Boston Bombing Suspects' Mother: My Sons are Innocent, this is a SET UP
WashingtonTimes. The father of the two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon says his sons were framed. "They were set up, they were set up!" Anzor Tsarnaev said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I saw it on television; they killed my older son Tamerlan." Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed overnight in a shootout with police in Watertown, Mass., after the FBI released photo of him alongside his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, at the site of the bombing on Monday near the finish line of the famous race. The men are accused of killing at officer at the MIT campus and leading police on a car chase before the standoff. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is still at large, prompting authorities to lock down Watertown and ask everyone in Boston to stay indoors. An aunt of the boys also gave an impromptu interview, aired on CNN, in which she said there was no evidence against her nephews and that the photos must have been staged. Ethnic Chechens, the Tsarnaevs left the embattled region of southern Russia and moved into neighboring territory in Asian and then to Dagestan, another Muslim republic in Russia, according to multiple media accounts. Anzor Tsarnaev spoke about his sons from Dagestan, where he now lives. His comments contrasted those of an uncle in Maryland, Ruslan Tsarni, who said the boys were "losers" and probably had trouble assimilating into American society. He implored Dzhokhar to turn himself in to authorities and beg for forgiveness.
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