Not much of a diary, I am afraid, but wanted to point out this fascinating report that may shed some light on the motivations of the Boston bombers.
Via Talking Points Memo, one of the elder brother's friends states that he was increasingly under the spell of a mysterious friend from a mosque named "Misha" who guided the young man into radical Islam.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
The same friend also mentions Alex Jones/Infowars as another source for Tsarnaev's radicalization (below):
Tamerlan took an interest in Infowars, a conspiracy theory website. Khozhugov said Tamerlan was interested in finding a copy of “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” a piece of anti-Semitic literature claiming a Jewish plot to take over the world.
The story goes on to emphasize that Tamerlan held some kind of unusually strong thrall over the rest of the family, especially the little brother.
(All this should be taken with at least a grain of salt, but I thought it interesting and wanted to share the story nonetheless.)
6:25 PM PT:
Buzzfeed:
Jones — whose site has peddled conspiracy theories about the Boston Marathon bombing and suggested that Tsarnaev is innocent — conceded that Tsarnaev "may have actually been a listener."
"He could be a listener," Jones said. "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."
H/T DRo