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Originally Posted by Amnorix
I was thinking about this a bit, and the thing about a marathon is that it's a REALLY easy target compared to most. 26 miles of open space to "defend". So many points of access you can't even count them all. Lots of people coming, leaving, milling around. Hotels right next to the race lines. It's a security nightmare.
Compare to a stadium -- limited points of entry, easy to conduct bag checks, etc. Just alot easier to control that environment.
The next potential target people are talking about is July 4th. If you've seen it on A&E, it's HUGE here. There's anywhere from 500,000 to a million people packed onto the Esplanade (along the Charles River) like sheep.
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You know how it's done and done easily?
That big !@#$ing trashcan at the turnstiles where you throw your cans before you go in the gates. People throw bottles of God knows what in there then they stand in line for 20 minutes while people slowly creep into the stadium. The things are right at the front of the line where there's the densest pack of people. They're full of glass bottles, etc... that will create plenty of shrapnel.
You can fit a hell of a pipe bomb in a brown bottle that looks like a handle of something. If you're coordinate enough, you put guys at every gate and a bomb with a 3 minute delay on it. You toss it when you get scanned, you go inside, head up the causeway and watch the world burn.
It wouldn't be easy to get anything inside the stadium, but you could absolutely kill/injure hundreds if not thousands by putting bottle bombs in the trash cans at the turnstiles.