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The Tsarnaev family is a Chechen-American family notable primarily because of Dzhokhar Anzorovich "Jahar" Tsarnaev (Джоха́р Анзо́рович Царна́ев /ˌdʒoʊˈx[invalid input: 'ar'] ˌts[invalid input: 'ar']ˈnaɪ.ɛf/; born July 22, 1993) and Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev (Тамерла́н Анзо́рович Царна́ев /ˌtæmərˈlɑːn/; October 21, 1986 – April 19, 2013).[note 1] The two brothers planted bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013,[1][2] killing three people and injuring as many as 264 others.[3]

Born seven years apart in different republics of the former Soviet Union, the brothers are half Chechen and half Avar.[4] They immigrated to the United States as refugees in 2002. Tamerlan was an aspiring boxer who authorities believe had recently become a follower of radical Islam. Dzhokhar was a student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who became a naturalized U.S. citizen on September 11, 2012, seven months before the bombings.[5]

Family background

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The Tsarnaevs were forcibly moved from Chechnya to the Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in the years following World War II.[6] Anzor Tsarnaev is a Chechen, and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is an Avar.[7][8][9] The couple had two sons, Tamerlan, born in the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic[10] in 1986, and Dzhokhar, born in Kyrgyzstan in 1993.[11] The parents also have two daughters.[12][13][14] Anzor is a traditional Muslim who reportedly shuns religious extremism[15] and raised his children Muslim.[16][17][18] According to some, other Chechen Americans in the area apparently did not consider the American branch of the family to be fully Chechen because they had not ever lived in Chechnya.[11]

As children, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar lived in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan. In 2001, the family moved to Makhachkala, Dagestan, in the Russian Federation.[19][20][21] In April 2002, the Tsarnaev parents and Dzhokhar went to the United States on a 90-day tourist visa.[22][23][24] Anzor Tsarnaev applied for asylum, citing fears of deadly persecution due to his ties to Chechnya.[25]

Tamerlan was left in the care of his uncle Ruslan in Kyrgyzstan,[6] and arrived in the U.S. around two years later.[26] In the U.S. the parents received asylum and then filed for their four children, who received "derivative asylum status".[27] They settled on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tamerlan lived in Cambridge on Norfolk Street until his death.[28]

The family was in "was in constant transition" for the next decade.[6] Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev both received welfare benefits.[29] The father worked as a backyard mechanic and the mother worked as a cosmetologist[30] until she lost her job for refusing to work in a business that served men. In March 2007, the family was granted legal permanent residence.[26]

Family members

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

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Main article: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Tamerlan Tsarnaev

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Main article: Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Ruslan Tsarni

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Ruslan Tsarni is the paternal uncle of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and the brother of Anzor Tsarnaev.[6] He was trained as a lawyer, and moved to Washington State in 1995. He returned to Kyrgyzstan by the end of the decade, and then returned to the United States, settling in suburban Maryland.[6]

During the manhunt for the brothers, he was interviewed by the FBI.[6] When the media arrived at his home, he denounced the actions of his nephews and called on them to turn themselves in.[6] He also buried the remains of Tamerlan.[6] After the attacks some of his four children were teased in school and his checking account and line of credit were closed without explanation.[6]

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva

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Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is the mother of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar. In photos of her as a younger woman, she wore Western-style clothing, including a low-cut blouse. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she took classes at the Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics before becoming a state-licensed aesthetician and getting a job at a suburban day spa.[31] After deciding she could no longer work in a business that served men,[10] she started working from home, where clients saw her become more radical and promote 9/11 conspiracy theories.[32]

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said she urged her son Tamerlan to embrace Islam in 2008 because she was concerned about his drinking, smoking, and pursuit of women. She said he began to read more about it on the Internet. She also urged him to quit boxing because Islam prohibits hitting someone in the face.[33] She also praised Russell, saying, "She is a serious, good, American girl who converted to Islam as if she had always been a Muslim. We all love her a lot."[33]

Zubeidat discussed jihad during a 2011 phone call with Tamerlan that was taped by a Russian government agency, and intelligence officials also discovered text messages in which his mother discusses how Tamerlan is ready to die for Islam.[34] She was taped suggesting that Tamerlan go to Palestine.[35]

Zubeidat and her son Tamerlan were the subject of a Russian Intelligence inquiry to the US government in 2011 because of what the Russians perceived as extremist Islamic views. She was interviewed by the FBI who found nothing to pursue at the time. In late 2011, the CIA put both Tamerlan and Zubeidat in its Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database.[34][36][37]

Ruslan Tsarni told the AP from his home in Maryland that he believed his former sister-in-law had a "big-time influence" on her older son's (Tamerlan) growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit boxing and school.[31]

In early 2012, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva was arrested for shoplifting $1,624 worth of women's clothing from Lord and Taylor in Natick, Massachusetts. She left the U.S. for Russia and did not appear in court.[31][37] Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev divorced in 2011 after twenty-five years of marriage. The couple had no personal property or real estate to divide and listed no retirement or pension benefits. They gave the reason for their split as "irretrievable breakdown of the marriage" with "no chance of reconciling our differences".[38] The mother's move toward more radical Islam was reportedly a factor in the breakdown of the marriage.[10] They may have reconciled in Dagestan.[39]

She has strongly expressed in TV interviews that her sons are innocent and that they were framed by the FBI.[40]

Katherine Russell

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Tamerlan's widow,[41] Katherine Russell (aka Karima Tsarnaeva or Katherine Tsarnaev[42]), was born on February 6, 1989, in Texas.[43][44] She was raised in Rhode Island; her father is an emergency room doctor and her mother is a nurse.[45] Their home has been described as nominally Christian.[46]

She attended North Kingstown High School, and graduated in 2007 at the top of her class. Her yearbook entry lists her plans as college and the Peace Corps. She was remembered for her talent in painting and drawing.[41]

Russell met Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2007 in a nightclub, soon after she started as a communications major at Suffolk University.[41][45][46][47] They started dating on and off,[41] and at one point in 2009, Tsarnaev was living with another woman.[48] At Tsarnaev's insistence, Russell converted to Islam in 2008, adopted the hijab, and chose the name Karima after her conversion.[33]

Russell dropped out of college in the Spring of 2010 after she became pregnant in her senior year, and the couple married on June 21, 2010, in a 15-minute ceremony in a Dorchester mosque.[47][49][50] According to the officiant, it was Russell who called and made the arrangements. Only two witnesses attended the wedding.[41] She moved into her husband's apartment in Cambridge[47] and gave birth to their daughter Zahara in late 2010.[42] At times, she worked as a home health aide.[47]

From September 2011 to November 2012 she and her husband had their income supplemented by public assistance and food stamps.[47] When Tsarnaev was in Russia for six months, she and their daughter stayed in Cambridge.[47]

At the time of the bombings on April 15, 2013, Russell was living with her husband and daughter in the Norfolk Street family home in Cambridge.[51] The younger brother also officially lived there, but in practice stayed in a dorm at UMASS Dartmouth.[41] After the bombings, when the suspects' photos were released, Russell apparently contacted her husband by phone and by text message. She has refused to disclose what they talked about.[52]

After her husband died, Russell retreated to her parents' home in Rhode Island.[42] Her parents released a statement saying "[o]ur daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child. We cannot begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred. In the aftermath of the Patriot's Day horror, we know that we never really knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Our hearts are sickened by the knowledge of the horror he has inflicted."[53]

The FBI has interviewed Russell on a number of occasions and collected DNA samples. She refused to take custody of her husband's remains and has reverted to using her maiden name.[54]

Investigators discovered magazine bomb-making instructions[55] on Russell's computer, though it is not clear who downloaded the files.[52][56] Through her attorney, Russell insists that she was not aware of her husband's alleged criminal activity,[42] and no charges have been filed against her.

References

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Russian: Джоха́р Анзо́рович Царна́ев / Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnayev; Тамерла́н Анзо́рович Царна́ев / Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnayev. Chechen: Царнаев Анзор-кIант ДжовхӀар or ЖовхӀар[1] / Carnayev Anzor-khant Dƶovhar; Царнаев Анзор-кIант Тамерлан / Carnayev Anzor-khant Tamerlan.
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Notes

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  1. ^ Valencia, Milton J.; Wen, Patricia; Cullen, Kevin; Ellement, John R.; Finucane, Martin (March 4, 2015). "Defense admits Tsarnaev took part in Marathon bombings". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  2. ^ "Timeline: A look at Tamerlan Tsarnaev's past". CNN. April 22, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
  3. ^ Kotz, Deborah (April 24, 2013). "Injury toll from Marathon bombs reduced to 264". Boston Globe.
  4. ^ "Boston Marathon bombings: Suspects' mother Zubeidat says she found faith, not terrorism". The Star. Toronto. April 28, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  5. ^ "Dzhokhar and Tamerlan: A Profile of the Tsarnaev Brothers". CBS News. April 23, 2013.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i Martin, Phillip (June 6, 2013). "Two Hours With Ruslan Tsarni, the Alleged Boston Marathon Bombers' Uncle". WGBH. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  7. ^ Mong, Adrienne. "Boston bombing suspects' father 'a good man,' neighbors in Dagestan say". NBC News. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  8. ^ "Hunt for Boston Clues Reveals Tangled Caucasus Web". The Moscow Times. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  9. ^ Balmforth, Tom (April 22, 2013). "'A Clear Setup': The Conspiracy Theory of the Boston Bombing Suspects' Father". The Atlanticl. Makhachkala. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  10. ^ a b c Cullison, Alan; Sonne, Paul; Troianovski, Anton; George-Cosh, David; 14 contributors (April 22, 2013). "Boston Marathon Bombings: Turn to Religion Split Bomb Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Home". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 22, 2013. {{cite news}}: |author5= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ a b Janet Reitman (July 17, 2013). "Jahar's World: He was a charming kid with a bright future. But no one saw the pain he was hiding or the monster he would become". Rolling Stone.
  12. ^ Keneally, Meghan; Farberov, Snejana (April 20, 2013). "Now, just tell them everything: Father of Boston bomber brothers speaks of his relief that his younger son is captured alive". Daily Mail. London. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  13. ^ "Surviving Boston bombing suspect's mother and father to travel to the U.S. to visit their seriously injured son". Daily Mail. London. April 21, 2013. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  14. ^ Milmo, Cahal (April 19, 2013). "Boston Marathon bombing: Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a boxer. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a wrestler". The Independent. London. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  15. ^ Radia, Kirit (April 20, 2013). "Boston Bomb Suspect Alarmed Russian Relatives With Extremist Views". ABC news.
  16. ^ Kaleem, Jaweed (April 19, 2013). "Boston Bombing Suspects' Muslim Identity Provides Few Clues To Motivation For Bombing". Huffington Post. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  17. ^ Noronha, Charmaine (April 19, 2013). "Aunt says US suspect recently became devout Muslim". Huffington Post. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  18. ^ Goode, Erica (April 19, 2013). "Brothers Seen as Good Students and Avid Athletes". New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  19. ^ "Timeline: A look at Tamerlan Tsarnaev's past". CNN. April 21, 2013. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  20. ^ Finn, Peter (April 19, 2013). "Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were refugees from brutal conflict". Washington Post. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  21. ^ Sullivan, Eileen (April 19, 2013). "Manhunt in Boston after bombing suspect is killed". Associated Press. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  22. ^ Perez, Evan; Smith, Jennifer; Shallwani, Pervaiz (April 19, 2013). "Boston Bombing Suspect Killed in Shootout". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  23. ^ Seelye, Katharine Q.; Cooper, Michael (April 19, 2013). "One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead, Second at Large; Area on Lockdown". The New York Times.
  24. ^ Carter, Chelsea J.; Botelho, Gregory 'Greg' (April 20, 2013). "'Captured!!!' Boston police announce Marathon bombing suspect in custody". CNN.
  25. ^ Eric Schmitt, Michael S. Schmidt, Ellen Barry (April 20, 2013). "Bombing Inquiry Turns to Motive and Russian Trip". New York Times.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  26. ^ a b Cullison, Alan; Sonne, Paul; Levitz, Jennifer (April 20, 2013). "Life in America Unraveled for Brothers". Wall Street Journal.
  27. ^ Mattingly, Phil (April 20, 2013). "Boston Bombing Suspect Apprehended at Watertown Home". Businessweek. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
  28. ^ Goode, Erica; Kovaleski, Serge F. (April 19, 2013). "Boy at Home in U.S., Swayed by One Who Wasn't". New York Times. Archived from the original on July 14, 2013.
  29. ^ "Tamerlan Tsarnaev got Mass. welfare benefits". Boston Herald. April 24, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  30. ^ "Mother of bomb suspects moved toward Islam in U.S". The Salt Lake Tribune. April 28, 2013. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
  31. ^ a b c David Caruso, Michael Kunzelman and Max Seddon (April 28, 2013). "Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, Mother Of Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects, Says She's Just Someone Who Found Deeper Spirituality". Huffington Post.
  32. ^ Eagan, Margery. Eagan: An intimate look at Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, mother of suspected bombers." Boston Herald. April 23, 2013.
  33. ^ a b c "Boston Bomb Suspects' Mother Says Young Son Would Have Obeyed Big Brother". ABC News. April 22, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  34. ^ a b Chappell, Bill. "Tamerlan Tsarnaev Spoke Of Jihad With Mother, Reports Say: The Two-Way". NPR. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
  35. ^ Estrin, Daniel (April 28, 2013). "Bombers' mother told older son to go to 'Palestine'". The Times of Israel. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  36. ^ "Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev silent after read Miranda rights". CBS/AP. April 25, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  37. ^ a b "Boston suspects' mother in terrorism database since 2011". Times of Israel. April 27, 2013.
  38. ^ Bykowicz, Julie (April 23, 2013). "Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Family Crumbled Before Boston Bombs". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  39. ^ "Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects' Twisted Family History". ABC News. April 22, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  40. ^ "Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects' Mom: 'My Family Is in the Dirt'". ABC News. April 20, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  41. ^ a b c d e f "Boston Marathon Bombing Update: Katherine Russell Tsarnaeva, suspect's wife, was in "absolute shock" after bombings – Crimesider". CBS News. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  42. ^ a b c d Steve Helling (April 23, 2013). "Katherine Russell Tsarnaev: From All-American Girl to Bomber's Wife". People Magazine.
  43. ^ "The Tsarnaeva Family Tree." The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on May 7, 2013.
  44. ^ Deprez, Esmé E.; Young, Elise (April 30, 2013). "Woman Who Left Her World for Tsarnaev Draws FBI Attention". Bloomberg. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  45. ^ a b "Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, Wife Of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Wanted By Feds For Interview". Huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  46. ^ a b "The Tsarnaev family: A faded portrait of an immigrant's American dream". The Washington Post.
  47. ^ a b c d e f Cooper, Michael (May 4, 2013). "Path From 'Social Butterfly' to Boston Suspect's Widow". The New York Times. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  48. ^ "The Tsarnaev family: A faded portrait of an immigrant's American dream". Washington Post. April 27, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  49. ^ Hesse, Monica (April 29, 2013). "Katherine Russell: Boston bombing suspect widow's enigmatic life journey". Washington Post. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  50. ^ "Boston bombing suspect's widow is assisting investigation, lawyer says". CNN. April 24, 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  51. ^ Bain, Jennifer (April 21, 2013). "Katherine Russell, wife of slain Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, returns home". The NY Post. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  52. ^ a b Warren, Lydia; Farberov, Snejana; Boyle, Louise (May 5, 2013). "Katherine Russell Tsarnaev: Boston bomber's widow goes to Chipotle with daughter and friend as FBI investigate her Islamic links". Daily Mail. London. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  53. ^ Hui, Ann (April 22, 2013). "How an 'All-American' girl met and married Tamerlan Tsarnaev". Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  54. ^ Collins, Laura; Island, Rhode; McCormack, David (May 1, 2013). "Katherine Russell: Boston Bomber widow's fresh-faced mugshot following her 2007 arrest for shoplifting from a clothes store". Daily Mail. London. Retrieved May 9, 2013.
  55. ^ "Inspire Magazine: A Staple of Domestic Terror". Anti-Defamation League.
  56. ^ Sari Horwitz (May 3, 2013). "Investigators sharpen focus on wife of dead Boston bombing suspect". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 9, 2013.

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