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Aswad -> RE: The Insensitive Boston Thread (4/16/2013 9:32:48 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kdsub
Then how my friend is saying that a terrorist group that would claim responsibility for this atrocity would be putting a target on their backs not the truth? This is the truth as proven by history...what say you?
The ones you pointed out have repeatedly proven themselves willing to paint huge targets on their back, and have shown a fair degree of competency in picking targets (whatever you or I might think about 9/11, you have to admit it worked; they inflicted trillions of dollars worth of financial losses, serious curtailment of liberties, umpteen thousand lives lost, recession, loss of political status, loss of international sympathies, and significantly increased recruitment for terrorism worldwide with consequent increases in terrorist activities).
The bomb was a low order explosive with a yield of a few pounds, possibly loaded with ball bearings (the reports don't seem clear on whether the shrapnel was incidental or not), and positioned in a decent spot, but poorly timed. AQ has a long history of testing their gear to make sure it works well, with a strong preference for high order explosives, often a nitrate or peroxide based one. The targets were fairly random, but in a single location, and marginal casualties (in the greater scheme of things, this could've gone a lot worse, and would've gone a lot worse if AQ were behind it).
Simply put, there's no motive for them to pick this target, the method is cruder than they usually go for, and they would be quite happy to suffer the consequences of claiming responsibility. It makes no sense, whereas jihadist terrorism most of the time tends to make perfect sense, in terms of targets chosen and methods used.
No, if this is from a familiar source at all, it's probably a domestic one.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
P.S.: Tweakabelle, the very purpose of this thread was to set aside a space for other purposes than the conventional need for grieving and such, since it was inevitable that some would want to process theirs in a different manner (or would want to discuss), ideally allowing the other thread(s) to be reserved for what you called for here. I propose it's better to have one thread, clearly labelled, for the alternative ways of dealing with what has happened, and one or more for the conventional ways. If I'd thought of it sooner, we might've avoided a lot of needless aggravation in the other thread. Please allow us to process this in our own way.
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