The parents of the Boston Marathon
bombing suspects have left their home in Dagestan for another part of
Russia and the suspect's father is no longer planning to fly to the U.S.
later this week to bury his eldest son and cooperate with the FBI
investigation into the attacks.
The suspects' mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, told CNN
that that her husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, is indefinitely delaying his
trip to the U.S. because of health reasons. She claimed she had to call
an ambulance for him on Thursday but did not elaborate on what happened.
Zubeidat told Fox News that on Friday he is was planning to go to a Moscow hospital to treat 'nerves, head, stomach and elevated blood pressure.'
She was never planning to accompany her husband to the U.S. because she faces felony shoplifting charges here.
Defiant: Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the
two Boston bombing suspects, speaks at a news conference as the
suspects' father, Anzor Tsarnaev listens in Makhachkala
On the move: Father of the suspected bombers
Anzor Tsarnaev speaks at a press conference after he announced that he
will travel to the U.S. in the next day or two
News of the parents' apparent flight
from Dagestan comes one day after a bizarre press conference in which
they claimed that the gruesome carnage of the Boston attacks, which kill
three people and injured more than 200, was staged by the government.
'America took my kids away from me,' she cried. 'I’m sure my kids were not involved in anything.'
The mother of the suspected bombers,
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, went so far as to
claim that the blood covering the streets after the blasts was in fact
paint.
The couple's eldest son, Tamerlan,
was killed
in a police shootout last Friday and Dzhokhar was taken into custody -
alive, but badly injured - less than 24 hours later in Watertown, Mass.
following a massive manhunt.
After spending nearly a week in a Boston
hospital recovering from gunshot wounds sustained during a firefight
with police, Dzhokhar was
transferred
to a prison facility on Friday. He has been charged in the marathon
attacks and is facing a maximum sentence of the death penalty or life in
prison.
Enraged: Anzor Tsarnaev and his wife Zubeidat
gesture at the gathered journalists at the press conference alongside
the suspects' aunt Patimat Suleymanova
Hysteria: Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of
the two Boston bombing suspects, speaks at a news conference as her
sister-in-law, Maryam
The Tsarnaev family emigrated to the U.S. a decade ago, but both parents returned to Russia last year.
The father said Thursday that he was planning to travel to the U.S. as soon as Friday, but hadn't yet bought a plane ticket.
Banging the table in front of him,
Anzor said: 'I am going to the United States. 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.
'I am not angry at anyone. I want to go find out the truth.'
Zubeidat
also described a figure known only as 'Misha' - who has been pinpointed
as a source of radicalization for her son Tamerlan.
She said that he was a 'very nice man', of Armenian origin and living
in Boston. 'Misha' is also apparently a convert to the Islamic faith.
Suspects: Dzhokhar, right, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev are accused of planting the Boston bombs last Monday
It is almost a week since the Boston bombers' reign of terror came to an end.
The suspects' father
has already been interviewed by Russian and American authorities - and
would face further interviews if he is still planning to fly to the U.S.
Speaking out on Wednesday, Mrs Tsarnaev launched into a bizarre rant in
which she claimed she would not care if she or her youngest son were killed
by U.S. authorities.
'If they are going to kill him, I don't
care,' she told CNN of Dzhokhar.
'My oldest one is killed, so I don't care. I don't care is my
youngest one is going to be killed today. I want the world to hear this.
And I don't care if I am going to get killed too. And I will say
Allahu akbar!'
She said that
the only reason her sons were targeted was because they were Muslim,
adding that she saw footage of Tamerlan being killed 'really cruelly.'
U.S. authorities are on their way to speak with Zubeidat Tsarnaeva in the aftermath of the bombings.
Busted: Mrs Tsarnaeva, 45, was arrested last
year after she allegedly stole $1,600 worth of clothing from a
Massachusetts Lord & Taylor store
ABC News reported on Tuesday that Mrs Tsarnaev failed to show up at a court hearing stemming from a July 2012 arrest.
If she returns to the U.S. to visit her hospitalized son or make burial arrangements for the other, she
could be arrested on an outstanding warrant.
Mrs Tsarnaeva, 45, allegedly stole $1,600 worth of clothes from a Massachusetts Lord & Taylor store.
She was charged with two
counts of malicious/wanton damage and defacement to property after
allegedly swiping the merchandise from the retailer's Natick,
Mass. location in June 2012.
She was due in court on October 25 for a hearing in the case, but never showed up.
The Lord & Taylor location is
not the same as the one on Boylston Street in Boston, where a
surveillance camera captured what police say is her younger son
dropping a pressure cooker bomb that was hidden inside a backpack.
The family's lawyer Heda Saratova, asked for the family to be left alone and said that the parents had just seen
pictures of the body of their elder son and were not up to
speaking with anyone.
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