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    I Would Have Stopped Him, 'Misha' Says Of Bombing Suspect

    NPR.org
    April 29, 2013

    by Mark Memmott

    The man known as Misha who relatives of the Boston Marathon bombing
    suspects have alleged may have turned the elder Tsarnaev brother
    toward a radical form of Islam says he did no such thing and would
    have tried to stop the attack if he had known about it.

    "I wasn't his teacher," Mikhail Allakhverdov (Misha) said Sunday of
    Tamerlan Tsarnaev. "If I had been his teacher, I would have made sure
    he never did anything like this."

    Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died April 19 of injuries received during a gun
    battle with police in Watertown, Mass. His 19-year-old brother,
    Dzhokhar, the other suspect, was captured later that day in
    Watertown. He is being held at a prison medical facility outside
    Boston. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass
    destruction. Three people were killed and more than 250 were wounded
    April 15 by two blasts near the marathon's finish line. The brothers
    also allegedly killed a MIT police officer later that week.

    It was writer Christian Caryl who tracked down Allakhverdov. Caryl
    writes about their conversation in The New York Review of Books' NYR
    blog. According to Caryl:

    - "Having been referred by a family in Boston that was close to the
    Tsarnaevs, I found Allakhverdov at his home in Rhode Island, in a
    lower middle class neighborhood, where he lives in modest, tidy
    apartment with his elderly parents."

    - "Allakhverdov said he had known Tamerlan in Boston, where he lived
    until about three years ago, and has not had any contact with him
    since."

    - Allakhverdov said he has "been cooperating entirely with the FBI. I
    gave them my computer and my phone and everything I wanted to show I
    haven't done anything. And they said they are about to return them to
    me. And the agents who talked told me they are about to close my
    case."

    Update at 1:35 p.m. ET. Lawyer Says Misha Is Cooperating With
    Authorities:

    "A lawyer representing the family of Mikhail 'Misha' Allakhverdov, who
    has been linked to one of the men suspected in the Boston Marathon
    bombings, said Monday that Allakhverdov had been cooperating with
    authorities and had answered all the questions asked of him," The
    Providence Journal writes. "Atty. Richard Nicholson spoke briefly
    about 12:30 p.m. Monday to a group of reporters who had gathered
    outside Allakhverdov's River Street apartment."

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