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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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WOW! THE ATTEMPS AT HUMOR HERE ARE DISGUSTING!!!!!!! REAL PEOPLE WITH NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PEOPLE OR AGENDAS, HIDDEN OR OTHERWISE, THAT PERPATRATED THIS HORRIBLE CRIME HAVE BEEN INJURED OR, LIKELY, KILLED. I LOVE ZERO HEDGE, BUT MANY OF YOU HAVE TRULY CROSSED THE LINE HERE. GROW UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ow shit, here come the "patriots". It's ok to laugh at everybody accept for US civs. Fuck that.
Hey, did you know your CAPS LOCK and BOLD LOCK keys are on? Just askin'...
Yes may...., I knew my caps and bold were on. A first for me. I am a major supporter of Zero Hedge. The number of people I've turned on to this site have been numerous. That said, I can't believe the attempts at humor on this. And to see the number of people who are offended by my remarks amazes me all the more.
"The number of people I've turned on to this site have been numerous."
This sentance made me laugh.
Makes you laugh, why?
Yes mommy, will you change my diaper now?
Gold drops close to 10% and bombs go off the same day???
It will be blamed on "domestic terrorists".
I should think that any who are travelling by air later today and for the next while - add a few extra hours for what will surely be enhanced TSA screening.
You meant to say enhanced TSA groping, right?
Amigos,
Click on the following link to see the two main suspects for this dastardly deed.
http://askchumba.com/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-exploding-trashcan-take-...
Viva El Luchador!
Self-promoting Idiot!
I've been a serious follower of ZH for the past year or so.
I've always thought the forums on this site to be most informative in many instances, despite some paranoid delusional rants from the odd raving lunatic here and there.
But seriously,to make fun of a tragic event where innocent people getting blasted during a marathon? What the fuck is wrong with you people? Fuck you all, you insensitive pricks!
You can thank the overlords for that. They have fed us a steady diet of war, violence and mayhem. Desensitization completed. So excuse us if we are short a couple fucks to give.
You might find the forum of this link a little more suitable to your tastes. http://www.redcross.org/
Hey, I'm not the only here who thinks that a lot of "witty" people have crossed the line with their sick infantile jokes. Whatever...
there are a lot of sicko's out there, and in here. Mostly bitcoin buyers at >250
I agree with what you're saying. I think a lot of people on here got sodomized by a peculiar form of terrrorism today too, and they are pissed and irritable about it, and in some cases that anger is spilling over in ways it normally would not.
Would you like a box of kleenex with that FUCK YOU ALL, honey?
That box of kleenex would fit nicely inside your asshole, jerk-off.
Hindsight, there is a big difference between dark humor and insensitivity.
I see some of the latter, but much more of the former here today.
I don't see anyone on here makeing fun of the victims.
This is where I have to disagree with you, akak. I really don't see how this tragic event is a good time to be cracking immature little jokes. To me that is the essence of insensitivity. Intelligent humorists understand that timing is everything.
Hindsight, there is a big difference between dark humor and insensitivity.
+infinity
I think insensitivity rules the day here in America. Actually, its considered one of our best traits.
Which is why I do think this event was organic and not a false flag. Sooner or later, the government is going to fuck with the wrong person and shit like this happens.
Was the Copley Square Hotel injured? I hope not I'm staying there next week.
Terrorism? False flag?
Track it down George. (You don't normally comment off-page. Welcome.)
Taking bets on who will get the blame in Vegas?
Alex Jones says it is a red alert...Drudge...three dead.
Not looking good.
Pray for those who were killed...pray for the suffering...this is the false flag spyop deciptiCON game getting red hot.
On Income Tax Day?
Hummmmm....
Pray for calm and peace to come.
Now it will be the talking heads pumping up the fear energy BIG TIME....Boston Boston Boston...9/11...9/11...9/11...all the rest of the month.
Or, fear fear fear...forget that crashing market.
What will they do overseas over night?
This shit is completely out of control. One of our many wise, brave and selfless leaders in Washington should pass a law banning bombs like this. That would prevent it. I mean, it has worked wonders for the gun crime in Washington D.C. Do it for the children. Of course, they would then have to exempt themselves, their staffers, their families and all lobbyists and contractors from it but, hey- you gotta' start somewhere, right?
On the same day as a collapse in the metals markets and a major Wall St. selloff. I'm getting sick of the coincidences.
Unreal timing. Commodities in meltdown mode, financial sector going to shit, then bombs. Pardon me if I'm a bit skeptical.
And Japan to issue JGB 5yr tonight, speaking of rare coincidences...
Gold smackdown then bombs going off. Whatever is going on behind the curtains is FUCKING HUGE!!!!!
YEAP
Been telling ya several times in last 10 days. Heard about it from affluent, All-American-type businessmen overseas.
that dam Bush
How convenient.
Qui bono?
Unreal. CBC guy live just reported another explosion.
Does anyone know which flags were taken out? Any relevance with placement perhaps...
The false ones...they appear to have been rented a few days ago in preparation.
Now D.....H.....Security now in the business of making boomers...
I guess just checking for them had gotten boring over the last few years.....
The last thing you WANT AFTER RUNNING 26 MILES is a bomb going off and adding to your pain that you have already from running that far...
that one poor guy was running for 4 hours and 9 minutes and was only a hundred yards from finishing and the loud sound knocked him out as a DNF.....
Yes he is the runner I saw fall. Tired and hit by a small piece or the blast wave and down he went. Poor guy. He is at least 70 years old.
An hour has passed. Where are the dossiers of the terrorists that did this? No passports left behind? How about a cell phone?
Wait for it...
well what a day, we have markets falling apart,rotten economic data,and now someone has targeted boston marathon!whats next?
A very patriotic Chinese/muslim/Paki/Iranian/Syrian/N.Korean/al-cia-duh "the world is a battleground" boogy-man?
given this is a financial blog perhaps this is an opportunity to go long CCTV stocks and their suppliers cause a camera will be coming to a conrner near you if you live anywhere in America
Good point!
Oui Bono=Who Profits in Babylons Banksteronian games?
Amazing how the mass mind has been so quickly shifted.
Step out of the box.
What was that Silver doing a few hours ago?
I wonder if there was a drill being carried out in Boston today for an event like this taking place?
Better get some cash from ATM's while they are still online. Markets could be shut down for quite a while.
Prepare to lose some more rights, people.
Ugh, I hate your post for being so accurate.
When the NDAA was written, passed, and signed into law, you lost all your rights.
But, its not as if they couldn't disappear you before that anyway.
It's a Brave New World folks.
Get ready for Martial Law and Imperor Obama.
The crackpipe has been pulled from barry x's mouth and his mulatto dick pulled from reggie love's gay asshole for an urgent teleprompter reading where he pretends to be an American.
Who's going to get pinned for this one?
What if it was a drone? Or Ben's helicopter?
Americaaaaaaa....Fuck ya
Oh the horror! "REAL PEOPLE" GOT HURT!!!!!!!!!!!!
What were all the people you murdered in Iraq and Afghanistan? Crash test dummies?
Deal with it.
Why don't you go back to your little Hate America site, Information Clearing House...
This was an international event, moron...people from all over the world were participating. You Fucking Psycho!
horrendous
used to live in Boston so I know this spot well, right across from the Public Library
Damn, I don't feel safe even in CT. Innocent people are being blown up; I don't see the point.
Apparently, a large number of people from Sandy Hook were running in memory of the kids and teachers killed there,
and the 26 mile marker was designed as a memorial to those 26 people.
That's a shame
Rothschild media is on it:
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Boston_Marathon_Explosion
Air-space over Boston is closed.
Need room for the drones to do their work.
how long will it take for the purpose of this murdering of more usa citizens to be revealed. is it iran or north korea? will there be another plea to take away more rights to protect ourselves from our freedom? this is a nasty game, a dirty game played upon innocent naive people. will someone with a lot more balls than i please end this nightmare.
Probably perpetrated by someone who doesn't like marathons.......
ANyway, look at the good side. Now you know what it feels like instead of just dishing the same out to the rest of the world.
some people were pulled out in advance from running the marathon...
I hope they don't blame brown guys again.
Time to invade North Korea!
Looks to be a bombing but Boston has a bad track record of having electrical transformers exploding.
Confirmed: 2 dead 22 injured.
senseless violence ...
We are truly screwed
Boston Cops announce casualties on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Boston_Police/status/323888963712606208
Homeland Security?
It's now homeland insecurity!
Prediction: Problem, Reaction, Solution = more Nazi style TSA checkpoints
TSA @ Sporting events.
Try DHS armoured vehicles on the street - like IRAQ. Then confiscate guns.
DHS vans on the street x-raying the shit out of everyone.
God I love my government... "insert tongue into governments mouth"
This happens every day in Iraq since March 2003. Sucks don't it Yankees?
But they are just numbers in CNN not real people.
They run marathons in Iraq?
I understand the Oathkeepers were planning an event today in Concord MA @ the North bridge.
So the SPLC has suspects to point at.
I understand the Oathkeepers were planning an event today in Concord MA @ the North bridge.
So the SPLC has suspects to point at.
Yep, those Nazi's would stoop to any level to keep their funding coming in(they are like Syphillis).Gonna be a REAL tough sell to most Americans blaming this (even hinting) that Ex-Mil had a hand in something like this.
alot of runners were grabbing their ears (ear drums probably blown out).
Good News...this won't happen again, the White House is on it.
- Force all owners to register their trash cans
- Force manufacturers to serialize all cans
- Start thorough back ground checks on anyone buying a new trash can
- Cut garbage pickup in half to reduce number of empty cans that can be used as IEDs
- Outlaw trash cans from schools, all government buildings and all public places.
- Outlaw green trash cans because they look like camouflage Para-military
- Outlaw high capacity trash cans in excess of three gallons
Cute, but trash cans don't kill people, trash can bombs do.
We just need to outlaw trash can bombs, or enforce background checks on those who are buying/making them.
Duh.
... ALLOW 11 MILLION SCUM SUCKING ILLEGALS A PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP.
You can design trash cans to release the force vertically not latterally. The UK has large numbers of blast resistant litter bins in most cities.
That might've been a better investment for Homeland Security than a couple billion rounds of ammo.
Reports now of 22 injured, 2 dead. Not funny, folks.
ETA: now 23 injured
To provide some perspective close to 100 people will be killed in car accidents today with more than 5000 injured - and that's just in the US
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811552.pdf
Not funny in Boston? Because "real people" are involved?
You have been dishing this shit out in Iraq and Afghanistan and still do.
Fucking hypocrits.
The Red Sox have to change their name now. That's pretty serious.
Impeach Holder and Obama. They run this country like a bunch of Drunks on Dope. That fucking Homeland Security money could have went to building US infrastructure and securing the Mexican American border instead of being thrown away senslessly. Again get the security camera video out onto the net.
Trish Regan is on fire today
"Lets roll that video again at the point of the explosion, I'd like to remind our viewers that we obtained this video clip via Twitter"
Horrifying.....My GOD!!!!
Watching the local TV. Some Boston College mimbo droning on, unhelpfully speculating about the needed security measures and generally cheerleading the security state.
Fuck you, mimbo!
This is like Ireland... Secondary devices target people who try to help. The people who did this have done it before or were trained by people who've done this before.
I think I saw something like this on one of last year's episodes of Castle.
"Secondary devices target people who try to help."
Jeez, isn't that "double-tapping"? What fucking sick sons of bitches would do a thing like that?
Er, the USA for one. Watch this in case you haven't seen it already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogFZlRiTHuw
Arab Spring, Libya, Syria, QE^?, TBTJ, EU mess, Cyprus, Drone central, China/Japan sabre-rattling, N. Korea, mass-shootings & gun control, smackdown of BTC, smackdown of PM, Boston Marathon.
What's next? How Big is this Dog we are wagging? BIG RED?
The "jews" will blame "tax protestors" and 2nd amendment advocates.
Brian Williams the dropout seems to be well prepared for this suprise event.
Or maybe Constitutionalists. And at least one of them is on this board using various names to spread hate that seems to say 'they deserved it because they are Americans'. Although this was an international event (from what I can tell) and some of the casualties could be Non-American.
Mainstream will probably have all the answers for us by the end of the day.
You really just start to get this feeling, with everything going on, that the beginning of this era's end is here...
Who cares, I am sorry for the victims, but people are much more scared about what's happening in the markets, that's where the 401k's are, not in Boston. Nice story for CNN, after 24h, big yawn.
Let us ALL hope this is not a true story.
They sure were pretty jonney-on-the-spot with this report, don'tch think?
12 dead, nearly 50 injured after 2 explosions rock Boston Marathon, law enforcement sources confirm:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/two_explosions_at_boston_marathon_...
Goldbugs will get the blame for this one.
No, it was those damn hippies.
Just for the crazyness of today, I thought I would share that the network of the Fortune 100 Company that I work for went down around the same time.
And on Tax Day?
As tragic as this is why do I get the sneaking suspicion this will be pinned on an angry white tax protestor who loves their gold entirely too much and is an NRA member with an arsenal of semi-autos?
In Boston, the city of our revolutionary birth none the less. Hold on tight folks I get the feeling were about to lose a few more freedoms to keep us safe.
We may have the answer for why Gold was down so big in the morning.
Just call them White Bitter Clingers. Not yet ready for the loving arms of the NWO.
Thinking of you guys here in the UK. Keep safe people.
Aleex Jones calls for a false flag operation everytime a toaster over pops up.
DOW down 265 today. I think the DOW is a terrorist.
this is why our president is one big major fucking douchebag.
he takes things that are tragedies, that no matter what the law would have been, the act would have transpired anyway because criminals/terrorists, do not abide by the ''law, and uses them to promote his causes, aka newtown.
todays act for example was a horrible tragedy. bombs are illegal, yet someone was able to set up a bomb to go off and this is what happens. no law would have stopped what happened today sadly.
this is why he is a douchebag for trying to take away our guns. you can make guns illegal all you want, criminals will still find ways to get there hands on them and unfortunately, things like this will prob continue to happen, because criminals do not follow the law, hence the reasons they are criminals.
so what obama whats to do is take away the guns from the good guys who are no threat and take away our protection, while the bad guys will still be able to have them.
fuck u obama u fucking douchebag
why dont you ban airplanes, cars, etc while your at it, because deaths have occured through that as well.
Thankful that my friend has her life and limbs, wandered away from that area a couple minutes prior to blast. Sick.
When will Dear Leader be on TV to calm us all down and tell us it will be "ok"?!?!
$10 bucks that OBAMA will mention Newtown and the need for gun control during his first presser about this.
"Keep Calm and Carry On"
Loving the national MSM coverage. Wall-to-wall speculation on terrorism. Every "news reader" is now "Johnny DHS". They'd jump at their own shadows.
They'll talk about anything except the collapsing economy.
12 dead, 50 injured in one report. Really sad.
Never watch MSM news but Ill be all over it tonight -- looking to see what the "narrative" is (as they say).
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/04/gold-investors-exit-amid-pr...
Gartman on Gold: We’ve Never Ever Seen Anything Like Ithttp://www.cnbc.com/id/100640665
Broad risk flight; gold eyes worst two days since 1983http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/15/us-markets-commodities-idUSBRE...
Only took one hour to begin the circle of news feeds. Bombs. Dead innocent peoples. Someone. IUD. Them guys. Two more bombs found and defused?
But wait...who dunnit and who profits?
All hands on deck!
IUD= Intra-Uteran Device
who will be the fist politician to blame this on the sequester?
count on it it will be brought up
zog will assign blame to tax protestors and 2nd amendment defenders
This could be a horizon event that kicks off the turner diaries for reals.
T-101 SPLC getting reved up on the runway...timed events to take advantage of and all ya know.
Watch for it....
And they wonder...how is it that everybody knows what is going on in Boston. it is because evil banksters are always doing this kind of stuff. Same old evil carp!
Who profits?
I'm pretty sure who they will blame. It is tax day. This week congress is taking up gun control and immigration. Boston is the homeland of Liberals. 20 years since Reno/Clinton killed babies at Waco that upset miltia types.
Looks like tomorrow we get a Marxist takeover by Obama. He will never allow this to be blamed on a lone Muslim terrorist. He will blame it on all angry white men.
Actually, the CIA/FBI/NSA win either way....they now have their reason to finally get the bill pass to have access, without a warrant, to evesdrop on IM conversations and Google Voice/VoIP apps (thy prob do already, they just cant use it in court b/c of "the law").
I have my cash on Muslim extremist. I think its blowback for all of the shit we do overseas. Also read article today on hunger strike in Guantaomo Bay. Not too proud of the country after reading, thats for sure.
More false flag psyops.
Keep your eyes on the prize and if you have spare fiat, dollar cost into physical metals.
The fuckers are desperate. We are not.
Boston.com is down now.
Which YouTube video gets the blame for this?
Trish of BBG has just raised the possibility that this could be domestic terrorism
What is BBG ?
deff bernanke and obama responsible for this.
lets see
markets get slaughtered today globally, worst selloff of year, commodities get slaughtered, so what better to take the attention of the markets by having something like this.
no one will now talk about todays market massacre, no cramer tonight to make excuses, no cnbc coverage of the markets, coincidently on the worst day for markets and commodities this year so far.
in all seriousness though, i hope this death count does not rise anymore than it has, and that all the people who are injured get well very quickly, if this was a criminal act, i hope they find the guy alive and kill him the same cowardly way he killed all these innocent people. stay safe if you are in boston
two more devices were found and dismantled...
Probably just backpacks dropped by attendees in the panic to get away. Bomb squad comes in and blows it up for 'safety' and claims a device was disabled.
Found and dismantled, or placed and armed?
The usual gig is for the rogue elements in security forces to plant the devices during the attack.
I'm actually surprised fake cops are not being used to hose down a few bystanders.
Are you guys sick of these rogue assholes yet?
I tried to post the news on FB... FB keeps deleting it... wtf!
fb and google are jewish spy programs
FB is an Internet ghetto. No need to agitate the netizens.
You expected something different?