Thread: Bombing suspect reportedly a fan of al-Qaida magazine and Alex Jones website

Bombing suspect reportedly a fan of al-Qaida magazine and Alex Jones website

By Claudine Zap

Videos on the Internet and an online jihadist magazine may have played a part in the Boston Marathon bombing suspects’ self-radicalization, according to reports.

New accounts say the brothers learned how to build a bomb from the online magazine, Inspire, which gave instructions on how to make bombs with a pressure cooker, the kind of bombs used in the attacks at the Boston Marathon, authorities say.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving bomb suspect, reportedly told investigators there was no foreign influence on him and his brother.
But apparently the brothers learned to make a bomb from the online al-Qaida propaganda tool aimed at Westerners with slick graphics and headlines like: “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.”
The U.S. government deemed the publisher , a 25-year-old blogger named Samir Khan, so dangerous that he was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
Investigators told the Associated Press the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police, was “an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda.”
An AP report also suggests that Tamerlan had an interest in the conspiracy theories espoused on the Alex Jones website, Infowars.
Jones, who also has a radio show, told BuzzFeed, “He could be a listener. It could be true. I've talked to the family and most of them are listeners. My show is anti-terrorism and my show exposes that most of the events we've seen have been provocateured."
Jones suggested that the Boston Marathon bombings were a plot “hatched” by the FBI.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/tamerlan-reportedly-fan-al-qaida-magazine-alex-jones-154044213.html

Tamerlan Tsarnaev Believed in Basically Every Conspiracy Theory

By David Weigel
Posted Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at 5:09 PM

The AP keeps digging into the dead bombing suspect's past and finds him endorsing, at some point, not just a cocktail but a Long Island Iced Tea of conspiracy theories. His inspiration, the mysterious "Misha," reportedly turned him onto radical Islam that was disconnected from the larger, more strategic terror organizations that the U.S. considers itself at war with.
Tsarnaev became an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, two U.S. officials said. He read Inspire magazine, an English-language online publication produced by al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate...Tamerlan took an interest in Infowars, a conspiracy theory website. Khozhugov said Tamerlan was interested in finding a copy of the book "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," the classic anti-Semitic hoax, first published in Russia in 1903, that claims a Jewish plot to take over the world.InfoWars is Alex Jones' megasite (supported pretty frequently by Drudge Report links); InfoWars, ironically enough, had a reporter at the early Boston press conferences, asking authorities to prove that the bombing wasn't a "false flag" attack. But the InfoWars version of history is totally at odds with the radical Islamist version. If Jones is right, the greatest "successes" of Islamists were actually operations planned by a brilliantly devious CIA.

UPDATE: Damn her eyes, Rosie Gray gets Alex Jones on the record before I do. (I ran into a full voicemail box.)

"I've seen this before," Jones said. "The federal government trying to connect me to tragedies. That's the media and the government's own conspiracy theories."

Jones compared the situation to when Richard Andrew Poplawski, a Pittsburgh man who killed three police officers in 2009, was shown to be a conspiracy theorist who frequently visited the Infowars website.

"It's standard for them to talk to people, go through computers, and any time someone's done something bad they connect it to us," Jones said.　
　
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/23/tamerlan_tsarnaev_believed_in_basically_every_cons piracy_theory.html

Boston bomber was Alex Jones conspiracy fan

• by: Daniel Piotrowski and AP
• From: news.com.au
• April 24, 2013 1:22PM

PROFESSIONAL conspiracy debunkers are having a field day as ridiculous conspiracy theories about the Boston terrorist chaos burble up from the depths of the internet.

There's the man who was pictured standing on the roof at Boston. There are ridiculous, MS Paint-style infographics of Michelle Obama visiting Saudi nationals in hospital. There's a viral image of a 'suspect' caught on CCTV who has absolutely nothing to do with the Boston bombings. And what happened to that naked man?
Many of these theories are rooted in ideas posted on social media hubs such as Facebook and Reddit, in the comments sections of blogs and from the zany brainwaves of some of America's most prolific conspiracy theorists, like Alex Jones, who runs Infowars.com from his home office.
But there's a twist. There are reports today that the terrorist bombers themselves may have been inspired by web conspiracy theories such as Mr Jones'.
One of the two brothers who perpetrated the bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had fallen under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert.
"Somehow, (the convert) just took his brain," Mr Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni said.
The Associated Press reports Tsarnaev, who was killed in a firefight with Boston police, then began to turn to literature and websites claiming the CIA was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks and that Jews controlled the world.
Sources told AP he took an interest in Infowars as well as al-Qaeda's English language magazine Inspire.
Mr Jones angrily denounced the report on his website, saying his organisation was "anti-terror".
"You knew that it was coming," he said to the camera. "Infowars.com is now being connected to the bombing patsy suspects."
"They're saying Tamerlan was influenced by shadowy evil. Then they basically imply it's infowars.com in there," he fumed.
"It's classically done to demonise us."
Mr Jones is a ‘New World Order' conspiracy theorist who believes the FBI has been behind every terrorist attack on US soil in recent years.
The Anti-Defamation League described him as the "most prominent conspiracy theorist in the United States".
His writing is often interspersed with a heavy use of exclamation marks and his website promises: "THERE IS A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND".
The New York Times described his radio broadcasts as "fiery, almost preacherly, addresses in which he sweats, balls his fists and often swerves from quoting Roman history to using foul language in a single breath."
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http://www.news.com.au/world-news/no...#ixzz2RPOBauEG