US took my innocent sons away: Mother of Boston bombing suspects

The mother of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings says her sons are innocent and that the United States took them away from her.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev made the remarks at a press conference in the Russian Republic of Dagestan on Thursday.

She accused the US security services of “needlessly and cruelly” killing her eldest son, and expressed regret that the family ever moved to the US several years ago.

The suspects’ parents have repeatedly announced that their sons are innocent and that the two brothers have been framed by the FBI.

One of the suspects, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died in a hospital in Boston on April 19 after sustaining critical injuries in a car-chase and shootout with the police. His 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar was arrested during a manhunt operation in Watertown, Massachusetts.

On April 15, the bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

The US authorities are yet to provide any information on the motive behind the attacks that some say was an inside job. The FBI has confirmed that its officers interviewed Tamerlan in 2011 at the request of a foreign government, without unveiling the name of the state. It added the authorities “did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign” during the interview.