Boston Marathon Bombings

[sanjuro_ronin]

Always disturbing when people that seem perfectly "normal" are really seriously ****ed up.

[Lucas]

that guy was one of the bombers? sry i havnt followed this at all

[GeneChing]

I love it when OT threads go on topic, but not this way, not this way at all...

Marathon Bombing Suspect’s MMA Instructor: Not The Guy I Used To Know
April 19, 2013 11:12 AM
Heard On WBZ NewsRadio 1030, Local, News, Seen On WBZ-TV, Syndicated Local,

BRIGHTON (CBS) – Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a very talented boxer, according to friends.

He is believed to have trained at Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Gym in the Brighton neighborhood in Boston.

WBZ-TV’s Jim Armstrong caught up with Tsarnaev’s former trainer Mark Massey on Friday, who describes the man he remembered as a nice guy.

“He’s not the guy I used to know,” Massey said.” (I’m) shocked just like everybody else.”

Tsarnaev once described himself as not having a single American friend and aspired to be a U.S. Olympic boxer.

[Syn7]

Speaking of explosions...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3iL2EhVsTs


Now that's an explosion. I want to believe it was a legit accident and not negligence. We'll see.

[MasterKiller]

Pic of the dead brother:

http://i.imgur.com/0U0ozqt.jpg

I'm not embedding. View at your own discretion.

[bawang]

feminists wanted it to be a white man, right wingers wanted it to be a muslim. they both got what they wanted.

[Syn7]

Caucasian, but not white. Of middle eastern descent.

[bawang]

Caucasian, but not white. Of middle eastern descent.

they slavs bro

[Syn7]

they slavs bro

Nationally, yes... Genetically, no. At least not completely, he may have a smattering of whoknowswhat.

[bawang]

the getaway car they hijacked had an interfaith tolerance bumper sticker.

[SavvySavage]

Nationally, yes... Genetically, no. At least not completely, he may have a smattering of whoknowswhat.

There is no such thing as middle eastern genetics and Slav genetics. You can't determine someone's "race" by a blood test. The guy is Eastern European. He is a mix of a bunch of different things.

[Jimbo]

Now we're nitpicking. They are ethnic Chechens; Chechnya is technically in western Asia, and they lived in Krygyzstan, in Central Asia, before coming to the U.S. But nobody anywhere is 'pure' anything.

[Lucas]

Now we're nitpicking. They are ethnic Chechens; Chechnya is technically in western Asia, and they lived in Krygyzstan, in Central Asia, before coming to the U.S. But nobody anywhere is 'pure' anything.

I'm 100% pure Badass.

[mawali]

Caucasian, but not white. Of middle eastern descent.

The Caucasian Republics were never European. When the nascent Russian army began to conquer the region (Armenia was part of it) they injected a quasi European sentiment that treated the 'natives' as backward and uncivilized and post Soviet military doctrine enforced that policy. So naturally they (the alleged terrorists) are free to rise up and equal the destruction of whom they perceive as an enemy, rightfully or wrongfully.

I am not sure where the 'white' comes in but based on US North American racial ideology, they are white or can be considers as such. If they are badass as they are made out to be, then they may be made 'black or brown based on other attributes

[Scott R. Brown]

It is irrelevant what race they are, it is what they did that makes them bad guys!