tend to think it was anti government types; tax day and all

looks like it was a Saudi National

Sh*t. Now we're gonna have to invade Iraq again.

The NY Post story is being challenged by Boston Police.

Roupen Bastajian, a 35-year-old state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race when they put the heat blanket wrap on him and he heard the first blast.

I started running toward the blast...

Are basketball players heroes

Roupen Bastajian, a 35-year-old state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race when they put the heat blanket wrap on him and he heard the first blast.

I started running toward the blast...

What kind of courage does it take to run toward the blast? What kind of instinct?

The ME is FULL of people who think just that. Cowardly attacks the norm. They too had their explosions- in many countries today, Iraq included.

BUT WE DAMN WELL SHOULD NOT CONDEMN A WHOLE ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCT OF SOME GROUP OF PEOPLE FOR THE ACTIONS OF ONE OR A FEW.

how are we going to stop such people?

Ron - We're not going to stop such people. There will always be a small percentage of crazy people who don't value life and feel the need to make a statement.

By my calculation, this brings the grand total of terrorist-related deaths in the U.S. in the past 10+ years to...2. How many people have died by gunfire from white Americans during that time (in schools, movie theaters, etc.)? How are we going to stop those people? Are terrorist bombs really the biggest threat? (This is, of course, assuming this even was a foreign terrorist attack...)

The Middle East is not "FULL" of these people. Have you ever been there? Of course you haven't. I have, and I have American friends who have lived there for years, and 99% of the people you encounter are friendly and caring. Your statement is the equivalent of going to a neo-Nazi rally here in the U.S. and then proclaiming "American is FULL of skinhead racists!" It makes you look like even more of an ignorant bigot than you normally do. Congratulations.

only 2 terrorist related deaths in the US in the past 10 years

Give me freedom to speculate or give me death.

Obama did not use the word terrorist in addressing this crime

He'll get ripped fer that one

So if we find out specifically who did this atrocity what then?

Yeah, they'll take his birth certificate away!

Werner, what's your take?

At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan today, Afghan officials and residents said.

At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan today, Afghan officials and residents said.

Shutting down the cell towers is a planned defensive maneuver.

At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan today, Afghan officials and residents said.

I don't see any difference between a photo of someone's missing leg and a written description saying something like "leg blown off".

So tell me Climb2ki, how are we going to stop such people? Id rather PREVENT than prosecute after the fact.

Pretty f*#ked up that you guys turn a tradgedy into a pissing match.

Supertopo: the number one name in internet news and random emotional speculation.

Wow, Americans really ARE stupid.

You obviously feel burned from the Peru thread that you started. No hard feelings, but you come across as bitter, IMO. ;-)

But the govt is draggin a bit with the news.

I haven't forgotten what happened on 9/11, but exactly what do you think we've been doing to people in Iraq and Afghanistan for over 10 years? Or Yemen or Pakistan for that matter.

“If you are not hyper-vigilant and in some way fearful for your very life then, I’m sorry, you’re living on a completely different planet,” National Security Advisor Tom Donilon told reporters. “Now, if you feel like you live in an unpredictable place where somebody hates you for no reason whatsoever and literally wants to murder you even though they’ve never even met you, well, that’s living in the world based on how it truly is. It’s an age of constantly searching for answers but realizing there are none because there are simply no logical answers when it comes to insanity. ”

“That’s pretty goddamn sad, but it’s the truth,” Donilon added.

anyone who gets PTSD from a photo is most definatly suffering from first world problems....

Doesn't do sh!t if you know what your doing.

If you want to control IED's explosives you don't need cell tower.

Man you guys don't know much.

Just main stream media is all you know ......

In a war, doing the job we volunteered for, trying to stop bad guys, so others can enjoy the FREEDOM of speech, and other freedoms that some take for granted here in America.

How many "bad guys" have we "stopped" ?

“Now, if you feel like you live in an unpredictable place where somebody hates you for no reason whatsoever and literally wants to murder you even though they’ve never even met you, well, that’s living in the world based on how it truly is."

so what is your answer Survival?

Supertopo: the number one name in internet news and random emotional speculation.

Fear of backlash rarely concerns these groups, as it is often one of their goals to provoke overreaction by their enemies, and hopefully widen the conflict.

Ken M -- " it is incumbent upon Americans to reflect VERY carefully on what they say and do .."

so what is your answer Survival?

Melt their whole Goddamn country into a parking lot, what else?

So you Einsteins would attack Saudi Arabia for 911......as Bin Laden intended?

And yes the images are graphic. But they truly need to be so. A picture being worth a thousand words.

Ken M -- "...do any search for evidence."

Why so mean-spirited and angry all of a sudden?

you probably used your access to confidential EMS blogs. Using that info to post publically is particularly offensive.

Pretty f*#ked up that you guys turn a tradgedy into a pissing match.

Apparently you haven't read enough of my previous posts to understand tongue firmly in cheek trolling toward Ron.

My guess is that these are either black powder

The U.S. government has warned federal agencies in the past that pressure cookers -- air-tight pots used to quickly cook or preserve foods -- have been turned into bombs in parts of the world. A Department of Homeland Security memo called it "a technique commonly taught in Afghan terrorist training camps."
"Typically, these bombs are made by placing TNT or other explosives in a pressure cooker and attaching a blasting cap at the top of the pressure cooker," the memo said.
Such bombs are "very effective," terrorism expert Jeffrey Beatty told CNN. Taliban and al Qaeda militants "use them to make their IED's," he said.
"That doesn't mean it was the Taliban -- other people can read about this," said Beatty, who served in the FBI, CIA, and the military's Delta Force.

Curious that Base knows so much about explosives,

Under President Obama, the number of civilian deaths due to drone strikes has increased since the Bush Administration.

And YES there IS collateral damage in WAR, but their purpose IS to kill and maim innocent people while we do everything we can to avoid it.

By now I imagine the metallurgists have determined which Kmart the pressure cooker was sold at. Even money says it was either Peshawar or Lubbock.

unnamed sources infer

unnamed sources infer that the bomber waited 2 hours after the world class muslim marathoners had finished and left to their hotels so only the slower American runners and spectators would be caught in the blasts.

unnamed sources infer that the bomber waited 2 hours after the world class muslim marathoners had finished and left to their hotels so only the slower American runners and spectators would be caught in the blasts.

Points toward islamic terrorists.