As strange as it may seem, perhaps this was the precipitating event which drove Tamerlan to Militant Islam? http://nyti.ms/10J41wC
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@AllThingsHLS It's an interesting thought. But can you tell me--what does "Soviet born" mean?
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@emptywheel I am guessing that it means being born somewhere…anywhere in the former Soviet republics.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@AllThingsHLS Surely. But ... it's an odd shorthand.
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@emptywheel I think it's meant by the writer to imply something nefarious. Like saying a US govt protester was born in the Confederate south1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@AllThingsHLS Was my thought. Granted, it IS shorthand for "well he's ethnically Chechen but he was born in Kyrgyzstan" bit sounds nefarious
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