h/t Gates of Vienna
World War II Lancaster bomber pilot Sandy Mutch says that the Harper government should not be surprised that they were angrily attacked by climate campaigners last week when Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver expressed doubt about the severity of man-made global warming.
On bombing raids over Europe, we could tell we were closing in on the target when we started to get the most flak, said Mutch, now 93 and living in Ottawa. Anyone who wants to kill the dangerous and unfounded climate scare, as I certainly hope our government does, should focus on exposing the shaky science behind climate alarm. That is the Achilles heel of the whole movement. Shoot it down and you win the war!
Counterterrorism experts are equally certain of the Middle East terrorist hallmarks on the Boston Marathon bombings, although it is too soon to say whether it was the work of Al Qaeda or an allied radical jihadi group such as the Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... , which was responsible for the Benghazi consulate in conjunction with a clandestine al Qaeda command center in Cairo.
Experts experienced in these matters maintain that an attack on this scale and of this type would have required four or five bombers on the ground and a support team of about 10 spotters and accomplices familiar with the terrain, further back. They would have needed more than one vehicle and communications gear, in addition to mobile phones which are easily tracked.
The two kabooms, 400 meters apart, were obviously coordinated and designed to cause maximum casualties. The ball-bearings scattered across the scene of the crime and found in the pockets of some of the casualties were familiar to Israelis and others and telling evidence of Middle East terrorist authorship.
The bomb which caused such havoc and agony was small yet deadly -- another pointer to the "professionalism" of the attackers.
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Cant speak for the size of the bombs, but i fail to see why the large numbers sited would be required if they used timers you only need two guys at the scene to drop backpacks into trash cans. Perhaps a second to detonate of any are discovered. Since some were found un explodes tge second person msy not have been there.
You dont even need a suicidal bomber with timers. Just psychotic intent and enough bomb making skill.
Yes all those numbers would probably have helped in different ways but i would think they also increase the chance of it being noticed.
Im glad they didnt plant a suicidal sniper or two at the scene to add chaos and ensure the media played up the anti-gun angle.
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One guy could have done this. Building seven is no different than building one, just takes a bit longer. Timer-based means he would need a fairly long lead time to place them all, and given traffic uncertainty, he'd need to do it fairly far in advance, risking discovery before they went off. Cell-phone based would allow more control over the timing and thus less lead time and discovery risk, but more chance of the later bombs failing because either the cell circuits were overwhelmed after the first bombs or were shut down by security. We don't know which, but the authorities do. If reports of five undetonated bombs are correct I suspect the cell phone scenario - odds are against finding and disarming ALL other bombs before timers went off, or ALL other bombs being defective are long.
If they have indeed recovered an intact bomb they will know a whole lot about the bomber by now. We won't and shouldn't. Yet. But when the time is right for us to know, will we get the truth, or politics?
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Now it sounds like there were no additional, undetonated bombs; the reports were likely of controlled detonations of suspicious items that were not bombs. Thus even more likely this was a lone bomber - kind of like the jihadi wannabe that got caught in NYC a couple of years (?) ago when his car bomb fizzled. (Not saying it's a jihadi - could be a McVeigh clone - but that it need not be a big organization.
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In AQAP's Inspire magazine al-Suri called for attacks on sports events:
Abu Musab al-Suri listed what he called the most important enemy targets.
Al-Suri contended that civilians should be targeted when responding to a brutal practice carried out by America and her allied forces.
This is done by targeting human crowds in order to inflict maximum human losses, he wrote. This is very easy since there are numerous such targets such as crowded sports arenas, annual social events, large international exhibitions, crowded market-places, skyscrapers, crowded buildings etc.
It is possible for ordinary Resistance fighters among the Muslims residing in America and the allied Western countries to target them, in order to participate in the jihad and the Resistance, and to stretch out a helping hand to the mujahidun [Islamic warriors].
The Saudi student's apartment was searched--he has 3 roommates, supposedly here to study English. The explosives used were made in a pressure cooker, the type first seen in Afghanistan. But in the face of what seems like a foregone conclusion, they still aren't using the 'T' word.
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Despite their different ethnicities + allegiances, many of the Boyz over at BHARAT RAKSHAK + PAK DEFENCE FORUMS are in broad agreement that the bomb method used in Boston, i.e. pressure cooker wid timer, is routinely used by LeT/LTTE, Indian Mujahideen [IM], + many other Radical = MilTerr Groups based in West, South Asia.
FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > VARIOUS = TTP [Pakistani Taliban] DENY BOSTON BLASTS.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [WND.com] "ARRESTS IN PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN IN BOSTON MARATHON PROBE".
I may be wrong, but I will speculate that the US is well-aware of the above + has covertly pressured both Islamabad + Kabul [New Delhi?] to arrest the most likely Bad/Hard Boy suspects to collect information???
OTOH ...
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Global Post] WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH THREATENS TO PICKET FUNERALS OF THOSE SLAIN AT THE BOSTON MARATHON.
Even the video of the blast can help identify what kind of bomb it is--or in the case of Boston, confirm that the bombs that detonated were the same that went off. "Generally, white smoke means a commercial kaboom or improvised device," he says. A common chemical used in these bombs, in the United States and abroad, is acetone peroxide (TATP).
... aka Mother of Satan, a fave with the Al Qaeda and wannabe crowd.
It comes in a white powder and blooms in a white cloud when it explodes. In Boston, the initial images seem to show white smoke blossoming at the moment of kaboom.
Industrial and military explosives emit black smoke, Thurman says.
[WashingtonPost] So little is known yet about what's behind the kabooms Monday at the Boston Marathon that any conclusion, including terrorism, would be premature.
No, it's definitely terrorism. The only thing premature would be to conclude who is the terrorist.
But that fear has been an early reflex not just in the United States but half a world away in the Middle East. There, a number of observers are expressing sympathy -- recall that pro-American solidarity rallies were held throughout the region after Sept. 11, 2001
...as well as singing, dancing, and handing out candies... which was also seen that day in certain neighborhoods on American soil.
-- and, at times, a sense of dread.
"Don't pound our country to rubble, please. We who are holding these signs didn't do it!"
As a Libyan Twitter user named Hend Amry wrote, "Please don't be a 'Moslem.'" Her message was retweeted by more than 100 other users, including well-known journalists and writers from the Moslem world.
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It means that some sort of responsibility is dawning on the benighted muslimas of the world. And like every other society in the world, the teenage girls create the culture.
So, stop with the blowing things up boys. It is totally unappealing. The marathon boys are way hotter than you thugs.
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Rationally Mr or Mrs Amry should have written "Please, be a 'Moslem.'"
If this attack was indeed conducted by islamofascist terrorists then the reaction will be more concessions to Muslims, more submission and more danegeld.
Compared to 9/11 or Lockerbie this is minuscule. If anything non-terrorist Muslims (including non-terrorist islamofascists) will reap a net benefit.
No country will be turned into rubble. There won't be any retaliation.
Well, gee, maybe if your co-religionists didn't view this kind of shit as normal, you wouldn't need to think that.
Clean up your own goddam house. Or be prepared for someone to get fed up one day with turning the other cheek and clean it up for you.
As far as I'm concerned, that day came a long time ago. Eventually we'll actually elect someone with the balls to strike back, in spades. >:-(
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Yeah i am just brimming with sympathy for poor moslims everytime their coreligionists kill lots of people.
Can't wait for the flood of 'fearing a backlash' and 'increased racism' stories to come out. Because we all remember how we all went bosnian after 9/11 slaughtering everyone who didnt look like us.
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Oh please, you know there's going to be retaliation for it. Tyrant Obama won't hesitate to strike back, just like he did after Aurora and Newtown. Despite the fact it won't be real Americans who did it, we shall once again be the target of all the government action that comes from this. After all, never waste a crisis.
And since Tyrant Obama doesn't do the muslim terrorist thing, nothing will happen on that front, just like after Benghazi.
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FBI Grills Saudi No immediate response will be forthcoming from the toadies in DC. The best response would be to end visas to Sauds et. al. Then double permits for shale drilling.We need to throw the MENA countries out of WTO and build a sand curtain around them.
Cause MinTruth will really really have to work hard and long to wipe it off the memory record. Much harder than to walk back such an association than Ft Hood, there behind the gates, not in open public eye uncontrollable in the 'if it bleeds, it leads' programming.
With a little KC Masterpiece? Memphis style? NC style?
However they do it they'll make sure to burn all the evidence that this is a Muzzie attack. I Figure they'll start rounding up the Amish or the Mennonites any day now.
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If indeed a Saudi or Saudis, I suggest that the liberal H-2 H-2 student visa programs for Saudis be reviewed. And no, back lashes against the Muslim communities don't occur...but the red herring may be put forth by Rep. Ellison or South Poverty people and plant the seed to some nut job.
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The moslem world have only themselves to blame for their reputation. I believe WE have earned the right to protect our people with due diligence and use deductive logic.
Here at the berg, we see this type of bombing all to often and I naturally name a tactic for which it is most prevalenty actively used.
[Dawn] A POLICE inspector's arrest in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Friday for allegedly supplying sensitive information to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and other criminals, the round-up of many suspects in a clean-up operation, the deactivation of a time-bomb near a mosque, and the arrest of an Abbas Town blast suspect show how diligence can yield results. Police Inspector Rana Ishrat is not the first security official accused of supplying forces of Evil with sensitive intelligence. Diverse motives have prompted some armed forces personnel to pass on information to those who attack security and civilian targets. Some did it for ideological reasons; some apparently were trapped, while in this case it was lucre that allegedly motivated the policeman to pass on the information. In fact, as investigations have revealed, the tips he supplied to some groups of outlaws led to the murder of an assistant sub-inspector of police. As Rana Ishrat visited Fata, he was unaware that his movements were being watched. His activity had a wider range, because the intelligence he was leaking to the TTP and others aimed at eliminating some of Karachi's top police officials, including the chief of the Anti-Violent Crime Cell, to which he himself belonged. Tut tut, my good man. Smacks of McCarthyism if you ask me.
The penetration of the security forces is one of the beturbanned goons' major tactical aims. The attempts on Gen Musharraf's life and the attacks on GHQ and other military bases show the enemy had collaborators within the security establishment. This calls for high-level vigilance to block the beturbanned goons' penetration of the security apparatus and weed out the state's enemies. Rangers may be good at 'clean-up' operations, but it is the local police and the Crime Investigation Department that know their areas well and are in a better position to trail criminals and smash mafias.
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