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Boston IED bomb devices with ball bearings are used by terrorists in Afghanistan
The Daily Mail - UK ^ | 4-16-13 | Daniel Bates

Posted on 04/16/2013 2:33:27 PM PDT by tellw

The two bombs that killed three people and injured at least 176 at the Boston Marathon on Monday were made from six-liter pressure cookers crammed with shards of metal, nails and ball bearings and stashed in black backpacks, police sources revealed today.

The cruelly-designed bombs have 'frequently' been used in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Pakistan, according to a 2010 Homeland Security Department pamphlet - hinting at the origins of the bombers behind the worst terrorist atrocity in the U.S. since 9/11.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bomb; boston; bostonmarathon; bostonmarathonattack; ied; marathon; pressurecookerbomb; terroristattack
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To: 353FMG

I’ve seen steel balls sold as slingshot ammo.Available at Walmart and other places.


41 posted on 04/16/2013 4:26:06 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: PGR88

It more than likely had a cell phone or timer on it.

I tried a little research on the subject and found that the Pressure is used to confine the explosion until pressure builds up , making the eplosion much more powerful.

It has little to do with the pressure cooker itself exploding and more to do with the mechanics of building up pressure.


42 posted on 04/16/2013 5:26:51 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Sirius Lee

If I was so whaked that I’d even consider bombing people, who knows where I might buy pressure cookers?

I have a neighbor who sends to India for some cookware because it’s like the stuff Mom used. His mom, not mine.


43 posted on 04/16/2013 6:27:38 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: GOPJ

“How would that jerk Chris Matthews feel if every time a mass killing took place, the MSM mussed it must be a ‘Catholic organization’ behind it... “

I don’t think they care. They say what they do because they are actors in a play pushing an agenda. Truth and logic does not matter, as long as the agenda is moved, that some listeners believe in the liberal Official Reality.


44 posted on 04/16/2013 6:29:52 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: 353FMG
Even in the US, ballbearings are not easy to come by unless you visit a dump and go looking for them.

Or have a computer that can access eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-1-4-Chrome-steel-bearing-balls-/380567841784?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item589b9c6bf8

45 posted on 04/16/2013 6:34:38 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
-- Any pipe bomb works by containing the blast from a low explosive (e.g. gunpowder) ... --

Burned in the open, gunpowder doesn't blast. It's a bit like a sparkler. Faster than a sparkler, but no "blast." The only way to make gunpowder, even smokeless powder, go "boom" is to contain it so pressure builds. Under the high pressure condition, it burns faaaaast! and goes boom.

Your explanation is generally right. Just a nitpick about low explosive "blast," and pointing out there is no blast at all, unless the low explosive is contained.

46 posted on 04/16/2013 6:35:59 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Venturer

Yep. The cooker itself is ductile. It won’t break into very many pieces unless it is purposely “scored” to do so.


47 posted on 04/16/2013 6:38:20 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: 353FMG

I read it wasn’t ballbearings - it was BBs. They are very easy to come by.

“The most seriously injured children had BBs and nails embedded in their bodies, said Dr. David P. Mooney — objects that were apparently packed into the explosive devices.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2013/apr/16/boston-marathon-explosions-hunt-begins-for-perperators-live-updates

Lots of details in article and quotes.


48 posted on 04/16/2013 6:57:04 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: DBrow

True - what’s your take on the posters who keep bringing up ‘McVeigh’ and OK city - while ignoring 9/11? It feels like some here are carrying liberal water...


49 posted on 04/16/2013 7:09:00 PM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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To: GOPJ

“what’s your take on the posters who keep bringing up ‘McVeigh’ “

Probably just because it was a bombing.

Liberals are silent (probably ignorant) of the bomb Karl Armstrong touched off at Sterling Hall at UWisconsin, but he did his little masterpiece as a protest of Kent State and the Viet Nam war.


50 posted on 04/16/2013 7:24:41 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: bray
PRAYER FOR OUR COUNTRY
 
O my Jesus, You said, "verily I say to you, whatsoever you shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it to you."  Behold, in your name I humbly ask our Heavenly Father to protect every man, woman, and child in our great nation from those who want to delete your name from our society, i.e. on our money, in our courts, and in our schools.  Protect us from plans of destruction from which our enemies have plotted. 
 
You, Heavenly Father, are the real foundation of our nation.  I thank you for making me a citizen of this land of freedom and unlimited opportunity...which are the results of its Christian base. 
 
Please surround and protect us, and our military with Your love and mercy...in Jesus' name. 
Amen

51 posted on 04/16/2013 7:27:56 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Monorprise

There were many failures of Bush and Congress after 9/11, but DHS was definitely one of the biggest. They are a massive agency with an ill-defined mission and the money spent on bloating them far beyond the size of the original agencies (border patrol might be the exception) into DHS would have been better saved or spent on existing agencies.


52 posted on 04/16/2013 8:26:43 PM PDT by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: volunbeer

Maybe congress should reallocate most of their budget to immigration and naturalization and order them to close down other programs.


53 posted on 04/16/2013 9:53:07 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Sirius Lee

There is a picture of a piece of the pressure cooker.

Picture 3/6
The words “GAS ELECTRIC” on the outside circle
The words “NOX” on the inside circle

Picture 4/6
We can see the UL Listed mark.
We can see the pressure rating in part
“0.55/1.05 bar”
“?S 1.6 bar”

Picture 1/6
Being held by a hand.
The piece is approximately 4-5 hand widths (side facing about 3”) in diameter. So that makes it say 12-15” diameter pressure cooker.

With the actual parts in hand, they should have placed the specific make and model of the pressure cooker by now.

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/21996004/exclusive-photos-boston-marathon-bomb


54 posted on 04/16/2013 10:03:54 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

The UL standard for pressure cookers is UL 136. Here

http://bbs.dianyuan.com/bbs/u/32/1123122124.pdf


55 posted on 04/16/2013 10:14:30 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: 353FMG

RE> Even in the US, ballbearings are not easy to come by unless you visit a dump and go looking for them.

Do a Amazon search for ‘magnetix toys’. A few sets of these and you’ve got scores of fairly large ball bearings.

The bearings I saw photos of with regard to this event looked more like BBs.


56 posted on 04/16/2013 10:18:00 PM PDT by ri4dc (Cut your cable. You'll need the extra dough later on. 'This war is lost!' The worst is yet to come.)
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To: ri4dc

Couldn’t they just buy some shotgun shells and use those pellets? Available in most any gage.


57 posted on 04/16/2013 10:23:35 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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I recall reports of unexploded bombs including one located at a Church. Current news, however, is only mentioning the two that detonated. Only two in total?


58 posted on 04/16/2013 11:54:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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Found this from yesterday's news:

"Law enforcement in the city said that they found what they believed were five additional, undetonated explosive devices around the Boston area."

Boston Marathon bomber planted SEVEN devices but only two went off: One ´suspect´ held, hunt

59 posted on 04/16/2013 11:57:53 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: jonascord

“From the amount and color of the smoke, and the orange flash, I’d wager strongly that the explosive was old-fashioned black powder, the nitrate, sulfur, charcoal mixture you can buy in up to 50 lb kegs from any good reloading store.

“You don’t need a blasting cap to detonate the stuff, a spark will do, and it has a faster burn rate than normal smokeless pistol and rifle powders. It deteriorates fairly quickly, (Short self life), and it’s highly hygroscopic.

I’m guessing a simple electrical timer wired to nichrome wire as an initiator.”

And attached to every pound of BP is a long paper trail (with the buyers name on it). Which makes me wonder if it was something else.

The paper trail is required and one of the dealers in Houston lost his FFL because he was missing the paperwork on a small amount of BP.

I am sure they know what the explosive was by now and if it was BP every dealer in the area is being audited.

Although the bp lights off faster than modern powder it is nowhwere near as fast as modern powder. Much of burns as it is pushed out the end of the barrel.


60 posted on 04/17/2013 6:42:00 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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