Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed after a bloody shootout Friday, was profiled in 2010 by The Comment magazine published by Boston University’s College of Communication.
The article includes several pictures of Tsarnaev training as a boxer at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center in Boston, Mass. The article quoted Tsarnaev saying he wanted to compete in the Olympics, and would “rather compete for the U.S than Russia” if he couldn’t compete as a representative for an independent Chechnya.
The article says Tsarnaev is a Muslim who does not drink or smoke. “God said no alcohol,” he told The Comment. He studied at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston and wanted “to become an engineer,” the article said.
Though he flirted with the idea of being an Olympian for the United States, he told The Comment that although he’s lived in the United States for five years, “I don’t have a single American friend. I don’t understand them.”
His family, according to the article, left Chechnya in the 1990s. Tamerlan also lived in Kazakhstan before he came to the United States seeking refuge.
Photographs for the article were also posted on the website of author Johannes Hirn.
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