped and publicly humiliated by her rapists, ostracized in her town, all while the authorities shrugged it off as not having enough evidence to prosecute. Such as the pictures the rapists took and posted to Facebook. The young girl hung herself.
Credit in all of this goes to 4chan, and they are probably investigating the Boston marathon bombings because the government does not want to embarrass the Saudis, and other politically incorrect things, so is trying to cover it up.
So, in this case again, good for 4chan.
The electronics (battery, board, wiring, etc) look new and they can only be bought at electronic supply houses. Should be able to tell if all the electronics were bought at one supplier. If so, orders could be traced which contain these items.
Thank You Nachum for this thread and diligence in gather this info.
“I find that pretty curious, actually. Normally, terrorist groups use the media frenzy as a platform for their extremist agendas.”
Wouldn’t that suggest that the operation isn’t over?
Seems like the FBI could be able to determine the location of the bomb. Then it seems that they could scour photo’s and videos until that bag/package appears in the frame. Then find who placed it. It’d be nice if the FBI pointed out where the bomb was placed and detonated.