Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston bombers Tamerlan and Dzhohkar Tsarnaev, told her sons to go to Palestine to fight the jihad.
Instead her sons planted bombs at the Boston Marathon.
The Commentator reported:
The mother of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers spoke with her older son about going to “Palestine”, as reported by the Al Arabiya network.
In a conversation tapped by Russian authorities, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva suggested that her sons go to Palestine during a discussion about jihad. The Russian security service intercepted the 2011 phone conversation as part of a wider monitoring programme, the fruits of which have now been turned over to US officials.
Russia told the FBI in early 2011 that they believed Tamerlan, 26, and his mother were religious extremists. Following what the Associated Press called a “limited inquiry,” the FBI closed the case in June 2011.
Jim Treacy, the FBI’s legal attache in Moscow between 2007 and 2009, said the Russians long asked for U.S. assistance regarding Chechen activity in the United States that might be related to terrorism.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva has denied that she and her sons, Tamerlan and Dzhohkar Tsarnaev, 19, were involved in Islamic terrorism, saying her sons are being framed by United States security officials.