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Profiles Of The Boston Terrorists
Quiet Muslims from Chechnya who boxed, wrestled, blogged
WND
A profile of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing is beginning to emerge from their own blog postings made prior to the deadly attack last week.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, killed in a shootout with MIT police Thursday night, the so-called “Black hat” suspect, was a a Golden Gloves boxer who studied at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and wanted to become an engineer.
Tamerlan left Chechnya with his family in the early 90s, and lived for years in Kazakhstan before being welcomed into the U.S. as a refugee.
Yet, after living five years in America, he commented, “I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them.”
He was a Muslim who did not drink or smoke and who complained, “There are no values anymore” and “people can’t control themselves.”
Meanwhile, his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, still on the loose won a scholarship from the city of Cambridge to pursue higher education while a senior at a prestigious high school in 2011.
Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother, Tamerlan, had been living together on Norfolk Street in Cambridge. An uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told the Associated Press the men lived together near Boston and have been in the United States for about a decade. They came from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s page on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte says he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduating in 2011, the year he won the scholarship, which was celebrated with a reception at City Hall, according to a news release issued at the time.
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