68 Facts About Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev was a Russian-born terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent who, with his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15,2013.

The Tamerlan Tsarnaev family was forcibly moved from Chechnya to the Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in the years following World War II.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was born in the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on October 21,1986, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born in Kyrgyzstan on July 22,1993.

In 2001, the Tamerlan Tsarnaev family moved to Makhachkala, Dagestan, in the Russian Federation.

Anzor Tamerlan Tsarnaev applied for asylum, citing fears of deadly persecution due to his ties to Chechnya.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was left in the care of his uncle Ruslan in Kyrgyzstan, and arrived in the US approximately two years later.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a permanent resident of the US and a citizen of both Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev applied for admission at the University of Massachusetts Boston for the fall of 2006, but was rejected.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended Bunker Hill Community College part-time for three terms between 2006 and 2008, studying accounting with hopes of becoming an engineer.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev dropped out of school to concentrate on boxing.

In 2007, Tamerlan Tsarnaev confronted a Brazilian youth who had dated his younger sister, Bella, and punched him in the face.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev began to regularly attend the Islamic Society of Boston mosque near his home in Cambridge.

In May 2008, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's sister said that her husband was engaging in acts of physical abuse and adultery.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev flew across the country to Bellingham, Washington, to "straighten up the brains" of his brother-in-law, Khozhugov.

An aspiring heavyweight boxer, Tamerlan Tsarnaev trained at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center, a Boston club.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev first dated Nadine Ascencao, who became his live-in girlfriend.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was arrested at his home at 410 Norfolk Street in Cambridge, on July 28,2009, for aggravated domestic assault and battery.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev dated Katherine Russell of North Kingstown, Rhode Island on and off while she attended Suffolk University from 2007 to 2010.

Tsarni said that Tamerlan Tsarnaev's radicalization started not during his visit to Russia in January 2012, but much earlier in Boston after he was influenced by a Muslim convert known as "Misha".

Tamerlan Tsarnaev added that he would "rather compete for the United States than for Russia", while remarking that he "didn't understand" Americans and did not have any American friends.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev first came to the attention of Russian security forces in December 2010 when William Plotnikov was briefly detained in Dagestan and forced to disclose his social networking contacts in North America with ties to Russia.

In early 2011, Russia's Federal Security Service told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a follower of Islamic extremism.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mother said that FBI agents had told her they feared her son was an "extremist leader", and that he was getting information from "extremist sites".

Tamerlan Tsarnaev said Tsarnaev had been under FBI surveillance for at least three years and that "they were controlling every step of him".

Tamerlan Tsarnaev "vaguely discussed" jihad during a 2011 phone call with his mother that was taped by the FSB, and intelligence officials discovered text messages in which his mother discussed how he was ready to die for Islam.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Russia through Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport in January 2012, and returned to the US in July 2012.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's father said that he was with him in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, for six months and that they had done ordinary things, such as visiting relatives.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's father said that they visited Chechnya twice, to see relatives there and to receive his son's new Russian passport.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's maternal third cousin, Magomed Kartashov, is a figure in Dagestan's Islamist community.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev had visited Toronto, where Plotnikov lived with his parents.

Once in Dagestan, Tamerlan Tsarnaev is said to have met on several occasions with Makhmud Mansur Nidal, a 19-year-old Dagestani-Palestinian man.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev returned to the US on July 17,2012, having grown a long, thick beard and wearing kohl around his eyes as a sign of his religious devotion to the Sunni of Islam and the example of Muhammad.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's life took on an "increasingly puritanical religious tone" with "Islamist certainty".

Tamerlan Tsarnaev appeared, to some family members, to have become an "extremist".

Tamerlan Tsarnaev linked to jihadi videos on YouTube, including ones by radical cleric Feiz Mohammad; in one video, voices can be heard singing in Arabic as bombs explode.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev frequently read extremist sites, including Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire online magazine.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev applied for US citizenship on September 5,2012, but Homeland Security held up the application for "additional review" because they found a record of the 2011 FBI interview of him.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was pulled over by police in Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge at least nine times in four years.

In November 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev reportedly confronted a shopkeeper at a Middle Eastern grocery store in Cambridge, near a mosque where he sometimes prayed, after seeing a sign there advertising Thanksgiving turkeys.

Also in November 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev stood up and challenged a sermon in which the speaker said that, just like "we all celebrate the birthday of the Prophet, we can celebrate July 4 and Thanksgiving," according to Yusufi Vali, a mosque spokesman.

Vali said Tamerlan Tsarnaev stated he "took offense to celebrating anything," be it the Prophet's birthday or American holidays.

In January 2013, Tamerlan Tsarnaev again disrupted a Martin Luther King Jr.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev objected to the speaker's comparison of Muhammad to Martin Luther King Jr.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shouted down by members of the congregation and was later asked not to return to the mosque unless he was willing to refrain from shouting during sermons.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where, despite efforts to revive him, he was pronounced dead from blood loss and cardiac and respiratory arrest.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body was released to the funeral service hired by the family at 5:30 pm.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body was moved to a funeral home in North Attleborough; after protesters picketed the building, it was handed over to Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlor in Worcester.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev contacted Islamic Funeral Services of Virginia, which agreed to provide an unmarked plot in their cemetery.

On June 19,2013, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's name was read aloud during a "No More Names" event held in Concord, New Hampshire.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was trained as a lawyer, and moved to Washington State in 1995.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev returned to Kyrgyzstan by the end of the decade, and then returned to the United States, settling in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mother has been quoted as saying she urged him to embrace Islam in 2008 because she was concerned about his drinking, smoking, and pursuit of women.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev said he began to read more about it on the Internet.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev urged him to quit boxing because Islam prohibits hitting someone in the face.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mother discussed jihad during a 2011 phone call with him that was taped by a Russian government agency, and intelligence officials discovered text messages in which she discussed how Tamerlan Tsarnaev was ready to die for Islam.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mother was recorded suggesting that Tsarnaev go to Palestine.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was interviewed by the FBI who found nothing to pursue at the time.

Ruslan Tsarni told the AP from his home in Maryland that he believed his former sister-in-law had a "big-time influence" on Tamerlan Tsarnaev's growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit boxing and school.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev left the US for Russia and did not appear in court.

Anzor and Zubeidat Tamerlan Tsarnaev divorced in 2011 after twenty-five years of marriage.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev has strongly expressed in TV interviews that her sons are innocent and that they were framed by the FBI.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was raised in Rhode Island; her father is an emergency room doctor and her mother is a nurse.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended North Kingstown High School, and graduated in 2007.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was remembered for her talent in painting and drawing.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was known to cheat on Russell, and a friend of Russell's told her mother that the relationship was abusive.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev moved into her husband's apartment in Cambridge and gave birth to their daughter Zahara in late 2010.

When Tamerlan Tsarnaev was in Russia for six months, she and their daughter stayed in Cambridge.

Dzhokhar Tamerlan Tsarnaev told the FBI that he and his brother had learned to make bombs by reading Inspire, but it was not clear who downloaded the files.