3. To: Tim at No. 2
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Actually, the brothers have evidently left quite a trail of radicalization on their computers, including bomb-making websites and very fundamentalist Islamic organizations.
That there are others involved -- whether domestic or foreign -- is not in dispute. The question is finding them. However violent they proved themselves to be, these were two rather silly boys. They could not have amassed the firepower in their possession on their own. Neither is there any evidence that they tried to fit in or were desperate for money. If anything, it would appear that at least the younger one's classmates tried very hard to make him feel welcome in the United States, and he had a scholarship. A lot of far more worthy American-born students don't get scholarships. And the older one was a Golden Gloves boxer, with Olympic aspirations. Winning Golden Gloves competitions carries monetary rewards, which are permissible under even the very stringent United States Olympic Committee rules governing what constitutes an amateur athlete and what constitutes a professional athlete.
They were terrorists, plain and simple. One is dead. The other one will likely be executed. But three innocent people are dead, several have lost limbs -- a double amputation in one case that I know of -- and hundreds have been traumatized.
I have no pity for these terrorist scum. The full measure of my compassion rests with their victims.
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