{"id":20783,"date":"2013-04-22T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20783"},"modified":"2013-04-22T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:22:00","slug":"uncle-says-older-bombing-suspect-used-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20783","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Says Older Bombing Suspect \u2018Used\u2019 Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 <strong>Tamerlan Tsarnaev<\/strong> ranted at a neighbor about Islam and the United States. His younger brother, <strong>Dzhokhar<\/strong>, relished debating people on religion, \u201cthen crushing their beliefs with facts.\u201d The older brother sought individual glory in the boxing ring, while the younger excelled as part of a team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tamerlan<\/strong> \u201cswaggered\u201d through the family home like a \u201cman-of-the-house type,\u201d one visitor recalls, while <strong>Dzhokhar<\/strong> seemed \u201cvery respectful and very obedient\u201d to his mother. The brothers, now forever linked in the Boston Marathon bombing, in some ways seemed as different as siblings could be. But whatever drove them to allegedly set off two deadly pressure-cooker bombs, their uncle is certain <strong>Dzhokhar<\/strong> was not the one pulling the strings. \u201cHe\u2019s not been understanding anything.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a 19-year-old boy,\u201d <strong>Ruslan Tsarni<\/strong> said of his brother\u2019s youngest child, who was clinging to life in a Boston hospital Saturday after a gun battle with police. \u201cHe\u2019s been absolutely wasted by his older brother. I mean, he used him. He used him for whatever he\u2019s done. For what we see they\u2019ve done, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia Alerted FBI About Tamela Tsamaev<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FBI came under fire from members of both parties Sunday as lawmakers questioned whether the bureau mishandled the case involving the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect <strong>Tamerlan Tsarnaev<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Several lawmakers said that considering Tsarnaev was already on the FBI\u2019s radar, officials should have followed up with him after he traveled to Russia in 2012 for six months. The FBI had interviewed Tsarnaev in 2011 at the request of a foreign government. <strong>Tsarnaev\u2019s<\/strong> application for U.S. citizenship was placed on hold after the interview, \u201craising questions about whether he could have been identified before carrying out the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Tamerlan Tsarnaev ranted at a neighbor about Islam and the United States. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, relished debating people on religion, \u201cthen crushing their beliefs with facts.\u201d The older brother sought individual glory in the boxing ring, while the younger excelled as part of a team. Tamerlan \u201cswaggered\u201d through the family home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}