Really, how could the bombs have cost?
Pressure cooker, powder from fireworks, nails and bbs from Home Depot?
These were not neutron bombs.
These people are conspiracy theorists. They are just waiting for the conspiracy to take shape.
Starting from the bombing with a very chaotic situation involving tens of thousands of people. Throw in a news media last week in an absolutely desperate frenzy for ANYTHING to post on their websites, and you get a lot of weird, irrelevant, bad, incorrect and confused timelines with varying info of varying accuracy out in the world.
Then add paranoid conspiracy theorists of the anti-Police, anti-Government, anti-Muslim, pro-Muslim, pro-gun, anti-gun on and on and these people desperately trying to shape a narrative (that is already riddled with inaccuracies anyway) to fit their ideological needs.
Then to top it all off you have the police and legal authorities trying to actually build a legal case against the remaining terrorist and anyone who may or may not have helped him, and therefore wanting to keep a lid on what goes out in public, especially the more accurate stuff...
...and you have for me the PERFECT STORM OF BULLSHIT that means I can no longer read anything online about this whole case.
Iknow who did the actual bombing, I’ll wait a few months to find out what else is known about why, how and who helped them. But the lunacy of people who want there to be an elaborate hoax somewhere in here, frankly scares me.
Not much. But, based on the report they bought $200 worth of fireworks containing about three pounds of extractable powder, they overpaid. A Fagor 6-qt pressure cooker is about $70 (unless you have one of the females boost it). The detonation system was made from a model-car remote (probably plus a carefully broken Christmas tree bulb).
These were not neutron bombs.
According the AQ Chef, these were not even chemical bombs. He reserves the term "chemical" for high (or "military grade") explosives, such as TNT, C4, and RDX. Rather, these were "mechanical" explosions in his classification, resulting from the deflagration of an inflammable material within a confined space.