Posted on 04/19/2013 7:37:14 PM PDT by XHogPilot
Classmates of the younger Boston Marathon bomber were horrified Friday to wake up to the news that their mild-mannered schoolmate had been identified as the culprit behind one of the largest-scale terrorist attacks on American soil in recent history.
Dzokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is, as of this writing, still at large; his older brother Tamerlan was killed in a shoot-out with police on Thursday night in Watertown, Massachusetts, after the brothers killed an officer on the MIT campus.
(snip)"I saw the pictures last night and thought it looked kind of like him," said Rebecca Mazur, who was in Tsarnaev's class at school and is now studying at Harvard. "But I felt mean even thinking that the person in the photos looked like him."
"It's such a huge shock," Mazur said. "He was such a sweet, sort of quiet guy."
(snip)"I didn't know Jahar extremely well, but he was literally among the sweetest, most laid back guys I've ever known," said another student at Harvard who went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin and spoke on the condition of anonymity. "Always friendly and welcoming, I always felt comfortable hanging out with him."
"In fact, as recently as November, I played pick-up basketball with him and he seemed like he was doing great at UMASS Dartmouth," the student said.
(snip)"We were friends," said Sam Greenberg, a Harvard junior who also went to Rindge. "...so we would just hang out after school."
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Reminds me of the reaction of friends and family of Ted Bundy.
I see you beat me to it.
Well, I have been on juries 3 times, once as a foreman, and did not run into any of that at all. Granted, as a foreman I did have to straighten out one juror who seemed to think whether he got home by 5 pm was more important than whether or not we sent a guy to jail for a couple years!!!
Maybe I’m in a “better” part of the country for finding reasonable and responsible (for the most part) jurors... :-)
I have no great desire to use whatever time I have left on earth learning more about Arab or muslim culture. I already know all I need to know about them.
It goes to show the power of evil. A seemingly ordinary nice guy becomes a cold-hearted killer.
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