Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Obama Administration Even Knew: Older Boston Suspect Made Two Trips to Dagestan, Visited Radical Mosque, Officials Say

4.24.13

From boxing hopeful to OWS punk!
Tamerlan Tsarnaev waiting for a decision
after a boxing match during the 2009 Golden
Gloves National Tournament of Champions in
Salt Lake City on May 4, 2009
Two years ago, while visiting his family in the Russian region of Dagestan, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, was flagged as a potential extremist by Russian security services. The only evidence they had were his regular visits to a mosque that gets more than its share of attention from police. Since its construction in 2000, the mosque’s broad, emerald-colored dome has been the center of the region’s Salafi community, which adheres to a more orthodox brand of Islam and, over the years, has been a hangout for men killed in shootouts with Russia’s counterterrorism forces.

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