"Russia Didn’t Share All Details on Boston Bombing Suspect, Report Says"

Russia Didn’t Share All Details on Boston Bombing Suspect, Report Says

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ERIC SCHMITT at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/us/russia-failed-to-share-details-on-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect.html

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WASHINGTON — The Russian government declined to provide the F.B.I. with information about one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects two years before the attack that would most likely have prompted more extensive scrutiny of the suspect, according to an inspector general’s review of how American intelligence and law enforcement agencies could have thwarted the bombing.

Russian officials had told the F.B.I. in 2011 that the suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, “was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer” and that Mr. Tsarnaev “had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country’s region to join unspecified underground groups.”

But after an initial investigation by F.B.I. agents in Boston, the Russians declined several bureau requests for additional information they had about Mr. Tsarnaev.

At the time, American law enforcement officials believed that Mr. Tsarnaev posed a far greater threat to Russia.



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