Bombs explode at the Boston Marathon

[Miguel]

The writer was the one who raised the issue of America's foreign policy. That is a more likely catalyst than the men growing up and studying here. The writer's POV is that still wouldn't justify their actions.

It's nothing we haven't seen before. Young men straddling two societies who feel alienated. Young Islamic men who don't have the outlet of pursuing women pursuing other ways to prove their manhood (and devotion to God).

I find it interesting that the older brother was materialistic and willing to kill but looked down on Americans for their loose morals.



When they decided to flee, the younger brother went to a mechanic to retrieve his 2007 Mercedes.

Junior declined to name his auto shop, but said Tsarnaev often came in, often with a group of friends, who all told him they were Turkish.

"I’d say five or six friends," he said. "Last month I asked them where they were from, and they said from Turkey. All the friends; I said 'You don’t look Turkish,' and [Tsarnaev] said, 'I was born in Russia but I was living in Turkey.' The others are from Turkey. They all drive nice cars, they all dress nice. Louis Vuitton shoes that probably cost $800. They drive Porches and the Range Rovers."

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A Russian security officer said Saturday that young people who immigrate to the U.S. from the North Caucasus may only seem to fully immerse themselves in their adopted culture.

"It is naive to think that young men from Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia who come to the United States would integrate into American culture all that naturally and easily," said the official, who was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly. "They would go to American schools and play with American kids and then would come home where their tightly knit clan would pray together on the carpeted floor and then talk about U.S. imperialism and expansion."

...Fellow Muslims at the mosque in Cambridge where the Tsarnaev brothers occasionally worshiped revealed that the elder brother had been counseled a few months ago after an angry outburst.

Tsarnaev became enraged when the imam held up a picture of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of a man to emulate, several worshipers and mosque officials recalled.

He stood up and began shouting. "You cannot mention this guy, because he's not a Muslim!" one worshiper, who identified himself only as Muhammad, recalled Tsarnaev shouting. He said others in attendance were shocked.

"He's crazy to me," Muhammad said. "He had an anger inside.... I can't explain what was in his mind."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/...full.story