Two Duke University experts are available to discuss the two suspects in Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon who were also involved in last night’s events in the Boston area: David Schanzer Associate professor of the practice, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University; director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, based at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. Specializes in terrorism, national security policy. Published report "Anti-Terrorism Lessons of Muslim-Americans" in 2010; studying domestic radicalization and policing under two-year research grant from the U.S. Department of Justice; served as Democratic staff director of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security. schanzer@duke.edu http://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/schanzer Quote: "This has many hallmarks of a homegrown incident. It appears the suspects have been living in the United States for a period of years. They do not appear to be highly sophisticated operatives as they did not have a plan to leave the country. "We do not know the religious background of these individuals or whether they are linked in any way to extremist ideologies. Our studies of homegrown terrorists since 9/11 have not identified any individuals with Chechen ethnicities." Michael Newcity Newcity is a senior research scholar at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, and adjunct associate professor in Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University. mnewcity@duke.edu http://bit.ly/ZBV8P0 Quote: "It's mysterious, what might have motivated these guys. Of all the enemies Chechens have, the United States wouldn't be high on that list. It's possible their motivations relate to the United States' actions in the Middle East." _ _ _ _ Duke experts on a variety of other topics can be found at http://newsoffice.duke.edu/resources-media/faculty-experts.