The recent attack at the Boston Marathon happened to
occur on April 15, which is the deadline for filing taxes. According to the FBI, one of the suspected bombers attained citizenship on September 11th of last year. With this in mind, dates may be of symbolic importance and significance to the perpetrators of this horrific act. One can then deduce that because this attack happened on the same day as the American tax deadline, that these terrorists were perhaps attempting to create widespread doubt about who was responsible, whether domestic or foreign terrorism. This theory is supported by the fact that no group, foreign or domestic, took responsibility for the bombing to begin with.
