Explosion In New York, 29 Injured In Manhattan Explosion

[kui]

Mlipuko umetokea jijini New York nchini Marekani na kuacha watu 29 wamejeruhiwa na hamna taarifa za vifo.

Jeshi la Polisi limethibitisha mlipuko huo ulikuwa ni wa makusudi na ulipangwa na watu.

Vyombo vya Ulinzi vinaendelea na uchunguzi ili kuwatia nguvuni wahusika.

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An explosion that injured at least 29 people rocked New York's Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night but there was no specific terrorist threat, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

"There is no specific and credible threat to New York City from any terror organization," de Blasio said at a news conference late Saturday night.

However early indications were that the attack was intentional, de Blasio said.

"We believe at this point in time this was an intentional act. I want to assure all New Yorkers that the NYPD and ... agencies are at full alert," he said.

There was no sign that the explosion was caused by a natural gas explosion, New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill said at the press conference.

Based on what is currently known, there was also no connection to the incident earlier Saturday in Seaside Heights, N.J., where a pipe bomb exploded near a Marine charity run, de Blasio said. In that instance the device was placed in a garbage can. No injuries were reported.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said the Chelsea explosion was not in a dumpster but next to one in the street.

NYPD spokesman Peter Donald said authorities were also investigating whether a second device had been found near site of earlier explosion. Police asked residents to avoid the area around 27th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

Blast at 8:30 pm

The explosion came just after 8:30 p.m. ET at 133 W. 23rd St., between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, the New York City Fire Department said.

The cause of the explosion has not been determined. "The investigation is active and at this time an extensive search is being conducted,” New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill said at the press conference.

"The area around the explosion site is being treated as a crime scene," O'Neill said.

Several injured were transported to area hospitals, assistant commissioner for communication with the New York City Police Department J. Peter Donald tweeted.

Source: USA TODAY

 

[BAK]

Hmmmm! scary....thanks for sharing kui. This is the second bomb today, there was another one early today in New Jersey with no injuries.

 

[kui]

Hmmmm! scary....thanks for sharing kui. This the second bomb, there was another one early today in New Jersey with no injuries.

Yea I just heard about the New Jersey explosion too and they're right next to each other, it is scary!

'Some social media users said the sound of the explosion was heard as far away as Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from Chelsea.'

 

[BAK]

Mie nahisi ni huu uchaguzi kuanza kutisha wapiga kura, I may be wrong.

Yea I just heard about the New Jersey explosion too and they're right next to each other, it is scary!

'Some social media users said the sound of the explosion was heard as far away as Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from Chelsea.'

 

[kui]

Mie nahisi ni huu uchaguzi kuanza kutisha wapiga kura, I may be wrong.

Halafu wanasema hizi explosions zinawezekana pia kuwa zime copy, au kazi ya mtu mmoja. Many possibilities.

 

[kui]

Mie nahisi ni huu uchaguzi kuanza kutisha wapiga kura, I may be wrong.

Inatisha, Ukizingatia 9 11 anniversary ilikuwa juzi.

Naona NYPD wana deploy counterterrorism unit, for precaution.

 

[BAK]

Kweli kabisa I hope they catch this crook(s) before it is too late.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/17/polit...ald-trump-new-york-city-explosion1045PMVODtop

Inatisha, Ukizingatia 9 11 anniversary ilikuwa juzi.

Naona NYPD wana deploy counterterrorism unit, for precaution.

 

[kui]

Kweli kabisa I hope they catch this crook(s) before it is too late.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/17/polit...ald-trump-new-york-city-explosion1045PMVODtop

BAK huyu bwana mkubwa T anasema Bomb?, wakati Police hawajatoa official statement kama ni bomb au siyo, si anatisha watu sasa!

 

[jogi]

Trump policy za kudhibiti ugaidi sasa zitakuwa na mashiko na zitamuongezea kura.

 

[Bagamoyo]

Eight facts about terrorism in the United States
By Brad Plumer
Wonkblog
April 16, 2013
The FBI says that there "is no single, universally accepted, definition of terrorism," but the U.S. federal code defines it as “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.” We still don't even know if the Boston blasts qualify — or if they were the work of a person with no goals except death.

One thing we can do, however, is provide some very general context about the history of terrorist attacks in the United States. A helpful set of basic facts and figures can be found in this big December report by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Here are some key findings:

1) Terrorist attacks and attempted attacks in the United States have become less frequent since the 1970s — though September 11 was a huge exception:




There have been 2,608 total attacks and 226 fatal attacks in the United States between 1970 and 2011.

Two big caveats about this chart. First, it only shows the frequency of terrorist attacks and attempted attacks, not severity. The attacks on September 11 in New York City, Arlington, and Pennsylvania are counted as just four events, even though there were far more fatalities than all the rest combined. So keep that in mind.

The report also takes a very comprehensive view of terrorism. It includes September 11 and the Oklahoma City bombing. But it also includes the murder of abortion-clinic doctors. And the guard shot at the Holocaust Museum in 2009. And all the instances of the Earth Liberation Front setting fire to SUV dealerships or police stations. It also includes serious but unsuccessful attempts — like the May 2010 attempted vehicle bombing in Times Square.

If we just look at the decade between 2001 and 2011, we still see that the number of terrorist attacks has declined since September 11, although the number of fatal attacks has ticked up of late. (That includes a [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting']fatal shooting at a Knoxville church in 2008, the assassination of abortion provider George Tiller in 2009, the shooting at Fort Hood that killed 13 people and injured 30 in 2009, and so on.)




2) Law enforcement officials appear to be getting better at thwarting terrorist attacks — but they can't stop all of them:

[URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/04/unsuccessful-attacks.png']


Sometimes sheer luck plays a role, too: "The highest proportion of unsuccessful attacks occurred in 2011, when four out of nine recorded attacks were unsuccessful," the report says. "In three of these attacks bombs failed to detonate before they were discovered, and in the fourth unsuccessful attack, shots were fired at the White House by an individual who has since been charged with attempting to assassinate President Obama."

3) Just about every part of the United States has been hit by some form of terrorist attack since 1970:

[URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/04/terrorist-map.png']


Keep in mind, though, that this includes all attacks, lethal and non-lethal. Here's a breakdown of the states that have seen the most attacks and fatalities:

[URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/04/fatalities.png']


Notice that New York and Virginia dominate the list of fatalities — again, that's because of the September 11 attacks. (Pennsylvania is also up there, because of [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93']Flight 93.) After that is Oklahoma, mainly because 168 people died in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Puerto Rico, which is counted here, ranks third in number of attacks in large part because of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, a paramilitary separatist group that was responsible for more than 120 bombings in the 1970s and 1980s.

Florida ranks high on the list in number of attacks because of the Earth Liberation Front, which has been particularly active in the past decade. But there haven't been many fatalities from these attacks. It's worth noting that the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front have been two of the most active groups since 1970, with 161 attacks total (and 84 since 2001). But they've killed zero people over the years — they mainly focus on setting fire to facilities, like SUV dealerships.

4) Since the Oklahoma City bombing, a greater portion of terrorist attacks have been carried out by individuals:




5) The types of organized groups that carry out terrorist attacks, meanwhile, have become extremely diverse:

[URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/04/groups.png']


Al-Qaeda dominates this list, and the two eco-terrorism groups have been particularly active (though they both [URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-eco-terrorism-wanes-governments-still-target-activist-groups-seen-as-threat/2012/02/28/gIQAA4Ay3R_story.html']seem to be declining). But aside from that, terrorist groups seem to come in all types

"These organizations are quite diverse," the report notes. "The [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] attack was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s Detroit suicide bomb attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. The TTP attack was Faisal Shazhad’s attempt to detonate a bomb in Times Square. Members of the Minutemen American Defense, an anti-immigration militia group targeted a Mexican-American family. The KKK assaulted someone, and the Justice Department sent razor blades in envelopes to those conducting experiments on animals." (Note that the "Justice Department" referred to here is an animal-rights group, not the federal agency.)

6) Bombings have long been the tactic of choice for terrorists in the United States:




Bombings have dropped in popularity over the last decade — accounting for just 27 percent of the attacks since 2001. (Again, though, this reflects the fact that eco-terrorists have dominated the raw numbers in the 2000s.) And, notably, guns have never figured heavily in U.S. terrorist attacks.

7) North America suffers [URL='http://www.start.umd.edu/datarivers/vis/GtdExplorer.swf']far, far fewer terrorist attacks than most other regions around the world:




That tiny blue sliver on the bottom represents North America. Even Western Europe (in red) gets hit by terrorism more frequently. And the vast majority of attacks worldwide take place in South Asia (green) and the Middle East and North Africa (pink).

8) Your odds of dying in a terrorist attack are still far, far lower than dying from just about anything else.

[URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/04/chance-of-death.png']

In the last five years, the odds of an American being killed in a terrorist attack have been about [URL='http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should']1 in 20 million (that's including both domestic attacks and overseas attacks). As the chart above from the Economist shows, that's considerably smaller than the risk of dying from many other things, from post-surgery complications to ordinary gun violence to lightning.

That said, terrorist attacks obviously loom much larger in our collective consciousness — not least because they're designed to horrify. So, understandably, they get much more attention.

Further reading:

--The Global Terrorism Database is a useful searchable site that lets you search and track terrorism attacks around the world since 1970.
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[kui]

Trump policy za kudhibiti ugaidi sasa zitakuwa na mashiko na zitamuongezea kura.

Cc BAK

No wonder anaanza kuongelea mambo ya mabomu, watu wanapata wasiwasi.

Na mayor anasema they believe it was an intentional attack.

 

[BAK]

Nilikuwa naspeculate niliposema kwamba hili bomu linaweza kuhusiana na huu uchaguzi ujao. Inawezekana kabisa nimehit the jackpot. Ngoja tusubiri kusikia zaidi lakini abanwe zaidi huyu alijuaje kama ni bomu wakati wahusika (police) walikuwa hawajatoa uthibitisho.

BAK huyu bwana mkubwa anasema Bomb?, wakati Police hawajatoa official statement kama ni bomb au siyo, si anatisha watu sasa!

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Mie nahisi ni huu uchaguzi kuanza kutisha wapiga kura, I may be wrong.

Ahahahaaa duuuh wewe kweli homa ya Trump inakusumbua!

Kwa hiyo unahisi ni watu wa Trump hao au?

 

[jogi]

Mwenzenu kashuhudia kwa macho na mwili mzima, definition ya mlipuko ule kwa kiraia ni BOMU, hakuna msamiati mwingine.
Polisi wakichunguza wakaja na jina lingine huo ndio utakuwa ukweli kitaalam.
Ni kwetu tu wananchi hatutakiwi kunyanyua mdomo kuishuhudia jamii ulichokiona, sisi tunatakiwa kuamini tunachoambiwa.
Aseme jecha, aseme Lubuva, wakisema kina seif wanaulizwa "mmepata waaapi?" as if hivyo vitu havipatikani!!!!!

Nilikuwa naspeculate niliposema kwamba hili bomu linaweza kuhusiana na huu uchaguzi ujao. Inawezekana kabisa nimehitbthe jackpot. Ngoja tusubiri kusikia zaidi lakini abanwe zaidi huyu alijuaje kama ni bomu wakati wahusika (police) walikuwa hawajatoa uthibitisho.

 

[kui]

Nilikuwa naspeculate niliposema kwamba hili bomu linaweza kuhusiana na huu uchaguzi ujao. Inawezekana kabisa nimehit the jackpot. Ngoja tusubiri kusikia zaidi lakini abanwe zaidi huyu alijuaje kama ni bomu wakati wahusika (police) walikuwa hawajatoa uthibitisho.

Haha, umehit jackpot!

Huyu jamaa bwana, yaani presidential candidate unatamka maneno ya kutisha watu badala ya kusubiri confirmation toka kwa wahusika.

Halafu wame pata explore able device nyingine on another street.

 

[BAK]

Hmmmmm! Hali inatisha na huyu/hawa jamaa wako desperate kufanya maafa makubwa haraka iwezekanavyo. Nadhani wakizipitia security cameras kwa makini watamkamata/watawakamata huyu/hawa mhuni/wahuni.

Haha, umehit jackpot!

Huyu jamaa bwana, yaani presidential candidate unatamka maneno ya kutisha watu badala ya kusubiri confirmation toka kwa wahusika.

Halafu wame pata explore able device nyingine on another street.

 

[BAK]

Just be extra careful Kui.

Trump Talks New York ‘Bomb,’ As 3rd Explosion In Charlottesville, Virginia, Reported In Downtown Mall

BAK huyu bwana mkubwa T anasema Bomb?, wakati Police hawajatoa official statement kama ni bomb au siyo, si anatisha watu sasa!

 

[kui]

Hmmmmm! Hali inatisha na huyu/hawa jamaa wako desperate kufanya maafa makubwa haraka iwezekanavyo. Nadhani wakizipitia security cameras kwa makini watamkamata/watawakamata huyu/hawa mhuni/wahuni.

Inaogopesha sana, halafu huyo mtu/watu wamefanya haya siku ya leo, weekend, ambapo watu wengi wako nje kwa matembezi, so watakuwa wamekusudia maafa makubwa.

And so far, number ya injuries Imeongezeka to 29.

 

[kui]

Just be extra careful Kui.

Trump Talks New York ‘Bomb,’ As 3rd Explosion In Charlottesville, Virginia, Reported In Downtown Mall

Oh my, nyingine?

What's going on?!

 

[leipzig]

Trump policy za kudhibiti ugaidi sasa zitakuwa na mashiko na zitamuongezea kura.

Naona Trump anahusika ili ajijengee mazingira ya ushindi.