Chechnya
Kazakhstan
Posted on 04/19/2013 6:51:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a shootout with Boston police earlier this morning, perhaps killed by bullets, his own IED, or the fact that his brother Dzhokar reportedly drove over him in order to plow through a police barricade after the shootout. He will live on in a photo essay taken when he competed in Golden Glove boxing, thanks to photographer Johannes Hirn, linked by an alert Dave Weigel a few minutes ago. The accompanying interview raised at least a yellow flag about the isolation of Tsarnaev from his community in the essay titled “Will Box for Passport”:
Tamerlan, who studies at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and wants to become an engineer, took the semester off from school to train for the competition.
Tamerlan fled Chechnya with his family because of the conflict in the early 90s, and lived for years in Kazakhstan before getting to the United States as a refugee.
Originally from Chechnya, but living in the United States since five years, Tamerlan says: “I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them.”
If he wins enough fights… Tamerlan says he could be selected for the US Olympic team and be naturalized American. Unless his native Chechnya becomes independent, Tamerlan says he would rather compete for the United States than for Russia.
Tamerlan says he doesn’t drink or smoke anymore: “God said no alcohol.” A muslim, he says: “There are no values anymore,” and worries that “people can’t control themselves.”
Accordingly, Weigel and others claim that this is Tsarnaev’s YouTube channel (which I already posted in the main thread). It’s not confirmed, and there may well be more than one Tamerlan Tsarnaev, but if it’s his, a certain theme emerges almost immediately. It’s odd that Tsarnaev wanted to compete for the US rather than Kazakhstan, perhaps, where he might have fit in better; if this really is his YouTube account, it’s even more odd.
Update: Some are claiming that this is Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Amazon wish list. I’d approach this with a grain of salt, but again if so, it’s certainly interesting. Quite a few items on making fake IDs, but they’ve all been on the list for almost six years. Not sure if I’m buying this.
Update: More from the AP on the background of both brothers, including this tidbit, emphasis mine:
In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, then a senior at a prestigious high school, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge, Mass., to pursue higher education. Now, Tsarnaev is on the run, described as “armed and dangerous” and suspected of the Boston Marathon bombing. …
According to the website spotcrime.com, Tamerlan was arrested for domestic violence in July 2009, after assaulting his girlfriend.
He was an amateur boxer, listed as a competitor in a National Golden Gloves competition in 2009.
Assuming that boxing profile preceded the arrest, that might be an inflection point for Tamerlan’s radicalization.
Update: Reuters reports that the younger brother’s website promoted Islamist websites:
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on what appears to be his page on a Russian language social networking site.
Abusive comments in Russian and English were flooding onto Tsarnaev’s page on VK, a Russian-language social media site, on Friday after he was identified as a suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon. …
His “World view” is listed as “Islam” and his “Personal priority” is “career and money”.
He has posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and to Islamic web pages with titles like “Salamworld, my religion is Islam” and “There is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts”.
BTW, Your screen name is one of the greatest movies made.
Chechnyan MUSLIM sickos.
“Boston is the capital city of the diversity movement and a poster child of the radical liberal left - and a muslim terrorist couldn’t understand them??” No kidding
Imagine how this murderer would have felt in Texas!
“I take it since he doesn’t understand Americans he doesn’t want to be friends with us rather than Americans don’t want to be friends with him.”
I’m confused. Why was he in America?
This is the first reference to either suspect being Muslim.
All of the networks are spouting millions of words trying to tell the world hat is happening, but NOT A SINGLE WORD about what religion they might have now or previous.
More BS from the media, IMO.
We already have thousands of ‘immigrants’ who came here & have no real connection to the USA or it’s Constitution or it’s values.
Now, Obama & Holder & others want to bring MILLIONS more an amnesty and I am convinced that 11 million is waaaay off the real number. I think it is much closer to 55 million.
There was an article recently about how an inordinate number of terrorists are engineers or engineering students.
That should have been a tip off right away.
Arrest everyone at MIT immediately!
I’m sorry to say this but “our” side needs to learn how to politicize EVERY tragedy, just like the socialists do.
His parents brought him here when he was about 16. Why he stayed, who knows other than he was living the high life.
I totally agree and that is what I am doing in my circle of influence. Politicize this. Their policies lead to terrorism.
Never let them forget it.
The socialist will politicize dead children, before they are even buried, so there is no low too low.
RE: Arrest everyone at MIT immediately!
LOL.
MIT? we’ve got hundreds of Engineering Schools in this country.
RE: There was an article recently about how an inordinate number of terrorists are engineers or engineering students.
That should have been a tip off right away.
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I thought this country needs a lot more STEM college grads...
RE: BTW, Your screen name is one of the greatest movies made.
Yes and we can prop him up after he dies to scare the Islamists.... LOL.
“The question now ... are these brothers — who have presumably been Americanized and living in the U.S. for years — considered domestic or foreign terrorists.”
They are muslimes. . .’nough said.
Shamil Basayev.
Damned Amish White Christian gun worshipping....
.....never mind.
He obviously didn't read it.
I see the religion of peace has struck again
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