Boston Bombing Case Study On April 15, 2013, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev placed two backpacks near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The backpacks had pressure cooker bombs with metal fragments inside. The bombs killed three people and injured over 300 people (Boston). Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a 26 year old male and a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had several run-ins with law enforcement or acts of violence before the bombings occurred, which are the following: 2007 – He punched his younger sister Bella’s boyfriend in the face. According to a friend the young man was punched because he was not a Muslim. 2008 – He flew to Bellingham, Washington, to confront his sister’s husband of domestic abuse. 2009 – His live-in girlfriend …show more content…
They submit to Allah and take the Qu’ran verbatim. They also have many different view but the two major are the extremely conservative view of Islam and using violence against those that do not believe for achieving a goal. They also think that the western world is depraved and society is in decay (Farmer). All Islamic faiths or branches of the Muslim religion advocates a different type of jihad, which means striving in the path of God. There are four well know jihad: jihad al-lisan (striving of the tongue), jihad al-qalam (striving with the pen), jihad al-da’wa (striving by propagating the faith), and jihad al-saghir (striving through war and violence). The most common that we see is the jihad al-saghir, which the brothers were involved (Islam). The brothers had no official history of violence. Tamerlan was suspected to be involved in the Waltham triple homicide but was never charged because of his untimely death after the Boston bombing. The targets for the bombing were chosen by the time and the popularity of the marathon. According to Dzhokhar, they chose the target because their bombs came together sooner than anticipated. He also said that they were both angry about the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the killing of Muslims
In unit six we learned about anthropology and entomology and how forensic scientist use it different cases. Even though entomology was not that useful in The Oklahoma bombing case, anthropology was extremely useful for identifying the victims. Since it was an explosion, Forensic anthropologist had to study different remains of the victim's body and use different techniques (such as examining bone development) to identify who they were. For example, the death toll was originally 169 people (one person higher) than it is now because of an unidentified left leg was found and they couldn’t find the body it originally came from. Later, medical examiners compared the size of the tibia of the leg to other victims right leg. Finally forensic found
by the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The two men in which didn't even know the
Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and
When Kody was 16 years old he met his girlfriend and future wife, Tamu Shakur. They had their first child a year later. Even after having a child, Kody continued to live a life of murder and theft. In Kody’s autobiography he talked about how he would ride around his neighborhood blocks on his bicycle with a shot gun and a hand gun shooting rival gang members that were on “his turf” (Monster, 124). On January 1, 1980,...
On this day in the month of December, the Pan Am flight 103 was bombed mid flight, during its trip from London to New York. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, this act would become “the worst single act of terrorism ever witnessed in the UK” (BBC,1). Prior to the Pan Am leaving London's Heathrow airport, someone had sent a bag containing a hand held radio to the plane. Unfortunately, for the 270 people that died that day in the air and on the ground in the Lockerbie, Scotland, this was no regular radio. This Toshiba radio had been rigged with an explosive inside of it that took down the Pan Am flight 103 Boeing 747. As stated in an article by Donna E. Artz and Bruce J. Evensen, “The Pan Am was destroyed by a plastic explosive hidden inside a Toshiba radio cassette player that was inside an unaccompanied suit case apparently transferred from another airline” (1). By working together, the United States and Scotland sought justice for the 270 deceased. Initially, the leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, refused to release the prime suspects in the bombing to be tried in court. However, in 1991, after much negotiation and UN sanctions, Artz and Evensen write, “the United States and Scotland indicted two libyans, Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, for th...
There were up to 264 people injured in this marathon bombing. They were treated within 26 hospitals. On the scene of the bombing there were so many people with detached limbs or so many people with massive cuts that first responders were having to use lanyards as tourniquets. There are 16 people known that lost a limb in the
The Boston Massacre was a fundamental event at the beginning of the American Revolution. The massacre became part of anti-British propaganda for Boston activists and fed American fears of the English military in both the North and South. The Boston Massacre was the first “battle” in the Revolutionary War. Although it wasn’t until five years after the Boston Massacre that the Revolutionary War officially began, the Boston Massacre was a forecast of the violent storm to come.
It was in 1978, when he mailed his first bomb that he began to register on the FBI’s radar. He did not believe that the system was capable of change without violent actions being taken against it. “Terrorism was regarded by many as a special form of political violence.” (Iancu 2013) After one of the bombs he had
Years Eve, he shot a gun into the air. He was soon arrested and taken to a
...ter found the guys one week later as they tried to take the deposit on the retail van that was responsible for the bomb. When one of the men was arrested he said that the next time they attack they would bring both of them down which came on 9/11 which shook the whole world in an event nobody will ever forget (“Woog”).
The Boston Massacre was one the most controversial massacre in American history that teased the coming of the American Revolution. People were taunting a British soldier who was standing “in front of the Boston Custom House” who got very frustrated to the point where he hit somebody. The soldier got overwhelmed by people who came after he hit one of them, called help from his fellow soldiers. When Captain Preston and his soldiers arrived at the scene, people were coming from everywhere, some were trying to fight them and some were just there to watch. Then, one of the soldier shot at the people and his fellow soldiers started shooting after, which killed five people. This what ended it up being called the Boston Massacre. Some might say that the murderer were the soldiers who shot the people, but the real murderer is
The Boston Marathon bombers consisted of an older brother and younger brother with the younger being 20 at the time of the attack. The Beltway Sniper pair also had an older (father figure) and younger perpetrator with the younger being 17 years old at the time of the attack. Both of the younger perpetrators in both groups attempted to use a similar defense in court after their arrest for their terrorist acts. Malvo, the younger Beltway Sniper, attempted to say that he was largely influenced by Muhammad, who was the older perpetrator and was similar to a father figure. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the Boston Marathon Bombers also attempted to say that he was largely influenced by his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The defenses did not worked for the perpetrators as Malvo was sentenced to life without the chance of parole and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to
Throughout history, events are sparked by something, which causes emotions to rise and tensions to come to a breaking point. The Boston Massacre was no exception; America was feeling the pressure of the British and was ready to break away from the rule. However, this separation between these two parties would not come without bloodshed on both sides. The British did not feel the American had the right to separate them from under British rule, but the Americans were tired of their taxes and rules being placed upon them and wanted to succeed from their political tyrants. The Boston Massacre would be the vocal point in what would be recognized, as the Revolutionary War in American history and the first place lives would be lost for the cost of liberty. Even though the lives were lost that day, eight British soldiers were mendaciously accused of murder when it was clearly self-defense. People who are placed in a situation where their lives are threatened have the right to defend themselves. History does not have the right to accuse any one event those history may have considered the enemy guilty when they are fighting for their lives.
Publicly, Tsarnaev is known as a ruthless, heartless, terrorist however in his private life, people have been quoted saying that they had no clue that someone like him could commit such a crime because he was so nice. Nate Mann, a student who was a year older than Tsarnaev in high school said “seriously, he was so, so normal, no accent, an all-American kid in every measurable sense of the word” (Telegraph UK). Rolling Stone was trying to show that everyday side to him because that is what should make us comfortable. According to their statement, Rolling Stone believed that since “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of [their] readers,” there is a need to show that he is not as distant from them as they would like to believe (Rolling Stone’s Facebook Page). By making a private photo public, Rolling Stone enabled the public to close the gap between criminal and citizen so that a more nuanced discussion on the causes of terrorism could occur. How can a criminal have a heart? Terrorists are monsters that are not like the rest of us. The fact of the matter is, Tsarnaev was, at one point, no different from the rest of