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Russian Media Says Boston Bombers: First Time Chechyn Terrorism Targets West
Saturday, April 20, 2013 11:47
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For Boston Suspects, Was Chechnya’s Violent Past a Motive?
Topic: Boston Marathon Explosions
Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in 1996
MOSCOW, April 19 (Nabi Abdullaev, RIA Novosti) – As investigators hunt for evidence about the Boston bombing suspects, some of their questions – like the American public’s – will focus on Russia’s restive North Caucasus, including the war-scarred republic of Chechnya, a region that has produced a number of violent militant groups, but none that has been linked to terror attacks against the West.
The jumble of press and police reports from Russia and the United States suggests that the two suspects, identified by US security officials as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 19 and 26 years old, respectively, hailed from a family of ethnic Chechens who fled the first war in their home republic in the mid-1990s. Afterward, they apparently lived in other parts of the former Soviet Union, also possibly Turkey, and came to the Massachusetts area sometime around 10 years ago.MOREHERE
