Two explosions at Boston Marathon finish line injure dozens: reports

Colpy

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I'm merely telling the truth. You're one naive individual if you don't think there are many people in Britain looking with glee at a city which funded the IRA suffering from its own IRA-like attack.

The fact that Boston has suffered a terrorist attack caused by bombs placed in litter bins, just like the IRA used to do (such as in 1993 in Warrington when two children were killed and many injured), must be one of the great ironies of the century.

Yeah....they would be the same type of scum you saw celebrating Maggie Thatcher's death by rioting in the streets.

Are you one of them??

Or just trolling??
 

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The only thing ironic at the moment is that Boston has suffered an IRA-like attack.

How can you not see the irony?

What you call irony only shows what a shallow creature you are. How innocents killed can somehow be related or seen to be shows a really sick & twisted mentality.

Perhaps you can expand upon how and what the London bus bombing, where innocents were also killed and show us the linkage to another mass killing and how the British brought that upon themselves.
 

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I'm afraid i'm going to say it again:

How am I wrong in stating that it's ironic that a city which funded the IRA is hit by an IRA-like attack? I'm not wrong. It is ironic. No amount of silly posts can deny that. It's extremely ironic that Boston is the victim of a terrorist attack.

And I thought it was just a stereotype when the British say that North Americans cannot see irony.

But this thread shows that Canadians and Americans just cannot see irony even when it is written in eight foot neon lights, is right in front of them, and says "I AM IRONY".

What you call irony only shows what a shallow creature you are. How innocents killed can somehow be related or seen to be shows a really sick & twisted mentality.

Perhaps you can expand upon how and what the London bus bombing, where innocents were also killed and show us the linkage to another mass killing and how the British brought that upon themselves.

The fact that a city that was the headquarters of NORAID was attacked in an IRA-like strike is the most ironic thing that could ever happen.

I know North Americans cannot see irony, but believe it. It's incredibly ironic.
 

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I'm afraid i'm going to say it again:

How am I wrong in stating that it's ironic that a city which funded the IRA is hit by an IRA-like attack? I'm not wrong. It is ironic. No amount of silly posts can deny that. It's extremely ironic that Boston is the victim of a terrorist attack.

And I thought it was just a stereotype when the British say that North Americans cannot see irony.

But this thread shows that Canadians and Americans just cannot see irony even when it is written in eight foot neon lights, is right in front of them, and says "I AM IRONY".

Oh we can and we can see sick and twisted as well.
 

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I am sure you'll say it all day. It is a happy day for you as you have not posted so enthusiastically about anything.
 

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Restores my faith in most of the British people. They aren't all hateful pigs...

"Peoples comments on here astound me. Why are people trying to score points over this. Whatever nationality you are, its disgusting what has happened. An 8 year old boy died for godsake!!! Did he fund the IRA and deserve to die, no he did not!!! Some of your comments are dispicable. To all the American people, please do not think that all people from the UK are heartless like this, because we are not. R.I.P to the people who have tragically lost their lives and my thoughts are with everyone involved in this.


- Fenners, London, 16/4/2013 11:42"




I'd post the link but it contains many gruesome photos. It came from "Mail Online".
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Joel Achenbach wrote a pretty good piece. Here's the heart of it:

America has been hit before, and the country will probably be hit again — and again after that. We’re the fat target, still the world’s lone military superpower, and the object of external and internal enemies whose bizarre thought processes have led them to believe that the only relief for their hatred is indiscriminate murder.
No amount of security and intelligence gathering is ever going to make us perfectly safe. This is an open society, not a police state, not yet at least, and so the best response to a tragedy such as the one in Boston is to go on with your life, eyes open. Alert, but not paranoid. Like the signs say: If you see something, say something.
 

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The limeys and the yanks at each others throats again. Western allies eh, yer better to have none. Meanwhile bankers open the throttle on the gold swallowing machine while the national mourning gets in gear, ribbons, teddy bears, flowers, grieving. Same practiced pattern every time. Look it's terrorists, duh.
 

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There seems no value in an act of terror unless you frame it in political terms.. and take credit for it, put out a manifesto justifying it.. and accept the consequences. Otherwise you are just putting in a call for murder, maiming and mayhem for no reason.. and casting yourself as cowards and fools.
 
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Restores my faith in most of the British people. They aren't all hateful pigs...

"Peoples comments on here astound me. Why are people trying to score points over this. Whatever nationality you are, its disgusting what has happened. An 8 year old boy died for godsake!!! Did he fund the IRA and deserve to die, no he did not!!! Some of your comments are dispicable. To all the American people, please do not think that all people from the UK are heartless like this, because we are not. R.I.P to the people who have tragically lost their lives and my thoughts are with everyone involved in this.


- Fenners, London, 16/4/2013 11:42"




I'd post the link but it contains many gruesome photos. It came from "Mail Online".

The heartless people are the Bostonians who funded terrorism.

Now they know what it feels like.
 

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What do those in Northern Ireland think?

BBC News - Northern Ireland people tell of Boston bomb ordeals

People from Northern Ireland have been describing their ordeals as they were caught up in Boston's Marathon Day bombing.

Three people have been killed and more than 100 injured in the blasts.

The FBI described it as a "potential terrorist inquiry".

Former boxing world champion Eamon Loughran, from Ballymena, County Antrim was in Boston for the marathon. He said he prayed for three hours as he waited to find out if his wife was safe.

Mr Loughran had arranged to meet his wife, Angela, by the flags at the finish line, exactly where the first device exploded.

He said he went back to his hotel, and said they both burst out crying when she walked through the door several hours later.

Former Ireland correspondent of the Boston Globe, Kevin Cullen, said the father of a young boy who died in the blasts, had just finished the race.

"When he finished the race his young son left the sidewalk, he went on to Boylston Street and hugged his dad and then he went back on the sidewalk and his father went on to register his time," he said.

"The bomb exploded, the boy was killed, his mother was severely injured."

Mr Cullen said he knew a firefighter who picked up the dead boy's sister.

"My friend the firefighter picked the girl up and carried her to an ambulance," he added.

"He said that when he put her down he realised her leg was missing.

"He is a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and he told me what he saw today was worse than anything he saw in a warzone."

James McDaid from Coleraine is a surgeon at the main hospital in Boston - Massachusetts General.

"Earlier on things were on high alert but now it seems things are settling down a little and the number of casualties is relatively manageable," he said.

"A couple of hours ago it was real pandemonium here, non-stop sirens, police and ambulances all around the place, but now I hear a siren once every five or 10 minutes.

"The emergency room has been very busy. I saw 20 or 30 ambulances go by, but with regard to exactly how many casualties came to Massachusetts I'm not quite sure. I have heard reports of 20, 30 or 40 in that region."

A command centre was set up at the hospital in the aftermath of the bombings.

"People have been very emotionally charged," Mr McDaid added.

"A number of people have been contacting their loved ones to make sure they are ok.

"I called my wife to make sure she was ok, with the kids at home.

"Being from Northern Ireland bombs are something that will never be commonplace, but it is something that we are perhaps somewhat familiar with whereas here in Boston it is something that really is alien to people and it brings back echoes of 9/11 in New York, so people are upset about it in the hospital."

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Panic
Newry man Sean Smith was among those who took part in the marathon.

"I went with Sports Travel International, I was running the marathon for my local charity, the Southern Area Hospice," he said.

He added: "It's a wee bit chaotic at the minute to be quite honest, there's a lot of people quite worried about their loved ones."

Bangor man Stephen Purdy said he did not know there had been any explosions until he phoned his wife after completing the marathon.

"I just went back to the hostel and got showered and changed and phoned my wife - she was in tears and my son answered," he said.

"She was just so glad to hear from me, she told me then there had been an explosion.

"So it is a bit of a shock."
Security
The first explosion came at about 14:50 local time (18:50 GMT) on the north side of Boylston Street, about two hours after the winners crossed the line.

Then seconds later, a second explosion ripped into the crowd further away from the finishing line.

The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said the Irish Consulate in Boston was in contact with the city's authorities to establish whether any Irish people have been injured in the explosions.

According to the official Boston Marathon website, 50 competitors listed Ireland as their country of residence, and 108 listed Ireland as their country of citizenship.

The department has advised anyone who is concerned to contact them.

About 375 Britons were listed as taking part, but there has no been no confirmation of any British casualties.