ADDING to post no. 60 - Re Tsarnaev background:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/20/us-usa-explosions-boston-kyrgyzstan-idUSBRE93J0AL20130420
“Boston accusations shock brothers’ former Kyrgyz hometown”
By Olga Dzyubenko
TOKMOK, Kyrgyzstan | Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:44am EDT
(Reuters) -
SNIPPET: “Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are remembered as decent and obedient boys from their time in the 1990s in the small community of Chechens in Tokmok, a leafy town under the snow-capped Tien Shan mountains outside the capital Bishkek.
Tamerlan, the elder of the two, studied well. His father, Anzor, made a living selling used cars and was welcomed with open arms when he visited the town again two years ago, 10 years after the family left for Russia and then the United States.”
SNIPPET: “He said Anzor Tsarnaev had been fiercely proud of Tamerlan’s prowess in the boxing ring and said his son had been looking forward to going to the Russian city of Sochi to watch the 2014 Winter Olympics next February.”
SNIPPET: “Kyrgyzstan, a mainly Muslim nation of 5.5 million which hosts U.S. and Russian military air bases, had a huge influx of ethnic Chechens in 1944.”
ADDING to post no. 69:
Note: Re Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (the Mother of Suspects no. 1 & 2 in the Boston Marathon Bombing):
http://mugshots.com/Current-Events/Zubeidat-Tsarnaev.55569628.html
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Note: Re Family History and background. I suggest to researchers interested in this subject to click on The Blaze link to read the whole article and view the hypertext linked articles.
CRIME
“WHO’S WHO IN THE ALLEGED BOSTON BOMBERS’ FAMILY — AND HOW ARE THEY RESPONDING? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR”
Apr. 19, 2013 3:45pm Billy Hallowell
SNIPPET: “Globe reporter Mark Arsenault goes on to confirm some of the details in our previous post — that Tamerlan, who was killed last night, was a talented boxer who wanted to join the U.S. Olympic team. He had hopes of being an engineer and had studied at a local community college.”
SNIPPET: “Other captions depict the elder Tsarnaev as a Muslim who abstains from alcohol and is bewildered by the immorality of the surrounding American culture.
Reports are that Tamerlan traveled to Russia for six months back in 2012. It’s unclear whether this trip has anything to do with his alleged involvement in the attack.
Dzhokhar, too, seemed to have a bright and promising future. As we noted, he won a scholarship and graduated from a well-known school called Cambridge Rindge & Latin School. He’s also allegedly studying at a local college.”
SNIPPET: “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the AP notes, was registered as a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.”
SNIPPET: “The Tsarnaev brothers purportedly came from Chechnya, an area of Russia that has long struggled with Islamic extremism, but considering that they’ve been in America for quite some time, investigators don’t yet know why Tamerlan and Dzhokhar allegedly orchestrated this attack (the Daily Mail reports that Dzhokhar was born in Kyrgyzstan).”
SNIPPET: “RT apparently contacted a school in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, where the family is also said to have lived for a short time. A representative from the educational facility said that the family moved to Dagestan from Kyrgyzstan in 2001 and that Dzhokhar didn’t make an impression, good or bad.”
“He arrived at our school in the first form and departed in the second,” secretary Irina Bandurina told the outlet. “They arrived from Kyrgyzstan and departed to the US. I’m telling you they lived here for a year — not the whole year. They arrived at the school in 2001 and departed in March 2002””
SNIPPET: “In addition to the two brothers, there are two sisters in the family, named Bella and Amina.”
SNIPPET: “Two sisters of the Boston bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev have been identified as West New York residents Bella Tsarnaeva (spelled with an “a”) and 22-year-old Ailina Tsarnaev. The latter is reportedly cooperating with the police and has expressed shock and sorrow over her brothers’ actions.”
SNIPPET: “And it seems one of the brothers’ aunts has spoken out as well. During an interview with reporters that aired on CNN and other stations, she seemingly confirmed that at least one of the alleged bombers was a Muslim.
When asked if her nephews were “devout practicing Muslims,” Maret Tsarnaev replied: “He was not devout.”
“But just recently, maybe two years ago, he started praying about five times a day, which I don’t see anything bad in it,” she said from outside her Toronto home.”
SNIPPET: “She confirmed that she was talking about “Suspect 1,” Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26.”
SNIPPET: “Maret went on to note that she is used to being setup and that and that she experienced this dynamic regularly when she lived in the Soviet Union.
“I am a Chechen. I have to prove myself twice — triple times more than Kyrgyz or Kazakh who live on their own land,” she continued.”
SNIPPET: “And her other alleged son, Tamerian, was purportedly arrested for domestic assault and battery after purportedly abusing his girlfriend in 2009.”