Updated Boston bomber pleads not guilty

[Flawed Genius]

5 bombs, 2 exploded, 3 unexploded, and an (unrelated?) incident at JFK Library in Boston after the conclusion of the Marathon.

Two bombs near the finish line exploded as people were finishing the marathon in times of 4 hours.

2 confirmed dead including an 8 year old boy.

Casualties range from 41 injured to hundreds injured.

NYT reported a Saudi national was in custody with shrapnel wounds but this has been denied by Boston PD.

Obama has vowed to find those responsible & the WH is treating this as a terrorist attack.

Get the feeling this is the next big one.

 

[Quivorir]

5 bombs? Where did you find that?

 

[Flawed Genius]

FAA grounded all air traffic. Boston is a no fly zone.

Boston Globe YouTube has footage of first bomb going off.

Seems to be the best source of info at this point.

Reporting that a PoI is being interviewed at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.

 

[Flawed Genius]

5 bombs? Where did you find that?

The two that went off, plus one found at Harvard's Mass Transit Boston Area rail station, plus one found in a glass walkway above Huntington Avenue near Copley St.

@BostonGlobe: BREAKING NEWS: Police getting multiple reports of unexploded devices around Boston

@BostonGlobe: UPDATE: Intelligence official: 2 more explosive devices found at Boston Marathon; being dismantled - @AP

@BostonGlobe: UPDATE: One report was of unexploded device on the glass footbridge over Huntington Ave near Copley place

@BostonGlobe: UPDATE: Another suspicious package was reported near the Harvard #MBTA station

 

[Flawed Genius]

Toll rises to 132 injured.

@jaredbkeller: CNN: 132 bombing victims so far, at least 10 amputations. Doctors are pulling ball bearings out of victims.

DFAT tweets a number you can call if you have relatives/friends running the marathon.

@dfat: Australians overseas should call +61 2 6261 3305 to contact the 24-hour DFAT Consular Emergency Centre #BostonMarathon

 

[Flawed Genius]

Manhattan getting multiple reports of suspicious packages via people monitoring police scanners.

Muslims, Iraq and America all trending worldwide on Twitter.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Mohammad Al-Chalabi, head of a Jordanian extremist group, has praised the bombings, saying he's "happy to see the horror in America". Also "American blood is not as precious as Muslim blood".

Middle Eastern terrorism experts who insisted on anonymity have suggested the attacks carry the hallmarks of an Al-Qaida attack. a

All that via AP's website.

 

[Quivorir]

Poor guy


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[Flawed Genius]

Here's the video I referred to earlier.

 

[Noobz0r]

Poor guy


WARNING: GORE NSFW

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****.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Another view of the first bomb going off. Better scale, better view.

 

[Flawed Genius]

CNN's got a live blog going, plenty of updates and information.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/15/explosions-near-finish-of-boston-marathon/?on.cnn=1

Boston voluntarily turned off the city's cell phone service to avoid remote detonation of any extra bombs.

Denied by both Verizon and Sprint.


Police searching for a truck that tried to gain access to the marathon route but was turned away.

 

[Quivorir]

Thanks for the updates FG, keep em coming.

 

[lewigie]

Reading that there were 5 additional unexploded bombs.

Apparently have a man in custody, trying to find an Arabic translator.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Thanks for the updates FG, keep em coming.

Will do what I can until my phone dies.

People already spamming twitter accounts like "HopeForBoston" with tweets like this:

@HopeForBoston: Two guys in Boston died protecting their girlfriends. I don't want to hear any girls saying that "all guys are the same". RIP. ♥

Despite there being only two confirmed casualties & one being an 8yo boy.

WBC has confirmed they'll be picketing the funerals of any confirmed victims.

@cosmickoopa: WBC is protesting Boston bomb victim funerals. Pathetic

@WBCSays: BREAKING: Westboro Baptist Church to picket funerals of those dead by Boston Bombs! GOD SENT THE BOMBS IN FURY OVER *** MARRIAGE! #PraiseGod

 

[Quivorir]

Sigh at those idiots.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Boston PD confirms the FBI has taken over the investigation.

Mass. governor confirms over 100 injured.

@Reuters: Massachusetts governor says over 100 people injured in explosion, some greatly #breaking

 

[Flawed Genius]

@BuzzFeedAndrew: WOW RT @mpoppel: BREAKING -- WSJ: Officials found 5 undetonated explosive devices

 

[Plugger35]

Sounds like it could have been a lot worse with a few other bombs unexploded.

Hopefully the death toll doesn't rise much further but just all the amputations are bad enough, can't imagine the shock/horror of having your arms or legs suddenly blown off when you're just going about your normal business.

 

[Quivorir]

3 confirmed dead now and apparently 5 undetonated bombs in total found so far.

Edit - Was trying to find my source for undetonated bombs, turned out I read it here. -_-

 

[FlyingBurittoBro]

Absolute tragedy. Early bets on who the culprits were this time?

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Absolute tragedy. Early bets on who the culprits were this time?

locals?

 

[Noobz0r]

Now 132 injured, 17 are critical, 8 are children and 10 have had amputations. As well as the 3 deaths.

I hope this isn't misconstrued, because this is an absolute tragedy, but this could have been so much worse with the size of the crowd.

 

[lewigie]

5 other devices was just a rumour apparently.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201...explosion-live#block-516ca17fe4b046e93b96242d

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

They've also flatly denied that they have a PoI under guard in hospital.