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by Hauwa Gambo

While the mother of the two suspected Boston bombers blames America for “stealing her children”, details have appeared over a criminal past of her own.

“Why did I go there? Why?” Zubeidat Tsarnaev is said to have “moaned tearfully Thursday at a news conference” in the Russian republic of Dagestan. “America took my kids away from me.”

One of her sons Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed last Friday night in a gunfight with Boston policemen “after an 8-mile chase where pursuing police dodged bullets and pipe bombs.” The younger son, Dzhokhar who is 19, was arrested hours later.

According to the Daily Mail:

ABC News reported on Tuesday that Mrs Tsarnaeva 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, Massachusetts 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 Boyleston 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.

The story gets even more bizarre.