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Zimbo whose comment was last retweet of Boston bombing suspect condemns the attacks
21 Apr 2013 at 04:50hrs | Views
As the authorities hunted for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, attention focused on
the 19-year-old's social media accounts for clues about his life and
potential motivation for allegedly setting the bombs.
Friends of Tsarnaev confirmed he was an active Twitter user, firing off messages under the handle @J_tsar.
A tweet one week prior to the blasts may have offered cryptic hints at what was to come: "If you have the knowledge and the inspiration all that's left is to take action," @J_tsar tweeted on 8 April.
His followers soared to more than 58 000 in the hours after he was named a prime suspect.
His Twitter page is adorned with the emblem of the FC Anzhi Makhachkala soccer team, in the southern Russian region of Dagestan where, according to his uncle, Dzhokhar was born.
Some friends who say they went to high school with him have posted their disbelief at how their classmate could be responsible for the worst terror attack on US soil since the 11 September 2001 suicide plane strikes.
One message
from August 2012, a response to a user who has since locked his tweets
and made them unviewable, provides a jolt to those scrolling through
Dzhokhar's account.
"Boston marathon isn't a good place to smoke tho," he wrote.
The final message on his account is a Wednesday retweet of a comment by Mufti Ismail Menk of Zimbabwe.
Menk later condemned the Boston attacks on his own Twitter feed, saying "the perpetrators must face justice".
One of Dzhokhar's post-bombing tweets was a hair-raising response to a fellow Twitter user.
"What 'god hates dead people?' Or victims of tragedies? Lol those people are cooked," Dzhokhar wrote.
Friends of Tsarnaev confirmed he was an active Twitter user, firing off messages under the handle @J_tsar.
A tweet one week prior to the blasts may have offered cryptic hints at what was to come: "If you have the knowledge and the inspiration all that's left is to take action," @J_tsar tweeted on 8 April.
His followers soared to more than 58 000 in the hours after he was named a prime suspect.
His Twitter page is adorned with the emblem of the FC Anzhi Makhachkala soccer team, in the southern Russian region of Dagestan where, according to his uncle, Dzhokhar was born.
Some friends who say they went to high school with him have posted their disbelief at how their classmate could be responsible for the worst terror attack on US soil since the 11 September 2001 suicide plane strikes.
"Boston marathon isn't a good place to smoke tho," he wrote.
The final message on his account is a Wednesday retweet of a comment by Mufti Ismail Menk of Zimbabwe.
Menk later condemned the Boston attacks on his own Twitter feed, saying "the perpetrators must face justice".
One of Dzhokhar's post-bombing tweets was a hair-raising response to a fellow Twitter user.
"What 'god hates dead people?' Or victims of tragedies? Lol those people are cooked," Dzhokhar wrote.
Source - newsbite.it
