Explosion in New York's Chelsea Manhattan neighborhood

[Maru]

Explosion in New York's Chelsea neighborhood
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/17/explosion-new-york-chelsea-neighborhood/90605526/

An explosion rocked New York's Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night.

The explosion came just after 8:30 pm when a dumpster blew up outside a 14-story residence for the blind, the New York Post reported. At least 15 people suffered minor injuries, police told the paper.

Tweets from the area describe "one loud long boom."

The explosion is described as being near 135 West 23rd Street in Manhattan. The New York Police Counter-Terrorism unit has responded to the blast.

The Associated Press reported that firefighters were at the scene and that the New York Fire Department said the blast was reported shortly before 9 p.m.

Earlier in the day a pipe bomb exploded in Seaside Park, New Jersey near a Marine charity run. The device was placed in a garbage can.

Not much information about it yet...

[Maru]

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[LaLaLand]

Omg I thought this was the same one as the charity run one! Shocking.

[T*]

Damn I hope people are okay and it doesn't turn out to be on a huge scale like it did with Paris :(

[LaLaLand]

Damn I hope people are okay and it doesn't turn out to be on a huge scale like it did with Paris :(

This is what I thought, God knows how many more there are in such a huge city!

[Ammi]

..there still doesn't seem to be much information coming out about this but no reported deaths though thankfully....one media is saying 29 injured atm and describing it as 'an intentional act'....

[BBfanUSA]

..there still doesn't seem to be much information coming out about this but no reported deaths though thankfully....one media is saying 29 injured atm and describing it as 'an intentional act'....

Surely it's terrorism.

Is it not that hard to say?

[Ammi]

Surely it's terrorism.

Is it not that hard to say?

..I don't know though because it's being reported as there not being any credible threat by a terrorist group...so I think possibly not an accidental thing/rather, an arsonist, type thing..?...but not terrorism related though...

[bots]

i would say it was a terrorist act, the who and why of it remain unclear though

[arista]

Surely it's terrorism.

Is it not that hard to say?


Yes Home Grown Terrorism
that Poxy Mayor
trying to make it not so bad?

[arista]

i would say it was a terrorist act, the who and why of it remain unclear though


Bang On Right

[Nicky91]

omg I Hate these terrorists :mad:

[arista]

..I don't know though because it's being reported as there not being any credible threat by a terrorist group...so I think possibly not an accidental thing/rather, an arsonist, type thing..?...but not terrorism related though...


Look some Evil Punk can Set Wires
to a Mobile Phone
Even if a Student - its Still a Terrorist Act.


[New York Mayor Bill De Blasio said
early indications were that the
explosion was "an intentional act".]

Fecking Mayor the Fool

[Ammi]

Look some Evil Punk can Set Wires
to a Mobile Phone
Even if a Student - its Still a Terrorist Act.


[New York Mayor Bill De Blasio said
early indications were that the
explosion was "an intentional act".]

Fecking Mayor the Fool

...terrorist act but not necessarily of a terrorist group though, Arista...I love it when you get all stern on a Sunday morning though....

[Ammi]

...just great that there were no deaths...:love:..

[Northern Monkey]

'Mayor Bill de Blasio says it was an "intentional" act but there is no terror link
Second device found a few blocks away and has been removed'

Not terror related.

[bots]

'Mayor Bill de Blasio says it was an "intentional" act but there is no terror link
Second device found a few blocks away and has been removed'

Not terror related.

of course it was a terrorist act. That doesn't mean it has to be ISIS or whover, but you don't plant and set off bombs without it being terrorism.

[Kizzy]

If it were terrorism it would be in the name of a cause wouldn't it?

[bots]

If it were terrorism it would be in the name of a cause wouldn't it?

i'm sure they will have had a reason for doing it which is equal to a cause. It's still terrorism

[Kizzy]

i'm sure they will have had a reason for doing it which is equal to a cause. It's still terrorism

You have no way of knowing that.

[bots]

You have no way of knowing that.

i would say 2 bombs was an organised act. So, I will use my judgement. I would say there is no way of knowing it is not terrorism

[Northern Monkey]

Maybe it was Black Lives Matter.They've turned themselves into a terrorist organisation as of late?

[Livia]

An incident designed to cause terror - like a massive explosion - is terrorism, regardless of a cause. It could have been a lot worse, I'm glad it wasn't.

[Kizzy]

I would say that word is being used too often now to describe too broad a spectrum of incidents, it is associated more specifically with international terrorism by specific groups, so much so that the word has become synonymous with IS.

[the truth]

..I don't know though because it's being reported as there not being any credible threat by a terrorist group...so I think possibly not an accidental thing/rather, an arsonist, type thing..?...but not terrorism related though...

eh? its a bomb? a bomb is surely terrorism

[arista]

eh? its a bomb? a bomb is surely terrorism

Yes Now the
Governor of New York State
Andrew Cuomo
has corrected it
saying it was a "Terrorist Act."


So far its a Home Grown Terrorist Act.
by a unknown (s)


So Ammi get a Strong Update
Madame
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37402130

[Ammi]

...terrorist act but not necessarily of a terrorist group though, Arista...

...:laugh:...(I did clarify my meaning..)...but yes, I'm strongly updated, Arista, sir....

[Ammi]

..it's a strange old world when the focus is on wording not being entirely accurate, rather than the incident itself...

[arista]

..it's a strange old world when the focus is on wording not being entirely accurate, rather than the incident itself...


Its One Fella
at Fault
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Bill_de_Blasio_11-2-2013.jpg

[the truth]

..it's a strange old world when the focus is on wording not being entirely accurate, rather than the incident itself...

the democrats are the ones who always quibble about the words and how politically correct they are, killary clinton has already come out in fury against donald trumps wording, she says more about him than the terrorists, that seems to be part of the problem with the loony left, theyre always acting offended to avoid dealing head on with this monolithic problem

[arista]

Police have Arrested 5 People,
on a traffic stop
near Verranzano Bridge
reports they were armed.

[Livia]

What should we call these incidents in future? You know, when they find pressure cookers full of shrapnel intended to cause maximum injuries and death? What else shall we call them so as not to use the "terrorist" word?

Nothing. Because it's an act of terrorism to plant such a device, regardless of whether it's done in the name of IS, or any other mental terrorist group.

[arista]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/09/19/15/article-3796411-3893918C00000578-756_964x550.jpg

http://news.sky.com/story/ny-bomber-identified-may-be-armed-and-dangerous-10584860

[New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
has named the man being
hunted as 28-year-old
Ahmad Khan Rahami - a New Jersey
resident and a naturalised US citizen from Afghanistan.]

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[Northern Monkey]

Definitely a terrorist
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.....It's probably a terrorist(or something like that)

[Northern Monkey]

Trump'd never have let him in....

[arista]

After a Shoot out
he is now in Custody.

2 FBI injured.


ref : CNN HD and FoxNewsHD

[arista]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/09/19/16/article-3796411-3894F41100000578-498_964x577.jpg

[CAPTURED
FBI arrest
'armed and dangerous'
Afghanistan-born man,
28, wanted for Manhattan
and New Jersey bombings
in shootout that left
two cops injured]

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3796411/FBI-hunts-armed-dangerous-man-28-Manhattan-New-Jersey-bombings.html#ixzz4KiepstQp


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[arista]

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