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Now that the suspects in Mondays Boston Marathon bombing have both been taken off the streets, authorities are focused on looking into a 2012 trip one of the alleged bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, took to Russia. Prior to that journey, the FBI was asked to investigate Tsarnaev by the Russian government. TPM talked to experts to find out what this Russian tip may tell us about Tsarnaevs ties to extremist groups in his native land and whether the FBI missed out on a chance to catch a future terrorist.
The FBI declined to comment on this story beyond a terse statement it released Friday.
In early 2011, a foreign government asked the FBI for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the statement said. The request stated that it was based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the countrys region to join unspecified underground groups.
FBI officials subsequently acknowledged the foreign government referred to in that statement was Russia and that Moscow was concerned about ties Tsarnaev and the other bombing suspect, his younger brother, Dzokhar, had to extremist groups in Chechyna. After receiving this request from Russia, FBI agents in Boston interviewed Tsarnaev, whose family left Chechnya to escape the decades of conflict between the Russian government and rebels there when he was a small child.
What Can Moscow’s Tip Tell Us About The Boston Bombings? | TPMDC
The FBI declined to comment on this story beyond a terse statement it released Friday.
In early 2011, a foreign government asked the FBI for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the statement said. The request stated that it was based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the countrys region to join unspecified underground groups.
FBI officials subsequently acknowledged the foreign government referred to in that statement was Russia and that Moscow was concerned about ties Tsarnaev and the other bombing suspect, his younger brother, Dzokhar, had to extremist groups in Chechyna. After receiving this request from Russia, FBI agents in Boston interviewed Tsarnaev, whose family left Chechnya to escape the decades of conflict between the Russian government and rebels there when he was a small child.
What Can Moscow’s Tip Tell Us About The Boston Bombings? | TPMDC
