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http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/us/new-york-explosion-investigation/
The intense investigation into the weekend bomb blasts in New York and New Jersey is leading authorities to signs of a possible terror cell in those two states, law enforcement officials told CNN Monday. The ongoing investigation, which includes two bombs in New York City and devices in two cities in New Jersey, has given authorities leads on specific people who are urgently being sought.
Also on Monday morning, a federal law enforcement official said BBs and ball bearings were among the pieces of metal that appeared to be packed into both pressure cooker bombs in New York. One of those devices exploded on 23rd Street, but the fact that it was partly under a metal trash container may have diminished the force of the blast.
The latest developments came just hours after a backpack containing multiple bombs was found Sunday night near an Elizabeth, New Jersey, train station, according to the FBI and the city's mayor. [...] The [New York City] blast occurred on the same day an explosion went off near a Marine Corps charity run in New Jersey and a man stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall. Authorities are investigating all three incidents as possible terror acts.
Update: NYT: Police Hunt for Ahmad Khan Rahami in Connection With Manhattan Bombing
Update 2: The suspect has been captured alive, despite getting into a shootout with police.
[Ed's Note: Whereas in some parts of the world, BB is an abbreviation for ball bearing, in the US in particular it refers simply to a round pellet fired from a compressed air weapon.]
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 19 2016, @01:34PM
This happened in NYC and New Jersey, but no one seems freaked out and no one is even talking about it. It's very different from the aftermath of 9/11.
It will be played for all it's worth in the presidential campaign, and it will probably swing a lot of votes in the Midwest; they are the most fearful region in the country, and indeed drove horrible anti-American legislation like the PATRIOT Act before.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by NCommander on Monday September 19 2016, @01:46PM
I'm from NYC originally, and currently living there.
A lot of it is that we were the epicenter for 9/11. While most of the country will remember the date, I won't be surprised if the vast majority of New Yorkers saw the destruction first hand with the smoke rising over the island. In comparison, this was a firecracker.
People who have had their lives on the line, or experienced something like 9/11, you tend to remember in the grand scheme what is and isn't important. What real fear is.
Still always moving
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 19 2016, @02:29PM
Yes the smoke columns rose over our heads in Brooklyn, dropped bits of burning office paper on our heads on that day, and trailed over us for months afterward. These attacks were pitiful in comparison.
Wouldn't it be nice if they backfired completely and rendered the American public less afraid of terrorism?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @01:42AM
> Wouldn't it be nice if they backfired completely and rendered the American public less afraid of terrorism?
Seems to have in NY, but not elsewhere.
Here's a page of totally chill tweets from NYers. [buzzfeed.com]
My favorite:
New York could be hit by a comet and Kansas would be like "AMERICA IS BLEEDING" while Bushwick would be like "I guess I walk to work now."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @05:24PM
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by fadrian on Monday September 19 2016, @01:46PM
Midwesterners... They've gone downhill a lot in the past 50 years. I'm close to being sorry I originally came from what has become a region of bigoted, scared pansies.
That is all.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday September 19 2016, @10:36PM
Care to elaborate?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @01:48PM
Clinton is over 70% in MN, WI, and MI. Those numbers will probably drop, buy probably not enough to swing them.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/minnesota/ [fivethirtyeight.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 19 2016, @02:25PM
Democrats usually win those states, so they're not considered "swing" states. If they were in play it would be dire times for Democrats indeed. Ohio and Florida top the list of swing states. In the last couple of elections Virginia, Colorado, and Pennsylvania have been more fluid, and the red grip on Arizona has been eroding. Much of that followed from the 50-state strategy that Howard Dean pursued when he chaired the DNC, but Obama abandoned that with Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A 50-state strategy erodes the ability of the DNC Chairman to steer campaign dollars to cronies in a few "swing" states, you see.
Obama was originally elected because the Democratic base had had enough of the Democratic Leadership Council (also known as the "Third Way" Democrats) the Clintons owned. It turns out, though, that he was simply a vector to return the DLC and the Clintons to their iron grip on the party. And thus, we had the rigged primary that produced, surprise!, Hillary Clinton as the most corrupt and criminal candidate for President in the history of the party.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Tuesday September 20 2016, @02:45AM
The last I heard she's up by about 2 electoral votes over Trump in terms of the projections. The fact that her book only sold 3k copies in the first week speaks volumes about how unpopular she is.
Anybody who doubts the assertions that she stole the primary should probably be paying attention to things like that. How does a Presidential candidate for a major party that's already been nominated manage to sell so few books? It's almost as if she didn't have the votes necessary to win the primary without elections fraud.
I'm not looking forward to Trump being President, but she fucked up big time by pissing off the Liberal and Progressive wings of the Democtratic party and she seems to be actively campaigning for Trump.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday September 19 2016, @02:26PM
I think the big part of this is no one was killed. If it was 28/29 dead instead of injured, you better believe it would have been a much bigger deal.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday September 19 2016, @03:02PM
It helps that nobody died in the explosion.
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