Boston Marathon

There have been ongoing and unresolved issues among the Russians and Chechens for many years. According to DeWaal (2002), “Russians believe that Islam has maintained a stronghold in Chechnya communities for many years”(p.1). The fighting has coerced Chechens

Hosseini begins to show the loss of innocence and the effects of the conflict with the Soviet takeover. “The generation of Afghan

A few hours after the photos were released the suspects shot an MIT police officer multiple times killing him. The two of them then carjacked a Mercedes-Benz in a neighborhood of Boston where they took the owner of the car hostage. They then forced the hostage to withdraw money from an ATM (Shallwani, 2013). The car’s owner was able to escape when the suspects stopped at a gas station. His cellphone remained in the stolen vehicle, allowing police to focus on Watertown (Shallwani, 2013). On April 19th shortly after midnight the brothers were spotted by a local police officer in Watertown (Arsenault, 2013). Within minutes the area was a standoff between the police and the brothers. As many as 300 bullets were exchanged between police and the brothers in the firefight (Arsenault, 2013). The suspects threw pipe bombs at the police when they were surrounded as well as a copy of their pressure cooker bomb, an exact duplicate of the Boston Marathon bombs. After several minutes of tense gunfire and homemade bombs going off the elder brother, Tamerlan, walked towards the officers until he ran out of ammunition (Arsenault, 2013). The cops then tackled Tamerlan but had to quickly scatter when the younger brother came in the stolen SUV and ran over Tamerlan (Arsenault,

Whether or not information was shared on the brothers, the larger question remained: why did the brothers radicalize and kill and injure scores of people who were attending the Boston Marathon? Those who make the leap towards terrorism experience varying levels of, anger, passion, or frustration in support of their beliefs. In recent years, rising expectations, fueled by images of affluence and democracy spread by the mass media have provoked feelings of deprivation among many populations, particularly in Africa, Asia, and parts of Eastern Europe. Individuals who become terrorists oftentimes do so because they feel unheard, insignificant, unheard, or not important. Still others follow a cause or group that is misguided and can lead to violent

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has a tremendous responsibility to keep people safe from harm. The responsibility to investigate a wide range of crimes is summed up by the mission statement of, “to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States” (FBI, n.d.). This wide sweeping mission statement has led to questionable investigative techniques and possible violations of ethics, policy and even law to accomplish the mission. From

The Boston Marathon Bombings was one of the most recent large scale terrorist events to occur in the United States. The Boston Bombings took place on April 15, 2013 and events unfolded for five following days as law enforcement tracked down the suspects. Terrorists Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were responsible for the lives of three people and had injured over two-hundred fifty others. Research shows that the two brothers were part of the Islamic militancy movement. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in during the pursuit of the terrorists. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured after a lengthy standoff and man hunt. The younger Tsarnaev was convicted of guilty of bombing a place of public use, using weapons of mass destruction (WMD). He was also found

The Tsarnaev brothers immigrated from Kyrgyzstan in two thousand two. The brothers always had a close relationship, but no one realized how detrimental their closeness would be. Tamerlan obtained the radical Islamic ideology, which he used to brainwash his younger brother Dzhokhar, thus leading to his pleas of falling victim to Stockholm syndrome in the trials following the bombings. Tamerlan used the technique of breaking down the target into “a category, a class, not the human beings, and it is easy to exterminate a category, a class, a race, an alien tribe”(Morrow). Dzhokhar was taught to associate these people with the wrong religion and then further broke it down into a faceless and nameless category. However, as stated by Rollo Romig, “Evil requires agency”. This means that the evil of Dzhokhar was more or less aided in development by his brother. Nonetheless, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s actions were heinous, but his motives were skewed into believing he was helping his brother achieve something greater, thus proving he was of corrupt mind to which one cannot classify him as

Post (1998) underline the importance of the family composition (single parent, uncomplite family) and the relations inside of the family. Post (1998) “ also cites studies that show how many terrorists were reared in families that were fragmented, with fathers who were hostile.”

On April 12, 2013, it was a special day in Massachusetts. Many people gather to watch runners for an iconic run through Boston. Today would be the change of many people’s life. An eight-year-old would lose his life along with two other people. Almost twenty people would go on to become an amputee. The Tsarnaev brothers studied “how to” videos and documents showing them how to construct a homemade bomb. In the description, there was a statement telling them to trust in Allah. Two homemade bombs were placed near the finish line, probably a block apart. The first one going off closer to the finish line. As soon as the bomb goes off, all there is to see is a giant area, behind the fencing, of blood, people screaming and an immediate panic. The next couple days were a race to get the suspects apprehended before more carnage could happen. The city was locked down. The brothers were linked

Kate lived in Boston, Massachusetts, she went to school at Boston University, Kate and Katherine met in dorms and were close ever since. So back in the 1960’s there wasn’t fair treatment for women, many women didn’t like that so some went on protest and more. Kate and Katherine had a different plan, they were planning on having Katherine run the Boston Marathon.

On April 15, 2013, two homemade pressure-cooker bombs were placed near the finish line of The Boston Marathon. The bombs detonated 12 seconds and 210 yards (a block) apart at 2:49 pm near the finish line. Because the bombs were put low, most people were only severely injured from the waist down. Making a total of only 17 lost limbs. At least 264 people were injured and a total of six died: three persons from the bombing, 2 police officers, and the terrorist brother.

From Western audiences, Chechnya—whether as an autonomous oblast, a sovereign state, or a war zone—has never received much consideration. Just one of dozens of ethnic groups within Russia who have declared since the end of the Soviet Union their right to self-rule and self-determination, the Chechens’ struggle for independence was drowned out in the cacophony of calls for independence during the 1990s. However, in a world so greatly affected by the events of September 11, 2001 and given the role of Chechen separatist groups in bombings of Russian apartment buildings in 1999 (which killed more than 300) and the hostage-taking of a Russian theater in 2002 (which resulted in the deaths of 130 Russians and 30 rebels), the rhetoric of

The Boston Marathon has always been one of the most popular event that goes on in Boston, now it is also the most remember able event because of the bombing on April 15, 2013. The wounded turned their tragedy into inspiration to tell others. Mayor J. Walsh says they will not be afraid. They will continue having this marathon for this marathon is special to the citizens of Boston.

The situation in Chechnya is out of hand, a senseless echo of Stalin in a day where the expression of such rank evil should not occur or be tolerated. An interview with a local Chechen refugee solidified my understanding of the situation. However, meeting a survivor face-to-face also made the situation seem more real and therefore much more painful. When asked to comment on the film "Crying Sun," my subject took a deep breath. "This is just like what happened in our village," she said. There were land mines everywhere. The paratroopers came a lot. Once we ran to the neighbor's house barefoot, just like the woman in the movie said. They looted from our homes too. My cousins died.

The Boston Marathon is an annual event and brings out large numbers of individuals including marathon runners, the families of the runners, large police presence, and many tourists. During the annual event in April of 2013, there were two explosions close to the finish line that resulted in three fatalities and an excessive number of those injured, approximately 200 (History, 2014). These explosions came from homemade bombs that had been hidden in bags and dropped ear the finish line of the marathon. Investigations were immediately launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and within a matter days two unknown males became primary suspects as they were believed to be the individuals responsible for the bombs and the atrocious marathon