Mother Of Boston Bombing Suspects Says FBI Has Been Watching Her Son For Five Years

[dkf]

Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suggested Friday that the FBI had been surveilling her older son for several years prior to Monday's attack.

In an interview with Russia Today Friday, Tsarnaeva said that Tamerlan Tsarnaev got involved in "religious politics" five years ago, and that the FBI had previously contacted her about her son's activities.

"He was controlled by the FBI, like for three, five years," she said. "They knew what my son was doing, they knew what actions and what sites on the Internet he was going [to], they used to come...and talk to me...they were telling me that he was really a serious leader and they were afraid of him."

"How could this happen?...They were controlling every step of him, and they are telling today that this is a terrorist attack," she added.

A spokesperson for the FBI told Business Insider Friday that the agency would be putting out a statement "shortly" regarding its previous contact with either of the Tsarnaev suspects. The spokesperson would not confirm or deny that the agency had had any previous contact.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/tsarnaev-brothers-mother-fbi-boston-bombing-2013-4#ixzz2Qx0WZsOq

@DavidMDrucker: MT @MajorCBS From CBS' Bob Orr: FBI interviewed Tamarlan Tsarnaev 2 yrs ago abt extremist ties, found nothing & closed file.

On edit: mother sounds a bit flaky. Of interest is her assertion FBI was questioning Tamerlan's activities.

[mzmolly]

1. "Watching" is not "controlling"

as Ms. Tsarnaeva appears to assume.

[dkf]

4. She sounds a bit much.

I wouldn't take everything she says as gospel.

[gateley]

11. Maybe like her sister(?) sister-in-law(?) she's distrustful of any government

agencies because of their Chechen background.

[tiny elvis]

19. watching is done for control, of course

so that is not an assumption
her assumption is that her son is not to blame

[geek tragedy]

2. If the FBI did interview the older brother 2 years ago, there's going to be a huge shitstorm

on Capitol Hill.

[itsrobert]

8. And the GOP will want Obama to take responsibility

just wait for it.

[Hissyspit]

12. @CBSNews: FBI now acknowledges they interviewed Tsarnaev 2 years ago at the request of a foreign cou

@CBSNews: FBI now acknowledges they interviewed Tsarnaev 2 years ago at the request of a foreign country about possible extremist ties

@CBSNews: They maintain that they did not find any derogatory information about him and closed the file. FBI expected to issue a statement shortly

[geek tragedy]

14. Fuck. This is bad. nt

[Cali_Democrat]

29. LOL. Everyone on DU is so dramatic today

Calm down...deep breath.

Let's wait for more facts to emerge. If the FBI didn't have enough evidence against the suspects at the time, what could they have done?

We're a nation of laws. You can't just arrest and prosecute people without evidence.

[geek tragedy]

30. "what could they have done?"

Congressional Republicans will spend the next 3 months telling us.

Benghazi II.

Good times.

[Cali_Democrat]

31. And Congressional Republicans got what out of Benghazi?

Jack shit.

In fact, it made Romney look like an asshole when he brought it up in the debate.

Benghazi was nothing more than a desperate attempt to hurt Obama by the GOP which failed miserably.

[Katashi_itto]

33. I swear you are perpetually dramatic.

You want drama?
Here Listen to the cops live as they take down the bomber

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ma-rt-9-window-cam

[gateley]

16. Looks like they did.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022715201

[Heather MC]

18. People will forget, there is nothing they can do until a crime is actually committed

I mean most of us would love if Ted Nugent had been arrested for his comments. Instead he got an invitation to a White House Event.

[gateley]

3. Interesting.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. If that were true, they'd known who the people in the video were .

It's total paranoid crap if you ask me.

[B2G]

22. maybe they knew

But couldn't find them. Trying to smoke them out. And it worked.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

24. Maybe.

I just saw where CBS said they interviews him a couple of years ago. If they thought he was a danger, they should have been keeping closer tabs on him.

[Tx4obama]

6. She said the FBI was "... afraid of him.". What a bunch of bull. She is making things up. n/t

[Heather MC]

21. hmm the father says he was famous in the States, the mother

says, he was Feared, The uncle says he was a loser. They are all right now he is a Famous, Feared, Loser!

[Quantess]

7. Apparently they weren't "controlling him" well enough.

What a wackadoodle.

[sufrommich]

9. She needs to get this to Alex Jones. Stat.

[gateley]

17. ...

[Hissyspit]

23. @CBSNews: FBI now acknowledges they interviewed Tsarnaev 2 years ago at the request of a foreign cou

@CBSNews: FBI now acknowledges they interviewed Tsarnaev 2 years ago at the request of a foreign country about possible extremist ties

[mucifer]

10. There was a very interesting episode of "This American Life" where a really life creepy FBI agent

was undercover and trying to set up some Muslim people :

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/471/the-convert

It was a very disturbing show. I have to say the Ira Glass did say that this case was an outlier and not typical of the FBI. But, still very scary.

[gateley]

15. Did you ever see Sleeper Cell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeper_Cell_(TV_series)

[HiPointDem]

28. intelligence has been involved in a lot of the terrorist cases.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515

[Lex]

13. Delusional. nt

[ellie]

20. With all due respect to Mrs. Tsarnaeva,

my highly paranoid brother thinks the government is watching him too. They aren't.

[Posteritatis]

25. I'd take what the parents say with a whole shaker. (nt)

[DinahMoeHum]

26. Re yr last edit, dkf - the mother's credibility is questionable. . .

. . .she herself was apparently busted in the US for shoplifting at a department store.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022715040

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311653/Boston-bombings-Mother-Boston-bombing-suspects-arrested-year-stealing-1-600-worth-clothes-Lord--Taylor.html#ixzz2QwzTJMRm

[HiPointDem]

27. funny though that us intelligence agencies so often seem to have ties to these terrorists.

[ecstatic]

32. Will patiently wait for better sources.

She might be just as misinformed as her husband.