Bombing Suspects Lauded Jihad

IPT News
April 19, 2013

While police in and around Boston hunt for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, information gathered from various social media outlets indicate that he and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, harbored radical Islamic beliefs.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed overnight as police closed in on him and the hunt for Dzhokhar remains active. An MIT security officer was shot and killed in the firefight.
This is believed to be Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Youtube page. Several of the posts feature radical Islamic rhetoric. In addition, a graphic video about Syria appears on Tsarnaev's page on a Russian version of Facebook. An IPT translation can be seen here. Among its statements, "Congratulations to you those suffer for, who go through martyrdom of Allah illaha ill Allah."
The brothers came to the United States from Southern Russia, near Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim state which declared independence from Russia in 1991, resulting in years of violence and terrorist strikes. Another video Tsarnaev posted was simply called "Terrorists." But that video has been taken down. Yet another that was posted last summer, lauds "The promised emergence of the black flags from the promised land of Khorasan." It celebrates jihadis posing "with a flag of the Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the Long War Journal reported. The video has an apocalyptic message anticipating a time when the forces of Islam, led by the Mahdi, the Guided One, will conquer the world prior to the Day of Judgment. Part of this battle will be the conquest of the Holy Land.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a boxer who told an interviewer in 2009 that he had no American friends. "I don't understand them," he said. An Amazon.com wish list believed to be Tamerlan's includes several books on forgery and the books The Lone Wolf And the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule and Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya, New Edition.
Eric Mercado, a former high school classmate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told CNN that he and his friends remember a conversation in which Tsarnaev said, "When justified, terrorism isn't necessarily a bad thing." The comment was dismissed as outlandish. "No one wants to believe that their friend from high school is a quote-unquote 'terrorist,'" Mercado said.
The bombs, reportedly packed inside pressure cookers, bear striking resemblances to instructions offered by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire magazine. One article suggested that pressure cooker bombs should be "placed in crowded areas and left to blow up. More than one of these could be planted to explode at the same time. However, keep in mind that the range of the shrapnel in this operation is short range so the pressurized cooker or pipe should be placed close to the intended targets and should not be concealed from them by barriers such as walls."
This story has been updated to more accurately describe the Tsarnaev's roots.

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Reader comments on this item

getting rid of terrorist groups in America

Submitted by Paul, Apr 19, 2013 22:08

Keep these crazy people out of our country and stop letting them in, 911 should had told the government that, what are we stupid
It was 2012 when this Chechen group came, America has to close their doors to immagation, because the world has change and these different people are bring terror to America

Unimaginable evil

Submitted by Rebecca, Apr 19, 2013 18:19

These people are brainwashed into believing that what they are doing is the right thing. The killing of so-called infidels is the only thing that they live for, and ultimately, die for.
We have become way too complacent in the past few years, concerning terrorism on our own soil. Since 9/11/2001, our trains and malls remain unprotected. Our schools don't have enough protection. In Israel most shopping malls have security x-rays at all entrances. Any backpack left unattended is destroyed. I was witness to one of these events in Jerusalem, so I know that most Israelis are aware of their surroundings and notice things like lone backpacks.
I was introduced to a vigilant way of living back in 1980 in Manila. Although inconvenient, it was much safer to have to go through an x-ray at entrances, than to have the risk of being blown to bits by a bomb. Unfortunately a few months before we arrived to the Philippines, an American woman lost her life due to a bomb hidden amongst canned goods in a supermarket in Manila.
It seems that there is an insidious growth of radical Islam in our country, and many Americans are naive not to recognize or believe in its existence. We can learn a lot from the measures that Israel has taken to use preventative measures against terrorism.