Bombing Suspects Lauded Jihad
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April 19, 2013
April 19, 2013
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While police in and around Boston hunt for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers,
information gathered from various social media outlets indicate that he
and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, harbored radical
Islamic beliefs.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed
overnight as police closed in on him and the hunt for Dzhokhar remains
active. An MIT security officer was shot and killed in the firefight.
This
is believed to be Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Youtube page. Several of the
posts feature radical Islamic rhetoric. In addition, a graphic video
about Syria appears on Tsarnaev's page on a Russian version of Facebook.
The brothers came to the United States from Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim state which declared independence from Russia in 1991, resulting in years of violence and terrorist strikes. Another video Tsarnaev posted was simply called "Terrorists." But that video has been taken down. Yet another that was posted last summer, lauds "The promised emergence of the black flags from the promised land of Khorasan." It celebrates jihadis posing
"with a flag of the Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the Long
War Journal reported. The video has an apocalyptic message anticipating
a time when the forces of Islam, led by the Mahdi, the Guided One, will
conquer the world prior to the Day of Judgment. Part of this battle
will be the conquest of the Holy Land.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a boxer who told an interviewer in 2009 that he had no American friends. "I don't understand them," he said. An Amazon.com wish list believed to be Tamerlan's includes several books on forgery and the books The Lone Wolf And the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule and Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya, New Edition.
Eric Mercado, a former high
school classmate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told CNN that he and his friends
remember a conversation in which Tsarnaev said, "When justified,
terrorism isn't necessarily a bad thing." The comment was dismissed as
outlandish. "No one wants to believe that their friend from high school
is a quote-unquote 'terrorist,'" Mercado said.
The bombs, reportedly packed
inside pressure cookers, bear striking resemblances to instructions
offered by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire
magazine. One article suggested that pressure cooker bombs should be
"placed in crowded areas and left to blow up. More than one of these
could be planted to explode at the same time. However, keep in mind that
the range of the shrapnel in this operation is short range so the
pressurized cooker or pipe should be placed close to the intended
targets and should not be concealed from them by barriers such as
walls."
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