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Boston bombing suspect photographed car with ‘Terrorista #1’ license plate

MAD BEEMER: A BMW bearing a license plate that reads “Terrorista #1” sits parked outside a New Bedford, Mass., complex yesterday. The car is said to belong to pals of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (Daniel Shapiro)

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — If you wanted to know what alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was thinking about, look at the license plate on a car he photographed:

“Terrorista #1”

Dzhokhar, 19, tweeted a picture of a BMW 330XI bearing the UMass Dartmouth personal front plate on March 15.

The photo showed the BMW parked next to a Chevy as if the two cars were about to race. A caption read, “Place your bets.”

The license plate is not official. It’s a novelty plate that could be bought in a gift shop.

Two of Dzhokhar’s pals at UMass Dartmouth, who neighbors said rent or lease the car, were arrested by federal officials yesterday afternoon for immigration violations.

The students, who sources identified only by their first names, Azamat and Dias, face deportation.

“They were in there for a while and then they took [the boys] away very quietly,” a neighbor said of the activity at the Hidden Brook Apartments.

A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the arrests.

The duo and a young woman had initially been picked up for questioning by local police and FBI agents Friday, but were later released.

The neighbor spoke to the boys in between their two encounters with law enforcement. “They said they didn’t believe what was happening to them. I said neither did I,” she recalled.

Dzhokhar returned to the campus Monday or Tuesday after he and his brother Tamerlan, 26, allegedly carried out the Boston Marathon bombing.

Cops said they first learned of Dzhokhar’s connection to the campus Friday when, according to local media, they got a tip about a “Chechen house,” where a number of Chechen students live.