The sins of the sons were visited on their mother.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev blames herself for the death of her eldest son and the arrest of his kid brother, saying she regrets ever moving her family from Russia to the U.S.
“Why did I go there? Why?” she moaned tearfully Thursday at a news conference in her homeland. “America took my kids away from me.”
Boston Marathon terror suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was gunned down early last Friday in a wild firefight with cops after an 8-mile chase where pursuing police dodged bullets and pipe bombs.
Younger brother Dzhokhar, 19, was arrested hours later while hiding inside a drydocked boat in a Watertown, Mass., backyard.
If the family had never moved, “my kids would be with us and we would be, like, fine,” the mother said. “So yes, I would prefer not to live in America now!”
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The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, with the suspects’ father Anzor Tsarnaev, left, says that she is still thinking over joining him on his planned trip back to the U.S. from Russia in the next day or two.
Zubeidat Tsarnaev and her family moved to Boston in 2002, and her sons were living in Cambridge prior to the April 15 terror attack near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
She insisted the siblings were innocent of the heinous attack that left three dead, 14 missing limbs and more than 260 others injured.
“I know one thing: This has been done, and that it was not my children,” she declared. “Everything that has been said does not match our children.”
The distraught mom said that she called Tamerlan after the twin explosions that rocked Boylston St., and her son said, “Don’t worry.”
Despite the mother’s defense of her boys, Fox News reported that Tamerlan sent her text messages two years ago declaring that he was willing to die for Islam.
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Anzor Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaev, parents of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, speak at a news conference in Makhachkala April 25. Anzor Tsarnaev and former wife Zubeidat deny their sons had planted the bombs at the Boston Marathon, saying they had been framed.
And ABC News reported that a cache of fireworks shells — some emptied of gunpowder — was found dumped inside a used clothing bin in Watertown, Mass.
The bin was in a grocery store parking lot in the Boston suburb where Tamerlan died in a hail of bullets.
Investigators were trying to match the shell remnants with the fireworks purchased by Tamerlan in New Hampshire about two months before the blasts.
The suspects’ father, Anzor, is planning a trip to the U.S. to claim his slain son’s body for possible burial in Russia. He hopes to leave by Friday at the latest.
The dad also hopes to help his surviving son defend himself against federal charges that carry a possible death penalty on conviction.
“I am going there to see my son and bury my older one,” Anzor said from behind a pair of dark aviator sunglasses. “I have no bad thoughts. I’m not planning any bombings.
“I don’t want to do anything. I’m not offended by anyone. I want to know the truth, what happened. I want to work it out.”
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is debating whether to accompany her husband. She was charged last year with shoplifting in the U.S., but said lawyers assured her she would face no charges if she returned to Massachusetts.
Both parents were questioned by American investigators this week about their sons.
Read more: NY Daily News
They should find a way, on how to save the surving younger brother m instead of making unnecessary statement about U.A