Tamerlan Tsarnaev Had Conspiracy, White Supremacist Literature
A twist, given the conspiracy theories about the Boston Marathon bombing
One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings was in possession of right-wing American literature in the run-up to the attack, BBC Panorama has learnt.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev subscribed to publications espousing white supremacy and government conspiracy theories.
He also had reading material on mass killings.
Until now the Tsarnaev brothers were widely perceived as just self-styled radical jihadists.
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I've never understood how white supremacy is considered "right wing", other thing right wing being anything journalists don't like.
The Nazis were the National Socialist Worker's Party. If you read their literature, they were all about the socialism and the glory of the state. Their platform was built on the expansion of the existing welfare state in Germany.
Eugenics was mostly popular among the left.