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kpete

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Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:27 PM Apr 2013

Ex-CIA Deputy Director: Boston Bombing 'More Like Columbine Than Al Qaeda'

Ex-CIA Deputy Director: Boston Bombing 'More Like Columbine Than Al Qaeda'

Former CIA Deputy Director Phillip Mudd on Sunday told Fox News that Boston bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev should be charged as a murderer because the crime looked more like the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado than an attack planned by al Qaeda.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Mudd if there were signs that al Qaeda was behind the Boston Marathon bombing.

"The only fingerprint I've seen might have possible have been ideology, but not operations," Mudd explained. "But every step of the way here was pretty rudimentary. For example, if you look at some of those initial photos, you've got a kid with a hoodie and a cap. If he wants to obscure himself, the hoodie goes on, the cap forward."

"If he had operational training, I want to know who did it because they were amateurs."

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http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/ex-cia-deputy-director-boston-bombing-more-c

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Ex-CIA Deputy Director: Boston Bombing 'More Like Columbine Than Al Qaeda' (Original Post) kpete Apr 2013 OP
that is how i have read it the last couple days. nt seabeyond Apr 2013 #1
I tend to agree. HooptieWagon Apr 2013 #2
 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
2. I tend to agree.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 09:27 PM
Apr 2013

What I see is a couple of alienated young males striking out at society. They may have used Islam or Chechen independence as an excuse, but no more valid than "bullying". There does not seem to have been any financial or organizational backing from Islamic or Chechen rebel groups, and a group of runners and spectators watching them hardly seems like a target that furthers radical Islam or Chechen separatiist goals.

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