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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPossible photos of the Marathon bombers
Djohar Tsarnaev, from a Russian social media site:
http://vk.com/id160300242
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a photo album of him in America:
http://johanneshirn.photoshelter.com/gallery/-/G0000VQW7v6xWA7o/
That would be Suspect #2 and Suspect #1 respectively. I found these from Twitter.
ck4829
(35,084 posts)elleng
(131,073 posts)ck4829
(35,084 posts)Seems to support that kind of stuff by the look of it.
elleng
(131,073 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Means they came as little kids.
global1
(25,264 posts)all american girl
(1,788 posts)requirement. I know in Denmark it's about 9 mos. A lot of countries require kids to do conscription for around a year....but could be way off base with this.
global1
(25,264 posts)he would have been too young to serve in the military in his country. Perhaps his brother Black Hat could have had the military training. He is/was supposedly older.
all american girl
(1,788 posts)training, I was thinking the time line does not match. My son is one month younger than white cap, he graduated last year and has been in college....no real time.
treestar
(82,383 posts)They became legal permanent residents in 2007. That means the younger one was 13 then. The older one would have been 19. Don't think there was time for military training unless they traveled abroad later.
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)Chilling.
ChangeUp106
(549 posts)all this nazi stuff was just posted. obviously he didn't do it.
ck4829
(35,084 posts)brentspeak
(18,290 posts)http://johanneshirn.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Will-Box-For-Passport/G0000VQW7v6xWA7o/I0000kjbwUqXuuXk
ck4829
(35,084 posts)But there might still be more to this, a lot of Chechens aren't Islamist, but are pro-Moscow and have a Russian nationalist identity of sorts.
godai
(2,902 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Older one, now dead, identifies as Muslim and very religious without a single American friend. He says he doesn't understand Americans.
I'm sure most immigrants feel that way. But murdering children?
On the flip side, it's a tragedy for these evil young men, too. So much to live for. They could've done so much with their lives. The older one was a boxer & in school for engineering. He was hoping to qualify for the US Olympics in boxing. He had a girlfriend. Handsome, smart, physically fit. The world was his oyster. But he chose evil against the country that took him in and gave his life promise and opportunity.
I guess a seed was planted when he was younger. BTW...he drove a Mercedes????