Simultaneous blasts leave at least two people dead and more than 80 injured as runners cross marathon finishing line.
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.
A witness describes the aftermath
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. Loud explosion
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
Hope all our bros and srs in Boston are OK 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
Don't you ever sometimes wonder if things just are what they look like?
The funny thing is, if we were to believe all the conspiracy stories, it would mean the US is one of the few countries in the world without any terrorist attacks at all. Nada, zilch, zerol! They're all done by the Government!
So it seems, far from being prone to attack, America is actually the most peaceful, untroubled nation in the world (if only they could get rid of that pesky President)!
Free thinking or just following any conspiracy theory that tells a story that's more palatable than the official story?
Don't you ever sometimes wonder if things just are what they look like? Sometimes people do terrible things, they go into schools and shoot children- it's happened more than once- people make their own bombs and set them off because of their own personal issues with society. Not everything has the government behind it. And before you accuse me of "blindly following western media blah blah blah" I'm just point out that people do bad things and whether you like it or not conspiracies are sometimes just nonsense. Are these two innocent? Who knows, but there's a clear bias from some people on this board- they must be innocent! But why? You don't know them. An article was posted saying their mother thought they were innocent and another was talking about comments they had previously made about becoming dissatisfied with American society. They were seen placing the bags down where the bombs went off. Also how exactly are they meant to have been set up? Did the American government plant bombs and just hope a person with foreign origins would appear nearby so they could blame them?
Also once again, can't people allow this thread be for the Boston bombings and post a thread for bombings in the Middle East? I read complaints that no one is discussing recent attacks, well why not start a thread yourself?
P.S. If I had a pound for every time I read the word Zionist on this forum....
To think freely is to weigh up different views and choose your own one based on what you as an individual feel is the most closest to the truth, which might not be the one that the mainstream media are publishing.
It might be the case that things are what they are. Yes people do do terrible things.
Based on my experience, I've come to learn not to make judgements on any individuals until it has been confirmed from sources I trust.
Conspiracy theories often make much more sense than what is fed to us by the Zionist media.
The reason why this word is used so much is because it's important for people to understand that the media is not independent. It is owned mostly by Zionists to which all credit must be attributed.
As for your suggestion of starting a thread about bombings in other countries, I think that's an excellent idea.
With all due respect, since you're the one who suggested it, please don't start complaining when you see it getting bumped every other day due to how popular it will become.
Don't be aggrieved by the herds- They're comfortable in their delusions and use every known attack on earth to derogate the facts without using actual facts, science, logic or common sense. If they gang on you, know that the truth can lie with just one man and that a village will not remove the truth even if they throw him into the fire!
It is owned mostly by Zionists to which all credit must be attribute
There's another pound for you, Laura.
By the way, that Jewish media ownership link that Islamica posted earlier in this thread is hopelessly out of date. Many of those people have moved on/retired.
Yeah no nepotism none of their kids come aboard.… There's NO such thing as AIPAC. U.S doesn't gauge in wars for the sake of the colonial settler cockroach nor doe they veto for its sake in the U.N
By the way, that Jewish media ownership link that Islamica posted earlier in this thread is hopelessly out of date. Many of those people have moved on/retired.
But as you say Mustafa, it's interesting how people just swallow information without thinking. That list has been published before and no one has checked it!
But as you say Mustafa, it's interesting how people just swallow information without thinking. That list has been published before and no one has checked it!
Maybe but would you still agree that the media is majority owned by Jews, even if it's not at the percentage stated in the list you're referring to?
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Maybe but would you still agree that the media is majority owned by Jews, even if it's not at the percentage stated in the list you're referring to?
I don't know, Mustafa, it's a complex subject and i want to read more about it. It's even more complicated because 'ownership' is not a straightforward issue when the company is publicly quoted. Is it really enough to identify one individual in a company as of Jewish ancestry (someone who may not be religious themselves) and say that they control the editorial output of the whole company? I'd have to see evidence for that. I know a number of journalists and they certainly wouldn't agree with you (either about Jewish influence or any other individual's).
It's not enough simply to pick out a bunch of Jewish names and say that's a conspiracy.
For instance, you could look at 19th century British chocolate manfufacturers and wonder why so many of them were Quakers. The answer is not that there was a Quaker chocolate conspiracy.
Even in Tanzania Murdoch was buying their local newspapers.. Imagine even remote places in Africa weren't spared.
Complete and total manipulation of the media, banking, politics and as America collapses they're surely to move to the next best thing.. already accused of selling American secrets to the chinese:
This thread seems to be going in different directions, so I think it's best to put a lid on it here. Any further updates on the story can be posted in a new thread .
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