Picture of Tamberlan Tsarnaev as "Loser" with "No American Friends" Doesn't Wash

[Douglas Carpenter]

14. I agree with you - They did it. At least I have not heard any evidence to the contrary. But this is

a most odd case. I also find it impossible to grasp a political or religious objective in all of this. The Chechen separatist movement has been trying forever to generate sympathy for their cause in the United States. The Chechen separatist movement has never had any quarrel of any kind with the United States. If anything they would have leaned in the pro-American direction with hope that America might intervene on their side against their enemy - the Russians. Their enemy is Russia. But obviously Boston is not in Russia. If they had struck the Russian consulate or a group of Russian diplomats or any Russian interest - I could see how that would fit as an act of terrorism. Simply killing a bunch people without any stated or implied political or religious message or stated or implied political or religious agenda just doesn't fit the terrorist model at all. Of course suggestions that this is some kind of false flag operation are crazy. It really happened. Those two did it and they probably acted alone - at least based on anything known so far. But it is indeed a very strange case.