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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this story is true... it certainly doesn't sound like the boys had very good role models.  It sounds like the father might have been a little radical himself.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/04/20/know-boston-bombers/[/quote]

Very interesting little window into their lives. Like others I of course have enormous sympathy for the victims, but I do feel a sadness for this young man who seemed to have so much going for him. I get the sense the older brother by nature was off, but I don't think that was the case with the Dzhokhar. none of this justifies his horrifying crime, but let's at least think about the environment around him. The most positive influences on him were his friends and teachers at the highschool. He attended a large university so he didn't have quite the buffer he had in highschool. If what I have read is true

-Grew up in an area with violence until moved to the US
-Family lived in poverty at times during time in US, father could not always make ends meet working as a mechanic
-Family discord-parents ended up separating, lots of arguing, sister encouraged to stay in a marriage where she was beaten multiple times
-Mom became more radical and extreme and had alarming views about 9-11 being a conspiracy (interesting that Dzhokhar became on citizen on 9-11 of a different year)
-Mom shoplifted
-Mom describes dad as crazy
-Lots of family estrangements
-Unstable brother who became increasingly radical, brother was physically abusive toward former girlfriend
-He worshiping brother "followed" him like a puppy according to one account and this was his only close family in the Boston area

No, this does not in any way justify his actions, but I do suspect all of these things influenced him strongly.

Again, I do not in any way condone anything he did. He is a terrorist. He is evil. I just don't think he started out evil by nature.[/quote]

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