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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarathon bombing suspects met conspiracy theorist
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/06/suspects-conspiracy-theorist/2625839/BOSTON (AP) Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev befriended a brain-damaged anti-U.S. government conspiracy theorist through their mother's health care aide job years before the deadly attack, a lawyer said Tuesday.
Attorney Jason Rosenberg, who represents the family of Donald Larking, said Larking shared publications with the brothers, especially Tamerlan, and discussed theories including that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting didn't happen or the U.S. government was behind them.
The lawyer's account first emerged in a Wall Street Journal article, which included Tamerlan Tsarnaev's former landlady talking about publications that had been in his Cambridge apartment.
Landlady Joanna Herlihy told The Associated Press she salvaged publications after authorities had finished searching the apartment and items were discarded. She confirmed that among them were an Alabama-based publication that uses a Confederate flag on its website and a weekly publication that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls anti-Semitic.
Rosenberg said Tuesday he doesn't think Larking helped the Tsarnaev brothers, ethnic Chechens from Russia, formulate ideas but may have made them believe others felt as they did.
" They) were seeing someone who was Caucasian and was born in America who was saying the same things," the attorney said.
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Marathon bombing suspects met conspiracy theorist (Original Post)
sinkingfeeling
Aug 2013
OP
The quest for capital and power are a gateway to violent extremism. eom
PowerToThePeople
Aug 2013
#4
millennialmax
(331 posts)1. Conspiracy theories are a gateway to violent extremism. eom
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)6. +1...nt
Sid
malaise
(267,823 posts)2. Very interesting
Thanks for this.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)3. Oy vey.
A seamless confluence of Derp. A quantum singularity of Derp. Derp of such mass that it bends the light. Perfect Derp.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)4. The quest for capital and power are a gateway to violent extremism. eom
leveymg
(36,418 posts)5. In that case, it was just Oswald, alone, in Boston. Nothing to see. Move along. . .