Boston bombing suspect's friends hid backpack, laptop

When three college friends of?Dzhokhar Tsarnaev realized he was involved in the Boston marathon bombing, instead of contacting authorities, they proceeded to conceal the evidence, according to an FBI affidavit. ?

By Allen G. Breed,?Associated Press / May 1, 2013

This photo shows fireworks, which federal agents recovered from inside a backpack belonging to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, found in a New Bedford, Mass. landfill. Three men were charged Wednesday in connection with the case.

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Dias Kadyrbayev was driving back to his apartment when he got a call from a college buddy. A clearly anxious Robel Phillipos told him authorities had released photos of the alleged?Boston?Marathon bombers ? and one of them looked very familiar.

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When he got home, Kadrybayev turned on the television to see a shaggy-haired Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his friend, classmate and, by then, one of the most wanted men in the world.

That call set in motion a series of events that on Wednesday turned three college pals into key figures in one of the largest terrorist investigations ever on U.S. soil. According to an FBI affidavit based on interviews with all three men, this is how it played out.

Kadyrbayev first met Tsarnaev in 2011, when they both started at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, south of?Boston, near the base of Cape Cod. He told authorities he became "better friends" with the ethnic Chechen in spring 2012, and that he was a frequent visitor to the rundown Tsarnaev home in Cambridge.

Kadyrbayev and fellow Kazakh, Azamat Tazhayakov, hung out together on and off campus with Tsarnaev. The three 19-year-olds often spoke Russian among themselves.

Kadyrbayev, an engineering major, was headed back to the New Bedford apartment that he and Tazhayakov shared when Phillipos called. It was April 18, three days since the twin bombings that killed three and wounded more than 260.

When he saw the images of Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, Kadyrbayev texted his friend and told him that he looked a lot like the guy on the television.

"lol" Dzhokhar replied, according to the FBI affidavit. Then Tsarnaev's messages took on a more ominous tone.

"you better not text me," read one.

"come to my room and take whatever you want," read another.

A month earlier, during a meal, Dzhokhar had apparently felt the need to tell his Russian-speaking chums that he'd learned how to make a bomb. Even so, Kadyrbayev told authorities he thought his friend's texts were a joke.

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