ObviouslyOriginally Posted by Fuchs
Nonetheless, I think it's quite hard for people to simply 'tune out' something so close to home once the initial story breaks.
I posted this earlier and in bold updates:Several tweets that a suspect is in custody - now denied by BPD; alongside higher casualty figures - now denied by BPD and the inevitable array of video footage and stills.
davidbfpo
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?
It's mostly bunk, but normal in the aftermath of this kind of incident. People are imagining additional threats.
John Wolfsberger, Jr.
An unruffled person with some useful skills.
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
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
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