Sunday, April 21, 2013  The Dzhokar is Not Wild  Tamerlan and
Dzhokar Tsranaev - Photo credit: Reuters It seems that my
suspicions about the motives of the Boston terrorist bombers
were correct. This was not some crazy person going wild. This
was a deliberate act based on Islamist/Jihadist fervor. Tamerlan
Tsarnaev, and his younger other, Dzhokar carefully planned and
executed it.  Fortunately the death of one and capture of the
other has to be the quickest end to a manhunt (of criminals of
this magnitude) in US history. It also seems to be clear that
Tamerlan, a once assimilated Chechniyan who married an American
woman - became a radicalized Islamist during a lengthy visit to
his homeland.  It is still early in the investigation. But is
unlikely that any new information will change the basic
assumptions now being made. Radical Islam is behind the attack.
I assume Dzhokar was somehow persuaded to to join him in this
effort by his older brother  – who was somehow also able to
convince him about about the ‘just