convert to islam, had moved out to dagestan, perhaps in about 2010, and was killed in a village in july last year, along with six other rebel fighters, in a village not so far from this city here. john? >> and, nick, what's the significance of this connection? there also may be another militant that tamerlan tsarnaev could or could not have met with when he was there. >> yeah, the significance of the connection is, look, he had a number of things in common with tamerlan. in this region, at the same time. both were boxers. both had sort of gone down the radical islamic route. a possibility that the pair of them had met in toronto, which was where plotnikov lived in 2009. tamerlan reported to have visited his aunt in that city in 2009. so the possibility of a prior