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Mother of Boston bombing suspects should be quizzed if she sets foot in the U.S



The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said that he believes the mother of the Boston bombing suspects played a major role in their radicalization and that they received terror training before carrying out their attack.

Representative Michael McCaul told Fox News Sunday that he thinks Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the Tsarnaev brothers, played 'a very strong role' in her sons' radicalization process. He added that if Tsarnaeva were to return to the United States from Russia, she’d be held for questioning.

McCaul claimed that the complexity of the weapons and the way the suspects handled the pressure-cooker bombs show that they received help before the incident.



Influence: Michael McCaul said that he thinks that Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, mother of the bombing suspects, played 'a very strong role' in her sons' radicalization process



Speaking of Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, he said: 'I think she played a very strong role in his radicalization process.


I believe she is a person of interest, if not a subject. I do believe if she comes into the United States, she will be detained for questioning. So, I think there's a connection there,' the lawmaker told Fox.

Other congressional intelligence leaders said on Sunday that authorities are pursuing ‘persons of interest’ in the United States in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, and asked for more help from Russian spy agencies.

Congressman Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Of Representatives intelligence committee said better cooperation from Russia was needed in Washington's probe of the two suspected bombers' recent contacts and activities.

Speaking on ABC's 'This Week,' Rogers said he believed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the elder of two ethnic Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the April 15 blasts in Boston, clearly changed during his visit to Russia in 2012, becoming 'radicalized.'




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'I think they (Russia) have information that would be incredibly helpful and that they haven't provided yet,' he said.

New details of the unfolding investigation emerged following reports on Saturday that Tamerlan Tsarnaev spoke to his mother about "jihad" in a 2011 phone call secretly recorded by Russian officials.

U.S. authorities learned of the wiretapped discussion between Tsarnaev and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, within the last few days, CBS News reported. Tsarnaev died in an April 18 shootout with police, three days after the bombings that killed three people and injure more than 260 others.

Asked about the information Russia might have, Rogers said of Russia's spy service, "The FSB is a hostile service to the FBI and the CIA and there is cultural problem there between where the Russians are and our folks. So they sent a letter, didn't have a lot of information." Rogers added that subsequent U.S. requests for assistance have not been met.

'We still have persons of interest that we're working to find and identify and have conversations with,' said Rogers. The Michigan lawmaker declined to say how many 'persons of interest' there were.


'We are looking at phone calls before and after the bombing,' the intelligence committee's senior Democrat, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, also said on ABC.




Help? Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said on Sunday that he believes the Boston Marathon bombing suspects had some training before carrying out their attack


McCaul said he too believes that the suspects received some help before the bombings.


'I think given the level of sophistication of this device, the fact that the pressure cooker is a signature device that goes back to Pakistan, Afghanistan, leads me to believe - and the way they handled these devices and the tradecraft - ... that there was a trainer and the question is where is that trainer or trainers, he said.

The chairman of the security committee added that the FBI is investigating in the U.S. and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the bombing received training.


'Are they overseas in the Chechen region or are they in the United States?' McCaul said.

'In my conversations with the FBI, that's the big question. They've casted a wide net both overseas and in the United States to find out where this person is.

'But I think the experts all agree that there is someone who did train these two individuals,' McCaul continued.


Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is charged with joining with his older brother, Tamerlan, who's now dead, in setting off the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs.


The bombs were triggered by a remote detonator of the kind used in remote-control toys, U.S. officials have said.

Homemade bombs built from pressure cookers have been a frequent weapon of militants in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.


Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen once published an online manual on how to make one.

U.S. officials investigating the bombings have told The Associated Press that so far there is no evidence to date of a wider plot, including training, direction or funding for the attacks.




Sophisticated plot: McCaul said he thinks that suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left) and brother Dzhokhar (right) may have received help before carrying out the attack

A criminal complaint outlining federal charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev described him as holding a cellphone in his hand minutes before the first explosion.


The brothers are ethnic Chechens from Russia who came to the United States about a decade ago with their parents.


Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said he thought it's 'probably true' that the attack was not linked to a major group.


But, he told CNN's 'State of the Union,' that there 'may have been radicalizing influences' in the U.S. or abroad. 'It does look like a lot of radicalization was self-radicalization online, but we don't know the full answers yet.'


On ABC's 'This Week,' moderator George Stephanopoulos raised the question to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee about FBI suspicions that the brothers had help in getting the bombs together.


'Absolutely, and not only that, but in the self-radicalization process, you still need outside affirmation,' responded Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.


'We still have persons of interest that we're working to find and identify and have conversations with,' he added.




Familiar: Homemade bombs built from pressure cookers have been a frequent weapon of militants in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan

At this point in the investigation, however, Sen. Claire McCaskill said there was no evidence that the brothers 'were part of a larger organization, that they were, in fact, part of some kind of terror cell or any kind of direction.'


The Missouri Democrat, who's on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told CBS' 'Face the Nation' that 'it appears, at this point, based on the evidence, that it's the two of them.'


Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, officials have said.


He frequently looked at extremist sites, including Inspire magazine, an English-language online publication produced by al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate.


In recent years, two would-be U.S. attackers reported receiving bomb-making training from foreign groups but failed to set off the explosives.


A Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence for trying to blow up a packed jetliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb sewn into his underwear.




Destruction: The Boston bombs were triggered by a remote detonator of the kind used in remote-control toys, U.S. officials have said

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had tried to set off the bomb minutes before the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight landed.


The device didn't work as planned, but it still produced smoke, flame and panic.


He told authorities that he trained in Yemen under the eye of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric and one of the best-known al-Qaida figures.


A U.S. drone strike in Yemen killed al-Awlaki in 2011.


In 2010, a Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb in New York's Times Square also received a life sentence.


Faisal Shazad said the Pakistan Taliban provided him with more than $15,000 and five days of explosives training.
The bomb was made of fireworks fertilizer, propane tanks and gasoline canisters. Explosives experts said the fertilizer wasn't the right grade and the fireworks weren't powerful enough to set off the intended chain reaction.

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