dzhokhar tsarnaev's lawyers have been trying to paint him as a gullible teen who was recruited by his extremist brother to bomb the boston marathon finish line two years ago but today, prosecutors presented the jury with a never before seen photo that tells quite a different story seen in the bedroom of his family home in cambridge, massachusetts, dzhokhar tsarnaev sits at a computer chair and points to a black flag behind him   not unlike the kind used by extremist groups like al qaeda and isis tsarnaev's former best friend stephen silva testified in court on tuesday that he saw the flag hanging in dzhokhar's room, the one time he visited the apartment to watch the walking dead scroll down for video  decoration: a new picture emerged of dzhokhar tsarnaev in court on tuesday, showing the accused boston bomber posing underneath a black banner of islam in the bedroom of his cambridge family home  silva was also the friend who lent tsarnaev the gun used to shoot an mit police officer in a confrontation a few days after the bombings while the so called black banner or black standard has been co opted by islamist extremist groups in recent years, it has much deeper origins in the muslim world the prophet muhammed used a black standard when he fought, which is why it continues to be used as a symbol for modern day jihadists according to boston university master arabic lecturer giselle khoury, the flag reads: 'there is no god but allah, and muhammad is allah's messenger' she told the boston herald that the statement is called 'the shahada   the testimony' which declares one's belief in the islamic faith however, quickly after the picture of the flag was shown in court today, us district court judge george a o’toole jr ordered taken out of court since he found it 'illegible' assistant us attorney aloke chakravarty said another witness, who did not take the stand today, would be explaining the flag's significance further tsarnaev, 21, is charged with killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on april 15, 2013, and shooting dead a university police officer three days later where the boston bombing was hatched: the jury deciding the federal death penalty trial were also shown other pictures from the tsarnaev family home, including the image of the right of dzhokhar's home computer  authorities release this picture of the flag   which has become a symbol of islamic terror groups the world over since the 1990s  where he slept: dzhokhar's former best friend stephan silva says they were friends for several years, but that he only visited the tsarnaev house once to watch an episode of the walking dead on a computer from the top bunk of dzhokhar's bunk bed (above) strict older brother: silva told the court on tuesday that he had never met his elder brother tamerlan (left) and that dzhokhar (right) described him as 'very strict, very opinionated' his former best friend stephen silva, who federal prosecutors contend loaned  tsarnaev the gun used in the shooting, testified in court on tuesday that he had long been close with the defendant but had never met his 26 year old  brother, tamerlan, who died following a gunfight with police  four days after the bombing he said his brother was very strict, very opinionated, and  that since i wasn't a muslim he might give me a little s*** for  that,' silva said defense lawyers opened the trial at us district court in  boston with the blunt admission that dzhokhar tsarnaev had  carried out the crimes he is charged with, focusing their hopes  on the jury sentencing him to life in prison rather than the  death penalty he could face if found guilty they contend tamerlan was the driving force behind the  attacks and that his younger sibling followed out of  subservience convict friends: friend of dzhokhar tsarnaev, stephen silva (left), testified at the boston bombing trial on tuesday about his 'strict' older brother tamerlan he is currently in jail on weapons and drug charges tsarnaev and silva pictured on the right at their high school graduation  prosecutors called silva, 21, to the witness stand to  discuss the loan of the rusty ruger p95 handgun they contend was  used to shoot dead massachusetts institute of technology police  officer sean collier on april 18, 2013 silva has pleaded guilty to federal gun and drug charges,  but was offered leniency in exchange for his testimony he  testified he had gotten the gun from a friend, intending to use  it to protect his drug business, and also used it in a robbery tsarnaev asked to borrow it, saying he too was interested in  committing a robbery, silva testified on loan: the gun was part of evidence shown in court on tuesday friend of dzhokhar tsarnaev, stephen silva,  allegedly gave him the weapon which was used to kill mit officer sean collier  ruined: this smashed up iphone was found at the scene of a shootout between the tsarnaev brothers and police in the suburb of watertown on april 18   a few days after the bombings  in the most aggressive cross examination by the defense in  eight days of testimony, silva acknowledged having posted on  facebook and having told the fbi that he believed the bombing must have been tamerlan's idea 'at the time that's what i felt, yes,' silva said in  response to questioning by defense attorney miriam conrad he also acknowledged having told prosecutors in august he  used 'peer pressure' to persuade dzhokhar to smoke marijuana,  which silva sold 'that's what i said but i stated it wrong,' silva said on  tuesday emerging: boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev, bloody and disheveled with the red dot of a sniper's rifle laser sight on his head, emerges from a boat at the time of his capture by law enforcement authorities in watertown, massachusetts on april 19, 2013  hide out: in this courtroom sketch, the boat in which dzhokhar tsarnaev was captured was depicted on a trailer for observation during tsarnaev's federal death penalty trial on monday  in court: in this courtroom sketch, tsarnaev, center seated, is depicted between defense attorneys while the boat in which he was captured in sits on a trailer for observation during his federal death penalty trial on monday  message: inside the boat where dzhokhar tsarnaev hid for hours before he was captured by police, he carved on wood panels the phrase: 'stop killing our innocent people and we will stop' inscription: another picture of the wood panels taken from inside henneberry's boat  silva also testified that dzhokhar tsarnaev had once called  him a 'kafir,' an arabic word meaning non believer or infidel,  in response to silva calling the defendant a 'russian refugee' tsarnaev is an ethnic chechen whose family moved to the  us a decade before the attack other than the 'kafir' incident, silva said tsarnaev had  rarely talked about religion also on tuesday, the owner of the boat where tsarnaev hid  after a gunfight with police recalled stepping into his backyard  after a day long lock down was lifted and finding a person in his  watercraft david henneberry described waking up the morning after a  gunfight between the tsarnaev brothers and police rocked his  suburban neighborhood and noticing something wrong about the  winter covering of his boat, but presuming it had been blown  around by the wind he put off checking it until after authorities had lifted a  shelter in place order on boston area residents four days after  the bombing, wbz reported 'i went to check on the boat and basically see why the strap  was loose and i noticed a lot of blood,' henneberry said 'i  just kept fixating on this blood and then, i just, my eyes  looked at the other side of the boat and that's when i saw a  body in the boat  i got off the ladder pretty quick and went  in the house' when prosecutors wrap up their case it will be the defense's  turn to call witnesses, who could include tsarnaev after that,  the jury will consider tsarnaev's guilt if he is found guilty,  a second phase will play out that will focus on sentencing the bombing killed restaurant manager krystle campbell, 29,  graduate student lingzi lu, 23, and 8 year old martin richard henneberry said after he called 911, bringing dozens of  heavily armed police who fired scores of rounds into the boat  where tsarnaev was discovered the jury also saw two wooden slats from the boat into which  a message had been carved which read: 'stop killing our innocent  people and we will stop' on cross examination, mr henneberry was asked by the defense if the blood and bullet holes in his boat were there before april 19 he confirmed that they were not final words: inside the boat, tsarnaev wrote a series of notes, which the jury saw on monday this note, punctured with bullets, explains how he is jealous of his brother tamerlan because he had died and gone to paradise  the notes also denounced the us for its wars in muslim countries last week, the jury heard how all the bullets that made holes in the side of the boat were shot from outside the vessel as he hid inside  investigators on a boat in watertown, massachusetts the day after dzhokhar tsarnaev was found hiding inside in april 2013 on monday, the jury in his death penalty trial visited the boat 
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