Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

Arcade22 said:
I don't really know what you mean. Chechnya is a practically independent republic in the Russian Federation. If they were born and raised by Chechen parents outside of Chechnya they would still be considered Chechen.
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The news story linked earlier said they were from Russia, thus my question.

Sources told AP the suspects are brothers who have legally lived in the U.S. for at least one year and are from a Russian region near Chechnya plagued by an Islamic insurgency.
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The Chechen Republic (pron.: /ˈtʃɛtʃɨn/; Russian: Чече́нская Респу́блика, Chechenskaya Respublika; Chechen: Нохчийн Республика, Noxçiyn Respublika), commonly referred to as Chechnya (/ˈtʃɛtʃniə/; Russian: Чечня́, Chechnya; Chechen: Нохчийчоь, Noxçiyçö), also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria (English: Land of Minerals), is a federal subject (a republic) of Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya
 
Simon666 said:
They may be in the US legally. I doubt they brought their grievances with them, as has been remarked here, it would be more logic to attack Russia. They also did not make any demands or furthered any political/religious agenda, contrary to the definition of terrorism. They just seem like scum.
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LTC8K6 said:
http://www.businessinsider.com/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-2013-4

They have been here several years if the info coming out is correct.

So what set them off?
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If Simon is right, it may be a really weak excuse.

The news read part of Thing1's facebook posts as... "Have no American friends. Can't understand them."

Social isolation. May have (my guess) convinced his 19yo bro to join him in all this. Not cool dude... not cool. :(
 
Simon666 said:
From business insider: A page on VK.com (A Russian Facebook) bears the same name (with different transliteration) as the suspect.

Not only that, but also the birthday matches that provided by the FBI. It would be one major coincidence if physical looks and birthday are the same but they're different persons with slightly different transliterations.
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Yes, I've seen the page and a Google translation.

Looks like the brothers' religion is Islam.
 
LTC8K6 said:
Yes, I've seen the page and a Google translation.

Looks like the brothers' religion is Islam.
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Personal priority: Career and money

Not religion. Not much else on the page shows any devotion to religion.
 
greybeard said:
I wonder what the conspiracy theorists will make of this? Did the authorities plant the bomb because they want to invade Chechnya, or maybe because they want an excuse to put cctv cameras in all public areas?
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Some of them will end up identifying with the bombers, for striking a blow against US "hegemony". Most will just scream FF- used to usher in the next phase of project Police State.
 
Checkmite said:
The new data wasn't the result of a test. It's still a hypothesis; albeit a revised one.

I am glad you don't help design protocols for the MDC; if all a proper "test" required was getting a few other people to look at the photo you based your hypothesis on, the JREF would've awarded the million long ago.



Experimental results get peer reviewed. Scientific studies get peer reviewed. "Talking with your friends" does not constitute peer review, and hypotheses don't get peer-reviewed.
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I wasn't aware that crime investigations were now science, and all investigations have to be peer-reviewed and published.

Apparently one of the Bigfoots is dead, and they're Bigfoot brothers from Chechnya. We won't know for sure until it passes peer review in a science journal.
 
Does anyone else see the same picture under "Send a gift"? Explosives and squad car?
 
Yes.

(to "send gift" etc...)
 
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Seems weird that there should be a huge shootout in which Thing 1 is shot, and apparently blown up, and that Thing 2 should be unscathed from that. So maybe he is injured? Anybody heard anything about that possibility?
 
timhau said:
That doesn't mean his motivation is religious. Chechens are predominantly Muslim, but the violence there is mostly motivated by nationalism, not religion.
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Where did you get the idea that the motivation might be religious?

I think the motivation is the same old hatred of the West and it's freedom.

It might be religious, but I've seen no indication of that yet.

I just hope no "assault weapons" were used, to put the lid on using this incident as a political football. But it will get used anyway.

I do think it might come up in the immigration bill discussions...
 
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