'Three dead' in explosions at Boston Marathon finish

Volt probably doesn't think so.

The Boston Marathon tragedy: Should the New York Post apologize for blaming an innocent Saudi national?

A 21-year-old student, who was injured in the blast, was quickly, and erroneously, labeled a suspect.
In the immediate chaos following the Boston Marathon bombings that left three people dead, information flew fast and furious over Twitter. News organizations on Monday scrambled to discern truth from fiction, and, naturally, a few made mistakes. While most issued retractions or corrected their reports, there was one glaring error that stood out above the others.

In a report that was widely criticized, the New York Post boldly and incorrectlytrumpeted that 12 people were killed in the explosions and, more alarmingly, that a "Saudi national who suffered shrapnel wounds" had been identified as "a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing." The story, which was never corrected, spread quickly through the usual information pipelines: As of Wednesday, the story had 48,000 Facebook likes and was tweeted more than 16,000 times...

...There were those, of course, who argued that the racial profiling was warranted. "Was he a real student or was this a front?" asked Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on Fox & Friends (via Mediaite). "Was he honest or was he deceptive when he made his visa application, which is a lot more complex post-9/11 — but which any smart and determined person can trick the government and get in here even though they have evil designs."

http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-tragedy-york-post-apologize-blaming-innocent-113900837.html
 
christiefan915 said:
Volt probably doesn't think so.

The Boston Marathon tragedy: Should the New York Post apologize for blaming an innocent Saudi national?

A 21-year-old student, who was injured in the blast, was quickly, and erroneously, labeled a suspect.
In the immediate chaos following the Boston Marathon bombings that left three people dead, information flew fast and furious over Twitter. News organizations on Monday scrambled to discern truth from fiction, and, naturally, a few made mistakes. While most issued retractions or corrected their reports, there was one glaring error that stood out above the others.

In a report that was widely criticized, the New York Post boldly and incorrectlytrumpeted that 12 people were killed in the explosions and, more alarmingly, that a "Saudi national who suffered shrapnel wounds" had been identified as "a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing." The story, which was never corrected, spread quickly through the usual information pipelines: As of Wednesday, the story had 48,000 Facebook likes and was tweeted more than 16,000 times...

...There were those, of course, who argued that the racial profiling was warranted. "Was he a real student or was this a front?" asked Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on Fox & Friends (via Mediaite). "Was he honest or was he deceptive when he made his visa application, which is a lot more complex post-9/11 — but which any smart and determined person can trick the government and get in here even though they have evil designs."

http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-tragedy-york-post-apologize-blaming-innocent-113900837.html
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I hope he owns that fucking rag after the lawsuit.
 
Unfuckingbelievable. (hillybilly translation: unflippingbelievable!).

When you guys said CNN reported an arrest, I went into the conference room and put it on and watched those two fools John King and Wolf Blitzer talk about a dark-skinned man in custody and how they didn't want to say too much more about him because it was a "sensitive" subject.

What a freaking wanking festival that was! Why didn't the two of them just pull it out of their pants and get it over with?

And I come home to watch the press conference only to find out there is no press conference yet and there is also no one under arrest! Watch, they won't be fired.
 
christiefan915 said:
Volt probably doesn't think so.

The Boston Marathon tragedy: Should the New York Post apologize for blaming an innocent Saudi national?

A 21-year-old student, who was injured in the blast, was quickly, and erroneously, labeled a suspect.
In the immediate chaos following the Boston Marathon bombings that left three people dead, information flew fast and furious over Twitter. News organizations on Monday scrambled to discern truth from fiction, and, naturally, a few made mistakes. While most issued retractions or corrected their reports, there was one glaring error that stood out above the others.

In a report that was widely criticized, the New York Post boldly and incorrectlytrumpeted that 12 people were killed in the explosions and, more alarmingly, that a "Saudi national who suffered shrapnel wounds" had been identified as "a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing." The story, which was never corrected, spread quickly through the usual information pipelines: As of Wednesday, the story had 48,000 Facebook likes and was tweeted more than 16,000 times...

...There were those, of course, who argued that the racial profiling was warranted. "Was he a real student or was this a front?" asked Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on Fox & Friends (via Mediaite). "Was he honest or was he deceptive when he made his visa application, which is a lot more complex post-9/11 — but which any smart and determined person can trick the government and get in here even though they have evil designs."

http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-tragedy-york-post-apologize-blaming-innocent-113900837.html
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Apologize? Eh maybe not, but I definitely think everyone who jumped to conclusions should seriously think about their ingrained thoughts.

Then they should think about this, if a person running away from an explosion is suspicious what would you have done if he was running toward one?
 
Boston bomb suspect spotted on video, no arrest made


By Tim McLaughlin and Mark Hosenball

BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investigators have spotted a Boston Marathon bombing suspect from security video taken before two blasts ripped through central Boston on Monday, a U.S. law enforcement source said on Wednesday, in what is potentially the biggest break in the case yet. No arrests had been made, and the suspect in the video had not been identified by name, two U.S. government officials said. Police may make an appeal to the public for more information at a news conference scheduled for later on Wednesday, a U.S. government source said.

The explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line killed three people and injured 176 others in the worst attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001.
The bombings as well as subsequent reports that someone tried to mail the deadly poison ricin to U.S. President Barack Obama - the second report of such a letter in two days - have created a climate of uncertainty in the country. Nerves were jolted further by an inaccurate report on cable news network CNN that a bombing suspect had been arrested.

Shortly after CNN retracted its report of an arrest in the case, security officials at Boston's federal courthouse ordered staff, media and attorneys to evacuate due to a security scare and move at least 100 yards (91.4 meters) away, according to a Reuters reporter on the scene. Bomb-sniffing dogs, fire engines and heavily armed and helmeted police arrived at the courthouse, which was reopened to employees an hour later.

In Washington, authorities were investigating a letter addressed to the president after the contents preliminarily tested positive for the ricin. Authorities had intercepted a letter sent to Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi on Tuesday that also preliminarily tested positive for ricin. The FBI said there was no indication of a connection to the Boston bomb attacks, but they reminded Americans of anthrax mail attacks the country in the wake of the September 11 attacks 12 years ago.

THREE FATAL VICTIMS
The bombs in Boston killed an 8-year old boy, Martin Richard; a 29-year-old woman, Krystle Campbell, and a Boston University graduate student and Chinese citizen, Lu Lingzi. The crowded scene along the race course in central Boston on Monday was recorded by surveillance cameras and media outlets, providing investigators with significant video of the area before and after the two blasts. Investigators were also searching through thousands of pieces of evidence from cellphone pictures to shrapnel pulled from victims' legs.

Based on the shards of metal, fabric, wires and a battery recovered at the scene, the focus turned to whoever may have placed homemade bombs in pressure cooker pots and taken them in heavy black nylon bags to the finish line of the world-famous race watched by thousands of spectators. Streets around the bombing site remained closed to traffic and pedestrians on Wednesday, with police continuing their work. No one had claimed responsibility for the attack.

"Whether it's home-grown or foreign, we just don't know yet. And so I'm not going to contribute to any speculation on that," said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who until January was Massachusetts' senior senator. "It's just hard to believe that a Patriots' Day holiday, which is normally such time of festivities, turned into bloody mayhem." Security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said instructions for building pressure-cooker bombs similar to the ones used in Boston can be found on the internet and are relatively primitive. Pressure cookers had also been discovered in numerous foiled attack plots in both the United States and overseas in recent years, including the failed bombing attempt in New York's Times Square on May 1, 2010, the officials said.



http://uk.news.yahoo.com/boston-bom...ressure-cooker-133247339--sector.html#ueQrBTZ
 
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I suspect what John King reported was true... He was told by a law enforcement official that a dark skinned man was arrested. Whoever King's source was either lied or was misinformed.
 
Jarod said:
I suspect what John King reported was true... He was told by a law enforcement official that a dark skinned man was arrested. Whoever King's source was either lied or was misinformed.
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I disagree. King knew the right info and bet his hand on a royal flush hoping they'd catch the guy before the news conference making him a hero like when he reported about bin Laden.

Instead, his hand had nothing. Thats why CNN whisked him off in shame after the rest of the media spanked him.
 
If you want to really get into conspiracy theory... Obama met, unscheduled, with the Saudi rep today and supposedly spoke about Syria. Many people are guessing, and I do mean guessing, that means that the perp is Saudi and may have actually been arrested but they wanted to clear up any problems they may have before announcing it, or (even more paranoid) some are saying he is trying to cover it afterward.
 
Damocles said:
If you want to really get into conspiracy theory... Obama met, unscheduled, with the Saudi rep today and supposedly spoke about Syria. Many people are guessing, and I do mean guessing, that means that the perp is Saudi and may have actually been arrested but they wanted to clear up any problems they may have before announcing it, or (even more paranoid) some are saying he is trying to cover it afterward.
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Personally I think it's Floyd the Barbar.
 
Damocles said:
If you want to really get into conspiracy theory... Obama met, unscheduled, with the Saudi rep today and supposedly spoke about Syria. Many people are guessing, and I do mean guessing, that means that the perp is Saudi and may have actually been arrested but they wanted to clear up any problems they may have before announcing it, or (even more paranoid) some are saying he is trying to cover it afterward.
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Could be true.
 
Sometimes the Feds will watch a target before arresting him to shore up their case for pre-trial detention.

If that's the case he's basically on house arrest because if he tries to move much they will arrest him anyway... They also could be watching to see who his associates are, or the whole thing could have been a set up to see how a person of interest reacted.

The Feds are tricky!

I think something's up... Otherwise I think they would have released a photo, have you seen this person.
 
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