[arista]

The trigger mechanism of the Boston
marathon bombs were indeed
battery powered - with experts claiming
that they showed a high level of sophistication


Destroyed electronic board parts lie on
the ground around the scene of the
detonation of the first Boston marathon bomb

The 2nd Bomb was in a Street Bin.

[Benjamin]

The third victim was a university student by the sounds of it.

[Marc]

I really hope that guy from that, now infamous, picture survives and we get to see him fully recovered and with prosthetic legs. He'd almost be the poster boy for the survivors if you know what I mean

[Benjamin]

The second of three people killed in Monday’s bomb attack at the Boston Marathon was identified on Tuesday as Krystle Campbell, said the mayor of Medford, Massachusetts, the city where the 29-year-old woman had grown up.

William Campbell said his daughter was “very caring, very loving person, and was Daddy’s little girl.”

Campbell told Yahoo News that ”She helped everybody, and I’m just so shocked right now. We’re just devastated. She was a wonderful, wonderful girl. Always willing to lend a hand.”

The restaurant manager had gone with a friend, Karen Rand, to take a picture of the Rand’s boyfriend crossing the finish line. According to Yahoo News, Rand survived, but was undergoing surgery for “serious injuries.” Cheryl Rand Engelhardt, reportedly the friend’s sister-in-law, wrote on Facebook that Rand was carrying Campbell’s ID, and was believed to be Krystle until she came out of surgery.

Rand Engelhardt went on: ”No words can describe how much [Krystle] meant to all of us. She was an incredible woman, always full of energy and hard at work, but never too tired to share her love and a smile with everyone. She was an inspiration to all of us. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers. We are continuing to remain positive for Karen and ask that you keep her in your prayers as well.”

Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn said he had spoken with Campbell’s father.

“Mr. Campbell said that she certainly was a dream daughter, the daughter that every father dreams to have and friends of hers said that she was eager about life. She had a great sense of humor and freckles and red hair that brought her right to her Irish roots. She was someone who worked hard at everything she did,” McGlynn said. “Another friend said she may have been a little loud at times but it was a loudness you loved.”

Earlier, the family of 8-year-old Martin Richard confirmed their son’s death in the incident.

How awful especially with the ID confusion, one family who thought their daughter was dead find their's survived, but the other family who thought their daughter was alive find that she died.

[Benjamin]

Friend, Zhou Danling, now in a coma.

“Shenyang girl… was killed in the Boston bomb blast,” the city’s Liaoshen Evening News wrote on its Twitter-like Weibo account.

The student’s name was widely cited on social media and in some Chinese news outlets but state news agency Xinhua said the victim’s family did not want her name made public.

The 23-year-old, who was studying at Boston University, was reportedly waiting near the marathon’s finishing line with two friends when two explosions threw the event into chaos.

One of those friends, Zhou Danling, was in a “stable condition” on Tuesday night after undergoing two operations at the Boston Medical Center, according to Xinhua. The other friend was unharmed.

The announcement of the student’s death came after a number of concerned friends and classmates had taken to social media to report she was “missing”. One friend posted a telephone number on Twitter with the message: “Help us find her! We can’t find her!”

The student’s father also expressed his fears to a local newspaper on Tuesday. “We haven't been able to contact her. Why didn't she make a call to tell us she's safe?” he told the Shenyang Evening News.

The Chinese victim was raised in the northeastern province of Liaoning and studied at Shenyang’s Northeast Yucai Middle School.

She left that school in 2008, according to the Liaoshen Evening News, and secured a place at the prestigious Beijing Institute of Technology where she studied international trade.

In 2010, she spent 2 months doing work experience at the Bank of China in her home province, according an entry on her LinkedIn page. She also spent four months working in Beijing for Deloitte Consulting between 2011 and 2012.

Late last year, after graduating in Beijing, she moved to the United States to study for a Master’s degree at Boston University.

“New Hampshire is such a great place!” the victim wrote on her Facebook page on October 7 last year.

Towards the start of her time in the United States, the student travelled to the Toah Nipi Retreat, a countryside retreat for Christians around 90 minutes drive from Boston. The retreat’s website describes it as “a place to come away, meet God, and be renewed”.

The student also appears to have been a fan of classical music – her Facebook page contains a link to the site of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

By Wednesday morning, friends and micro-bloggers had posted over 5,000 messages on the student’s Weibo account, underneath a photograph she posted just hours before being killed in Boston. The photograph, of that day’s breakfast, carried the caption: “My wonderful breakfast.”

“An innocent victim of terrorist attack,” wrote one micro-blogger under the name Zhakutahetu_Dazhi. “There is no evil in paradise. I wish you a good journey!”

“I don't want to believe it is true,” wrote another.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...e-student.html


Third victim announced.

[Marc]

I like what Lee shared on Facebook yesterday about how there are only a few individuals behind this which make up the evil in the world but good outweighs all that evil. All of those people running towards the blast to help people affected.

[arista]

A kitchen tool
turned into a bomb.

[GiRTh]

Youtube video

Rush Limbaugh is a ******. No one has admitted responsibility for this but Limbaughs talking about Muslims being protected by the media.

[arista]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Youtube video

Rush Limbaugh is a ******. No one has admitted responsibility for this but Limbaughs talking about Muslims being protected by the media.

But he is just a Shock Jock Radio - not CBS, for example.

He talks about anything he wants
its USA Radio
Thats the freedom they have

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by arista

But he is just a Shock Jock Radio - not CBS, for example.

He talks about anything he wants
its USA Radio
Thats the freedom they have

Limbaugh has influence. Some say he is one of the most respected conservatives in the country. He's a complete loon but a lot of people listen to him. Also, the point the the host makes - If this was a Christian conservative then Limbaugh would trying play down any link to right wing nuts like himself.

[Marc]

They just showed a picture on the news of what might have been the device from a photo taken. Looks really obvious as well

[Z]

This is so heart breaking. The fact nobody's claimed responsibility for this yet suggests that it's a homegrown terrorist, if it were an international organisation they'd have doubtless claimed it.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Zee

This is so heart breaking. The fact nobody's claimed responsibility for this yet suggests that it's a homegrown terrorist, if it were an international organisation they'd have doubtless claimed it.

Maybe he is wounded in Hospital

[Sticks]

What I have read elsewhere is that during the troubles in Northern Ireland a lot of the money for the IRA was raised in Boston by the organisation NORAID.

Was there not a young boy killed by an IRA bomb in Warrington, possibly paid for by those in Boston.

Compared with what we had over this side of the pond, this was small beer

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Sticks

What I have read elsewhere is that during the troubles in Northern Ireland a lot of the money for the IRA was raised in Boston by the organisation NORAID.

Was there not a young boy killed by an IRA bomb in Warrington, possibly paid for by those in Boston.

Compared with what we had over this side of the pond, this was small beer

Not sure what point you are trying to make?

[Sticks]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Not sure what point you are trying to make?

If what I read elsewhere is true, that NORAID raised funds in Boston to pay for IRA terrorist atrocities over here, could this be Karma catching up with that city? What that person wrote on another forum did make me wonder.

Another point is that here in the UK we have had to suffer worse atrocities, like the Birmingham pub bombings, Enniskillen, Warrington to name a few. Boston got of lightly compared to what we have suffered in the UK.

Getting back to the first point, some of the funds to carry out these attacks were raised in the US, am not sure if Boston was the main culprit, that other poster seemed to think so. Meanwhile the news of these atrocities went unreported as the owners of the main TV stations blocking such news, while giving air time to those, like Sien Fein /(IRA) saying that Ireland was under forced and illegal occupation by the British Army who were allegedly carrying out random searches of people's homes in the middle of the night. Obviously this obviously still rankles with some today

I am not sure where that other poster lives, but from the tone of what he wrote, it still caused immense resentment towards to US, and Boston in particular.

Meanwhile I am aware that this could be considered a thread hijack, so Nuff said and we return you to your regular programme...

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Sticks

If what I read elsewhere is true, that NORAID raised funds in Boston to pay for IRA terrorist atrocities over here, could this be Karma catching up with that city? What that person wrote on another forum did make me wonder.

Another point is that here in the UK we have had to suffer worse atrocities, like the Birmingham pub bombings, Enniskillen, Warrington to name a few. Boston got of lightly compared to what we have suffered in the UK.

Getting back to the first point, some of the funds to carry out these attacks were raised in the US, am not sure if Boston was the main culprit, that other poster seemed to think so. Meanwhile the news of these atrocities went unreported as the owners of the main TV stations blocking such news, while giving air time to those, like Sien Fein /(IRA) saying that Ireland was under forced and illegal occupation by the British Army who were allegedly carrying out random searches of people's homes in the middle of the night. Obviously this obviously still rankles with some today

I am not sure where that other poster lives, but from the tone of what he wrote, it still caused immense resentment towards to US, and Boston in particular.

Meanwhile I am aware that this could be considered a thread hijack, so Nuff said and we return you to your regular programme...

So you're saying you think it's a British person that did this then? Some anti-Irish Independence nut attacks Boston? But why don't they just attack Ireland then?

I don't think you're right, but it's an interesting theory.

[Cherie]

Thanks for clarifying Sticks, don't really want to get into this theory too deeply on this thread, but to my mind there are some gaping holes in it.

[Sticks]

Originally Posted by lostalex

So you're saying you think it's a British person that did this then? Some anti-Irish Independence nut attacks Boston? But why don't they just attack Ireland then?

I don't think you're right, but it's an interesting theory.

I was not saying that, but observing that a poster on another sight popped up in a similar discussion and declared that they had no sympathy whatsoever for the people of Boston because they allegedly funded the IRA and their atrocities over here, through NORAID and reading between the lines the subtext of what the poster was saying was "What goes around comes around".

My guess for what has happened remains an al-Qa'ida inspired home grown group, just like the 7/7 bombers

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Sticks

What I have read elsewhere is that during the troubles in Northern Ireland a lot of the money for the IRA was raised in Boston by the organisation NORAID.

Was there not a young boy killed by an IRA bomb in Warrington, possibly paid for by those in Boston.

Compared with what we had over this side of the pond, this was small beer

There were two young boys killed at Warrington but that has no bearing really on this. This is another innocent life taken by terrorists of whatever sort.

[arista]

They have now Arrested a Suspect.


Ref: SkyNewsHD Live

[Sticks]

Originally Posted by arista

They have now Arrested a Suspect.


Ref: SkyNewsHD Live

Link to BBC story

[arista]

[arista]

This "could" be the man
Or it may not be.


On Ch4 News Live now

[Vicky.]

4chan had that on a blog post earlier today