Boston: No Easy Answers For Investigators

There are still many difficult questions, but no easy answers.

If the Tsarnaev brothers are indeed the Boston bombers the question of the motive remains unsolved. However, their ethnic roots do give rise to various avenues the authorities will now explore.

Some of the Tsarnaev family were living the American dream. The brothers' uncle, Ruslan, had come to America, worked hard, got on in life and was able to live in a good house in a leafy part of town.

The brothers' uncle described his nephews as 'losers'

He is furious with his nephews with whom he appears to have broken relations a few years ago. His brother had brought Tamerlan and Dzhokhar to Boston when they were young children.

As Ruslan said, the father had worked hard to 'put bread on their table'. They were educated, grew up, and socialised in the city known to Americans as the Cradle Of Liberty - just another two young sons of an immigrant growing up the American way, but with memories of their heritage.

The Tsarnaev family roots are in Chechnya, a republic brutalised by the unsuccessful wars of independence from Russia.

In the 1990s the Chechen nationalist movement began to morph into one demanding an Islamic state, or Caliphate, in the whole region of the Caucuses.

That led to terror attacks such as that against the Moscow Theatre in which 130 people died, and the Belsan school siege in North Ossetia where 334 died, including 186 children.

By then the ideas of global jihad, including taking on the US, had penetrated Chechnya and in the wake of  9/11 Chechens went to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Some of the radicalised Chechens had moved on from the narrow aim of independence, they were now in al Qaeda intellectual territory.

So investigators will now want to know if the Boston attack is linked to the cause of Chechen independence - which does not seem likely - or if the brothers had been radicalised by Chechens holding global jihadist views. If so, where did that take place?

There is another possibility - one where Columbine meets the Caucuses. The Columbine massacre was carried out by two young men, alienated from those around them, the Oklahoma bombing was carried out by another young American who distanced himself from the mainstream, Timothy McVeigh.

There are suggestions that the brothers, disillusioned with their lives, went down a similar path. Not being born Americans they also had a quick route to feeling themselves to be outsiders. On Friday their own uncle described them as 'losers'.

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