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Boston suspects' mum was on terror list

Written By Gragrah on Saturday, April 27, 2013 | 4/27/2013 10:00:00 am

THE mother of the Boston bombing suspects was put on a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two US intelligence officials say.


She has called it "lies and hypocrisy" and said she has never been linked to crimes or terrorism.
The CIA asked for the older suspect, now dead, and his mother to be added to a terrorist database in 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 told the Associated Press. The FBI found no ties to terrorism.
The younger suspect, 19-year-old Dzhohkar Tsarnaev, was moved overnight on Thursday from a hospital to a federal prison medical centre to continue his recovery from a throat wound and other injuries suffered during a getaway attempt.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a shootout with police.
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.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, a naturalised US citizen who has appeared on television interviews since the attacks and reversed her decision to return to the US after the bombings, has said her sons could never have been behind the deadly attacks and believes they were framed.
Dzhohkar Tsarnaev is charged with joining with his older brother in setting off the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs. He could face the death penalty.
Previously, US officials have said only that the FBI investigated Tamerlan. But in March 2011, the Russians asked the FBI to look into Tamerlan and his mother because of concerns they were religious militants who planned to travel back to Russia, the official said.
The FBI found nothing to link either person to terrorism, and the FBI closed the investigations in June 2011.
Later that year, the Russians sent the same warning to the CIA. The CIA asked the US National Counterterrorism Center to add the mother's and son's names to its huge, classified database of people known to be terrorists and those who are suspected of having terror ties.
Tsarnaeva said it would not surprise her if she was listed in a US terror database.
"It's all lies and hypocrisy," she told the AP from Dagestan.
"I'm sick and tired of all this nonsense that they make up about me and my children. People know me as a regular person, and I've never been mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism."

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