So I've seen one source reporting a car-bomb of some sort in Morris County New York.
Anyone see anything else? Or is it bunk?
So I've seen one source reporting a car-bomb of some sort in Morris County New York.
Anyone see anything else? Or is it bunk?
Doesn't surprise me. I see that infowars has already started up the coal-powered-conspiracy-machine. Not going to link that.
Great sig pic btw. I haven't read Sluggy Freelance since college.
Some of the unofficial reports speak of ball bearings or BBs in the bombs and of many severe lower extremity injuries, legs blown off and such. If this is all true, you have:
two devices going off almost simultaneously,
timed to go off when there were a maximum number of people around,
at a very high profile event,
constructed perhaps to broadcast metal fragments,
at a level where a lot of severe injuries are caused.
From this, my civilian, untrained self concludes, whoever did this was a pretty proficient terrorist, who either is a natural born genius who read a lot or was pretty well trained by people who knew what they were about.
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
CBS is reporting explosives were placed in 6-Liter pressure cookers.
Fwiw, the failed Times Square bombing also involved a pressure cooker.
“[S]omething in his tone now reminded her of his explanations of asymmetric warfare, a topic in which he had a keen and abiding interest. She remembered him telling her how terrorism was almost exclusively about branding, but only slightly less so about the psychology of lotteries…” - Zero History, William Gibson
We need Stan to surface and give some insight on this! This is straight up his alley.
The bombing occurred after the professionals and serious amateur runners had already finished – skipping the timeframe where there would be the most live-tv coverage. The people it targeted, who were finishing at that time, were the types who run to raise money for charity – normal Joes. The people who were standing around cheering, were likely to have been friends and families of those normal Joes.
Yeah, maybe. But the last few years of thwarted domestic terrorist attacks has involved a cavalcade of retards (literally in several cases) – so maybe the bar has just been set so low that “average” looks like “genius”.
“[S]omething in his tone now reminded her of his explanations of asymmetric warfare, a topic in which he had a keen and abiding interest. She remembered him telling her how terrorism was almost exclusively about branding, but only slightly less so about the psychology of lotteries…” - Zero History, William Gibson
bourbon, whats your overall assessment if you don't mind giving it?
The object perhaps was the average guy, the average American. That was the target in the failed Times Square attack too, average people in a very famous 'American' place. Times Square and the Boston Marathon are both things that would appear on the front cover of a 'Visit American' travel brochure.
In addition maybe the timing has something to do with relaxing as an event winds down. I read that is the best time to hit a patrol, when they are approaching the end and beginning to relax. This whole thing seems a cut above average in execution.
I am not trying to be contrary for its own sake, just playing devil's advocate.
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
I may be making too much of a generalization in terms of runners and spectators at the time; but it looks that way to me.
As an example my cousin was down by the finish line but left 30-60 minutes before the bombing; the "event" for her was watching the pro's finish - after that it was just kind of like watching a torrent of neighborhood joggers.
The Boston marathon also draws pro and serious runners from all over the world; the winners are usually like Kenyan or Ethiopian. When this international crowd is finishing is probably the height of live-tv coverage. The bomber(s) did not select this timeframe to hit.
Is such a change in the "demographics" relevant? I think we can't overlook it.
“[S]omething in his tone now reminded her of his explanations of asymmetric warfare, a topic in which he had a keen and abiding interest. She remembered him telling her how terrorism was almost exclusively about branding, but only slightly less so about the psychology of lotteries…” - Zero History, William Gibson
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