For TV, BBC is your best bet in breaking news if you want slow but reliable. Sky if you like a bit of speculation. The Guardian does live rolling news blogs well.
Knock it off. No religious (or political) jabs in this thread.
Well the British authorities said it was possibly a suicide bomber. Is discussing that out-of-bounds too?
Fuck off asswipe!!! You’re part of the problem.
Keep letting these Muslim cunts into the west, and sooner or later we wont have a country left anymore
Esco, probably not the right tone to take with someone with the title “Moderator”. YMMV.
I don’t care, let him ban me
Well, you got yourself a warning. Now you can stay out of this thread or your posting privileges will be under discussion.
Don’t post in this thread again.
IvoryTowerDenizen must be from the SDMB Nation. Proficient in member-bending.
I suspect you are capable of telling the difference between an on-topic discussion of an ongoing investigation and political/religious jabs.
If you can’t, avoid posting in this thread.
FFS. It should be obvious who I am talking to. The last major terrorist explosion in Manchester was the IRA. Nails and other shrapnel were used by a far right fanatical bomber in various London locations. Terrorism is a problem across ethnic and political lines. So stop trying to make capital from people’s deaths.
They may have found a undetonated explosive.
nevermind
Who are you replying to- just curious.
I’m curious too. Not sure what point you’re trying to make here.
The poster Esco who is assuming this is a Muslim attack and is directing anger toward all Muslims. I initially thought more than one poster was taking this line.
They’ll be treating every discarded crisp packet in the area as a suspected IED, for a while.
I’m disinclined to reiterate my personal speculation on the likely motive behind the bombing, but since I’m probably the closest thing in this thread to the additional poster(s) you mentioned, I’ll clarify that I’m absolutely not angry towards “all Muslims”. Whoever decided to bomb a concert full of young people (regardless of what their religion was / wasn’t) is a grade-A shitbag. (s)he is the one I primarily feel anger towards.
Let’s just wait to see what the investigation comes to. Between the IRA and nutjobs like Tim McVeigh and the Unibomber, there are many possibilities as to who is behind this. They’ll figure it out soon enough, until then let’s just hope the medical professionals can keep any more from dying.
Yeah, easy to see how this might happen: 20,000 people flee a concert, dropping whatever bags / packages they might be holding along the way. Authorities arrive on scene and see discarded bag lying on ground, get jumpy because of possibility of multiple explosives, decide it’s better to blow the bag up rather than risk it.
ETA: apparently it was abandoned clothing
Agreed.