Who Radicalized the Boston Bombing Suspects?

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Georgetown University’s Bruce Hoffman is an expert in terrorism studies.

He tells host Aaron Schachter it’s too early to tell whether these two suspects were self-radicalized, or radicalized by a larger movement.

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