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Is This The Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Twitter Account?

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Is This The Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Twitter Account?A cached profile photo that matches his picture, and tweets from other users he's interacted with suggest that this is the twitter account of 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the fugitive suspect #2 in the Boston Marathon bombings: @J_tsar. The account is listed under the name "Jahar," which is what classmates called him because his full name was hard to pronounce.

The day of the bombing, Tsarnaev tweeted:

Last year he tweeted:

But there is not much on the account that suggests the user of the account was be anything but a normal 19-year-old kid.

He tweeted Chechnya, where he was born (his family moved to the U.S. in 2002):

">March 14, 2012

He tweeted about music:

and random stuff:

He was also apparently a 9/11 truther:

On twitter, friends he interacted with are expressing shock that he's a suspect.

Especially given his, um, laid-back reputation:

And his friends are now experiencing the inevitable wave of reporters and online gawkers now that the twitter account has been discovered:


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