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Since the first bombs went off at 2:50 p.m. at the Boston
Marathon on Monday, two men, whose identities we now know, have
been the most hunted men in America. But why did they do it?
One of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, is dead.  His
brother Dzhokar, 19, is still at large.  By all accounts the men
were Americanized after immigrating to the United States from
the Russian region of Dagestan, close to Chechnya.  But how and
why they turned into radical Muslim extremists wanting to
inflict harm on Americansare still unanswered questions.  What
Russian history professor Matt Payne thinks is that the brothers
used the internet to shape and distort their views of America.
"If you are seeing images on the news, or on internet sites of
perhaps Muslim civilians dying… that might get you in the
mindset that Americans aren't