‘Boston bombing fake, paint was used to show as blood’
30 April 2013 6:42 AM IST
Russia intercepted a communication between the mother of the accused Boston Marathon bombers and someone who may have been one of her sons ‘discussing jihad’ in 2011, a US official said.
The Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, are accused of planting homemade bombs that exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon 15 April ,killing three people and injuring 180.
Tamerlan, 26, was killed during a shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown. Dzhokhar, 19, was apprehended after eluding a massive manhunt that saw the city of Boston and many of its suburbs shut down. According to CNN, the US official described the conversation as vague. Russians handed over the intercept to the FBI in the last few days, the official said.
The family lived in Massachusetts before Tsarnaev’s mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva jumped bail following her arrest on charges of shoplifting in 2012. The parents moved back to Dagestan, a semi-autonomous republic in southern Russia that year.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev has denied the reality of the bombing. She believes it was fake. She said she has seen a video pushing the idea, and that there was no blood, that paint was used instead. CNN said the FBI was conducting an investigation over an interview with Tamerlan Tsarnaev after Russia expressed concerns in 2011. The FBI said at the time it found nothing to justify pursuing the matter further.
The Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, are accused of planting homemade bombs that exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon 15 April ,killing three people and injuring 180.
Tamerlan, 26, was killed during a shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown. Dzhokhar, 19, was apprehended after eluding a massive manhunt that saw the city of Boston and many of its suburbs shut down. According to CNN, the US official described the conversation as vague. Russians handed over the intercept to the FBI in the last few days, the official said.
The family lived in Massachusetts before Tsarnaev’s mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva jumped bail following her arrest on charges of shoplifting in 2012. The parents moved back to Dagestan, a semi-autonomous republic in southern Russia that year.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev has denied the reality of the bombing. She believes it was fake. She said she has seen a video pushing the idea, and that there was no blood, that paint was used instead. CNN said the FBI was conducting an investigation over an interview with Tamerlan Tsarnaev after Russia expressed concerns in 2011. The FBI said at the time it found nothing to justify pursuing the matter further.
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