Monday, April 29, 2013

The Boston Marathon Bombing -- News Updates April 29, 2013

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Click to enlarge. (Source: Staff reports. Bonnie Berkowitz and Alberto Cuadra/The Washington Post)

A Family’s Journey: The Story Of The Tsarnaevs And Their Life-Changing Travels, in One Chart -- Washington Post

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two brothers accused of conducting the Boston Marathon bombings, followed a distinct but far from unique path across Europe, Asia and the United States. The Tsarnaevs’ journey is in some ways peculiar to this family, which emigrated to the United States in a “quest for a good living,” according to The Washington Post’s immersive profile, but also characteristic of the larger Chechen story, of a people repeatedly pushed out of and returning to their home region in the Russian North Caucasus.

This chart allows you to trace the family’s travels across their ancestral home in Chechnya, to the nearby Russian provinces of Kalmykia and Dagestan, to the Central Asian former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and finally, for the young brothers, to the United States.

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More News On The Boston Marathon Bombing

Angry bomb suspects’ mother says sons are innocent; says she’s tired of made up ‘nonsense’ -- Washington Post/AP
Boston Marathon: Suspect's mom secretly recorded by Russia -- Examiner
Russians to US: Boston bombing suspect, mother discussed jihad in 2011 -- NBC
Older Boston bombing suspect spoke of "jihad" with mother: report -- Reuters
Father of Boston Marathon bombing suspects postpones trip to US -- The Guardian
Suspects' Mother Was Placed on Watch List -- Wall Street Journal
Boston investigators attempt to pin down Tsarnaev brothers' influences -- CBS This Morning
Authorities seek "persons of interest" in U.S. tied to Boston bombing -- Reuters
The Tsarnaev brothers' troubled trail to Boston -- L.A. Times
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev confined to small, solitary cell in medical detention center -- New York Daily News
Friends of suspect in Boston Marathon bombings are innocent: attorney -- New York Daily News
Possible link between Marathon bombing suspect, cold case examined -- UPI
Ex-girlfriend: Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev beat me, tried to make me ‘hate the U.S. like he did’: report -- New York Daily News
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s ex-girlfriend: He beat me into wearing burqas -- Washington Times
FBI Interviews Boston Area Chechens About Bombing Suspects -- Voice of America
Did Boston Marathon bombing suspects’ mother push them toward jihad? -- Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor
Why didn't Feds follow up more on Tsarnaev? -- Don Dahler, CBS
The Tortured Tsarnaevs: The Boston bombers’ family history: theft, violence, and religious strife. -- William Saletan, Slate

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