Boston Marathon bombings.......

[Kobi]

The search is on for a cemetery to bury Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as protesters picket the funeral home holding his body.

Four cemeteries in three states have refused to accept the battered corpse of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, said the Massachusetts funeral director tasked with finding his final resting place.

Peter Stefan, funeral director and owner of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass., tried to find a plot for Tsarnaev in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts — but nobody wants to bury the Russian-born terrorist on their land, he said.

Protesters had picketed a North Attleborough funeral home to which it was brought initially, after which Mr Stefan's business received it, in the face of a new demonstration.

"Everyone deserves a burial," Mr Stefan told Reuters news agency by telephone.

"It doesn't matter who it is. I can't pick and choose."

Speaking to AP news agency, Mr Stefan said: "My problem here is trying to find a gravesite. A lot of people don't want to do it. They don't want to be involved with this."

Arguing that everyone deserved a dignified burial, he added: "I keep bringing up the point of Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh or Ted Bundy. Somebody had to do those, too."

Dozens of protesters rallied near Mr Stefan's funeral home on Friday

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The funeral director has been accused of "honoring a terrorist"....just for doing his job.

Did people protest outside the hospitals where the brothers were brought for treatment? Were the doctors and nurses, just doing their jobs, honoring a terrorist? Did people protest outside the medical examiners office? Were the people inside, just doing their jobs, honoring a terrorist?

The war on terror has produced some funky paradoxes for Americans. And, it makes me ask, is this who we are?