Twelve dead, 50 injured at the Boston Marathon in two explosions near the finish line.
Update: Injury count is up to 64.
Update: Three dead, 133 injured.
The New York Post says Boston Police have video surveillance of a suspect bringing multiple backpacks to the marathon. And they have a suspect who is a Saudi national.
The JFK Library was also bombed. This makes no sense, but when did terrorism ever make sense.
If it turns out the bomber is this Saudi suspect? Awesome job, Obama administration, for making it easier for Saudis to get into America.
Obama recently struck a deal to fast-track more Saudi students for U.S. entry during a White House meeting with the Saudi interior minister, who has lobbied for more visas.
Shockingly, the president agreed to accept Saudi applicants into the Global Entry trusted traveler program, which means he trusts Saudis more than Germans or French — who aren’t included in the program.
Saudi visitors now go to the front of the line and skip normal Homeland Security inspections. Even crazier, our agents will share pre-screening duties with the Saudis.
I’ll suspend judgment until I hear for a fact that the Boston police have a suspect, and he is a Saudi. Meanwhile, the Boston Globe is liveblogging.
Fifteen out of nineteen were from the Wahhabist Entity. Our political and chattering classes are insane and malevolent towards ordinary Americans.
It’s not clear whether the fire at the JFK Library is related but otherwise it looks like a planned terrorist attack, not a “lone nut”.
This may seem tangential now, but I wonder: do the fast-tracked Saudi students allowed into the U.S. include women? I ask this because I once read that Saudi Arabia stopped allowing women students to study abroad in the early 1980s.
Heh, Rahel. That’s a fascinating question. Allowing more foreign students is applauded by some as a way of spreading American influence benevolently. But what if that generosity is applied in a way that reinforces the illiberalism of the foreign country?