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    TAMERLAN WAS TRAINED IN GEORGIA: PAPER

    http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/tamerlan-was-trained-in-georgia-paper/article4654632.ece
    VLADIMIR RADYUHIN

    MOSCOW, April 26, 2013

    American investigators have travelled to Dagestan to interview the
    bombers' parents and to look for terrorist connections he could have
    established there.

    Even as investigators into the Boston Marathon bombings zero in on the
    Chechen connection of the suspected bombers, a Russian daily claimed
    one of the suspected terrorists received training in neighbouring
    Georgia.

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said quite bluntly the senior
    Tsarnaev brother, Tamerlan, had been radicalised during his six-month
    visit to Dagestan and Chechnya last year.

    "[H]e learned something where he went and he came back with a
    willingness to kill people," he said during a visit to Belgium on
    Wednesday.

    Tamerlan (26) and his brother Dzhokhar (19) set off two homemade
    bombs during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three
    people and wounding nearly 200.

    American investigators on Tuesday travelled to Dagestan to interview
    the bombers' parents and to look for terrorist connections he could
    have established there.

    Meanwhile, a leading Russian daily said Tamerlan had received
    "terrorist training" in Georgia, a former Soviet state adjacent to
    Russia's North Caucasus.

    According to documents of the Georgian counterintelligence service
    obtained by the Izvestia, Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended "seminars"
    organised in Georgia in the summer of 2012 by the so-called "Caucasus
    Foundation" in collaboration with the Jamestown Foundation, which
    Moscow repeatedly accused of anti-Russian activities.

    Citing reports by Colonel Irakli Garibashvili, head of the
    Counterintelligence Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
    of Georgia, Izvestia said the Caucasus Foundation was set up shortly
    after the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia "to recruit young people
    and intellectuals from North Caucasus for fomenting instability and
    extremist sentiments in Russia's southern regions".

    The foundation invited "sympathisers" from Russia to workshops and
    seminars in Georgia, where they were "recruited and trained in staging
    terrorist acts".

    The mother of the Boston bombers, Zubeidat, said the FBI had
    "counselled" and "controlled" her son for several years and had
    ultimately "set him up".

    The Georgian Interior Ministry denied Tamerlan had attended any seminar
    in Georgia, while the Caucasus Foundation denounced the terrorist
    training allegations as "outright lies". However, earlier this month,
    Georgia's new Ombudsman told lawmakers that the government of President
    Mikheil Saakashvili had armed and trained a 100 exiles from Chechnya
    for terrorist operations in Russia. In August 2012, the Chechens
    clashed with the Georgian military over delays in their transfer to
    Russia, leaving 14 people dead. At that time Georgian authorities said
    government troops had battled militants who had crossed over from
    Russia. A new probe into the incident was launched after opposition
    won parliamentary elections in Georgia in October 2012.

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