Misha

(Newser) - The New York Review of Books has scooped a swath of less literary publications by tracking down "Misha," the man family members blame for radicalizing Tamerlan Tsarnaev . "Misha"—real name Mikhail Allakhverdov—now lives in Rhode Island and says that while he knew Tsarnaev in Boston,...

(Newser) - Surviving Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev blames his older brother Tamerlan for the attack —and relatives blame a mysterious cleric known as Misha for Tamerlan's radicalization. The elder Tsarnaev first met the man, an Armenian convert to Islam in his 30s, around six years ago; under his influence,...