Thanks for the link to that. I don't speak Russian, so I don't know about the translation. But, if it is correct, I think that Father seems pretty normal to me. Given his experience of the police as a Chechnya citizen, a political refuge? And that his other son was already dead when he had the news...it would be hard for him to believe. The press I'd read painted him as ranting anti-American views. But I think this reaction is normal.
Imagine if someone told you that some close relative of yours was being hunted by the police in a foreign country. You would think, "What? How did he get guns? A bomb? This can't be true." Especially if, as everyone seems to be reporting, the one boy hadn't been radical until recently.
The way the father is holding his head, looks like genuine remorse and disbelief. Perhaps a touch of guilt, which is also natural for a parent. One of the things we don't realize is that we can get our hands on so many lethal items here, which isn't the case for citizens of many other countries. Actually, when they first started telling us about the nature of the bombs, I told my SO that they would be easy to build at home. Almost anyone could do what these boys did, it wouldn't require a terrorist cell, just some twisted reasoning and a few months to prepare.
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Date: 2013-04-20 03:58 pm (UTC)Imagine if someone told you that some close relative of yours was being hunted by the police in a foreign country. You would think, "What? How did he get guns? A bomb? This can't be true." Especially if, as everyone seems to be reporting, the one boy hadn't been radical until recently.
The way the father is holding his head, looks like genuine remorse and disbelief. Perhaps a touch of guilt, which is also natural for a parent. One of the things we don't realize is that we can get our hands on so many lethal items here, which isn't the case for citizens of many other countries. Actually, when they first started telling us about the nature of the bombs, I told my SO that they would be easy to build at home. Almost anyone could do what these boys did, it wouldn't require a terrorist cell, just some twisted reasoning and a few months to prepare.