shaping a terrorist

Tamerlan Read Radical Literature

Which espoused white supremacy, gun rights.

Before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev had apparently been consuming reading material that dealt with subjects from “the rape of our gun rights” to pro-Hitler white supremacy to claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were government conspiracies. A BBC investigation found the suspected bomber was in possession of this radical literature and that he and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, had been reading militant Islamist websites. “He [Tamerlan] just didn’t like America. He felt like America was just basically attacking all Middle Eastern countries … you know, trying to take their oil,” one friend said.