Boston Marathon Terror Attacks

Boston Marathon Bombing

The Boston Marathon is one of the track's most storied events, which was established in 1897. Research shows that the event typically attracts about 500,000 spectators and requires certain qualifying times for athletes to compete. On April 15, 2013, at least two improvised explosive devices (IEDS) placed close to the finish lines of the Boston Marathon denoted approximately three hours after the winners completed the course (Berke, 2014). The two explosions placed by Dzhokhar and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev denoted within seconds of each other killing three as well as, injuring more than two hundred and fifty people. This paper is therefore a summary of the Boston Marathon Bombing; giving reasons to what led the two brothers to commit these crimes. The paper will also analyze the media in regards to the bombing.

What led (Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev) to commit these crimes?

Following the Boston Marathon Bombing, journalists and ordinary people have struggled so much to understand their motives. Three days following the Boston Bombing, the FBI held a press conference, which showed the photographs and security footage of the two brothers, both wearing a large backpack. Even after the FBI agents carried out the investigation behind the Boston Bombing, the citizens doubted whether they would know the truth because the FBI shot Tamerlan dead as well as, concealing the details of what happened on that fateful day. While in his hiding place, Dzhokhar confessed to the Boston Marathon Bombing that he as well as, his brother had planted the bombs in retaliation for the United States.

According to the CBS News, the Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note scrawled in pen on a bullet-riddled wall of the boat where he hid. He said, the America's military involvement in Iraq as well as, Afghanistan was the reason behind the deadly April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Tsarnaev wrote on the note scrawled with a marker just on interior wall of the cabin saying that "the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims "collateral damage" in the same way Muslims have been in the American-led wars." He added by saying that "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," (Ortiz, 2014). On the note, he added that he did not mourn the death of his older brother Tamerlan, since he knew his brother suffered for a cause, or was a martyr in the paradise and he expected to join him there soon (Brown, 2014).

The Media