So who trained those 2 kids???
 

Seriously... 2 kids against an army, 1 was on the loose for a while... who trained them???

Shut up, conspiracy theorist!

You saw the photos from the FBI and they said they were suspects so they are guilty and they trained themselves end of story!

the older one's travel docs show he spent 6 months somewhere after a plane trip landed him in moscow, russia last year, i suspect he received some sort of indoctrination and training at that time, the younger one, i suspect was trained by the older brother upon his return.

Of course!!!

But when someone lands in America, no way he could be trained by the FBI or CIA!! DOH!

no one is saying the cia are the golden girls. try and stay focused, i know you are excited about all of this.

If they were trained...they certainly were not trained well. I seriously doubt that they had any training/

well, if the younger one was trained by the older, as i mentioned, that certainly does not qualify as training per se. also, to what level are mules in the drug trade trained? barely.

if the older one got any training, he was a stoolie level stooge. he probably didn't even get a name tag.

The older one influenced his brother; building a pressure cooker bomb is available on the Internet. Hiding under the tarp of a boat does not take a lot of training.

Sorry dude. I don't buy that... someone's behind those kids I think:2 cents:

i'll be curious to see what set off the older brother. from all accounts, he changed overnight.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me :2 cents:

a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future.

So, we have a conspiracy here....ergo, you are a conspiracy theorist!

a conspiracy theory sets out to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at "stealing" power, money, or freedom, from "the people"

Conspiracy theories are based on the notion that complex plots are put into motion by powerful hidden forces.


obviously, not at all what i said.

No, you have the wrong definition...

Ignorance is bliss :thumbsup

it's not my definition. i had to learn that, so that's a c&p, it does seem to be spot on.


nevertheless, here is the blurb on the travel, i'm sure he just visited family,

“Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev flew in and out of John F. Kennedy Airport last year and was out of the country for six months, and investigators said they want to know if he received any terror training while he was overseas, NBC 4 New York has learned.

Travel records obtained by NBC 4 New York show Tsarnaev left New York on Jan. 12, 2012 for Sheremetyevo,the moscow airport, Russia. He stayed overseas and returned to JFK on July 17.

So he goes back to where he was born and received "terror" training? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh The united states is the biggest exporter and trainer of terror the world has ever seen :2 cents:

and no, not "us", those who rule over us

I am going to predict that he did not receive any training based upon the fact that he nor his brother displayed any signs of having been trained.

it's a news article, the media takes liberties in describing shit to get eyeballs. come on, make this a little harder, think for yourself.

I think the older one was on his way to a mediocre life. He wasn't fitting in. Boston is an expensive city and he wasn't making it. Rather than blame himself he blamed America.

He traveled to a part of the world where anti America is the norm and had encouragement and the religious slant needed to push him to retaliate. His little brother was just following him.

i think indoctrinated could be a better word. i think he was already an extremist, on his trip to russia, he was further inculcated with ideology perhaps, a stronger attitude of hate against the system he failed in. ideas planted in his head, "it's easy to make a pressure cooker bomb" etc....

see what i am saying? just yapping out loud. i do wonder what he did over there for 6 months.

YES! that's what i meant by training, thank you.

and to answer this specifically, the army of authorities were looking for them, not involved in the shootout(s).

although i am completely surprised the younger kid got away from the shootout. that is odd.

Indoctrinated is a much better word than trained.

hmmm, what channel were you watching?I don't recall one person that (not related) that made any comments about him. The younger one came off as a boy scout.

yeah

The Internet trained them and will continue to train the homegrown terrorists of tomorrow.

Luckily it is also training the scientist, law enforcement and soldiers that will stop them or capture them after.

i might be combining what i heard and getting mixed up about comments from people who knew the brothers. i was watching streams on it, i will see if i can find something, i very well may be confused on the older brother being described as a nice guy.

"kids"?

One was in his 20's the other 19.

Most guys I knew had left home and were on their own by 17. (I graduated when I was 17 and was living at my own place with my 25 year old girlfriend at the time)

I certainly wouldn't consider a 19 year old grown man a "kid". And definitely not a 20 something year old.

They are MEN (hell, people didn't even live past their 30's not that long ago in history...these guys would have been considered "old" a couple hundred years ago) not kids.

Not sure how old you are; but 19 year olds have been kids to me for quite a while. Agreed, Tamerlan was not a kid.

here's some of what i heard, it's from a boxing coach of his, i also thought i heard from a wrestling colleague and someone else, but this doesn't really suggest a real overnight change

relax robbie.

Anyone under twenty-five is a kid...and the maturation level of many over twenty-five is still that of a kid.

I'm 51. But I certainly don't consider a 19 year old adult man to be a "kid".

Just because I'm old doesn't mean a man is not a man. Our society set the limit of "adult" at 18 for legal reasons (signing a legal contract).
Doesn't mean that plenty of people 15, 16, and 17 aren't already full grown men and women.

They certainly used to be considered so.

Just because society in one little current fraction of time in history that is barely a blip on the screen chooses it to be 18 doesn't mean it's "right" (or "wrong" for that matter)

But can we PLEASE stop acting like grown men and women are "children".
It makes us all look foolish.

here's a bit more that suggests he flipped::::

They would subsequently identify him as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen who had come here from Kazakhstan in 2003 after his family was granted political asylum. His avowed goal had once been to get his American citizenship by boxing for the U.S. Olympic team and then turn pro.

That dream had hit a bump at the 2009 Golden Gloves Championship in Salt Lake City, where Tamerlan failed to make even the semifinals, losing by decision to Lamar Fenner of Chicago. He had hoped for a title bout but was arrested that year for assaulting his girlfriend. He stayed away from the gym for a while and came back transformed, abrasive and rude when he had once been polite and respectful. He walked with his street shoes on the mats as if to show rules did not apply to him.


In the meanwhile, his thwarted ambitions found refuge in talk of jihad. A YouTube account in the name ?Tamerlan Tsarnaev? posted a playlist he named ?Terrorists? and ?liked? Islamic militant videos. He complained that ?there are no values any more.?

Eh, just gets on my nerves how we coddle people these days.

i don't mean to imply coddling. but the 19 year old is a kid. he is an adult and all that that implies, but you know what i mean, he is the one who really flipped out the most. that's what i mean by kid, he fell for his brother's bullshit hook line and sinker, that's a kid.

Call Of Duty!!!

sorry about the relax robbie comment, that was smart alecky.

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Huh? What part suggested training exactly.

No kidding - the first thing I would have done in their shoes is *IMMEDIATELY* after the setting the bombs be on my way out of the that state altogether.

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He wasn't fitting in. Common problem for the 1.5 generation of immigrants. Parents fall into established network of old country people. Kids flounder.

what training? avoiding the police for a few days is not exactly rambo stuff...the pressure cookers are amateur hour...

trained? LOL

The people's need for looking for conspiracies where there aren't any.

This shit didn't exist a couple of years ago.

Muslim crazies have been bombing the shit out of everyone and everything for ages. But nowadays that's suddenly impossible according to the nutters.

Bin Laden trained them personally.

they would make more damage with shotguns and campus rampage, so this is not clear as it is looking now

Yeah, this part was odd. No exit plan? Two brothers who thought no one would ID them after doing it in their hometown and then stuck around. I don't see a lot of high level thinking on this one.

If they were trained wouldn't their be a suicide or escape plan to protect the trainers?

Yea, because photos of people walking down the street with backpacks on are a clear indication of who has had any sort of training or not.

They were considered dangerous enough to have over 10,000 highly "trained" people with guns weapons hunting them and none of them had any idea what they were going to be up against. But you have it all figured out. :1orglaugh

Who knows if they did or not, and it doesn't even matter at this point, but unless you were there and saw everything, you have nothing to base your comments on other than the ghost of Pathfinder whispering in your ear.