Tamerlan is named for Tamerlane or Timur The Lame. He was a 14th/15th century Islamic conqueror who practiced Jihad from Anatolia to Kashgar. He killed 100,000 Hindu captives when he took Deli and killed all but 60,000 Christian Armenians - whom he enslaved. In all, it's estimated that Tamerlane killed about 17 million people. This is who she named her first born son after.
Dzhokhar is named for Dzhokhar Dudayev, first (and hopefully last) president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Dudayev was a former Soviet Air Force (strategic bomber) general. He was given the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Red Banner for dropping lots of bombs on Afghans and he refused to shut down the Estonian parliament and TV during the KGB coup in 1991, so he's wasn't always pure evil.
Dudayev declared full independence from Russia in 1993, the year Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born. This triggered a bloody civil war that has gone on for 20 years now. He was "martyred" by a Russian laser guided missile while chatting on a satellite phone in 1996.
It's pretty easy to see what the proud Tsarnaev family hoped their sons would become.
And let us not forget Chechens relish raping and murdering schoolchildren. I wonder if Lanza was infected with Chechen Islamism.
>>>Dzhokhar is named for Dzhokhar Dudayev, first (and hopefully last) president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Dudayev was a former Soviet Air Force (strategic bomber) general. He was given the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Red Banner for dropping lots of bombs on Afghans and he refused to shut down the Estonian parliament and TV during the KGB coup in 1991, so he’s wasn’t always pure evil.<<<
It worth mentioning, Dudaev became a head of Soviet SAC only as part of Russian version of affirmative action being a mediocre officer in the first place.
Before he became a respected islamist he is famous for a Soviet version of USAF’s Vietnam Linebacker op - or devastating bombing of his fellow moslems using strategic heavy bombers to deliver enormous ammount of conventional ordnance in a late phase of Soviet-Afghan War.
That is exactly as much an islamist could do to prove he is loyal to Soviets.
It is now believed he has developed schizophrenia in process which makes him a real-life equivalent of a rebel general from Dr. Strangelove movie.
They relieved him of command as a result of some strange behaviour and he was free to get back to Chechnya, to win the presidential elections as the most famous Chechen to date and then he has declared jihad on Russian military who was so thankless for his achievements.