The Brothers Who Bombed Boston

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:00:18. > :00:25.Prosperous and at peace, until this event rocked America in April.

:00:25. > :00:31.Something just blew up! Three died and hundreds were injured in the

:00:31. > :00:35.worst terror attack on American civilians since 9/11. I did not see

:00:35. > :00:39.my leg, fortunately. My initial thought was that I would die right

:00:39. > :00:47.there. These are the brothers believed to have laid the bombs.

:00:47. > :00:56.Tamerlan, 26-year-old boxer. And Jahar, soon to stand trial,

:00:56. > :00:59.19-year-old who loved hip-hop. give me a kiss. Tracked down in an

:00:59. > :01:05.epic manhunt. I am very lucky I was not here when that bullet came

:01:05. > :01:15.through. We spent months talking to their closest friends. I felt like

:01:15. > :01:20.the bomb blew up in my chest. fanatical Jihadi or angry young men?

:01:20. > :01:26.I never knew about him praying at all. As authorities try to stop the

:01:26. > :01:31.next attack, how far is America prepared to go? This is going to

:01:31. > :01:36.pull up every frame when someone is wearing a red shirt. Some moderate

:01:36. > :01:39.Muslims say that spying has gone too far. If you think that there are a

:01:39. > :01:49.couple of things slipping through the cracks now, it will be ten times

:01:49. > :02:02.

:02:02. > :02:05.as bad if that is how they want to spring day in Boston. Thousands

:02:05. > :02:14.lined the streets to witness the city's cherished ritual, the

:02:15. > :02:19.marathon. My son was running the marathon. I have run 12. Peter

:02:19. > :02:25.Payack is a wrestling coach and a Boston Marathon enthusiast. I was

:02:25. > :02:33.going to meet him at mile 22, and then I was going to buy it from

:02:33. > :02:42.there to the finish line. I -- I was going to cycle from there. I was

:02:42. > :02:47.going to stand there and take pictures. Roseann Sdioa has gone to

:02:47. > :02:52.the marathon every year since he was a child. It started out like any

:02:52. > :02:58.marathon and basically I went to the finish line to see friends running.

:02:58. > :03:05.At 2:37pm, security cameras showed two men, ethnic Chechens, turning

:03:05. > :03:09.onto the main street, each carrying a backpack. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the

:03:09. > :03:15.older brother, moved towards the marathon finish line. Jahar is

:03:15. > :03:25.easily identifiable in his white baseball cap. This is believed to be

:03:25. > :03:27.

:03:27. > :03:37.his backpack. Just a few feet from Jahar, stood Roseann. I turned to my

:03:37. > :03:43.

:03:43. > :03:49.right to run, and I basically ran feet. And thinking in my head at

:03:50. > :03:54.that point this is not a good situation. This is bad. It was a

:03:54. > :04:01.scene of blood and mayhem. Body parts lay on the streets. The

:04:01. > :04:04.screams of the injured were drowned by sirens and panic. It was chaos.

:04:04. > :04:10.Everybody around me, their hair had been singed and it was sticking

:04:10. > :04:15.straight up. They were kind of walking around like zombies. I did

:04:15. > :04:18.not see my leg, fortunately. But I saw the blood coming from it and

:04:18. > :04:25.coming pretty quickly. My initial thought was I was going to die right

:04:25. > :04:33.there. Jahar was seen on camera here leaving the scene without his

:04:33. > :04:40.backpack. Just before the blasts, Peter Payack's son got a sudden

:04:40. > :04:47.cramp. It saved him and his dad. was a block and a half, really

:04:47. > :04:53.close, when the bombs went off. are both incredibly lucky?

:04:53. > :04:57.Incredibly lucky. Peter coached Jahar, seen here wrestling in the

:04:57. > :05:03.black. Peter said he loved him like a son and that Jahar knew he was a

:05:03. > :05:07.regular at the marathon. How do you cope with the fact that you could

:05:07. > :05:14.have been killed, your son could have been killed, and the bomb was

:05:14. > :05:18.set off by someone who you were very close to? I felt like a bomb blew up

:05:19. > :05:28.in my chest. It was inconceivable to me. It was just confusion, the world

:05:28. > :05:34.and, pain, -- but will the mend. To know that you taught him as a

:05:34. > :05:39.wrestler, you liked him, he was a good kid, and he was in my house, my

:05:39. > :05:45.backyard... In the hours after the bombing, America held its breath,

:05:45. > :05:51.wondering who had done this. Was this a domestic terror act?

:05:51. > :05:57.Al-Qaeda? Police patrolled the side. They found fragments of simple

:05:57. > :06:03.home-made bombs, built with pressure cookers. Jahar returned to the leafy

:06:03. > :06:12.calm of his college and melted back into his life for three full days.

:06:12. > :06:16.He sent out a tweet. I am a stress-free kind of guy. The FBI

:06:16. > :06:21.just released photographs of two suspects, now the world's most

:06:21. > :06:25.wanted men. Suddenly these images taken by security cameras were

:06:25. > :06:29.released to the media. And one of the biggest manhunts in American

:06:29. > :06:37.history began. The brothers went on the run. They killed a security

:06:37. > :06:40.guard, Sean Collier, to try to get his gun, then tried to hijack a car.

:06:40. > :06:44.Tamerlan boasted to its driver that he was the bomber. Two hours later,

:06:44. > :06:49.police confronted them West of Boston. Tamerlan stepped out of the

:06:49. > :06:55.car with his hands up and started firing at the windshield of the

:06:55. > :07:01.cruiser. Residents took these pictures. The brothers can be seen

:07:01. > :07:09.here lighting the fuse of a bomb. One of several they lobbed at the

:07:09. > :07:13.police, amidst a massive gunfight. That was my tree of life. It was

:07:13. > :07:21.well I was standing most of the time with my gun trained on him. I was

:07:21. > :07:31.very lucky I was not here when that bullet came through. Another officer

:07:31. > :07:37.

:07:37. > :07:45.got to eight feet from Tamerlan. threw his gun at the officer and he

:07:45. > :07:49.charged at him. Be tackled him on the middle of the road. -- he

:07:49. > :07:55.tackled him in the middle of the road. I said to him, Sarge, get off

:07:55. > :08:01.him, he might have a bomb. He had been shot eight times and he was not

:08:01. > :08:05.going anywhere. Jahar got back into the car and drove at high speed

:08:05. > :08:08.straight at them. I saw the Mercedes coming straight at us. We grabbed

:08:08. > :08:15.the suspect by the belts to try and pull him out of the way of the

:08:15. > :08:22.vehicle and we were not successful. He ran over the suspect. Jahar ran

:08:22. > :08:27.over his brother? Right.Tamerlan died shortly afterwards, run over by

:08:27. > :08:32.his own brother. Jahar run away on foot in the dark. There is a manhunt

:08:32. > :08:37.under way in the greater Boston area. Boston woke up to the news

:08:37. > :08:43.across the networks that the surviving bomber was in their midst.

:08:44. > :08:49.We are asking people to stay indoors with their doors locked. The entire

:08:49. > :08:53.city was closed down. Just a mile away, in their house, David

:08:53. > :08:57.Henneberry's family was watching the drama on television. David, a

:08:57. > :09:01.retired telephone worker, noticed that the cover of his boat had come

:09:01. > :09:08.loose. I'll looked at the boat and there was a whole bunch of blood on

:09:08. > :09:11.the floor of the boat. What the heck is this? All of a sudden I looked on

:09:11. > :09:20.the other side. Just a short distance away, and there was

:09:20. > :09:24.somebody lying on the boat. Here they come, here they come. Police

:09:24. > :09:32.helicopters began to the boat with infrared cameras. The human form

:09:32. > :09:38.showed up clearly. Afraid Jahar had more bombs, they threw stun grenades

:09:38. > :09:45.to flush him out. They also riddled the boat with bullets and tried to

:09:45. > :09:49.negotiate. Finally, with SWAT teams moving in on the boat, Jahar

:09:49. > :09:59.emerged, weak and bloodied. Seriously injured, but amazingly

:09:59. > :09:59.

:09:59. > :10:03.alive. Alone in the boat for hours, he scrawled on its walls. The US

:10:03. > :10:12.Government is killing our innocent civilians. We Muslims are one body.

:10:12. > :10:18.You hurt one, you hurt us all. BLEEP America. But to wear these men and

:10:18. > :10:24.what turned them against America? -- who were these men? The brothers

:10:24. > :10:27.were ethnic Chechens from a part of Russia torn by violent Islamic

:10:27. > :10:32.insurgency. Their early years were spent moving around the troubled

:10:32. > :10:40.region. Did the roots of their radicalisation lie here or in

:10:40. > :10:45.America? For the last decade, they have lived here in Cambridge, near

:10:45. > :10:49.Boston. We have spent months talking to some of their closest friends.

:10:49. > :10:55.Tamerlan, the eldest, to him America was strange and wonderful when he

:10:55. > :11:00.arrived aged 16. One time he told me it is like one of those machines

:11:00. > :11:08.where you control the claw. He was taken, removed, and dropped. Into

:11:08. > :11:14.America. But he loves it here. is what he said? He said, I love it

:11:14. > :11:22.here. It is cool. I can do anything. I can box. I can ride the bus.

:11:22. > :11:28.Everything is within reach. Tamerlan took to boxing and came into his

:11:28. > :11:32.own. Self assured and powerful. He became New England's top heavyweight

:11:32. > :11:42.boxer. He dreams of the Olympics with a cocky certainty. Feeling

:11:42. > :11:42.

:11:42. > :11:52.great now. How did you do last time? I win. By win the Golden gloves. And

:11:52. > :11:56.

:11:56. > :12:02.this is again. Same thing. Tamerlan was flamboyant. He had a penchant

:12:02. > :12:08.for leather trousers, steak skins and white furs. It was his fashion

:12:08. > :12:13.taste that he stood out for, not devotion to Islam. But three years

:12:13. > :12:20.ago, he abandoned his boxing career. He was barred from contesting at

:12:20. > :12:24.international level because he did not have American citizenship.

:12:24. > :12:29.Tamerlan wanted to stand up on that podium, put the flag over his

:12:29. > :12:36.shoulder, and say, I won the boxing and Ira present America, the

:12:36. > :12:40.greatest country in the world. -- I represent America. All of the sudden

:12:40. > :12:45.he does not get citizenship and it is like America is the evil Empire

:12:45. > :12:51.and we have to destroy it. dreams crushed, Tamerlan began to

:12:51. > :12:58.change. His old friends no longer saw him. Literally he vanished. He

:12:58. > :13:02.even deleted his Facebook page, disconnected himself socially.

:13:02. > :13:05.Tamerlan lived crammed into a Cambridge flat with his brother and

:13:05. > :13:14.parents. It is at that time, we have learned, that he developed a passion

:13:14. > :13:18.for Islam and began reading about anti-Semitism. He married an

:13:18. > :13:23.American woman, Katherine, who changed her name to Karima and

:13:23. > :13:28.converted to Islam. Her lawyer said the bombings absolutely shocked her.

:13:28. > :13:31.The friends of the brothers would not all speak openly, afraid of

:13:32. > :13:38.being associated with terrorism. This man, we will call him Mike,

:13:38. > :13:42.spent a lot of time in the flat. just did not like America. He felt

:13:42. > :13:48.that America was basically attacking all Middle Eastern countries, taking

:13:48. > :13:57.their oil, changing their religion and democracy and stuff. No, give me

:13:57. > :14:02.a kiss. Jahar, the younger brother, who often baby-sat his niece, had

:14:02. > :14:07.been in Boston since he was out. He seemed a regular American teenager.

:14:07. > :14:11.He liked hip-hop and nurtured the laid-back look. His recent cover

:14:11. > :14:21.short on Rolling Stone magazine caused a storm. He seems too

:14:21. > :14:22.

:14:22. > :14:31.alluring, the chilled out,. What kind of things did he worry about?

:14:31. > :14:36.Money, girls. Did he pray a lot?I never knew about him praying at all.

:14:36. > :14:40.I never saw him praying. Jahar rarely talk to his friends about the

:14:40. > :14:45.deep strife at home. His dad had a brain tumour, his parents were

:14:45. > :14:52.divorcing, Jahar lost himself in smoking copious amounts of pot while

:14:52. > :14:56.his overbearing brother tried to ram hot-headed religion into him.

:14:56. > :15:02.definitely did not approve of Jahar's party lifestyle. He would

:15:02. > :15:05.say, if he knew what I was doing, he would probably kick my ass. He was

:15:05. > :15:10.intimidated, that would be the best word. He took him very seriously, he

:15:10. > :15:18.was an authority. These were the brothers' parents in Russia when

:15:18. > :15:23.Tamerlan was a baby. Zubeidat, their mother, was a force to be reckoned

:15:23. > :15:27.with. Long known for her make-up and short skirts, she began to cover her

:15:27. > :15:32.head, finding religion didn't stop her from allegedly shoplifting. She

:15:32. > :15:37.is now back in Russia, having skipped the charges. We used to pray

:15:37. > :15:45.with my son, together. Being religious is helping me a lot.

:15:45. > :15:50.Today, when this happened, if I would not be believing in Alaa, --

:15:50. > :15:54.in Alaa, I don't know if I would survive this. The FBI's

:15:54. > :16:00.investigation is still under wraps, but the House Intelligence Committee

:16:00. > :16:04.in Washington is being briefed on Tamerlan's connections. I believe

:16:04. > :16:08.that his mother was involved, and probably was involved in bringing

:16:08. > :16:12.them along in radicalisation. He had family members encouraging, we know

:16:12. > :16:17.that he did travel outside. There is a lot of expertise on terrorism

:16:17. > :16:24.there that could have pushed him over the top. We spoke to Zubeidat

:16:24. > :16:27.last week. She denied the congressmen's allegations. In

:16:27. > :16:32.Washington, experts who track the internet activity of violent

:16:32. > :16:39.jihadists have least together Tamerlan's internet profile. --

:16:39. > :16:44.pieced together. He had his own YouTube page and on it he was liking

:16:44. > :16:49.and posting different videos. Tamerlan was interested in Muslim

:16:49. > :16:54.prophesies of a pocket battles and in videos glorifying the Islamic

:16:54. > :16:57.independence from Russia. This reinforced things for him because

:16:57. > :17:04.there has been this battle between Russia and these noble Muslims, as

:17:04. > :17:07.he views it. Two years ago, Russia warned the FBI that Tamerlan was

:17:07. > :17:12.already on the road to Islamic extremism. The FBI interviewed him

:17:12. > :17:17.but the case was dropped for lack of evidence. A very graphic crime

:17:17. > :17:21.scene, there were three dead bodies. Tamerlan also crossed the

:17:21. > :17:26.police radar when news broke that three men near Boston were murdered,

:17:26. > :17:32.their throat slit on September the 11th 2011. Tamerlan was friends with

:17:32. > :17:38.one of the victims. He is now suspected of involvement but at the

:17:38. > :17:45.time, that investigation, too, had lapsed. Last year, Tamerlan went

:17:45. > :17:50.back to see his family in Russia's troubled Dagestan. He also briefly

:17:50. > :17:57.visited Chechnya. It is still not clear if he got any training on a

:17:58. > :18:03.six-month trip. He came back to the US without the FBI noticing. Surely

:18:03. > :18:09.a massive oversight. Remember, that investigation happened and was

:18:09. > :18:19.closed because they couldn't find any rocketry investor --

:18:19. > :18:27.

:18:27. > :18:33.committee had frequent outbursts, about American drones. Still, the

:18:33. > :18:36.only turned up to pray occasionally at this mosque. He had two out

:18:36. > :18:42.bursts, though he said he never talked the language of someone who

:18:42. > :18:47.fully understood radical Jihad. There would have been more out

:18:47. > :18:51.bursts, there would have been confrontations with members as he

:18:51. > :18:56.tried to sway people over to their side, their way of thinking. They

:18:56. > :19:03.are intolerant in all aspects of their lives. If this was going on,

:19:03. > :19:08.whether discreetly or not, someone would have said something. And we

:19:08. > :19:13.found out that Tamerlan's interests here at home were not just Islamic.

:19:13. > :19:18.He subscribed to publications about government conspiracies, gun rights

:19:18. > :19:23.and white supremacy. He also read about mass shootings. Tamerlan was

:19:23. > :19:29.perhaps not so much the true radical jihadist, as a deeply troubled young

:19:29. > :19:34.man who latched onto Islam. By April, Jahar seemed to be inching

:19:34. > :19:40.towards his decision. If you have the knowledge and inspiration, all

:19:40. > :19:43.that is left is to take action. brothers went online and found

:19:43. > :19:49.instructions on an Islamic website about how to build a pressure cooker

:19:49. > :19:56.bomb. Three days before the bombings, the brothers went to the

:19:56. > :20:04.gym to train. Jahar had been his old self, warm and funny. His friends

:20:04. > :20:09.are utterly bewildered that he had another site. There are two Jahars,

:20:10. > :20:16.the one that I knew and the one that was allegedly a mass murderer. It

:20:16. > :20:25.seems to me it was very well hidden, compartmentalised, and he

:20:25. > :20:30.had a radical change. No Islamic group has claimed any connection

:20:30. > :20:38.with the Boston bombings. The brothers became extremists in the

:20:38. > :20:41.privacy of their American home. They seems to be lone Wolf 's. Al-Qaeda

:20:42. > :20:45.has begun to call for lone Wolf attacks in the past for three or

:20:45. > :20:50.four years and it is possible this could have resulted what we saw in

:20:50. > :20:54.the UK and France, related to some of the attacks against the soldiers.

:20:54. > :20:59.The brothers were on their way to New York before they were caught,

:20:59. > :21:04.carrying at least five bombs. And about 500,000 people passed through

:21:04. > :21:10.Times Square a day. But if the next terrorist is already right here in

:21:10. > :21:15.America, operating alone, it could be almost anyone. So how far is

:21:15. > :21:20.America prepared to go to find them? Some say it is time to take the

:21:20. > :21:25.gloves off. Political correctness has got to stop with regard to the

:21:25. > :21:30.war on terror. As we go forward, no holds barred. We need to infiltrate

:21:30. > :21:37.the groups that we feel like are threatening the American way of

:21:37. > :21:40.life. This is America's prime terrorist target, New York City. Its

:21:40. > :21:48.anti-terrorist squad is equipped with state of the art technology on

:21:48. > :21:56.the air, in the water and on the ground. There have been 40 attempted

:21:56. > :22:00.terror plots in America since 9-macro. New York's police are proud

:22:00. > :22:10.of the plots they have foiled and of how closely they can monitor

:22:10. > :22:16.

:22:16. > :22:19.they can zoom in on someone's face from half a mile away. But several

:22:19. > :22:22.plots nationwide have slipped through the net, failing only

:22:22. > :22:27.because of bad planning, including a separate plan to blow up Times

:22:27. > :22:32.Square. In a secret location in lower Manhattan, we were given a

:22:32. > :22:40.glimpse of the control centre where New York's police is now stepping it

:22:40. > :22:43.up. Images from 4500 cameras on the streets are beamed in here. We are

:22:43. > :22:47.going to look for someone wearing a red shirt. We are going to hit the

:22:47. > :22:52.search button and this will pull up every frame where someone is wearing

:22:52. > :22:57.a red shirt. We can click on anyone and you will see coming down the

:22:57. > :23:06.street, sure enough, the person in the red shirt. Is there more to this

:23:06. > :23:12.than meets the eye? The NYPD has been accused of spying on Muslims

:23:12. > :23:18.over at least a 100 mile radius. These secret documents show how the

:23:18. > :23:27.police have mapped Muslim shops and mosques, block by block, all over

:23:27. > :23:30.the city of Newark, so they can listen in on locations of concern.

:23:30. > :23:36.Like many Muslim establishments, this mosque was listed in the

:23:36. > :23:40.report. Few pray here now. Police informants have infiltrated some

:23:41. > :23:47.mosques, posing as locals. Now no one is sure who is who. And the

:23:47. > :23:54.mosque leaders say no one here has ever been charged with any terrorist

:23:54. > :23:59.connections. Glenn Katon is suing the NYPD on behalf of Muslims for

:23:59. > :24:03.what he calls blatant racial discrimination. This whole programme

:24:03. > :24:07.treats muslins as inherently suspect, which is exactly what our

:24:07. > :24:14.Constitution forbids will stop it is only Muslims, as if Muslims are the

:24:14. > :24:19.only ones who are committing criminal or even terrorist acts.

:24:19. > :24:24.York's police are trying to build relations with the Muslim community.

:24:24. > :24:27.NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly says there is no spy programme.

:24:27. > :24:32.so-called mapping that we did was authorised by the court, to find out

:24:32. > :24:37.more information that where communities are, in this most

:24:37. > :24:42.diverse city. I am wanting to get an understanding of how your

:24:42. > :24:48.surveillance works. I think you are characterising it in the wrong way,

:24:48. > :24:51.surveillance as a Muslim community, we don't do that. We follow leads in

:24:51. > :24:56.an investigation and we go where those take us but surveillance of

:24:56. > :25:01.the Muslim community is not happening. In Washington, some

:25:01. > :25:07.politicians don't mince their words, saying surveillance of Muslims could

:25:07. > :25:12.stop another Boston style attack. have infiltrated drug cartels, the

:25:13. > :25:20.Mafia, so what is wrong, what is so wrong with infiltrating the mosque

:25:20. > :25:25.and the Muslim community with law enforcement, to try to avoid the

:25:25. > :25:30.deaths of Americans, like we saw in Boston. The problem, though, is one

:25:30. > :25:36.of trust. At Tamerlan's mosque in Austen, they said they would have

:25:36. > :25:40.reported him if he seemed like a radical -- in Boston. But they said

:25:40. > :25:46.other mosques being spied on might not feel so inclined. If you can't

:25:46. > :25:50.trust me, I am not going to trust you. If I bring information, ie

:25:50. > :25:58.going to begrudge full or I going to assume I am in on the plot? -- are

:25:58. > :26:01.you going to be grateful? If you think there are one or two things

:26:01. > :26:05.have been through the cracks now, it is going to be ten times as worse if

:26:05. > :26:09.that is how they want to deal with it. If law enforcement is looking

:26:09. > :26:13.for the stereotypical, radical Muslim, and that is not who the

:26:13. > :26:16.Boston bombers were, isn't that a huge problem? The cos you are making

:26:16. > :26:21.that community angry and also potentially missing the real threat

:26:21. > :26:26.-- because you are making. Boston radicalisation of Tamerlan

:26:27. > :26:31.was not an isolated incident. The Muslim community don't have to get

:26:31. > :26:37.angry, they can willingly assist us and provide information, when they

:26:37. > :26:43.see bad things happening. Jahar, recently brought to court, denied

:26:43. > :26:48.all charges but he has already been judged guilty by the public. The

:26:48. > :26:56.evil he helped unleash, in stark contrast to his soulful looking

:26:56. > :27:04.image. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment or the death penalty.

:27:04. > :27:11.I don't know which way... Come on... Roseann Sdoia, four months on, is

:27:11. > :27:18.taking her first steps. It was Jahar's bomb, not his brother's,

:27:18. > :27:25.that blew her leg off. Roseann Sdoia was in a coma for two days before

:27:25. > :27:31.she knew she would make it. I was told that I would live... They

:27:31. > :27:38.brought me out and told me about my leg... Morphine is a great drug, I

:27:38. > :27:42.guess I was cracking jokes. Obviously it is not a joke but that

:27:42. > :27:52.is the way I'm dealing with it. I just have to move forward. I can't

:27:52. > :27:57.

:27:57. > :28:03.man, but Jahar gave nothing away. That, to those who best knew him, is

:28:03. > :28:08.what is most disturbing. He seemed to be such a good, well balanced

:28:08. > :28:18.kid, and maybe that is what we have to watch out for. There were no

:28:18. > :28:24.