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TAMERLAN WAS TRAINED IN GEORGIA: PAPER
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/tamerlan-was-trained-in-georgia-paper/article4654632.ece
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN
MOSCOW, April 26, 2013
American investigators have travelled to Dagestan to interview the
bombers' parents and to look for terrorist connections he could have
established there.
Even as investigators into the Boston Marathon bombings zero in on the
Chechen connection of the suspected bombers, a Russian daily claimed
one of the suspected terrorists received training in neighbouring
Georgia.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said quite bluntly the senior
Tsarnaev brother, Tamerlan, had been radicalised during his six-month
visit to Dagestan and Chechnya last year.
"[H]e learned something where he went and he came back with a
willingness to kill people," he said during a visit to Belgium on
Wednesday.
Tamerlan (26) and his brother Dzhokhar (19) set off two homemade
bombs during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three
people and wounding nearly 200.
American investigators on Tuesday travelled to Dagestan to interview
the bombers' parents and to look for terrorist connections he could
have established there.
Meanwhile, a leading Russian daily said Tamerlan had received
"terrorist training" in Georgia, a former Soviet state adjacent to
Russia's North Caucasus.
According to documents of the Georgian counterintelligence service
obtained by the Izvestia, Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended "seminars"
organised in Georgia in the summer of 2012 by the so-called "Caucasus
Foundation" in collaboration with the Jamestown Foundation, which
Moscow repeatedly accused of anti-Russian activities.
Citing reports by Colonel Irakli Garibashvili, head of the
Counterintelligence Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
of Georgia, Izvestia said the Caucasus Foundation was set up shortly
after the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia "to recruit young people
and intellectuals from North Caucasus for fomenting instability and
extremist sentiments in Russia's southern regions".
The foundation invited "sympathisers" from Russia to workshops and
seminars in Georgia, where they were "recruited and trained in staging
terrorist acts".
The mother of the Boston bombers, Zubeidat, said the FBI had
"counselled" and "controlled" her son for several years and had
ultimately "set him up".
The Georgian Interior Ministry denied Tamerlan had attended any seminar
in Georgia, while the Caucasus Foundation denounced the terrorist
training allegations as "outright lies". However, earlier this month,
Georgia's new Ombudsman told lawmakers that the government of President
Mikheil Saakashvili had armed and trained a 100 exiles from Chechnya
for terrorist operations in Russia. In August 2012, the Chechens
clashed with the Georgian military over delays in their transfer to
Russia, leaving 14 people dead. At that time Georgian authorities said
government troops had battled militants who had crossed over from
Russia. A new probe into the incident was launched after opposition
won parliamentary elections in Georgia in October 2012.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/tamerlan-was-trained-in-georgia-paper/article4654632.ece
VLADIMIR RADYUHIN
MOSCOW, April 26, 2013
American investigators have travelled to Dagestan to interview the
bombers' parents and to look for terrorist connections he could have
established there.
Even as investigators into the Boston Marathon bombings zero in on the
Chechen connection of the suspected bombers, a Russian daily claimed
one of the suspected terrorists received training in neighbouring
Georgia.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said quite bluntly the senior
Tsarnaev brother, Tamerlan, had been radicalised during his six-month
visit to Dagestan and Chechnya last year.
"[H]e learned something where he went and he came back with a
willingness to kill people," he said during a visit to Belgium on
Wednesday.
Tamerlan (26) and his brother Dzhokhar (19) set off two homemade
bombs during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three
people and wounding nearly 200.
American investigators on Tuesday travelled to Dagestan to interview
the bombers' parents and to look for terrorist connections he could
have established there.
Meanwhile, a leading Russian daily said Tamerlan had received
"terrorist training" in Georgia, a former Soviet state adjacent to
Russia's North Caucasus.
According to documents of the Georgian counterintelligence service
obtained by the Izvestia, Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended "seminars"
organised in Georgia in the summer of 2012 by the so-called "Caucasus
Foundation" in collaboration with the Jamestown Foundation, which
Moscow repeatedly accused of anti-Russian activities.
Citing reports by Colonel Irakli Garibashvili, head of the
Counterintelligence Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
of Georgia, Izvestia said the Caucasus Foundation was set up shortly
after the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia "to recruit young people
and intellectuals from North Caucasus for fomenting instability and
extremist sentiments in Russia's southern regions".
The foundation invited "sympathisers" from Russia to workshops and
seminars in Georgia, where they were "recruited and trained in staging
terrorist acts".
The mother of the Boston bombers, Zubeidat, said the FBI had
"counselled" and "controlled" her son for several years and had
ultimately "set him up".
The Georgian Interior Ministry denied Tamerlan had attended any seminar
in Georgia, while the Caucasus Foundation denounced the terrorist
training allegations as "outright lies". However, earlier this month,
Georgia's new Ombudsman told lawmakers that the government of President
Mikheil Saakashvili had armed and trained a 100 exiles from Chechnya
for terrorist operations in Russia. In August 2012, the Chechens
clashed with the Georgian military over delays in their transfer to
Russia, leaving 14 people dead. At that time Georgian authorities said
government troops had battled militants who had crossed over from
Russia. A new probe into the incident was launched after opposition
won parliamentary elections in Georgia in October 2012.