Bomber Became American On Sept. 11

Quiet Muslims from Chechnya boxed, wrestled, blogged

WND

A profile of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing is beginning to emerge from their own blog postings made prior to the deadly attack on Monday.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, killed in a shootout with MIT police Thursday night, the so-called “Black hat” suspect, was a a Golden Gloves boxer who studied at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and wanted to become an engineer. 

Tamerlan left Chechnya with his family in the early 90s, and lived for years in Kazakhstan before being welcomed into the U.S. as a refugee.

Two sources told CNN Dzhokar Tsarnaev came to the U.S. as a tourist with his family in the early 2000s and later asked for asylum. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen on Sept. 11, 2012. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was not a naturalized citizen, a source said. He came “a few years later” and was lawfully in the United States as a green-card holder.

A statement from the office of Chechnya’s president echoed that: “According to preliminary information, coming from the relevant agencies, the Tsarnaev family moved many years ago out of Chechnya to another Russian region,” press secretary Alvi Kamirov told Russia’s semi-official Interfax news agency. “After that they lived for some time in Kazakhstan, and from there went to the U.S. where the family members received a residence permit. Therefore the individuals concerned did not live as adults in Chechnya.”

After living five years in America, Tsarnaev commented, “I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them.”

He was a Muslim who did not drink or smoke and who complained, “There are no values anymore” and “people can’t control themselves.”

Meanwhile, his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, still on the loose won a scholarship from the city of Cambridge to pursue higher education while a senior at a prestigious high school in 2011.

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