Boston suspects' mother shares doubts over Marathon attack

[Emit]

(CNN) -- The past week has been a devastating one for many families. Zubeidat Tsarnaev's is one of them.

But the mother of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings remains resolute in her belief that her sons were not involved in the attack.

She told CNN's Nick Paton Walsh in Makhachkala, Dagestan, that she believes the tragedy that killed three people and injured dozens more was staged and that the bombing was fake.

Zubeidat Tsarnaev has seen a video supporting the idea that it was "something like a really big play," she said, with "paint instead of blood like it is made-up."

Does she really believe that?

"That's what I want to know, because everybody's talking about it: that this is a show, that's what I want to know. That's what I want to understand," replied Tsarnaev.

Paton Walsh asked whether she had seen the news images of the actual bombings and the suffering they caused.

"I haven't," she answered.

But her disbelief wavered when she spoke of the victims...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/world/europe/dagestan-boston-suspects-family

[Skittles]

1. her denial is lasting much too long

[4 t 4]

2. Sorry but she seems to be "out of her mind"

also is it true she was arrested for shoplifting $1,600 worth of clothes from Nieman Marcus ????? Just asking. She never came back into the country to face charges ?? I would never dare a stunt like that !!

[geek tragedy]

3. This isn't a mother's grief. She's just batshit insane,. just like her loathsome spawn., nt

[alittlelark]

5. I agree as to the genetics, but I wanted to phrase it gently

It is likely that whatever is squirming/slithering in her neural synapses was passed on...

Very sad - mental illness is horrifically under-diagnosed.

Sad.

[Zoeisright]

4. Seems like the nuts didn't fall far from that tree.

[flamingdem]

6. Wonder if she boosted from Lord & Taylor to cloth her angels

and that describes the leather pants and other fancy duds.

[SunSeeker]

7. Yup. Ol' Speed Bump and Gilligan didn't fall too far from the tree.

Yes, I know she is distraught. But compare her reaction to the grace and dignity of the parents of Newtown, who suffered just as horrific, if not worse, losses.

[Life Long Dem]

8. She doesn't have a clear picture.

She thinks the naked man they put in the police car was her son. She said, with "paint instead of blood like it is made-up." No wonder her sons are so confused.

[longship]

9. Another Alex Jones Infowars advocate? nt

[Raine]

10. Well maybe if she wasn't a shoplifter who jumped bail she could come back to the US

and find out for herself.

[MADem]

11. The uncle in MD was right--and he was talking about her, I'm sure. nt