Boston Bombings: Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, Mother Of Dzhokhar And Tamerlan, Says 'America Took My Kids Away'

'America Took My Kids Away'
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The mother of Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has said she does not accept her sons carried out the attacks and said she wished she had never brought her family to America.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told a press conference in the Russian republic of Dagestan that "America took my kids away from me."

"I would prefer not to have lived in America, why did I go there?," she told the conference on Thursday.

"I thought America would protect us, America took my kids away from me... I'm sure my kids were not involved in anything."

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Zubeidat Tsarnaevan railed at the US for failing to protect them

She says authorities have already told her she will not be able to visit her son as he lies in hospital and is unsure whether to return to the country as she was caught shoplifting in Massachusetts in 2012 and fears she will be arrested if she returns.

Her husband, Anzor Tsarnaev told the press conference he would be going to America. He told reporters: "I want to say that I am going there to see my son, to bury the older one. I don't have any bad intentions. I don't plan to blow up anything."

He stressed "I am not angry at anyone. I want to go find out the truth."

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The father of the two Boston bombing suspects, Anzor Tsarnaev

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva has previously insisted that her sons were framed "just because they were Muslim."

She has always maintained her children could not be involved in the Boston marathon bombings, which injured more than 180 people and killed eight-year-old Martin Richard, Krystle Campbell, 29, and a Chinese graduate student, named in reports as Lu Lingzi.

Tamerlan, 26 was killed in police gunfire after a car chase following the shooting of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, in Watertown earlier on Friday.

Dzhokhar managed to flee on foot, before being found early on Saturday, wounded and hiding in a boat in a suburban back garden.

Her latest comments came as it was revealed Tamerlan had been added by the CIA to a database of known and suspected terrorists in 2011, on suspicion that the 26-year-old had been radicalised.

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This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, shows what the FBI are calling suspect number 1, front, in black cap, and suspect number 2, in white cap, back right, walking near each other through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This image from video released Thursday, April 19, 2013 by the FBI shows one of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This combination of Associated Press file images released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, show two images taken from surveillance video of what the FBI are calling suspect number 2, left, in white cap,and suspect number 1, right, in black cap, as they walk near each other through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI, File) (credit:AP)
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This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, shows what the FBI are calling suspect number 1, black cap in lower right, walking in front of suspect number 2, not seen, through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, shows what the FBI are calling suspect number 1, black cap with backpack, walking in front of suspect number 2, white cap at lower right, through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This image from video released Thursday, April 18, 2013 by the FBI shows one of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. The FBI released photos and video of the two suspects and asked for the public's help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This image from video released Thursday, April 18, 2013 by the FBI shows one of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. The FBI released photos and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public's help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This image from video released Thursday, April 18, 2013 by the FBI shows one of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. The FBI released photos and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public's help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This image provided by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center shows Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Authorities say Tsarnaev is still at large after he and another suspect both identified to The Associated Press as coming from the Russian region near Chechnya killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence into the early hours of Friday, April 19, 2013. The second suspect, who has not yet been identified, was killed in a shootout with police. (AP Photo/Boston Regional Intelligence Center) (credit:AP)
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This surveillance photo released via Twitter Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Boston Police Department shows a suspect entering a convenience store that police are pursuing in Watertown, Mass. Police say he is one of two suspects in the fatal shooting of an MIT police officer and tied to the Boston Marathon bombing. (AP Photo/Boston Police Department) (credit:AP)
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Graphic shows photos of suspects; locates Watertown and Cambridge, Mass., where Boston Marathon bombing suspects exchanged gunfire and one is dead (credit:AP)
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This combo of photos released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspects number 1, left, and suspect number 2, right, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspect number 1, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspect number 2, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspect number 2 behind a lady, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling the suspects together, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI) (credit:AP)
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev practices boxing at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center in April 2009 in Boston, Mass.These images show what is believed to be Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev boxing at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center in Boston, MA. The native Chechnya, dubbed Suspect 1 by the FBI, and has been reported as dead. He was described as a heavyweight fighter at the gym, and allegedly hoped to fight for the U.S., because his home nation was not recognised in the sporting world.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev practices boxing at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center in April 2009 in Boston, Mass.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev practices boxing at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center in April 2009 in Boston.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev practices boxing at the Wai Kru Mixed Martial Arts center in April 2009 in Boston.
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