Who Blew Up the Boston Marathon?

Who blew up the Boston Marathon?

  • Obama (just for you, Wally)

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • The MOOOS-LUMS!

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • Left-wing terrorists

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • Right-wing terrorists

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • Harper

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • The banks

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • The CIA

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • Maggie Thatcher

    Votes: 7 46.7%

  • Total voters
    15

Tecumsehsbones

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Thank you for demonstrating that your "knowledgeable others" is some right-wing Yank who even admits that he's guessing. But I will give you credit. He is, indeed, knowledgeable. Compared to you.
 

Blackleaf

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Thank you for demonstrating that your "knowledgeable others" is some right-wing Yank who even admits that he's guessing. But I will give you credit. He is, indeed, knowledgeable. Compared to you.

This thread is about theories as to who perpetrated this bombing. I've put forward one of the theories - that it was the IRA. So what's the problem?

Or are Americans uncomfortable with the idea that a terrorist organisation which many of them funded and armed for many years and saw them as "freedom fighters" have now detonated their bombs in America?

If there are and it was the work of the IRA then we know where the money came
from..... Boston.

Even many IRA weapons came from there.

I don't know why I was given a red "-1" just for stating this fact.

Some people must think that NORAID never existed.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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This thread is about theories as to who perpetrated this bombing.
No it isn't. But that you failed to miss that surprises me not in the slightest.

I've put forward one of the theories - that it was the IRA. So what's the problem?
Calling your obsession a theory compliments it beyond its merit.

Or are Americans uncomfortable with the idea that a terrorist organisation which many of them funded and armed for many years and saw them as "freedom fighters" have now detonated their bombs in America?
Sigh. I'll try again. "Americans" aren't of one mind about anything.

Is there enough of a crack in the closed door of your alleged mind to let in that concept?

I don't know why I was given a red "-1" just for stating this fact.

Some people must think that NORAID never existed.
Probably because of your ignorance. Or is it just obsession? Either way, you seem bent on the idea that Boston was somehow unique in providing funds to the IRA. Could it be that your knowledge of American geography and demography doesn't include Chicago (where the Dalys were in power for decades), Baltimore (the Currans and the O'Malleys), and even New York?

Yeah, I guess it could.
 

karrie

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A lone madman.

As I mentioned yesterday, the irony isn't lost on many people in Britain that the city that was the headquarters of NORAID should be struck by an IRA-like attack.

So it would be even more ironic if, for some reason, it WAS the IRA who did it. You never know.


There's a big difference between there actually being a reason it might be the IRA, and just wishing it was the IRA so you can be even more gleeful about the bombing than you were before.
 

Kreskin

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No one knows who did this so reasons why it was done and by whom is speculation. What we do know is it was a matter of time before a sporting event would be a target for American haters. The Boston Marathon is the most famous marathon in the world. In hindsight it's a soft target; a difficult one to protect.

I do find it interesting that the usual cast of cheerleaders and responsibility takers have remained silent. No one is too quick to volunteer for life and times of Bin Laden these days.
 

DaSleeper

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It can't be islamic terrorism.......

Obama must have special Intel

Simply because he has called it terrorism. If it was he would have found another name for it.....If you remember Benghazi , or Fort Hood.
 

petros

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So is it just a coincidence that a bombing EXACTLY like the ones the IRA used to perpetrate shoudl hit Boston, a city which it has links to, on the same day that a case involving sensitive incriminating material regarding high level Sinn Fein and IRA members ruled against keeping that material secret?

If it turns out to be the IRA I will want you to apologise to me.
Yes. Just coincidence.

It can't be islamic terrorism.......

Obama must have special Intel

Simply because he has called it terrorism. If it was he would have found another name for it.....If you remember Benghazi , or Fort Hood.
When we find out it was a sports fan, then what? Award them with the Spastics Cup?