Boston terror suspects uncle was married to CIA officer's daughter and even shared a home with the agent

By Katie Davies
Published: 18:34 EST, 27 April 2013 | Updated: 00:55 EST, 28 April 2013

An uncle of the Boston bombers was previously married to a CIA officer's daughter for three years, it emerged today.
Ruslan Tsarni, who publicly denounced his two terrorist nephews' actions and called them 'Losers', even lived with his father-in-law agent Graham Fuller in his Maryland home for a year.
Mr Fuller was forced to explain the relationship today as news of the family link emerged online. 

Son-in-law: Former CIA agent Graham Fuller, left, explained his relationship to the two Boston terror suspects' uncle today. Ruslan Tsarni, right, was married for three years to his daughter, Samantha
Son-in-law: Former CIA agent Graham Fuller, left, explained his relationship to the two Boston terror suspects' uncle today
Son-in-law: Former CIA agent Graham Fuller, left, explained his relationship to the two Boston terror suspects' uncle today. Ruslan Tsarni, right, was married for three years to his daughter, Samantha
He told Al-Monitor that his daughter, Samantha, was married to Ruslan, whose surname was then Tsarnaev, for three to four years in the 1990s.
The couple divorced in 1999 more than ten years after he left the agency in 1987.
'Samantha was married to Ruslan Tsarnaev (Tsarni) for 3-4 years, and they lived in Bishkek for one year where Samantha was working for Price Waterhouse on privatization projects,' Mr Fuller said.
'They also lived in our house in [Maryland] for a year or so and they were divorced in 1999, I believe.
'I, of course, retired from CIA in 1987 and had moved on to working as a senior political scientist for RAND.'
He said his son-in-law showed no interest in the agency or politics but spoke generally about his family in Chechnya.
He said any attempts to portray the relationship as a link between the security agency and the two terrorists was 'absurd'.
'Like all Chechens, Ruslan was very concerned about his native land, but I saw no particular involvement in politics,' Fuller told Al-Monitor.
'I doubt he even had much to say of intelligence value other than talking about his own family’s sad tale of deportation from Chechnya by Stalin to Central Asia. Every Chechen family has such stories.'
Nephews: Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could at one time count a CIA agents daughter as their aunt
Nephews: Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could at one time count a CIA agent's daughter as their aunt
Outraged: Ruslan Tsarni made his strong feeling against his nephews actions known in the aftermath of the Boston attacks
Outraged: Ruslan Tsarni made his feelings against his nephews actions known to the media in the aftermath of the Boston attacks
Fuller visited his daughter and her husband in Bishek, as a former Russian history graduate himself interested in 'Soviet minorities'.
He said he may have met the terror suspects' father, Aznor, there once and his daughter knew the Tsarnaev family when Tamerlan was a toddler and before his younger brother was born.
'I for one was astonished at the events, and to find myself at two degrees of separation from them,' he added.
Ruslan Tsarni, who lives in Montgomery Village, Maryland, was thrust into the spotlight as the names of his two nephews emerged in connection to the Boston terror attack.
He stood on his driveway and attacked the two men calling them 'Losers'.
He has since reported a rift between his family and that of his brother Aznor's and said his older nephew Tamerlan had become increasingly extreme in his religious views.
He said he last spoke to him in 2009 when he declared he was dropping out of school to do 'God's business' and Tsarni was concerned at his religious fervor. 
'[The bombing] has nothing to do with Chechen … He put a shame on our family, he put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity,' he told broadcasters in the aftermath of the bombings
He also told reporters that Tamerlan had a friend called Misha who 'brainwashed' him.
'This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely,' he said.
FBI agents today said they had tracked down Misha and believed he had no link to the terror attacks.



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It's about time uncle Ruslan gets put under the microscope, the way he threw his nephews under the bus was very surprising, to say the least.

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You get the feeling that someone somewhere knew something and said nothing, maybe just this once the conspiracy theories are more fact than fiction.

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Seems pretty irrelevant....but at least it will hold over the conspiracy crowd until the actual bombing footage is released.

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Hmmmm.....

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Look like the CIA was hiding a bunch of information that don't surprise me u can't trust the gov

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If you live in Maryland, and you marry someone from Maryland, the odds are pretty good that at least one relative works for the government. That's where everyone in Maryland works.

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This seems way more like innocuous coincidence than relevant considering the surrounding circumstances. Newly-weds, couples moving or having money trouble staying with ones' parents isn't at all unusual. And considering the fact they happened to live in Maryland, right around not only DC but numerous other government-linked cities like Annapolis, Norfolk, Quantico, people working for or in fields related to US national authorities in that area isn't just commonplace, they're likely the largest employer in that entire region. Statistically, the occurrence of a relative working for the government would be quite high given those factors.

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Ofcourse he was married to CIA!! This entire bombing is CIA/FBI. But once again, people are going to find a reason this was a massive, massive Coincidence bc people are afraid to question authority. The uncle probably tipped off CIA about his own nephews, saying "Here are people you can radicalize and frame". Which is exactly what happened. So the CIA who was warned along w FBI about brothers and mothers #3 TIMES doesn't investigate all three of them even though one of their own was married to Uncle? Hahahahaha. FBI and CIA knew all along and were in on this bombing. Problem is this entire thing is falling apart before their eyes bc the American public smells a rat. They messed this one up by involving the younger brother. That is where they messed up bigtime. His weed-smoking buddies know something went down very wrong here. Never mess with weed communities. LOL They are not exactly known for their massive violent tendencies. More like chowing down on junkfood.

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Not relevant!

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Many of the modern mass murderers have ties to govt. spy agencies in their families or with close associates. Not surprised. Not saying I know what that means but I wasn't shocked to see it again this time.

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