[Al Ahram] The father of the suspected Boston bombers insisted in an interview published Monday that his sons Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were innocent and could not have carried out the bombings.Their plans for the future had included returning to work in Russia, Anzor Tsarnaev said in the telephone interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda daily, adding that he hoped to travel to the United States where his younger son Dzhokhar is in hospital after his capture with serious injuries.
"I only know what they are showing on television. We plan to go and see him in America if Allah permits."
His two sons "were studying and working" in the United States, he said.
He said that he last spoke to his elder son Tamerlan Tsarnaev after the bombings. His son told him then that he had received a phone call saying he was a suspect, he said.
The men's father argued that the attacks were somehow orchestrated by the FBI, who he said "kept my Tamerlan constantly under surveillance."
"They just wanted to set up Tamerlan and Dzhokhar just turned out to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.
| "Tamerlan was driving him to school when they started shooting at them," he claimed. |
"This is a set-up, a political order, a Hollywood show."
"Tamerlan changed jobs a few times: he delivered post, he changed tyres, he was a boxing trainer and in recent months a baby sitter -- he sat at home with his three-year-old child. His wife worked. She looked after disabled people."