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Manhattan explosion

The problem is even with low amounts if they start putting nails in like the IRA

Wankers
 
lionking said:
What an idiotic post.

A bomb in crowded Manhattan is very big news. Why are you even in this thread if you think this is not a major issue?
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It's a pressure cooker hooked up to a phone. Get some perspective
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Stop the presses!!! Go to 24 hour coverage!!! OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!!

Two homemade bombs, one found found before it went off, 28 minor injuries and maybe one more serious.

And some pipe bombs were found earlier today, only one that went off and in that case injured no one.

How many people died of gunshot wounds today? According to Google on average

Sigh...
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C'mon SG put on your critical thinking cap, not this one and think about why you are wrong to compared the two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCJEMzSWV2g
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Here's a hint. The difference is people dying from gunshot are not randomly targeted. I'm certain you'd react just as these people did.
 
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This seems like a fairly well-planned attack to me. A primary device, with a secondary device designed (presumably) to take out first-reponders and bystanders.....That's typical attack scenario. (I just attended a training seminar).
The pics of the unexploded device would seem to indicate a fairly well-assembled bomb. That it didn't go off might be a simple wiring error. Hopefully they can get fingerprint or DNA evidence from same. (Tape is a good source for both.
 
cullennz said:
It's a pressure cooker hooked up to a phone. Get some perspective
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Unbelievable comment. Does the Boston Marathon ring a bell? Fortunately the police found the second device before it was detonated.
 
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Bikewer said:
This seems like a fairly well-planned attack to me. A primary device, with a secondary device designed (presumably) to take out first-reponders and bystanders.....That's typical attack scenario. (I just attended a training seminar).
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The second device (unexploded pressure cooker) seems to be about 4 blocks away from the explosion. Am I wrong to expect that a second bomb to kill bystanders and first responders would be placed closer to the first bomb?
 
newyorkguy said:
Some kind of device or bomb exploded, apparently in a garbage dumpster,
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I don't think that it has been determined yet if the bomb was actually inside a dumpster or trash container, or if it was placed very near those things.

The photo shows a mangled container, but I am speculating that it didn't contain the bomb. It seems too intact for that. I'm guessing that it was very near the bomb.
 
quadraginta said:
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The one pictured does look like the small dumpsters used in Manhattan where commercial establishments have private garbage collection. The initials BIC on the dumpster stand for Business Integrity Commission which is a city agency that works to improve the performance and reliability of private waste collection in the city. (It was controlled by organized crime for decades.) That looks like one of the green dumpsters they make available to small business so they don't stack garbage along the curb. I think they are steel though. The trucks use hooks, cable and a winch to pull them up and dump them into the truck's hopper.
 
The thing about an IED made using a pressure cooker is that the strength of the vessel itself to withstand high pressure yields a relatively large explosion using common deflagrating 'low explosives' such as smokeless and/or black powder. And there's generally enough space inside the vessel to also carry a significant amount of material intended as shrapnel.

The Boston Marathon bombs were pressure cooker bombs using black powder and ball bearings.

Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan are generally given credit for the idea.
 
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