or anything to excuse, justify, or understand what the brothers' did. Nothing.
Despite friends, schoolmates, neighbors describing him as a "regular kid", good student, good athlete, his web page shows that he, for whatever reason, was tied into Islam and the jihadists. Chechans were scattered about by Stalin and many never returned but retained their ties to Chechnia. Stuff on the web site about Syria.
Why BOSTON? Because that's where they lived. WHY? Still to be determined. Without any kind of message, the bombing is totally pointless, just random slaughter of innocent people ... but that's what jihadists do.
Post was made solely for whatever it's worth, just background info as the Russian social media site has now been mentioned in the news so thought I'd post the source material. We've all learned about the importance of source material vs 'reports' or 'interpretation'. Note though that the last post to the site was made by cell phone just before the shootout so the site is active in the guy's mind. Little doubt if he uses his cell phone again, they'll instantly know where he is.
They came here about 10 years ago. Older bro is/was 26, so he would have come here at 16. Bad time to adjust. Too late to adopt good language and cultural norms. Hard to fit in at a very difficult time, in terms of maturity. If you came as a 26 year old, you are more mature to deal with it.
Meanwhile, younger bro (still alive) was maybe 9 when he came. For him, there is still time to learn the language responsibly well.
9 is much different developmentally from 16.
Anyways, so with a hugely heavy accent, and not having been able to attend middle and high school here (last couple years, maybe) I imagine the older bro must have not been able to fit in well, not good economic prospects, and always an outsider.
The older bro was into boxing, and apparently (from what I read last night) had posted something online that he hated it here, had no friends. He was a naturalized US citizen, last year, Wolf Blitzer just said.
My hunch is that the older brother was bitter and turned the younger brother, who all his peers are saying on TV that he was an angel, totally cool.
Older brother is the brazen one who got out of the car and went walking toward the cops, blasting away with guns last night in Watertown. Younger bro turned the car around and ultimately at some point ran his brother over and escaped by splitting cop cars, denting their doors and such. Older bro got riddled with bullets and had bomb stuff strapped to his waste. Did he die from detonation? Bullets? Or younger bro plowing him over in a panic?
Younger bro's location is not (so far as we know) known at this time. I imagine he is hiding and scared and wishes he could wake up and have this be one big long bad dream.
I don't think he's going to be captured alive. He will either allow himself to die one way or another, or a trigger happy police force will plug him due to perceived danger.
Uncle Ruslan said it best in this impassioned interview with reporters:
-What do you think provoked this? "Uhm, being losers, hatred to those who were able to settle themselves. Anything else having to do with religion, Islam, it's a fraud, a fake!"
-Are you ashamed by the way this is unfolding. "Of course we are ashamed. Yes, we are ashamed, they are children of my brother, who had little influence of them, honestly, as much as I know."
What do you think is behind this? "The only, I say, what I think was behind it... Being LOSERS! Not being able to settle themselves, and thereby hating everyone that did."
-How do you feel about America. What do you think of the United States? "I say, I teach my children and that's what I feel myself. This is the IDEAL micro world in entire world. I respect this country. I love this country. This country, which gives chance to everybody else to be treated as a human being and just to be human being, to feel yourself human being. That's what I feel about this country!"
"I seen them as a kids, and IF I even slightly been aware that they were involved, I been aware that they were involved, I'd been the first one that bring them into responsibility."
-Were they ever caught up in the fight for Chechnya? "What? No, they've never been to Chechnya. This has nothing to do with Chechnya. Chechens are different. Chechens are peaceful people."
-What would you say to Jahar right now if... "I say, Jahar, if you are alive. Turn yourself in. And ASK for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured, and from those who left. Ask for forgiveness from these people. Why not requiring forgiveness in this family. He put a shame on this family, our family, Tsarnaz name. He put a SHAME on the entire Chechyen ethnicity, cause everyone now names, they playing with word Chechyen, so they put that shame on the entire ethnicity. So that's what I would say. Turn yourself in. And whatever, whatever, what I mean, put yourself at the discretion of those who kneel."
.... Did he die from detonation? Bullets? Or younger bro plowing him over in a panic?
Who cares? Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
concordtom;842115537 said:
Younger bro's location is not (so far as we know) known at this time. I imagine he is hiding and scared and wishes he could wake up and have this be one big long bad dream.
Tough to wake up from the dirt nap he is about to take.
concordtom;842115537 said:
Uncle Ruslan said it best in this impassioned interview with reporters:
-What do you think provoked this? "Uhm, being losers, hatred to those who were able to settle themselves. Anything else having to do with religion, Islam, it's a fraud, a fake!"
-Are you ashamed by the way this is unfolding. "Of course we are ashamed. Yes, we are ashamed, they are children of my brother, who had little influence of them, honestly, as much as I know."
What do you think is behind this? "The only, I say, what I think was behind it... Being LOSERS! Not being able to settle themselves, and thereby hating everyone that did."
-How do you feel about America. What do you think of the United States? "I say, I teach my children and that's what I feel myself. This is the IDEAL micro world in entire world. I respect this country. I love this country. This country, which gives chance to everybody else to be treated as a human being and just to be human being, to feel yourself human being. That's what I feel about this country!"
"I seen them as a kids, and IF I even slightly been aware that they were involved, I been aware that they were involved, I'd been the first one that bring them into responsibility."
-Were they ever caught up in the fight for Chechnya? "What? No, they've never been to Chechnya. This has nothing to do with Chechnya. Chechens are different. Chechens are peaceful people."
-What would you say to Jahar right now if... "I say, Jahar, if you are alive. Turn yourself in. And ASK for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured, and from those who left. Ask for forgiveness from these people. Why not requiring forgiveness in this family. He put a shame on this family, our family, Tsarnaz name. He put a SHAME on the entire Chechyen ethnicity, cause everyone now names, they playing with word Chechyen, so they put that shame on the entire ethnicity. So that's what I would say. Turn yourself in. And whatever, whatever, what I mean, put yourself at the discretion of those who kneel."
Powerful words!
Me thinks Uncle doth protest too much. Get a search warrant for his house.
I am with Bearister. The don't mess with kids, women or the elderly line has been crossed. Once that happens, people in my corner of the world get more than a little crazy and become really quite disinterested in his uncle's views on ethnic traits of those living between the Black and Caspian Seas, junior's social media commentary, or his former classmate's recollections on what a swell guy he was.
Everyone who clicked on that link has been deemed a "person of interest" and the FBI will be making house calls tonight.
Could be but I tried calling the local FBI field office and waited over an hour, then had to hunt like hell to find their damn web address which was buried three clicks deep in Contact and then sent them the link. Have heard nothing from the Feds and don't expect that I will.
Could be but I tried calling the local FBI field office and waited over an hour, then had to hunt like hell to find their damn web address which was buried three clicks deep in Contact and then sent them the link. Have heard nothing from the Feds and don't expect that I will.
Just trying to be a good citizen.
They are tied up at a "strategy session" lunch like those Secret Service agents in El Salvador.
They came here about 10 years ago. Older bro is/was 26, so he would have come here at 16. Bad time to adjust. Too late to adopt good language and cultural norms. Hard to fit in at a very difficult time, in terms of maturity. If you came as a 26 year old, you are more mature to deal with it.
Meanwhile, younger bro (still alive) was maybe 9 when he came. For him, there is still time to learn the language responsibly well.
9 is much different developmentally from 16.
Anyways, so with a hugely heavy accent, and not having been able to attend middle and high school here (last couple years, maybe) I imagine the older bro must have not been able to fit in well, not good economic prospects, and always an outsider.
The older bro was into boxing, and apparently (from what I read last night) had posted something online that he hated it here, had no friends. He was a naturalized US citizen, last year, Wolf Blitzer just said.
My hunch is that the older brother was bitter and turned the younger brother, who all his peers are saying on TV that he was an angel, totally cool.
Older brother is the brazen one who got out of the car and went walking toward the cops, blasting away with guns last night in Watertown. Younger bro turned the car around and ultimately at some point ran his brother over and escaped by splitting cop cars, denting their doors and such. Older bro got riddled with bullets and had bomb stuff strapped to his waste. Did he die from detonation? Bullets? Or younger bro plowing him over in a panic?
Younger bro's location is not (so far as we know) known at this time. I imagine he is hiding and scared and wishes he could wake up and have this be one big long bad dream.
I don't think he's going to be captured alive. He will either allow himself to die one way or another, or a trigger happy police force will plug him due to perceived danger.
Uncle Ruslan said it best in this impassioned interview with reporters:
-What do you think provoked this? "Uhm, being losers, hatred to those who were able to settle themselves. Anything else having to do with religion, Islam, it's a fraud, a fake!"
-Are you ashamed by the way this is unfolding. "Of course we are ashamed. Yes, we are ashamed, they are children of my brother, who had little influence of them, honestly, as much as I know."
What do you think is behind this? "The only, I say, what I think was behind it... Being LOSERS! Not being able to settle themselves, and thereby hating everyone that did."
-How do you feel about America. What do you think of the United States? "I say, I teach my children and that's what I feel myself. This is the IDEAL micro world in entire world. I respect this country. I love this country. This country, which gives chance to everybody else to be treated as a human being and just to be human being, to feel yourself human being. That's what I feel about this country!"
"I seen them as a kids, and IF I even slightly been aware that they were involved, I been aware that they were involved, I'd been the first one that bring them into responsibility."
-Were they ever caught up in the fight for Chechnya? "What? No, they've never been to Chechnya. This has nothing to do with Chechnya. Chechens are different. Chechens are peaceful people."
-What would you say to Jahar right now if... "I say, Jahar, if you are alive. Turn yourself in. And ASK for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured, and from those who left. Ask for forgiveness from these people. Why not requiring forgiveness in this family. He put a shame on this family, our family, Tsarnaz name. He put a SHAME on the entire Chechyen ethnicity, cause everyone now names, they playing with word Chechyen, so they put that shame on the entire ethnicity. So that's what I would say. Turn yourself in. And whatever, whatever, what I mean, put yourself at the discretion of those who kneel."
Powerful words!
My thoughts
1. People are so dense these days about reading other people. All they do is take their words for it. "He seemed nice." No understanding of subtext, non-verbal cues. Meanwhile, he's all jihadist, muslim radical in the social media.
2. Where was the background checking when these guys applied for citizenship?
3. If they catch this 19 year old alive, will you speak out against enhanced interrogation techniques?
4. Would you trust that they have not cracked into an extensive terrorist network?
5. All of the apologists need to take responsibility for their lunacy over the last 3 days.
6. Ruslan for Senate. (I'm not sure Chechens as an ethnic group are innocent of terrorism, but compared with 5. above, I'll take someone making a strong, declaratory statement over those clowns, any day).
Could be but I tried calling the local FBI field office and waited over an hour, then had to hunt like hell to find their damn web address which was buried three clicks deep in Contact and then sent them the link. Have heard nothing from the Feds and don't expect that I will.
Just trying to be a good citizen.
Should have just sent it to CNN and asked for an interview with Anderson.
stand-up dude. took a lot of guts to do that interview when your relatives/family are the lead suspects of such a shameful act...
So, refreshing, especially in this day and age when so many parents and relatives, after "Little Johnny" gets into trouble, usually spout things like, "...he was an angel....it was a frame-up...my "Johnny" would never do this...."
So, refreshing, especially in this day and age when so many parents and relatives, after "Little Johnny" gets into trouble, usually spout things like, "...he was an angel....it was a frame-up...my "Johnny" would never do this...."