The elder brother, Tamerlan, who died in a gun battle with the police, appears to fit perfectly the profile of what the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger calls “the radical loser.” And his younger brother, Dzhokhar, recovering from gunshot wounds in a Boston hospital while waiting to be put on trial for his life, seems to have been a pathetic follower who acted less out of deep conviction than out of fraternal love.
在与警方交火中丧生的哥哥塔梅兰似乎是德国作家汉斯·马格努斯·恩岑斯贝格口中“激进失败者”的典型。而正在波士顿医院接受枪伤治疗并等待接受死刑审判的弟弟焦哈尔与其说因为信仰参与恐怖活动，还不如说是因为兄弟情谊而被牵扯其中的可怜的追随者。