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Program which he had just yesterday, fielding questions from russians, you could see that his mantra really was, i told you so. he said, western partners in the media would hardly ever use the word terrorist when it came to chechens, that they would use instead the word insurgents. he accused the west of providing them financial and political assistance, and also said that much of what the west said about wanting to cooperate on anti-terrorism was really just empty words. >> translator: we alway...

Doesnt stop, just spreads. wolf, were getting a picture of a man, tamerlan tsarnaev, formative years, probably 11 or 12 fled the violence in chechnya. later in his youth, in his 20s, comes back to dagestan and attends a mosque here, authorities say, is linked to extremism. that militant you just saw was also known to frequent, wolf. >> any word, nick, on whether the parents are still planning on coming to the united states? i know there was talk that the father was going to come. but whats the l...

And they had over 90 minutes to spend with each other, and they were talking about ordinary things, what kind of phone do you have, do you have a cd player in the car. there was this kind of a relationship forming, which in -- eventually aided danny. >> reporter: but at one point dannys phone buzzed with two texts, then rang twice. >> danny answers it. tamerlan says, dont say a word in chinese, if you do, ill kill you. so his friend is speaking chinese over the phone but danny answers in english...

He said tamerlan set the gun down temporarily inside the door pocket. >> in one motion, danny undid his seat belt, opened the door and ran to the rear of the car, across the street to the mobil station. >> how did tamerlan tsarnaev react? >> tamerlan tried to grab him. missed. swore. that was it. >> didnt fire? >> didnt fire. it would have been difficult to fire, because danny, by this time, was to the rear of the car. and it would have been difficult for him to sort of fire through theack windo...

Strip of brighton avenue outside downtown boston. a week ago thursday night, it began with suspect tamerlan tsarnaev pounding ong the victims car and demanded a ride. it left the victim shaken. tamerlan tsarnaev wielded a silver handgun when he climbed into the black per sad december suv. the suspects first words. >> he said, did you hear about the bombing, the marathon bombing? i said, i did. he said, well, thats me. i did that. and i just killed a cambridge cop. >> reporter: a krimologist at t...

The weight of two brutal wars. for an independence moscow would vealw. its ruins rebuilt over the only upside of the kremlins heavy hand. the tsarnaev familys identity was forged here. we found their hometown, whats left of the family home. in its ruins lie the brutalized past the brothers must have grown up with. tamerlan fled this town when he was about 11 before the second war began. and this street was bombed. its hard to be a chechen without a tie to your homeland, and these ruins bombed ou...

Part of the country or somewhere around the world. >> reporter: mit silber is the former head of the nypds counterintelligence unit. in 2007, he wrote a report about the threat of--gro- of home-gro terrorists, citing the biggest threat from homegrown citizenseral callized in the west, warn being muslims. generated controversy. the nypd has come under criticism for monitoring muslims. the department insists everything done is within a legal framework. silber stresses that keeping tabs on potentia...

Experience, exclusively to the boston globe. boston globe reporter eric muskowitz spoke with cnns john berman. >> what stuck out to me is danny really has probably of all the millions of people of greater boston the perfect combination of innocence, poise, and calm. if it had been almost maybe anyone, any one of us or a little different twist here or there danny wouldnt have survived and the brothers would have gotten on to new york. it is really an incredible story. danny is an amazing guy. >> ...

Russias state news agency is reporting 140 arrests at a crackdown on the islamist extremist organizations. police say the mosque has drawn radicals including some of the north caucuses. the russian president, vladimir putin, spoke out about the attacks and the investigation today. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty who spent many years as the bureau chief in moscow, is fluent in russian and working this part of the story for us. jill, what did they say? >> reporter: you know, wolf,...

>> early on in the drive, danny is obviously quite nervous, and driving somewhat erratically because of his nerves. and tamerlan said, oh, relax, calm, drive slowly. >> reporter: they drove from brighton to watertown, into cambridge, about 90 minutes in all. we retraced the route. at one point, professor fox says, the two vehicles pulled over. the brothers got out and unloaded objects from dzhokhars vehicle into his trunk. >> he thought it was luggage. >> reporter: they ditched dzhokhars car. th...