Vituko Mitaani

In the face of twin bomb blasts in Boston, a restrained President Obama betrayed no emotion, and did not dwell on the details.
“The events in Boston,” he said, without describing the twin bomb blasts that ripped through crowds of spectators at the end of the city’s annual marathon Monday. “People have been wounded,” he said, without mentioning the two deaths already confirmed. He declined to use the word terrorism even though his aides quickly offered this statement to the press: “Any event with multiple explosive devices — as this appears to be — is clearly an act of terror.”
Instead Obama went before the cameras in the White House briefing room to perform a duty he had long known could be expected of him. For five years, the possibility of an explosion on U.S. soil killing innocent Americans has always shadowed the President. At least twice before it nearly took place: in a botched 2009 attempt to blow up an airplane with an underwear-sewn explosive over Detroit and an attempt in 2010 to set off a car bomb in a Nissan Pathfinder parked near New York City’s Times Square.