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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect: "I Don't Have a Single American Friend"
Slate ^ | Friday, April 19, 2013, at 8:03 AM | David Weigel

Posted on 04/19/2013 6:41:53 AM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk

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.

Tamerlan, who studies at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and wants to become an engineer, took the semester off from school to train for the competition.

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."

If he wins enough fights... Tamerlan says he could be selected for the US Olympic team and be naturalized American. Unless his native Chechnya becomes independent, Tamerlan says he would rather compete for the United States than for Russia.

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


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This is a little bit of info on the dead bomber.
1 posted on 04/19/2013 6:41:53 AM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

aww he no hab no widdo fwiends.........


2 posted on 04/19/2013 6:42:48 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

He’ll have at least one American friend where he is now.

Hope he says hello to dead Ted for us.


3 posted on 04/19/2013 6:42:52 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk
"I Don't Have a Single American Friend"

...bitterly clinging to his koran and bombs with antipathy toward all who are not like him....

4 posted on 04/19/2013 6:43:43 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

Get to work! -joking


5 posted on 04/19/2013 6:45:08 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

Link doesn’t work for me


6 posted on 04/19/2013 6:45:10 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette (:)
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk
Oh yes he did!


7 posted on 04/19/2013 6:45:26 AM PDT by Dallas59 (America died a little bit more on 11/6/2012)
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk
"There are no values anymore," and worries that "people can't control themselves."

They're trying to make him out to be a Conservative.

8 posted on 04/19/2013 6:46:27 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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link moved to http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/19/tamerlan_tsarnaev_dead_bombing_suspect_i_don_t_have_a_single_american_friend.html
9 posted on 04/19/2013 6:46:59 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

Why don’t these weirdos stay in their Muslim holes instead of coming to mooch off this country?


10 posted on 04/19/2013 6:47:06 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

Found it! Maybe an iPad problem?


11 posted on 04/19/2013 6:47:24 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette (:)
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To: Da Coyote

If you go to the article, it states that he has the book “How to win friends and Influence People” is on his wishlist. I wonder if that’s a joke.

I can’t seem to access the article from my original post for some reason.

Here is the link http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/19/tamerlan_tsarnaev_dead_bombing_suspect_i_don_t_have_a_single_american_friend.htm


12 posted on 04/19/2013 6:47:46 AM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: Steely Tom

He is obviously talking about Congress and the President. Any elected official for the most part.


13 posted on 04/19/2013 6:48:10 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: frogjerk

No!


14 posted on 04/19/2013 6:48:18 AM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

Any wonder the Boston Marathon bomber (above) blended in so well in Boston?

15 posted on 04/19/2013 6:48:32 AM PDT by Obadiah (High speed, low drag.)
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To: Dallas59

LOL!


16 posted on 04/19/2013 6:49:32 AM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: yldstrk

Society is to blame!

Americans didn’t welcome him!

Damn us!


17 posted on 04/19/2013 6:49:55 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Obadiah

An Islamist with a Che T-Shirt, this guy won the “Daily Double.”


18 posted on 04/19/2013 6:50:17 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

Wonder what his DUmmie name was?


19 posted on 04/19/2013 6:50:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Obadiah

Huh? What is this guy and he is not on the suspect list?


20 posted on 04/19/2013 6:51:21 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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