Boston Marathon Bombed

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The latest briefing from Massachusetts General Hospital suggests that the bombs contained balls and nails (or other sharp objects) to be used as shrapnel... Previous statements had suggested that the shrapnel may have been from the environment...

Can anyone believe that there is any credibility of reports of a suspect in custody?

Local, state and federal law enforcement would be tripping over each other to run for the microphone to proclaim that there was a suspect in custody, were that the case. Yet no confirmed source has yet made any such claim.

There is, therefore, no suspect in custody. There being none, we have absolutely no evidence to suggest traits or motivations of the person who perpetrated this. So any speculation on that subject is, frankly, pointless.

Anyone who things that people on the spectrum are all rational, objective, critical thinkers need only look at this thread for disproof by counterexample.

Yup. First the NYP was saying 12 dead, then that there's a suspect in custody. The NYP is a tabloid, nothing more. Stop parroting their BS, fools.

I don't really trust any news source anymore.

I'm a proud native Bostonian and I completely shocked and disgusted of what just happened at the marathon yesterday. I was actually at the Boston marathon finish line watching the marathon last year, at the spots where the bombs were detonated. When you go to and watch the marathon, you never think anything terrible that could happen there. You are consumed with happiness and excitement. My sympathies go out to the victims of the bombings and their families. Stay strong everyone!

For the best current information, look for press conferences by the Boston PD and FBI. The 24-hour news channels have to fill airtime, even when there are no new developments, so they run with what they have. And if they are careful to weasel-word their announcements, some people with CNN or Fox on in the background will miss the weasel words and treat the rumors like truth.

I did hear from a witness who reported that the smoke from the explosion smelled of sulfur, which tends to point toward a blackpowder explosive (and thus tends to indicate a lone amateur or small group - well-organized groups would use more powerful explosives); however, please keep in mind that this is unconfirmed, and cannot be fully trusted until forensics have been completed. (For instance, the witness may have expected to smell sulfur, and filled that little detail in from imagination; the detail would then be a "concrete" part of the memory, whether or not it was objectively real. That's one of the reasons why eyewitness testimony is considered unreliable.)

Exactly. And isn't it funny that the idea of us being superior critical thinkers has a lot of emotional appeal?

DeaconBlues, your posts were quite helpful - very informative, with reliable sources of information. thanks for that.

Looks like the suspected Saudi National has been cleared. You gotta feel sorry for the guy, comes to school in America only to get injured in the bombings and be labeled a suspect all on ethnic profiling.

My guess: a third world male wanna be who is out to make his name among the terrorists. Most likely a Muslim.

ruveyn

I'm 100 miles NE of Boston and I was shocked when I heard about this yesterday.

At the same time though, I think that stuff like this is going to become more common as more gun control legislation is enacted. -- Just because the means to an end has been removed does not mean that people who will do this stuff will feel differant, they will just resort to the next logical means of violent action.

I saw a press conference less than an hour ago and the FBI was still investigating him.

You're in Canada, your profile says. I don't think anybody is trying to bother Canada are they?

The FBI cannot thwart a real plot to save its life which is why is makes up so many phony plots...

They continued to investigate Richard Jewel, who should have been regarded as the hero of the Olympic Park bombing, to the point of virtually ruining his life. He did eventually force the FBI to apologize to him.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Bet they are homegrown idiots.
Anyone who was really experienced in terrorizing people with bombs would have done more damage.
Sorry for the folks who had to be there.