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DZHOKHAR Tsarnaev has now been charged with using weapons of mass destruction and faces the death penalty if he's convicted.
But the 19-year-old suspected of co-conspiring in the Boston Marathon bombing has already won a legion of supporters who are proclaiming his innocence, Wired reports.
Just as social media carried the story last week, including a few fake rumours and false alarms, the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are now buzzing with the growing #freejahar movement.
"We are dealing with conspiratorially minded individuals who don't believe anything the government says anyway," Stanford University's Thomas Hegghammer, a terrorism expert, told Wired.
"The simplest and most effective strategy is probably to highlight the suffering caused by the bombs.
"Let them see the injured women and children. The most hardcore extremists won't care, but some fence-sitters might."
Originally posted by SloAnPainful
Well he admitted he did it and his brother was the driving force behind the attack.
-SAP-edit on 22-4-2013 by SloAnPainful because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SloAnPainful
Well he admitted he did it and his brother was the driving force behind the attack.
-SAP-edit on 22-4-2013 by SloAnPainful because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Dark Ghost
Rather interesting that the suspect of the Boston bombings has such a devoted following of people who think he is innocent and that the Government might have been involved.
Originally posted by Darth_Prime
i believe him and his brother innocent and this being controlled by government agents,