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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Sun May 17, 2015, 12:40 PM May 2015

Tsarnaev's execution - will extremist groups care?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2015/0517/Tsarnaev-s-execution-Will-extremist-groups-care

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BOSTON — Does putting Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death make him a martyr for the cause?

Some analysts worry that Tsarnaev's eventual execution could inspire more attacks. But others, including Islamic leaders, say no: Tsarnaev was more of a lone wolf with a low profile among radical jihadists and no known links to the Islamic State group, al-Qaida or other influential terror organizations.

It will take years, possibly decades, of appeals before Tsarnaev — sentenced Friday by a federal jury in Boston to death by lethal injection — is executed.
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Tsarnaev's execution - will extremist groups care? (Original Post) LiberalElite May 2015 OP
Probably not treestar May 2015 #1
Extremist groups of any political persuasion will always find a reason hack89 May 2015 #2

treestar

(82,383 posts)
1. Probably not
Sun May 17, 2015, 12:41 PM
May 2015

If he were a member of the group and carried out the attack with them, they would see him as a martyr, but their operations having nothing to do with his, it doesn't even likely get them interested in using him as one. When they do that they are trying to whip up others. A distant person won't do that.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
2. Extremist groups of any political persuasion will always find a reason
Sun May 17, 2015, 12:42 PM
May 2015

they have no problem rationalizing violence - it is their nature.

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