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Me. we talked. i said, come here, guy. are you studying, i asked. i'm studying, he said. there was nothing criminal about him. >> reporter: deval says this region has also seen a growth in islamic extremism, becoming more anti-western and anti-american. >> if you are a young jihadist from this region, you certainly blame russia as the kind of evil empire that attacked and repressed you and also the west, basically, did nothing to intervene when russia was bombing chechnya. >> reporter: it's not known if tamerlan met with any extremists during his visit to chechnya. on his youtube page in a pla...

Him he quit listening to music and got very conservative after talking to the extremist whose name was misha. tamerlan's mother says misha was a good influence on her son. >> when misha visited us, we just kind of -- he just opened our eyes. really wide. about islam. he was really -- he was devoted. and he was very good, very nice man. >> dzhokhar tsarnaev, the surviving brother, told investigators that they conceived the attack and that they were self-radicalized jihadists, inspired in part by the u.s. wars in afghanistan and iraq. late this week, new york officials had their own news about t...

Questions were also raised by officials about the tsarnaev's mother. both she and the older brother's names were added to a terrorist identities database. but the investigation appears to have gone nowhere. was dam lab tsarnaev radicalized overseas? maybe so. but his uncle says tamerlan's views more likely came from someone in the u.s. >> i heard that talking from tamerlan. where that might be coming from. and he says, oh, yeah, yes, there is such a thing. there's a person a new convert into islam. >> that new convert, a muslim extremist right here in the boston area. >> he said, this person j...

So i said, maybe sometime, tamerlan. >> last year, tamerlan traveled back to his homeland, a region of russia racked by ethnic violence and islamic extremism. when he returned to the united states six months later, he became more outspoken about his muslim faith. at the islamic society of boston cambridge, mass, tamerlan stood up during the sermon and challenged the preacher in two separate public outbursts. one last november, another in january of this year. >> so then the person who was giving the sermon began to talk about dr. martin luther king. this man got up and objected. you know, rais...

>> he said this person, just he took his brain, he brainwashed him completely. tamerlan is off now. there's not even any obedience and respect to his own father. >> reporter: the uncle says tamerlan told him he quit listening to music and got very conservative after talking to the extremist whose name was misha. tamerlan's mother says misha was a good influence on her son. >> when misha visited us, we just kind of -- he just opened our eyes, you know. really wide. about islam. he was really -- he's devoted and he's a very good, nice man. >> reporter: dzhokhar tsarnaev, the surviving brother, t...