Dead Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Had Hopes of Boxing For America in the Olympics

“I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them.”

Tamerlan says he doesn’t drink or smoke anymore: “God said no alcohol.” A muslim, he says: “There are no values anymore,” and worries that “people can’t control themselves.”

Tamerlan says he doesn’t usually take his shirt off so girls don’t get bad ideas: “I’m very religious.”

If he wins enough fights there, Tamerlan says he could be selected for the US Olympic team and be naturalized American. Unless his native Chechnya becomes independent, Tamerlan says he would rather compete for the United States than for Russia.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a student at Bunker Hill Community College. The woman in the picture is Tsarnaev’s girlfriend – a half Portuguese, half Italian who converted to Islam.

[Johannes Hirn via @GlennThrush]