In an article very recently published in The New York Times, "Dragnet Shuts Boston – One Suspect is Slain but Second Man Is on Loose," the history of the Chechen origin is discussed along with the two suspects of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Throughout this article, I asked myself one question: Why are they suspects for the Boston tragedy? Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suspects and brothers, are supposedly believed to have killed a police officer at MIT. They then led police through a "wild car chase," where Tamerlan was killed, and later studied for suspicions of him having "a homemade bomb strapped to his body."
Yes, clearly, there is a problem here. These guys should be thrown in jail, guilty of the Boston bombings or not. But my question still went unanswered. Assuming that the MIT crisis is completely separate from the Boston one, where is the alleged evidence stemming from the marathon itself that these men had something to do with it?
I also want to bring attention to the racial stress presented in this article. The men are from a "predominately Muslim territory in southern Russia," and for some reason I have the sense that the writers felt that's all they needed to say to convince their readers these men were most likely responsible for the Boston bombing.
I have a hunch that not the distribution of information, but a satisfying distribution of information to the public is all the media wants to accomplish. Even if the MIT crisis never happened, someone or something else would have been coughed up so to cease the boiling frustration about who ruined the Boston Marathon.
It's gotta be someone. And if we don't know, we pretend like we do to shut everyone else up.
(If anyone knows the answer to my question; if there was a video, photograph, news report or anything placing these men in the midst of the bombings and making them viable suspects, please send it to me!!)
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