Homegrown, Foreign, or Both?

CNN’s headline this morning reads, “Boston suspect: It was just us.” The headline links to an article that begins by explaining that the “surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told investigators that his older brother, not any international terrorist group, masterminded the deadly attack, a U.S. government source said.” The same source says the “two brothers fit the classification of self-radicalized jihadists.” Other press accounts recount the same story.

This may very well be the case – perhaps no one else was involved in the brothers’ journey to terror. And they certainly appear to have acted by themselves on the day of the attack.