Posted on 04/22/2013 4:27:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's just “preliminary” evidence. Could be that Tamerlan, when he wasn't busy favoriting Chechen jihadist videos on YouTube, was building up an explosive hatred of marathons.
This AP story is actually newsy, not because of the conclusion officials have drawn but because of how they drew it:
Two U.S. officials say preliminary evidence from an interrogation suggests the suspects in the Boston Marathon attack were motivated by religion but were apparently not tied to any Islamic terrorist groups.
The two ethnic Chechen brothers practiced Islam.
The U.S. officials spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.
Whose interrogation? If they got it from a family member, that’s not news. More than one has already talked to reporters about Tamerlan becoming more religious over the last few years. If they got it from Dzhokhar, obviously that’s big news. Stay tuned.
The NYT has a transcript of today’s bedside magistrate hearing. I knew they’d given him the Miranda warnings but it turns out he got the deluxe version. On page 4, the magistrate warns him three times that he doesn’t have to talk to police. He has a lawyer now too, so let me clip this part in anticipation of the next round of moral peacocking about how they’re denying him access to counsel, etc:
Via Mediaite, here’s a possible lead from CNN. Tamerlan Tsarnaev posted a video last year of a Chechen jihadi who operated out of Dagestan, the same region that Tsarnaev visited in 2012. The Chechen was killed by Russian forces last year. Was the clip inspiration or something more?
Nobody’s going to believe it even if it’s true. Food for hungry conspiracy theorists. Bilderburgers wuz unvolved fer shore!
Everybody prefers to believe that Al Qaeda is a bureaucracy like the Social Security Administration and the IRS.
So maybe this little prince is Osama’s son?
In which case, of course, Michelle Obama needs to visit him in the hospital.
Well it backfired. MA residents are getting firearms. The rest of the country as well.
All the more reason to conclude that is exactly the most probable answer.
The current regime has a perfect record of jumping to the wrong conclusions, in all things regarding the cult of death.
I do not know but I do know that this turd is evil and obama and the wookie are evil so it could very well be possible.
LLS
Thank you and yes... Twilight Zone material.
LLS
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