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Boston Bombing Suspect Sought Jihad in Russia - Reports
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WASHINGTON, May 10 (RIA Novosti) - Suspected Boston Marathon bomber
Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Russia last year with an interest in
taking up jihad and contacting fundamentalist Islamic groups in the
country's restive North Caucasus region, some of whom viewed his
outreach with suspicion and consternation, US media reported Friday.
Tsarnaev's cousin, head of a fundamentalist Salafi organization based
in Russia's mainly Muslim republic of Dagestan, tried to convince the
now-deceased accused bomber not to join local militants' guerilla
campaign against federal forces during Tsarnaev's sojourn in the
region during the first half of 2012, The New York Times cited several
young men in the Dagestani town of Kizlyar as saying.
The cousin, Magomed Kartashov, explained to Tsarnaev `at length that
violent methods are not right,' Zaur Zakaryayev, a member of the
Salafi advocacy group that Kartashov heads, was quoted by the Times as
saying Friday.
The US news magazine Time first reported this week Tsarnaev's relation
to Kartashov, whose Salafi organization is called the Union of the
Just. Kartashov is currently in police custody and being questioned by
Russian security officials, according to US media.
His lawyer told Time that Kartashov `tried to talk [Tsarnaev] out of
his interest in extremism.'
In Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala, Tsarnaev met with an alleged
militant named Makhmud Nidal who was on the run from police, offering
to serve as a financial liaison between Nidal's rebel group and a
US-based organization, The Wall Street Journal cited an official who
had seen a security-services file on Tsarnaev as saying.
Nidal was killed by Russian forces in May 2012, and after another
alleged militant Tsarnaev had been in touch with, a Russian-born
Canadian convert to Islam named William Plotnikov, was killed by
authorities two months later, Tsaranev returned to the United States
without waiting to pick up the new Russian passport he had applied
for, US media have cited officials as saying.
Zakaryayev told the Times that Tsarnaev, who was killed in a police
shootout in Boston on April 19, `already had jihad views' when he
arrived in Dagestan.
`When he got here he was surprised at the conditions,' Zakaryayev told
the newspaper. `I think he expected to find a full-fledged war, that
one people was fighting with another.'
The Journal cited congregants of the Salafist mosque as saying that
Tsarnaev's brashness made some wary of the visitor, fearing he would
attract unwanted attention from federal authorities.
`There are some people who take things too far,' the newspaper cited
one congregant as saying. `Everyone is being watched.'
US authorities have accused Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother,
Dzhokhar, of detonating two pressure-cooker bombs laden with shrapnel
and explosives near the finish line of the April 15 Boston Marathon
that killed three people and wounding more than 260 others.
The brothers, who come from a family of ethnic Chechens, had been
living in living in Massachusetts for most during the past decade
after fleeing violence between militant rebels and federal Russian
forces in the North Caucasus.
Dzhokhar was captured hours after his brother's death, and is being
held in a prison hospital.
Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, said Thursday that Tamerlan's body
had beenentombed at an undisclosed location.
From: Baghdasarian
http://en.rian.ru/world/20130510/181075505/Boston-Bombing-Suspect-Sought-Jihad-in-Russia--Reports.html
WASHINGTON, May 10 (RIA Novosti) - Suspected Boston Marathon bomber
Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Russia last year with an interest in
taking up jihad and contacting fundamentalist Islamic groups in the
country's restive North Caucasus region, some of whom viewed his
outreach with suspicion and consternation, US media reported Friday.
Tsarnaev's cousin, head of a fundamentalist Salafi organization based
in Russia's mainly Muslim republic of Dagestan, tried to convince the
now-deceased accused bomber not to join local militants' guerilla
campaign against federal forces during Tsarnaev's sojourn in the
region during the first half of 2012, The New York Times cited several
young men in the Dagestani town of Kizlyar as saying.
The cousin, Magomed Kartashov, explained to Tsarnaev `at length that
violent methods are not right,' Zaur Zakaryayev, a member of the
Salafi advocacy group that Kartashov heads, was quoted by the Times as
saying Friday.
The US news magazine Time first reported this week Tsarnaev's relation
to Kartashov, whose Salafi organization is called the Union of the
Just. Kartashov is currently in police custody and being questioned by
Russian security officials, according to US media.
His lawyer told Time that Kartashov `tried to talk [Tsarnaev] out of
his interest in extremism.'
In Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala, Tsarnaev met with an alleged
militant named Makhmud Nidal who was on the run from police, offering
to serve as a financial liaison between Nidal's rebel group and a
US-based organization, The Wall Street Journal cited an official who
had seen a security-services file on Tsarnaev as saying.
Nidal was killed by Russian forces in May 2012, and after another
alleged militant Tsarnaev had been in touch with, a Russian-born
Canadian convert to Islam named William Plotnikov, was killed by
authorities two months later, Tsaranev returned to the United States
without waiting to pick up the new Russian passport he had applied
for, US media have cited officials as saying.
Zakaryayev told the Times that Tsarnaev, who was killed in a police
shootout in Boston on April 19, `already had jihad views' when he
arrived in Dagestan.
`When he got here he was surprised at the conditions,' Zakaryayev told
the newspaper. `I think he expected to find a full-fledged war, that
one people was fighting with another.'
The Journal cited congregants of the Salafist mosque as saying that
Tsarnaev's brashness made some wary of the visitor, fearing he would
attract unwanted attention from federal authorities.
`There are some people who take things too far,' the newspaper cited
one congregant as saying. `Everyone is being watched.'
US authorities have accused Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother,
Dzhokhar, of detonating two pressure-cooker bombs laden with shrapnel
and explosives near the finish line of the April 15 Boston Marathon
that killed three people and wounding more than 260 others.
The brothers, who come from a family of ethnic Chechens, had been
living in living in Massachusetts for most during the past decade
after fleeing violence between militant rebels and federal Russian
forces in the North Caucasus.
Dzhokhar was captured hours after his brother's death, and is being
held in a prison hospital.
Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, said Thursday that Tamerlan's body
had beenentombed at an undisclosed location.
From: Baghdasarian