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”.
The kid went to the same school where Ben Afleck and Matt Damon learned to hate America.
If Obama had a son, ...
I understand one of the brothers was registered to vote, so at some point he was naturalized an American citizen.
This is the face of the new immigrant. It is why all of the talk of "comprehensive immigration reform" is useless unless it includes the complete repeal of the 1965 Ted Kennedy immigration act.
Nearly unrestricted immigration of low-skilled people from the third world who will not assimilate, while simultaneously restricting the immigration of high-skilled people from the first world who do assimilate is as big of a part of the problem as illegal immigration.
He didn’t bave a singke friend in the US and didn’t understand us, yet looked forward to becoming a US citizen?
FOAD....Oh, wait
Go to hell and burn...
Amazing posts in here. NH wants to blame its ills on Massachusetts,as do many people on this thread.
I have news for you: I don’t care how conservative you think your state/city/town is, you aren’t going to be able to put up a wall to keep liberals out.
If you think sawing off the northeastern US and the west coast and allowing them to fall into the ocean is going to save you, it won’t.
Like it or not, liberals are everywhere. You may not have as many where you are as I have to contend with up here, but liberalism is like a cancer, and you have to be on the watch with your finger in the dyke 24x7. All they do is wait until you sleep for a few minutes and they advance a few more yards, yards of territory you will never get back.
And a keyboard isn’t going to keep them at bay. It would be nice if conservatives could fight battles together, but it is clear to me that isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
But, hey. Everyone likes to have a good scapegoat. It does make things easier. I used to scapegoat California. They deserve it.
I am still out on the uncle who did a press interview. How do we know that he is sincere and not overplaying his love of America? I am still in amazement how they could afford the lavish lifestyle and $$$$$education.
Cue the sensitivity of libs. “why didn’t anyone try to make friends with this poor guy? it’s our fault he did this.”
One became a citizen last year on 9/11, they may both have been naturalized citizens.
In other words, it's an unreliable blog.........
RE: You do realize that all the statements on the website you have linked to are based on second and third hand information don’t you?
Maybe, maybe not, we shall see. The younger brother has been captured and we will know more in due time.
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