Russians Withheld Information on Boston Bombing Suspect, Report Finds
The Russian government withheld from the F.B.I. significant information that it had about one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects two years before the attack, according to an inspector general’s review of how federal agencies could have thwarted the bombing.
After an initial investigation by F.B.I. agents in Boston, the Russians rebuffed several requests for additional information that they had about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The new inspector general’s report found that it was only after the bombing occurred last April that the Russians shared with the F.B.I. the additional intelligence, including information from a telephone conversation the Russian authorities had intercepted between Mr. Tsarnaev and his mother in which they discussed Islamic jihad.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/us/russia-withheld-details-on-tamerlan-tsarnaev-us-report-says.html?emc=edit_na_20140409
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