Boston Marathon Bombing

by **Gigabytes** Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:49 pm

• A pressure-cooker bomb is believed to have been used at one or both of the explosion sites. The FBI announced Tuesday afternoon that investigators have recovered crime scene evidence including "pieces of black nylon, which could be from a backpack, and fragments of BBs and nails possibly contained in a pressure cooker device." The evidence is being shipped to an FBI lab in Quantico for analysis.

• Authorities called for tips from anyone who witnessed a person carrying a dark, unusually heavy bag in the vicinity of the bombing. In addition they asked the public to report anyone who had been talking about a pressure-cooker bomb or "the marathon, or about the date of April 15 in any way." "Someone knows who did this," FBI agent Rick DesLauriers said.

• President Obama will attend an interfaith prayer service in Boston Thursday morning, the Massachusetts governor announced. The president has canceled a trip he was to take to Kansas on Friday. More than a dozen vigils were planned in Boston for Tuesday and Wednesday.

• Three people were killed in the attack, including Krystle Campbell, 29, and Martin Richard, 8. The third fatality is believed to have been a graduate student at Boston University. The school confirmed the death but did not name the victim "pending permission to do so from the family." At least 176 people were wounded in the attack. An unknown number remain in critical condition. Other patients showed improvement.

• No suspects have been identified and no motive has been determined in the marathon bombing, authorities said.

• The city of Boston has established a fund, called One Boston, to provide for victims of the attack and their families.

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Boston University has announced that a graduate student at the school was among those killed in the marathon attack.

A notice on the school web site does not name the student, "pending permission to do so from the family." The notice reads in part:

One of the victims killed by blasts at the Boston Marathon on Monday has been identified as a Boston University graduate student. The student’s name has not been released, pending permission to do so from the family.

The student was one of three friends who watched the race near the finish line. Another of the three students, also a BU grad student, was injured and is in stable condition at Boston Medical Center.

Robert Hill, dean of Marsh Chapel, visited the injured student Monday evening and again yesterday afternoon. He reports that she underwent surgery on Monday and on Tuesday. “She is doing well,” says Hill. “She has her friends around her, and she will soon have family around her.”

The third BU student was unharmed.

Michael Crowley delivers "A short recent history of pressure cooker bombs" in Time Magazine:

As it happens, pressure cookers have a nefarious reputation in counterterrorism circles. In 2004, the Department of Homeland Security was concerned enough about pressure cooker bombs to issue an alert to federal and state security officials: “A technique commonly taught in Afghan terrorist training camps is the use/conversion of pressure cookers into IEDs,” the bulletin warned.

That bulletin cited several plots from 2002 to 2004 to use pressure cooker bombs in France, India and Nepal. But more recently there have been at least three other instances of would-be terrorists in the west, all of them Islamic radicals, in possession of pressure cookers for reasons that seemed not to involve having friends over for dinner ...

But it’s important to bear in mind that the ability to make these bombs is hardly unique to al Qaeda and its sympathizers. Members of at least one prominent white supremacist website have shared terror tips from Inspire [a radical Islamic magazine] which one called “highly recommended reading.” Pressure cooker bombs are also discussed in detail on this anarchist site, which describes how to build what is “affectionately known as a HELLHOUND.”

DesLauriers goes on to explain why the FBI is interested in pressure cookers.

Pressure cookers – they're relatively ordinary cooking devices. As far as precisely what evidence was found – there are multiple pieces of evidence at the crime scene. That analysis is ongoing right now.

What could possibly be a pressure cooker was found at the site, and we're putting that out to the public to possibly generate any leads.

Davis says this year's race had a stronger security presence than usual:

We review each one of these events. At the end of our review last year, we determined that the crowds were larger than usual. And so we put additional officers at the end of the race," the police commissioner says.

There was no specific threat about this event ... this was a standard threat picture.

Davis says undercover officers were "fully deployed" among the crowd as were bomb-sniffing dogs.

DesLauriers declines to address a question about a circuit board reportedly found around the attack site. "That was brought up by a member of the media, not by me," the FBI agent says.

He's asked about the third, as-yet unidentified fatality. "There has not been enough work done to make a notification to the next of kin on the third victim," DesLauriers says.

Dr. Tracey Dechert of the Boston Medical Center trauma department is now delivering an update outside the center.

She says seven patients are still in critical condition at the center, six are in serious condition and six are in fair.

Three patients have moved out of critical condition in the last 24 hours, she says. Nine patients are scheduled to receive further operations Wednesday.

She gives a different account of the shrapnel than Dr. Velmahos at Mass General:

"Several patients had fragments removed... and the evidence is handled the same way every time," Dechert says. "We've been removing various things from people... We have not seen nails. We have not seen ball bearings. Particles of metal and plastic. That's what we're seeing in our patients."

She said the center admitted one runner, but not in critical condition. "All the critical people were spectators."
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My Comment

Gigabytes wrote:I can't believe how the people who did this can handle their own conscience. Can we still consider them human? These people are insane! I hope they can find the suspect immediately for the justice of the people who died. This is really a nightmare for all the people there, who are just having fun watching and running. I hope for their fast recovery & I'll always pray for them.

by mr.kudos Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:12 pm

I really still can't believe such thing happened...those people who felt this incident....the people responsible for the bombings must be caught immediately

by **Gigabytes** Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:21 pm

mr.kudos wrote:I really still can't believe such thing happened...those people who felt this incident....the people responsible for the bombings must be caught immediately

I want to kill'em all Pissed off fox

, they don't deserve to live. Do you heard about the girl who died in this marathon where her lover is running and planning to propose to her when He finish race?

by Re-L Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:56 pm

can't stand to watch the video..
it's really pain to my eyes..T__T

by **Gigabytes** Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:43 pm

Maybe these people who did this wants WAR with U.S.

by mr.kudos Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:11 am

Terrorist are responsible for this...I wonder who they are?

by **Uchi_Reina** Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:47 am

This event really reminds me of the 9/11 attacks.. Why they have to do this kind of thing? I mean, those poor innocent people shouldn't experienced or suffer from that tragic..

by mr.kudos Sat Apr 20, 2013 10:22 am

According to yahoo...there is already a suspect regarding the incident...but according to the family they are just being framed...

by Emonzaemon Sat Apr 20, 2013 11:59 am

Gigabytes wrote:Maybe these people who did this wants WAR with U.S.

well you know, IN every nation, every race, there will be someone who would hate Uncle Sam. Why? I dunno, maybe because they like to interfere with every little damn issue on every littlest things in the world as long as they would profit on it. dont get me wrong though, its not that i dont like Americans.

by **Gigabytes** Wed May 01, 2013 3:41 am

Nahuli na ang suspect dito

by mr.kudos Wed May 01, 2013 6:32 am

Gigabytes wrote:Nahuli na ang suspect dito

the suspect is a teenager right?

by **Gigabytes** Sat May 04, 2013 1:06 pm

mr.kudos wrote:
Gigabytes wrote:Nahuli na ang suspect dito

the suspect is a teenager right?

Yeah! 18 or 19 ata. Pero sabi nagpagutusan lang daw siya.
Tsss! Grabee, talaga hanggang ngayon I still can't believe na kaya ng isang teenager gumawa ng ganun? Iba na nga talaga ngayon .___.

by mr.kudos Sat May 04, 2013 11:24 pm

Gigabytes wrote:
mr.kudos wrote:
Gigabytes wrote:Nahuli na ang suspect dito

the suspect is a teenager right?

Yeah! 18 or 19 ata. Pero sabi nagpagutusan lang daw siya.
Tsss! Grabee, talaga hanggang ngayon I still can't believe na kaya ng isang teenager gumawa ng ganun? Iba na nga talaga ngayon .___.

That is possible since they are teenagers and no one can suspect them

by **Gigabytes** Sun May 05, 2013 7:23 am

mr.kudos wrote:
Gigabytes wrote:
mr.kudos wrote:
Gigabytes wrote:Nahuli na ang suspect dito

the suspect is a teenager right?

Yeah! 18 or 19 ata. Pero sabi nagpagutusan lang daw siya.
Tsss! Grabee, talaga hanggang ngayon I still can't believe na kaya ng isang teenager gumawa ng ganun? Iba na nga talaga ngayon .___.

That is possible since they are teenagers and no one can suspect them

Paano kaya kapag binaba nila sa 17 yung pwedeng makulong? Diba 18 sa ibang bansa?

by mr.kudos Sun May 05, 2013 7:07 pm

Gigabytes wrote:
mr.kudos wrote:
Gigabytes wrote:
mr.kudos wrote:
Gigabytes wrote:Nahuli na ang suspect dito

the suspect is a teenager right?

Yeah! 18 or 19 ata. Pero sabi nagpagutusan lang daw siya.
Tsss! Grabee, talaga hanggang ngayon I still can't believe na kaya ng isang teenager gumawa ng ganun? Iba na nga talaga ngayon .___.

That is possible since they are teenagers and no one can suspect them

Paano kaya kapag binaba nila sa 17 yung pwedeng makulong? Diba 18 sa ibang bansa?

yeah since there are juvenile centers in other countries unlike here in the philippines...Juvenile centers are like prison but mainly for the minors

by **Gigabytes** Mon May 06, 2013 3:26 am

mr.kudos wrote:
Gigabytes wrote:
mr.kudos wrote:
Gigabytes wrote:
mr.kudos wrote:
Gigabytes wrote:[size=14]Nahuli na ang suspect dito

the suspect is a teenager right?

Yeah! 18 or 19 ata. Pero sabi nagpagutusan lang daw siya.
Tsss! Grabee, talaga hanggang ngayon I still can't believe na kaya ng isang teenager gumawa ng ganun? Iba na nga talaga ngayon .___.

That is possible since they are teenagers and no one can suspect them

Paano kaya kapag binaba nila sa 17 yung pwedeng makulong? Diba 18 sa ibang bansa?

yeah since there are juvenile centers in other countries unlike here in the philippines...Juvenile centers are like prison but mainly for the minors

Problema satin daming hindi sumasang-ayon pero syempre diba ginagamit nila yung mga bata kasi hindi naman 'to makukulong eh, DWSD lang bagsak nila Tsss!

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by **Gigabytes** Sun May 12, 2013 9:20 am

Requesting of Locking this thread.

by **ZeD-Dark** Tue Sep 03, 2013 4:45 am

May the souls of the dead rest in peace

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