I guess utm doesn't realize that the alarm clock feature of a cell phone can be used to trigger a bomb at a certain time, such as when the mass of the 5K runners would be passing by the selected location (just know the distance, the start time, and the minutes-per-mile of a mid-pack runner - the race start was delayed by numerous race morning registrations). Maybe utm should be called undertheinfluence
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That would be an exceptionally complicated, expensive, and traceable way to make a time bomb versus just using a ten-dollar AA-powered travel clock. The puzzling thing is how weak the bombs were, as if they were more to cause consternation with some indifference to harming people, rather than to kill and injure the maximum number of people and thereby inflict terror, honestly more like the work of some malcontent jackwad dumbass maladjusted high-school student than anyone seriously trying to further jihad.
It's not impossible for jihadis to also be malcontent jackwad maladjusted incompetents, of course, it's just that they really have to have failed to even read through any of the damn' directions ISIS tries to put out on the net in order to get them to not just FUBAR the jihad when they go for it.
Do you remember a certain Senator Biden's immediate reaction to the Oklahoma City bombing, in those pre-ISIS days of yore? He immediately blamed Muslim terrorists, but being a Democrat, nobody gave him the merciless mockery he deserved when it became evident that Islam was not a serious factor in the tragedy. Strangely, all memory of it seemed to have been purged by the time he was Obama's running mate, and now it is as if it had never happened, but I heard it out of his own lips on television at the time, he being a regional big-shot and me living in the mid-Atlantic as I did at the time. It's fine to call it terrorism, I can agree with that little f@ck-weasel Cuomo on that, but if any Republican says 'Muslim' before the LEOs come out with it as a fact, the press will be unforgiving, unforgetting, and relentless in their scorn.