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From: Jaime R Vergara <<a href="mailto:jrvergarajr2031@aol.com">jrvergarajr2031@aol.com</a>><br>
To: jayvee_vallejera <<a href="mailto:jayvee_vallejera@saipantribune.com">jayvee_vallejera@saipantribune.com</a>>; mark_rabago <<a href="mailto:mark_rabago@saipantribune.com">mark_rabago@saipantribune.com</a>>; editor <<a href="mailto:editor@saipantribune.com">editor@saipantribune.com</a>><br>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><b>Temarlan & Dzhokhar Tsarnaev</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><b> </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline">With the reported
death of 26-year old suspect number 1 and the capture of 19-year old suspect
number 2 of the recent Boston bombing blasts, the speculative field is ripe
with both blooming spring flowers and wilted winter leftovers. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Our interest is a
narrow one, purely etymological in the attributive sense. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline">14</span>th<span style="vertical-align:baseline"> century “Timur” to the Wiki crowd, “Temarlane”
is the Mongolian scourge of Central Asia, known in China as “Timudgin”. History is replete with his influence, at
once, artistic and destructive, from the Urals to the Himalayas, the Caucasus
to the Khinggan Range of Heilongjiang. Chechnyan
Moslems, forced to move to Kyrgystan when Stalin still cast his shadow on Moscow’s
cobblestones, named their offsprings in honor of the Mongol leader of mixed Turkic
ethnicity.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline">Such was the case of suspect
number 1, named Temarlan, reportedly a 2</span>nd<span style="vertical-align: baseline"> year Med student married to a Rhode Island girl, and father to a
3-year old daughter. A media outlet
could not help but blare a headline that Temarlan’s wife was from NK. Given the prominence of North Korea in recent
news, it immediately caught our attention.
NK turned out to be North Kingstown in RI south of Boston.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; ">On his namesake for
the history buffs: Timur </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; ">wanted to restore Genghis Khan’s </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4"> </font></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Mongol empire. A devout </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4">Muslim, </font></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">he called himself the
</font><i><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sword of</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4"> Islam.</font></i></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; "> He was
generous in sharing war booty to members of his multi-ethnic armies. He became the
most powerful ruler in the</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4"> Muslim world,</font></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; ">defeating rulers of</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4"> Egypt</font></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; "> and</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4"> Syria,</font></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; "> the Ottomans, and a
Delhi Sultanate. He defeated Christian
knights at</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4"> Smyrna,</font></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; "> and attempted to restore the Yuan dynasty in
China. Known for leading the Golden
Horde against the Cossacks, he is dubbed a “terrorist” in western history books.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">Younger brother suspect number 2
was caught hiding and bleeding on a backyard parked boat in Watertown, MA,
where the town literally had to shut down and stay indoors to accomplish the
task. He was named “Dzhokhar” at birth, presumably
after the first President of independent Chechnya, himself meeting a violent
death by laser-guided satellite missile in a 1996 assassination while he was on
his cell phone.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">Checknya’s desire to separate
from the Russian Federation of States after the dissolution of the Soviet Union
met with the strong-willed objection of Vladimir Putin who headed the KGB at
the time. Putin now presides over
Russia. Other than setting a bad example
to other States who might be inclined to seek secession from the Federation,
Chechnya was also a hub for the Russian oil industry, an asset Russia could
hardly give up. It was also caught in
between the definition of Georgia-Russian relations, and in an oil rich region,
it can hardly avoid the violence that now mars north and south of the Caucasus mountain
range between the Black and Caspian Seas.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">The brothers’ family name is Tsarnaev. “Tsar” of the first syllable is to the
Byzantine what “Ceasar “was to the Romans, and “Kaiser” to the Germans. If one has not gotten the picture yet that
the brothers might carry highly “political” consciousness just by their names,
we’ve missed the billboard for the weeds.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">Of course, just because one is
named Mohammed or Abdullah does not automatically stereotype one to a definite corner.
Is our musing pertinent to figuring out the
“why” of the Boston bombing? Nope. But the Press coverage, henceforth, will
cover a lot of historical terrain unfamiliar to the regular reader.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">Four analytical results have
already emerged. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">There is the jihadist foreign
intervention strain, the brothers being of the moralistic bent now raging
across Arab Spring, beyond and distinct from the traditional division of the
Sunnis and the Shiites.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">Then there is the rightist/leftist
dichotomy, irrelevant from our view, but dear to diehard ideologues. Given the suspects’ names, this is a difficult
minefield to traverse, but there will be those who will find a way to mark the
various blasts.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">We have the emotional stability
crowd that will armchair us to endless psychoanalysis till kingdom come. Culturally integrated and acculturated guys on
regular baseball caps and backpacks have to be extremely schizophrenic to merit
the psychoanalyst’s attention.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">The fourth is the fraud claim,
already aired by an aunt who testifies to the innocence of her nephews, and
students at Dzhokhar’s school who swear that the Chechnyan was in school when
the blasts went off.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">News that the White House is
deporting a Saudi Arabian is allegedly being espoused by no less than Glenn
Beck. The finger pointing, the smear on
the foggy mirror, is multi-directional and the media field day has already
begun.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">I’ve lit candles for the
confirmed dead: 8-yr old Martin Richard, 29-yr old Krystelle Campbell, and the
Boston U graduate student Lu Lingzi of Shenyang. Their innocence reminds us of
the global complicity of victimhood in our time. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">A fourth big candle goes to the
Waco, Texas fertilizer plant explosion victims.
A fifth is for those affected this week by the tremor that revisited the
same Sichuan area quaked in 2008. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; ">The tail end of winter is still
with us. Our heart keeps company with
the cold.</span></div>
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