.and we inspected his brakes for free. -free is good. -free is very good. [ male announcer ] now get 50% off brake pads and shoes at meineke. one brother, 19 tsarnaev was outgoing, friendly and earned a scholarship to go to college. the other tamerlan tsarnaev was 26, married with a young daughter, an aspiring amateur boxer who had a dream. his goals in boxing. clearly he wanted to be a world champ one day, and i think he could have achieved that. luis vazquez met tamerlan at the cambrdige rindge and latin school. he was more of a boxer and had a reserved personality to
the north caucasus, a region ravaged by here s of violence and bloodshed, the tsarnaev family is originally from here, but they left for a better life in the united states. tamerlan tsarnaev returned to this part of the world last year for a six-month visit that s now raising a lot of questions. who did he meet with over there, and what did he sflern what did he do? did he become part of a sell? did he get training in how to assemble explosives? did he receive money, encouragement, funding, direct support, come back to the u.s. and attack? and those are things that i don t think we ll ever know. what we do know is that in
after the second world war, tens of thousands of chechens perished in a mass deportation order by josef stalin. in the 1990s, chechens fought and won a bloody war for independence from russia. it was during this violence that the younger tsarnaev brother dzhokhar was born and given the name of a chechen leader. it s a sure side of chechen patriotism in the family that in 1939 they called their little son dzhokhar after doakary dudayev who was the pro-independence representative. chechen independence wouldn t last. the war would kill thousands and chechen extremists would range a campaign of terror across russia, killing 186 children at a school in beslan and more than 100 theater-goers in moscow. the tsarnaev family escaped the violence in the region by making their way to the u.s. he would tell me that he was
officials about the tsarnaev s mother. both she and the older brother s names were add ed ed to a terro identity database but the investigations seemed to have gone nowhere. was tamerlan tsarnaev radicalized overseas. maybe so, but his uncle said tamerlan s views more than likely came from someone in the u.s. i heard that talking, where that might be coming, from and he said, oh, yeah, there is such a thing. there s a person, sort of some new convert into islam. that new convert, a muslim extremist right here in the boston area. he said this boston, he took his brain, just brainwashed him completely. tamerlan is off now. there s any obedience and respect to his own father. the uncle says tamerlan told him he quit listening to music and got very conservative after
the official said tsarnaev indicated that the brothers intended to take their remaining explosives and blow them up in times square. should investigators believe the brothers plotted and carried out the act on their own? still more questions. few clear answers. we may never know who tamerlan met with overseas or what happened to him, but we do know this. he came back a changed man. we just had a young person who went to russia and chechnya who blew people up in boston so he didn t stay where he went but he learned something where he went and he came back with a willingness to kill people. coming up, how close were you to the second explosion? i was right in front of it. anderson cooper, finding boston strong. welcome to the new new york state, where cutting taxes for families and businesses is our business. we ve reduced taxes and lowered costs to save businesses more than two billion dollars to grow jobs,