By David Mccormack PUBLISHED: 22:43 EST, 16 July 2013 | UPDATED: 13:56 EST, 17 July 2013 Rolling Stone magazine is in trouble with its readers who are outraged over the forthcoming August 3 issue which features Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover. The image is a self-taken portrait of Tsarnaev in which he looks more like a rock star than a terrorist. He is identified simply as ‘The Bomber’ and the article promises to explain ‘how a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam, and became a monster.’
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The Aug 3 issue of the magazine features Boston bombing suspect Tsarnaev
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The magazine's social media sites have been inundated with angry comments from people who claim the cover 'glamorizes' him
The use of @placeholder as a cover star has caused an instant backlash on social media, with more than 2,500 people leaving angry comments on the magazine’s Facebook page.