Two bombs exploded in New York...

Terrorist attacks or gang related?
Either which way it's disgusting in my opinion.
Your thoughts are???

Did this happen today? Is it news?
Where is the link ffs?

It's on BBCTV.

It's in the wron section and there's no link

An explosion rocked the bustling Chelsea district of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people in what authorities described as a deliberate, criminal act, while saying investigators had turned up no evidence of a "terror connection."

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials said investigators had ruled out a gas leak as the cause of the blast, but they stopped short of calling it a bombing and declined to specify precisely what they believed may have triggered the explosion.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-blast-idUSKCN11O012



But other articles are saying a second device was found and removed... a pressure cooker bomb like the ones used by the Muslim terrorists in the Boston bombing of the marathon run...



NEW YORK — Authorities here found and on early Sunday removed an explosive device — reportedly a pressure cooker — near the site of a Saturday night blast that injured more than two dozen people in the Chelsea neighborhood.

At a news conference before the discovery of a second device, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the explosion injured at least 29 people but that there was no specific terrorist threat.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/17/explosion-new-york-chelsea-neighborhood/90605526/

I knew you couldn't post about a bombing without mentioning Muslims

People need to know the facts... I know you think facts are 'perverse'...

Yeah, like the fact you're a bigot. Nobody yet knows who did this, could have just as easily been a violent, deranged right winger.

Yeah... could have been an 85 year old black woman who just doesn't like dumpsters on the streets...

An explosion that rocked Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood and injured at least 29 people appears to have been "an intentional act" -- but not related to terrorism, according to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

https://gma.yahoo.com/least-26-reported-injured-explosion-york-city-025721263--abc-news-topstories.html

This article updated 10 mins ago...


"A bomb exploding in New York is obviously an act of terrorism," Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters on Sunday..."

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/18/us/new-york-explosion/

Ben Reilly wrote:

An explosion that rocked Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood and injured at least 29 people appears to have been "an intentional act" -- but not related to terrorism, according to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

https://gma.yahoo.com/least-26-reported-injured-explosion-york-city-025721263--abc-news-topstories.html

I wrote one of my instant poems about the Boston Marathon bombings somewhere on a forum but cant
remember which forum I posted it on so lost that poem along with hundreds of others.
Even I knew that poem was great BR

Tommy Monk wrote:

This article updated 10 mins ago...


"A bomb exploding in New York is obviously an act of terrorism," Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters on Sunday..."

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/18/us/new-york-explosion/

They will catch them TM, they are really on the ball now regarding any potential terrorist cells becoming
over large.
Pity they cant arrest them just on suspicion but without proof positive they know their lawyers will get them out again within hours.

Bombs gone off in New Jersey aswell
http://news.sky.com/story/five-questioned-over-new-york-bomb-blast-that-injured-29-10584510

magica wrote:Bombs gone off in New Jersey aswell
http://news.sky.com/story/five-questioned-over-new-york-bomb-blast-that-injured-29-10584510

I wonder how many bombs have been planted?
It seems like a concerted effort to kill or injure as many as possible again.

Ben wont believe you!

nicko wrote:Ben wont believe you!

Wont believe what Nicky?
People believe what they want to believe which is why anyone supporting ISIS should be effed off the net the moment they mention any kind of support for them at all in any guise.
People can be influenced too easily

Ben Reilly wrote:Yeah, like the fact you're a bigot. Nobody yet knows who did this, could have just as easily been a violent, deranged right winger.

"...New York officials have identified a suspect wanted for questioning over Saturday's blast in the Chelsea area in which 29 people were injured.

The man has been identified as Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalised US citizen from Afghanistan..."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37409441

Tommy Monk wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:Yeah, like the fact you're a bigot. Nobody yet knows who did this, could have just as easily been a violent, deranged right winger.

"...New York officials have identified a suspect wanted for questioning over Saturday's blast in the Chelsea area in which 29 people were injured.

The man has been identified as Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalised US citizen from Afghanistan..."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37409441

People risk their lives to become USA citizens and British citizens but the checks aren't good enough
as killers are getting past the security daily.
Our now Prime Minister let in hundreds of thousands when it was her job to control the numbers.
Soon changed her mind when given the chance to be our Prime Minister now though and promising
far greater checks on their backgrounds.
She's full of crap in my opinion

Eu free movement and 'human rights' rules let hundreds of thousands come and stay here every year... both eu and from outside the eu.

"...It gives EEA citizens the right of free movement and residence across the European Economic Area, as long as they are not an undue burden on the country of residence and have comprehensive health insurance.[1] This right also extends to close family members that are not EEA citizens.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Movement_Directive

Tommy Monk wrote:

"...It gives EEA citizens the right of free movement and residence across the European Economic Area, as long as they are not an undue burden on the country of residence and have comprehensive health insurance.[1] This right also extends to close family members that are not EEA citizens.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Movement_Directive

I know a way of keeping track on everyone we let in without checks and its to put those clamp things on
their legs that are used on teens until they prove they can be trusted.
It would cost millions but it costs millions to investigate terrorist attacks as well so if shown by the clamp device it would show the most likely suspects within minutes of any attack!

Tommy Monk wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:Yeah, like the fact you're a bigot. Nobody yet knows who did this, could have just as easily been a violent, deranged right winger.

"...New York officials have identified a suspect wanted for questioning over Saturday's blast in the Chelsea area in which 29 people were injured.

The man has been identified as Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalised US citizen from Afghanistan..."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37409441

Not really fair to use that quote against me, as I wrote it when it was true that nobody knew who had done what.

If I had to guess now, with the benefit of all the reporting that you had access to when you posted this reply, I would conjecture that these were ISIS-inspired lone wolf attacks -- but I don't know that for sure.

blackie333 wrote:

magica wrote:Bombs gone off in New Jersey aswell
http://news.sky.com/story/five-questioned-over-new-york-bomb-blast-that-injured-29-10584510

I wonder how many bombs have been planted?
It seems like a concerted effort to kill or injure as many as possible again.

nicko wrote:Ben wont believe you!

What is wrong with you guys? Another example of mission creep. Just because you don't believe all Muslims are evil, is not to ignore there is a terrorist movement.

Another undetonated bomb was apparently found at the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick (NJ), just outside of NYC, which is where I went to graduate school. That one caught my eye.

Catch more than your eye if you were close to it!

nicko wrote:Catch more than your eye if you were close to it!

That's right. It becomes closer when you recognize some of the scenes where this took place.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:


"...New York officials have identified a suspect wanted for questioning over Saturday's blast in the Chelsea area in which 29 people were injured.

The man has been identified as Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalised US citizen from Afghanistan..."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37409441

Not really fair to use that quote against me, as I wrote it when it was true that nobody knew who had done what.

If I had to guess now, with the benefit of all the reporting that you had access to when you posted this reply, I would conjecture that these were ISIS-inspired lone wolf attacks -- but I don't know that for sure.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... chances are it's a duck!!!

Tommy Monk wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:


"...New York officials have identified a suspect wanted for questioning over Saturday's blast in the Chelsea area in which 29 people were injured.

The man has been identified as Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalised US citizen from Afghanistan..."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37409441

Not really fair to use that quote against me, as I wrote it when it was true that nobody knew who had done what.

If I had to guess now, with the benefit of all the reporting that you had access to when you posted this reply, I would conjecture that these were ISIS-inspired lone wolf attacks -- but I don't know that for sure.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... chances are it's a duck!!!

Unfortunately, people are a bit more complicated than ducks! And it's obviously unfair to blame an entire religious group for the actions of some of their members, or to assume that a particular group carried out an attack before knowing the facts.

Tommy Monk wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Not really fair to use that quote against me, as I wrote it when it was true that nobody knew who had done what.

If I had to guess now, with the benefit of all the reporting that you had access to when you posted this reply, I would conjecture that these were ISIS-inspired lone wolf attacks -- but I don't know that for sure.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... chances are it's a duck!!!

The same is said by 'flat-earthers' all the time. If the earth were round, why you'd fall off!

Quack.

eddie wrote:Quack.

I've a smiley for that

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:


If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... chances are it's a duck!!!

Unfortunately, people are a bit more complicated than ducks! And it's obviously unfair to blame an entire religious group for the actions of some of their members, or to assume that a particular group carried out an attack before knowing the facts.

Well... all I had said before was that a pressure cooker device had been removed by police and that this type of bomb was the same as was used by the Muslim Boston bombers... which is completely true!


It was you who started speculating about some right winger being responsible for the op attacks...


So it was you who was casting aspertions against a whole group of people without any evidence whatsoever!!!


Maybe instead of talking about ducks... we should be talking about geese... and if it's good for the goose then it is good for the gander too...!

Tommy Monk wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:


If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... chances are it's a duck!!!

Unfortunately, people are a bit more complicated than ducks! And it's obviously unfair to blame an entire religious group for the actions of some of their members, or to assume that a particular group carried out an attack before knowing the facts.

Well... all I had said before was that a pressure cooker device had been removed by police and that this type of bomb was the same as was used by the Muslim Boston bombers... which is completely true!


It was you who started speculating about some right winger being responsible for the op attacks...


So it was you who was casting aspertions against a whole group of people without any evidence whatsoever!!!


Maybe instead of talking about ducks... we should be talking about geese... and if it's good for the goose then it is good for the gander too...!

You added the part about the Boston Marathon bombers being Muslims, and I just said it could just as easily be right-wing terrorists, which we have a lot more of in the U.S. than Islamists. Remember Pasty-Face McVeigh?

The pressure cooker devices were the same... which was the point I made.


I didn't cast aspertions on any group being responsible for op attacks.


You did...

Tommy Monk wrote:The pressure cooker devices were the same... which was the point I made.


I didn't cast aspertions on any group being responsible for op attacks.


You did...

No, you went out of your way to link it to Islam; I said it could have been a different variety of extremist, which we have far more of in the U.S. than Islamist terrorists. Or have you forgotten Pasty-Face Roeder?

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:


Well... all I had said before was that a pressure cooker device had been removed by police and that this type of bomb was the same as was used by the Muslim Boston bombers... which is completely true!


It was you who started speculating about some right winger being responsible for the op attacks...


So it was you who was casting aspertions against a whole group of people without any evidence whatsoever!!!


Maybe instead of talking about ducks... we should be talking about geese... and if it's good for the goose then it is good for the gander too...!

You added the part about the Boston Marathon bombers being Muslims, and I just said it could just as easily be right-wing terrorists, which we have a lot more of in the U.S. than Islamists. Remember Pasty-Face McVeigh?

Why are you using disparaging slurs against someone because they were white?

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:The pressure cooker devices were the same... which was the point I made.


I didn't cast aspertions on any group being responsible for op attacks.


You did...

No, you went out of your way to link it to Islam; I said it could have been a different variety of extremist, which we have far more of in the U.S. than Islamist terrorists. Or have you forgotten Pasty-Face Roeder?

Another racist remark based on the colour of someone's skin?

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Tommy Monk wrote:The pressure cooker devices were the same... which was the point I made.


I didn't cast aspertions on any group being responsible for op attacks.


You did...

No, you went out of your way to link it to Islam; I said it could have been a different variety of extremist, which we have far more of in the U.S. than Islamist terrorists. Or have you forgotten Pasty-Face Roeder?

Another racist remark based on the colour of someone's skin?

Just pointing out that it's mainly white people who carry out acts of domestic terrorism in the U.S. That makes it more likely that any incidence of terrorism was carried out by a white person.

The link was the type of device used...


Maybe you can tell us the other instances in America in recent years where pressure cooker devices have been used...!?


Also... wasn't a local running event targeted with bombs over the last few days too...!?


And isn't this another reason to draw comparisons to Boston attacks...?

Need some meat and cheese for all this!

Ben Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Another racist remark based on the colour of someone's skin?

Just pointing out that it's mainly white people who carry out acts of domestic terrorism in the U.S. That makes it more likely that any incidence of terrorism was carried out by a white person.

Then call them "white" people rather than use a childish and disparaging word.

In any case, it's not actually true - is it?

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Just pointing out that it's mainly white people who carry out acts of domestic terrorism in the U.S. That makes it more likely that any incidence of terrorism was carried out by a white person.

Then call them "white" people rather than use a childish and disparaging word.

In any case, it's not actually true - is it?

Yes, quite true.  And, in America the first real, live terrorists were the KKK, founded in 1865.  Over the centuries the white faces that are caught in this form of terrorism number in the millions.

You think you are pissed about ISIS?  That's chump change.  Ask the African Americans over here what they think of terrorism.

Original Quill wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Then call them "white" people rather than use a childish and disparaging word.

In any case, it's not actually true - is it?

Yes, quite true.  And, in America the first real, live terrorists were the KKK, founded in 1865.  Over the centuries the white faces that are caught in this form of terrorism number in the millions.

You think you are pissed about ISIS?  That's chump change.  Ask the African Americans over here what they think of terrorism.

It depends on what you class as terrorism. For example, I see that Ben included a photo of Dylann Roof, but is he allegedly a terrorist or a mass murderer?

Personally I reckon these isis types have just succeded in making the "left" (such as it is over there in the states) look real silly and given trump just what he needs....

a few more of these attacks...especially a real bad one that DOES cause mass casualties and the voters in america may well be reconsidering their options......

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Another racist remark based on the colour of someone's skin?

Just pointing out that it's mainly white people who carry out acts of domestic terrorism in the U.S. That makes it more likely that any incidence of terrorism was carried out by a white person.

Then call them "white" people rather than use a childish and disparaging word.

In any case, it's not actually true - is it?

I don't knowingly post false information:

Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, including the recent mass killing in Charleston, S.C., compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html?_r=0

As for my choice of words, it was deliberate, to provoke someone who thinks whites are superior.

Lord Foul wrote:Personally I reckon these isis types have just succeded in making the "left" (such as it is over there in the states) look real silly and given trump just what he needs....

a few more of these attacks...especially a real bad one that DOES cause mass casualties and the voters in america may well be reconsidering their options......

You mean terrorism is going to make Americans choose this:



Over this?

Raggamuffin wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Then call them "white" people rather than use a childish and disparaging word.

In any case, it's not actually true - is it?

Yes, quite true.  And, in America the first real, live terrorists were the KKK, founded in 1865.  Over the centuries the white faces that are caught in this form of terrorism number in the millions.

You think you are pissed about ISIS?  That's chump change.  Ask the African Americans over here what they think of terrorism.

It depends on what you class as terrorism. For example, I see that Ben included a photo of Dylann Roof, but is he allegedly a terrorist or a mass murderer?

Would you call the PULSE shooter a terrorist or a mass murderer?

Both shooters were both -- they used mass murder as terrorism.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:Personally I reckon these isis types have just succeded in making the "left" (such as it is over there in the states) look real silly and given trump just what he needs....

a few more of these attacks...especially a real bad one that DOES cause mass casualties and the voters in america may well be reconsidering their options......

You mean terrorism is going to make Americans choose this:



Over this?

I think there is a danger of that happening yes.....

Isn't he both?