The FBI reportedly interviewed Mikhail Allakhverdov, perhaps better known as "Misha," an Armenian teacher suspected of radicalizing Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev before he allegedly plant bombs, killing three people and injuring over 200. Allakhverdov denies he ever encouraged a violent take on Islam, and that he taught Tamerlan anything at all, according to a New York Review of Books writer who says he interviewed him.
"Misha" insisted that he had "nothing to do with radicalization" of Tamerlan, adding that the Armenian who resides in Rhode Island "began telling me he cooperated with the FBI," reporter Christian Caryl told CNN.
"I wasn't his teacher. If I had been his teacher, I would have made sure he never did anything like this," Allakhverdov said, according to Caryl's report.
"A thirty-nine-year-old man of Armenian-Ukrainian descent, Allakhverdov is of medium height and has a thin, reddish-blond beard," Caryl wrote. "When I arrived he was wearing a green and white short-sleeve football jersey and pajama pants. Along with his parents, his American girlfriend was there, and we sat together in a tiny living room that abuts the family kitchen."
Meanwhile, the FBI also entered the home of Tamerlan's Tsarnaev's widow Katherine Russell in the last few days, in which she indicated that she was completely unaware of her husband's terror plot. "It came as an absolute shock," she told them.
Also, Russian special forces killed two members of a jihadist group in an early morning raid over the weekend. One of those killed was an associate of Abu Dujan, the slain leader of the militant Islamic organization, which produced at least one video that Tamerlan had posted and later removed from his social account, CNN and the SITE Intelligence Group said.
