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Large Explosions Reported At Boston Marathon; Numerous Injuries And Casualties
North Korea's daily war bluffs may be (rightfully) ignored by the market, but an unexpected and tragic development comes out of Boston, where local media reports of two explosions and numerous injuries:
- AT LEAST 12 INJURED IN BOSTON MARATHON BLAST: BOSTON HERALD
- BOSTON BLAST SEEM CENTERED IN `TRASH CAN': BOSTON HERALD
- CNN CITES SOURCE ON REPORTS OF DEVICE AT BOSTON MANDARIN HOTEL
- AT LEAST 3 DEAD AT BOSTON MARATHON, FOX NEWS CITES SOURCE
- BOSTON POLICE SAY "SECONDARY DEVICES" ARE STILL BEING FOUND
Where the blasts occurred, via the WSJ:
What happened:
According to the NY Post there are at 12 casualties so far, although according to the Boston PD 2 are dead and 22 are hurt.
Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers in the 26.2-mile trek from Hopkinton were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts.
A federal law-enforcement source told The Post there are at least 12 dead and twice as many injured.
Law-enforcement sources said at least the first explosion occurred in the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel.
A more credible report comes from Reuters:
Two explosions hit the Boston Marathon as runners crossed the finish line on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring 23 on a day when tens of thousands of people pack the streets to watch one of the world's best known marathons.
Boston police also reported another explosion at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, which is three miles from the marathon's finishing line.
"We are not certain that these incidents are related, but we are treating them as if they are," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told a news conference.
Boston police said two people were killed and 23 injured in the explosions on the marathon scene.
Two high-level U.S. law enforcement officials said one or more bombs were responsible for the explosions.
"It sounded like a sonic boom. I haven't stopped shaking yet," said Melissa Stanley, who watched her daughter cross the finish line four minutes before the explosions.
A fireball rose from behind spectators and a row of flags, video posted on the New York Post website showed. Other pictures showed blood stains on the ground and several people knocked down.
Massachusetts General Hospital was treating 19 victims of the explosion in its emergency room, six of them in critical condition, a spokeswoman said.
Witnesses said two explosions hit as spectators were cheering on people finishing the Boston Marathon, which was first run in 1897.
Reporters in the media center heard two blasts.
Mike Mitchell of Vancouver, Canada, a runner who had finished the race, said he was looking back at the finish line and saw a "massive explosion."
Smoke rose 50 feet in the air, Mitchell said. People began running and screaming after hearing the noise, Mitchell said.
"Everybody freaked out," Mitchell said.
Ambulances, fire trucks and dozens of police vehicles converged at the finish line.
U.S. President Barack Obama was notified and directed his administration to provide whatever assistance was necessary, the White House said. Obama was being briefed by Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco and other staff, the White House said.
Authorities tightened security in Washington and New York.
"Blood everywhere, victims carried out on stretchers. I saw someone lose their leg, people are crying," the Boston Globe's Steve Silva reported from the scene, the Globe said on Twitter.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators typically line the 26.2 mile race course, with the heaviest crowds near the finish line. The blasts occurred more than five hours after the start of the race, at a time when most top athletes were off the course but slower amateur marathoners were still running.
The transit agency shut down all service to the area, citing police activity.
Ambulances arrived on the scene within minutes and runners and spectators could be seen crying and consoling each other.
The Boston Marathon has been held on Patriots Day, the third Monday of April, since 1897. The event, which starts in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and ends Boston's Copley Square, attracts an estimated half-million spectators and some 20,000 participants every year.
Earlier on Monday, Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa and Kenya's Rita Jeptoo won the men's and women's events, continuing African runners' dominance in the sport.
Clip from right after explosion...fwd to 0:33...
First picture of the explosion:
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Damn.
Bloody mess, damn.
Ruh Roh !!!! I hope folks are ok.
Here's that false flag we've all been expecting dreading. Cue teary eyed survivors begging the .gov to eliminate a few more liberties to keep us all safe.
BTW, I'm sure it was the Iranians or NK. ;-)
This site rocks nothing on MSM.
Beat Drudge by a good 5 minutes.
I think saying it was only 5 minutes ahead of Drudge is being very friendly to Drudge. Seemed like quite a few more minutes to me.
Is there ever?
Looks like two explosions.
That's what's being reported, and in the first pic there is a large smoke plume what looks like a block or two down of the explosion in action. Looks pretty fucked up. Hopefully this was some sort of accident and not too many wounded/killed.
Weird:
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/04/15/police-man-commits-suicide-by-blowing-himself-up-on-front-lawn/#.UWvzxp99IAg.twitter
Neighbors say the victim had a very strong dislike for the government.
Pipe bombs in Oregon, California, and Mass., all on the same day. I'm sure it's just an odd coincidence.
That one guys face looks like it got blown off.
Take their guns!!!
http://www.ssristories.com/index.php
Live feed no work?
Guess they were mad about the Gold price falling also
Here in Idaho.
http://www.ktvb.com/news/Ontario-men-injured-in-bomb-blast-203002551.html
See mine above. Too weird for coincidence. The guy in the Cali incident was know for distrubuting anti-goverment info.
Is April 15th the new April 19th?
I guess we'll know in 4 days.
Pipe bombs in Oregon, California, and Mass., on the same day. All anti-govt. types supposedly. That's a pretty thorough branding operation going on today.
Try and get the security video out onto the internet before Holder locks up the tapes.
looks like 911 is about to blow on $RUT look for a quick shit the bed slip down to 870 next which could cave and keep on going bitchezz
Obviously the work of some rabid group of extremist christian constitutionalist libertarian gun-totin' rayciss tea-party rednex. Either that, or The Joker dropped a full roll of mentos into a tanker-truck of Coke.
Hurry up, we need Congress to pass more laws banning this sort of stuff!
Any comments yet from Bill Ayers or Bernadine Dohrn?
From Bill Ayers...12 down 25 million to go.
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Is there no end to this depressing day?
And let's cut out the dark humour to, false flag or not, people have been injured (perhaps even killed) and that's nothing to be jovial about.
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Good point
Indeed, so much darkness when a simple flame from a candle can light a room filled with it. Point taken.
Those aren't large explosions; for one, there's no indentation into the asphalt, and notice the lack of disruption to the street sectioning. Gas tank / propane tanks attached to something? (hot dog stand?). For reference, look at any bombing of markets in Iraq (example).
Tragic, and I hope no-one is seriously injured / killed. But let's not jump onto a band-wagon when any targeted bomb would have decimated that area.
The bombs went off inside the hotel.
Actually, the Forum is a restaurant. From the blow-out, shape & color of the cloud, this could very well be a gas explosion. Reference - similar explosion in Philly.
Checklist: deliberate bombing (a la IRA etc, or anti-gay nutters) would have included large amounts of shrapnel, which isn't consistent with injuries we're seeing. However, it looks like someone lost their lower legs, so our thoughts go out to them.
Still this is not a common thing for large U.S cities or large U.S. held events. Yes, these events happen more frequently elsewhere. We have been fortunate that we have nt had to be used to them here. That there is surprise/shock expressed is to be expected.
Lower legs of marathon runners: essential.
Good points. Hope it is just an accident.
You may be on to something AEM.
It was Mass. that a strip club and two other buildings were levelled from a gas leak.
http://www.gadailynews.com/news/national/145710-devastation-in-massachus...
Sadly, this is just a statistical anomoly compared to the carnage that happens every Fri, Sat, Sun on Americas highways and byways.
So, if over 50,000 end up in twisted wreckage every year, there's never a quiver, but ........ oh yawn.
Exactly, so far it looks like someone poked a hole in a jumping castle.
innocent runners? wtf...
innocent runners? wtf...
Exactly, this does not fit the mode of an anti goober group.If they were going to do something like this it would be directed against some Fed agency/Bldg. This would hurt their cause.I do not buy it, if that's what they finally blame it on.
It's just like Israel,sitting in a restaurant, or on a bus,even idiots do not target matrathon runners.This has Isamic Radical all over it.
MY question here, is DID the LE/DHS,etc, check this area BEFORE hand?.
If not, WHY not?.
Dos Zap, your read of this situation seems very reasonable.
I do not see some internal anti-government group (i.e., what MSNBC would call white extremists) attacking anything but the government.
Let's keep in mind that the Boston Marathon gets publicity in North Africa, because many of its leading competitors are from that part of the world.
Al Qaeda in North Africa (in response to the Algerian government massacre near Timbuktu) is my initial bet.
Hmm, local anchor participated in the race today. Finished in the top 300 female runners and took 15 minutes off her best time. Hope she's ok.
It's real. Now on CBC news.
Didn't know Comex was in Boston?
Someone was carb loading with beans again?
Jihadis attacking that liberal mecca of Boston? Cry me a river.
The fact that people right next to it were not instantly killed, we can say the bombs were not that large. You can see some people are missing their feet and parts of their legs in that last pic.
guess that was a race to finish last. false flagg-s here we come
Dick Bove's brain finally blew up?
my thoughts and prayers are with all the victims. hopefully there will not be any deaths out of this, and all those injured make a speedy recovery.
i believe it was some douchebag punk who did this, not suspecting any large terrorists group at this time.
Agreed.
One has to wonder why who ever did this waited until 4 o'clock. It seems like more effect would have come from an earlier explosion.
The mother of all Swans exploded
For those who don't know - Hussein Obama began his political career in the living room of domestic terrorist and bomber Bill Ayers.
Well, actually, his real father, not from Kenya by the way, was a devout Communist, and his mother was a socialist whore that like to be passed around at communist party get togethers. (Sorta like biker momma's)
Wouldn't want that to get out to the public, better to fool everyone by saying that his father was a British national from Kenya.
Probably a bullion shop, to prevent people from trying to buy anymore.
They are going to make an insurance claim becuase it was valued higher than what it's trading now.
Maybe they were having a Blow-Out special.
Or that it was actually tungstun...
does getting startled count as an injury?
Damn those Kenyans !
looks like the event was an exploding success
scnr :'(
So who do we invade for this one?
Montana.
best of luck. average 25 guns per household
All 75 households.
Should make it interesting..................for the Montanans.
Who cares; just do it.
The U.S.S of A.....if you haven't noticed the preperations for the invasion have been underway for a while....next up Shock and Awe.
Just preparing us for the invasion of both NK and Iran.
Neocons busy with the propaganda.
And, its not even Halloween
(scroll down for embedded video)
Ourselves... That's what the 2700 LAVs and 1.6 billion rounds of hollowpoint ammunition are for.
Clearly it was the Iranians and Syrians. Fits the Iranian MO -Cyrus of Persia pulled off such a trick a few thousand years ago. And we all know Iran and Syria were behind 9/11. Didn't the Navy Seals find some sex tapes in pakistan showing lewd sex between Amandenijad, Assad and Bin laden having sex with little kids and bragging about 9/11? I think the Moosad has some evidence also. Let's go kick some more Muslim ass. How dare they disrupt such a great American sporting event.
What an asshole
screw you retard -If you had bnothered to figure out the way of the world and how our shadow government operates, you would realize that this parody of may very well be close to the truth of what is to be expected.
7 think yr serious, 7 are loving the sarcasm
I'm pretty sure this was carried out by Rosie Ruiz.
Playing the fear card BIG TIME. Look out for the blame game to manifest, or the real cause to be found out. Maybe a gas explosion. They do NOT know what caused it at this time. Will they take advantage of a bad situation? Always check the timing.
If it was real babylonian false flag to take the attention off the crashing market, it would have been a lot bigger, and far more deadly.
Ponder that.
Notice also, all that military...at a marathon in battle dress???
Here is the real deal:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100641943
Stay on target....stay on target...stay on target.
Pray for those who were injured to find rapid hospital recoveries.
CNBS is blaming the drop in the DJIA on this. We all knew there would be something to pull the critical Jenga block.
I was suspecting sometime in May, but when in Rome.
Drones gone wild
Gather up all the first day evidence you can, folks. Newcasts, photos, etc. Don't let your evidence get confiscated.
If you have stuff, put it up on the web, even if it seems innocuous.
Watching tape of the live scene and one guy says "OMG they're dead." Bomb was inside hotel and hit those outside bad.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/it-time-again-military-conducting-training...
Is It That Time Again? Military Conducting Training Exercises In And Around BostonSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/27/2011 08:59 -0400
Man, how obvious can it get? Every. friggin . time . Military excercises in my town I'm getting the hell out.
Yes, those are pure Gladio signatures.
As corrupt as things are now, you almost have to suspect rogue elements of the government first before you consider the usual crooks.
Holy Shit! I remember that!
deleted.
Everybody said, you will know when its here, there will be "blood in the streets"
"blood in the streets" - that's when it's time to buy (gold and silver that is)
Janet Napolitano convincing the sheep not to cut DHS funding. Pay your protection money, otherwise bad things happen.
Well, she did say the sequester might cause terrist attax.
I think I see an intact ME passport laying there
That's Chris Dorner's passport, I'm sure of it
In the last photo, look at how bissfully that israeli flag is flying.
Two incidents the same day on the west cost involving white males in their 50, 60s blowing themselves up with homade bombs . . . on the same day as this??? Eyes open time.
Yes, the MSM will portary these angry white men has the 'Youth Wing' of the NRA....
A racist attack by 2nd amendment terrist.
WE TOLD YOU SO.....
Are US presidents going to false flag the country everytime their approval ratings are in the trash?
Kim Jong Il's birthday: February 16, 1941
Ban dustbins. Clearly dangerous weapons.
You've obviously never been to London; they did just that in the 80's vrs the IRA.
The terrorists have won.
It's tailor-made as a false flag event - immediate major media saturation coverage, since they were all already there; victims are apparently arbitrary; event occurs in a jurisdiction that is very TPTB-friendly; and so on.
There's basically zero point for anyone but government to do something like this.
DHS must be getting ready for phase III of the citizen lockdown.
They don't want their funding cut. The budget debate is just about to begin.
I see the event isn't important enough to not have fucking commercials inserted into the live feed.
Advertisement for Freedumb Chase Credit Card.
Something tells me this is a crisis that won't be allowed to go to waste.
Someone pissed off about paying taxes.
Two blasts are what is being reported and multiple simultaneous explosions are the calling card of al-Qaeda. There was also a wave of bombing attacks in Iraq today.
http://tinyurl.com/d82wt7k
Coincidence?
You mean the CIA ???
I trust the CIA about as much as al-Qaeda but sometimes a kook muzzie splodey dope is just that.
Wow, it would be easy to make a cynical comment, however I'll bite my tongue and just pass along my hopes to all the injured that they recover. One thing that needs to be made abundanty clear on this site to anyone who makes fun of a situation like this is that this type of shit is wrong and never wins over anyone. Bombing innocent civilians at the conclusion of a Marathon is the weakest form of of cowardice I can just about imagine. I may completely dislike what's going on in our country, but if I ever need to pick up arms to defend my freedoms, I will do it publicly and go after those responsible, never innocent civilians. I hope they find the fucker or the fuckers that did this and string them up pronto.
To provide some perspective to your heartfelt comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2HCR47p2n8
(for some reason this never made it to the national news let alone wall to wall to wall coverage on every cable and news network.)
Does a foolish act of violence ever justify an act of violence against civilians who had nothing to do with ordering the original atrocity. And don't tell me Americans want this shit, most Americans abhor this kind of stuff. If you want justice, sack up and go after the perps, not the innocents that empathize with you. If you can even begin to justify this you are a sick fuck.
you misread my comment you self righteous goat
where the fuck were your comments and wringing of hands as children were having their heads blown off half way around the world
you dumb fucking hypocrit wrapping youself in pseudo patriotism go watch Wolf Blitzer
My comments were just as loud then...like I said, one atrocity NEVER justifies another.
I'm not ruling out a false flag attack. The government has no problem killing innocent people if it furthers their agenda.
Kinda like bombing wedding ceremonies?
Barry sure did not waste any time with those new drone policies.
I hope Lady Gaga ends up playing the survivor's benefit concert.
Oh danny boy
The pipes the pipes
Are calling
Trish Regan formerly of CNBS and sadly now at BBG has this brilliant question:
In Boston there are few trash cans on the street. This has always been true. The thinking is: if the city puts out trash cans, you'll just fill them and then the city will have to empty them.
Marathon day is the exception.
All joking aside...I hope everybody is ok and those who aren't make a full recovery.
It's bad news... Reports so far say 48 injured and at least 2 deaths. Victims had limbs blown off. Very sad. (updated).
i dont see any of the FUCKING cops, helping anyone !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Noticed that too did ya?
It's no longer in their job description.
Too busy training to fedjack The People.
cops only protect their masters and each other.
CBC just showed the explosion. One runner dropped when she was hit but was not near the blast. There was a huge area of blood from the spectators.
Obviously a diversion from the over-the-weekend $500 million dollar tax increase they just put on The Citizenry. Meanwhile, this jackass is trying to have firearms banned:
http://www.malegislature.gov/people/profile/dpl1
This is one of "those" states, where The State Legislature is a total Banana Republic, occupied by career, recycled cronies. Get ejected from office? No problem, your crony friends are there to help, find you a nice job somewhere to keep your ridiculous pension padded.
Of course the brain dead voters here, legal or otherwise, don't even know what today is, and I'm not talking about The Boston Marathon...
strong health to anyone caught up in this the latest FALSE FLAG EVENT to redirect to masses/sheep.......
guess the yellow light just came on...
DEFCON 3 ROUND HOUSE[3] Increase in force readiness above that required for normal readinessAir Force ready to mobilize in 15 minutes
Speaking of US counter-terrorism unit in NY. "We don't even know what we don't know". The NY people are headed to Boston.
Damn liberals always leave a mess behind! You never see that at a Tea Party rally.
You can see two explosions. Looks like the one in the foreground is the same site as the one with blood at the top.
http://screencast.com/t/tJ78FVx2
You know the cock suckers will blame this on some gun toting, NRA member ,tea party tax protester making a point on tax day.
That last picture... makes my insides twist. Prayers out to the victims and those helping the injured.
Israel did it to blame on a Muslim
They hate our freedoms.
They don't like our marathons too much either.
freedoms? We hate your (governments) hypocrisy!
Aren't those the same thing in newspeak?
double-plus good point.
zerohedge @zerohedge 13m
POLICE MAY BE RESPONDING TO DEVISE AT MANDARIN HOTEL: CNN
CNN can't spell
What's really bad is we cannot discount the possibility our own gubbermint did this.
Times have really changed, ZHers.
Hopefully there will be no loss of life.
Please, I know the price of gold has gone down, but, really??
The blatherig is happenng "in our post 9/11 era."
Lions, tigers, and bears!
http://www.breakingnews.com/
"[This is]...vindication for a large corpus of belief and economic research, which has largely panned out. It’s great that our economic elites know what they’re talking about, and have the tools at their disposal to address crises without creating some new catastrophe." -Weisenthal/BI
Has Bin Laden taken credit yet?.
CBC reports that two bags were left against the hotel wall shortly before the explosions.