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True, but I think that the uncle's connections in Washington enabled the brother's and their family's entry to the US. After that it is simply another case of m

• acqq 7y ago
  > uncle's connections in Washington The uncle, then still Tsarnaev, lived by his father in law in Maryland and while living there incorporated there "the Congress of Chechen International Organizations". See my other post here. > It's basically "blowback" from the covert operations to use Islamic extremism against the USSR and Russia. That's how one part of the whole story can be interpreted. One of the most interesting titles from The Washington Post I've read was: "The Taliban indoctrinates kids with jihadist textbooks paid for by the U.S." (2014) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08/the-taliban-indoctrinates-kids-with-jihadist-textbooks-paid-for-by-the-u-s/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08... "As The Washington Post reported in 2002, the United States had spent millions of dollars beginning in the 1980s to produce and disseminate anti-Soviet textbooks for Afghan schoolchildren. The books encouraged a jihadist outlook, which was useful propaganda at the time for a Washington driven by the imperatives of the Cold War."