“Misha was important. Tamerlan was searching for something. He was searching for something out there,” – Elmirza Khozhugov, 26, the ex-husband of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s sister, Ailina.
No one has yet figured out who Misha is. The best Khozhugov gave the AP is “a slightly older, heavyset bald man with a long reddish beard.” Also: an Armenian native and a convert to Islam. He seems to have been the key factor in Tamerlan’s radicalization.