Blergh!

Apr. 19th, 2013 08:03 am
shipperx: (30 Rock - Blerg)
[personal profile] shipperx
All hell seems to have broken loose in Boston overnight.


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Date: 2013-04-19 01:35 pm (UTC)
shapinglight: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shapinglight
I see what you mean. Have just checked the BBC website.

Date: 2013-04-19 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
I had no idea until I turned on the computer this morning, having gone to bed last night before any of it started to happen.

Hopefully they'll apprehend the guy (alive) before anyone else is hurt.

Date: 2013-04-19 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-underhill.livejournal.com
We are told to stay in our homes, so I'm working from home.

And those are Chechen terrorists after all...
I was talking to my husband after this that it's so similar to terror acts Russians were suffering for years - bombs in trash cans, on subway and bus stops, near large shopping areas etc.

And now we know they are from Chechnya... No words. I don't understand why people are doing this. Hope the second one is caught and will spend many painful years in prison.

Date: 2013-04-19 02:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
Stay safe.

Hope this ends soon without anyone else being harmed.

Date: 2013-04-19 02:24 pm (UTC)
rahirah: (Default)
From: [personal profile] rahirah
Great. I was really hoping they were home-grown loonies. All we need is something else to whip up anti-Muslim sentiments.

Date: 2013-04-19 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
Since they've been here since 2002 and one is only 19, I'd say they are mostly home grown loonies with foreign affiliation.

Date: 2013-04-19 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] reginaspina.livejournal.com
Yeah, I was gonna say that these are not sooo dissimilar to other violent young men with weapons and the desire to kill innocents that the US has encountered in the past few months!

So glad my parents are away from their home in Boston right now!

Date: 2013-04-19 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] londonkds.livejournal.com
The fact that the London tube bombers were British born did absolutely nothing to reduce sectarianism and racism in the response her, unfortunately.

Date: 2013-04-19 05:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrs-underhill.livejournal.com
Unfortunately, doesn't apply here.
From what we are learning about them, they were very much in tune with jihad movement in Caucasian region.
The youngest brother kept VK page (that's Russian analog of Facebook) and was steeped in our Russian teen culture, not American.

But it doesn't make much difference, they are just other young guys who went off rails from virtual hatred in a virtual world. Don't see much difference between them and Sandy Hook killer, indeed.

The only thing which may play a role is that with Chechens you have to check the big family/clan networks. They might not have been alone, could be more of this coming. :( Their father has already threatened retaliation if something happens to the youngest guy, and I wouldn't take that lightly.
Edited Date: 2013-04-19 05:18 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-04-19 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipperx.livejournal.com
Still rather home grown though. His uncle said that he came to the U.S. as a six year old and so far no one has indicated that he had left the country since (though his brother/co-conspirator did in 2012.)

And, yeah, the father came off...strangely calling him an 'angel' in the wake of a bombing that dismemebered and killed innocent by-standers (including small children), murdered an MIT campus policeman, carjacking, theft from the one they carjacked, had shootouts with the cops, and apparently had a bomb in their house/apartment that has to be detonated in a 'controlled explosion'.

Only 'angel' that can be compared to is the Armagheddon-type.
Edited Date: 2013-04-19 06:00 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-04-19 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com
I was hoping the same damn thing, actually. (And how awful a thing is that to hope for to begin with?)

Date: 2013-04-19 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com
...Chechnyans?!?

It's like something out of a bad TV series with Random Terrorists Of The Week. Hope nobody else gets hurt.

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