(The Hill) Jonathan Easley - Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev hoped to join an anti-Israel movement in Gaza, but ended up joining Chechen rebels in Dagestan because he didn't speak Arabic, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) told The Hill on Tuesday after returning Monday from a trip to Russia, where six U.S. lawmakers met with the director of the Committee for State Security (KGB) and other national security officials. Officials in Moscow flagged Tamerlan as a potential threat before his six-month trip to Dagestan in 2012. Russian officials said they requested the U.S. notify them if Tamerlan planned to travel to Russia, and that if the U.S. had complied, they might have been able to take him out before the bombing.
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