Latest Info on Boston Bombings

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ONLY TWO BOMBS:  Dispelling earlier reports of as many as seven devices being found around Boston, Gene Marquez, assistant special agent in charge for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said authorities had determined that the only bombs deployed in the attack were the two that detonated shortly before 3 p.m. EDT on Monday. Any unexploded device might have provided a clearer picture of what materials were used and how the bomb was assembled, furnishing leads in the case.

NO SUSPECTS:  Late on Monday, police searched a Boston area apartment of a Saudi Arabian student who was injured in the blast, law enforcement sources said. But they said evidence showed that the student was expected to be cleared of suspicion and that he was unlikely to shed any light on the attack.

TYPE OF EXPLOSIVES:  A pressure cooker stuffed with gunpowder and shrapnel caused at least one of the blasts at the Boston Marathon.  Trauma surgeons said at press briefings the majority of victims suffered lower-body injuries, and several had a range of metallic shrapnel material removed during surgery, including pellets and what appeared to be carpenter nails.

TYPE OF INJURY:  “The vast majority of the injuries were to lower extremities, including some victims who had parts of their legs blown off,” said Dr. Tracey Dechert, a trauma surgeon at Boston Medical Center, which treated 23 people and performed amputations on five of them.

HUMAN TOLL:  Blasts killed three people and injured 176 others.

I just found this on the internet – Instructions how to make bombs out of pressure cookers similar to those believed the source of two explosions in Boston on Monday.  The article was published two years ago in Inspire, an online magazine tied to al-Qaeda and the late U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

The article, complete with detailed pictures shows a step by step process how to make a high explosive pipe bomb or a larger bomb using a pressure cooker, nails glued to the inside, filled with a mixture of ground up match heads and sugar or gunpowder.  The detonator was a 9V light bulb filament wired to a batter operated timing device.  Low cost, highly explosive, easy to construct and conceal.

Would-be bombers, the article said, should use gloves to prevent their fingerprints from being found on the bomb fragments and to “put you [sic] faith in Allah and pray for the success of your operation.”

Awlaki, the magazine’s founder, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.