BRITISH PAPER EXPOSES BOMBERS CONNECTION TO FBI AND  ISLAMIST MILITANTS
Intriguingly Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to 'provide assistance' to the Bostom bombing investigation before any link was made to Chechnya US congressmen have expressed concern that the tip-off about Tamerlan to the FBI from Moscow may not have been properly followed through by the Obama Administration.
One of the brothers suspected of the Boston Marathon bombings had direct contact with Chechen terrorists – and was ‘monitored’ by  US investigators for five years. According to an intelligence source, Russia remained convinced that Tamerlan, an ethnic Chechen, was in ‘direct contact’ with Islamist militants, most likely based in the strife torn southern Russian region of Dagestan, where he lived for two years with his family prior to moving to the US. READ ENTIRE ARTICLE