Deadly explosions hit US city of Boston

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Simultaneous blasts leave at least two people dead and more than 80 injured as runners cross marathon finishing line.



A witness describes the aftermath​

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[TD="class: DetailedSummary"] Security has been stepped up around the US after twin blasts near the finishing line of the Boston Marathon left two people dead and at least 80 injured, six critically.
A White House official said the explosions occurred just before 3pm on Monday and would be handled as an "act of terror".
Police officials said mobile phone service have been shut down in the Boston area to prevent any potential remote detonations of explosives.
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A fire at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library also took place several miles away more than an hour later. However, Ed Davis, the Boston police commissioner, said investigators had not linked the fire to the blasts.
A senior US intelligence official said two more explosive devices had been found near the scene of the explosions and were being dismantled.

Davis said that powerful devises caused the blasts. "We are questioning many people but there is no suspect in custody," he said.
Barack Obama, the US president, vowed to hold accountable whoever carried out the blasts and said he had directed his administration to increase security around the country.
The White House was cordoned off with tape after news of the explosions broke.
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The blasts happened about three hours after the winners crossed the line as thousands of runners finished the 117th running of the Boston Marathon, with crowds watching and cheering at the finish.
There was a loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the bridge that marks the finish line.
Another explosion could be heard a few seconds later.
Smoke rose from the blasts, fluttering through the national flags lining the route.
A Rhode Island state police officer, who was running in the event, said he saw at least two dozen people with very serious injuries, including missing limbs.
Many of the Injured spectators were carried to a medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners.
The stragglers in the 40km trek were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts, as a Massachusetts General Hospital spokesperson said it had four patients from the incident under evaluation and was expecting more.
Several competitors and race organisers were crying as they fled the chaos.
"There are a lot of people down," said one man, whose running number 17528 identified him as Frank Deruyter.
Laura McLean, a runner from Toronto, Canada, said she heard two explosions outside the medical tent.
"There are people who are really, really bloody," McLean said. "They were pulling them into the medical tent."
Runners who had not finished the race were diverted straight down Commonwealth Avenue and into a family meeting area, according to an emergency plan that had been in place. The race was later abandoned[/TD]
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/04/2013415191144419266.html


Hope all our bros and srs in Boston are OK :ia: anyone living there knows the latest?
Are they gonna blame it on Muslims? They're already talking about that before any investigation and this is the Arabic source I hazard go into CNN or BBC
 
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Not all of the Media are looking for an Islamic Source. Today is a Massachusetts State holiday "Patriot's day" and because of the Boston Marathon it has caught the attention of some home grown militant anti-government activists/


Slate notes the Patriot's Day connection, reporting that other major attacks occurred on or around the holiday, including the Columbine School shooting (1999), the Oklahoma City bombing (1995), and the Waco assault (1993). In fact, Waco inspired anti-government activists to hold their own darker version of Patriot's Day.
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It's too quickly to make assumptions on who did it and stuff.

What confuses me is that the parents of the victims in the Sandy Hook Shooting were in Boston and watching the marathon, this must be the most e4motional things happening to them. Their children, now 3 more victims, and they feel unsafe and insecure wherever they happen to go. Devastating.

Inna Lillah He Wa Inna Illay He Rajioon.
 
The world is an ugly unsafe place all over.. I think it is strange in the west because people have expectations that their life should run a certain course but reality is in most places people don't know if their 9 year old is going to make it home just going to the bread line and if they don't die of a blast they'll die of starvation since even their bread places are being bombed as well. Just today in Iraq and everyday in Syria.
The world is headed for a WWIII and yes like the sister whose SN I don't now recall life is short and full of blisters.. I had a friend who grew up in Lebanon during the war time every day a bomb drops one of her parents would lie on top of her as she was their only child and was had after much difficulty with fertility problems.. Everyone's children and life is dear to them.

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I think it was always this ugly and this harsh but without indoor plumbing lol :D
just seems romantic when we look back because we know the worst of it and people got through it or died through it.. we're only afraid because we don't know.. not knowing is frightening .. but there's nothing to fear when one is with :Allah::swt:
 
Maybe that is the problem, especially in Boston, a giant and wonderfully city in America.
Religion is forgotten.

Maybe it's just me but putting religion back into people's mind would help overshadow the sadness and accept the fact that this was destiny for this to happen. We will see our loved ones in Jannah inshallah.
But because religion is forgotten, we think we'll never see that loved one again.

Also, avoid making jokes on a thread like this one. Some people Muslim or non-muslim may feel offended.
 
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It's because bombings in the Middle East have become so frequent with death occurring numerous times everyday that we don't seem to care to what has become so common. In the U.S, or in North America in General, we rarely get bombed and it is devastating because it rarely ever happens.
 
I dont understand the mass hysteria of people.

One Muslim on my fb became so senti that he wrote his status as [brackets are mine]
Our great city [city which allows gay parades?], our source of pride [you take pride in homos?], our heart of hearts [ya right] bleeds today while our shock turns to numbness and our home turns to our heartache [do you have a heart?]. But as we shed tears, that shock will pass, our nerves will return, and with it, Boston will beat brighter and louder than we have ever known and we will only think of home with fondness and love. I refuse to believe anything less [and i refuse to believe you].

Why does not he talk like that for Muslims maimed in Muslim countries?
 
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Prayers to all in Boston and to everybody who is affected by this. :cry:
 
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Forgive me, but that a very simplistic statement.
NOBODY cares about people dying in the Middle East? Really now??

I know many people who care for ALL people who suffer injustice and hurt and discrimination and hatred - whatever their colour, religion or ethnicity.

I wish people wouldn't spread this "Everybody hates us and nobody cares about us" propaganda. It's firstly untrue and secondly simply feeds that untruth.

So for the record, I care that people blow each other up and kill each other, whoever they are and wherever they are.
I wish and pray and strive for a world where people accept each other and live in harmony together.
I pray for people in Boston.
I pray for people in the Middle East.
I pray for people everywhere.
 
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This is very sad, but what is more sad is that the thousands of people killed in middle east dont get as much media coverage as this.

My condolences are with the family, both muslims and non-muslims. I cant imagine how it feels to lose a loved one.
 
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One Muslim on my fb became so senti that he wrote his status as [brackets are mine]
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Why does not he talk like that for Muslims maimed in Muslim countries?
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And even if he doesn't, so?
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Cosmic is assuming that his friend who is Muslim should be much more devastated about the events going on in the Middle East which is a primarily Muslim area rather than a city of...
CosmicPathos said:
Our great city [city which allows gay parades?], our source of pride [you take pride in homos?], our heart of hearts [ya right] bleeds today while our shock turns to numbness and our home turns to our heartache [do you have a heart?]. But as we shed tears, that shock will pass, our nerves will return, and with it, Boston will beat brighter and louder than we have ever known and we will only think of home with fondness and love. I refuse to believe anything less [and i refuse to believe you].
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Let me steer this thread back to course as it is getting out of hand.
This is about the vilification of Muslims in the media- Red neck terrorists for instance who bomb temples killing sikhs while mistaking them for Muslims don't get an honorable mention in any terrorist event only the reference to 911 with the foregone conclusion that Muslims flew their invisible planes into the pentagon or are behind any attack, when there's a zillion attacks that don't get any mention whatsoever.
It is to create a state of panic and constant state of hatred toward Muslims as evinced by the Saudi guy who was captured merely for being Muslim looking even though he himself was injured in the attack.
So please spare me the smarmy sympathies- an attack occurred the same day in Iraq with a ton more death and I didn't see the wailers and moaners with the outpouring of outrage & sympathies. In fact you've attacks happening right here in the U.S for instance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese
38 people saw a woman stabbed and raped and did nothing your intense sentiments are rather lost and let's not take every thread to showcase just how human & altruistic you're, I personally don't care how you feel and no one is taking notes- maybe you'll get your pulitizer or Nobel out of it but I hardly think IB is the medium to get said recognition!

best,

 
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Is there some moral law stating that you are not allowed to express outrage over a specific crime without also committing equal effort to express outrage over every other instance of that same crime being committed anywhere in the world?
 
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