Naturally it has nothing to do with their so-called religion.
BOSTON —Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the instigator and mastermind behind the Boston Marathon bombings and stress from FBI visits may have been a trigger for the attacks, letters from the defense team for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev suggest.
The claims are made in a Feb. 28 defense counsel letter requesting all records and documentation about the FBI’s contact with Tamerlan Tsarnaev before April 15, 2013.
“We seek this information based on our belief that these contacts were among the precipitating events for Tamerlan’s actions during the week of April 15, 2013, and thus material to the defense case in mitigation,” the letter states.
According to attorneys, Tamerlan Tsarnaev felt pressure after the FBI asked him to be an informant reporting back on the Chechen and Muslim community.
“We further have reason to believe that Tamerlan misinterpreted the visits and discussions with the FBI as pressure and that they amounted to a stressor that increased his paranoia and distress,” the letter reads.