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The brothers behind Monday's deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon are believed to have come to the U.S. from Chechnya as long as a decade ago, but apparently never fit in replica handbags with the American culture.

“I don’t have replica handbags a single American friend, I don’t understand replica handbags wholesale them,” the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police hours after the pair was wholesale replica handbags identified as suspects, told a photographer in 2009.

What drove him and his brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, who lived with him in Cambridge, Mass., to perpetrate the deadly attack replica handbags wholesale ― which killed three people and injured 176 others ― is not clear. They are believed to be Muslim and to have had military training overseas. But the older brother, who was 26, also worked out in a gym and dreamed of making the U.S. Olympic boxing team, according to an online photojournalism slideshow that chronicled his training.

The journalist who created the project, Johannes Hirn, could replica handbags wholesale not be reached for comment. replica handbags But one caption in his account described the family's odyssey to America.

“Tamerlan fled Chechnya with his family because of the conflict in the early 90s, and lived there for years in Kazakhstan before getting to the United States as a refugee,” read the caption.

Tamerlan previously studied at Bunker Hill Community College for three semesters ― fall 2006, spring 2007 and fall 2008 ― in hopes of becoming replica handbags wholesale an engineer. He took off a semester from his studies to practice boxing at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts Center in Boston. He also had a three-year-old daughter, his father told Bloomberg TV, and replica handbags was reportedly arrested in 2009 for domestic assault and battery following an incident involving his girlfriend.

His brother is believed to be the same Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who wholesale replica handbags won a $2,500 scholarship in 2011 from the city of replica handbags Cambridge, according to online records. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who reportedly became a naturalized U.S. citizen on Sept. 11, 2012, later enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

The father of the suspects, reached in Makhachkala, Russia, characterized his sons as "angels," adding that someone is "playing with them," he told Fox News.

Anzor Tsarnaev said his sons were normal young men who loved people. Earlier wholesale replica handbags Friday, he called on Dzokhar to surrender peacefully, but reportedly warned the United States that “all hell will break loose” if he’ll killed. He told ABC News that he spoke to his sons by phone earlier this week. He replica designer handbags said his sons reassured him, saying, "Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good."

"Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you,” Anzor Tsarneav told ABC News. “Come home to Russia.”

He continued: "If they killed him, then all hell would break loose."

An uncle of the brothers, also reached by The Associated Press, said that the men lived together near Boston and have been in the United States for about replica designer handbags a decade. They traveled here together from the Russian region near Chechnya, according to Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according designer replica handbags to a high-ranking replica handbags law enforcement official, spent six months replica handbags living in wholesale replica handbags Russia last year. He departed for Russia at the beginning of last year and returned to the United States in mid-2012, the official told FoxNews.com.

Dzhokhar designer replica handbags Tsarnaev has never traveled outside the U.S. and replica designer handbags applied for asylum and became a naturalized designer replica handbags American citizen, the official said.

FoxNews.com's Jana Winter, Joshua Rhett Miller and The Associated Press contributed to this report.