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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:06 PM Apr 2013

Bomb Suspect's Dad Warns 'All Hell Will Break Loose' If Son Dies

I thought this ABC interview with the Father of the brothers (and others quoted) was well done. He lives in the Russian city of Makhachkala.


Apr 19, 2013, 1:35 PM By BIANNA GOLODRYGA (@biannagolodryga) and CHRISTINA NG (@ChristinaNg27)

The father of a suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed "all hell will break loose."

Anzor Tsarnaev spoke to ABC News from his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala as Boston police carried out an intense dragnet for his son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, survived a running gun battle with police during the night that left an MIT security officer dead and a Boston cop badly wounded. His older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout.

The father said he spoke to his sons by phone earlier this week. "We talked about the bombing. I was worried about them," Anzor Tsarnaev said.

He said his sons reassured him, saying, "Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good."

LIVE UPDATES: Boston Bombing Suspect Dead in Shootout

The elder Tsarnaev, in a series of conversations with ABC News, insisted that his sons were innocent, but said he would appeal to his son to "surrender peacefully."

"Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia," the dad said.

The father warned, however, "If they killed him, then all hell would break loose."

"If they kill my second child, I will know that it is an inside job, a hit job. The police are to blame," the father told ABC News. "Someone, some organization is out to get them."

Anzor Tsarnaev said that his sons were "set up" and that they are "very nice kids" who have no experience with weapons and explosives.

The father said his two daughters, ages 22 and 24, live in the U.S. One lives in West New York, N.J.

Profiles of the brothers give a conflicting picture.

The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is described as an outgoing person who was a champion boxer, a "decent" pianist, drove a Mercedes and liked the movie "Borat." But in captions on an undated boxing photo album operated by photographer Johannes Hirn, Tamerlan Tsarnaev said, "I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them."

He also told the photographer he was a "very religious" Muslim boxer who did not smoke or drink. One caption said he usually did not take his shirt off so girls wouldn't get bad ideas.

"There are no values anymore," he said, and worried that "people can't control themselves."

The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is now described as willing to die in a battle with police, but he was better known for taking acting classes, advanced placement courses and being a star athlete with lots of friends in high school.

"He never seemed out of the ordinary at all," high school classmate Sierra Schwartz told "Good Morning America" today. "This is not someone who seemed troubled in high school or shy. He was just one of us. It's very weird.".....interview/story continued at link

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=18995936

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Bomb Suspect's Dad Warns 'All Hell Will Break Loose' If Son Dies (Original Post) Sunlei Apr 2013 OP
So this man knew his son did it? Earth_First Apr 2013 #1
I think he talked about the bombing after the fact Kber Apr 2013 #3
All Hell has already Broke Loose - starting with the Marathon bombings. Tx4obama Apr 2013 #2
Bloodlust. Arctic Dave Apr 2013 #4
Honestly, I would do the same thing. Imagine being thousands of miles away... Barack_America Apr 2013 #5
"Come home to Russia" ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2013 #6
That is not going to happen. Dawson Leery Apr 2013 #7

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)
1. So this man knew his son did it?
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:08 PM
Apr 2013

...and failed to contact the authorities?

Am I understanding this correctly?

Kber

(5,043 posts)
3. I think he talked about the bombing after the fact
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:12 PM
Apr 2013

and in the context of "are you OK", like many of us did with friends and family in the Boston area.

That's how I read the quote, anyway.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
2. All Hell has already Broke Loose - starting with the Marathon bombings.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:10 PM
Apr 2013

I hope they catch him alive so that they can interrogate him!
Then put him on trial and then execute him publicly!




 

Arctic Dave

(13,812 posts)
4. Bloodlust.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:14 PM
Apr 2013

How douchy.

How many drone pilots are you asking to be murdered by the state for killing innocent people?


Get a fucking clue.

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
5. Honestly, I would do the same thing. Imagine being thousands of miles away...
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:17 PM
Apr 2013

...from your children. One is dead and the other's life is in jeopardy. They've told you they're not involved, who do you believe? Any parent worth anything would be defending their kid right known until presented with indisputable evidence.

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
6. "Come home to Russia"
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:18 PM
Apr 2013

Fuck you, Daddy. Your little angel has music to face. You don't get to decide that he comes home to a hero's welcome for murdering a child.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
7. That is not going to happen.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:21 PM
Apr 2013

What will happen:
Your son is not coming home.
If he is taken alive, he will face trial.

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