Boston Marathon Bombed

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The two struck a major blow for the Jihad.

They used minimal expenditure to cause a [relatively] maximum level of chaos and terror. When they were on the run, they had a city on lockdown with thousands of assets tied up for the search. Two lives and probably less than a thousand dollars worth of gear causing millions in damage to the enemy in addition to the lives they ruined (not to mention showing how easy it is).

If that ain't a win, I don't know what is.

This piece of information does not appear to have had much exposure in the major headlines...
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press- ... government

Apparently, FBI received an intelligence request from a foreign government in 2011 regarding Tamerlan Tsarnaev (the older, deceased brother).

He was suspected of being a follower of Radical Islam, but FBI found no such link...

The press release does not specify the identity of the foreign government, but Russia is a likely candidate...

How is it a loss then? Increased military funding for COIN warfare will decrease capabilities in other areas, which isn't desirable. The same for civil services (it will tie up assets that are needed for other criminal activities that are far more prevalent). An increase in overt action in other countries is a loss.

It can't be a draw due to the massive difference in resources spent. Two people and a thousand dollars versus an entire city and millions upon millions spent (in addition to Federal resources). No need to mention the psychological effect they had and have.

You just have to take the hit and move on; the good guys don't always win.

i wonder where he will spend the rest of his life, walpole,norfolk or that new supermax shirley,mass

put him in a cell with a guy who hasnt seen a woman in 20 years

Down into solitary confinement with nothing else: no food, no water, no light, no one and no attention, and a loud alarm set to go off loudly any time the prisoner kneels.

Even if specific accomplices are not found, the role of mentoring clerics may prove to be complicit, particularly those that preach martyrdom as a (short) life's goal.

It has been pointed out repeatedly that the bombers experienced feelings of isolation and inability to fit in. But that is not something limited to people of foriegn extraction, as we on the spectrum, as much as anyone well know. Nor did our society try to isolate them and in fact did practically all it could to help (ie accepting them as refugees, schooling, activities, etc). It may even be argued that society does a better job with immigrants then its own autisic citizens.

But when such as they are estranged, they become vunerable to influence from above mentioned mentors, who appeal to their sense of identity, culture and religion to be turned into martyrs or disposable political tools, depending on how you look at it.

It's amazing what you can find on the Internet, fron porn to making a homemade bomb with a pressure cooker. I'm glad he's been caught after those terrible killings.

If you regard this as a "win" for some terrorist group, then Comedy Central are masterminds that put the best of al Qaeda to shame - they shut down Boston, and a couple other places, with Lite-Brite installations promoting that year's season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force!

That's right... places get shut down on the silliest of pretences. Soon all that will be required is to say "Boo!".