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Required formal hands-on training and could not have been built by a al-qaeda manual. one avenue is whether they were triggered by a cellphone app a new generation of american terrorists. >> its a situation where we are now facing more what europe has faced with an alienation of part of the immigrant population, self-radicalization. that is a different challenge than those that are trained overseas or receive material support overseas and come here to attack us. >> reporter: the official fox new...

Youre referring to? um, yes. the system pinged when he was leaving the united states. by the time he returned all investigations -- the matter had been closed. >> is it true that his identity document did not match his airline ticket and if so, why did tsa miss the discrepancy? >> there was a mismatch there. >> well, there was that and there was also more. now with what else we know and what more we still do not. >> tamerlan sar nevada first hi hit the radar in 2011. >> they sent a letter to the...

U.s.-russian cooperation will be so key in this investigation. phil black in moscow for us. thank you so much. so we know now that authorities in russia contacted the fbi back in 2011, warning the u.s. they believed tamerlan tsarnaev had been radicalized. the question, why wasnt he watched more closely? could the boston bombings have been prevented all together? cnns joe johns has that story. >> reporter: tamerlan tsarnaev first hit the fbis radar in 2011, when the russian government told the ag...

Interest in his activities. >> tamerlan tsarnaev first hit the fbis radar in 2011 when the russian government told the agency they should check him out. >> they sent a letter to the fbi and other agencies and said we think this guy has become radical. you need to watch him. >> was based on information that he was a follower of radical islam and a strong believer that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the united states for travel to the countrys region to join unspecif...

Earlier that russians showed interest in his activities. >> tamerlan first hit the fbis radar in 2011 when the russian government told the agency they should check him out. >> they sent a letter to the fbi and other agencies and said we think this guy has become radical. you need to watch him. >> was based on information that he was a follower of radical islam and a strong believer that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the united states for travel to the countrys reg...

>> was based on information that he was a follower of radical islam and a strong believer that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the united states for travel to the countrys region to join unspecified underground groups. the fbi says it checks u.s. government data bases, telephone chun cas communications on line activity and actually interviewed tamerlan and family members. the fbi says it did not find any family activity so it gave that information to russia and aske...

Are still very big outstanding questions. most prominently, what drove them to this act? who might have radicalized them? as weve reported over the last few days, dzhokhar tsarnaev has told investigators they acted alone. they learned how to build the bomb over the internet from "inspire" magazine. they were motivated by a desire to defend islam because of the u.s. wars in iraq and afghanistan. but theres still the outstanding question, what would have -- what changed? who radicalized them? we k...

>> reporter: mosque officials say dzhokhar tsarnaev never came to the mosque without his older brother. friends and acquaintances told cnn tamerlan tsarnaev was the leader between the two brothers. one friend saying dzhokhar was definitely saying, quote, definitely the follower in this situation. john pinto owns a brazilian restaurant in the tsarnaevs neighborhood. in recent months he saw the brothers come in, sometimes sitting down, sometimes getting chicken and lamb for takeout. pinto says tam...

No comment from the russian security service, the fsb. is it not a very leaky organization when it chooses to be so and at the moment is it maintaining a very strict silence on what it knew about tamerlan tsarnaev and why it was worried about him and why it asked the fbi to investigate him in 2011. we know from the fbi they were told by russian officials they believed this man had become a radical follower of islam and he had -- those views had changed dramatically since 2010 as he was planning ...

Violation of mosque etiquette. he was told to back off. it was the second time he had objected to something said at a sermon. we pressed them. were there any red flags that tamerlan tsavraev had been radicalized? >> unfortunately, no indications and if trained specialists from the fbi were not able to see anything, im sure you can understand how people who were merely acquainted with these individuals, seeing them sporadically at prayers, would not see, you know, anything of this nature as well....