The Brothers Who Bombed Boston Panorama

Prosperous and at peace, until this event rocked America in April.

Something just blew up! Three died and hundreds were injured in the

worst terror attack on American civilians since 9/11. I did not see

my leg, fortunately. My initial thought was that I would die right

there. These are the brothers believed to have laid the bombs.

Tamerlan, 26-year-old boxer. And Jahar, soon to stand trial,

19-year-old who loved hip-hop. give me a kiss. Tracked down in an

epic manhunt. I am very lucky I was not here when that bullet came

through. We spent months talking to their closest friends. I felt like

the bomb blew up in my chest. fanatical Jihadi or angry young men?

I never knew about him praying at all. As authorities try to stop the

next attack, how far is America prepared to go? This is going to

pull up every frame when someone is wearing a red shirt. Some moderate

Muslims say that spying has gone too far. If you think that there are a

couple of things slipping through the cracks now, it will be ten times

as bad if that is how they want to spring day in Boston. Thousands

lined the streets to witness the city's cherished ritual, the

marathon. My son was running the marathon. I have run 12. Peter

Payack is a wrestling coach and a Boston Marathon enthusiast. I was

going to meet him at mile 22, and then I was going to buy it from

there to the finish line. I -- I was going to cycle from there. I was

going to stand there and take pictures. Roseann Sdioa has gone to

the marathon every year since he was a child. It started out like any

marathon and basically I went to the finish line to see friends running.

At 2:37pm, security cameras showed two men, ethnic Chechens, turning

onto the main street, each carrying a backpack. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the

older brother, moved towards the marathon finish line. Jahar is

easily identifiable in his white baseball cap. This is believed to be

his backpack. Just a few feet from Jahar, stood Roseann. I turned to my

right to run, and I basically ran feet. And thinking in my head at

that point this is not a good situation. This is bad. It was a

scene of blood and mayhem. Body parts lay on the streets. The

screams of the injured were drowned by sirens and panic. It was chaos.

Everybody around me, their hair had been singed and it was sticking

straight up. They were kind of walking around like zombies. I did

not see my leg, fortunately. But I saw the blood coming from it and

coming pretty quickly. My initial thought was I was going to die right

there. Jahar was seen on camera here leaving the scene without his

backpack. Just before the blasts, Peter Payack's son got a sudden

cramp. It saved him and his dad. was a block and a half, really

close, when the bombs went off. are both incredibly lucky?

Incredibly lucky. Peter coached Jahar, seen here wrestling in the

black. Peter said he loved him like a son and that Jahar knew he was a

regular at the marathon. How do you cope with the fact that you could

have been killed, your son could have been killed, and the bomb was

set off by someone who you were very close to? I felt like a bomb blew up

in my chest. It was inconceivable to me. It was just confusion, the world

and, pain, -- but will the mend. To know that you taught him as a

wrestler, you liked him, he was a good kid, and he was in my house, my

backyard... In the hours after the bombing, America held its breath,

wondering who had done this. Was this a domestic terror act?

Al-Qaeda? Police patrolled the side. They found fragments of simple

home-made bombs, built with pressure cookers. Jahar returned to the leafy

calm of his college and melted back into his life for three full days.

He sent out a tweet. I am a stress-free kind of guy. The FBI

just released photographs of two suspects, now the world's most

wanted men. Suddenly these images taken by security cameras were

released to the media. And one of the biggest manhunts in American

history began. The brothers went on the run. They killed a security

guard, Sean Collier, to try to get his gun, then tried to hijack a car.

Tamerlan boasted to its driver that he was the bomber. Two hours later,

police confronted them West of Boston. Tamerlan stepped out of the

car with his hands up and started firing at the windshield of the

cruiser. Residents took these pictures. The brothers can be seen

here lighting the fuse of a bomb. One of several they lobbed at the

police, amidst a massive gunfight. That was my tree of life. It was

well I was standing most of the time with my gun trained on him. I was

very lucky I was not here when that bullet came through. Another officer

got to eight feet from Tamerlan. threw his gun at the officer and he

charged at him. Be tackled him on the middle of the road. -- he

tackled him in the middle of the road. I said to him, Sarge, get off

him, he might have a bomb. He had been shot eight times and he was not

going anywhere. Jahar got back into the car and drove at high speed

straight at them. I saw the Mercedes coming straight at us. We grabbed

the suspect by the belts to try and pull him out of the way of the

vehicle and we were not successful. He ran over the suspect. Jahar ran

over his brother? Right.Tamerlan died shortly afterwards, run over by

his own brother. Jahar run away on foot in the dark. There is a manhunt

under way in the greater Boston area. Boston woke up to the news

across the networks that the surviving bomber was in their midst.

We are asking people to stay indoors with their doors locked. The entire

city was closed down. Just a mile away, in their house, David

Henneberry's family was watching the drama on television. David, a

retired telephone worker, noticed that the cover of his boat had come

loose. I'll looked at the boat and there was a whole bunch of blood on

the floor of the boat. What the heck is this? All of a sudden I looked on

the other side. Just a short distance away, and there was

somebody lying on the boat. Here they come, here they come. Police

helicopters began to the boat with infrared cameras. The human form

showed up clearly. Afraid Jahar had more bombs, they threw stun grenades

to flush him out. They also riddled the boat with bullets and tried to

negotiate. Finally, with SWAT teams moving in on the boat, Jahar

emerged, weak and bloodied. Seriously injured, but amazingly

alive. Alone in the boat for hours, he scrawled on its walls. The US

Government is killing our innocent civilians. We Muslims are one body.

You hurt one, you hurt us all. BLEEP America. But to wear these men and

what turned them against America? -- who were these men? The brothers

were ethnic Chechens from a part of Russia torn by violent Islamic

insurgency. Their early years were spent moving around the troubled

region. Did the roots of their radicalisation lie here or in

America? For the last decade, they have lived here in Cambridge, near

Boston. We have spent months talking to some of their closest friends.

Tamerlan, the eldest, to him America was strange and wonderful when he

arrived aged 16. One time he told me it is like one of those machines

where you control the claw. He was taken, removed, and dropped. Into

America. But he loves it here. is what he said? He said, I love it

here. It is cool. I can do anything. I can box. I can ride the bus.

Everything is within reach. Tamerlan took to boxing and came into his

own. Self assured and powerful. He became New England's top heavyweight

boxer. He dreams of the Olympics with a cocky certainty. Feeling

great now. How did you do last time? I win. By win the Golden gloves. And

this is again. Same thing. Tamerlan was flamboyant. He had a penchant

for leather trousers, steak skins and white furs. It was his fashion

taste that he stood out for, not devotion to Islam. But three years

ago, he abandoned his boxing career. He was barred from contesting at

international level because he did not have American citizenship.

Tamerlan wanted to stand up on that podium, put the flag over his

shoulder, and say, I won the boxing and Ira present America, the

greatest country in the world. -- I represent America. All of the sudden

he does not get citizenship and it is like America is the evil Empire

and we have to destroy it. dreams crushed, Tamerlan began to

change. His old friends no longer saw him. Literally he vanished. He

even deleted his Facebook page, disconnected himself socially.

Tamerlan lived crammed into a Cambridge flat with his brother and

parents. It is at that time, we have learned, that he developed a passion

for Islam and began reading about anti-Semitism. He married an

American woman, Katherine, who changed her name to Karima and

converted to Islam. Her lawyer said the bombings absolutely shocked her.

The friends of the brothers would not all speak openly, afraid of

being associated with terrorism. This man, we will call him Mike,

spent a lot of time in the flat. just did not like America. He felt

that America was basically attacking all Middle Eastern countries, taking

their oil, changing their religion and democracy and stuff. No, give me

a kiss. Jahar, the younger brother, who often baby-sat his niece, had

been in Boston since he was out. He seemed a regular American teenager.

He liked hip-hop and nurtured the laid-back look. His recent cover

short on Rolling Stone magazine caused a storm. He seems too

alluring, the chilled out,. What kind of things did he worry about?

Money, girls. Did he pray a lot?I never knew about him praying at all.

I never saw him praying. Jahar rarely talk to his friends about the

deep strife at home. His dad had a brain tumour, his parents were

divorcing, Jahar lost himself in smoking copious amounts of pot while

his overbearing brother tried to ram hot-headed religion into him.

definitely did not approve of Jahar's party lifestyle. He would

say, if he knew what I was doing, he would probably kick my ass. He was

intimidated, that would be the best word. He took him very seriously, he

was an authority. These were the brothers' parents in Russia when

Tamerlan was a baby. Zubeidat, their mother, was a force to be reckoned

with. Long known for her make-up and short skirts, she began to cover her

head, finding religion didn't stop her from allegedly shoplifting. She

is now back in Russia, having skipped the charges. We used to pray

with my son, together. Being religious is helping me a lot.

Today, when this happened, if I would not be believing in Alaa, --

in Alaa, I don't know if I would survive this. The FBI's

investigation is still under wraps, but the House Intelligence Committee

in Washington is being briefed on Tamerlan's connections. I believe

that his mother was involved, and probably was involved in bringing

them along in radicalisation. He had family members encouraging, we know

that he did travel outside. There is a lot of expertise on terrorism

there that could have pushed him over the top. We spoke to Zubeidat

last week. She denied the congressmen's allegations. In

Washington, experts who track the internet activity of violent

jihadists have least together Tamerlan's internet profile. --

pieced together. He had his own YouTube page and on it he was liking

and posting different videos. Tamerlan was interested in Muslim

prophesies of a pocket battles and in videos glorifying the Islamic

independence from Russia. This reinforced things for him because

there has been this battle between Russia and these noble Muslims, as

he views it. Two years ago, Russia warned the FBI that Tamerlan was

already on the road to Islamic extremism. The FBI interviewed him

but the case was dropped for lack of evidence. A very graphic crime

scene, there were three dead bodies. Tamerlan also crossed the

police radar when news broke that three men near Boston were murdered,

their throat slit on September the 11th 2011. Tamerlan was friends with

one of the victims. He is now suspected of involvement but at the

time, that investigation, too, had lapsed. Last year, Tamerlan went

back to see his family in Russia's troubled Dagestan. He also briefly

visited Chechnya. It is still not clear if he got any training on a

six-month trip. He came back to the US without the FBI noticing. Surely

a massive oversight. Remember, that investigation happened and was

closed because they couldn't find any rocketry investor --

committee had frequent outbursts, about American drones. Still, the

only turned up to pray occasionally at this mosque. He had two out

bursts, though he said he never talked the language of someone who

fully understood radical Jihad. There would have been more out

bursts, there would have been confrontations with members as he

tried to sway people over to their side, their way of thinking. They

are intolerant in all aspects of their lives. If this was going on,

whether discreetly or not, someone would have said something. And we

found out that Tamerlan's interests here at home were not just Islamic.

He subscribed to publications about government conspiracies, gun rights

and white supremacy. He also read about mass shootings. Tamerlan was

perhaps not so much the true radical jihadist, as a deeply troubled young

man who latched onto Islam. By April, Jahar seemed to be inching

towards his decision. If you have the knowledge and inspiration, all

that is left is to take action. brothers went online and found

instructions on an Islamic website about how to build a pressure cooker

bomb. Three days before the bombings, the brothers went to the

gym to train. Jahar had been his old self, warm and funny. His friends

are utterly bewildered that he had another site. There are two Jahars,

the one that I knew and the one that was allegedly a mass murderer. It

seems to me it was very well hidden, compartmentalised, and he

had a radical change. No Islamic group has claimed any connection

with the Boston bombings. The brothers became extremists in the

privacy of their American home. They seems to be lone Wolf 's. Al-Qaeda

has begun to call for lone Wolf attacks in the past for three or

four years and it is possible this could have resulted what we saw in

the UK and France, related to some of the attacks against the soldiers.

The brothers were on their way to New York before they were caught,

carrying at least five bombs. And about 500,000 people passed through

Times Square a day. But if the next terrorist is already right here in

America, operating alone, it could be almost anyone. So how far is

America prepared to go to find them? Some say it is time to take the

gloves off. Political correctness has got to stop with regard to the

war on terror. As we go forward, no holds barred. We need to infiltrate

the groups that we feel like are threatening the American way of

life. This is America's prime terrorist target, New York City. Its

anti-terrorist squad is equipped with state of the art technology on

the air, in the water and on the ground. There have been 40 attempted

terror plots in America since 9-macro. New York's police are proud

of the plots they have foiled and of how closely they can monitor

they can zoom in on someone's face from half a mile away. But several

plots nationwide have slipped through the net, failing only

because of bad planning, including a separate plan to blow up Times

Square. In a secret location in lower Manhattan, we were given a

glimpse of the control centre where New York's police is now stepping it

up. Images from 4500 cameras on the streets are beamed in here. We are

going to look for someone wearing a red shirt. We are going to hit the

search button and this will pull up every frame where someone is wearing

a red shirt. We can click on anyone and you will see coming down the

street, sure enough, the person in the red shirt. Is there more to this

than meets the eye? The NYPD has been accused of spying on Muslims

over at least a 100 mile radius. These secret documents show how the

police have mapped Muslim shops and mosques, block by block, all over

the city of Newark, so they can listen in on locations of concern.

Like many Muslim establishments, this mosque was listed in the

report. Few pray here now. Police informants have infiltrated some

mosques, posing as locals. Now no one is sure who is who. And the

mosque leaders say no one here has ever been charged with any terrorist

connections. Glenn Katon is suing the NYPD on behalf of Muslims for

what he calls blatant racial discrimination. This whole programme

treats muslins as inherently suspect, which is exactly what our

Constitution forbids will stop it is only Muslims, as if Muslims are the

only ones who are committing criminal or even terrorist acts.

York's police are trying to build relations with the Muslim community.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly says there is no spy programme.

so-called mapping that we did was authorised by the court, to find out

more information that where communities are, in this most

diverse city. I am wanting to get an understanding of how your

surveillance works. I think you are characterising it in the wrong way,

surveillance as a Muslim community, we don't do that. We follow leads in

an investigation and we go where those take us but surveillance of

the Muslim community is not happening. In Washington, some

politicians don't mince their words, saying surveillance of Muslims could

stop another Boston style attack. have infiltrated drug cartels, the

Mafia, so what is wrong, what is so wrong with infiltrating the mosque

and the Muslim community with law enforcement, to try to avoid the

deaths of Americans, like we saw in Boston. The problem, though, is one

of trust. At Tamerlan's mosque in Austen, they said they would have

reported him if he seemed like a radical -- in Boston. But they said

other mosques being spied on might not feel so inclined. If you can't

trust me, I am not going to trust you. If I bring information, ie

going to begrudge full or I going to assume I am in on the plot? -- are

you going to be grateful? If you think there are one or two things

have been through the cracks now, it is going to be ten times as worse if

that is how they want to deal with it. If law enforcement is looking

for the stereotypical, radical Muslim, and that is not who the

Boston bombers were, isn't that a huge problem? The cos you are making

that community angry and also potentially missing the real threat

-- because you are making. Boston radicalisation of Tamerlan

was not an isolated incident. The Muslim community don't have to get

angry, they can willingly assist us and provide information, when they

see bad things happening. Jahar, recently brought to court, denied

all charges but he has already been judged guilty by the public. The

evil he helped unleash, in stark contrast to his soulful looking

image. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment or the death penalty.

I don't know which way... Come on... Roseann Sdoia, four months on, is

taking her first steps. It was Jahar's bomb, not his brother's,

that blew her leg off. Roseann Sdoia was in a coma for two days before

she knew she would make it. I was told that I would live... They

brought me out and told me about my leg... Morphine is a great drug, I

guess I was cracking jokes. Obviously it is not a joke but that

is the way I'm dealing with it. I just have to move forward. I can't

man, but Jahar gave nothing away. That, to those who best knew him, is

what is most disturbing. He seemed to be such a good, well balanced

kid, and maybe that is what we have to watch out for. There were no