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North Korea, Al Qaeda, racists, or something else? I honestly think anyone could claim responsibility but given the high explosives and the seemingly professio
by UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
North Korea, Al Qaeda, racists, or something else?
I honestly think anyone could claim responsibility but given the high explosives and the seemingly professional nature of the attack I'm guessing either NK, AQ, or a false-flag to start a war on the Korean peninsula.
edit: Nice downvotes? We cannot speculate who?
- smacktoward 14y agoIt is waaaaay too early to be speculating who's behind it. Nobody knows any details, early reports from the scene of a terrible event like this are frequently confused and contradictory. Speculation at this moment is just firing shots in the dark.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoI suppose you're right. Just strange, things have been so quiet for so long. The US is leaving Afghanistan, Iraq - apart from some sectarian violence has been quiet, and now this? My mind just goes back to NK. With the heightened tensions and such... Seems too convenient.
- freehunter 14y agoIt's not productive to speculate as to who is responsible. It could be anyone, or it could be a complete accident (gas leak?). Pointing blame before even the most basic facts are known is really, really poor.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoA double gas leak? Without subsequent fire? Just boom and it is gone? I don't think so. This was a bombing. Nobody is pointing "blame." But we can discuss who the likely suspects would be.
- belorn 14y agoThere exist other material that go boom beyond gas. Just to take a random pick, maybe a truck with industrial chemicals was parked near. The majority of goes boom but a chunk get thrown away and just later goes boom too. Double explosion, but no detonated explosives. Not saying its likely, but we really should start listing on what police say first before jumping directly to bombs.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoThe police think it is explosives. Or at least that is exclusively what is being discussed via scanners.
- __david__ 14y agoAt this point things seem to be pointing towards bombs. Police have reportedly recovered 2 or 3 undetonated devices (and set off a controlled explosion for one of them [1]). No news of who or why though. [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/BostonDotCom/status/323886877746790402 https://mobile.twitter.com/BostonDotCom/status/3238868777467...
- yread 14y agoPerhaps they will soon conveniently find a passport
- yessuccess 14y agoRandom person with mental problems? Like all of the other shootings, stabbings, etc that have occurred in the last 10 years.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoBut it is so professional. Two explosions, within seconds of each other. And these were decently powerful too considering they had to be small enough to hide in the crowds. You might be right, but something about this just makes me thing /organised./
- smacktoward 14y agoPresumably if it was some organized group we'll find out when they take credit for it. At this point we don't even know for sure if there were bombs involved -- we know there were explosions, but an explosion can happen for reasons other than a bomb going off. Again, all speculating does at this point is ramp up fear and anxiety, which doesn't help anybody.
- kelnos 14y agoThe precision doesn't rule out a lone perpetrator. Just because someone is "crazy" in the sense that they'd do something like this, it doesn't mean they lack the ability to make intricate plans.
- zenogais 14y agoAgreed. Crazy is just a dismissive term. Perfectly sane people can do things like murder other people - we have tons of them walking around today but we call them Veterans. Crazy, in this sense, should probably be replaced by societally dysfunctional.
- corin_ 14y agoCasualty count seems low for something "professional" I would have thought - though certainly I'm no expert.
- toyg 14y agoSpeculation is pointless when you don't have any element to work with.
- acchow 14y agoYour comment is showing up in a very faint grey on my screen, whereas everyone else's is black. Why is that?
- DanBC 14y agoDownvotes turn comments grey. More downvotes turn comments lighter and lighter and lighter. The comment you replied to has been heavily downvoted. EDIT: The karma thresh hold for downvotes is currently 500. Or maybe 750?
- zdgman 14y agoYou learn something new every day. I didn't even know there was a downvote threshold!
- anonymoushn 14y agoHis comment has been downvoted a lot.
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- pekk 14y agoNorth Korea hasn't ever done anything like this so it's truly out of line to begin speculating that it's a "false-flag to start a war on the Korean peninsula" - way to blame the victim
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoI listed a lot of possibilities. You ignored almost all of them. Are you just trying to start an argument?
- fosap 14y agoNorth Korea does lot of evil and insane stuff and I'm quite a fan of conspiracy theories, but this just make no sense. What is a terrorist attack? Cynically speaking a huge PR coup. A terrorist attack without a confession and a statement makes only sense if it is clear who was it and why they did it. Since the last thing is not given I'm expecting something like this anytime soon. Before there a narrative has formed. But what should NK "promote"? But for NK this makes no sense. It would be suicide of the hole state. A false flag makes little sense since this is just too absurd to believe.
- gre 14y agoHow would a pipe bomb at the Boston Marathon conceivably start a war with North Korea? Wtf.