I would have strapped a bomb on myself and blown him up, and myself too".
If they opened the border I would go and bomb them myself," said 48-year-old Bediar Gulkus, standing within sight of the town where she believed her son and daughter were battling Isis.
"I know what happened to me that Saturday morning in western New York is that I met a bigger victim of the Oklahoma City bombing than myself," says Welch. "Julie would be 43 years old if she were living today.
"Their only fault was that they didn't – and this would have been elementary, I was trained in bomb-planting myself and planted a few in my time – in advance check that they had working phone boxes [to send warnings] in case of difficulty".
For myself, I bomb through the world now with my usual spaniel-like intensity, but with more awareness and sensitivity, and still more, I hope, to come.
"I was saying to myself, 'who would bomb the Clutha', then I thought 'hold on a minute, I'm alive, I better get out of here'".
Maybe wiring myself to a bomb would make more sense.
I braced myself for his dirty bomb.
"Everybody was screaming," said Ms. Hincapie, 41. "I said to myself, 'Oh God, a bomb?"' Mike Pignataro was in the same car.
Of course, when you have reports of female journalists (including myself) receiving rape and bomb threats, it's hard to deny there's a problem.
