As we learn more and more about the bombings in Boston, a picture begins to come together about this mysterious Chechen culture from which these two brothers came.
Here are some facts:
• Boston has been a hotbed of terrorist activity for more than a decade. The 9/11 hijackers came through Boston. It’s been a one-stop-shop for radicalization.
• Chechnya is a “nation” in the southern part of Russia, through an area known as the Caucasus. It is ruled by a young Muslim warlord named Ramzan Kadyrov, whose parties draw the likes of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Hilary Swank. Russia has been fighting with this area for years, and quite severely in the past decade.
• These are the same terrorists who committed the Beslan School Massacre in September of 2004, where 1,100 people were held hostage (777 which were children) and eventually ended in 380 dead. They’ve also committed other attacks, including the Moscow train bombing.
So yes, these young men were inspired (and perhaps funded) by legitimate, recognized terrorist organizations. Russia even warned the US about accepting large numbers of “refugees” from Chechnya, which is how the older brother got into the US.
The FBI even investigated these individuals at Russia’s request.
It’s sad that this could have been potentially prevented. That if we had a functional immigration system, neither of these two could have gotten into the country. It’s telling that the older brother became a nationalized US citizen on September 11th, 2012. And that three of the older brother’s Jewish “friends” were mysteriously killed (authorities believe at his hands) one year prior to the day.
It’s an embarrassment of our bureaucracy that they were not only allowed in, but that they were on the radar and still—STILL, managed to attack. Let the murder of the three innocents and hundreds wounded not be in vain.