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Apparently there are videos connecting the two sites with one guy.
They show a guy dropping a duffle bag at the second site. Then two guys take out the
pressure cooker and take off with the bag. They don't think the two guys were involved
They were speculating that the two guys just stole the bag. In doing so, they may have
unknowingly disconnected a wire and that's why it was a dud.
edit - fixed my boo-boo (twice)
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)I say this because you can't walk a city block in New York without a camera. This is the same scenario as with the NY bicycle bomber.
OhZone
(3,212 posts)a white supremacist Trump supporter.
awake
(3,226 posts)How tasty should it be it they found a bunch of Trump literature in his apartment along with White Supremacist material.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)That if the suspects are Islamic, that there isn't a rush as there normally is to blame Islam as a whole.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)If this does indeed turnout to be true, can you imagine their reaction when they realized they were jacking with a bomb?
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)Thank God that one was a DUD.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)It's pretty crazy that the city's natural tendency toward scavenging may have foiled this imbecile's bomb plot.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)In the European bombings there was significant number of deaths. But in the NY and NJ bombings there were no THANK GOD deaths. If it was done via cell then the bomber must have been in the area to make sure when bomb off people were not in the area.
Then two guys walk up to duffle bag dump the contents and steal the bag, disarming the second bomb in the process.
This reminds me of the 2012 Benghazi attack which was designed to derail the President's re-election and of course didn't work.
Finally the other interesting thing is that NJ NY and Minnesota are the three places Birther Trump claimed he could win in his deluded madness. Recall Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get more votes. Just sayin' this feels homegrown and political
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The ONE kind of bomb which would instantly remind people of Boston.
Off all the possible targets in NYC, something explodes which can only injure people at that time of night.
I wish I knew more about the area this was in...whether it was indeed a target rich environment.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It is also home to many gay residents and businesses. Could that have been why it was targeted?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)....and packed together.
At the marathon everyone is basically like sardines.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)Maybe it's more of a threat or demonstration.