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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/u...lan-tsarnaev-reeled.html?ref=global-home&_r=0
4 page article, some snippets below.
Combing their lives for clues, the authorities have focused on Mr. Tsarnaevs six-month trip to Dagestan, Russia, last year. But in Cambridge, sitting on the front steps of the ramshackle, brown-shingled house where the Tsarnaev family lived for a decade, their 79-year-old landlady urged a longer lens.
He certainly wasnt radicalized in Dagestan, the landlady, Joanna Herlihy, said.
He seemed isolated, too. For the last year, he, his wife and his child were the only Tsarnaevs living full time in the three-bedroom apartment on Ms. Herlihys third floor.
He grew a five-inch beard, which he shaved off before the bombings, and interrupted prayers at his mosque on two occasions with outbursts denouncing the idea that Muslims should observe American secular holidays. He engaged neighbors in affable conversations about skiing one week and heated ones about American imperialism the next.
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Very interesting article, well worth the read. Thank you!
But why would Ms. Herlihy say "He certainly wasnt radicalized in Dagestan"? The article says she "declined to elaborate". Pity. She knew this family for many years, her take on his descent into radicalism would have interested me.