[Half-Inch Stud]

...my boss didn't run it this year. But his 2 sons did ( both finished before detonation, as reported by wife at scene by cellphone.

As i spoke with him,,said well it wasn't a Kenyan. He said "it was an Ethiopian either". So i says well we've narrowed it done pretty good alreadyhuh.

[PonchoV8]

Originally Posted by The Boss

I saw him too - looks like the blast went right through the snow fencing at knee level & took him out. There was a still photo on one of the CT stations this morning showing two police officers carrying him out of the street.

I am continually struck, more so lately, that we are failing in our task to pass a better world on to the generations who are coming behind us.

We just need to stop mucking with other nations.

[Bob Dillon]

Originally Posted by The Boss

I saw him too - looks like the blast went right through the snow fencing at knee level & took him out. There was a still photo on one of the CT stations this morning showing two police officers carrying him out of the street.

I saw that too. Trust me, he was struck by shrapnel.

[Norwood]

My sons Girlfriend finished 40 min ahead of the blast............she was about 2 blocks away.

[The Boss]

Originally Posted by Bob Dillon

I saw that too. Trust me, he was struck by shrapnel.

He's going to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated & managed to cross the finish line!

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Bob Dillon

I saw that too. Trust me, he was struck by shrapnel.

That man was interviewed on the news last night, he was just knocked down by the blast - no shrapnel. His only injury was a scraped knee from when he fell down.

[Bob Dillon]

Originally Posted by Stuart

That man was interviewed on the news last night, he was just knocked down by the blast - no shrapnel. His only injury was a scraped knee from when he fell down.

Looked to me like he had his legs blown out from under him. That's usually the case when the blast wave and the shrapnel arrive together. If he wasn't struck, good on him, but that's not what it looked like.

[indetrucks]

There were a few runners closer to the blast than he was, they stayed upright after the blast.
He's a pretty old who was on tired legs from running a marathon. Not surprised they gave out on him at the end (with or without the blast).

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by indetrucks

There were a few runners closer to the blast than he was, they stayed upright after the blast.
He's a pretty old who was on tired legs from running a marathon. Not surprised they gave out on him at the end (with or without the blast).

Agreed. After 26 miles it is pretty hard to stay upright, regardless of age or state of health.

(I ran the Chicago Marathon last year).

K

[Mr_GTO]

The pictures are out there of victims. More like a scene out of downtown Baghdad v2004-2007 without the holes in the grounds than Boston. Very horrific injuries. I've walked that street a hundred times...looks like the next time I'm over there I'll be saying a prayer.

[The Boss]

Stephen Colbert nailed it!

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-col...ntro---4-16-13

[Mr_GTO]

http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA

Check this out....very interesting.

[David Jones]

Interesting link Chris. Right now somebody is pouring over zillions of photo's or video's looking for that needle in a haystack.

[Judge273]

Just looking at the pictures from the scene and knowing that downtown Boston is rich in cameras. I have a good feeling that they will find these people, and justice will be served!

[David Jones]

Originally Posted by The Boss

Stephen Colbert nailed it!

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-col...ntro---4-16-13

Chris, THAT was funny..

[The Boss]

Loved this!

[Mr_GTO]

Originally Posted by David Jones

Interesting link Chris. Right now somebody is pouring over zillions of photo's or video's looking for that needle in a haystack.

We've only seen a tenth of a percent of the images of where the bomb's exploded. i'm sure those that were there have delivered their images or will to the FBI and they'll be doing the same thing as that website did.

There is no shortage of security cams in that area as well. They'll ID a suspect, it's catching them will be the hard part is my guess.

[The Boss]

and this!

[Mr_GTO]

BREAKING!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/bos...html?hpt=hp_t1

First on CNN: Authorities believe they have identified a suspect, source says

Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, a source who has been briefed on the investigation told CNN's John King exclusively.

The breakthrough came from analysis of video from a department store near the site of the second explosion. Video from a Boston television station also contributed to the progress, said the source, who declined to be more specific but called it a significant development.

Earlier, a federal law enforcement source with firsthand knowledge of the investigation told CNN that a lid to a pressure cooker thought to have been used in the bombings had been found on a roof of a building near the scene.

While such clues may move the investigation forward, they did not reveal whether the attack was an act of domestic or foreign terrorism.
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"If your experience and your expertise is Middle East terrorism, it has the hallmarks of al Qaeda or a Middle East group," former FBI Assistant Director Tom Fuentes said. "If your experience is domestic groups and bombings that have occurred here, it has the hallmarks of a domestic terrorist like Eric Rudolph in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics bombings."

Things we know

Fuentes said he has investigated both types of terrorism -- from Iraq to the United States -- and finds the Boston attack has elements of both. "It has the hallmarks of both domestic and international (attacks), and you can see either side of that."

The bombs

The bombs, which exploded 12 seconds apart, killed three people and wounded 183.

One was housed in a pressure cooker hidden inside a backpack, the FBI said in a joint intelligence bulletin. The device also had fragments that may have included nails, BBs and ball bearings, the agency said.

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The second bomb was also housed in a metal container, but it was not clear whether it too was in a pressure cooker, the FBI said.

The U.S. government has warned federal agencies in the past that terrorists could turn pressure cookers into bombs by packing them with explosives and shrapnel and detonating them with blasting caps.

Photos obtained by CNN show the remains of a pressure cooker found at the scene, along with a shredded black backpack and what appear to be metal pellets or ball bearings.

Scraps of at least one pressure cooker, nails and nylon bags found at the scene were sent to the FBI's national laboratory in Virginia, where technicians will try to reconstruct the devices, the agent leading the investigation said Tuesday.

The pieces suggest each of the devices was 6 liters (about 1.6 gallons) in volume, a Boston law enforcement source said. The recovered parts include part of a circuit board, which might have been used to detonate a device.

A law enforcement official said Monday's bombs were probably detonated by timers. But the FBI said details of the detonating system were unknown.
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The hunt for the attacker

The attack has left Boston police with "the most complex crime scene that we've dealt with in the history of our department," Commissioner Ed Davis said Tuesday.

Authorities are sifting through more than 2,000 tips and a mass of digital photos and video clips, but are asking for the public's help in providing additional leads and images.

"Someone knows who did this," said Rick DesLauriers, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston office. "Cooperation from the community will play a crucial role in this investigation."

DesLauriers asked the public to report anyone who may have talked about targeting the marathon or shown interest in explosives. He urged anyone who may have heard explosions in remote areas -- possibly indicating a bomb test -- or seen someone carrying "an unusually heavy, dark-colored bag" around the time of the attack to come forward.

Who may have wanted to cause mass destruction -- and whether the individual or individuals acted alone or as part of a group -- remained a mystery.

"We really don't know if it's a foreign or domestic threat," said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. "We don't know whether this was a homegrown terrorist or part of a wider conspiracy."

A "lone wolf" attacker could be particularly difficult to identify.

"This is what you worry about the most," a source with knowledge of the investigation said. "No trail, no intelligence."

"Boston is not going to be intimidated by this," said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts, in testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. "But we are going to find out who did this. The police work being done is extraordinary. The FBI is remarkable. There is a great deal of forensic evidence. We are hopeful we can bring people to justice."

Clues from inside the hospital

Medical personnel treating the wounded found evidence suggesting the bombmaker or bombmakers sought to maximize the suffering.

Dr. George Velmahos, head of trauma care at Massachusetts General Hospital, said his team found metal pellets and nails inside patients' bodies.

"They are numerous. There are people who have 10, 20, 30, 40 of them in their body, or more," Velmahos said.

While most of the patients treated at Brigham and Women's Hospital were wounded by "ordinary debris," three were struck by "perfectly round objects" that were uniform, consistent and metallic, the hospital's chairman of emergency medicine said.

'Human spirit' still alive

Dr. Ron Walls also said one patient had more than 12 carpenter-type nails.

"There is no question some of these objects were implanted in the device for the purpose of being exploded forward," he said.

The process of healing is already well under way. Boston Medical Center has two patients in critical condition, down from 11 just after the bombings, Dr. Peter Burke, chief of trauma care, told reporters Wednesday. Ten patients are in serious condition and seven are in fair condition, he said.

A traumatic road ahead

Candace Rispoli was cheering on a friend when the festive atmosphere turned into a "terrifying hell."

"One of my best friends ... was actually trampled and thrown to the blood-splattered ground when it first happened," Rispoli told CNN's iReport. "She was able to get up and keep running, but when I turned around to seek all my friends, I could not see her and panicked."

Rispoli, who suffered minor injuries, said the attack has changed her life.

"I personally will never participate in an event of this nature in a city in fear that something like this could happen again," she said. "I keep replaying the moments of terror over and over in my head and am just still in utter shock. Always seeing terrible things of this nature happen all over the world on TV, my heart would always go out to those directly affected. But I never imagined in a million years I would be a spectator at the Boston Marathon running for my life."

[bird72]

I hope reports are true, this one will be interesting, hard to picture one person carrying two bombs in, let's hope multiple arrests....