Boston bombing suspects ‘have no links to Chechnya’: Kadyrov

PanARMENIAN.Net - Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Friday, April 19 that the two suspects in the deadly bombing of this week’s Boston Marathon had no links to Russia’s republic of Chechnya, according to RIA Novosti.

“We know nothing about the Tsarnaevs; they never lived in Chechnya, they lived and studied in the United States,” Kadyrov told journalists. “It has become a tradition to blame everything on Chechens, even a tsunami.”

He stressed that “accusations are not proof of their involvement,” and added that “what happened in Boston was the fault of the American security services.”

One of the two suspects in the April 15 bombing, which left three people dead and more than 180 injured, was detained after a shootout with the police in a Boston suburb on Friday and later died in hospital of gunshot wounds. Media identified him as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26. The other suspect, his 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar, was the subject of a manhunt in Watertown, Boston on Friday, where police sealed off a 20-block radius where the suspect was believed to be holed up and warned the public to stay indoors.

The Associated Press reported on Friday, citing an unidentified source, that the two brothers hailed from a Russian region near Chechnya.

The Russian Consulate General in New York said the two brothers’ citizenship was being verified and they had “never registered with the Russian Consulate General.”

“We will continue to work in close contact with U.S. authorities to establish whether they [the suspects] are Russian nationals,” a diplomatic source said.