[PghBaldy]

Must be short excerpt, per rules... 2011 was same year FBI supposedly looked at the guy, and his friend and two others turn up dead. Would like to know the timeline of this. Seems government screwed up big time, at several layers over the years.

[Travis McGee]

Under our PC rules, where Major Hassan even was passed along and along despite red flares shooting in all directions, this is no surprise. A muslim has to be found with dynamite strapped to his body to be arrested, and maybe not then.

[KeyLargo]

Filmmaker Michael Moore has now sounded off on the ongoing situation surrounding suspected Boston Marathon bombers and Muslim terrorists Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan. Naturally, he blames America:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/04/19/Michael-moore-Boston-bombers

[This I Wonder32460]

Mother-in-laws says “we cannot imagine how this happened.”

Plain & Simple Muslims lack Christians values such as “love thy neighbor as you love yourself” and forgiveness as in when offended “turn the other cheek.” So it is not islam, it is the lack of Christian values which creates terrorists. Christian values based on Judeo-Christian teachings.

[Meet the New Boss]

Maret Tsarnaeva told reporters that she wrote the refugee petition in April 2002 for the father, mother and youngest son, Dzhokhar, to receive asylum in the United States.

It's just astonishing that within mere months after 9/11 the US government is welcoming Chechen muslims with open arms to resettle in the US.

The Ruling Class truly has a death wish for this country.

[Iron Munro]

He’s a good boy - loves his mama
Loves Allah and Muhammad too
He’s a good boy, is crazy ‘bout Obama
Loves wrestling and explosives too

It’s bad way, how they live in America
There’s too much freedom and other religions
And they’re bad boys ‘cos nobody listens
They’re bad boys who break Allah’s heart

[Capt. Tom]

Seems government screwed up big time, at several layers over the years.

The FBI certainly screwed up after being tipped off a couple of years ago about possible Jihad connections of the brothers and ruling them out at that time but totally missing the connection to this bombing, even though the FBI had photos of the suspects, and missed the connection to the bombing suspect photos.. The FBI never made the connection, and put the photos out to the public for the public to identify.

I would have expected the FBI to have made the ID, since they had investigated those two bombers earlier, but the FBI was clueless and released the photos to the general public for identification. -Tom

[palmer]

Pure speculation, but maybe it was part of his training. The trainer (from Chechnya) says to Tamerlan that he’d better not have any American friends. Tamerlan asks why not and then finds out.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Throats slit, huh?

That sounds like the followers of a certain “prophet.”

[Cicero]

One very interesting point I noted.

The article says that Christopher Swift, Georgetown University, who specializes on the Chechen War, doesn’t think they were working for Chechen terrorists, because they have NEVER attacked anyone but Russians.

That ties in with the probability that they were connected in some way to al Qaeda and the Saudis, maybe directly, maybe more informally. Or to put it another way, it was their Islamic ideology that motivated them, not their Chechen nationality.

At the least, they attended mosques and associated with other Muslims in the area.

[The Great RJ]

A surveillance video shows one of the brothers coldly placing his back pack bomb next to the 8 year old boy who was killed in the explosion. Clearly the perpetrator knew what was going to happen and that boy and his family would in all likelihood be killed or maimed. This was no planting a random bomb someplace and detonating it later. They saw their victims up close and personal. I was amazed by the who cares attitude they exhibited on the videos showing them walking away from their planted bombs.

[Scooter100]

--How did law enforcement go from crowd photos to having the suspects and their names?

--How did these two student immigrants get the weapons they used for their attempted escape?

--A 19 yo kid with military experience? Wasn't he supposedly living here for 8 years?

--A 19 yo kid, alone, tossing bombs at chasing police, while driving a speeding SUV? Is this Hollywood script?

--How did so much info surface so quickly. A day or so, and they had interviews with the father in Chechnya, the uncle in Maryland, sisters, friends, etc. Meanwhile, we still don't know Obama's background.

--What possible info could the thug Putin, an anti-American, offer to Obama? What sparked this avenue? Russian dictator/puppet-masters ALWAYS just "help out" for no reason, you know, other than to be a "good guy" - and with no strategic gain or ulterior motives WHAT SO EVER.

I'm still confused.

[Veto!]

Excellent article. The Boston Globe is not pulling punches about muslim extremists. The marijuana covered corpse and the big expensive cars certainly suggest that the Bro’s were in the drug business. Some interesting connections should be uncovered when that angle is researched.

Would it be possible for some drug bigwig, possibly a Saudi, to enlist and pull strings on potential perps like the brothers? “We’ll make you rich, you blow up Americans...” Something like that? If not Saudis, maybe black muslims? IE: the Islamoprez’s friends.

[dead]

It's so weird these days to read an article which is a factual presentation of information, without snide leftist asides and condescending snarkery.

Good job on this one, Boston Globe.

[ExCTCitizen]

Brendan Mess, whom Tamerlan described as his best friend.

Two years ago, Mess and two other men were brutally killed in a Waltham apartment where they were found by police with their throats slit

beware of Muslims being your best friends...