Russian View of Marathon Terrorists

For John, BLUF:  Picture is confused at this time.

Here is an article from the Russian newspaper, Izvestia.  This is a very rough translation via Google.

How do I find "News", who was arrested on Friday in the U.S. 19-year-old Johar Tsarnaev really came to America from Makhachkala.  However, until the age of seven, he lived in Kyrgyzstan and Russia's can be called only a stretch - in Dagestan Tsarnaev lived for only a year.

- Johar and his brother and sister came to our school in the first grade - told "Izvestia" in high school number 1 in Makhachkala.

- He and his family came from Kyrgyzstan, and in the second grade Johar left for America.

In 2011 Tsarnaev graduated from high school in Boston.  In profile it is said that the main thing for a young person is "Islam, career and money."  Last Tsarnaev looked at his page on the social network shortly before his arrest.

Tsarnaev lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  It was there on Friday night there was a skirmish on the campus, killing a policeman.

Now Tsarnaev beyond the assassination of the police suspected of organizing terrorist attacks in the marathon in Boston. Two explosions at intervals of 20 seconds thundered near the site of the finish-agonists during the completion of the race.  As a result of the terrorist attacks killed three people.  Affected more than 180 people.  23 of them are in critical condition.

Someone commented:

This is exactly the kind of profile that renders young people vulnerable to radicalization. Moving around, from multiple places, multiple cultures.  My guess is that Islam became unifying identity for these kids; something that would make them particularly vulnerable to radical variants.

This is going to be complicated and tragic.  Most things involving the Caucuses usually are.

People talk about Chechnya, but these young men traveled across the Caucuses before coming to this nation.

The long term question is if we are now at war with terrorist groups in the Caucuses.  My thought is that we are not and should not be.  This is a pin prick, not a war by them on us, and thus not an invitation to be at war with them. Regards  —  Cliff