Mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspects in federal terrorism database from 2011
The ethnic Chechen mother’s name was entered into the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment in 2011, according to a U.S. intelligence source.
Comments (98)BY JOSEPH STRAW IN WASHINGTON , CHELSIA ROSE MARCIUS IN BOSTON , ROCCO PARASCANDOLA AND LARRY MCSHANE / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013, 9:01 PM
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The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects was questioned by a team of investigators from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow this week. Here, she speaks at a news conference in Makhachkala, Russia, on Thursday.
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Like mother, like sons.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev, mom to the accused Boston Marathon bombing suspects, landed in a federal terrorism database in 2011 — and possibly fostered her boys’ anti-U.S. sentiment, officials said.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 came to the U.S. with their parents about a decade ago. Dzhokhar, the surviving bombing suspect, was moved overnight from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to the Federal Medical Center Devens.
“She’s . . . a person of interest that we’re looking at to see if she helped radicalize her son or had contacts with other people in other terrorist groups,” said U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) on Friday.
The ethnic Chechen mother’s name was entered into the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment in 2011, according to a U.S. intelligence source.
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Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, shown here in a June 2012 booking photo, was added to a federal terrorism database after Russia contacted the CIA with concerns that she and her son, Tamerlan, were religious militants.
It was the first time U.S. officials acknowledged the mother was known to American authorities before sons Tamerlan, 26, and Dzhokhar, 19, unleashed hell at the Boston Marathon on April 15.
Three people were killed and more than 260 injured in the twin blasts on Boylston St. The brothers later executed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer and wounded a transit cop, officials said.
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Members of the New York Police Department take part in a "SURGE" drill in Time Square on Friday, Apr. 26, 2013 as it is revealed that Boston bombing suspects were considering attacking New York as well.
The CIA and the FBI, based on information from Russian officials, added Tamerlan’s name to a watch list over his radical Islamist views around the same time that his mom was identified.
Despite the heads-up, Tamerlan was allowed to move freely through the U.S. and back to his native Russia in the months before the Boston terror attack.
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Members of the New York Police Department take part in a "SURGE" drill in Time Square on Friday, Apr. 26, 2013 in New York, N.Y.
The elder brother died in a gunfight with law enforcement four days after the attacks.
In other developments Friday:
• Tamerlan’s kid brother Dzhokhar was transferred Friday from a Boston hospital to a federal prison medical center, authorities announced.
• Tamerlan’s kid brother Dzhokhar was transferred Friday from a Boston hospital to a federal prison medical center, authorities announced.
The teen terror suspect is recovering from a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries suffered in the brothers’ failed getaway attempt.
• NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly refused to bad-mouth FBI officials who remained closed-mouthed over the brothers’ purported plot to detonate six bombs in Times Square.
• NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly refused to bad-mouth FBI officials who remained closed-mouthed over the brothers’ purported plot to detonate six bombs in Times Square.
“I’m not going to characterize it,” Kelly said when asked for his feelings about the 48-hour delay in sharing information. “We want to know things as quickly as possible.”
• The imam who married Tamerlan to a Rhode Island native on June 21, 2010, remembered the pair as “a happy couple.” He only learned about the groom’s part in the bombing when approached by a reporter.
• The imam who married Tamerlan to a Rhode Island native on June 21, 2010, remembered the pair as “a happy couple.” He only learned about the groom’s part in the bombing when approached by a reporter.
“I had to sit down and think about it,” said Iman Taalib Mahdee of the Masjid Al Qur’aan mosque in Dorchester. “And then I could remember them. . . . He was a happy Muslim man.”
• Boston native Matt Damon, an alumnus of the school once attended by Dzhokhar, said he was still rattled by the terror bombings.
• Boston native Matt Damon, an alumnus of the school once attended by Dzhokhar, said he was still rattled by the terror bombings.
“I think we’re all in shock — I’m certainly in shock — trying to figure out what this all means and how it could have happened,” he said.
rparascandola@nydailynews.com
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