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The Boston bombing suspect who is the subject of a massive manhunt
reached out to a Massachusetts professor two years ago for help on
research "rediscovering his Chechen origins," the professor told FoxNews.com
Friday.Professor Brian Glyn Williams, who teaches the only course in the
U.S. on the Chechen wars, said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev emailed him in the
spring of 2011, asking questions on Chechen history for a research project
he was doing at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.Williams said that
based on conversations with a friend who taught Tsarnaev -- and who
recommended he reach out to Williams -- he learned that Tsarnaev was
"studying his past.""He was sort of in the process of vicariously rediscovering
his Chechen origins," the professor told FoxNews.com.Williams said that
after the student contacted him, he emailed back a syllabus. He said
he didn't even remember the interaction until he talked to a friend."It
freaked me out," he said. "I couldn't believe I communicated with this
psychopath."The detail comes amid swirling questions about the suspect's
motivations and roots. Tsarnaev is thought to be of Chechen origin, though
his family may be from the neighboring region of Dagestan. Chechnya, a
region in Russia, is known for its bloody conflict with the Russian
government -- but the region is also home to Islamic extremists.It remains
unclear what may have motivated the suspects. Their uncle, in an impassioned
and impromptu press
UNITED NATIONS The joint U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria on Friday
gave the Security Council a grim assessment of the Syrian civil war,
saying that Damascus is completely uncooperative in negotiations."With the
Syrians, I got nowhere," Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters after the closed-door
briefing.Since last year, Brahimi has been promoting a peace plan that would
call for a transitional government in which Syrian President Bashar Assad
would step aside. Damascus has shown no appetite for discussing Assad's
resignation.Brahimi also chided the Security Council for its ongoing deadlock
over the war. Western and Arab nations blame the conflict on Assad's
government. Russia insists on assigning equal blame to the Syrian rebel
opposition, and has used it veto, along with China, to block draft
council resolutions."On the Security Council, with the Americans and the
Russians, we made some progress but it is too little," Brahimi said."If
they really believe that they are in charge of looking after peace
and security, there is no time for them to lose to really
take this question more seriously than they have until now," he said.Brahimi
denied rumors he was resigning, capping a week of widespread reports in
the Arab world that he was quitting in frustration, or dumping his
affiliation with the Arab League, which has officially recognized the Syrian
opposition forces as the legitimate government.Brahimi assumed the U.N.-Arab
League envoy role las
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">liarly gridlocked over the budget. January's tax deal has stiffened
GOP resolve against further tax increases. Obama's recently unveiled plan
for lower inflation increases for Social Security recipients -- an idea
embraced by Bowles and Simpson -- has landed with a thud among
most Democrats.Obama and the top GOP negotiator, House Speaker John Boehner
of Ohio, stopped talking after failed talks in 2011 and late last
year. It's commonly assumed that the need this summer for must-pass legislation
to increase the government's borrowing cap will draw the weary combatants
back into negotiations.The revised Simpson-Bowles plan proposes about $600
billion in increased taxes over the coming 10 years on top of
the $600 billion-plus signed by Obama in January, another $600 billion or
so in cuts to Medicare, and deeper cuts to domestic agencies and
the Pentagon than proposed by the president.Simpson and Bowles believe it's
crucial to get the government's debt below 70 percent of the size
of the economy, something that Obama's budget fails to do.Obama and Boehner
have twice seemed close to a budget bargain, but Boehner walked away
from the talks both times after detecting resistance from top Republicans."The
last two years have been marked by fiscal brinksmanship," Simpson and Bowles
said in a statement. "Instead of enacting a comprehensive deficit reduction
plan ... policymakers have jumped from crisis to crisis, waiting until the
last moment to do
Reports that the suspects in the Boston bombing are believed to be
from the region near Chechnya may have caught some by surprise --
rebels in Chechnya are known for their violent and long-running campaign
to break away from Russia, but not for exporting terror to America.But
congressional researchers and foreign policy analysts have long tracked
a connection between the Chechnya region and Islamic extremists sympathizing
with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. If the suspects are indeed Chechen,
analysts told Fox News they may represent part of a jihadi network
which has made its way to American soil."The Chechen jihadi network is
very extensive," Middle East analyst Walid Phares said Friday. "They have
a huge network inside Russia and Chechnya."John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations, said Chechen rebels are motivated by two things
-- a desire for independence from Russia and Islamic radicalism. He speculated
that, if the suspects are Chechen, they could be motivated more by
the latter. "They could well be supported by a significant international
network," he said.One suspect is dead and another is on the loose,
as federal and local law enforcement are engaged in what Massachusetts Gov.
Deval Patrick called a "massive manhunt." Many questions are still unanswered.Sources
said authorities are investigating whether Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of
Cambridge, Mass., and his brother may have had military training overseas.Reports
hav
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