adminThe parents of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are currently living in Dagestan, an overwhelmingly Muslim region on the Caspian Sea where the family briefly lived before leaving for the United States.
“The FBI is receiving co-operation from the Russian government in its investigation of the Boston marathon bombing,” a US embassy official, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
“A group from the US Embassy in Moscow travelled to Dagestan as part of this co-operation with the Russian government to interview the parents.”
The official declined to say whether the delegation was still in Dagestan and if the interviews had already taken place.
However, a Dagestan security source told an AFP correspondent in its main city Makhachkala that interviews with both parents took place overnight and involved representatives of the FBI.
“The parents were taken home but in the morning the mother came back for more questioning,” the source said, saying the interviews took place at the local headquarters of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
The Dagestan security source also said the parents were asked by the US officials about Tamerlan’s visit to Dagestan. “The parents replied that he did not make contact with radical Islamists.” — AFP.
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