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Home Front: WoT

Focus Turns to Hunt for Bombing Motive

2013-04-21

[ONLINE.WSJ] Investigators in the Boston Marathon bombing case shifted their focus Saturday to hunting for a motive and preparing charges after apprehending a 19-year-old college student Friday night.
What part of "Die, infidels! Die!" didn't they understand?
The charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who remained hospitalized with severe injuries, could be filed this weekend but might take longer as law-enforcement officials continue investigating numerous scene of the crimes in and around Boston. Investigators were also eager to talk to Mr. Tsarnaev, who was listed at death's door after being badly injured early Friday morning in a firefight with coppers that left his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead.

Investigators have alleged that the two brothers carried out the marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 175 on Monday.

Authorities gave no indication as to what motivated the brothers. Their family roots stretch to the Russian republic of Chechnya, which has been a wellspring of terrorism over the years.

Posted by:Fred

#7 Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older and apparently more radical of two brothers suspected in the deadly Boston Marathon terror bombings, objected to a sermon at a Cambridge mosque on Martin Luther King Day this year in which the speaker compared the Prophet Muhammad with King, known for his advocacy of nonviolence, a mosque official said.

Yusufi Vali, executive director of the Islamic Society of Boston, which runs the mosque, said Tsarnaev told the speaker, You are a kafir [an unbeliever], and said he was contaminating peoples minds and was a hypocrite.

Vali said, The congregation then said, You are the hypocrite. The congregation shouted him out of the mosque.

Later, a respected volunteer talked with Tsarnaev and told him he needed to decide whether to stay and not shout out or stop coming to the congregation.

Vali said it was the second time that Tsarnaev had made an outburst during one of the speakers sermons.

There was nothing about it that would suggest that he would kill a person, said Vali.

He said such an outburst is unusual in the mosque but not unheard-of.

He was just expressing his opinion about his belief and it wasnt seen as something that would rise to the level of alerting authorities, Vali said.

Tsarnaevs earlier outburst had come in November. He had started attending the mosque occasionally about a year ago, Vali said.

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-04-21 19:20

#6 I'll take "Follow the Money" for $250. Alex.

Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-21 12:48

#5 "I'll take 'What is Islam' for $800, Alex"

Posted by: Frank G 2013-04-21 12:47

#4 "Authorities gave no indication as to what motivated the brothers."

Try "Islam".

You're welcome.

Posted by: Dave D. 2013-04-21 12:37

#3 ...people named after Tamer The Lame are kind of bound by fate to do things like this?

Posted by: Secret Master 2013-04-21 12:34

#2 "What difference does it make" ?

Snark of the day.

Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-21 12:28

#1 ....How about they were insane, vicious, intolerant and ungrateful monsters?

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2013-04-21 12:28

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