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With me. he seemed happy about where he was with his faith. >> tamerlan's mother witnessed her son's transformation. >> islam is required for a woman to be covered. so i said it was really not expected so i said give me some time, you know, tamerlan. >> last year, tamerlan traveled back to his homeland, a region of russia with ethnic violence and extremism. when he returned six months later, he became more out spoken about his faith. tamerlan stood up during a

With me. he seemed happy about where he was with his faith. >> tamerlan's mother witnessed her son's transformation. >> islam is required for a woman to be covered. so i said it was really not expected so i said give me some time, you know, tamerlan. >> last year, tamerlan traveled back to his homeland, a region of russia with ethnic violence and extremism. when he returned six months later, he became more out spoken about his faith.

But the investigation appears to have gone nowhere. was tamerlan tsarnaev radicalized overseas? maybe so. but his uncle says tamerlan's views more likely came from someone in the u.s. >> i heard that talking from tamerlan, where that might be coming from. and then he says,oh, yeah, there is -- yes, there is such a thing. there's a person, sort of a new convert into islam. >> that convert, a muslim extremist right here in the boston area. he said this person just took his brain. his brainwashed completely. tamerlan is off now. there's no obedience in rmt respect to his own father. >> he says he...

>> he was arrested that same year for slap his girlfriend in the face during a fight over another woman. the following year, 2010, he married catherine russel, a sul folk university student he met in a nightclub and had dated on and off for seven years. she converted to islam. >> in 2009, carried himself with a lot of confidence. and then the next year, seemed like a humbler guy. dressed a lot more conservative. kind of, like, came to the fight as we all did, hoody, jeans. >> he also seemed more devoted to his muslim faith. >> he didn't talk that much about his faith to me until, like, the nex...

Would you be mad at the united states? what did the u.s. have to do with it? >> no one will ever know. but we do know that in his last visit to dagestan, his family noticed a change in him. >> we were happy that he didn't become a drug addict. he didn't become a alcoholic. he was on the path of islam. >> his family says that during his time here, tamerlan would often visit the central mosque behind me for friday prayers as well as other mosques across this town. telling his family how central islam was to his life and that it was a religion of peace. >> that's why he doesn't believe that tamer...