also controversial over the burial of tamerlan tsarnaev. they are distancing themselves for the bomber and from dagestan. also this is on the day of two funerals for two victims. 8-year-old martin richard killed in the bombing and m.i.t. officer sean collier who was shot by the alleged bombers. and we have jake tapper with the latest on the investigation and nic robertson with what the suspects mother is saying. jake, bring me up to speed on the latest news. reporter: well, piers we told you yesterday that he was cooperating with investigators. we talked about there was a motivation. that the brothers thought islam was being attacked and needed to defend it. a u.s. government official told me today that one of the reasons in the justification, in the motivation, according to investigators is that dzhokhar said the wars in iraq and afghanistan were part of why they carried out this senseless act. so this is just what he is telling investigators. it is to be taken with somet
they are distancing themselves for the bomber and from dagestan. also this is on the day of two funerals for two victims. 8-year-old martin richard killed in the bombing and m.i.t. officer sean collier who was shot by the alleged bombers. and we have jake tapper with the latest on the investigation and nic robertson with what the suspects mother is saying. jake, bring me up to speed on the latest news. reporter: well, piers we told you yesterday that he was cooperating with investigators. we talked about there was a motivation. that the brothers thought islam was being attacked and needed to defend it. a u.s. government official told me today that one of the reasons in the justification, in the motivation, according to investigators is that dzhokhar said the wars in iraq and afghanistan were part of why they carried out this senseless act. so this is just what he is telling investigators. it is to be taken with something of a grain of salt and no one obviously is just auto
which today would be considered, i guess, the westernmost portion of saudi arabia was called the grand sharif hussein. this man. the grand sharif hussein was a direct descendant of the prophet, mohamed, and in fact, only direct descendants and there were two branches of the family could occupy this position. the grand sharif hussein was an extremely important figure in the muslim world because it included within it the two most holy islamic cities, mecca and medina. and then also, of course, he s an important figure in the islamic world because of his heritage as a descendant of the prophet. now, the grand sharif hussein nurtured ambitions in 1914. he was already thinking, probably, about establishing himself as the hereditary ruler of an independent country. certainly, he wanted at the least much more autonomy within the ottoman empire. he was not the only arab nationalist in the world in 1914 by any stretch of theimagination. in fact, various groups situated throughout th