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2013-04-16 Home Front: WoT

Debka Analysis: FBI Boston Marathon probe points to Mid-East terrorists with domestic support

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-04-16 06:04|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Cant speak for the size of the bombs, but i fail to see why the large numbers sited would be required if they used timers you only need two guys at the scene to drop backpacks into trash cans. Perhaps a second to detonate of any are discovered. Since some were found un explodes tge second person msy not have been there.

You dont even need a suicidal bomber with timers. Just psychotic intent and enough bomb making skill.

Yes all those numbers would probably have helped in different ways but i would think they also increase the chance of it being noticed.

Im glad they didnt plant a suicidal sniper or two at the scene to add chaos and ensure the media played up the anti-gun angle.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2013-04-16 08:22|| 2013-04-16 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Im glad they didnt plant a suicidal sniper or two at the scene to add chaos and ensure the media played up the anti-gun angle.
Posted by Rjschwarz

What you are referring to Richard is termed a "complex attack". They are not uncommon in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-16 08:49|| 2013-04-16 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 One guy could have done this. Building seven is no different than building one, just takes a bit longer. Timer-based means he would need a fairly long lead time to place them all, and given traffic uncertainty, he'd need to do it fairly far in advance, risking discovery before they went off. Cell-phone based would allow more control over the timing and thus less lead time and discovery risk, but more chance of the later bombs failing because either the cell circuits were overwhelmed after the first bombs or were shut down by security. We don't know which, but the authorities do. If reports of five undetonated bombs are correct I suspect the cell phone scenario - odds are against finding and disarming ALL other bombs before timers went off, or ALL other bombs being defective are long.
If they have indeed recovered an intact bomb they will know a whole lot about the bomber by now. We won't and shouldn't. Yet. But when the time is right for us to know, will we get the truth, or politics?

Posted by Glenmore 2013-04-16 08:52|| 2013-04-16 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Hard to say Glen. With the leadership we have in Washington right now, they'll probably focus on high capacity trash cans. :-(

When an obvious terrorist attack is characterized as a "tragedy" by POTUS, what can we expect.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-16 09:01|| 2013-04-16 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Now it sounds like there were no additional, undetonated bombs; the reports were likely of controlled detonations of suspicious items that were not bombs. Thus even more likely this was a lone bomber - kind of like the jihadi wannabe that got caught in NYC a couple of years (?) ago when his car bomb fizzled. (Not saying it's a jihadi - could be a McVeigh clone - but that it need not be a big organization.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-04-16 09:38|| 2013-04-16 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 If no additional bombs, my take as well Glen.

(add to that the fact there appears to have been no intercepts, tippers, or advance warnings, which might point to a singleton)

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-16 09:42|| 2013-04-16 09:42|| Front Page Top

#7 In AQAP's Inspire magazine al-Suri called for attacks on sports events:
Abu Musab al-Suri listed what he called the most important enemy targets.

Al-Suri contended that civilians should be targeted when responding to a brutal practice carried out by America and her allied forces.

This is done by targeting human crowds in order to inflict maximum human losses, he wrote. This is very easy since there are numerous such targets such as crowded sports arenas, annual social events, large international exhibitions, crowded market-places, skyscrapers, crowded buildings etc.

It is possible for ordinary Resistance fighters among the Muslims residing in America and the allied Western countries to target them, in order to participate in the jihad and the Resistance, and to stretch out a helping hand to the mujahidun [Islamic warriors].

The Saudi student's apartment was searched--he has 3 roommates, supposedly here to study English. The explosives used were made in a pressure cooker, the type first seen in Afghanistan. But in the face of what seems like a foregone conclusion, they still aren't using the 'T' word.

Posted by Kojo Dingle1780 2013-04-16 12:22|| 2013-04-16 12:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Despite their different ethnicities + allegiances, many of the Boyz over at BHARAT RAKSHAK + PAK DEFENCE FORUMS are in broad agreement that the bomb method used in Boston, i.e. pressure cooker wid timer, is routinely used by LeT/LTTE, Indian Mujahideen [IM], + many other Radical = MilTerr Groups based in West, South Asia.

FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > VARIOUS = TTP [Pakistani Taliban] DENY BOSTON BLASTS.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [WND.com] "ARRESTS IN PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN IN BOSTON MARATHON PROBE".

I may be wrong, but I will speculate that the US is well-aware of the above + has covertly pressured both Islamabad + Kabul [New Delhi?] to arrest the most likely Bad/Hard Boy suspects to collect information???

OTOH ...

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Global Post] WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH THREATENS TO PICKET FUNERALS OF THOSE SLAIN AT THE BOSTON MARATHON.

I'm too shocked to comment.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-16 22:31|| 2013-04-16 22:31|| Front Page Top

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