3 killed, 176 injured, some gravely, in Boston Marathon double bombing: this is domestic terrorism

UPDATE: Counterterrorism officials found what they believe to be five additional, undetonated explosive devices around the Boston area, according to two people briefed on the rapidly moving investigation.

The devices—which are in addition to the two that exploded near the finish line of the marathon—were discovered over the course of a frantic inspection of suspicious packages, many of them abandoned as pedestrians, runners, and others scrambled away from crowded public streets. Each had been rendered inoperative or was in the process of being rendered inoperative, the officials said.

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Roupen Bastajian, a state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race when he heard the explosions.

“I started running toward the blast. And there were people all over the floor,” he said. “We started grabbing tourniquets and started tying legs. A lot of people amputated. … At least 25 to 30 people have at least one leg missing, or an ankle missing, or two legs missing.”

One explosion and then another obviously indicates terrorism.  You can clearly hear the second explosion after the first.

Boston Marathon Explosion37I’m not certain of the facts yet — no one is — things are chaotic and it is early, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are unexploded bombs that failed to detonate.  If this is a Middle Eastern-type planned event, then there would be secondary bombs rigged to explode or be triggered remotely in order to kill the first and subsequent waves of emergency responders.

Boston Marathon Bombing, Injured Man in WheelchairIt is now indicated that ball bearings were involved in the packing of the explosives.

Boston Marathon Explosion43From FoxNews.com:

At least two people are dead and 73 injured – including up to 10 with amputated limbs – after two bombs tore through the finish line of the Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Police Department.

Authorities were guarding a person of interest at a local hospital, according to a New York Post report confirmed by Fox News. The person, who sources said was 20 years old, had severe burns, but authorities had not determined whether the person was a victim or a perpetrator. Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said during a press conference that no suspect is in custody. 

The simultaneous explosions just before 3 p.m. and reports of two other unexploded devices found near the scene raised suspicions of a terrorist attack. Intelligence officials told The Associated Press two unexploded devices were being dismantled. Competitors and race organizers were crying as they fled the bloody chaos, while some witnesses reported seeing victims with lost limbs.

“Somebody’s leg flew by my head,” a spectator, who gave his name as John Ross, told the Boston Herald. “I gave my belt to stop the blood.”

Information also indicates the devices detonated not as the first persons were finishing, but later on in the race.  They were placed not far from the finish line itself.

One dead victim is a child; other children are seriously injured.  176 total are injured.

After TWO days, Mr Obama finally labeled the acts as “terrorism.”

BZ

 

 

Mark Owen’s “NO EASY DAY” — Barnes & Noble can’t keep it on the shelves

And I know this from personal experience.

It is Sunday night as I write this post.  My wife and I had a couples’ massage at our therapists, shopped for some clothes for her at work, and then ended up at one of two local Barnes & Noble Booksellers.  Borders was once much closer but the chain went bankrupt and has since disappeared.

I ended up buying the science fiction paperback HELIX by Eric Brown, and she purchased some books about the paranormal.  My ears and radar are always “on,” so to speak, and I view product placement in major bookstore chains with curiosity.  Naturally, Conservative books don’t always measure the topmost prominent spots in chains such as Borders and Barnes & Noble.

That said, I heard two female employees answer the queries of two separate customers at two separate points this Sunday afternoon.  Both said: yes, we are OUT of “No Easy Day” by Mark Owens.  We receive shipments twice a week of this book and within one day we are sold out.  We can put you on a waiting list to receive the book, or we can mail it to you.

And they were correct.  There was NO place in the store where the book could be found.  Not on display kiosks, not in the aisles, not filed on the shelves.

Not found on the primary tables displayed directly in front of the two main entrance doors — where high-selling books are customarily placed.

Because they were OUT.  Let me make this clear: they can’t keep NO EASY DAY on the shelves due to DEMAND.

60 Minutes interviewed Mark Owen this Sunday.

They did not reveal his true name.  And they disguised his facial features.

[Go here for the 60 Minutes take of the first SEAL to get in public trouble, “Demo” Dick Marcinko in 1992.  Video below.]

I admired Richard Marcinko then, and I admire him now.  Just as I admire John Boyd, and those who tell the Truth about our military in order to make it better.  A bit of a relapse: according to John Boyd — in the military you can “be someone” or you can “do something.”

I have predicated my life in my own department on “doing something” and not, clearly, on “being someone” as I am still a lowly little ancient Sergeant.

Since the release of NO EASY DAY by Mark Owen, he has been attacked by the Obama Administration and other sources.

Check this link.

Check this link.

Mark Owen’s book isn’t about secrets or tactics or strategy or “insider information” or arcane intelligence.  It’s about the truth.

Read it for yourself.  I have.

I leave you with this: perhaps, once again, UK news has the actual grasp on events whereas the US media sorely sails behind.  Because it’s the DEM/MSM.  And purposely so.

BZ