Thank you for the in-depth! Mixed up kid. [Feeling gloomy at least.] A mosque is apparently a block away. The mosque could be a coincidence, of course. So could the Mid East men like you said. And why would two Mid East men leave explosives that weren't encased in a halfway effective bomb? Kid sits on a bench. Boom. No crater because the explosives were elevated above the ground. Parts of body fly apparently a hundred yards. Someone feels his house shake a mile away. Bomb squads tear up the area.
All that going on and the media is quiet for so long.
I agree. This would normally be the type of story the media would jump on with non-stop coverage. Fox probably broke the story with their usual gong alert -- yet less than 24 hours later it's completely off the radar screen and they are back to covering missing people tonight.