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cali

(114,904 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 08:33 AM Apr 2013

take this with salt: Everything We Know About Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect

It's not much, and most of it's derived from a photo gallery. We know Tamerlan Tsarnaev was 26 and a competitive boxer for a club named Team Lowell, who won the Rocky Marciano Trophy for being New England Golden Gloves heavyweight champion in 2010. He did this while taking time off from school at Bunker Hill Community College, where he studied in hopes of being an engineer.

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Tamerlan says his girlfriend is half Portuguese, half Italian girlfriend and converted to Islam: "She's beautiful, man!"

Other photo captions in the gallery:

Tamerlan demonstrates a way of walking to strengthen the ankle muscles at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center. A native of Chechnya, Tamerlan says: "In Russia, we used to train like this. Here nobody does it, I don't know why!"

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."


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http://deadspin.com/heres-everything-we-know-about-tamerlan-tsarnaev-the-476415081



http://www.youtube.com/user/muazseyfullah/videos?view=0

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take this with salt: Everything We Know About Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect (Original Post) cali Apr 2013 OP
More from Slate: cali Apr 2013 #1
Foreign Policy has a link to an arrest record for Tamerlan - domestic assault Bolo Boffin Apr 2013 #2
"...people can't control themselves." randome Apr 2013 #3
his chances of having an American friend Enrique Apr 2013 #4
Being dead Dorian Gray Apr 2013 #5
oh, i hadn't heard Enrique Apr 2013 #6
 

cali

(114,904 posts)
1. More from Slate:
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 08:43 AM
Apr 2013

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect: "I Don't Have a Single American Friend"



Police have identified Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, as the "black hat" bombing suspect, killed during the manhunt that followed. Readers have pointed out that Johannes Hirn made Tsarnaev the subject of a photo essay, "Will Box for Passport," taken before the boxer competed at National Golden Gloves competition in Salt Lake City. The captions give us a micro-profile of the suspect

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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."

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UPDATE: Justin Hart located Tamerlan's Amazon wishlist. Among the hits:

- How to Make Driver's Licenses and Other ID on Your Home Computer

- The I.D. Forger: Homemade Birth Certificates & ​Other Documents Explained

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/19/tamerlan_tsarnaev_dead_bombing_suspect_i_don_t_have_a_single_american_friend.html

Bolo Boffin

(23,796 posts)
2. Foreign Policy has a link to an arrest record for Tamerlan - domestic assault
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 08:46 AM
Apr 2013
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/who_is_tamerlan_tzarnaev

Beating up his girlfriend. No confirmation at all it's the same woman in the pictures, of course.
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