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Ten Years After the Boston Marathon Bombing, No One Dares Discuss Why It Happened
2023-04-16
BLUF:
[PJ] "I ask Allah to have mercy on me, my brother, and my family," Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
...the pretty, ethnic-Chechen college boy from Dagestan who, with his highly connected, “self-radicalized” older brother, used pressure cooker bombs to blow up the Boston Marathon in 2013. The mosque the brothers frequented, the Islamic Society of Boston, is a hotbed of jihadi sentiment and connections to so many different jihadi groups and individuals the mind boggles. It was founded by Clinton Friend and Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi as a Muslim Student Association/Muslim Brotherhood project in 1981. According to Russian intelligence, whose warning about our lads President Obama’s intelligence agencies ignored until afterward, the Tsarnaev boys had lots of jihadi-connected friends back in the Olde Countrie, too, but nobody seems to have found a formal connection between them and any registered jihadi group. He’s been living in Florence Supermax prison since he was sentenced in 2015...
said in 2015. He gave every indication of being a pious believer, as was his brother, and of this piety being the foundational motivation for the Boston Marathon bombings. So why is there such a universal refusal to discuss the bombers’ motives? Because Islamic advocacy groups in the U.S., notably the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), have successfully convinced the Leftist political and media establishment that informing the public honestly about jihad activity would fuel a dangerous "Islamophobia."

There is no reason why this should be so any more than it is in any other context. Does the Biden regime refrain from speaking about their phantom bogeyman, "white supremacist terror," because innocent white people might be victimized? Of course not. And the same forthrightness should hold for actual threats just as much as for imaginary ones. Otherwise, no lessons will indeed have been learned from the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: 2022-09-27 Notorious ISIS 'Beatle' AVOIDS spending life sentence in 'concrete box' at Colorado supermax prison: Killer, 34, who slaughtered four US hostages is sent to 'softer' jail as lawyers plead for his mental health
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: 2022-04-23 A resident of Dagestan is suspected in the case of terrorism
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  His American wife was likely his undoing.

I’m a little slow today... How do you come to that conclusion, Besoeker?
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-04-16 22:25  

#6  /\ Yes, as some here have suspected for many years, yet anther 'source recruitment' scheme gone terribly wrong. His American wife was likely his undoing.

"If you know the identities or the whereabouts of these two persons of interest, please contact the Special Agent in Charge' of the Boston Field Office at the number on the bottom of your television screen."
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-04-16 17:45  

#5  The motivation was more complicated.
When the FBI was informed by the Russian government about his brother, they contacted him and tried to recruit him to infiltrate terrorist organizations. They did not tell him that their information about him came from Russia, and he instead suspected his wrestling friends here had spied on him. He then murdered all three of them. He then went on to the attack on the marathon, his rage and guilt in his mind atonable by a blow against the hateful Americans, for the glory of ISlam..
Posted by: By now   2023-04-16 17:37  

#4  Three-ring circus up there in Bean Town.

Botched Boston FBI exercise (Former Rantburg post)
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-04-16 10:12  

#3  American Greatness - Boston bombing backstory.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-04-16 09:04  

#2  Bad apples → barrel
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-04-16 06:59  

#1  Otherwise, no lessons will indeed have been learned from the Boston Marathon bombing.

Lesson learned? Dealing with Islamists comes with a price.

Posted by: Besoeker   2023-04-16 03:22  

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