![]() “They tend to be under a certain age and are Muslim males. “Profiles are almost impossible to draw,” he said. “It’s a complicated mix of reasons, usually as much personal as they are transnational or global,” says Rafaello Pantucci, who studies such cases at London’s United Royal Services Institute, a defence and security think tank. “The Islam that we have in Dagestan today is very tough, very politicised, very dark at times.”Īs in the cases of other now infamous young men from immigrant backgrounds - like France’s Mohammed Merah, who died in a shootout with police a year ago after killing seven people on a gun rampage in Toulouse - it may be impossible to disentangle the psychological demons from political motives. “His radical turn could very well have happened here,” Dagestani sociologist Zaid Abdulagatov said. What now seems clear is that he was deeply influenced by a few months’ sojourn in Makhachkala, Muslim Dagestan’s capital on the Caspian Sea, where children in the street play “cops and guerrillas” and bombings and shootings are everyday news. His younger brother and alleged co-conspirator Dzhokhar is in hospital, barely able to speak.īut a picture has emerged in the days since Tamerlan was killed of a proud but angry young man who never quite achieved his own idea of the American dream, but found solace instead in a radical form of Islam adopted by fighters in his homeland. He died in a gunfight with police leaving no explanation. In Dagestan, the volatile southern Russian region where he lived for a time as a teen and returned to spend the first half of 2012, he became a quiet young man who spent his days online studying Islam, nursing a growing anger against heretics.Įxactly what turned Tamerlan Tsarnaev into the suspect accused of three murders and mass wounding in the Boston Marathon bombings may never be known. REUTERS/Courtesy of Suleimanova family/Handout A photo, showing Tamerlan (C, bottom) Tsarnaev, accompanied by his father Anzor (L), mother Zubeidat and uncle Muhamad Suleimanov (R), is seen in this photo courtesy of the Suleimanova family in Makhachkala, April 22, 2013. ![]()
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