Older Bombing Suspect Said Swayed by Radical Islamist
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers accused in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, was influenced by a mentor who espoused radical Islamist beliefs, according to one of the suspects’ uncles.
Tsarnaev, 26, became acquainted with the mentor, an Armenian convert to Islam known as Misha, as early as 2007 while living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to the uncle, Ruslan Tsarni. Tsarni described his now-deceased nephew’s shift toward fundamentalist Muslim beliefs.