Background on Marathon Bombers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

ABC: The Stories of Two Brothers Suspected in Bombing

Boston Globe: Bombing suspects were local, ‘normal’ US immigrants

Boston Globe: Wrestling coach recalls Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as ‘dedicated kid’

USA Today: Uncle says bomber called to ask for forgiveness

NYT: Dragnet Shuts Boston; One Suspect Is Slain but Second Man Is on Loose

NYT: Brothers Seen as Good Students and Avid Athletes

AP Sources: A Boston Marathon bomb suspects traveled to Russia, was out of the US for 6 months

Boston Globe: Older bombing suspect ‘was up to no good,’ cousin says

Jamestown Foundation: Preliminary Profile of the Boston Bombers: The Tsarnaev Brothers

Atlantic Wire: Who Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Man at the Center of the Boston Manhunt?

Foreign Policy: Displaced What happened to the people who fled the terror in Chechnya.

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