Posted on 04/20/2013 9:53:41 AM PDT by Steelfish
Bomb Investigation Pivots to a New Mystery: Motive
By JOHN SCHWARTZ April 20, 2013
With one suspect dead and the other captured and lying grievously wounded in a hospital, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned on Saturday to questions about the men’s motives, and to the significance of a trip by one of the bombers took to Chechnya.
Law enforcement officials are now conducting a review of that trip to see if Mr. Tsarnaev might have met with extremists or received training from them while abroad, current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials said.
Kevin R. Brock, a former senior F.B.I. and counterterrorism official, said, “It’s a key thread for investigators and the intelligence community to pull on.”
The investigators began scrutinizing the events in the months and years before the fatal attack, as Boston began to feel like itself for the first time in nearly a week. Monday had brought the bombing, near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, which killed three and wounded scores, and the tense days that followed culminated in Friday’s lockdown of the entire region as police searched for Mr. Tsarnaev’s younger brother from suburban backyards to an Amtrak train bound for New York City.
On Saturday morning, federal prosecutors were drafting a criminal complaint against Mr. Tsarnaev’s brother and suspected accomplice in the bombings, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, who was wounded in the leg and neck and had lost a great deal of blood when he was captured Friday evening. The F.B.I. and local law enforcement agencies continued to gather evidence and investigate the bombings, the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Thursday night and the subsequent battle with the police that left another officer critically wounded.
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Has anyone sent the Koran to the reporter?
The MSM avidly avoided the “Muslim” word until Friday evening
Why? Yeah, that’s a real conundrum.
Heheh. Mystery?
I just wonder what in the world could have motivated these nice young men?
There’s a movie floating around on HBO called “Clean Skin.” I didn’t know what if was about but watched it because of the star, Sean Bean.
Turned out to be only so-so, but it did show in detail the kind of BS that is used to radicalize young Muslim men.
Won’t go down of my ‘best of’ list but it is worth the watch.
If a Christian shot up a bunch of Muslim parade-goers There are no Muslim runners) in Pakistan, it would have unleashed a worldwide campaign of savage riots.
This looks like a pay day for doing the bombing. These guys were for hire. Money is all that mattered to them. Find out who paid them. They must have gotten an advance.
Where have these dumbass newspeople been for the last 50 years?
I think that they are not teaching about Moslem terrorism in the high schools at all.
It’s only a mystery for the stupid, the dishonest and the corrupt.
It would be nice to know if they had been planning this for months, weeks, or days. It would be nice to know if they had a handler that “activated” them, and, if so, for what specific reason or if they just took it upon themselves to act. It would be nice to know if they are part of a larger organization with more inactive assets inside the country. it would be nice to know if they are just a couple of dumb sick shiites that wanted to kill people.
like islimest terrorism isn't enough...
We've already seen you touching on the inane America is to blame for this mantra. I refuse to listen to it or respond in most cases. I'll treat it like radio static or bad weather. I'll let you in a little secret. The sheeple who normally buy your BS are also tired of it. Get them thinking too much and they'll decide that they don't need you. Is it your intent for your leftist spew to only be read by other members of the MSM?
Jihad maybe? Kill all infidels maybe? Sharia for all maybe?
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