One of the central mysteries to emerge from the Boston Marathon bombings has centered around a mysterious Islamist heretofore referred to only as “Misha,” who allegedly played a prominent role in the radicalization of the late suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Christian Caryl from The New York Review of Books caught up with “Misha,” a man of Armenian-Ukrainian descent whose real name is Mikhail Allakhverdov. In the piece that was published online Sunday, the 39-year-old Allakhverdov, speaking to Caryl from his Rhode Island apartment, insisted that he had no role in Tsarnaev’s radical conversion.
“I wasn’t his teacher. If I had been his teacher, I would have made sure he never did anything like this,” Allakhverdov said.
Read Caryl’s entire piece here.
