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04-15-2013, 03:24 PM
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Explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line
There were 2 explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line about 3 hours into the event. No word yet on how many were injured.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/natio...ns-live/64246/
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04-15-2013, 03:34 PM
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How terrible!!
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04-15-2013, 04:34 PM
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We're under a heightened state of alert both at work and in DC itself. Pennsylvania Ave is shut down around the White House and Metro/DCPD are out and about
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04-15-2013, 05:10 PM
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There's reports that a 3rd explosion occured at the JFK Library. Hoping that it's just gossip and nerves.
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04-15-2013, 05:20 PM
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Hey guys. GOOGLE has set up a person finder
Google has set up a person finder after Boston Marathon explosions: http://nyp.st/XNDixd
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04-15-2013, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by LaneSig
There's reports that a 3rd explosion occured at the JFK Library. Hoping that it's just gossip and nerves.
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They are saying this was an unrelated fire that started in a mechanical room. Strange timing.
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04-15-2013, 07:27 PM
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JFK library was a bomb.
Police have a Saudi national in custody. He is denying involvement, so it may just be wrong place, wrong time for that guy.
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04-15-2013, 08:07 PM
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04-15-2013, 08:10 PM
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Last I saw - two dead, over 100 in hospital. It's being treated as a terrorist attack, but no one has claimed responsibility.
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04-15-2013, 08:26 PM
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It's been confirmed that one of the two people who died was just 8 years old.
So tragic.
(ETA: some of the pictures being added to this article are kind of gruesome)
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/bos...html?c=&page=1
I'm glad to hear that all the people that I know who were there are safe, but my thoughts are with those who won't be receiving the same news tonight.
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04-15-2013, 09:20 PM
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Three confirmed dead.
The husband of one of my pledge class sisters was running in it today. He was able to get through to her and let her know he was ok thankfully.
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04-15-2013, 09:37 PM
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Quote:
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JFK library was a bomb.
Police have a Saudi national in custody. He is denying involvement, so it may just be wrong place, wrong time for that guy.
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Do you have sources for these?
I can't find anything recent saying that the JFK fire was related.
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04-15-2013, 10:17 PM
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No one is in custody. They have no leads. All of the information that they had a Saudi national in custody and that the JFK library fire was a bomb are false reports.
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04-15-2013, 10:28 PM
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It seems like only yesterday that we came to GC to share and grieve on 9-11-2001.
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04-15-2013, 10:57 PM
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Quote:
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Do you have sources for these?
I can't find anything recent saying that the JFK fire was related.
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They have gone back and now said that it was not connected.
Quote from CNN:
-- Boston police investigated whether a third explosion, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, was connected to Monday's two bombings at the Boston Marathon, Police Commissioner Ed Davis said. They decided it was related to a mechanical problem. The JFK School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge --- miles away from the library in the Dorchester section of Boston -- was evacuated.
Here's that link: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/bos...now/index.html
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