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U.S. embassy staff interviews Boston bombing suspects’ parents

Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the suspected Boston bombers, at his home in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Image via AFP.

A delegation from the US embassy in Moscow interviewed the parents of the Boston marathon bombing suspects in the Russian North Caucasus region of Dagestan, but were told the two brothers had not contacted local Islamist groups, officials said Wednesday. The parents of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are currently living…

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Boston bombing suspects’ origins expose Russia’s historical mass expulsion of Chechens

This undated image obtained on April 19, 2013 from Russian social media site VKontakte shows an unconfirmed picture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston bombings. (AFP)

Their grandparents were deported by Stalin’s police in the mass expulsion of Chechens in World War II. Their parents went to the United States from Dagestan in search of a better life. And they became adherents of radical Islam. The family history of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has shown…

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Female bomber kills seven as Putin urges calm

Russia attack via AFP

MOSCOW — A female suicide bomber posing as a Muslim pilgrim killed a leading Islamic scholar and at least five others on Tuesday in Russia’s restive Muslim region of Dagestan. The attack was reported just as President Vladimir Putin began delivering a keynote address devoted to an assassination attempt last…

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