Breaking:Large explosion at public event in Boston***Mod warning in OP**

Bacchus

wonderfullife wrote: »

One small crumb of comfort for Muslims etc is that if it turns out these 2 guys are foreigners, they don't exactly look like the stereotypical movie type Muslim bad guys with big beards etc

They just look like 2 regular college types.

I know it's only a small point but might help minimise any backlash towards that community.

Sounds from the reports that they are Russian. Fox reporting that they probably got training in Afganistan or Pakistan.... cause you know.... that's where the terrorists come from.

Killinator

They were showing the controlled demo on fox just now live

Seachmall

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

How are they coming to the conclusion that they were "trained" by a foreign organisation?

Fox simply reported that a government source said they were investigating whether or not they had foreign ties or if they were trained overseas.

There weren't any accusations or suggestions that they were connected to a foreign organisation.

wonderfullife

So reported both suspects are from Chechniya. Bit of a weird spot for Chechens to make a statement.

Cue anti-Russian, anti-European sentiments all over Fox.

Da Shins Kelly

Seachmall wrote: »

Fox simply reported that a government source said they were investigating whether or not they had foreign ties or if they were trained overseas.

There weren't any accusations or suggestions that they were connected to a foreign organisation.

It's just that the news station I'm looking at (don't know which one it is) keeps saying "trained by a foreign organisation".

Allyall

Suspects are not a threat. Officers told to stand down..

Nodin

....bizarre spot for anyone to do it, tbh. You'd have expected something symbolic to be targeted...jaysus knows why 2 chechens (if its confirmed that chechens they be) did it.

P.Walnuts

wonderfullife wrote: »

So reported both suspects are from Chechniya. Bit of a weird spot for Chechens to make a statement.

Cue anti-Russian, anti-European sentiments all over Fox.

Chechens are are mostly muslim so I would imagine its a jihadist type thing rather than a statement about the general situation in Chechnya

opinionated3

wonderfullife wrote: »

So reported both suspects are from Chechniya. Bit of a weird spot for Chechens to make a statement.

Cue anti-Russian, anti-European sentiments all over Fox.

more than likely radical Islamists from around Chechnya....I wouldn'tbe shocked at that...

positron

gurramok wrote: »

Radical Islamists have come from Chechyna, they "fought" in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places. Its up to the US police and the Russians to determine if the suspects are linked to this extremism.

It's hard to keep track of context when the thread is moving so fast, I was talking about Sunil Tripadi (Indian, Hindu - based on the name) and how he doesn't fit the "typical image" despite being brown. That's all.

ibarelycare

If the suspects are Chechen then it's very possible they are Muslim.

Seachmall

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

It's just that the news station I'm looking at (don't know which one it is) keeps saying "trained by a foreign organisation".

I haven't heard them mention it recently but I'm not paying a huge amount of attention.

Fox are interviewing an FBI profiler right now, if that's the station you're watching I must be mistaken.

topper75

Bacchus wrote: »

Sounds from the reports that they are Russian. Fox reporting that they probably got training in Afganistan or Pakistan.... cause you know.... that's where the terrorists come from.

A Chechen travelling there for training is like an Irish guy travelling to Nigeria for a freshly brewed Guinness.

Da Shins Kelly

This is sh*tty for any decent Muslims in the US if it turns out that these are radicals.

Crann na Beatha

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VinLieger

So chechnya is mostly muslim? cue high fiving at fox, they are back in the game

Crann na Beatha

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Seachmall

Phoenix wrote: »

Ill listen to what Russian media are saying and will get back to you

Show off.

DDC1990

VinLieger wrote: »

So chechnya is mostly muslim? cue high fiving at fox, they are back in the game

Yup, and has plenty of oil.

/cynicism

opinion guy

Google map of Boston and where stuff is happening
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200082141349599835237.0004daaf434ba5147dce8&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=h&source=embed&ll=42.367803,-71.132526&spn=0.04439,0.085831&z=13

VinLieger

Phoenix wrote: »

Chechnya is a republic in the Caucasus,ingushetia,north ossetia also have a high number of muslims living there

Fair enough, i was simply making a joke that Fox literally have no other way to report things like this than "blame the muslims" doesnt matter where they are from

Kerrydude1981

This building there showing on Fox,could this be where the rat is hiding?

No.just showed the SWAT team leaving

Da Shins Kelly

Weird that the suspects stuck around in Boston after the event. You'd think they'd have done a runner, unless they thought they had unfinished business or something.

antodeco

One thing that I do have to say, is that well done to the authorities for hunting these guys down very quick (with the photo/video evidence). The two guys certainly didn’t help their cause by robbing the 7-11, but that to me suggests that they have become desperate and had no further plan after the bombings (this is evident with them still being in the general area).

demakinz

opinion guy wrote: »

Google map of Boston and where stuff is happening
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200082141349599835237.0004daaf434ba5147dce8&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=h&source=embed&ll=42.367803,-71.132526&spn=0.04439,0.085831&z=13

Reported disturbance

Man reported talking into a camera taped to a lightbulb in arabic with bag on the ground

So much paranoia in boston ATM, Its crazy

wonderfullife

Maybe i'm misguided but having lived in America for a while i would wager this is not that bad a result for the Muslim community.

The average Joe Soap won't know or care where Chechnya is. They will just shrug "damn Russians". And people over there won't tend to associate Russia with the sort of radical muslim extremism.

Whereas if these guys were Iranian, Saudi or anywhere close, they'd be throwing darts at a map of the Middle East on who they want to invade or bomb in retaliation.

demakinz

demakinz wrote: »

So much paranoia in boston ATM, Its crazy

Can't imagine why.

recyclebin

Anything on the RT news channel about it?

Crann na Beatha

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bhamsteve

antodeco wrote: »

One thing that I do have to say, is that well done to the authorities for hunting these guys down very quick (with the photo/video evidence). The two guys certainly didn’t help their cause by robbing the 7-11, but that to me suggests that they have become desperate and had no further plan after the bombings (this is evident with them still being in the general area).

It did take an armed robbery and car-jacking to alert them to their presence though. Hardly Sherlock Holmes.