Boston Bombers: Friends of theirs have al-Quida ties? Maybe

Reagan funded Bin Laden in his early years to help take out the corrupt government in Afghanistan.  Funding good guys who become bad guys after they get power and wealth is pretty common.  It probably happened with the Boston Bombers as well.  There may not be a direct connection with al-Quida but there is a decent chance that they had contact with others who were in the know of terrorist groups.

I would venture to guess that this was not the first time Mr. Ridge, first director of the US Department of Homeland Security, had heard Ruslan's messages. Ruslan founded the Congress of Chechen International Organizations and has lucrative work here in Kazakhstan as a USAID contractor and oil industry lawyer.
There is zero—and I mean zero—evidence that Uncle Ruslan or the CIA hired these two sad-ass kids in Boston to blow up their neighbors. The point here is that the FBI is too concerned about making sure that "no one else ought to know" about our government playing footsie with terrorists—and too unconcerned about the blow-back that blows up in Boston.


http://www.nationofchange.org/fbi-spiked-chechen-jihadi-investigation-1367676474