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The weight of two brutal wars. for an independence moscow would vealw. its ruins rebuilt over the only upside of the kremlin's heavy hand. the tsarnaev family's identity was forged here. we found their hometown, what's 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. it's hard to be a chechen without a tie to your homeland, and these ruins bombed out in the first chechen war. what's left of the family home, of the father to the alleged boston ...

Part of the country or somewhere around the world. >> reporter: mit silber is the former head of the nypd's 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 potential dangerous behavior can track down a lone wolf. he point out in the case of atm tsarnaev, question...

Experience, exclusively to the boston globe. boston globe reporter eric muskowitz spoke with cnn's 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 wouldn't have survived and the brothers would have gotten on to new york. it is really an incredible story. danny is an amazing guy. >> reporter: 90 minutes he spent in that car with one or both of the brothers at different times. how...

Russia's 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, i remember when i was a bureau chief in moscow, we had a roundtable with vladimir putin, and you c...

>> 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 dzhokhar's vehicle into his trunk. >> he thought it was luggage. >> reporter: they ditched dzhokhar's car. they were three in danny's vehicle. >> he realized at that point, boy, he may not live to see anothe...