ramana wrote:
In the end it may urn out these two are maladjusted, failing to assimilate pissed off duo who were successful in showing their bile and are claiming Islam and US foreign policies as grievances to justify their heinous crimes. Its like the Maoist bandits who claim to be inspired by Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal by way of analogy.
Ramana angry and frustrated people need to take it out on someone specific that they hate to feel better. The Oklahoma bombing was against a government building. 9-11 was against symbols of the USA. School shootings are often directed at teachers or students who are disliked.
In the US the easiest method to kill en masse for mango Abdul is by gun.
For a bomb you need special knowledge and an intention not to get caught - so you are not targeting specific known people whom you want to confront an kill and feel better. I have not looked but I would be happy to be pointed to any site that tells me how to make a pressure cooker bomb in a language I understand. That tech is an ISI/LeT special and Inspire magazine may have got it from them
So we have Tamerlane targeting a symbol of an American city (a marathon run) and killed people unknown to him because he did not care whom he killed. That means that he was aiming at the symbol, not the person. His method of killing sought anonymity - he killed and vanished - meaning that it was a deliberate act. He wanted to live and did not want direct credit (or blame) for the act but may have wanted to savour the carnage. His source of technology was unusual for anyone except an Islamic terrorist
All in all this guy is an Islamist who has had some indoctrination, working for Islam. It would be silly to try an pin the blame on Al Qaeda because no such organization exists. There is a huge loose network of trained terrorists who will train all and sundry to take out their frustration on certain countries. They are given the training and let loose. I hope the US enjoys this - because letting loose trained terrorists is something that is a speciality of post colonial wars with western mercenaries - funded in later years by the CIA. Islamic groups are not stupid - they know that lone terrorist or groups are the best. So they train them and seed the world.