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Boston Bomb's 'Suspect's' Mother: My sons were set up

Boston bombing suspects' mother: 'My sons were framed

MOSCOW - One of the two ethnic Chechens suspected of being behind the Boston Marathon bombings had been under FBI surveillance for at least three years, his mother said.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told the English-language Russia Today television station in a phone interview, a recording of which was obtained by Reuters, that she believed her sons were innocent and had been framed.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a shootout with police and his 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar was captured after a day-long manhunt.

“He (Tamerlan) was controlled by the FBI, like, for three to five years,” she said, speaking in English and using the direct English translation of a word in Russian that means monitored.

“They knew what my son was doing, they knew what sites on the Internet he was going to,” she said in what Russia Today described as a call from Makhachkala, the city where she lives in Russia’s Dagestan region.

Tsarnaeva echoed the boys’ father, Anzor, who said on Friday that he believed they had been framed.

“It is really, really a hard thing to hear. And being a mother, what I can say is that I am really sure, I am, like, 100 percent sure, that this is a set-up,” she said.

U.S. government officials have said the brothers were not under surveillance as possible militants. But the FBI said in a statement on Friday that in 2011 it interviewed Tamerlan at the request of a foreign government, which it did not identify.

It said the matter was closed because interviews with Tamerlan and family members “did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign”.

The FBI statement was the first evidence that the family had come to security officials’ attention after they emigrated to the United States from Dagestan about a decade ago.

Boston bombing suspects' aunt says she's been threatened



TORONTO - The Toronto aunt of the two Boston bombing suspects says she has been the target of threats since saying publicly Friday that her nephews were framed.

“They are calling us, calling names, threatening, saying it’s time to go home,” Maret Tsarnaeva said Saturday. “Yes, it is time. We did not find that promise — democracy — in this country.”

“But if I go home, I will go home only with bodies of my nephews,” she added.

Maret sounded exhausted the day after her surviving nephew Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was taken into custody by the FBI, following a harrowing day-long manhunt that shut down an entire city and ended with the badly injured suspect hiding in a Boston-area backyard.

His 26-year-old brother Tamerlan was killed in a shoot-out with police early Friday morning.

Their aunt firmly believes it’s all a conspiracy.

“They made our boys enemies of the American nation,” Maret said. “They made them victims of the conspiracy.”

Born in Chechnya, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan moved to the United States from the Russian region of Dagestan with their parents in the early 2000s.

The older brother competed as a heavyweight boxer while the younger enjoyed hip hop music and was captain of his high school wrestling team.

Maret was shocked to learn that by Thursday, the boys she hasn’t seen in five years had been named suspects in the finish-line explosions that killed three people and injured scores more.

She believes they were framed, held by “faceless enemies” even as the manhunt raged on.

“They needed somebody to blame for something they committed themselves so they got them, so rejoice people, rejoice,” she said in a weary voice.

When asked if there were any plans for her to head south to be with other family members also reeling from shock, she said she would if she could.

“I have a little boy right here,” Maret said. “Who can I leave with him? Of course I would like to go and be with Ruslan and others.”

Ruslan Tsarni is the suspects’ uncle, based in Maryland. On Friday he called the two boys “losers” who had shamed his community.

Tsarnaeva made it clear the FBI has not contacted her yet either.

“FBI is the only one who is not contacting me because they have no interest of getting any information because they have got everything they need,” Maret said.

She is convinced Dzhokhar won’t be given a chance to explain his innocence.

“They will make sure they will not let this boy live because they do not want this boy to have a chance, have a voice to say that ‘People of America, I did not do this,’” she said.
 
Interesting twist


1)Barack Obama spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday evening and thanked the Russian leader for unspecified cooperation in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings.

As law enforcement officials surrounded the Watertown location where 19 year old suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was suspected to be hiding, the White House released a read out of the Obama-Putin phone call, which referenced the United States and Russia working together on the Boston bombing issue.

"President Putin expressed his condolences on behalf of the Russian people for the tragic loss of life in Boston. President Obama thanked President Putin for those sentiments, and praised the close cooperation that the United States has received from Russia on counter-terrorism, including in the wake of the Boston attack," the statement said. "The two leaders agreed to continue our cooperation on counter-terrorism and security issues going forward."

National Security Staff Spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden told The Cable the White House won't say what kind of cooperation the Russians provided.

"We'll decline to provide further details at this point," she said.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan, who was killed Thursday night, were of Chechnyan ethnicity but hailed from the Russian region of Dagestan and spent several years living in Kyrgyzstan. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became a naturalized American citizen on Sept. 11, 2012.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/obama_thanks_putin_for_help_in_boston

2)FBI said in a statement on Friday that in 2011 it interviewed Tamerlan at the request of a foreign government, which it did not identify.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/04/20/boston_suspect_was_under_fbi_surveillance_mother_says.html
 
Their aunt firmly believes it’s all a conspiracy.

“He (Tamerlan) was controlled by the FBI, like, for three to five years,” she said, speaking in English and using the direct English translation of a word in Russian that means monitored.

“They made our boys enemies of the American nation,” Maret said. “They made them victims of the conspiracy.”

Always with the conspiracy theories. :rolleyes: I guess that is where they learned it from.

If they were innocent, they could have picked up the phone and called any news station in the world, and say they are being framed. The whole world would hear about it in ten minutes, since no news station would turn down such a big story.

Instead... they chose to throw pipe-bombs at the police. Pipe-bombs being one of the most cruel and inhumane weapons ever.

Does that sound innocent to anyone? Why do they have footage of the brothers dropping their bags at the exact location of the explosion, a few seconds before the explosion? Why have the injured victims identified the brothers as the bombers already?

That is what you call actual evidence. Videos, pictures, CCTV footage, witness testimony and physical evidence. As opposed to conspiracy theories.
 
Did any one see..a mother is not defending their son whatever his son may be....That is why mother is a mother...Always a god in the eyes of her Child....
 
Always with the conspiracy theories. :rolleyes: I guess that is where they learned it from.

If they were innocent, they could have picked up the phone and called any news station in the world, and say they are being framed. The whole world would hear about it in ten minutes, since no news station would turn down such a big story.

Instead... they chose to throw pipe-bombs at the police. Pipe-bombs being one of the most cruel and inhumane weapons ever.

Does that sound innocent to anyone? Why do they have footage of the brothers dropping their bags at the exact location of the explosion, a few seconds before the explosion? Why have the injured victims identified the brothers as the bombers already?

That is what you call actual evidence. Videos, pictures, CCTV footage, witness testimony and physical evidence. As opposed to conspiracy theories.

I thought you were smarter than this. You can't just expect to be on air right away with a click of a button, especially in a country where their own companies aren't controlled by themselves.

If you were in the boys situation, how would you react? If your family denied you being involved, how would you take that? Oh, no, wait, you'd probably click a button and tell the world that you're being framed.

Wake up.
 
Always with the conspiracy theories. :rolleyes: I guess that is where they learned it from.

If they were innocent, they could have picked up the phone and called any news station in the world, and say they are being framed. The whole world would hear about it in ten minutes, since no news station would turn down such a big story.

Instead... they chose to throw pipe-bombs at the police. Pipe-bombs being one of the most cruel and inhumane weapons ever.

Does that sound innocent to anyone? Why do they have footage of the brothers dropping their bags at the exact location of the explosion, a few seconds before the explosion? Why have the injured victims identified the brothers as the bombers already?

That is what you call actual evidence. Videos, pictures, CCTV footage, witness testimony and physical evidence. As opposed to conspiracy theories.


Real or not conspiracy theories can be a defendants claim in the court of law. Lets be objective to see where all these lead to.
 
Always with the conspiracy theories. :rolleyes: I guess that is where they learned it from.

If they were innocent, they could have picked up the phone and called any news station in the world, and say they are being framed. The whole world would hear about it in ten minutes, since no news station would turn down such a big story.

Instead... they chose to throw pipe-bombs at the police. Pipe-bombs are one of the most cruel and inhumane weapons ever.

Does that sound innocent to anyone? Why do they have footage of the brothers dropping their bags at the exact location of the explosion, a few seconds before the explosion? Why have the injured victims identified the brothers as the bombers already?

That is what you call actual evidence. As opposed to conspiracy theories.

I am not sure whats wrong with you but i am the last person on this planet who will ever take a side of the terrorist you just lost 1 to terrorist attacks we have lost 1000s.

As far as the articles goes i didn't print or wrote it thats why i gave out links. Russians are well known to use their own security services to carry out attacks on their own civilians.


Why do they have footage of the brothers dropping their bags at the exact location of the explosion

i must have missed it mind sharing that evidence please i cant find it any where.
 
Real or not conspiracy theories can be a defendants claim in the court of law. Lets be objective to see where all these lead to.
@Chinese-Dragon, you seem to be quoting a lot from articles and news sources, but at the end of the day, these article and news sources are just words. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
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@Chinese-Dragon, you seem to be quoting a lot from articles and news sources, but at the end of the day, these article and news sources are just words. Nothing more, nothing less.

"They are just words"?

They have video footage of them planting the bombs, many pictures, and they also have them throwing pipe-bombs at the police.
 
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@Chinese-Dragon, you seem to be quoting a lot from articles and news sources, but at the end of the day, these article and news sources are just words. Nothing more, nothing less.

i am waiting for him to share the evidence he seems to have seen.

since he seems to believe

Chinese army colonel says avian flu is an American plot against China and thoughts about that china dragon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/09/chinese-army-colonel-says-avian-flu-is-an-american-plot-against-china/

"They are just words"?

They have video footage of them planting the bombs, many pictures, and they also have them throwing pipe-bombs at the police.

Have you seen the footage with your own eyes have they shared that video with people to look at.until they do yes they are just words unless you can prove it other wise

Once again i am not claiming or saying this wasn't a horrible act nor do i am trying to justify this heinous crime.
 
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"They are just words"?

They have video footage of them planting the bombs, many pictures, and they also have them throwing pipe-bombs at the police.

You seem to have ignored my previous post, #6. I assume that you have nothing to say about it?

And, yes, articles are just words. Not proof. If you say they have pictures, and videos, how can you verify them? Show me which pictures and videos you are referring to, and I will respond. I can make a picture of me throwing a pipe-bomb with a dark outline, and make it look very resembling to the events which took place.

Anyway, I am gone out for a while. Shurkiya, Khudafeez. Will be back soon.
 
I am not sure whats wrong with you but i am the last person on this planet who will ever take a side of the terrorist you just lost 1 to terrorist attacks we have lost 1000s.

As far as the articles goes i didn't print or wrote it thats why i gave out links. Russians are well known to use their own security services to carry out attacks on their own civilians.

i must have missed it mind sharing that evidence please i cant find it any where.

I was responding to what the mother said, not you specifically. Obviously.

i must have missed it mind sharing that evidence please i cant find it any where.

Sure.

Boston bombings investigation: significant CCTV lead reported | World news | The Guardian

The FBI investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings appeared to gather pace on Wednesday with reports of a breakthrough in the hunt for the suspect behind the attack, which killed three people and injured almost 200 others.

Thomas Menino, the mayor of Boston, said that a significant lead had been provided by video footage recorded by a department store security camera. The footage was reported to show a possible suspect dropping a black bag at the location of the second bomb shortly before the blast.

And another one: Boston Marathon bomber caught on CCTV: FBI close in on suspect seen dropping bag in street - Mirror Online

And another: Boston Bombing: Suspect Pictured Near Victims

There is even a picture of the bomber standing next to the 8-year old victim with his backpack on the floor.

http://media.skynews.com/media/imag...-image-must-credit-kevin-okeefe-1-942x530.jpg
 

OH i see this is the video you talked about
 
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