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>> tamerlan's mother witnessed her son's transformation. >> islam is required for a woman to be covered. so i said it was really not expect expected so i said give me some time, you know, tamerlan. >> last year, tamerlan traveled back to his homeland, a region of russia with ethnic violence and extremism. when he returned six months later, he became more out spoken about his faith. tamerlan stood up during a sermon and challenged the preacher in two separate public out bursts. one last november, another in january of this year. >> so when the person who was giving the sermon began to talk abou...

>> i heard that talking from tamerlan, where that might be coming from. and then he says,oh, yeah, there is -- yes, there is such a thing. there's a person, sort of a new convert into islam. >> that convert, a muslim extremist right here in the boston area. he said this person just took his brain. his brainwashed completely. tamerlan is off now. there's no obedience in rmt respect to his own father. >> he says he stopped listening to music after talking to misha. tamerlan's mother says misha was a good influence on tamerlan. >> when misha visited us, he just opened our eyes, you know, really w...

He was on the path of islam. >> his family says that during his time here, tamerlan would often visit the central mosque behind me for friday prayers as well as other mosques across this town. telling his family how central islam was to his life and that it was a religion of peace. >> that's why he doesn't believe that tamerlan and dzhokhar could have bombed the boston marathon. >> translator: in islam, killing a non-muslim is like killing all of humanity. and killing a muslim is like killing the whole world. >> last year, tsarnaev's parents moved back to dagestan from the u.s. the aunt says t...

The face during a fight over another woman. the following year, 2010, he married catherine russel, a sul folk university student he met in a nightclub and had dated on and off for seven years. she converted to islam. >> in 2009, carried himself with a lot of confidence. and then the next year, seemed like a humbler guy. dressed a lot more conservative. kind of, like, came to the fight as we all did, hoody, jeans. >> he also seemed more devoted to his muslim faith. >> he didn't talk that much about his faith to me until, like, the next year i saw him at the tournament. it was obviously that was...

To music after talking to misha. tamerlan's mother says misha was a good influence on tamerlan. >> when misha visited us, he just opened our eyes, you know, really wide about islam. he was really hi devoted and his very good, very nice man. >> dzhokhar tsarnaev told investigators that they conceived the attack. and that they were self radicalized jihadists. >> late this week, new york officials had their own news about the bombers. >> last night, we were informed by the fbi that the surviving attacker revealed that new york city was next on their list of targets.