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Especially ruthless terrorist attack, perhaps the most gruesome were the moscow theater attack where they took 850 hostages while demanding withdrawal of russian forces. it ended after three days when russian forces pumped an unknown gas into the theater, killing all of the terrorists and many of the hostages. then there was that awful massacre in 2004 where chechen separatists took over an elementary. several hundred were killed, many of them children. neil? >> neil: doug, thank you very, very much. much will be said of what these brothers said and wrote electronically to the world, to the wo...

Putting their own lives into a narrative about this anti-western, anti-modern jihadist that you find in the world. >> if they did. there's evidence of a you-tube page that may connect to the older brother. you-tube clips. the younger brother there's very thin evidence of anything. >> keep in mind, on the elder brother, tamerlan's you tube channel there's an equal number of rap videos. i don't know why we tend to focus on this one particular aspect because they have a lot of consonants in their name but in lots of other context we go to other kind of motivation. we really ought to look at those...

Pets ties to disputed territory of chechnya have led them to violence? andrea mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent, joins me, and andrea with a good morning to you. what are you hearing about this connection with chechnya? >> we don't know. it would be so surprising. there has never before that anyone knows of been a chechen terrorist attack against the u.s. chechen separatists and, as you know, it is the disputed territory in the north caucasus mountains. it's an area that tried twice to fight wars of independence against the russian federation after the soviet union broke up. and fa...

From that? >> i just wanted to say that john kerry was just asked -- i want to share this looking at my blackberry, was asked about chechen people. john kerry, secretary of state, was just asked about that. he's, at this point, declined to comment. he says he thinks it's just a little bit too early. he did just receive a couple of questions about whether this was linked to chechen separatists who have, of course, been implicated in bombings in russia. but, at this point -- >> it could just be two men -- >> it could just be two men inspired by something completely domestic who happened to have ...

Because of separatists wards. both attended very prestigious public schools in the boston area. 26-year-old tamerlan tsarnaev who was killed earlier this morning had a youtube channel with a terrorist play list that included bloody videos and messages about allah and martyrdom. an amazon.com account where he ordered books on chechen separatists and the mafia. tamerlan was involved in mixed martial arts. he was a golden gloves boxer who won an award for best boxer in his weight class. tamerlan t tsarnaev was arrested in 2011 for assaulting his girlfriend. it's unknown if they were still dating ...