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[Magda Hassan]

Yep, FBI computers can't reconcile spelling 'mistakes'. Unlike google. Do they expect us to believe this crap?

FBI did not catch Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Russia trip because his name was misspelled

FBI did not know Tamerlan Tsarnaev had travelled to Russia for five months because his name was spelled incorrectly. Picture: AP/Julia Malakie

"He went over to Russia, but apparently when he got on the airplane, they misspelled his name, so it never went into the system that he actually went to Russia," US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News, based on conversations with an assistant director of the FBI.
Tsarneav's activities during his five-month trip to Dagestan in 2011-2012 have come under intense focus as investigators question his younger brother Dzhokhar,19, in hospital recovering from throat injuries that may be self-inflicted. Dzhokhar's friends have spoken of their shock at his arrest, describing him as a fun-loving uni student who looked up to his big brother.
"One of two things happened," Mr Graham said. "The FBI either dropped the ball or our system doesn't allow the FBI to follow this guy in an appropriate fashion. I think once the Russians made the request, the FBI did a good job of looking at him. The reason we didn't know he went to Russia is because his name was misspelled."
Boston marks one week since bombing
Russian security services monitored Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev during a five month visit he made to the North Caucasus region of Dagestan in 2011-2012, but found no reason to arrest him, a security source told AFP Monday.
The older of the two Tsarnaev brothers suspected of setting off the Boston marathon bombs, 26-year-old Tamerlan was shot and killed on Friday by US police. Tamerlan was marred to American Katherine Russell, who one friend said had been "brainwashed" by her extremist husband.

Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, wife of killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, exits a car at the home of her parents in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Picture: AP Photo/Katie Zezima

Tsarnaev travelled to Russia's southern region of Dagestan, where he had previously lived, in late 2011, staying for a total of five months and 13 days, said a security source involved in tracking extremist activity in the region.
"Security services came across Tamerlan four times'' in course of his visit, the security source said.
"They were monitoring another young man, suspected of connections with the Islamist insurgency, and Tamerlan was seen with him.''
"But then the young man disappeared from view of the security services, and Tamerlan was no longer seen either,'' the source added.
"He left Dagestan in June of last year. Nothing was seen for which he could be detained or charged.''
Since it was known that Tamerlan came from the US, Russia asked the FBI for information about him, once at the end of 2011, and once several months after he left, in November 2012, the source said.

Father of the Boston bombing suspects Anzor Tsarnaev speaks with journalists at home Makhachkala, Dagestan. Picture: AFP/News Team/Bashir Aliev

The FBI said Friday that a request from an unidentified foreign government for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev came as he was "prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country's region to join unspecified underground groups.''
Dagestan is the most restive of the North Caucasus regions, a mountainous territory in the south with a mostly Muslim population and an ongoing Islamist, anti-Kremlin insurgency.
However the local branch of the main Caucasus Islamist group Caucasus Emirate denied on the weekend that it had any involvement in the Boston blasts, which killed three people and wounded 180.
The Tsarnaev family came to the US from the former Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan around 2002. Dzhokhar became a US citizen in 2012, while his older brother's application was reportedly held up.
Tamerlan began posting militant Islamist videos on social media sites in recent years, and traveled to Dagestan, which borders Chechnya, in 2012. Both Russian regions host separatist rebel groups.
The brothers' social media pages appeared to express sympathy with the struggle in Chechnya, which has been ravaged by two wars since 1994 between Russia and increasingly Islamist-leaning separatist rebels.
But a website used by rebels in Dagestan denied any link to the Boston bombings, saying it was "not waging any military activities against the United States.''
"We are only fighting Russia, which is not only responsible for the occupation of the Caucasus, but also for monstrous crimes against Muslims,'' the Kavkazcenter.com website said.
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to increase cooperation against global terror in the wake of the attacks.
Dzhokhar was caught Saturday after Dave Henneberry saw blood on a boat he kept in his backyard in the Boston suburb of Watertown. When he lifted the tarp, he saw the wounded teenager curled up inside, police said.
Fifty-eight of the victims from the bomb attack are still in Boston hospitals, with three in critical condition. Nurses treating the victims have spoken of their own struggle to cope with the grisly aftermath of the attack.
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