The media is tripping and falling over themselves declaring Tamerlan Tsarnaev a lone wolf, but the reality is he met with militant Islamists during his trips to Dagestan, odds are they were associated with Doku Umarov. A simple Google search of Umarov’s possible intention to strike America yielded this:

November 1, 2007 (RFE/RL) — In a video sent to RFE/RL, the Chechen separatist leader, Doku Umarov, says he has extended his movement’s battle against Russian security forces to include a broader “holy war” against the United States, Britain, and Israel.

The remarks by Umarov, the president of the self-declared Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), were immediately condemned by some senior fellow separatists, who expressed concern that Umarov had fallen prey to a plot by the Russian intelligence services aimed at discrediting and splitting up the Chechen resistance.

Umarov also declared himself “emir of the North Caucasus” in the 16-minute video, which appears to have been made earlier this month but was sent only recently to RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service. “All those waging war against Islam and Muslims are our enemies,” Umarov said in the video, which shows him against a backdrop of a black flag with white Arabic inscriptions.