...While some newspapers and Western media (click here) have incorrectly reported that Nidal is an ethnic Chechen, he is actually from Dagestan and is half ethnic Kumyk and half Palestinian (www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/57925.html). The Kumyks—the third largest ethnic group in the republic of Dagestan—are a Turkic speaking people who are of Mongol descent....
...Whatever ties existed between Tamerlan and Nidal, they did not last long. Mahmud Mansur Nidal was 19 years old when he was killed in a police operation in Makhachkala on May 19, 2012...
It doesn't really add up that Tamerlan was radicalized in Dagestan. He even surprised himself when he finished assembling his bombs ahead of schedule. He was shooting from the hip while becoming his own one man military for a cause he never understood, but, gave him an identity other than the one he was failing at due to being linked to FBI records.
His failure to boxing and his failure in achieving his American citizenship after ten years were all linked to an FBI profile that even the FBI didn't pay attention to.
...Whatever ties existed between Tamerlan and Nidal, they did not last long. Mahmud Mansur Nidal was 19 years old when he was killed in a police operation in Makhachkala on May 19, 2012...
It doesn't really add up that Tamerlan was radicalized in Dagestan. He even surprised himself when he finished assembling his bombs ahead of schedule. He was shooting from the hip while becoming his own one man military for a cause he never understood, but, gave him an identity other than the one he was failing at due to being linked to FBI records.
His failure to boxing and his failure in achieving his American citizenship after ten years were all linked to an FBI profile that even the FBI didn't pay attention to.
