BOSTON BOMBER – Chechen Djohar Tsarnaev’s Facebook Page
Federal authorities identified the Boston Marathon bombers this morning. The two bombers are brothers from Chechnya. Surviving Boston bomb suspect #2 is identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have been in the US for over a year. They reportedly have foreign training. FOX News says the brothers may be fro Turkey.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev won a scholarship to Cambridge.
Djohar Tsarnaev has a Facebook account. He updated his profile picture on March 19.
Update: This would be the first attack by Chechen Islamists in the global jihad.
MOSCOW (AP) — Militants from Chechnya and other restive regions in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus have targeted Moscow and other areas with bombings and hostage-takings, but the allegations of involvement in the Boston Marathon explosions would mark the first time they had conducted a terror attack in the West.
The conflict in Chechnya began in 1994 as a separatist war, but has quickly morphed into an Islamic insurgency whose adepts vow to carve out an independent Islamic state in the Caucasus.
Militants from Chechnya and neighboring provinces have launched a long series of terror attacks in Russia, including a 2002 hostage-taking raid in Moscow’s theater, in which 129 hostages died, a 2004 hostage-taking in a school in Beslan that killed more than 330 people, and numerous bombings in Moscow and other cities.
Update: In March, Chechen jihadists formed their own brigade of fighters in the Syrian civil war, they are fighting alongside al Nusra Front.
Update: Via The Blaze:
CNN reports the family fled Chechnya for Kazakhstan several years ago before ending up in Boston.
The older (deceased) brother was a college student at Bunker Community College, had aspired to become an engineer. He once posted on a social media account, “I don’t have any American friends, I don’t understand them.”
When Newtown happened, how many parents thought of Beslan?
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
I just don't think theses are the bombers. Not that they are not bad dudes, but I think they were set up after being ID'd, behaved as predicted and will take the fall. Case closed, govt a bunch of heroes. That's just my gut feeling.
Quote: Justme wrote in post #27I just don't think theses are the bombers. Not that they are not bad dudes, but I think they were set up after being ID'd, behaved as predicted and will take the fall. Case closed, govt a bunch of heroes. That's just my gut feeling.
POLICE SCANNER: Trigger found on body; At-large bomber 'may be wearing suicide vest'... COP: 'He is posting online -- I will kill all of you, as you killed my brother'...
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson