Bombing suspects’ mom also in terror database
(BostonGlobe) – The CIA asked for the Boston terror suspect and his mother to be added to a terrorist database in the fall of 2011, after the Russian government contacted the agency with concerns that both had become religious militants, according to officials briefed on the investigation. About six months earlier, the FBI investigated Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, also at Russia’s request, one of the officials said. The FBI found no ties to terrorism.
The revelation that the FBI had also investigated Zubeidat Tsarnaeva and the CIA arranged for her to be added to the terrorism database deepened the mystery around the family.The Tsarnaevs are ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who immigrated to the Boston area in the past 11 years. Tsarnaeva, a naturalized U.S. citizen who has appeared on television interviews since the attacks and reversed her decision to return to the U.S. after the bombings, has said her sons could never have been behind the deadly attacks and believes they were framed.
(RT.com) – Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev are expected to come to the United States to “find out the truth” behind their sons’ alleged involvement in a terror attack. On Wednesday, they met with diplomats from the US Embassy in Moscow in the Dagestani capital Makhachkala. Zubeidat claimed they both spoke to FBI representatives, though her statement has not been confirmed.
After the meeting, Anzor said at a press conference in Makhachkala he would travel from Russia to the US to bury Tamerlan. “I am going to the United States. I want to say that I am going there to see my son, to bury the older one. I don’t have any bad intentions. I don’t plan to blow up anything,” he said, adding, “I am not angry at anyone. I want to go find out the truth.”
Speaking at the press conference, Zubeidat blamed the US for killing her son.
“He was alive! Why did they need to kill him? Why? They got him alive.”
The mother said she wished her sons had never moved to the US, and if she goes there she will consider renouncing her US passport.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev said she has not yet decided whether she will go to the US; she is reportedly facing arrest if she enters the country. The clerk of the Natick District Court earlier confirmed to ABC News that Zubeidat failed to appear at a court hearing last year to resolve charges that she stole $1,600 worth of merchandise from a Lord & Taylor department store.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev worked as an aesthetician out of her Cambridge apartment