Why? Because there weren't any planes?
I don't know either way, it's folly to assume either at this point.
Honestly? Because the damage was relatively mild. I'd expect a sympathizer of Al Qaida to be better trained and to use more deadly bombs. The unconfirmed Saudi suspect was also injured by shrapnel, which seems strange. Normally an Al-Qaida-like attack would either be dead (suicide bombing) or unharmed (far away when the bombs were detonated) I believe.
While these small bombs with few deaths are what I'd expect from one or two people operating independently and who has figured out how to put together bombs by themselves, IMO.
Of course, I have very little factual information behind this analysis, and I might very well be proven to be wrong.
So apparently cellphone services and transporation are shut down in Boston. Who came up with that bright idea?
Always good to know the government can turn off cell phones whenever it wants.
I thought they said the bombs were set off with cellular devices. I do not know how they would know that, though.
Could it be possible they turned off the phone network because the bombs were armed by them? Or am I watching too much fiction ?
The bombs in Madrid were in fact detonated through the mobile phone network. It's been a standard assumption for well over a decade that attackers might use that technique. So mobile phone networks might have been turned off as a security precaution: Additional bombs could be set of by mobile phone calls.
Transportation could similarly be closed to avoid having large groups of people gathered in cramped locations.
Most likely these precautions are not necessary, but nobody wants to be the one who said "That won't happen", if additional bombings do happen.
I'd put pretty good odds on cellphone service being down through incompetence on the part of mobile operators at handling high volumes.
That is a possibility, but this event isn't so big that it should have that effect. Central Boston is bound to have a great deal of mobile network base stations.
That's certainly the "glass is half full" way of looking at it. The "glass is half empty" way of looking at it is that we'll just be looking at a freakout that's even more broad but not any more rational.
Depends. We'll have to wait and see what suspects the police are actually able to find. I'd like to be somewhat optimistic though.
