FBI suspect fatally shot; possible Boston link

[Mr.Rogers]

An FBI agent shot and killed an Orlando man early Wednesday who had been questioned for several hours about his alleged ties to Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the victim's friend told local media.

FBI officials have confirmed that a man died while one of its agents was "conducting official duties," the Orlando Sentinel reports, but would not elaborate.

The Sentinel and WESH-TV identified the victim as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev.

The television station quotes Khusn Taramiv, a friend of the victim, as saying both of them had been questioned for almost three hours Tuesday about the Boston bombing case.

Taramiv said his friend knew Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because they were both mixed martial-arts fighters, WESH and The Sentinel report.

Taramiv told WESH that Todashev, who is an ethnic Chechen like Tsarnaev, had once lived in Boston and was a casual friend of the Boston bombing suspect. He said Todashev and Tsarnaev had spoken by phone or Skype for about five minutes about a week before the April 15 Boston bombings.

Read more http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/22/fbi-boston-bombing-killed-orlando/2350065/

 

[Monster]

It's pretty sad, b/c Chechnya has been a war-stricken country ... I once knew a woman from there who had moved to Germany with her family because of the war.

Once, I also knew a guy from former Yugoslavia who had witnessed several terrorist attacks in his home country ... he told me a story about how he and his friends had been sitting in a cafe when a guy nearby (or not far away) suddenly exploded a hand grenade ... he said things had been very crazy during the Yugoslavian civil war.

It's pretty bad that the guys who committed the Boston terrorist attack felt so hopeless in the US that the only thing they thought of was to become terrorists. But from their backgrounds, it's sadly not a surprise.