Boston Bombing Report

The Oklahoma City Bombing is a well known terrorist attack that caused not only physical challenges to the United States, but also a large amount of grief and suffering of loved ones who had passed during the bombing. Many factors led to the Oklahoma City Bombing and the United States faced many challenges after it happened.

The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon hosted by several cities in Greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts. It is always held on Patriot’s Day, the third Monday in April. Begun in 1897, the Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest annual marathons and ranks as the world’s best-known road-racing events (“Boston Bombing,” n.d.). But on April 15, 2013, the marathon made history for something else. At approximately 2:49 EST, two pressure cooker bombs struck near the finish line of the marathon, leaving three dead and one hundred and forty one injured. Among the injured, twelve were reported in critical condition. The victims, who were treated in eight different hospitals, were as young as two (Lev, 2013).

McVeigh and Nichols saw an opportunity to destroy a building full of innocent people, because of their extremist mindset. They decided tp destroy a building full of innocent people who work because of their extremist ways. Something that was seemingly odd was that McVeigh was a Persian Gulf war veteran and Nichols was his military friend. A third man whose name was Michael Fortier also had information regarding the detonation of the bomb at the building, Fortier later plead guilty for harboring information of the explosion.

April 19, 1995, a date that will not be forgotten by the citizens of Oklahoma City. The day that a bombing took place at the Murrah building, killing over 168 people. The main culprit, a man that has a bone to pick with the government. With the assistance of a few of his friends, strike the biggest terrorist attack in the United States before 9-11 took place. Fortunately the major culprits were apprehended and arrested. However, the mastermind was sentenced to death. His name would never be forgotten and he succeeded in leaving a mark on the nation's history. Timothy McVeigh, the cruel crook who desired nothing less than the downfall of the government. The punishment McVeigh received was right in the name of justice.

On April 15, 2013 during the Boston Marathon in Copley Square, two bombs exploded near the finish line killing at least three and injuring over 170 people. This bombing sent the nation in an uproar and it was immediately recognized as a terrorist attack. When the Federal Bureau of Investigation took over, a few days later a surveillance video and photographs of the two suspects were released.

April 15, 2013 hundreds of innocent Americans were traumatized forever. The 117th annual Boston Marathon was hit with an act of terrorism. Two-hundred-sixty people lost their legs while three people lost their lives. On this day Americans realized how important security is. One thousand federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel sat down and watched surveillance footage for hours tracking the terrorist that caused the Boston Bombing to occur. April 18, 2013 the FBI released footage and images of suspects whose identity was once unknown to gain more knowledge. Due to security footage the men who committed the monstrous act were brought to justice. Without the public surveillance these terrorist would have never been found. (Boston Marathon Bombings.History.com Staff.History.com.2014.Boston Marathon Bombings.)

The article of my choosing that express American spirit is the Boston Marathon Bombings and how the city of Boston came together after a terrible terrorist act. Boston Stronger is written by David Ortiz Boston Red Sox Designated hitter.The Boston Red sox and David ortiz had a major part in helping the city come together as one.The Red sox won the world series in october six months after the bombing. David expressed that something like this should never happen especially on a day that represents sports so well. David had trouble understanding why the terrorists choose this event where people run for such good causes like raising money for cancer . Ortiz came was born in the Dominican republic and came here for baseball so he didn't know to much

The day was absolutely beautiful, sunny with decent temps which made for perfect running condition for the runners during the 117th Boston Marathon, and event held on Patriot’s day to commemorate the battle of Lexington and Concord that had started the Revolutionary War in 1775. 23,000 runners lined up at the starting line in the city of Hopkinton, the first wave of runners started at 9:32. At approximately 2:49 p.m. is when 2 bombs went off, at least 5,600 people still racing towards the finish line at the time of the explosion (History).

In Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, at 8:50 AM Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder truck on the street in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The truck had a very powerful bomb made out of ammonium nitrate and fuel. McVeigh set a timed fuse and in turn of events it was bombs away while he fled the scene in a getaway car.

The keys to that truck were found in the alley. In addition, testimony proclaimed that McVeigh was stopped 1 ½ hours after the bombing; explosive residue was found on ear plugs inside his vehicle; he had an envelope packed with newspaper clippings and papers with revolutionary writings; he wore a tee-shirt with the slogan: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."(Wilmsen & Simpson, 1997).

On April 19, 1995, a detrimental explosion targeting the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma took place. This incident of domestic terrorism and the mastermind behind the explosion was credited to Timothy McVeigh who used a truck-bomb to kill 168 people and injure countless others (History.com Staff, 2009).

The Police started to investigate the bombing, they quickly found the intended target it was clear that where the router was located, and there was the most amount of damage meaning that was the target. The first ghost file had been destroyed and erased from the Internet, there two to go. But with this 1st one down is enough to bring down many schools, banks and start causing thousandths of loss in money and business that depends in technology, as their internet speed becomes slow for now the whole city is operating in2 main servers. School and colleges started to lose their work, and their resources to access materials, while banks in the Boston area lost multiple transactions and the ones that were working took

The Boston Bombing occurred during the Boston Marathon in Massachusetts on April 15th, 2013 near the finish line of the marathon. There were two bombs that went off at the end of the race course. The explosion from the combined force of the pressure cooker bombs killed 3 civilians and injured at least 240 more. There was an immediate response from available agencies in the area which will be explained and analyzed later. First however, the planning for an event such as this bombing took place almost four months beforehand in January. A multi-disciplinary committee meets before the Marathon every year and it includes agents from state and local police, fire, EMS, public health, Massachusetts National Guard (MNG), and Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) (MEMA, 2014). The committee’s sole purpose is to “review, update, and modify each jurisdiction’s Marathon Day operational plan” (MEMA, 35, 2014). They conduct exercises to ensure that their plan is operational and that all the agencies know their role in response. In theory, this review and exercise would prepare all the responding agencies for the event of any emergency.

Farook and Malik along with another accomplice walked in wearing all black tactical gear and were yielding machine guns. Both the handguns recovered from the scene were purchased by Farook legally three or four years before, the two rifles were purchased by a possible former roommate three or four years before however, they believe he had nothing to do with the incident. Investigators also found in the conference room of Inland Regional three explosive devices packed with black powder and rigged to remote control cars. The couple planned to use the remote control cars to detonate the explosives from a distance however didn’t work and the remotes were found in the SUV they were driving. The latest question they are trying to answer is how he got the money to get all the supplies. They discovered a loan provider from WebBank weeks before the attack which he gave half to his mother and used the other on supplies. In response to this attack there has been a lot of pressure on Muslims to apologize for the event, however they have raised more than $100,000 to give to the families of the deceased to help for their funeral costs. Investigators are still investigating the case and more

During the iconic Boston Marathon two bombs went off. Thankfully about 3 quarters of the participants had already crossed. Public officials reported that 17 people were in critical condition, 140+ injured, and three dead including an 8-year-old boy. The two bombs were set fairly close to the finish line roughly 100 yards apart. According to the timers the bombs occurred 12 seconds apart.