Iranian connection in the Boston bombing
<p>Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the terrorist who died in a firefight with the Boston police with a kettle bomb strapped to him, had a YouTube page.  Examining an image of it, I found an approving link to a movie titled &#8220;The Black Flags of Khorasan&#8221;.</p>
<p>Because, unlike the politically-correct idiots who infest our nation&#8217;s newsrooms, I&#8217;ve actually studied the history of Islam in some detail, that title had immediate resonance for me.  I thought I knew what it meant, and I googled.</p>
<p>What I found confirmed my hunch.  Not just that <a href="http://blackflags1.blogspot.com/">Black Flags from Khorasan</a> is a jihadist propaganda movie, but that it&#8217;s a jihadi movie of a particularly interesting kind &#8211; Mahdist, and almost certainly radical Shi&#8217;a.  Mahdism is present in Sunni but much less central, and in any case the region of Khorasan has been the heart country of Shi&#8217;a for nearly a thousand years.</p>
<p>Domestic terrorism, my ass. As usual, the mainstream media was slavering to pin this on some Richard-Jewell-like native-born conservative (bonus points if they get to say &#8220;Tea Party&#8221;).  As usual, it&#8217;s a jihadi atrocity in which fundamentalist Islam was causal.</p>
<p>But that film is a more specific clue.  If the investigators have even a microgram of brains, they&#8217;re looking for an Iranian connection now.</p>
