Bombs or bullshit

Muse

A bomb went off today at Pettah. According to the news reports, it was near the railway station. But something about this doesn't ring true to me.

I was in the Nugegoda bomb in November 2007. The Center, where I live and work, was less than 50 meters away. On that day, 16 people died. and over twenty were injured.

Today, the reports say that 43 were injured, But none were killed, and there were no serious injuries.

This begs the question. How did a bomb injure that many and not kill or seriously wound anyone?

The laws of physics say its impossible. Any force loses power based on the square of the distance traveled. Were 46 people crammed so tightly together that the blast managed to injure them all? But yet, none seriously?

The only way for such a thing to happen would be if the explosives were suspended in the air above them. Otherwise, the force of the blast would be absorbed by the items (bodies, bags, columns etc.) nearest the blast, shielding the others. A prime example was the Dehiwala train bomb in (I believe) 1996. There was a big blast, at rush hour, and many died, but not as many as we expected. The tightly packed bodies managed to confine the bomb blast and the shrapnel.

So what the hell is going on?

Option one is, it was a plant. And the government is very good at plantings and False Flag Operations. And we have seen them. The supposed claymore bomb in Borella in 2006, the two phone booths that exploded in Colombo in the beginning of 2008, causing damage to the phone booths but not to anyone else. All those things were used to justify the heightened security, the patdowns, the restrictions on people, and the curtailing of more and more of our freedoms. It was also used to justify the skyrocketing cost of living. So you set up a bomb, then have your stooges run into the hospital claiming injuries.

Option two: the people in Pettah are shamming. Flocking to the hospitals with even a minor injury, hoping that they'll get some kind of payment.

Option three: everyone was so lucky that the bomb went off selectively causing minor injuries only.

Personally I find option three to be highly improbable.

So what can anyone do. Before I started blogging I contacted my friends. Due to the way of my life, I have friends in the newspapers. So I spoke to them. One said to me, I'm too junior to write what you said, besides, in the white van era, no-one does investigative journalism.

The other, in a more important position said, it was a plant, but I don't want to talk about it on the phone. I'll talk to you later.

So it looks like no one is going to follow up on this. Nobody wants to see how bad the injuries are, or if they're consistent with a bomb-blast. Yet another story that gets swept under the rug.

So I blog. I blog what I can see, and knowing what I know. I can make connections others can't, or won't, and am suicidal enough not to care about what the government may do to me.

So let's look at the facts shall we? A bomb goes off, in what is one of the busiest areas in Colombo. Forty-five people in the surrounding area are injured. None of them seriously, and no-one is killed.

Does that smell fishy to you?