Boston Bombing Suspect Posted Video on Al Qaeda Prophecy on YouTube —(Mother Jones)

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Boston Bombing Suspect Posted Video on Al Qaeda Prophecy on YouTube
—By Adam Serwer| Fri Apr. 19, 2013 5:45 AM PDT


The deceased suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon, which killed three and injured more than 170, appears to have posted a video extolling an extremist religious prophecy associated with Al Qaeda to his YouTube page.


Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26 year-old brother of the second Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had a YouTube page where he posted religious videos, including a video of Feiz Mohammad, a fundamentalist Australian Muslim preacher who rails against the evils of Harry Potter. Among those videos is one dedicated to the prophecy of the Black Banners of Khurasan which is embraced by Islamic extremists—particularly Al Qaeda. The videos posted on what appears to be Tsarnaev's YouTube page may shed light on the motivations for the attack on the Boston Marathon. The prophecy states that an invincible army will come from the region of "Khurasan," a large portion of territory in central Asia.

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The older Tsarnaev seems to have posted the video four months ago under the username "muazseyfullah." According to Zelin, "Mu'az is usually a name," and "Sayf Allah means sword of God." Here is the video:

Tsarnaev's YouTube page also contains other indications of his interest in Islamic fundamentalism and jihadism. He subscribed two months ago to a channel called "Allah is the One." In recent months, he liked a video with the title "Who wants to become a militiaman?" and a video described as a telephone conversation with a famous sheikh that covers "collaboration" with the Sufis of Chechnya. In a comment posted two months ago regarding another video, he assails a Muslim for not being a pure adherent of the faith:

You are not a grand Michael but the same Misha that you were before Islam. You accepted Shiism not because it convinces you, but because of the fears, and interests (about which Allah knows) which you've followed. Just like you entered into Islam, so to you flew out of it. You betrayed yourself, Misha. Well anyways...farewell.

more:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/boston-bombing-suspect-posted-video-al-qaeda-prophecy-youtube

[Heather MC]

1. So Bombing a Marathon was supposed to end the world?

I was raised to believe God would end it all not man.