HIS SCHOOL-MATES found nothing remotely strange about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
To his father, he was a "true angel", and to a family friend "a beauti-ful boy in a tux" at a prom party. He attended the prestigious the Rindge and Latin state school in Cambridge, and won a $2,500 scholar-ship in 2011, his final year. He then won a place at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and was in the second year of a medical degree. Confusion Dzhokhar obtained a green card allowing him to stay in the US in 2007, and became a naturalised citizen on September 11, 2012.
Friends expressed confusion and dis-may at how a sociable if reserved 19- year-old became America's most want-ed man. In this own home, Tsarnaev had an alternative life, clearly attached to a homeland, Chechnya, he had never even visited, and to its faith, Islam. On his account with the Russian social networking site VKontakte he lists his 'World View' as 'Islam' and his
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Dzhokhar Tsamaev 'Personal Priority' as 'career and mon-ey'. He posted a video expressing sym-pathy with rebels fighting in Syria, and a clip of a Kuwaiti sheikh talking to a blind boy who memorised the Koran. He also has links to pages calling for independence for Chechnya, which lost its bid for secession from Russia after two bloody wars in the 1990s. He also wrote: "Islam is not a religion of terror! Judge Muslims on Islam, and not vice versa!" On another social networking site Larry Aaronson, a retired teacher at the Rindge and Latin school, said: "I knew this kid. He could not have been a sweeter more gracious young man."
