MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) – The elder of the two suspected Boston bombers had subscribed to “right-wing extremist literature,” the BBC reported Monday.
According to research conducted by documentary program “BBC Panorama,” the now-deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev had subscribed to publications that featured white supremacist views and conspiracy theories, and possessed reading material on “mass killings.”
Tsarnaev and his 20-year-old brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are suspected of planting bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15 that killed three people and injured 264. Tamerlan died in a shootout with police; Dzhokhar was apprehended. The brothers had roots in Russia’s restive North Caucasus, but had emigrated to the United States about 10 years before the bombings.
Dzhokhar pleaded not guilty in July to charges including murder and using a weapon of mass destruction in connection with the attack. Until now, the suspects had been broadly perceived as self-styled radical jihadists, the British broadcaster reported.
