At the other end of the spectrum, an issue which raises questions is the history of FSB in operations like this. They've been known to employ Chechens to do their wet-work and in all-round criminality. Tsarnaevs may have not known they were working for the FSB. A case in point is that of Mehmet Ali Ağca. He attempted to assassinate the Pope John Paul II. He only realized his string was being pulled by Moscow years after the event.
What could the Kremlin have possibly capitalized from this event? Moscow has attempted to highlight the troubles in Chechnya as part of the worldwide threat of terrorism. This has so far fallen on deaf ears. However, Washington will now have to examine the threat in Russia as a worldwide terrorism threat. It seems like the Chechen cause has seen this coming and already issued a statement mentioning that 'our fight is with Russia and not with the US'. They seem to have realized that these bombings do nothing to further their cause. WHo knows what links are dug up between the Tsarnaevs and Chechen groups operating in Dagestan.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but everything is not what it seems. There's a lot more to significant events around the world than meets the eye and its never clear who's pulling whose string.
