US officials are scrambling almost two days after a grisly terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon without a single lead on the perpetrator and no claims of responsibility.
“At this time there are no claims of responsibility,” FBI officials said in a press conference Tuesday. “The range of suspects and motives remains wide open.”
Since the attack, in which two bombs exploded near the finish line of Boston’s celebrated marathon, killing three and maiming more than 170, questions about whether the perpetrators are foreign or domestic have gone unanswered.
“Officials have determined the bombs were placed in a black nylon bag or backpack,” Fox News reported. “Pieces of the bag recovered have been sent to a FBI lab for forensic testing.”
Early on, there were reports of a Saudi national having been injured nearby the bombs and held for questioning while at the hospital. The man’s apartment in Revere was searched.
After initially refusing to address it, authorities finally conceded there was no evidence of any complicity in the attack. The man’s race, and that alone, was probably the cause for suspicion.
“The Pakistani Taliban, which has threatened attacks in the United States because of its support for the Pakistani government, denied any role in the marathon bombings Tuesday,” according to Fox News.
The foreign terrorist organizations at the center of Washington’s expansive ‘war on terror’ have explicit agendas and have been quick to claim responsibility for previous attempted attacks, eager to draw attention to their cause.
The lack of any claim of responsibility may indicate domestically based perpetrators, or possibly a lone actor. But such speculations are premature at a point when no evidence of culpability has been found or made public.
If it is found out that the attack was foreign in nature, the consequences will be much graver in the realm of foreign and national security policy.
American public can bring terrorism to a screeching halt anytime their heart desires, just stop voting for brutal imperialism and wars of plunder. For as their hero Paul Newman would say in his movie The Hustler,
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
bomb sniffing dogs at the finish line, bomb drills occurring ten minutes before the blasts went off. Security everywhere and no one sees anything and no one claims responsibility. hmm, dumbass sheep of America, can you put the pieces of the puzzle together and see that your enemies are those who control your government?
What a sorry lot. In their professional careers, not one of these people has directed a single thought towards anything other than social climbing and political posturing. The only decent living things I see in that room are the apples.
Some of the possible suspects could be in the above photo.
Are we going to wait for as long as we already have since 9/11 to find out who did it? I feel confused like everyone else, but I sincerely do not believe that Muslims were in any way involved in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Of all corporate media sources available, why on earth does antiwar.com constantly link to and quote Fox News? None of them are really any good, but they are surely the worst of the worst. Please stop quoting them and please stop driving traffic to their website.
Like you and probably everyone else who read this article, I was shocked to see Fox News quoted. How depressing.
When quoting/citing, Fox News may be the single best "mainstream US news source" to use, for the simple reason that its biases are common knowledge.
Many readers (especially Americans) incorrectly assume that if the source is CNN, the New York Times, Associated Press, whatever, that they are getting "objective news coverage." Few people make that dangerous assumption regarding material from Fox News.
"If it is found out that the attack was foreign in nature, the consequences will be much graver in the realm of foreign and national security policy."
But shouldn't the reverse be true as well? That domestic origins should have grave consequences for foreign and national security policy, that is: radically rethinking them? What's the use of stopping "them" against any price very far away if you cannot even stop your own people nearby plotting, planning and executing just as deadly attacks? Since you can never win any "war on terror" against your own people, the war should be abandoned. One can only hope saner policies, domestically as well as abroad would decrease the dangers to an acceptable minimum. And there used to be one!
"If it is found out that the attack was foreign in nature, the consequences will be much graver in the realm of foreign and national security policy."
But shouldn't the reverse be true as well? That domestic origins should have grave consequences for foreign and national security policy, that is: radically rethinking them? What's the use of stopping "them" against any price very far away if you cannot even stop your own people nearby plotting, planning and executing just as deadly attacks? Since you can never win any "war on terror" against your own people, the war should be abandoned. One can only hope saner policies, domestically as well as abroad would decrease the dangers to an acceptable minimum. And there used to be one!
"If it is found out that the attack was foreign in nature, the consequences will be much graver in the realm of foreign and national security policy."
But shouldn't the reverse be true as well? That domestic origins should have grave consequences for foreign and national security policy, that is: radically rethinking them? What's the use of stopping "them" against any price very far away if you cannot even stop your own people nearby plotting, planning and executing just as deadly attacks? Since you can never win any "war on terror" against your own people, the war should be abandoned. One can only hope saner policies, domestically as well as abroad would decrease the dangers to an acceptable minimum. And there used to be one!
I can identify Holder and the president, but can anybody tell me who the other people are in the room?
Let me tell you how the fox gets rid of fleas from his body. He starts dipping his tail in the water slowly and keeps dipping more and more until the water reaches his nose. Of course the fleas move toward his nose then he licks the fleas to the last one. Washington D.C is the tail which contains most of the fleas because it’s too thick and long. The fleas residing on the tail are the most fat and rich. It’s time for the American big fox to make the process faster by cutting the tail and throwing it inside the ocean.
False Flag, False Flag, False Flag dommies!
The Boston Bombing: Easy pretext for more war abroad, more repression at home. Irrelevant who is responsible – the gov't. will say whatever they want to gain the most out of it.
I'm glad to see that the FBI is looking into a US military connection to this heinous bombing. If you remember, a soldier from Fort Campbell built a pressure-cooker bomb and was going to set it off at Fort Hood, to kill hundreds of troops in support of Maj. Nidal Hasan. There were 20 soldiers finishing walking (yes, walking) the marathon at the time of the blasts. The FBI should look at Lt. Fiola and Sgt. Mendollson, and the other soldiers in Boston for a possible terrorist connection.