{"id":69867,"date":"2013-04-23T04:21:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T01:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69867"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T09:30:37","slug":"uncle-dzhokhar-used-by-older-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/23\/uncle-dzhokhar-used-by-older-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle: Dzhokhar \u2018Used\u2019 by Older Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Ruslan Tsarni<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">, an uncle of\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Dzhokhar Tsarnaev<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">told NBC\u2019s \u201cToday Show\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0that Dzhokhar was \u201cused\u201d by his older brother\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Tamerlan Tsarnaev<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">, who had been radicalized, and warned that they may have been part of a larger plot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-69868\" alt=\"images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/images.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" \/>\u201cHe\u2019s just another victim of his older brother. He victimized others, but he\u2019s been used by his older brother,\u201d Mr. Tsarni said in the Today interview. Mr. Tsarni, who lives in a suburb of Washington, D.C., is a brother of the Tsarnaevs\u2019 father.<\/p>\n<p>He said the last time he spoke with Tamerlan in 2009, he was \u201cshocked\u201d by his radicalization.<\/p>\n<p>Tamerlan was killed in a police standoff Friday morning, while Dzhokhar was taken into custody Friday evening after being discovered hiding in a boat in a Watertown, Mass., backyard.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tsarni said he believed the radicalization of Tamerlan happened in the U.S., not Russia or Chechnya, and believes the person who radicalized him was of Armenian descent.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tsarni said he was glad Dzhokhar was captured alive, so that he has a \u201cchance to ask for forgiveness\u201d and to help investigators unravel the plot. He also warned that his nephews may have been part of a bigger plot. \u201cI strongly believe they were just puppets and executors of something of bigger scale,\u2019\u2019 according to the Today writeup.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Mr. Tsarni\u00a0had insisted to reporters\u00a0that what his nephews had done had not been about Chechnya or a cause but because the young men were \u201closers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle of\u00a0Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,\u00a0told NBC\u2019s \u201cToday Show\u201d\u00a0that Dzhokhar was \u201cused\u201d by his older brother\u00a0Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who had been radicalized, and warned that they may have been part of a larger plot. \u201cHe\u2019s just another victim of his older brother. He victimized others, but he\u2019s been used by his older brother,\u201d Mr. Tsarni said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9029],"class_list":["post-69867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-boston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}