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OhioChick

(23,218 posts)
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 05:20 PM Apr 2013

FBI denies report elder Tsarnaev was contacted last week

Sunday, April 21, 2013

The FBI is strongly refuting a report by Britain’s Channel 4 News that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was contacted by federal agents last week, days after the Marathon bombings and days before he allegedly murdered an MIT police officer and before he was killed in a gunfight with cops and his fugitive brother held Greater Boston hostage for an entire day.

“Story is false,” a spokeswoman for the agency said in an email response to a Herald inquiry.

In an interview with the London-based station, Anzor Tsarnaev of the Russian Republic of Dagestan claimed his son called his mother Wednesday after the FBI had reached out to him and told her he was being accused by the feds of masterminding the terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line Monday.

The father further claimed his 26-year-old son Tamerlan Tsarnaev told the FBI last week, “That’s your problem.”

More: http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/fbi_denies_report_elder_tsarnaev_was_contacted_last_week

I believe this in reference to these articles:

http://www.channel4.com/news/boston-bombings-questions-raised-by-telephone-call-claim

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312534/Parents-Boston-bombers-claim-FBI-called-eldest-son-accuse-attack-responded-Thats-problem.html

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FBI denies report elder Tsarnaev was contacted last week (Original Post) OhioChick Apr 2013 OP
Many UK news sources simply aren't credible Cali_Democrat Apr 2013 #1
Certainly the tabloids.. but here I think it is the parents (Mother) spinning crap hlthe2b Apr 2013 #4
The parents are turning out to be serial liars in this matter. kestrel91316 Apr 2013 #2
Thought so. elleng Apr 2013 #3
The Herald can be as bad a source as some of the British papers.... DonViejo Apr 2013 #5

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
5. The Herald can be as bad a source as some of the British papers....
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 05:25 PM
Apr 2013
NOT saying the Herald is wrong in this article, just that it can be as bad a source as the British papers.
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