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THE MARATHON BOMBINGS | THE SUSPECTS Bombing suspects were local, ‘normal’ US immigrants

POSTED Suspects in the bombing appeared to em- , 2013 body the best of the American immigrant experience, having come at 9:40 a.m. from southern Russia, near war-torn , more than five years ago, and assimilated into the local Cambridge community and culture. , 26, the alleged bomber pictured in a dark hat in FBI videos released Thursday, was a talented boxer with THE BACK STORY hopes of joining the US Olympic team. He was reportedly killed The names of the two overnight in a with police. bombing suspects, His brother, , 19, the suspect seen in FBI Dzhokhar and Tamerlan photos in a white cap, was a member of the class of 2011 at Cam- Tsarnaev, were released bridge Rindge & Latin School, and won a Cambridge City Scholar- just after 7 a.m. on ship that year. He was on the run Friday morning and the target of April 19, as a massive an unprecedented manhunt in Greater Boston. manhunt was under- People who knew the suspects are struggling this morning to way for the surviving reconcile the young men they knew, who lived on Norfolk Street in brother following an Cambridge, with the acts of terrorism they are accused of committing. overnight shoot-out “He was normal,” said Lulu Emmons, who went to Rindge & in Watertown. By Latin with Dzhokhar. “He kind of fit in with everyone. Not really mid-morning, we had close with anyone, but he was friendly. posted a 500-word “I am just a little shocked. I sat next to this guy. I joked with separate. It would him. I laughed with him. I had class with him. It is a little crazy,” be updated 18 times she said. before the first edition Former teacher and school photographer at Cambridge Rind- of the paper was pub- ge and Latin, Larry Aaronson, said he knew Dzhokhar. “If someone lished that evening. were to ask me what the kid was like, I would say he had a heart of gold,” he said. “He was as gracious as possible.”

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The two young brothers from Cambridge seemed to be on promising paths, one a scholarship student at college, the other fighting for a national title in amateur boxing. And then, apparently with little warning, they veered vio- lently off track, deep into the darkness, setting off deadly bombs, authorities are convinced, at one of Boston’s most iconic and joyful events. To those who knew them, the apparent transformation of Ta- merlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 — ethnic Chech- ens, born in the former Soviet territory now known as Kyrgyzstan and transplanted to a working-class Inman Square neighborhood — seemed almost inconceivable. But as friends and neighbors pieced together recollections of the terrorism suspects and their family, a picture emerged of an older brother who seemed to grow increasingly religious and radi- cal — and who may have drawn his more easygoing younger broth- er into a secret plot of violence and hatred. “I used to warn Dzhokhar that Tamerlan was up to no good,”

2 A20 Metro TheBoston Globe SATURDAY,APRIL 20, 2013 TERROR AT THE MARATHON 2brothers, 2paths into infamy uBROTHERS “I don’t want to dwell on heartofdarkness in the Continued from Page A1 the anniversarytoday, of 9/11,” world.’’ TheRussians, he said, and aparty-loving “pothead” JudgeDouglas P. Woodlock, have fought the Chechens by some friends. But there wearing black robes, told the since the 1700sand killed were hints of something omi- cheering crowd of immigrants about 200,000 people —one nous underneath the surface: a from 132 countries. “But it fifth of Chechnya’s population messageonDzhokhar’s Twitter seems to me thatone thing we —from 1999 to 2001. feed on Marathon Mondaylast can sayisthe resilience of the But Christopher Swift, who year referred to aKoran verse after thatattack teaches national securitystud- often used by radical Muslim is the result of the manydiffer- ies at Georgetown University clerics and propagandists. ent cultures which have blend- School of Foreign Service and Thetwo young men, seven ed together to provide contin- has studied the war in Chech- years apart, shared akeen in- ued strength for this nation.” nyafor nearly 15 years, said it telligence and willingness to By contrast, Tamerlan had a is unlikely thatthe Tsarnaev work hard, according to inter- , but was not aciti- brothers were formally trained views with dozens of people zen. Hisfather said in aNew by Chechen Islamistmilitants, who knewthem. But there York Times interviewthatthe whose terroristactivities have were stark differences between charges always been focused on Russia. Tamerlan, who came to Ameri- againsthim might have “If there is anyconnection ca as ateenager,and thwarted Tamerlan’s attempt between these kids and the in- Dzhokhar,who was 10 or 11 to gain United States citizen- surgencythere, it will be the when the family immigrated to ship. firsttime theyhavestruck a the United States, and by all target outside of Russia,”Swift accounts thrived in their new Growing extremism said in an interview. American home. Their father, In recent years, as discord Thebrothers’ mother,Zu- alawyer before he emigrated, rippled through their family, beidatTsarnaev, said she never worked as an auto mechanic in both brothers displayed signs heard her sons talk about ter- the the United States, while of growing extremism. rorism. She was quoted by their mother was alicensed MaretTsarnaeva told re- CNN saying thatone son got cosmetologist. porters at apress conference involved in religion about five Their older son, an accom- on FridayinToronto thather years ago, but “he never told plished amateur boxer de- nephewTamerlan recently me he would be on the side of scribed by some as arrogant or went from praying no more jihad,” she said. “How could standoffish, aspired to be an than once aday to praying five this happen?” engineer but dropped out of times aday.Aneighbor and Tamerlan’s turn to Bunker Hill Community Col- family friend in Cambridge came as the family seemed to lege. Hisyounger brother,a said Tamerlan became ade- be disintegrating,according to well-liked wrestling team cap- vout Muslim within the past neighbors and courtrecords. tain andNational Honor Soci- fewyears. Anext-door neighbor on etymember in high school, is “Hestarted talking about Norfolk Street, who declined currently enrolled as asopho- religion,”said the family to provide his name, said he more at the UniversityofMas- friend, who asked not to be would constantly hear yelling sachusettsDartmouth, living identified. “Hegrewalong and police would often show in adorm on campus and beard.” up at the family’s apartment. studying to be amarine biolo- Thefriend Another neigh- gist. said Tamerlan bor also de- “If someone were to ask me urged him to be scribed whatthis kid is like, Iwould more obser- “screaming saythathehad aheartofgold,” vant,asking, and argu- said LarryAaronson, who “Why don’t you ments.” taught the younger suspectat become abetter Theparents the public CambridgeRindge Muslim? Why divorced, and &Latin School. “Hewas as gra- don’t you pray, spent extended cious as possible …This is all whydon’t you periods of time surreal to me.” do your Islamic back in Russia. duties?” Thesuspects’ Family history When the mother, Zubei- TheTsarnaevbrothers were friend joked dat, was arrest- ethnic Chechens, born in the about the ed in June former SovietRepublic now beard, he said, 2012 in Natick called Kyrgyzstan. Whether abcde STORY 9 Tamerlan be- ‘InKyrgyzstan and charged theyever lived in war-torn came upset, with shoplift- Chechnya is unclear.Their fa- asking “Why we were ing after aLord ther,Anzor TsarnaeTHEv, was BOSTONde- MARATHON BOMBINGS | are you making oppressed. We &Taylor em- scribed by family Fridayasa THE SUSPECTS fun of my reli- ployee accused former Russian amateur box- JOHANNES HIRN /LANDOV gion?” wanted aquiet her of cutting ing champion. While the fami- Tamerlan Tsarnaevpracticed at the WaiKru Mixed Martial Arts center in Boston in 2009. Anext-door the sensor tags ly was living in Kyrgyzstan, neighbor on life. Iwas afraid out of several Anzor Tsarnayevsaid in an in- Norfolk Street for my kids and dresses, valued terviewFridaybythe Russian in Cambridge at $1,952, and agencylifenews.ru, theyhad said he too no- tried to save hiding them in trouble with government au- ticed achange them.’ her shopping thorities. in Tamerlan’s bag.The police “InKyrgyzstan we were op- appearance ANZOR TSARNAEV, reportde- pressed,”the father said. “We about ayear father of the suspects scribed her as wanted aquietlife. Iwas agowhen he be- unemployed afraid for my kids and tried to gan wearing and divorced. save them.” long white linen garments. Yetthe older brother had By 2001, the family had tak- Theneighbor,who asked not the beginnings of his own fam- en refugeinMakhachkala, the to be identified, characterized ily.Hewas married to Kather- capital of the predominantly it as astriking changefor the ine Russell, who grewupin Muslim Russian region of Dag- once hip-looking,urban young NorthKingstown, R.I. Russell estan, which borders Chech- man, but said it only lasted a began wearing Islamic cloth- nya. There, the brothers briefly month. ing shortly after she started at attended grade school. Anzor’s Online, it appears, Tamer- , one neigh- sister MaretTsarnaeva told re- lan toyed with extremism. A bor said. Russell and Tsarnaev porters thatshe wrote the refu- YouTube account created in also had achild in the pastfew geepetition in April 2002 for Tamerlan Tsarnaev’sname in years, and the three of them the father,mother and young- August2012 includes in one were seen on andoff at Rus- estson, Dzhokhar,toreceive playlistavideo dedicated to sell’s parents’ home in Rhode asylum in the United States. the prophecyofthe Black Ban- Island. Hermother,Judith, Thethree other children, Ta- ners of Khurasan, which is ap- Fridayread aprepared state- merlan and his sisters, Alina parently embraced by Islamic ment from the home saying and Bella, joined the family BOBBOB LEONARDLEONARD extremists. she was “sickened”bythe later. 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Thetran- repair shop where Anzor Tsar- lan boxabout half adozen Tamerlan attended Bunker aUScivics and English test, At the end of 2011, script shows him receiving sev- naevworked several years ago, timesneathover thethe passurface:tdecade. a messageHill Communit on Dzhokhar’syCollegepart- Twitterand comple feedting onan Maraintervie-w Dzhokhar Tsarnaevcontacted en failing grades over twose- recalled seeing him changing a thonYoff eaMondaylso said Talastmerlan year timereferredfor three tosemes a Koranters, from versewith oftenafeder alusedimmigr byat ion of- Brian Glyn Williams, ahistory mesters in 2012 and 2013. 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He was gymwhere he trained. defend the Constitution and Williams. returned to Russia sometime training. verandyconfident Dzhokhar,.” who was 10Dzhokhar or 11,m wheneanwhile, thewas familylaws “agains immigratedtall enemies, tofor- Williams called Chechnya later,according to CNN,leav- Tamerlan, the eldestson, thePr ofiledUnitedin the States,Lowell Sunand agbyif allted accountsstudent who thrivedearned eignin theirand domes newtic. ”Ameri- “probably the mostdangerous Continued on next page can home. Their father, a lawyer before he emigrated, worked as an auto mechanic in the United States, while their mother was a licensed cosmetologist. Their older son, an accomplished amateur boxer described by some as arrogant or standoffish, aspired to be an engineer but dropped out of Bunker Hill Community College. His younger brother, a well-liked wrestling team captain and National Honor Society member in high school, is currently enrolled as a sopho- more at the University of Dartmouth, living in a dorm on campus and studying to be a marine biologist. “If someone were to ask me what this kid is like, I would say that he had a heart of gold,” said Larry Aaronson, who taught the younger suspect at the public Cambridge Rindge & Latin School. “He was as gracious as possible … This is all surreal to me.”

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Family history The Tsarnaev brothers were ethnic Chechens, born in the former Soviet Republic now called Kyrgyzstan. Whether they ever lived in war-torn Chechnya is unclear. Their father, Anzor Tsar- naev, was described by family Friday as a former Russian amateur boxing champion. While the family was living in Kyrgyzstan, Anzor Tsarnayev said in an interview Friday by the Russian agency life- news.ru, they had trouble with government authorities. “In Kyrgyzstan we were oppressed,” the father said. “We wanted a quiet life. I was afraid for my kids and tried to save them.” By 2001, the family had taken refuge in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim Russian region of , which borders Chechnya. There, the brothers briefly attended grade school. Anzor’s sister Maret Tsarnaeva told reporters that she wrote the refugee petition in April 2002 for the father, mother and youngest son, Dzhokhar, to receive asylum in the United States. The three other children, Tamerlan and his sisters, Alina and Bella, joined the family later. With the family reunited in the United States, they seemed to be on the path to fulfilling their American dreams. The broth- ers attended high school and college and seemed to be succeeding, family members said.A20 Metro TheBoston Globe SATURDAY,APRIL 20, 2013 “Everything wasTERR perfectOR AT THE becauseMARAT HONAnzor is a very loving soft hearted father,” Maret said of her brother. But Anzor Tsarnaev’s former boss at Webster Auto Body in Somerville saw a very2b differentro thers,side of the man,2p describingaths himinto as infamy uBROTHERS “I don’t want to dwell on heartofdarkness in the “one of the toughestContinued guysfrom Page I’veA1 the anniversarytoday, of 9/11,” world.’’ TheRussians, he said, and aparty-loving “pothead” JudgeDouglas P. Woodlock, have fought the Chechens by some friends. But there wearing black robes, told the since the 1700sand killed ever known.” were hints of something omi- cheering crowd of immigrants about 200,000 people —one nous underneath the surface: a from 132 countries. “But it fifth of Chechnya’s population messageonDzhokhar’s Twitter seems to me thatone thing we —from 1999 to 2001. Joe Timko, a foremanfeed on Marathon Mo ndaatylas t can sayisthe resilience of the But Christopher Swift, who year referred to aKoran verse United States after thatattack teaches national securitystud- the repair shop whereoften used Anzorby radical Mu slim is the result of the manydiffer- ies at Georgetown University clerics and propagandists. ent cultures which have blend- School of Foreign Service and Thetwo young men, seven ed together to provide contin- has studied the war in Chech- Tsarnaev worked severalyears apart, shared yearsakeen in- ued strength for this nation.” nyafor nearly 15 years, said it telligence and willingness to By contrast, Tamerlan had a is unlikely thatthe Tsarnaev work hard, according to inter- green card, but was not aciti- brothers were formally trained ago, recalled seeingvie himws with dozens changof people - zen. Hisfather said in aNew by Chechen Islamistmilitants, who knewthem. But there York Times interviewthatthe whose terroristactivities have were stark differences between domestic violence charges always been focused on Russia. ing a transmission inTamerlan, a whocarcame toinAmeri- againsthim might have “If there is anyconnection ca as ateenager,and thwarted Tamerlan’s attempt between these kids and the in- front of his house inDzhokhar single,who was 10 or 11 to gain United States citizen- surgencythere, it will be the when the family immigrated to ship. firsttime theyhavestruck a the United States, and by all target outside of Russia,”Swift digit temperatures andaccounts thrived snow.in their ne w Growing extremism said in an interview. American home. Their father, In recent years, as discord Thebrothers’ mother,Zu- alawyer before he emigrated, rippled through their family, beidatTsarnaev, said she never Timko said he instilledworked as anthatauto mechanic in both brothers displayed signs heard her sons talk about ter- the the United States, while of growing extremism. rorism. She was quoted by their mother was alicensed MaretTsarnaeva told re- CNN saying thatone son got toughness in his sons,cosmetologis somet. - porters at apress conference involved in religion about five Their older son, an accom- on FridayinToronto thather years ago, but “he never told times riding a bike plishedto aama boxingteur boxer de- nephewTamerlan recently me he would be on the side of scribed by some as arrogant or went from praying no more jihad,” she said. “How could standoffish, aspired to be an than once aday to praying five this happen?” gym on Somerville Avenue,engineer but dropped out of times aday.Aneighbor and Tamerlan’s turn to Islam Bunker Hill Community Col- family friend in Cambridge came as the family seemed to lege. Hisyounger brother,a said Tamerlan became ade- be disintegrating,according to while Tamerlan ranwell-lik alongsideed wrestling team cap- vout Muslim within the past neighbors and courtrecords. tain andNational Honor Soci- fewyears. Anext-door neighbor on etymember in high school, is “Hestarted talking about Norfolk Street, who declined him, training. currently enrolled as asopho- religion,”said the family to provide his name, said he more at the UniversityofMas- friend, who asked not to be would constantly hear yelling Tamerlan, the sachuseeldestttsDartmouth, son,living identified. “Hegrewalong and police would often show in adorm on campus and beard.” up at the family’s apartment. studying to be amarine biolo- Thefriend Another neigh- became an amateurgis boxer,t. em- said Tamerlan bor also de- “If someone were to ask me urged him to be scribed whatthis kid is like, Iwould more obser- “screaming ulating his father, whosaythath ehhelpedad aheartofgold, ” vant,asking, and argu- said LarryAaronson, who “Why don’t you ments.” taught the younger suspectat become abetter Theparents train him. Boxing asthe publica heavyCambridgeRindg- e Muslim? Why divorced, and &Latin School. “Hewas as gra- don’t you pray, spent extended weight, he competedcious inas possible the…T his is all whydon’t you periods of time surreal to me.” do your Islamic back in Russia. duties?” Thesuspects’ national Golden GlovesFamily hist orycompe- When the mother, Zubei- TheTsarnaevbrothers were friend joked dat, was arrest- ethnic Chechens, born in the about the ed in June tition, said John Allan,former Sovie ownertRepublic now beard, he said, 2012 in Natick called Kyrgyzstan. Whether Tamerlan be- ‘InKyrgyzstan and charged theyever lived in war-torn came upset, with shoplift- of Wai Kru Mixed MartialChechnya is unclear Arts.Their fa- asking “Why we were ing after aLord ther,Anzor Tsarnaev, was de- are you making oppressed. We &Taylor em- in , who rememberedscribed by family Fridaya sa fun of my reli- ployee accused former Russian amateur box- JOHANNES HIRN/LANDOVJOHANNES HIRN /LANDOV gion?” wanted aquiet her of cutting ing champion. While the fami- Tamerlan Tsarnaevpracticed at the WaiKru Mixed Martial Arts center in Boston in 2009. Anext-door the sensor tags seeing him compete.ly was living in Kyrgyzstan, neighbor on life. Iwas afraid out of several Anzor Tsarnayevsaid in an in- Tamerlan Tsarnaev practiced at the Wai Norfolk Street for my kids and dresses, valued terviewFridaybythe Russian in Cambridge at $1,952, and “He was the bestagencyl boxerifenews.ru, the yhad said he too no- tried to save hiding them in trouble with government au- Kru Mixed Martial Arts center in Bos- ticed achange them.’ her shopping thorities. in Tamerlan’s bag.The police in Boston,” said Allan.“InK yrg“Heyzstan we were op- appearance ANZOR TSARNAEV, reportde- pressed,”the father said. “We ton in 2009. about ayear father of the suspects scribed her as wanted aquietlife. Iwas agowhen he be- unemployed afraid for my kids and tried to gan wearing and divorced. save them.” long white linen garments. Yetthe older brother had By 2001, the family had tak- Theneighbor,who asked not the beginnings of his own fam- en refugeinMakhachkala, the to be identified, characterized ily.Hewas married to Kather- capital of4the predominantly it as astriking changefor the ine Russell, who grewupin Muslim Russian region of Dag- once hip-looking,urban young NorthKingstown, R.I. Russell estan, which borders Chech- man, but said it only lasted a began wearing Islamic cloth- nya. There, the brothers briefly month. ing shortly after she started at attended grade school. Anzor’s Online, it appears, Tamer- Suffolk University, one neigh- sister MaretTsarnaeva told re- lan toyed with extremism. A bor said. Russell and Tsarnaev porters thatshe wrote the refu- YouTube account created in also had achild in the pastfew geepetition in April 2002 for Tamerlan Tsarnaev’sname in years, and the three of them the father,mother and young- August2012 includes in one were seen on andoff at Rus- estson, Dzhokhar,toreceive playlistavideo dedicated to sell’s parents’ home in Rhode asylum in the United States. the prophecyofthe Black Ban- Island. Hermother,Judith, Thethree other children, Ta- ners of Khurasan, which is ap- Fridayread aprepared state- merlan and his sisters, Alina parently embraced by Islamic ment from the home saying and Bella, joined the family BOB LEONARD extremists. she was “sickened”bythe later. Tamerlan (black hat) and brother Dzhokhar (white hat) at the Marathon on Monday. In another video, featured knowledgeofwhatTsarnaev With the family reunited in on aplaylistentitled “terror- did. the United States, theyseemed became an amateur boxer,em- in 2004, Tamerlan said he good grades in high school but ists,”aspeaker holds an assault “Our daughter has losther to be on the path to fulfilling ulating his father,who helped liked the USA. likedtosmokemarijuana with rifle and wears camouflagefa- husband today, the father of their American dreams. The train him. Boxing as aheavy- “America has alot of jobs. friends, said those who knew tigues while flanked by armed her child. We cannot begin to brothers attended high school weight,hecompeted in the na- That’s something Russia him. He volunteered with the men wearing masks. comprehend how this horrible and collegeand seemed to be tional Golden Gloves competi- doesn’t have,”hetold the Best Buddies program, which “There will always be a tragedy occurred,”said the succeeding,family members tion, said John Allan, owner of newspaper.“Youhaveachance pairs volunteers with people group of people who will stick mother.“In the aftermath of said. WaiKru Mixed Martial Arts in to makemoneyhere if you are who have disabilities, and to the truth, fight for that the Patriots Dayhorror we “Everything was perfectbe- Allston, whoremembered see- willing to work.” wore ared bow tie and match- truth,”the speaker says in Rus- know thatwenever really cause Anzor is averyloving ing him compete. He later said, in aphoto es- ing vestwith his black tuxedo sian with an accent common to knewTamerlan Tsarnaev.” softhearted father,” Maretsaid “Hewas the bestboxer in sayabout his boxing exploits, at his prom in the spring of the Caucasus region thatin- Thefamily declined to an- of her brother. Boston,”said Allan. “He thathehoped to be selected for 2011. cludes Chechnya. “And those swer questionswhen aGlobe But Anzor Tsarnaev’sfor- smoked all of the profession- the US Olympic team, and that On September 11th, 2012, a whowon’t supportthem will reporter came to the door. mer boss at Webster Auto Body als.” he dreamed of becoming anat- year and ahalf after his high not win.” Dzhokhar,who reportedly in Somerville sawaverydiffer- “Hewas noticeable because uralized citizen. But he also la- school graduation, Dzhokhar TheGlobe could not con- did well in high school, was ent side of the man, describing he was veryrelaxed, very mented his alienation, saying, Tsarnaevbecame anaturalized firm thatthe user was the failing manyofhis college him as “one of the toughest smooth.”said Douglas A. Yoffe, “I don’t have asingle American US citizen, according to gov- same person as the bombing classes, according to auniver- guys I’ve ever known.” the coach at the Harvard Box- friend. Idon’t understand ernment officials, after passing suspect who was killed in a sitytranscript reviewed by The JoeTimko, aforeman at the ing Club, who has seen Tamer- them.’’ acriminal background check, shoot-out. NewYork Times. Thetran- repair shop where Anzor Tsar- lan boxabout half adozen Tamerlan attended Bunker aUScivics and English test, At the end of 2011, script shows him receiving sev- naevworked several years ago, times over the pastdecade. Hill CommunityCollegepart- and completing an interview Dzhokhar Tsarnaevcontacted en failing grades over twose- recalled seeing him changing a Yoffealso said Tamerlan time for three semesters, from with afederal immigration of- Brian Glyn Williams, ahistory mesters in 2012 and 2013. Sev- transmission in acar in front stood out because he kept his the fall of 2006 through the fall ficer. professor at UMass Dartmouth eral UMass students recalled of his house in single digit tem- distance from others in the of 2008, according to aschool At the naturalization cere- who teaches acourse on the seeing him smoking or playing peratures and snow.Timko clubs and at the tournaments spokeswoman. But he never monyatthe TD Garden, he historyofChechnya, express- laptop video games in the com- said he instilled thattoughness where he fought. graduated and appeared to fo- stood with more than 2,500 ing an interestinlearning mon area of his hall. in his sons, sometimes riding a “I remember he had that cusonhis boxing career and a immigrants to takethe oath of more about Chechen history. About twoyears ago, the fa- biketoaboxing gymon blase attitude,”Yoffe added. woman he is said US citizenship, raising his “Hewanted to rediscover ther,Anzor,returned to Dag- Somerville Avenue, while Ta- “For averyyoung fighter he to have metoutside an Allston right hand and promising to his roots and his identity,’’ said estan and his former wife also merlan ranalongside him, was almostdisdainful. He was gymwhere he trained. defend the Constitution and Williams. returned to Russia sometime training. veryconfident.” Dzhokhar,meanwhile, was laws “againstall enemies, for- Williams called Chechnya later,according to CNN,leav- Tamerlan, the eldestson, Profiled in the Lowell Sun agifted student who earned eign and domestic.” “probably the mostdangerous Continued on next page abcde STORY 9

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smoked all of the professionals.” “He was noticeable because he was very relaxed, very smooth.” said Douglas A. Yoffe, the coach at the Harvard Boxing Club, who has seen Tamerlan box about half a dozen times over the past decade. Yoffe also said Tamerlan stood out because he kept his dis- tance from others in the clubs and at the tournaments where he fought. “I remember he had that blase attitude,” Yoffe added. “For a very young fighter he was almost disdainful. He was very confi- dent.” Profiled in the Lowell Sun in 2004, Tamerlan said he liked the USA. “America has a lot of jobs. That’s something Russia doesn’t have,” he told the newspaper. “You have a chance to make money here if you are willing to work.” He later said, in a photo essay about his boxing exploits, that he hoped to be selected for the US Olympic team, and that he dreamed of becoming a naturalized citizen. But he also lamented his alienation, saying, “I don’t have a single American friend. I don’t understand them.’’ Tamerlan attended Bunker Hill Community College part-time for three semesters, from the fall of 2006 through the fall of 2008, according to a school spokeswoman. But he never graduated and appeared to focus on his boxing career and a Rhode Island woman he is said to have met outside an Allston gym where he trained. Dzhokhar, meanwhile, was a gifted student who earned good grades in high school but liked to smoke marijuana with friends, said those who knew him. He volunteered with the Best Buddies program, which pairs volunteers with people who have disabilities, and wore a red bow tie and matching vest with his black tuxedo at his prom in the spring of 2011. On September 11th, 2012, a year and a half after his high school graduation, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became a naturalized US citizen, according to government officials, after passing a criminal background check, a US civics and English test, and completing an interview with a federal immigration officer. At the naturalization ceremony at the TD Garden, he stood with more than 2,500 immigrants to take the oath of US citizen- ship, raising his right hand and promising to defend the Constitu- tion and laws “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” “I don’t want to dwell on the anniversary today, of 9/11,” Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, wearing black robes, told the cheering crowd of immigrants from 132 countries. “But it seems to me that one thing we can say is the resilience of the United States after that attack is the result of the many different cultures which have blended together to provide continued strength for this nation.” By contrast, Tamerlan had a green card, but was not a citizen. His father said in a New York Times interview that the domestic violence charges against him might have thwarted Tamerlan’s at- tempt to gain United States citizenship.

Growing extremism In recent years, as discord rippled through their family, both brothers displayed signs of growing extremism.

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Maret Tsarnaev told reporters at a press conference on Friday in Toronto that her nephew Tamerlan recently went from praying no more than once a day to praying five times a day. A neighbor and family friend in Cambridge said Tamerlan became a devout Muslim within the past few years. “He started talking about religion,” said the family friend, who asked not to be identified. “He grew a long beard.” The friend said Tamerlan urged him to be more observant, asking, “Why don’t you become a better Muslim? Why don’t you pray, why don’t you do your Islamic duties?” When the friend joked about the beard, he said, Tamerlan became upset, asking “Why are you making fun of my religion?” A next-door neighbor on Norfolk Street in Cambridge said he too noticed a change in Tamerlan’s appearance about a year ago when he began wearing long white linen garments. The neigh- bor, who asked not to be identified, characterized it as a striking change for the once hip-looking, urban young man, but said it only lasted a month. Online, it appears, Tamerlan toyed with extremism. A You- Tube account created in Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s name in August 2012 includes in one playlist a video dedicated to the prophecy of the Black Banners of Khurasan, which is apparently embraced by Is- lamic extremists. In another video, featured on a playlist entitled “terrorists,” a speaker holds an assault rifle and wears camouflage fatigues while flanked by armed men wearing masks. “There will always be a group of people who will stick to the truth, fight for that truth,” the speaker says in Russian with an ac- cent common to the Caucasus region that includes Chechnya. “And those who won’t support them will not win.” The Globe could not confirm that the user was the same per- son as the bombing suspect who was killed in a shoot-out. At the end of 2011, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev contacted Brian Glyn Williams, a history professor at UMass Dartmouth who teaches a course on the , expressing an interest in learn- ing more about Chechen history. “He wanted to rediscover his roots and his identity,’’ said Wil- liams. Williams called Chechnya “probably the most dangerous heart of darkness in the world.’’ The Russians, he said, have fought the Chechens since the 1700s and killed about 200,000 people — one fifth of Chechnya’s population — from 1999 to 2001. But Christopher Swift, who teaches national security studies at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and has stud- ied the war in Chechnya for nearly 15 years, said it is unlikely that the Tsarnaev brothers were formally trained by Chechen Islamist militants, whose terrorist activities have always been focused on Russia. “If there is any connection between these kids and the insur- gency there, it will be the first time they have struck a target out- side of Russia,” Swift said in an interview. The brothers’ mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, said she never heard her sons talk about terrorism. She was quoted by CNN say- ing that one son got involved in religion about five years ago, but “he never told me he would be on the side of jihad,” she said. “How

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could this happen?” Tamerlan’s turn to Islam came as the family seemed to be dis- integrating, according to neighbors and court records. A next-door neighbor on Norfolk Street, who declined to provide his name, said he would constantly hear yelling and police would often show up at the family’s apartment. Another neighbor also described “screaming and arguments.” The parents divorced, and spent extended periods of time back in Russia. The suspects’ mother, Zubeidat, was arrested in June 2012 in Natick and charged with shoplifting after a Lord & Taylor employee accused her of cutting the sensor tags out of sev- eral dresses, valued at $1,952, and hiding them in her shopping bag. The police report described her as unemployed and divorced. Yet the older brother had the beginnings of his own family. He was married to Katherine Russell, who grew up in North Kings- town, R.I. Russell began wearing Islamic clothing shortly after she started at Suffolk University, one neighbor said. Russell and Tsar- naev also had a child in the past few years, and the three of them were seen on and off at Russell’s parents’ home in Rhode Island. Her mother, Judith, Friday read a prepared statement from the home saying she was “sickened” by the knowledge of what Tsar- naev did. “Our daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child. We cannot begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred,” said the mother. “In the aftermath of the Patriots Day horror we know that we never really knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev.” The family declined to answer questions when a Globe report- er came to the door. Dzhokhar, who reportedly did well in high school, was fail- ing many of his college classes, according to a university transcript reviewed by . The transcript shows him re- ceiving seven failing grades over two semesters in 2012 and 2013. Several UMass students recalled seeing him smoking or playing laptop video games in the common area of his hall. About two years ago, the father, Anzor, returned to Dagestan and his former wife also returned to Russia sometime later, accord- ing to CNN, leaving the sons on their own. The parents went back and forth to the United States numerous times to visit their chil- dren, their aunt said, and another relative said the older brother, Tamerlan, also spent a lengthy period in Russia last year. Cousin Zaur Tsarnaev said he most recently expressed his concerns about Tamerlan — the alleged bomber pictured in a dark hat in FBI videos released Thursday — to Dzhokhar when the younger brother visited last summer. He added that Dzhokhar went to mosque sometimes but he was “never an extremist.” “Dzhokhar is a sweet boy, innocent. He was always smiling, friendly and happy,” Zaur Tsarnaev said. “I don’t know how he is involved in this.” Tamerlan, by contrast, had seen his share of troubles. Gym owner Allan said that Tamerlan had once introduced him to an American, Brendan Mess, whom Tamerlan described as his best friend. Two years ago, Mess and two other men were brutally killed in a Waltham apartment where they were found by police with their throats slit and their bodies covered with marijuana. The

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murders remain unsolved. Tsarnaev hadn’t been to Allan’s Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center in years, instead going to another nearby boxing gym. Until this month. Allan, who is currently traveling in Thailand, said he got an e-mail within the past week saying Tsarnaev showed up at the gym acting rude and disrespectful, using other people’s equipment, walking on the mats with his shoes. “It was a clear indication that something was up,” Allan said. “He was becoming a complete [expletive].” In the photo essay about Tamerlan’s boxing, called “Will Box for Passport,” Tamerlan stops to answer a phone call while walking from his Mercedes to the martial arts center. He has a long wool scarf wrapped fashionably around his neck and gleaming white leather slip-on shoes and is carrying an Oceanfly dufflebag. He said in the essay that he quit smoking and drinking be- cause “God said no alcohol.” He worried that “there are no values anymore . . . people can’t control themselves.” People who knew the suspects struggled Friday to reconcile the young men they thought they knew, who lived on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, with the acts of terrorism they are accused of committing. Pamala Rolon, a senior at UMass Dartmouth and a resi- dent assistant at the Pine Dale dorms on campus, said she knew Dzhokhar for the past year and finds it incredible that he could have played any role in the bombs at the Boston Marathon. “He studied. He hung out with me and my friends,” she said in a telephone interview Friday. “I’m in shock.” Rolon, 22, said the 300 or so students at the dorm were evac- uated this morning by school authorities as the campus was shut down. Rolon said when she returned from class Thursday afternoon, she and her friends watched the television news broadcast showing the images of the suspects, including one that she thought looked faintly like the student she knew on campus. “We made a joke like – that could be Dzhokhar,” she said. “But then we thought it just couldn’t be him. Dzhokhar? Never.” In fact, less than 48 hours after the bombings, police said, Dzhokar was back on campus at UMass, working out in the gym on Wednesday and sleeping at his dorm. “I’m a stress-free kind of guy,” he wrote on Twitter, as investigators furiously worked to track him down. In another posting, the day after the bombs, Dzhokar left a cryptic message. “There are people that know the truth but stay silent,” he wrote, “[and] there are people that speak the truth but we don’t hear them cuz they’re the minority.” Peter Payack, the assistant wrestling coach at Cambridge Rindge & Latin where Dzhokhar graduated, said the youth wres- tled on the team for three years and was captain for two years and a Greater Boston League all-star. Though he graduated from Rind- ge & Latin, he came back to wrestle with the team in February, he said. “He was a dedicated kid, and all the kids loved him,” Payack said.

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“He wasn’t a loner, the complete opposite. . . . He seemed like one of the most well-adjusted kids on the team. “Never in a million years did [we] expect anything like this,” Payack said. Payack, who has run the Boston Marathon 24 times and often wears his blue-and-yellow Marathon jacket, said he was particu- larly saddened that Dzhokar would target the race. “It was like a bomb going off in my heart this morning be- cause he’s one of our wrestlers. I said ‘That guy looks like my guy.’ ” The capture of Dzhokhar and the bloody shoot-out that re- sulted in his brother’s death has triggered questions about their origins. The state news agency of Kyrgyzstan said the brothers are ethnic Chechens who lived in the Central Asian country until “roughly 2001,” when they moved to Dagestan, on the border of Chechnya in southern Russia. A spokesman for School No. 1 in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, told Russian news agencies that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a pupil in the first and second grade. The Russian social media website VKontakte has a profile of a Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who identifies himself as a resident of Boston and a member of the class of 2011 at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School. According to the profile, Tsarnaev is a member of the group “Everything About the Chechen Republic.” The profile lists Dzhokhar’s languages as English, Russian, and Chechen, and lists him as a Muslim. The last post was made in 2012. While the brothers are Chechens, the press secretary of Chechnya’s pro-Moscow government told the official Russian news agency Interfax that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev have no recent connection with Chechnya. The US Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, said US diplomats in the Central Asian nation were scrambling to learn more about the brothers’ roots. “We are following this issue very closely,” said Christian Wright, the embassy’s public affairs officer. Back in the US, speaking to reporters outside his Maryland home on Friday, the uncle of the two suspects lashed out at his nephews for the shame they brought upon their family and coun- try and “on the entire Chechen identity.” Then the uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, apologized to the victims. “I’m ready to kneel in front of them, seeking their forgive- ness,” he said.

Maria Sacchetti, Mark Arsenault, Brian Ballou, Maria Cramer, Lisa Kocian, Sean P. Murphy, Matt Carroll, Gideon Gil, Tracy Jan, Bob Hohler, Michael Kranish, Doug Most, Sarah Schweitzer, Noah Bierman, Jonathan Saltzman, Todd Wallack, Meghan E. Irons, Bryan Bender, Lisa Wangsness, and Michael Levenson of the Globe staff as well as correspondents Leanne Poirier, Todd Feathers and Haven Orecchio-Egresitz contributed. Arsenault can be reached at [email protected]

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