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Timothy
Alben (C) of the Massachusetts State Police and Boston Police
Commissioner Edward Davis (Center R) in Watertown, Mass., on April 19
The
identities of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing -- Chechen
brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 -- appear
tentatively to confirm several of Stratfor's suspicions. From this
profile, the simple nature of the attack, their efforts to rob a
convenience store and their lack of an escape plan, we can at least say
at this point in time that they were what we refer to as
grassroots militants. Despite being amateurs, such militants clearly still pose a significant threat.
Analysis
