#0p6d @BrianGlynWillms Brian Glyn Williams, #UMass #Dartmouth professor of Islamic studies, helped #Tsarnaev with a high school project about #Chechnya #BrianGlynWilliams http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/umass-dartmouth-lockdown-boston_n_3116767.html Two years ago, Brian Glyn Williams, a UMass Dartmouth professor of Islamic studies, helped Tsarnaev with a high school project about Chechnya. Williams was put in contact with the student through a friend who's a teacher at Cambridge Rindge & Latin, Tsarnaev's high school. The two communicated via email or telephone and never met face to face, even when Tsarnaev started attending the school. The project was about Chechen history and the origins of its wars with Russia, and Williams got the impression that Tsarnaev was trying to reconnect with his ethnic identity and homeland. Williams remembers Tsarnaev as polite and unremarkable. He doesn't recall any sort of political or religious discussions. "It's sort of sickening," Williams said of the bombings. Brian Glyn Williams #BrianGlynWilliams https://twitter.com/BrianGlynWillms #BrianGlynWillms https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=BrianGlynWillms%20OR%20BrianGlynWilliams%20OR%20Brian%20Glyn%20Williams%20&src=typd http://friendfeed.com/search?q=BrianGlynWillms+OR+BrianGlynWilliams+OR+Brian+Glyn+Williams