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
Like people have already said one here, one of the reason there’s more media coverage about this event is because it’s much rarer in America or Europe. We do get information about bomb blasts in the middle east but they’re happening so often that if they were to give the same amount of coverage there would never be anything else on the news.
Regrettably have to agree reminds me of this quote
'A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.'
On the reason why Americans don't seem too concerned about atrocities committed by their troops air-force etc
'The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.'
On the other hand this is an important domestic issue for them (not so much because of the scale of the attack but because the symbolism of it) so there going to make an issue of it.
Mind you it is odd why it gets such disproportionate coverage in UK, I know the UK is a loyal lapdog but seriously, really shows you how culturally colonised the UK has become. My main worry is that the American government may respond violently and given their past record we all know where that leads.
Yes indeed hope everyone will see the link (and vid) I included above your last comment and the outrage toward the two photos prematurely released.
And that in fact should be our main concern. Mob mentality, and vigilante justice and the victims borne of those not whether or not an SN has displayed phony sentiment!
best,
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
We would like to offer our sincere condolences for the victims' families and injured civilians who were targeted in the Boston explosion. We lost a lot of our friends and families so we know what it means to lose a dear person to the heart, a brother, sister, or son. May you rest in peace brothers and sisters and may God be with your families now and grant them patience and serenity.
'I'm NOT a terrorist... I was just watching the marathon:' Moroccan high school runner is wrongly linked to Boston bombings after photograph of him at finishing line sweeps the internet
He said: 'I worry that someone, a mad person, might come after me and my family'
He said: 'I worry that someone, a mad person, might come after me and my family'
ya think? Their disgusting media isn't gonna be responsble for ruining a few hundred lives out of this?
I am at a loss for words.. al7mdullilah at least a few people on here get it, so it isn't a total loss in the midst of so much manure!
ya think? Their disgusting media isn't gonna be responsble for ruining a few hundred lives out of this?
I am at a loss for words.. al7mdullilah at least a few people on here get it, so it isn't a total loss in the midst of so much manure!
They should sue the post for lies and endangering their lives.
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Tweets like that makes me want to agree with this tweet....
Idea of secondary bombs designed to kill the first responders is just sick. How does anyone become that evil?"
I don't disagree with that sentiment. But I'd bet a good amount of money that the person saying it - and the vast majority of other Americans - have no clue that targeting rescuers with "double-tap" attacks is precisely what the US now does with its drone program and other forms of militarism.
whatever rage you're feeling toward the perpetrator of this Boston attack, that's the rage in sustained form that people across the world feel toward the US for killing innocent people in their countries. Whatever sadness you feel for yesterday's victims, the same level of sadness is warranted for the innocent people whose lives are ended by American bombs.
A rush to proclaim the guilty party to be Muslim is seen in particular over and over with such events.
As FAIR documented back then:
"In the wake of the explosion that destroyed the Murrah Federal Office Building, the media rushed — almost en masse — to the assumption that the bombing was the work of Muslim extremists. 'The betting here is on Middle East terrorists,' declared CBS News' Jim Stewart just hours after the blast (4/19/95). 'The fact that it was such a powerful bomb in Oklahoma City immediately drew investigators to consider deadly parallels that all have roots in the Middle East,' ABC's John McWethy proclaimed the same day."'It has every single earmark of the Islamic car-bombers of the Middle East,' wrote syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer (Chicago Tribune, 4/21/95). 'Whatever we are doing to destroy Mideast terrorism, the chief terrorist threat against Americans, has not been working,' declared the New York Times' A.M. Rosenthal (4/21/95). The Geyer and Rosenthal columns were filed after the FBI released sketches of two suspects who looked more like Midwestern frat boys than mujahideen."
This lesson is never learned because, it seems, many people don't want to learn it. Even when it turns out not to have been Muslims who perpetrated the attack but rather right-wing, white Christians, the damage from this relentless and reflexive blame-pinning endures.
The reason there was such confusion and uncertainty about whether this was "terrorism" is because there is no clear and consistently applied definition of the term. At this point, it's little more than a term of emotionally manipulative propaganda.
A violent act again in a violent nation
The point is you reap what you sow. Violence begets violence.
So America, the most violent country in the world today, lurches from one act of mayhem to another.
If the government responds to this latest tragedy by doubling down on its domestic spying campaign, by enhancing police powers, by stepping up its deadly global drone war, and by invading or meddling in more countries abroad, we can expect more and more violent attacks aimed at killing Americans here at home.
we Americans could look at the latest carnage in Boston and recognize it as the very thing that our military has been engaged in doing in our name in places like Iraq and Afghanistan - right down to the deliberate and sick timing of a second bomb to blow up people who are coming to the aid of victims of the first bomb, which is the wretched MO of the U.S. bombing and drone strike campaigns along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
Boston attack no less twisted than are the Pentagon officers and who planned the attack that killed those 10 children in Kundar, or the president who ordered the leveling of the Iraqi city of Fallujah. We Americans are far too selective in our sense of horror and outrage
Although i dont support acts like this, i have to agree with the article above.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
although i have to say that i dont know who did this and have some suspicions since blackwater mercenaries were spotted right at the scene. blackwater is responsible for many terrorists acts in iraq.
But i will let the conspiracy sides aside this time, a few of my posts got deleted here because of it.
Last edited by Jedi_Mindset; 04-19-2013 at 09:37 AM.
http://www.youtube.com/user/robinb4life?feature=mhee
I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground. - Umar ibn khattab(Ra)
I dont want to take part in this confusion, you guys can post all you want but the US-zionist media is only contradicting themselves lol.
First blaming a moroccan, then a indian and now a chechen.
http://www.youtube.com/user/robinb4life?feature=mhee
I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground. - Umar ibn khattab(Ra)
Let's look on the positive side of this. It seems that the two perpetrators have been identified very swiftly and one of them is already dead, so they won't be making any more attacks and further speculation can be ended.
The negative side is that it will probably be confirmed that they are Muslims as they are of Chechen origin. It would have been better for the world if this had been a patriot attack but that's not the way it is, so it can't be helped.
On the other hand, Chechnya is a Russian federal territory so there is no question of this resulting in an invasion or further war.
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