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WestCoastJoe wrote:The uncle of the boys condeming their behaviour, and commenting on how the United States has always given people opportunities.
The parents and one aunt, meanwhile are blaming "others," including blaming a setup by the FBI.

"What the Senator is advocating for, however, is torturing someone because it feels good. Not for critical information that can’t be obtained in any other manner, but rather because doing so serves as revenge for a crime that the man in question hasn’t been convicted of yet."

POLICE are reportedly looking into suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's possible involvement in a horrific triple murder that killed his former roommate.

The homicide victims were discovered in an apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts, around the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Their throats were cut so badly their heads were nearly decapitated.

Tamerlan, 26, who died in a gun battle with police early on Friday morning after allegedly masterminding the Boston atrocity alongside his brother Dzhokhar, 19, had trained with one of the murder victims, according to a report on ABC News.

The victim, 25-year-old Brendan Mess, had reportedly been helping Tsarnaev transition from boxing into a possible career in mixed-martial arts during sparring session at the Wai Kru gym in Allston. It was not clear whether Tsarnaev knew the other two victims: Raphael Teken, 37, and Erik Weissman, 31.

Prior to Boston bombings Tsarnaev was already known to police for his violent behavior. In July 2009 he was arrested for domestic violence after his then-girlfriend called 911 to say she was being beaten up. The case was later dismissed.

In the Waltham murders the three victims' mutilated bodies were left covered with marijuana and thousands of dollars.

A police investigator told ABC the murders were "the worst bloodbath I have ever seen in a long law enforcement career."

"There was no forced entry, it was clear that the victims had let the killer in. And their throats were slashed right out of an al Qaeda training video. The drugs and money on the bodies was very strange," the investigator said.

3 more detained in Boston attack
By Matt Smith, CNN
updated 2:31 PM EDT, Wed May 1, 2013

Detained students enjoyed attention
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: Third suspect identified, charged with lying to investigators
Two students from Kazakhstan are charged with obstructing justice
Police say there is no threat to the public
A third person arrested is a U.S. citizen
(CNN) -- Two classmates and a friend of Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been jailed on charges they tried to throw investigators off their friend's trail, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Boston police announced the arrests Wednesday morning, adding that there was "no threat to the public." The classmates, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, are both from Kazakhstan. They were already in federal custody on immigration charges, their lawyers told CNN.
The third suspect, Robel Phillipos, is a U.S. citizen. Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev are charged with obstruction of justice, while Phillipos is charged with lying to federal agents probing the bombing, according to court papers.
All three are scheduled to make their first appearance before a judge Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said.
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All three are accused of removing items from Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth after the bombings, which killed three people and wounded more than 260, federal officials said.
Law enforcement officials believe they helped destroy evidence that might further implicate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the bombing by disposing of fireworks and his laptop, a U.S. government official said.
One official said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev contacted the three after FBI agents released photographs of Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan -- but before they were identified by name -- and asked them to dispose of the items. The suspects said they did not know the significance of what they were doing, the official told CNN.
Another federal law enforcement official said two of three lied to the FBI when asked about whether they had seen the suspects or knew of their whereabouts after the bombings.
That official said the suspects threw out backpacks of fireworks from the dorm room, leading to a two-day search of a New Bedford landfill last week.
Alan Dershowitz, a prominent defense attorney and Harvard law professor, said called the obstruction charge "weak," suggesting it was meant to pressure the suspects into providing more information on Tsarnaev.
"If that's the best the feds have now, then they're just squeezing," Dershowitz told CNN. "It doesn't sound like they have very much new here."
Carjacking victim recalls experience
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gun battle with police early in the morning on April 19. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested that night in a Boston suburb and is being treated for gunshot wounds at a federal Bureau of Prisons medical center in Devens, Massachusetts.
Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev appear in a photograph with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev taken in New York's Times Square during an earlier visit. They were taken into custody last month on charges that they had violated the terms of their student visas, Kadyrbayev attorney Robert Stahl told CNN.
Stahl said Kadyrbayev "did not attend class regularly." Federal law enforcement sources said at the time that the Kazakh students were being detained "in an abundance of caution" because authorities wanted detailed information on the Tsarnaevs' movements in the weeks and days before the attack.
Early discussion of avoiding the death penalty
One of the reasons Kadyrbayev drew investigators' attention was because of changes to his Facebook page, a source briefed on the Boston probe said. Kadyrbayev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev changed their profile photos within 15 minutes of each other in the pre-dawn hours of April 19, while the Tsarnaevs were on the run, the source said.
Tsarnaev, who appears to have had access to a wireless device at that time, changed his to a black-and-white photo, while Kadyrbayev changed his photo to one of him wearing an Iron Man mask, the source said.