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Only days before tamerlan tsaranev left russia and returned to the united states. so, investigators have said they are looking into whether there is any connection between these two men. the possibility that they met, and the possibility that william plotnikov's death somehow influenced or inspired or was a factor in tamerlan tsaranev's decision to depart russia and return to the united states. john? >> that timing is awfully coincidental, just days before. authorities also exploring if tamerlan had any contact with any other militants there? >> reporter: yeah, indeed. there was one other mili...

Possible sort of cause and effect there. now both men shared the fact that their families had moved them to north america. tamerlan to the united states, plotnikov had moved to canada with his parents. both of them were now following this sort of radical branch of islam. the question is, did they share anything else more than that on the ground here? and that's something -- that is what the investigators are focusing on. there is another connection here, a potential connection with a possible recruiter, according to some local news articles here. a half palestinian mahmoud nidal, known accordi...

Seems like every day on this case, new twists and turns. but just from where i'm looking at it, more and more focus back to dagestan, back to the six-month period that tamerlan tsarnaev spent over there where he now, according to some russian authorities, may have had direct contact with some militant jihadists. >> well, piers, i think we can expect that it's going to be like this for some time, we're going to continue to get these new developments, because we're so early in the investigation and the investigation is so well publicized. what i find most interesting about the developments you'v...

>> they are still trying to make a link between the canadian boxer, william plotnikov. the reason they are looking at him. he was in russia in dagestan, the same time period when tamerlan tsavraev was making that visit in july of 2012. and he was a russian militant, and he was killed and just a couple days later, the older brother flew back from dagestan from russia to the united states, so investigators are looking to see whether there was any interaction between the two, whether it's possible that tsavraev might have been radicalized, perhaps even trained overseas and possibly by a militant ...

More of that. richard barrett, the soufan, former director of mi6. thank you so much for being with us this morning. let's stick on the possible russian connection because there is this potential new development overnight that federal investigators want to explore. did the boston bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev ever know this man named william plotnikov. our nic robertson is live this morning in dagestan. nic, what do we know about this man? when he was in the region and where might that contact with tamerlan tsarnaev have occurred? >> well he was certainly in the region at the same time as ...