[kj] I would ask if all Gatherers in Boston are okay...

[Rob Moss]

Radio interviews I heard today were blaming Islamists. 

Think it might be a bit early for that don't you think?

Truly awful event. 

On 16 Apr 2013, at 15:35, breadfan at cybercom.net wrote:


> Still here, and share the same hunch. 

> GREG SLAWSON writes: 

>> Agreed--I was 2 miles from the bomb just before they went off, and think (& hope) it's a domestic nut job due to the small size Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2013, at 5:52 AM, "Neil Perry" <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote: 

>>> When I was in Cuba over xmas we met a Dutch couple and hung out with them in Havana.

>>> The guy Ivo was a keen marathon runner, and talked about how he was training hard (he was in his

>>> late-50s) for the Boston marathon. We had email contact a while back and he said he'd hurt his knee so maybe wasn't going.

>>> Saw the news yesterday and my heart sank - fired off a quick email, his wife replied, they were there,

>>> but are both fine. I know speculation is pointless but my gut feeling is that this is domestic terrorism... I'm going purely on the fact that any attacks by al qaida/Islamic terrorists etc often seem to be 100 times worse/bigger.

>>> Small-ish bombs in bins just doesn't seem their style. And I'm partly guessing its domestic out of hope, because if it isn't

>>> then some foreign land is about to get the crap bombed out of it. On 16 April 2013 08:58, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

>>>> But it was an athletic event after all. So we’re safe ;p   Srsly, hope no one was directly or indirectly affected. _______________________________________________

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