I agree this doesn't seem to add up but there is still a lot we don't know about this. I am hesitant to think conspiracy but more that the information out there about these guys is so incomplete and conflicting.
I respect that you're not a conspiracy theory nut. But what doesn't seem right? My guess is that the older brother was the ring leader and younger brother didn't necessarily share any Chechnyan separatist views but went along. The guys were armed with explosives so I'm curious what doesn't add up. If they were unarmed I might agree. But it's too early for me to rule anything out or have any firm opinions about it at all. Since I'm still trying to figure it out, and I respect your opinion I'm curious about why you don't think it adds up.
I am not even saying this is a conspiracy, I would be very surprised. However, it does not make sense. The younger brother decides to kill people and just go a long with his older brother? That just strikes me as very odd... especially based on his concerns for the poor and other people. No one seems to have a single negative thing to say about the younger brother. There is virtually nothing linking him to extremism at all. The older brother seems to be religious, but has a Christian wife and a Christian child? That does not strike me as Islamist extremism. So why did they do it? Especially the younger boy....... I am sure there is a logical reason, but we are missing a BIG piece right now... and I am curious what it will be. There is just something different about these terrorist attacks.
You make good points. I don't know enough about the younger brother. I just know that sometimes younger siblings can develop a hero infatuation with the older one. If something wasn't fully functional with his mental well being maybe he would just follow the older brother doing that. The older brother may be not a religious extremist as much as a Chechnyan extremist, and somehow his rampage tied into the desire for independence more than religion. I don't know. There's so much unknown at this point I can't say anything with real certainty. But it isn't like the two weren't armed and didn't have explosives. I saw no signs that the younger brother was forced into anything. I don't know. If they take him alive maybe a lot can be explained.
From what I've read, the older brother wasn't so much a Chechnyan nationalist but instead a Soviet one, who wanted to strike a blow against their mortal enemy as a way of inspiring the Soviet regime to rise again. That makes the most sense, from my perspective - something like an incompetent Makalov from CoD.
That would contradict his statement about boxing in the Olymipcs for the US and not Russia should Chechnya not be independent.
I literally don't understand this sentence, but I will note that one of my biggest berserk buttons is that Russia /= Soviet Union.
He was training to box in the olympics. They interviewed him and, I'm paraphrasing here, if he won a few more fight he would qualify and he would fight for the US and not Russia. That is unless Chechnya became its own country. In synthesis: hommie has no love for Russia.
Is it possible that all the news agency are trying to claim first knowledge of information X? Right now, there is still a lot of dust coming from all media outlets and is very difficult to determine which one is accurate. Just watching the first few hours of CNN was a good testament. It went from somebody got arrested and in about 30 minutes, they don't have a suspect. We probably need the dust to settle and get the facts straight before we can even discuss what makes sense or not.
It says that she is Portuguese-Italian and converted to Islam. Did you also catch the news that there was a case of domestic violence of him vs. her? Did you see his Youtube page? That goes way past "religious"?
Yeah, I think thats the dude that had a mustang and bragged about washing his stuff in girls sinks after doing them
The US lets people from chechnya to come to the US as refugees. If he was a chechnyan separatist he should be attacking russia.
Agreed unless he saw some sort of reason to think the US didn't do enough to help. Like I said I have no idea. I'm only guessing.
The hard thing to understand is that I hadn't seen it. Looking at it now, it seems like it's no surprise that he's a psycho. It would make sense that someone who did that is a fundamentalist terrorist. Of course I haven't seen the playlists he created about terrorism. That could change it. If it was one that was mean angry songs about terrorism it could be a statement against it. I don't know.
