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Did Tamerlan ‘Self-Radicalize’?

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If the Tsarnaev brothers in fact trained themselves in terror, it would put them in an extremely rare breed of extremists. Al Qaeda expert Richard Barrett explains why.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly told interrogators from his hospital bed that he and his brother Tamerlan were driven to bomb the Boston Marathon by hardline Islamist views and anger over the United States wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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