Dagestan is 71% Mozlem. I wish I had the links to show it, but I found it very, very interesting that the younger bomber met with a friend the day after the bombings (it was an article here), the friend’s name begins with “B”. They talked about the bombings and the younger bomber said “these bombings happen all the time in Afghanistan and Iraq”.
The odd thing is in an artcle about the older bomber’s trip to Dagestan (again, I have no idea where the article is, linked somehwere here, I’m sure) some reporter went there very recently and talked to locals. A local man is quoted as saying the exact same thing - Something like “Why are Americans so upsetet - such bombings occur daily here and in A’stan and Iraq”.
So I think this talking point is important. Tamarlan spent some time in Dagestan supposedly helping his father remodel an apartment, but was seen in teh local radical mosque 6 times, meeting with a local radical Mozlem.
I also think (saw the headline this AM) that the younger bomber’s claim that they learned how to make bombs on the interent is a total lie, either by the y.b. or the investigatos. If the investigators are making it up, I would assume that is to keep the other members of the cell or ones like it thinking that nothing is known about them.
We can hope that's the case but the FBI, DHS and ICE are all looking dumb and dumber by the minute.