From YouTube to Boston: How boys become bombers

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The YouTube channel of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, provides a hint about his online radicalization, likely leading to his role in planting the bombs that killed and hurt people in the Boston marathon a week ago. His “playlist of hate” shows his support of fundamentalism and violent jihad, and includes a song called “I Dedicate My Life to Jihad,” as well as deleted links to extremist groups in Chechnya where his family is originally from. Terrorism expert and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa said the Internet is another wild card in how extremist groups radicalize and recruit across borders, resulting in the indiscriminate killing of civilians.


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