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Yes, that was one big oops! by Granddaddy! It appears that Katherine and Zahara might have been living with the Russells (her parents). It is apparently unclear whether K was estranged from her h. (And does she have any inkling how the two brothers could live as they did with no jobs? Didn’t the older brother drive a Mercedes? And look at his expensive taste in clothing.) I hope Katherine and Zahara can change their names. Perhaps she will convert back to Christianity. Z is probably too young to have more than vague memories of her father. I wonder if Z will cut off all ties with her husband’s family?</p>
<p>I think the mom is in Russia with the dad. The aunt is in Canada (and was interviewed on TV).</p>
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<p>lol, the brothers carjacked a Mercedes to use as a getaway car</p>
<p>Thanks, Tom.</p>
<p>I’m interested to hear more about what role their mother played in their lives for the past ten years. Why did the dad go back to Russia? Did she know anything about her boys’ increasing radicalism?</p>
<p>So many questions. So glad to wake up and find that the kid survived the night.</p>
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<p>There have been reports that the older brother owned a Mercedes for a while. Coincidentally, they also carjacked one.</p>
<p>Must have really like driving a Mercedes</p>
<p>They said on the news that the mother is more fundamentalist in her religious beliefs than the father, which might explain why the father had all the visible presence in talking the media.</p>
<p>It sounds like both parents moved back to Russia within the past year or so and before that lived with their family in Cambridge.</p>
<p>I thought I also read that the father had some run ins with the KGB because he was involved in the political scene.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure we can keep him out. The WSJ story said that the family received green cards in 2007. If the father stayed out of the U.S. for an extended period of time (which it appears he did), his LPR status can be revoked. It’s unclear from the article how long the father has been out of the U.S.</p>
<p>I’m curious about how the younger son is paying for tuition and R&B if the family is so poor. Looks like cost of attendance is over $22K. I hate to think that the taxpayers are financing this creep.</p>
<p>“Further, he is a US citizen. Even if he immigrated earlier on, I just don’t see why they would extradite an American citizen for a crime committed in the US? Doesn’t make sense to me.”</p>
<p>^This. </p>
<p>We usually try to get a foreigner who committed a criminal act on US soil and gets out of the country to be extradited back to the US to be tried. It’s absurd to think we would do the opposite in this case!</p>
<p>I think he wants him extradited because he feels he will suffer more in Russia.</p>
<p>The mother is in Cambridge…and she said they were set up</p>
<p>The NYTimes reported that the younger brother was close to flunking out of UMass-Dartmouth:</p>
<p>“At the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dzhokhar began to struggle academically. According to a university transcript reviewed by The New York Times, he was failing many of his classes. The transcript shows him receiving seven failing grades over three semesters, including Fs in Principles of Modern Chemistry, Intro to American Politics and Chemistry and the Environment. According to the transcript, Dzhokhar received a B in Critical Writing and a D and D-plus in two other courses.”</p>
<p><a href=“Details of Tsarnaev Brothers’ Lives Emerge - The New York Times”>Details of Tsarnaev Brothers’ Lives Emerge - The New York Times;
<p>Fascinating interview with the uncle (father’s brother?) on NBC TV. He appropriately expressed grief for the victims and said that his nephew must seek their forgiveness. Moreover, the uncle seemed to blame the mother and blamed her “Armenian background” for apparently beligerent religious opinions which he seemed to say got passed along to her sons. I thought most Armenians were Christians, not Muslims.</p>
<p>I think we need answers also about what Tamerlan was doing in Russia for 6 months and what contact he had with Russian authorities. Clearly there is lingering resentment among ethnic Russians about the Chechnya separatist movement violence. This morning a New York TV crew went to a Brooklyn neighborhood where there are many Russian immigrants. More than one immigrant was quite eager in her disparaging comments about Chechnians generally. And reportedly the Russian government hasn’t been happy with what they believe to be a kid gloves attitude by the U.S. towards the separatist issue. Reportedly the U.S. has declined to officially designate Chechnya separatists as a terrorist group (Chechnians can get U.S. refugee status with little difficulty, apparently). That may likely change now. We’ll have diplomatic egg on our faces if this incident allows Putin to say “I told you so.”</p>
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<p>Pay no attention to your lying eyes.
I enjoyed all of his economics videos on YouTube. </p>
<p>And the parents naming the kid after Tamerlane is a pretty big tip off to their world view. You dont name a boy after General Patton for no particular reason.</p>
<p>Russia warned US about Tamerlan, and he is interviewed by authorities. ( once? Several times, as mother indicated?)</p>
<p>a bomb explodes at Marathon.</p>
<p>Are there so many possible " people of interest" that his name didn’t pop up, and authorities visit him? </p>
<p>I found that information, that we were warned about him, shocking.</p>
<p>^^Taking in Checnhian refugees was probably a beneficial gesture for the US. In the scheme of things, I don’t think chechnians are the biggest threat. Helping a marginal insurgence against a superpower may still be beneficial.</p>
<p>I agree it is shocking that we were warned and didn’t vet it well enough.</p>
<p>Thought I read he was interviewed twice by US authorities.</p>
<p>Well, it’s not chechnyans who are the danger, any more than it is Saudi’s, all of the 911 terrorists were Saudis. It’s not North Koreans who are the danger and it’s not Mexicans.</p>
<p>It is Chechnyans who are radical islamists, Saudis who are radical Islamists, North Koreans who are fervently anti west, and Mexican members of the Cartel. (And these people are just as dangerous to the people in their own country as they are in ours.)</p>
<p>Now, that said, it’s not Americans who are the danger, it is just murderers and gang bangers and rapists and armed robbers and carjackers.</p>
<p>It is certain individuals who cause problems, not entire groups of people.</p>