With the news of three additional suspects in federal custody, questions remain about the motive for the Boston Marathon bombing and whether the attack involved conspirators beyond the Tsarnaev brothers. But an account from an acquaintance of the suspects—a student at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth who was once romantically involved with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev himself—helps shed light on the individuals now at the center of the investigation.
The woman, who lived in the same dorm at UMass–Dartmouth as Tsarnaev during the 2011-12 academic year, told Mother Jones that she first met and had a "fleeting fling" with the bombing suspect during the fall of 2011. Around the same time, she says, she met Tsarnaev's college buddies Dias Kadyrbayev, Azamat Tazhayakov, and Robel Phillipos, the men now accused of helping Tsarnaev dispose of evidence and lying to investigators [9] after the bombing.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, the woman said, were part of a group of about five Russian-speaking friends at the university whom Tsarnaev was never without. "They all sort of idolized Jahar," she said, using the name she and others knew Tsarnaev by. "Dias was probably the one closest to him." She said that of the friends, Tsarnaev was the most popular and in touch with campus social life. "I cannot speak to the nature of their relationship because of the language barrier, however I did observe that Jahar was always the leader in his group."
That may help explain why the two would've helped Tsarnaev dispose of evidence after the marathon bombing, as authorities now allege. Whether they did so, and what knowledge they may have had about the bombing, remains unclear.
The woman, who was contacted by Mother Jones, asked to remain anonymous, fearing for the loss of her privacy. Her account of the Boston bombing suspect and his friends was corroborated by another former resident of the UMass-Dartmouth dorm where she met and became involved with Tsarnaev.
She got to know the group, she said, while hanging around campus with them, smoking pot and listening to music. She says her romantic relationship with Tsarnaev lasted for about two weeks. "I met him standing outside a building and honestly, his face was enough to capture my heart," she explained, noting that lots of women fawned over him. "I walked right up to him and I was like, 'Oh my God, you are adorable. Can we hang out?' I'm very forward."
Her nascent romance with Tsarnaev soon soured, though, after he invited her to come to his dorm room alone. "He wanted to go further than I did, and that made me uncomfortable, and I realized that that's not the kind of person that I wanted to be around," she says. "I don't think that's necessarily being a terrorist. I think that's just called being a hands-y teenaged boy."
She said she remains skeptical that Tsarnaev had a religious motive for carrying out the attack, as has been suggested in the context of his older brother's apparent radicalization. "He never mentioned anything about religion," she said. If he had been devoutly religious, he probably wouldn't have become romantically entangled with her, she added, because she practices a different Eastern religion. "I just can't see him being a radical jihadist just because of the nature of who he was. I don't doubt that he did it, but the 'why?' behind it—I'm having difficulty believing the news."
If anything, Tsarnaev's friend Kadyrbayev may have been more religious, in her view. She described a falling out she had with Kadyrbayev a few months after meeting him. "I went out to a party and he made a comment about how my dress was kind of inappropriate because it was kind of revealing," she says. "Other than that, I never got the vibe that he was a very conservative fellow."
A page that appears to belong to Kadyrbayev on Vkontakte, a Russian social-media website similar to Facebook, hints at conservative views about women. Among his posts is a poem attributed to Kazakh poet Abai Qunanbaiuli that defines a good wife as smart, thrifty, and modest. Yet, that would seem at odds with several images that Kadyrbayev has also posted of scantily clad women, as well as a crude cartoon about marijuana, alcohol, and rape.
The woman recalled that when she first saw Tsarnaev's name in the news, she didn't recognize him because she knew him as Jahar. Later it clicked: "I remembered when we had gone up to his room, he had spent like 10 minutes explaining why his name was spelled differently."
Could he have really been behind the marathon bombing? "I was like, there's no way…and then I saw his face all over the news."
She was surprised to learn about the other suspects' alleged involvement as well. "There was no indication that they were crazy at all. They just seemed goofy, kind of lackadaisical, not interested in their studies. But, you know, whatever, it was their first semester of college. No one really cared about books."
The twitterati have spoken: Robel Phillipos is innocent.
Phillipos, 19, faces up to eight years for allegedly lying to federal authorities investigating the Boston bombings — but the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pal got a flurry of supportive posts under the hashtag #FreeRobel.
Others took exception to the fact that Phillipos faces a harsher sentence than his alleged accomplices, the 19-year-old Kazakh suspects Dias Kadyrbayev, and Azamat Tazhayakov, who could each spend five years behind bars for conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Phillipos is accused of being part of a plot to toss Tsarnaev’s firework-filled backpack to keep him out of trouble.
Unreal hopefully these 3 punks all receive max sentences, toss them in general population lets see how long it takes to wipe the smiles off their faces.
The twitterati have spoken: Robel Phillipos is innocent.
Phillipos, 19, faces up to eight years for allegedly lying to federal authorities investigating the Boston bombings — but the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pal got a flurry of supportive posts under the hashtag #FreeRobel.
Others took exception to the fact that Phillipos faces a harsher sentence than his alleged accomplices, the 19-year-old Kazakh suspects Dias Kadyrbayev, and Azamat Tazhayakov, who could each spend five years behind bars for conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Phillipos is accused of being part of a plot to toss Tsarnaev’s firework-filled backpack to keep him out of trouble.
Unreal hopefully these 3 punks all receive max sentences, toss them in general population lets see how long it takes to wipe the smiles off their faces.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Tsarnaev brothers lived prior to their terror attack at the Boston Marathon, has announced they will not allow dead suspect Tamerlan's body to be buried there, it was revealed Sunday.
City manager Robert Healy said Tsarnaev's body was not welcomed in one of its cemeteries.
'I have determined that it is not in the best interest of peace within the city to execute a cemetery deed for a plot within the Cambridge Cemetery for the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev,' Healey said.
The news comes as Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, arrived in the Bay State to claim his nephew's body and prepare for a funeral.
Every cemetery in Massachusetts has turned down the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Stefan told Fox News, but he remains insistent that this death be handled like any other. It is also understood that Stefan has reached out unsuccessfully to cemeteries in New Jersey and Connecticut.
Are the musings from a man not of this time really that apt to the world today?
Of course. Otherwise, let's discard the "musings" (bit of a condescending remark, actually; hopefully you didn't mean it as such) of Plato, Socrates, DaVinci, Edison, Twain and the like.
The passage of time doesn't make one, or their thoughts, insignificant or irrelevant. Much can still be learned from them - at least from where I am.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Tsarnaev brothers lived prior to their terror attack at the Boston Marathon, has announced they will not allow dead suspect Tamerlan's body to be buried there, it was revealed Sunday.
City manager Robert Healy said Tsarnaev's body was not welcomed in one of its cemeteries.
'I have determined that it is not in the best interest of peace within the city to execute a cemetery deed for a plot within the Cambridge Cemetery for the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev,' Healey said.
The news comes as Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, arrived in the Bay State to claim his nephew's body and prepare for a funeral.
Every cemetery in Massachusetts has turned down the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Stefan told Fox News, but he remains insistent that this death be handled like any other. It is also understood that Stefan has reached out unsuccessfully to cemeteries in New Jersey and Connecticut.
His family has a lot of nerve wanting to bury this POS in this country.
even though sometimes this country irritates the hell out of me, i do love this country. well done, well done. take the bomber's body back to his homeland.
exactly what i was thinking. over & over someone or several would trash the grave sight. grounds keepers may not cut the grass. it would be a disaster & even from the grave he would be reeking havoc
Law enforcement officials have told ABC News that "mounting" forensic evidence from an unsolved triple homicide tie Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the crime.
Cell phone records also place the brothers in the area of the murders on the date they were committed.
On Sept. 11, 2011, three men were found in a residence with their throats slit and their bodies covered in marijuana.
Tamerlan described one of the murder victims, 25-year-old Brendan Mess, as his best friend. He and Mess were once roommates and boxed together. The two others who died were 31-year-old Erik Weissman and 37-year-old Raphael Teken, both of Cambridge.
I see martyrdom on the way for this guy. this cemetary will be desecrated by assholes on soem kind of juvenile rampage, pissing off others families who are buried there.
It will help to inflame antiamericanism , which will be worse in this instance, considering that it will be ordinary citizens doing this shit. Not the government which I believe is where most of the hatred comes from to start. Yes we do elect these fucks to act on our behalf, but by and large I believe we as citizens can and should rise above.
Let this guy rest in peace. Allow his child to mourn his/her dad, and have a place to go free from petty bullshit.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Thousands of American teen girls are crushing on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, 19 — and leading a social-media movement to exonerate him.
The swooning teens will not accept allegations that the bushy-haired college kid — whom they refer to by his nickname, “Jahar” — and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, killed three and maimed hundreds by setting off bombs at the April 15 race and killed an MIT police officer during the ensuing manhunt.
While some scrawl the hashtag “#FreeJahar” on their hands with markers, an 18-year-old in Topeka, Kansas, is going to the extreme — she wants the Dzhokhar’s words inked on her arm forever.
“Getting one of Jahar’s tweets tattooed on me tomorrow. Guess you could say I’m a #FreeJahar supporter,” “@keepitbluntedd” tweeted on May 7.
The tatted-up teen, Alisha, told The Post she’d soon put Tsarnaev’s April 7 tweet on her upper inside of her arm. It will read, “If you have the knowledge and the inspiration all that’s left is to take action.”
The waitress insists she believes Tsarnaev is innocent because the evidence against him doesn’t add up. She read through all of his tweets.
“He was just this pothead 19-year-old boy who didn’t care,” she said. “I don’t see it.”
She said she’s “[taking a] stand for what you believe in even if everybody else doesn’t believe it.
“We live in this country where we are innocent until proven guilty and it’s not our job to prove that he’s innocent. It’s the government’s job to prove that he’s guilty,” she added.
She says she’s not a groupie.
“I feel like he doesn’t have a voice. Somebody needs to stand up for him and not the little high-school girls who just think he’s cute,” Alisha said.
“@FreeJahar97,” who identified herself on Twitter as “Gianna,” a 16-year-old with “big boobs,” likened Tsarnaev to a heartthrob.
“Yes i like Justin Bieber and i like Jahar but that has nothing to do with why i support him. I know hes innocent, he is far too beautiful,” she tweeted on April 25.
Another fan is Ariel Barnes, 19, of Columbus, Ohio, unemployed and hoping to snag a job at Walmart, has never met Tsarnaev.
“I try to make it a point that I’m not a fangirl,” Barnes said. “I feel like he’s my brother.”
As “@Shadowlily1993,” she tweeted to critics: “Yall can judge me as much as you want. I’m on his side. This kid needs people behind him. . . . I hope to meet him one day he fascinates me.”
On YouTube, she compiled a playlist inspired by Tsarnaev’s tweets that includes Death Cab for Cutie’s “Tiny Vessels,” Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” and Wiz Khalifa’s “Mezmorized.”
A Tsarnaev pal from Chelsea, Mass., Troy Crossley, 20, refers to supporters as “family.” He now has 16,333 followers on Twitter.
“I feel like I am a family member of him and I don’t understand the girls who do that, especially with him being suspected as a terrorist,” Barnes added.
“A lot of his Twitter posts come from lyrics of a song. That’s just me figuring out the songs and trying to widen my musical taste,” Barnes said.
Other videos include “Jahar’s porn,” a clip of bumblebees getting busy and one repost of the teen dancing.
“Jahar is only six days older than me and it just really hurts to think that someone my age that has so much potential and was so happy to be a US citizen would do something like this,” she said.
A Facebook group, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Free Jahar Movement, has more than 6,000 followers. A post on its page asks whether the brothers were “actors” who believed they were taking part in an emergency drill at the marathon.
Dzhokhar has inspired anonymous authors to pen steamy online fan fiction, as well.
On Wattpad, “Stringcheesekitteh” wrote the three-part story “Tsarnaev,” set in the prison medical facility where Dzhokhar is being held. In the tale, a young resident psychiatrist finds herself mesmerized by his eyes — and flirting with danger.
The author wrote that the story was not meant to “offend anyone” and did not express “strong sentiments for or against the suspect.”
Anonymous works on Pastebin.com include fantasy sex and romance scenes with the terrorist.
One scribe imagined Tsarnaev having one last moment of intimacy before getting arrested.
“He kissed your neck, sucking on it to leave his mark, biting down on it every now and then,” reads one scene set just before his arrest.
The fictional Tsarnaev responds, “Cmon, baby give me something to think about in jail.”
Another tale imagines the day he is set free.
“ ‘I missed you like hell. I was a mess without you, don’t ever leave me please,’ I said as I bought [sic] my fingers up to his ear, running them through his curls.”
Tsarnaev’s looks and online persona — his joking tweets, photos and a video clip of him dancing — are candy for his worshippers.
On Instagram, “Izzyperez007,” posted a collage of Dzhokhar.
“Love you Jahar and support you!!” the user gushed.
When commenters called her “crazy” and “obsessed,” she wrote, “I am going to make shorts that say #FreeJahar on my butt,” she wrote in comments.
On Instagram, “_saraforjahr_” keeps a daily countdown of the days left until Tsarnaev’s May 30 hearing. On Thursday, she posted a shot of Tsarnaev’s mop of curls flopping as he wrestled another boy. “He will be free whether the government likes it or not!” she wrote.
Tumblr blogs are springing up, too. Justice for Jahar is decorated like a teenybopper mag, with a collage of his pics with the words “luv u,” “perf,” and “fab” in pastel pink embellishing it.
The blog is designed by a young woman in the Netherlands. She declined an interview.
One Twitter user “@freejaharlove” on Friday tweeted, “#FBI please put me inside prison with Jahar I cannot tolerate you lies anymore.”
The tweeter also waxed poetic, writing, “I am only the dust on my Lover’s (Jahar) path and from dust I will rise and turn into a flower.”
Online messages encourage supporters to write to Tsarnaev at Devons Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts.
Girls crazy for killers is not uncommon, says Sheila Isenberg, author of “Women Who Love Men Who Kill,” noting serial killer Ted Bundy had his share of fans.
“Ted Bundy had a huge coterie of groupies. Young women, teenage girls, women in their 20s, who went to court everyday, and followed his trial,” Isenberg said.
“Jahar has his groupies because of social media. They are able to get in touch with each other and whip up a frenzy about him,” she said.
Sooner or later, Isenberg said, young women will find ways to directly correspond with him — either attracted by the upper-hand position in the relationship or the 15 minutes of fame it’ll bring.
“It’s easier to get a date with this Jahar guy than it is with Leonardo DiCaprio.”“It’s nota normal healthy thing just to make sure he gets a fair trial to tattoo the words of a the Boston Bomber on your body,” Isenberg said
Thousands of American teen girls are crushing on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, 19 — and leading a social-media movement to exonerate him.
The swooning teens will not accept allegations that the bushy-haired college kid — whom they refer to by his nickname, “Jahar” — and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, killed three and maimed hundreds by setting off bombs at the April 15 race and killed an MIT police officer during the ensuing manhunt.
While some scrawl the hashtag “#FreeJahar” on their hands with markers, an 18-year-old in Topeka, Kansas, is going to the extreme — she wants the Dzhokhar’s words inked on her arm forever.
“Getting one of Jahar’s tweets tattooed on me tomorrow. Guess you could say I’m a #FreeJahar supporter,” “@keepitbluntedd” tweeted on May 7.
The tatted-up teen, Alisha, told The Post she’d soon put Tsarnaev’s April 7 tweet on her upper inside of her arm. It will read, “If you have the knowledge and the inspiration all that’s left is to take action.”
The waitress insists she believes Tsarnaev is innocent because the evidence against him doesn’t add up. She read through all of his tweets.
“He was just this pothead 19-year-old boy who didn’t care,” she said. “I don’t see it.”
She said she’s “[taking a] stand for what you believe in even if everybody else doesn’t believe it.
“We live in this country where we are innocent until proven guilty and it’s not our job to prove that he’s innocent. It’s the government’s job to prove that he’s guilty,” she added.
She says she’s not a groupie.
“I feel like he doesn’t have a voice. Somebody needs to stand up for him and not the little high-school girls who just think he’s cute,” Alisha said.
“@FreeJahar97,” who identified herself on Twitter as “Gianna,” a 16-year-old with “big boobs,” likened Tsarnaev to a heartthrob.
“Yes i like Justin Bieber and i like Jahar but that has nothing to do with why i support him. I know hes innocent, he is far too beautiful,” she tweeted on April 25.
Another fan is Ariel Barnes, 19, of Columbus, Ohio, unemployed and hoping to snag a job at Walmart, has never met Tsarnaev.
“I try to make it a point that I’m not a fangirl,” Barnes said. “I feel like he’s my brother.”
As “@Shadowlily1993,” she tweeted to critics: “Yall can judge me as much as you want. I’m on his side. This kid needs people behind him. . . . I hope to meet him one day he fascinates me.”
On YouTube, she compiled a playlist inspired by Tsarnaev’s tweets that includes Death Cab for Cutie’s “Tiny Vessels,” Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” and Wiz Khalifa’s “Mezmorized.”
A Tsarnaev pal from Chelsea, Mass., Troy Crossley, 20, refers to supporters as “family.” He now has 16,333 followers on Twitter.
“I feel like I am a family member of him and I don’t understand the girls who do that, especially with him being suspected as a terrorist,” Barnes added.
“A lot of his Twitter posts come from lyrics of a song. That’s just me figuring out the songs and trying to widen my musical taste,” Barnes said.
Other videos include “Jahar’s porn,” a clip of bumblebees getting busy and one repost of the teen dancing.
“Jahar is only six days older than me and it just really hurts to think that someone my age that has so much potential and was so happy to be a US citizen would do something like this,” she said.
A Facebook group, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Free Jahar Movement, has more than 6,000 followers. A post on its page asks whether the brothers were “actors” who believed they were taking part in an emergency drill at the marathon.
Dzhokhar has inspired anonymous authors to pen steamy online fan fiction, as well.
On Wattpad, “Stringcheesekitteh” wrote the three-part story “Tsarnaev,” set in the prison medical facility where Dzhokhar is being held. In the tale, a young resident psychiatrist finds herself mesmerized by his eyes — and flirting with danger.
The author wrote that the story was not meant to “offend anyone” and did not express “strong sentiments for or against the suspect.”
Anonymous works on Pastebin.com include fantasy sex and romance scenes with the terrorist.
One scribe imagined Tsarnaev having one last moment of intimacy before getting arrested.
“He kissed your neck, sucking on it to leave his mark, biting down on it every now and then,” reads one scene set just before his arrest.
The fictional Tsarnaev responds, “Cmon, baby give me something to think about in jail.”
Another tale imagines the day he is set free.
“ ‘I missed you like hell. I was a mess without you, don’t ever leave me please,’ I said as I bought [sic] my fingers up to his ear, running them through his curls.”
Tsarnaev’s looks and online persona — his joking tweets, photos and a video clip of him dancing — are candy for his worshippers.
On Instagram, “Izzyperez007,” posted a collage of Dzhokhar.
“Love you Jahar and support you!!” the user gushed.
When commenters called her “crazy” and “obsessed,” she wrote, “I am going to make shorts that say #FreeJahar on my butt,” she wrote in comments.
On Instagram, “_saraforjahr_” keeps a daily countdown of the days left until Tsarnaev’s May 30 hearing. On Thursday, she posted a shot of Tsarnaev’s mop of curls flopping as he wrestled another boy. “He will be free whether the government likes it or not!” she wrote.
Tumblr blogs are springing up, too. Justice for Jahar is decorated like a teenybopper mag, with a collage of his pics with the words “luv u,” “perf,” and “fab” in pastel pink embellishing it.
The blog is designed by a young woman in the Netherlands. She declined an interview.
One Twitter user “@freejaharlove” on Friday tweeted, “#FBI please put me inside prison with Jahar I cannot tolerate you lies anymore.”
The tweeter also waxed poetic, writing, “I am only the dust on my Lover’s (Jahar) path and from dust I will rise and turn into a flower.”
Online messages encourage supporters to write to Tsarnaev at Devons Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts.
Girls crazy for killers is not uncommon, says Sheila Isenberg, author of “Women Who Love Men Who Kill,” noting serial killer Ted Bundy had his share of fans.
“Ted Bundy had a huge coterie of groupies. Young women, teenage girls, women in their 20s, who went to court everyday, and followed his trial,” Isenberg said.
“Jahar has his groupies because of social media. They are able to get in touch with each other and whip up a frenzy about him,” she said.
Sooner or later, Isenberg said, young women will find ways to directly correspond with him — either attracted by the upper-hand position in the relationship or the 15 minutes of fame it’ll bring.
“It’s easier to get a date with this Jahar guy than it is with Leonardo DiCaprio.”“It’s nota normal healthy thing just to make sure he gets a fair trial to tattoo the words of a the Boston Bomber on your body,” Isenberg said
got nothing to do with youth, unfortunately...my high school spanish teacher professed her love for the night stalker shortly after he was caught...in class...in short, there's a lot of really fucked up people out there
got nothing to do with youth, unfortunately...my high school spanish teacher professed her love for the night stalker shortly after he was caught...in class...in short, there's a lot of really fucked up people out there
Yeah, but Richard Ramirez was just so...dreamy.
Really with you on that last sentence, norm.
I don't get it (and if I ever do, please shoot me).
got nothing to do with youth, unfortunately...my high school spanish teacher professed her love for the night stalker shortly after he was caught...in class...in short, there's a lot of really fucked up people out there
Yeah, but Richard Ramirez was just so...dreamy.
Really with you on that last sentence, norm.
I don't get it (and if I ever do, please shoot me).
:fp: at Norm
as to your last, it shouldnt be a problem getting the gun to do it!!! :nono:
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
got nothing to do with youth, unfortunately...my high school spanish teacher professed her love for the night stalker shortly after he was caught...in class...in short, there's a lot of really fucked up people out there
Yeah, but Richard Ramirez was just so...dreamy.
Really with you on that last sentence, norm.
I don't get it (and if I ever do, please shoot me).
:fp: at Norm
as to your last, it shouldnt be a problem getting the gun to do it!!! :nono:
Sidenote about Ramirez -
"A 25-year-old drifter identified as the Night Stalker was chased, beaten with a steel rod and captured by angry citizens Saturday morning after he allegedly tried to steal a car in East Los Angeles.
Dazed and bloodied, Richard Ramirez was cornered at about 9 a.m. by four men unaware they were pursuing the man suspected of killing 16 people and assaulting at least 21 others in California."
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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... 3-suspects
With the news of three additional suspects in federal custody, questions remain about the motive for the Boston Marathon bombing and whether the attack involved conspirators beyond the Tsarnaev brothers. But an account from an acquaintance of the suspects—a student at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth who was once romantically involved with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev himself—helps shed light on the individuals now at the center of the investigation.
The woman, who lived in the same dorm at UMass–Dartmouth as Tsarnaev during the 2011-12 academic year, told Mother Jones that she first met and had a "fleeting fling" with the bombing suspect during the fall of 2011. Around the same time, she says, she met Tsarnaev's college buddies Dias Kadyrbayev, Azamat Tazhayakov, and Robel Phillipos, the men now accused of helping Tsarnaev dispose of evidence and lying to investigators [9] after the bombing.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, the woman said, were part of a group of about five Russian-speaking friends at the university whom Tsarnaev was never without. "They all sort of idolized Jahar," she said, using the name she and others knew Tsarnaev by. "Dias was probably the one closest to him." She said that of the friends, Tsarnaev was the most popular and in touch with campus social life. "I cannot speak to the nature of their relationship because of the language barrier, however I did observe that Jahar was always the leader in his group."
That may help explain why the two would've helped Tsarnaev dispose of evidence after the marathon bombing, as authorities now allege. Whether they did so, and what knowledge they may have had about the bombing, remains unclear.
The woman, who was contacted by Mother Jones, asked to remain anonymous, fearing for the loss of her privacy. Her account of the Boston bombing suspect and his friends was corroborated by another former resident of the UMass-Dartmouth dorm where she met and became involved with Tsarnaev.
She got to know the group, she said, while hanging around campus with them, smoking pot and listening to music. She says her romantic relationship with Tsarnaev lasted for about two weeks. "I met him standing outside a building and honestly, his face was enough to capture my heart," she explained, noting that lots of women fawned over him. "I walked right up to him and I was like, 'Oh my God, you are adorable. Can we hang out?' I'm very forward."
Her nascent romance with Tsarnaev soon soured, though, after he invited her to come to his dorm room alone. "He wanted to go further than I did, and that made me uncomfortable, and I realized that that's not the kind of person that I wanted to be around," she says. "I don't think that's necessarily being a terrorist. I think that's just called being a hands-y teenaged boy."
She said she remains skeptical that Tsarnaev had a religious motive for carrying out the attack, as has been suggested in the context of his older brother's apparent radicalization. "He never mentioned anything about religion," she said. If he had been devoutly religious, he probably wouldn't have become romantically entangled with her, she added, because she practices a different Eastern religion. "I just can't see him being a radical jihadist just because of the nature of who he was. I don't doubt that he did it, but the 'why?' behind it—I'm having difficulty believing the news."
If anything, Tsarnaev's friend Kadyrbayev may have been more religious, in her view. She described a falling out she had with Kadyrbayev a few months after meeting him. "I went out to a party and he made a comment about how my dress was kind of inappropriate because it was kind of revealing," she says. "Other than that, I never got the vibe that he was a very conservative fellow."
A page that appears to belong to Kadyrbayev on Vkontakte, a Russian social-media website similar to Facebook, hints at conservative views about women. Among his posts is a poem attributed to Kazakh poet Abai Qunanbaiuli that defines a good wife as smart, thrifty, and modest. Yet, that would seem at odds with several images that Kadyrbayev has also posted of scantily clad women, as well as a crude cartoon about marijuana, alcohol, and rape.
The woman recalled that when she first saw Tsarnaev's name in the news, she didn't recognize him because she knew him as Jahar. Later it clicked: "I remembered when we had gone up to his room, he had spent like 10 minutes explaining why his name was spelled differently."
Could he have really been behind the marathon bombing? "I was like, there's no way…and then I saw his face all over the news."
She was surprised to learn about the other suspects' alleged involvement as well. "There was no indication that they were crazy at all. They just seemed goofy, kind of lackadaisical, not interested in their studies. But, you know, whatever, it was their first semester of college. No one really cared about books."
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Phillipos, 19, faces up to eight years for allegedly lying to federal authorities investigating the Boston bombings — but the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pal got a flurry of supportive posts under the hashtag #FreeRobel.
Others took exception to the fact that Phillipos faces a harsher sentence than his alleged accomplices, the 19-year-old Kazakh suspects Dias Kadyrbayev, and Azamat Tazhayakov, who could each spend five years behind bars for conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Phillipos is accused of being part of a plot to toss Tsarnaev’s firework-filled backpack to keep him out of trouble.
http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/ ... -1.1333826
Unreal hopefully these 3 punks all receive max sentences, toss them in general population lets see how long it takes to wipe the smiles off their faces.
How very christian of you
I would think that Benjamin Franklin would be pretty fucked off by the amount of times people wheel out his statements to justify all manners of shit.
Are the musings from a man not of this time really that apt to the world today?
City manager Robert Healy said Tsarnaev's body was not welcomed in one of its cemeteries.
'I have determined that it is not in the best interest of peace within the city to execute a cemetery deed for a plot within the Cambridge Cemetery for the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev,' Healey said.
The news comes as Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, arrived in the Bay State to claim his nephew's body and prepare for a funeral.
Every cemetery in Massachusetts has turned down the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Stefan told Fox News, but he remains insistent that this death be handled like any other. It is also understood that Stefan has reached out unsuccessfully to cemeteries in New Jersey and Connecticut.
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His family has a lot of nerve wanting to bury this POS in this country.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
The passage of time doesn't make one, or their thoughts, insignificant or irrelevant. Much can still be learned from them - at least from where I am.
if you believe the story
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
Then again, it's just dirt.
Cell phone records also place the brothers in the area of the murders on the date they were committed.
On Sept. 11, 2011, three men were found in a residence with their throats slit and their bodies covered in marijuana.
Tamerlan described one of the murder victims, 25-year-old Brendan Mess, as his best friend. He and Mess were once roommates and boxed together. The two others who died were 31-year-old Erik Weissman and 37-year-old Raphael Teken, both of Cambridge.
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No way someone doesn't mess with this place within a week. Dumb move by The Globe.
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
I don't know. It's news. I wanted to know where he ended up and I am glad to know it is not anywhere around here.
But you are right...someone will probably vandalize that grave.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
It will help to inflame antiamericanism , which will be worse in this instance, considering that it will be ordinary citizens doing this shit. Not the government which I believe is where most of the hatred comes from to start. Yes we do elect these fucks to act on our behalf, but by and large I believe we as citizens can and should rise above.
Let this guy rest in peace. Allow his child to mourn his/her dad, and have a place to go free from petty bullshit.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Thousands of American teen girls are crushing on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, 19 — and leading a social-media movement to exonerate him.
The swooning teens will not accept allegations that the bushy-haired college kid — whom they refer to by his nickname, “Jahar” — and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, killed three and maimed hundreds by setting off bombs at the April 15 race and killed an MIT police officer during the ensuing manhunt.
While some scrawl the hashtag “#FreeJahar” on their hands with markers, an 18-year-old in Topeka, Kansas, is going to the extreme — she wants the Dzhokhar’s words inked on her arm forever.
“Getting one of Jahar’s tweets tattooed on me tomorrow. Guess you could say I’m a #FreeJahar supporter,” “@keepitbluntedd” tweeted on May 7.
The tatted-up teen, Alisha, told The Post she’d soon put Tsarnaev’s April 7 tweet on her upper inside of her arm. It will read, “If you have the knowledge and the inspiration all that’s left is to take action.”
The waitress insists she believes Tsarnaev is innocent because the evidence against him doesn’t add up. She read through all of his tweets.
“He was just this pothead 19-year-old boy who didn’t care,” she said. “I don’t see it.”
She said she’s “[taking a] stand for what you believe in even if everybody else doesn’t believe it.
“We live in this country where we are innocent until proven guilty and it’s not our job to prove that he’s innocent. It’s the government’s job to prove that he’s guilty,” she added.
She says she’s not a groupie.
“I feel like he doesn’t have a voice. Somebody needs to stand up for him and not the little high-school girls who just think he’s cute,” Alisha said.
“@FreeJahar97,” who identified herself on Twitter as “Gianna,” a 16-year-old with “big boobs,” likened Tsarnaev to a heartthrob.
“Yes i like Justin Bieber and i like Jahar but that has nothing to do with why i support him. I know hes innocent, he is far too beautiful,” she tweeted on April 25.
Another fan is Ariel Barnes, 19, of Columbus, Ohio, unemployed and hoping to snag a job at Walmart, has never met Tsarnaev.
“I try to make it a point that I’m not a fangirl,” Barnes said. “I feel like he’s my brother.”
As “@Shadowlily1993,” she tweeted to critics: “Yall can judge me as much as you want. I’m on his side. This kid needs people behind him. . . . I hope to meet him one day he fascinates me.”
On YouTube, she compiled a playlist inspired by Tsarnaev’s tweets that includes Death Cab for Cutie’s “Tiny Vessels,” Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” and Wiz Khalifa’s “Mezmorized.”
A Tsarnaev pal from Chelsea, Mass., Troy Crossley, 20, refers to supporters as “family.” He now has 16,333 followers on Twitter.
“I feel like I am a family member of him and I don’t understand the girls who do that, especially with him being suspected as a terrorist,” Barnes added.
“A lot of his Twitter posts come from lyrics of a song. That’s just me figuring out the songs and trying to widen my musical taste,” Barnes said.
Other videos include “Jahar’s porn,” a clip of bumblebees getting busy and one repost of the teen dancing.
“Jahar is only six days older than me and it just really hurts to think that someone my age that has so much potential and was so happy to be a US citizen would do something like this,” she said.
A Facebook group, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Free Jahar Movement, has more than 6,000 followers. A post on its page asks whether the brothers were “actors” who believed they were taking part in an emergency drill at the marathon.
Dzhokhar has inspired anonymous authors to pen steamy online fan fiction, as well.
On Wattpad, “Stringcheesekitteh” wrote the three-part story “Tsarnaev,” set in the prison medical facility where Dzhokhar is being held. In the tale, a young resident psychiatrist finds herself mesmerized by his eyes — and flirting with danger.
The author wrote that the story was not meant to “offend anyone” and did not express “strong sentiments for or against the suspect.”
Anonymous works on Pastebin.com include fantasy sex and romance scenes with the terrorist.
One scribe imagined Tsarnaev having one last moment of intimacy before getting arrested.
“He kissed your neck, sucking on it to leave his mark, biting down on it every now and then,” reads one scene set just before his arrest.
The fictional Tsarnaev responds, “Cmon, baby give me something to think about in jail.”
Another tale imagines the day he is set free.
“ ‘I missed you like hell. I was a mess without you, don’t ever leave me please,’ I said as I bought [sic] my fingers up to his ear, running them through his curls.”
Tsarnaev’s looks and online persona — his joking tweets, photos and a video clip of him dancing — are candy for his worshippers.
On Instagram, “Izzyperez007,” posted a collage of Dzhokhar.
“Love you Jahar and support you!!” the user gushed.
When commenters called her “crazy” and “obsessed,” she wrote, “I am going to make shorts that say #FreeJahar on my butt,” she wrote in comments.
On Instagram, “_saraforjahr_” keeps a daily countdown of the days left until Tsarnaev’s May 30 hearing. On Thursday, she posted a shot of Tsarnaev’s mop of curls flopping as he wrestled another boy. “He will be free whether the government likes it or not!” she wrote.
Tumblr blogs are springing up, too. Justice for Jahar is decorated like a teenybopper mag, with a collage of his pics with the words “luv u,” “perf,” and “fab” in pastel pink embellishing it.
The blog is designed by a young woman in the Netherlands. She declined an interview.
One Twitter user “@freejaharlove” on Friday tweeted, “#FBI please put me inside prison with Jahar I cannot tolerate you lies anymore.”
The tweeter also waxed poetic, writing, “I am only the dust on my Lover’s (Jahar) path and from dust I will rise and turn into a flower.”
Online messages encourage supporters to write to Tsarnaev at Devons Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts.
Girls crazy for killers is not uncommon, says Sheila Isenberg, author of “Women Who Love Men Who Kill,” noting serial killer Ted Bundy had his share of fans.
“Ted Bundy had a huge coterie of groupies. Young women, teenage girls, women in their 20s, who went to court everyday, and followed his trial,” Isenberg said.
“Jahar has his groupies because of social media. They are able to get in touch with each other and whip up a frenzy about him,” she said.
Sooner or later, Isenberg said, young women will find ways to directly correspond with him — either attracted by the upper-hand position in the relationship or the 15 minutes of fame it’ll bring.
“It’s easier to get a date with this Jahar guy than it is with Leonardo DiCaprio.”“It’s nota normal healthy thing just to make sure he gets a fair trial to tattoo the words of a the Boston Bomber on your body,” Isenberg said
http://m.nypost.com/p/news/national/gir ... 618gAVXT0O
:fp:
Parents - where the fuck are you?
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Yep that pretty much sums it up
flamming youth...a perfect example of young and rebelious not to mention stupid,hopefully she will grow up.
Godfather.
Really with you on that last sentence, norm.
I don't get it (and if I ever do, please shoot me).
as to your last, it shouldnt be a problem getting the gun to do it!!! :nono:
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Sidenote about Ramirez -
"A 25-year-old drifter identified as the Night Stalker was chased, beaten with a steel rod and captured by angry citizens Saturday morning after he allegedly tried to steal a car in East Los Angeles.
Dazed and bloodied, Richard Ramirez was cornered at about 9 a.m. by four men unaware they were pursuing the man suspected of killing 16 people and assaulting at least 21 others in California."
If only they'd known who he was...
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce